Sound Bites: Udi’s Bread Café

The Stapleton neighborhood just got a new place where you can grab a quick bite for breakfast. Udi’s Bread Café (7357 East 29th Avenue, 303-329-8888) — already revered for dishing up some of the neighborhood’s best dinner and weekend brunch entrees — began serving up a pared-down weekday breakfast menu…

Sound Bites: Udi’s Bread Café

The Stapleton neighborhood just got a new place where you can grab a quick bite for breakfast. Udi’s Bread Café (7357 East 29th Avenue, 303-329-8888) — already revered for dishing up some of the neighborhood’s best dinner and weekend brunch entrees — began serving up a pared-down weekday breakfast menu…

The Working Women of Wellington

August 14, 2007 Wellington, New Zealand Subject: The Ambassadors of Penzance Boss, CJ’s was located a few blocks away from my motel in the capitol of Kiwi-land. Just a pink neon sign and an empty doorway painted sea foam green, sharing the building with an auto body shop full of…

ID Victory

Last Thursday, I opened my mailbox to find a little surprise that would change my life in a big way: My driver license! It finally came! Over the past two weeks I had visited the Department of Motor Vehicles twice in order to acquire the plastic card. My visits (chronicled…

Duct Tape Bandit, August 14

Here’s a brief rundown of some of the top search items on Google.com today: Tropical Storm Dean Reuters reports that energy markets are going crazy over what could develop into the first Atlantic hurricane of the season, as oil prices surged today because Tropical Storm Dean has developed in the…

GOP of the Heap

On Monday, Karl Rove – once described as President George Bush’s “political Svengali, Robespierre and wizard all rolled into one” – took himself out of the political picture. For now. Rove had come a long way for a kid who was born in Denver and spent much of his childhood…

Left Behind: Unintelligible Scribblings

Rambling incoherence has always been a trait I look for in fliers and leaflets. Sure, the threats of fire and brimstone in those bus-seat fliers attempting to shame readers into accepting Christ as their lord and savior provide for a couple stops of entertainment, but the photocopied rantings of an…

Sunday Best

My host at Scum of the Earth Church on Sunday, August 5, spent a good part of the evening explaining to me why this so-called “emergent” congregation is less than newsworthy. Yes, the parishioners are mostly tattooed and pierced 20-somethings and yes, the pulpit band includes a bongo set. But…

Steve Horner: Judge a “Pussy-Whipped Fart Head”

Undaunted by the dismissal of his case against Westword, anti-Ladies Night activist Steve Horner has been busy with other claims against several local bars including Moontime on Broadway and Coyote Ugly in the Denver Pavilions. And he’s been kind enough to keep Westword apprised of everything he’s doing by filling…

Delegating Denver #4 of 56: Arizona

Arizona View larger image. Total Number of Delegates: 67 Pledged: 56 Unpledged: 11 How to Recognize an Arizona Delegate: The Arizona Look is famous the world over. Just start with a pair of the definitive two-buckle, slip-on “Arizona” style of Birkenstock sandals and a pair of Arizona jeans from J.C…

This Weekend: Hybrid and DJ Ivy @ Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom

Hybrid, DJ Ivy August 11, 2007 Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom Better than: The tired, overrated DJs playing at the night’s other big dance music event. Upon my 10 p.m. arrival at Cervantes’ DJ Ivy was playing an excellent set of dark yet funky breakbeats and to a “crowd” of maybe eight…

Left Behind: Republicans Need Not Apply

Now there’s one more perk to voting Democrat: a discount on your paint job. Patrick Nesvadba, a.k.a. “Patrick the Painter,” taped this sign to a LoDo lamppost recently, advertising 10 percent off to left-leaning folks. “I think it sounds like a good idea to put your money where your mouth…

Left Behind: Republicans Need Not Apply

Now there’s one more perk to voting Democrat: a discount on your paint job. Patrick Nesvadba, a.k.a. “Patrick the Painter,” taped this sign to a LoDo lamppost recently, advertising 10 percent off to left-leaning folks. “I think it sounds like a good idea to put your money where your mouth…

Left Behind: Lucha Libre Painting

Quieres luchar, pendejo? In the words of Bart’s bespectacled sidekick, “Everything’s turning up Millhouse!” If by “Millhouse” you mean Adam Cayton-Holland and by “everything,” you mean, like, found a sick-ass painting in his alley this morning. Straight up and down, clown. For whatever reason, my alleyway seems to attract discarded…

Arachnoid Cyst, August 10

Here’s a brief look at what America is searching for today on Google.com: Love Demonstrated Ministries The AP is reporting that arrest warrants have been issued for two caretakers who operate a faith-based boot camp for wayward teens, in Texas of course, who are accused of dragging a fifteen-year-old girl…

Marketing the Colorado Way of Life

Everybody’s getting into the Web 2.0 game. For those of you not in the know, the term refers to websites that rely on user-generated content and traffic while spending little or no money to get it after the initial infrastructure is built. Startup costs and little else, so the theory…

Reporting Live from Supermax

Thursday’s decision by U.S. District Judge Marcia Krieger that the Bureau of Prisons can’t stop even high-security prisoners from publishing under a byline may not mean much to the public at large. Is there anyone out there clamoring for dating advice from Ted “Unabomber” Kaczynski or a Forbes column on…

Botox Bandit, August 9

Here’s a brief rundown on what people are searching on Google today: Chris Ivery People magazine, in their oh-so-informative Caught in the Act column, writes this about Grey’s Anatomy star Ellen Pompeo and her new fiancé: Ellen Pompeo, meeting up with her fiancé Chris Ivery at L’Ermitage, a Beverly Hills…