Westword reporter went to Haiti for his recent feature story “The Social Conscience of a Missionary.” Be sure to check back in for the next few days as he recounts his personal journey through the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Slide Show It was our first morning in Haiti…
People are always telling me not to take things personally. “You gotta have a thick skin,” they say. “It’s not about you,” they insist. This usually follows someone saying or doing something particularly hurtful to me, and the advice just pisses me off. But then I find myself saying the…
Well, they’re back. And two, at least, are bushy. David Letterman and Conan O’Brien returned to the air Wednesday night, each sporting a strike-beard, which apparently is a thing. Why, exactly, I don’t know. On Conan, it actually worked—it lent him a sort of gravitas, sort of a young Obi-Wan…
Colorado lost one of its most talented resources in the war on crime a few weeks ago, when forensic psychiatrist John Macdonald passed away at the age of 87. A familiar figure to any reporter, cop, criminology student or thug interested in the state’s most notorious killers over the latter…
In 1996, Westword published its thirteenth Best of Denver issue, a celebration of the city that saluted everything from Best Yuppie on a Harley (then-senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell, who posed for a Banana Republic ad) to the Best New Public Art (Mark di Suvero’s still-controversial “Lao Tzu”) to the Best…
Bubba Sparxxx The Lost Tracks FMS 00:00-00:45 of “Never Scared” I never totally understood the point of the “Lost Tracks” albums. These are songs that didn’t make the cut for whatever reason before and I’m entirely unsure what makes them worthwhile now. “Never Scared” is about as bottom of the…
Here’s the question: should, in fact, old acquaintance be forgot? Has the venerable New Year’s Rockin’ Eve run its course? This isn’t so much about Dick Clark, or whether he’s ready for the pasture. He’s not. He never will be. Despite a massive stroke in 2004, which caused him to…
View larger image Maryland Number of Delegates: 99 Pledged: 70 Unpledged: 29 How to Recognize a Maryland Delegate: Chesapeake is the Susquehannock Indian word for “great blue crab bay.” So when the land surrounding the bay was granted to Lord Baltimore in 1632, he wanted to call his new colony…
Like most New Year’s Eve outings, the anticipation of this show outdid the event itself…
The problem with being a football fan is that the off-season is so much longer than the season. By the time the Broncos take their next meaningful snap, the Presidential contest will be a two-man…er, two-person race, the Beijing Olympics will have run their course and we’ll be months removed…
Volumes have been written about how good these two Denver legends are live, so here’s a pictorial taste of what you missed this weekend. DeVotchKa @ Mercury Cafe Slim Cessna’s Auto Club @ Bluebird Theater…
Picking on bad shows like Viva Laughlin is just too easy. There’s enough low-hanging fruit being broadcast to fill a whole bushel of awful from 2007. And then there are those shows that represent how TV fails us, how it fails itself, how it just plain fails. In other words,…
The Year of our TV 2007 was something of an odd duck. It saw the end of some TV classics (The Sopranos) and the beginning of a strike that still threatens the medium as we know it. Fun year! But in these trying times, we all yearn for something to…
A Year in Photos Moovers and Shakers 2007: A Year of Amazing Local Music 11 Concerts You Probably Should Have Seen…
Los Comicos Super HIlariosos is a monthly gathering of Denver’s best underground comics for a celebration of cheap booze and jokes. And last was … well, it was interesting. Transplant Tig Notaro (who you can see tonight at the Oriental Theater, and I highly recommend that you do) absolutely killed…
To anyone who says there isn’t any dope hip-hop coming out of Colorado: you need to have your ears checked. I’ve compiled a list of what I think were the 20 hottest songs from Colorado hip-hop artists in the last 12 months. They range from mixtape joints, freestyles, album cuts,…
Comedian Ben Roy attempts to sweep Ben Kronberg off the stage at Los Comicos Super Hilariosos on December 27. The first time I saw comedian Ben Kronberg, he pulled a rabbit out of his hat, scaled Everest with a Sherpa on his back, and split a molecule of hydrogen with…
Jay-Z fades to black Everyone in the hip-hop world pretty much knew it was going to happen, but Jay-Z made it official on Christmas and turned in his two weeks’ notice as president of Def Jam Records. “I’ve been incredibly fortunate to have served as president of such a culturally-defining…
Here are the transcripts to the Cadorna v. City and County of Denver case profiled in Alan Prendergast’s December 13 feature, “Blackburned.” Day One Day Two Day Three Day Four Day Five Day Six Day Seven Day Eight…
Why the Rocky is so annoyed by breasts is a mystery. And to single this woman out for having the most annoying breasts of all is kind of cruel, in spite of the photo crop. Foreshame Rocky, foreshame…
I don’t want to bore you with too many personal details of my crazy 2007, so I’ll simply say that any year that includes being laid off and getting divorced is one for the record books. It’s been overwhelming at times, exhilarating at others, and frequently depressing. But the new…
After listening to a cumulative 41 hours of 97.3 KBCO’s online streaming Christmas music over the past few days, I found myself grappling with a very important question: Where was “A Hazy Shade of Winter” by the Bangles? Well, that’s not a Christmas song, you may counter. But you’d be…
