Slide Show Yesterday, the National Western Stock Show took to the streets of downtown Denver with its annual parade. There were loads of longhorns, heaps of horses, copious cowboys, rafts of ranchers, and a jillion journalists to document their every move. But more noteworthy than the parade were the parade-goers…
Anti-tax crusader Douglas Bruce has long been an object of intense study here at Westword. This morning, media columnist Michael Roberts compiled this great list of notes we’ve taken on Bruce in his natural habitat. But it was the act that occasioned this list, the kicking of Rocky Mountain News…
How do you order right? I wish the answer were as simple as saying, “Order the simple stuff, forget the complicated” — or the reverse, “Order the authentic, the difficult to pronounce, and ignore the rest.” But at Ali Baba, it’s not that easy. This place has a learning curve,…
How do you order right? I wish the answer were as simple as saying, “Order the simple stuff, forget the complicated” — or the reverse, “Order the authentic, the difficult to pronounce, and ignore the rest.” But at Ali Baba, it’s not that easy. This place has a learning curve,…
Nolan Ryan vs. Ventura Major League Hall of Famer Nolan Ryan will be honored as grand marshall of the National Western Stock Show parade today for his Nolan Ryan Guaranteed Tender Beef. Ryan’s unique tenderizing process is exhibited here on Robin Ventura. Click here for more info on the parade…
The 2007-2008 CHL All-Star Game – Tuesday and Wednesday, January 15th and 16th, Broomfield Event Center, 11450 Broomfield Lane. Like Best Actress in a straight to DVD movie, the term “Minor League All-star” might sound like a backhanded compliment. But for those who wear the jersey of the Bossier-Shreveport Mudbugs…
Not too long ago, a dear friend of mine (Let’s call her something fabulous like… “Bianca”) called me up in hysterics. It seemed that her boyfriend of over a year (Let’s call him “Big Fat Jack Ass) had fallen out of love with her and decided it best to break…
Quick story: some friends of mine and I were at Six Flags Magic Mountain out in California. It was the late 80s, and we were freshmen in college, on our first road trip. We had, as college freshmen tend to have, plans and dreams. (More the latter than the former,…
View larger image Michigan Total Number of Delegates: 157 Pledged: 128 Unpledged: 29 How to Recognize a Michigan Delegate: Michigan has a lot to answer for. Two of the nation’s greatest problems, aside from Mitt Romney and Madonna, can be blamed on industries based in Michigan. Global warming is the…
The Knew, Light Travels Faster, The Get Down January 12, 2008 Lion’s Lair Better Than: Watching the false pageantry of another Patriots win. Popping into the Lion’s Lair on Saturday night, I marveled at how much the bar has changed since I first started making my way in there with…
Eric Bachmann w/ Ian Cooke, Elin and Freida Saturday, January 12 Better than: The hangover the next morning The swell of people at the Hi-Dive Saturday night seemed like a perfect fit for Denver transplant Eric Bachmann. Any one of the many there may have been a random character from…
American as Apple Pie and Daisey-Cutters, Olde Tyme Drafts and Dawgs hosted their monthly hot dog eating contest on Saturday. Read all about the gluttonous glory here. And again Denver proves that its local music scene is truly something special with Saturday’s hi-dive show featuring Eric Bachmann, Ian Cooke, and…
“Yeah, I need some money, I got a warrant out.” Sentences like that are, for some reason, never uttered quietly. I’m always amazed by this, because I wouldn’t want everyone around me to know about my warrant (don’t worry, I took care of it.) I suppose in the context of…
The rules of the competition were simple: the first person to eat fifteen hot dogs (or “dawgs” to use the preferred spelling) wins a year’s supply of these tubular meats. A two-hour time limit was enforced and all trips outside and to the bathroom had to be accompanied by a…
In 1997, Westword published its fourteenth Best of Denver issue, a celebration of the city that saluted everything from the Best Place to Put the New Broncos Stadium (Los Angeles!) to the Best Sneak Preview of an Art Project (the Robischon Gallery’s show on the proposed Christo project on the…
This is some painful déjà vu. Was it not enough that it’s nearly 20 years later, and we still have a Bush in the White House? Do we really need to revisit American Gladiators? NBC apparently thinks so. The peacock network resorted to bringing back this product of the Reagan-era…
Red Orange Yellow, Harvey Knuckles, Magic Cyclops Thursday, January 10, 2008 hi-dive Better than: Watching BBC America Last night was an evening of triumphant returns at the hi-dive. While Red Orange Yellow existed and played a few gigs years ago, the project disbanded and disappeared when drummer Devon Shirley went…
LOCALS ONLY Spoke In Wordz is one of the best emcees out of Denver and his album Word Play was one of the hottest local releases of the year. But just so you can familiarize yourself with how Spoke gets down, here’s a taste from the album Take a Breather…
Intersections are messy, dangerous places. This thought flashed through my head as I was driving across town on Colfax recently. To deal with the danger inherent in intersections, we are forced to put our faith in the rules of the road, in the competency and alertness of other drivers and,…
Get the back story here to attorney David Lane’s decision to call Westword reporter Jared Jacang Maher to the stand during a suppression hearing for Columbus Day protestors…
The Afters Never Going Back to OK EP INO Records 01:10-01:55 of “Never Going Back to OK” Wow, the chorus is actually “Never Going Back to OK,” I figured it was just going to be one of those titles that didn’t really have any relation to the actual song (there…
Charly “The City Mouse” Fasano has become an underground icon thanks to So You Think You Can Reab, the self-produced CD zines containing his funny and often bitter verses. But rocket ship to obscurity, his debut full-length, may just be his best work to date. Recorded with the help of…
