Friends of Don Becker — Denver’s favorite one-armed, bi-polar comic/poet/playwright who passed away this past May, whose story I told here -– gathered upstairs at the Mercury Café Sunday afternoon to celebrate their gifted pal. Drink tickets were handed out and, per Don’s request, the event had the festive air…
So the Denver Nuggets have told Carmelo Anthony’s agent, Calvin Andrews, that they have no intention of trading him. Fine. That’s the right move, since there’s no way they would have gotten equal value for him. Keeping Allen Iverson for another season makes sense, too, for the same reason: The…
On June 22, the Colorado Springs Gazette reported that Ted Haggard, who’d been asked to leave his post as chief evangelical at New Life Church in 2006 after admitting to “sexual immorality” in his dealings with Denver masseuse Mike Jones, had returned to his Colorado Springs home after an extended…
View larger image Utah Total Number of Delegates: 29 Pledged: 23 Unpledged: 6 How to Recognize a Utah Delegate: Based on national news stories, most Americans would think it was easier to get a second wife than a second drink while visiting Utah — as if residents of the Beehive…
By all accounts, PrideFest, a tribute to all things GLBT whose 2008 edition took place on June 21 and 22, was a well-attended success. But the Rocky Mountain News’ June 23 coverage of the event spotlighted an embarrassing misstep by one of the bash’s sponsors, AM 760. As shown in…
Tipsy’s Liquor World, at Bowles and C-470, isn’t just another alcohol-supply store. As Westword pointed out in this May piece, it’s 87,000 square feet of huge — a veritable booze resort supplemented by two restaurants, Pickles Deli and Twigs Wine Bar, not to mention a posh tasting area outfitted with…
Get Smart, which opened on June 20, topped the box office during its first weekend in theaters, hauling in an estimated $39.2 million despite deservedly mixed reviews; the flick, starring Steve Carrell, starts off fairly strong but gets less funny (hmmmm) and more sincere (eeeesh) as it goes along. Fortunately,…
It’s still about two months until the Democratic National Convention gets underway in Denver, but you’d never know it from the pages of the Rocky Mountain News. The venerable tab is going to extremes to get the letters “DNC” into every story possible. Note that columnist Penny Parker included pleas…
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): The PleasuresDudes loved Poultrygeist! We give it a…
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): The green Troma carpet heated up when Amber…
We, the PleasuresDudes, were invited by Troma Pictures to the premiere of Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead last Saturday in Los Angeles! We arrived at the theater in Hollywood at around 6 p.m., and our totally rad PleasuresDudes camera crew started setting up to create this slide show. Soon…
There’s a marvelous group exhibition at the Robischon Gallery (1740 Wazee Street, 303-298-7788, www.robischongallery.com) called Flourish that’s been organized by co-director and curator Jennifer Doran. The theme of the show is nature-based abstraction as done by artists in the gallery’s stable, and it’s the perfect thing for late-spring and early-summer…
There’s no problem with the headline “Air Passenger ‘Beyond Control,’ Court Records Say” on the version of a June 20 article that appears on the Rocky Mountain News’ website. It’s another matter in the print edition, though. That headline reads, “Air Passenger ‘Beyond Control,’ Court Records Sa,” which is considerably…
Given all the “yee haw!” that’s gone on in the White House since Texan George W. Bush took office in the year 2000, a roundup seems quite appropriate, and Rik Clay of 20/08 Productions in Boulder, is organizing just that. The Great Marble Round-Up is a call to action for…
John McCain ends his new commercial with the following words: Reform. Prosperity. Peace. Wow. The images are a transparent play for the vote of environmentalists, and one has to give the guy (or at least his publicity team) credit for hitting the right buzzwords. But this is one of those…
The Mayor’s office has announced which groups have been granted slots to utilize the designated parade route during the week of the Democratic National Convention. In May, the ACLU filed a lawsuit against the city for failing to assign what path demonstrators would be able to march through downtown and…
Democrats have made many mistakes over the years, as this slide show by Joe Horton makes clear. In fact, they’ve made too many to include in a single slide show. So here, a couple of honorable mentions:…
Tom “Naked Upper Lip” Martino A little bird recently informed me that she’d heard Tom Martino — aka the Troubleshooter — on his radio show going on about how he would like to try stand-up comedy. I didn’t know how to take this. Lots of people say they’d like to…
Karen Brooks of the Dallas Morning News certainly isn’t the first person to take umbrage with Westword cartoonist Kenny Be’s point of view, especially his Delegating Denver , an online series devoted to profiling the 56 state and territory delegations. But in this case, Brooks wasn’t insulted because Kenny was…
Former Westword photographer Brett Amole, son of late Rocky Mountain News scribe Gene Amole, got some nice media exposure when CNN ran a KUSA local TV news story about Boulder’s June 14 naked bike ride. The daytime jaunt, part of World Naked Bike Ride — , or World Naked Bike…
Denver Post business columnist Al Lewis recently received an offer he couldn’t refuse. The folks at Dow Jones Newswires asked him to write a national column for the service — an enormous coup given the current state of the newspaper industry. The position allows him to maintain his home base…
“Star Wars,” Jason Sheehan, June 5 UF Uh-Oh Jason Sheehan is one who wants to believe, and I remember how disappointed my nine-year-old was when she learned the truth about Santa. The flaws inherent to the, ahem, reasoning that goes into the modern religion of UFOlogy are more obvious today…
