In its February newsletter, under the headline “PROPOSED SPORTS AUTHORITY SIGNS CONTROVERSIAL,” local neighborhood organization the Sloan’s Lake Citizens’ Group encourages its membership to write the city in response to the potential additions to Sports Authority Field at Mile High. Because of its lighting and view plane implications, the issue…
There’s a lot of advice that goes into the world of modern matchmaking — and throughout the past week, we’ve provided you with a heavy handful of it. But writing this week’s cover story, “Money can buy you love, if you have a contract with this Harvard MBA,” took a…
See Also: Q&A with Ted Stevens of Cursive, sharing the bill this Sunday. At this point, much has been mythologized about the badassery of Ume (due at the Larimer Lounge this Sunday, February 12). The heavy-rocking Texas trio is fronted by an almost precociously petite blonde, but Lauren Larson has…
In the music video for the Darkness’s greatest hit, 2003’s “I Believe in a Thing Called Love,” the band’s alternately naked and jumpsuited lead singer, Justin Hawkins, is repeatedly groped by a motley crew of space aliens. He appears, for all intents and purposes, to be into it. His band’s…
For this week’s cover story, “Money can buy you love, if you have a contract with this Harvard MBA,” I spent roughly a month working with local matchmaker Jamie Richards. We’ve already covered her tips on finding a matchmaker, taking a profile picture and creating an online dating profile. But…
If you’ve ever driven beside a sloppy driver and blamed it on his California plates, you might be from Denver. The same thing is true if you can correctly pronounce “Chipotle,” only drink craft beer or have been in any of the situations we’ve captured in the following video. After…
Before I began working with Jaime Richards, one of the matchmakers in this week’s cover story, I had to dig deep. Really deep. It’s common practice for date coaches and matchmakers to ask their clients for letters of recommendation, but they’re not the kind you’re thinking of. In preparation for…
Update (12/5/12): Full review and setlist from the show just posted. Update (12:53 p.m.): So check this out: A couple more things you should know here: First of all, Friday’s show has been postponed until tomorrow night (Saturday) due to inclement weather (shocker, we know). Secondly, whatever sensationalist malarkey you’ve…
What does a minter look like? Despite a recent Google search, we at the Latest Word are still unsure how to picture one. But we could find out soon, because minters are among the choices offered by the student government at CU Denver as a new mascot for the school’s…
Today, I received a message on Match.com from a man who tried to woo me with the line, “Let love in. (I’m love).” There are several problems with that, but let’s take a couple steps back: While writing “Money can buy you love, if you have a contract with this…
For “Money can buy you love, if you have a contract with this Harvard MBA,” this week’s feature, Westword talked to local matchmaker extraordinaire Rachel Greenwald about her business — but what about her advice? In her first book, Find a Husband After 35 (Using What I Learned at Harvard…
Earlier this week, while making a mental list of “Shit Westword Staffers Say,” we decided to explore the massive “Shit __ Says” trend and its Colorado applications. It turns out, after a quick YouTube search, that there aren’t a lot. Instead of “Shit People From Denver Say” (“Where are you…
LOS CAMPESINOS! @ BLUEBIRD THEATER | 1/31/12 Los Campesinos! is a band weathered by fine lines. By attending one of the Welsh septet’s shows, you are, whether you know it or not, crossing one of your own in the sand. You are saying that you prefer precociousness to pretense, that…
The world of competitive livestock showing is a quiet one, perhaps, but it can be cutthroat. After nineteen-year-old Maggie Weinroth and her fourteen-year-old brother Ben were accused of cheating at the 2011 Colorado State Fair by drugging their prize winning goats, Ben was banned from competition, the two have been…
Craigslist can be a scary, scary place, but that doesn’t make any of us visit it any less. When Spark Theater playwright Sean Paul Mahoney decided to write a play about the website’s role in Internet and pop culture, he spent hours scouring its Casual Encounters and Missed Connections sections…
In their wedding photo, Elena Wechsler and John Simpson are the picture of matrimonial bliss. The image captures the modern-day Romeo and Juliet in medias res: Wechsler appears to have run, perhaps in slow motion, to her husband, who has gathered her into his tuxedoed arms, lifted her above an…
There’s a lot of Eagles of Death Metal influence happening here. In the first two songs alone — one called “Woman” and the other “34-28-32,” detailing her ideal measurements — In the Whale’s Eric Riley and Nate Valdez take on the brazen, balls-out machismo of bands like Queens of the…
If you ignore the fact that any of his sadder, sappier new material could be about his wife, a post-Walk to Remember Mandy Moore, Ryan Adams remains one of the most listenable and versatile singer-songwriters just this side of Americana. Three years ago, he married Moore, sobered up, disbanded his…
Growing up and watching Crossfire in Tempe, Arizona, 33-year-old Elena Nunez learned to trust her local government approximately as far as she could throw it. In the late ’80s, Arizona Governor Evan Mecham was impeached on grounds of misusing funds and obstruction of justice, and the event, followed by others,…
Occupy Denver was among groups in 27 cities to rally in support of Occupy Oakland, which experienced a recent round of 300 arrests. About 125 protesters gathered for an impromptu march that shut down large sections of traffic near Broadway and Colfax between 7:30 and 10 p.m. and attracted the…
RJD2 @ BLUEBIRD THEAER | 1/27/12Is it just us, or does RJD2 look more like R2D2 every time we see him? Last night, when he took to the small, technology-overwhelmed stage of the Bluebird, the DJ/producer was barely recognizable behind a Daft Punk-style robot mask and the sound effects box…
The first time Sonia Skakich-Scrima learned about fracking, she was reading the Denver Business Journal almost a year ago to date. What she read alarmed her, but what she Googled afterward tripled that. “I tried to understand why we didn’t care about the environment or the aftermath,” she says. “I…
