Of all the things to be celebrated cross-culturally, to have the potential to bring people of the world closer together, it would have to be April Fool’s Day. Seriously, any other holiday would be better, don’t you think? Instead of turning our friends into dupes, maybe we could all do…
College kids, when not sexing and boozing, are attending Obama rallies. When there isn’t an Obama rally to attend, they’ll make one up. Perhaps because April Fools’ Day fast approaches or perhaps because they got tired of the election year sex and beer, unnamed miscreants on the University of Pennsylvania…
View larger species In order to make more sense of the world around us, illustrator and public house naturalist Nate Stone is compiling here a taxonomy of different barflies. While you’re out and about in Denver, if you spot any of these specimens please add your observations about their habitat…
View larger species In order to make more sense of the world around us, illustrator and public house naturalist Nate Stone is compiling here a taxonomy of different barflies. While you’re out and about in Denver, if you spot any of these specimens please add your observations about their habitat…
View larger image North Carolina Total Number of Delegates: 134 Pledged: 115 Unpledged: 19 How to Recognize a North Carolina Delegate: Ahh, the Land of the Sky — such a lovely state, full of beautiful people who are impossible to understand. The only reason that John Edwards is not the…
If you feel that Denver’s Public Works has too much authority in your life, you may find catharsis in the artwork of Dan Ericson. The self-proclaimed “street sign artist,” who adopts the nom de plume ‘Dunn’ as a graffiti-esque pseudonym, produces original artwork by painting hip hop tableaus on deteriorated…
“The buck stops here.” President Truman’s famous line, embedded there on his desk for all to see, lingers still today. Specifically, in the presidency of George W. Bush. Not in the sense that W. embraced that philosophy. On the contrary, he seems to have been eager to pass that buck…
Presumptive GOP nominee John McCain will make a Mile High stopover on Thursday, visiting the Denver Athletic Club for a meet and greet with his Colorado Finance Committee. “Finance Committee” means “rich and/or powerful donors,” and “his” committee means “Romney and Giuliani’s.” It’s an old truism that Democrats fall in…
Slide Show X Tuesday, March 25 Bluebird Theater Better Than: Seeing X two decades ago. An hour before heading to the Bluebird I met a friend of mine who saw X in East St. Louis a few weeks ago. He said it was a great show, but he also mentioned…
B-52s Funplex Astralwerks 01:15-02:00 of “Pump” What the heck? Um, no seriously, what the heck? What made the B-52’s decide to release a record and, more importantly, why did they decide on the absolute stupidest album cover? You know, “Rock Lobster” is a great song that totally appeals to both…
Inveterate browsers haunting the scruffy book row on Broadway were left out in the cold when Ichabod’s closed, but Fahrenheit’s Books has been making things cozy again. This long-time comer at 52 Broadway, a block south of the Mayan, has blossomed from a cramped, barely navigable hole-in-the-wall to a spacious,…
Although Dr. Jack Kevorkian’s name is often synonymous with the right-to-die campaigns around the world, people were fighting for control of their demise long before Kevorkian’s name shot to the forefront of the debate. While Kevorkian, pictured, was locked up for assisting a suicide that he filmed and sent to…
People find God in unusual places and often try to show others the way to their savior in even stranger places. Believers have tried to “save” me on Mexican beaches and at basketball games. They’ve tried to lead me to God on college campuses, in airports and on airplanes. They’ve…
The west facing wall of the alleyway off 8th Avenue at Galapago Street in the Santa Fe Arts District got some fresh pieces earlier this month. The spot is the city’s most frequented graffiti location for it’s ever-changing murals that will often extend deep into the alleyway and around the…
Criticizing Glenn Beck is an unsatisfying thing. Part of the reason for this is that it’s so easy. After all, the guy is, like Limbaugh and Hannity before him, utterly untrained for what he’s come to do. Rush was a sales rep; Sean was in construction; Glenn Beck was a…
Tracy Morgan, of all people, finished it. It, of course, being the political controversy surrounding Saturday Night Live’s supposed support of Hillary Clinton. At least we can hope so, after a long round of puffed-up news surrounding the late-night institution and its supposedly sincere political soapboxery. We’re years into an…
More photos after the jump. At the Bethany Baptist Church in Boulder, a painting shows a small black child, screaming—his squinting eyes and upturned palms splattering into negative space. Another shows a ghostly set of eyelids, bordered by the stylized word “faith”. The pieces—one a portrait of Emmett Till, a…
In the pile-on frenzy that has gripped local media outlets and bloggers over Judge Edward Nottingham’s reputed bad behavior recently, nobody probably has a better claim to the story than pro se litigant Sean Harrington and his website, KnowYourCourts.com. Harrington was railing against the arrogance of Colorado’s federal courts, including…
I’ll admit to taking no small amount of pleasure from having watched Patrick Roy raise fists against Red Wings goaltenders Mike Vernon and Chris Osgood on two separate and glorious occasions. Anyone who straps on a red helmet against the Avs is easy to hate. But, given Roy’s off-ice history…
View larger specimen In order to make more sense of the world around us, illustrator and public house naturalist Nate Stone is compiling here a taxonomy of different barflies. While you’re out and about in Denver, if you spot any of these specimens please add your observations about their habitat…
View larger specimen In order to make more sense of the world around us, illustrator and public house naturalist Nate Stone is compiling here a taxonomy of different barflies. While you’re out and about in Denver, if you spot any of these specimens please add your observations about their habitat…
View larger image New York Total Number of Delegates: 282 Pledged: 232 Unpledged: 50 How to Recognize a New York Delegate: After arguing about food and their governor’s taste in call girls, New Yorkers spend a lot of time arguing about the personality split that divides upstate from downstate. The…
