One of the most beautiful things about the Denver music scene is the cross-pollination that occurs among bands. It seems as though every musician worth his or her salt has at least two musical projects going on at any given time. The word “incestuous” gets thrown around a lot, affectionately…
Colorado’s powerful and compelling lobby of small, independent liquor store owners has once again managed to successfully kill a bill that would have let grocery and convenience stores share in their business. Senate Bill 149 – to allow full-strength beer and wine sales at those retailers – died 5-1 in…
Romance on TV generally sucks. Soap Operas ruin most of it, since love can’t be an ending on a show that never ends—so nothing ends happily, no one stays together, no one can resist the wiles of a hermaphroditic demon patch-eyed midget. But the regular network offerings don’t do much…
Slide Show…
My wife and I have been told to arrive between 2 and 3 to get our tickets to see the Late Show with David Letterman. We arrive at a quarter to two just to be on the safe side, and people are already lining up. We’re one of the first…
January 23, 2008 by Audrey Sprenger, Ph.D The American Mid-West | The story of how On The Road was written is perhaps a better known story than the plot of On The Road itself: In 1951, a young writer named Jack Kerouac rolled several scrolls of teletype paper into his…
January 23 by David Amram The American Mid-West | As boy brought up on a farm in Pennsylvania in the late 1930s, I have never forgotten the love of trains, which our generation shared. The distant rattle and rumble of the steam locomotives pulling their freight and passengers across America…
For most of us, the college experience—what we remember—lives on in two neat categories: “Never Again” and “I Found Myself.” This formative process produces “Don’t Remind Me” and “The Best Time of My Life,” where high-minded philosophies mix with pragmatic acceptances that retain extraordinary influence on our decisions, hopes, fears,…
Who? There are two types of memory these days. There is real memory, where the wafting aroma from taking trash out can transport you back under that bridge where you first tried heroin in the 80s. Then there is internet memory, whereby the deafening buzz of the newest thing relieves…
Welcome to the first installment of Snob Talk, where we ask different writers to wax philosophic, and self-indulgent, about a new topic each week. This week, we had folks write about bands that they’re pretty sure people laud more than listen to. I’m astounded by how much of Stereolab’s music…
British Sea Power Do You Like Rock Music? Rough Trade 02:20-02:55 of “Waving Flags” Hmm, yes I do like rock music. I appreciate it when bands ask me questions. It makes me really feel like I’m involved in their creative project. It’s kind of like when an author tells me…
January 19, 2008 by David Amram Denver | When I first came to Denver in the mid-forties with my family, and later on when traveling through with different bands, I was always aware of Larimer Street and Five Points as the two places in Denver that in no way fit…
I got this call at work two weeks back. It was someone asking me if I wanted tickets to go see David Letterman. Now, it’s been a longtime goal of mine to see David Letterman’s show in person. Late Nite or Late Show, either one, doesn’t matter. Whatever Dave’s doing…
January 19, 2008 by Audrey Sprenger, Ph.D Denver | Jack Kerouac’s On The Road, based in part on Kerouac’s own life traveling back and forth across the United States in the mid to late 1940s, was written in a spontaneous but highly disciplined style of writing, which very effectively documented…
In 2002, Westword published its nineteenth Best of Denver issue, a celebration of the city that saluted everything from the Best New Festival (Frozen Dead Guy Days took the chill off March in Nederland) to Best Start for a New Neighborhood (the Millennium Bridge was beginning to rise above Riverfront…
Dear Ron Paul supporters, I have a tip that you might find helpful – and, no, it doesn’t involve bunker-building or camouflage mouse pads. It has to do with graphic design. I’m not an expert in the art of campaigning, but I keep noticing all of these banners hung on…
Welcome to the first installment of Snob Talk, where we ask different writers to wax philosophic, and self-indulgent, about a new topic each week. This week, we had folks write about bands that they’re pretty sure people laud more than listen to. Every hipster—who’s as mysterious and obscure as the…
AEG announced yesterday that cult music hero and troubled troubadour Daniel Johnston will be playing the Ogden Theatre on Saturday, April 5. No word yet as to who might open for the man, whose life story is told in the brilliant documentary The Devil and Daniel Johnston, but with Denver’s…
The enormous “Mustang” sculpture finally made its way to the ground of Denver International Airport yesterday, only fourteen years past deadline. Crews installed the 32-foot fiberglass horse where Pena Boulevard splits south of the main terminal. The rearing beast comes complete with an astounding back story sure to secure a…
Hollywood writers have already begun to return to work, even though the strike isn’t officially over—which is a sign of either how much trust exists now that the picketing is done, or how many people realized that they need to delete their stuff (unfinished scripts, novels in progress, porn) off…
My personal commitment to the Froggish arts is nothing when compared to the two-line backstory of Uttam Lama, chef at the five-month-old Tibet’s Restaurant in Louisville. Uttam spent fourteen years as the chef at a Tibetan monastery. While there, he cooked for the Dali Lama. For culinary street cred, Uttam…
