Beginning in 2002, the City of Northglenn, in association with the Northglenn Arts and Humanities Foundation (www.northglennarts.org), began to sponsor annual outdoor exhibitions called Art on Parade. Installed in E. B. Rains Jr. Park (11801 Community Center Drive), Art on Parade presents half a dozen sculptures on loan from the…
Why is Carmelo Anthony smiling? Because on June 24, he received a sweetheart deal related to an April DUI bust; after pleading guilty to a lesser charge (driving while ability impaired), he was sentenced to a year’s probation and a not exactly whopping 24 hours of community service, and he…
James Dobson, Focus on the Family’s moral arbiter and chief scold, isn’t supposed to play a major part in this year’s presidential election. After all, the longtime powerhouse in Republican politics has no detectable fondness for that party’s presumptive nominee, John McCain, and the only way he’ll support Barack Obama…
Judah Friedlander shows viewers the funny in plenty of different venues, including the laugh-inducing NBC sitcom 30 Rock and movies such as the upcoming Eddie Murphy vehicle Meet Dave, not to mention stand-up gigs like his impending four-night run at the Denver Improv (get details here). He ties all of…
United Airlines. It’s the company Denver loves to hate, the one that has caused sky-high stress levels and unhappiness for an untold number of fliers, the company many of us have no choice but to use since it dominates the gates at Denver International Airport. The latest insult? Charging $15…
DNC protest group Tent State University, standing in for the larger protest amalgam Alliance for Real Democracy, has been granted permits to host a series of large concerts in City Park from August 24-28. Parks and Recreation planners expect as many as 20,000 participants will be drawn to the free…
There’s a lot more fresh content on Westword.com’s other blogs. In Demver, Teague Bohlen slaughters Pork Invaders, a new video game developed to hype the candidacy of John McCain. Play it and decide whether it gets your vote. The Cat’s Pajamas salutes the missing Colorado Springs woman who prompted her…
So John McCain’s website has a new game you can play and/or embed in your Facebook profile called Pork Invaders, which you can sample below. Yes, I know it sounds like porn. No, I’m not sure they realize that…
Not so long ago, plenty of pundits seemed to think that John Elway might be interested in a political career — but why in the hell would he hurl himself into that meat-grinder when he’s capable of earning a nice living by letting people pay him to play around? Witness…
The fortieth anniversary of Libre, an artist commune, which drew a large crowd to the Huerfano Valley June 20 to 22, was a fantasmagoria of groovy tunes, far-out art and hip-cat reunions. The first day, the estranged, mainstreamed ex-hippies set up at the campground, then gathered for a semi-formal art…
Comcast’s “Screen to Green TV Recycling Rally,” which begins at 10 a.m. on Saturday, June 28 on the Auraria campus (click here for details), is being given a predictably planet-friendly spin. Press materials quote Denver mayor John Hickenlooper lauding the Screen to Green initiative, which is intended to help consumers…
The non-profit arts advocacy group Americans for the Arts identified four dozen projects across the country for individual awards at its meeting in Philadelphia last weekend. The group mostly represents bureaucrats in the world of public arts administration and the politicians who help pass legislation to pay for all of…
A lot’s happened to Carmelo Anthony since the launch of our June 23 blog about his reaction to persistent trade rumors. As expected, he was named an official member of the 2008 U.S. Olympic basketball team. He also delivered his first public remarks about the prospect of a trade, telling…
It wasn’t very long ago that George Carlin, who died on June 22, graced the pages of Westword. A piece with the now-ironic headline “Carlin Continues” appeared in the paper’s April 3 issue in connection to an appearance at the Buell Theatre to benefit Channel 12, which issued a press…
Focus on the Family leader James Dobson is making headlines for an upcoming broadcast that attempts to give presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama a biblical beating; see this Demver blog for details. But Dobson is just as exercised — if not exorcised — at the possibility that the resurrection…
In a June 24 article by former Denver Post religion writer Eric Gorski, who’s currently writing (and kicking ass) for the Associated Press, Focus on the Family spokesman Tom Minnery said that an aide for Barack Obama recently suggested a sit-down at the evangelical organization’s Colorado Springs HQ. Doubt something…
The PleasuresDudes, Denver’s way-past-prime-time adult TV celebs, were invited to work the green carpet last weekend at the Los Angeles premiere of Poultrygeist. See their slideshow here; their upclose and personal account of the green-carpet capers continues below (read part one here): We finally left the theater in our limo…
When Mr. Kotter came back to Brooklyn, he was welcomed by the Sweathogs with open arms… eventually. Maybe that same thing will happen between Ted Haggard and the congregation of the New Life Church, which he once led. Hey, with a name like “New Life Church,” they’ve got to be…
The latest Don Imus controversy, spurred by the rhetorical question “What color is he?,” which Imus asked during a show following mention of trouble-prone footballer Adam “Pacman” Jones, was topic one on Peter Boyles’ KHOW morning show on June 24. “It’s one of those mornings where everyone’s going to be…
The Paramount Theater has played host to an eclectic array of shows, but few are more unlikely than the one taking place on June 23: the first public hearing in a proposed week’s worth of sessions at which Coloradoans are encouraged to weigh in on proposed regulations related to the…
What else is happening in the Westword.com blog universe? Glad you asked. Backbeat Online includes a review of the city-shaking Fluid reunion show, plus our take on a Red Rocks performance by once-and-future Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant and bluegrass lass Alison Krauss, plus a review of Broken Spindles at…
Yes, air travel makes us angry. And as discussed in the previous installment of Shmuck of the Week, airlines like United are often to blame. But in some cases, passengers deserve to carry their share of the baggage for ever-more interesting bouts of air rage. Christina E. Szele, please report…
