The ever-popular bar/bat mitzvah location for my friends of middle school days, the Jewish Community Center on Dahlia St. takes a break from such festivities to host John McCain today starting at 10 am. McCain is in town holding a town hall meeting to discuss his health care plan. McCain’s…
Six years ago, developer Paul Lambert put together the biggest, gaudiest monstrosity in the 2002 Parade of Homes. With its three kitchens, eleven bathrooms, Roman spa and casino, swimming pool and waterfall, the $4.1-million Villa Bellagio was the buzz of Douglas County. But its over-the-top luxury also drew fire from…
This is our past eight years in American political quotes. No commentary, no comedy, no frills. Just the statements themselves, the situation in which they were said, and the people who said them. Twenty-three lines that have come to shape America in the twenty-first century:…
There are things we believe in this world. That the sky is blue, that water is wet, and that Paula Abdul is a complete headcase. But has Paula’s own brand of crazy actually uncovered the real truth about American Idol? Was her performance on Tuesday night evidence that the judges’…
After months of speculation, the temporary occupant for the vacant lot that comprises much of Block 162, the dilapidated downtown block whose purchase and planned redevelopment by developer Evan Makovsky made waves last summer, has been determined. And it’s a tent. And not just any tent. A mega tent, called…
On April 28, Roseanne joined the cast of characters dreaming about riots in Denver. Guest-hosting a show on Air America, she let loose with this: But you know what, I think I am old and I’m okay with being a baby boomer being older and everything like that. ‘Cause I…
A mere sixteen months ago, Casey Holden’s life was neatly stored within seventy square feet of cell space in the Colorado State Penitentiary. Released in January 2007 directly to the street after four years of 23-hour-a-day lockdown and a decade spent mostly behind bars, the 26-year-old seemed to be facing…
May 1 marks the official release date of Final Salute, former Rocky Mountain News scribe Jim Sheeler’s expansion of an article about the way families of Marines are informed that their loved ones have died, which won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for featuring writing. The book arrives on a wave…
“Balls!,” Patricia Calhoun, April 24 Bull’s-Eye! Doesn’t Westword put a cow on the cover of every Best of Denver issue? It would seem that Westword is as culpable for Denver’s “cowtown” image as any Colorado tourism campaign.Jay GarciaDenver I cringed when I read “Balls!” I cannot believe that Colorado actually…
Are chickens legal in Denver? It’s a question that anyone who’s heard the mysterious clucking coming from behind a fence on Tennyson Street has asked. Yellowed city maps in the Central Library delineate “coops” in many back yards, hinting at a time when fowl and Ford Model Ts were equally…
While most people lament their fate when they find themselves seated in a cubicle, typing away while surrounded by others doing the exact same thing, like some sort of sad-sack, plugged-in prairie-dog colony, me not so much. Because I have embraced my prairie-dog status and created a series of escape…
There’s high drama in Highland. In the wee hours of Tuesday morning, the Denver City Council voted to change the zoning rules in two neighborhoods, one in West Highland, roughly between 29th and 32nd avenues and Stuart and Meade streets, and one by Sloan’s Lake, between 20th and 24th avenues,…
Anyone who dismisses syndicated talk-show host Rush Limbaugh as a credibility-free joke does so at his own peril. Although he’s embarrassed and contradicted himself plenty of times during recent years, he still attracts an audience estimated at 13.5 million people per week, including thousands of locals who switch to KOA-AM/850…
“I got hit by Bob Saget in a Prius!” says William Spencer. Not once, but many times. Bob Saget. Driving a Prius. Running into William Spencer. But don’t worry, folks, he’s okay. “You just roll up off the side and look like you slam hard,” William explains. The stunt was…
First things first. The Wetboys are not gay. They’re not the Wetfags, or the Homo Skate Crew, or the Denver Dicksuckers, or anything else they’ve been labeled in the hard-core skater world. Sure, some of them wear tight pants. Yes, their name was cribbed from a gay phone-sex ad. And…
Denver’s art community has thrown out the welcome mat for the American Association of Museums, which is hosting a conference is in town right now. Tonight, April 30, from 7 to 10 p.m., the Museo de las Américas (861 Santa Fe Drive, 303-571-4401, www.museo.org) is hosting a progressive dinner along…
I live in very close proximity to both a Mexican and an Italian catholic church (neither of which has adequate parking), so oftentimes after a weekend of leaving my car parked on the street amongst the overflow congregation parking, I will return on Monday morning to find an assortment of…
Oh, and, while technically not a Wetboy, William Spencer is down with their wacky style, which they hope to show off on their MTV reality show pilot:…
On April 26, ultrarunner Tony Krupicka, profiled this month in my feature “Miles & Miles,” added another triumph to his remarkable string of first-place finishes in major endurance races. He smoked the field in the Zane Grey 50, a steep, rocky trek through fifty miles of Arizona’s Tonto National Forest…
On the April 29 edition of ESPN’s Pardon the Interruption, Michael Wilbon, who co-hosts the yakfest with Tony Kornheiser, requested a moment of silence for the Denver Nuggets after the team was swept from the playoffs in four games by the Los Angeles Lakers. A nanosecond later, the quiet was…
Some not-at-all-immature video maker has been using their location across the street from Eddie Maestas Park near the Denver Rescue Mission to introduce the wider world to a new style of poppin’ and lockin’ called Crack Dancing. Ah, the subtle joys of urban living. Check out Crack Dance and, its…
On April 29, the day after the Denver Nuggets were sent packing from the NBA playoffs by the Los Angeles Lakers, Channel 4 morning anchor Brooke Wagner expressed satisfaction that the previous night’s game had been exciting and close. And indeed, the fact that the contest hadn’t turned into another…
