My waiter came by, brought me a warm towel for my fingers, a stack of menus, a beer. Then we started talking — about the menu, about the Izakaya concept, about how to order and what I should order and how much of everything I should order. “How hungry are…
The documentary Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten, which begins its Denver run on December 14 at the Starz FilmCenter, has a fine subject — the combustible, highly quotable shouter for the Clash, who died in 2002 — and a sympathetic, visually audacious director — Julien Temple, the onetime music-video…
The land dispute between Boulder neighbors that’s at the center of the December 12 Message column just received its most prominent moment in the national spotlight to date: a four-minute spot heard by listeners to the NPR program All Things Considered on December 10. The piece stands out because it…
In 1993, Westword published its tenth Best of Denver issue, a celebration of the city that saluted everything from Best Place to Take the Pope When He Comes to Town to Best Explosion (the old Montgomery Ward building on Broadway) to Best Radio Talk-Show Host (Peter Boyles, whose ratings continue…
Moderators at an online forum for former Pentecostals have reposted the rantings of Matthew Murray, the gunman who killed four young people in Arvada and Colorado Springs this weekend, on their website here. Joe Istre, president of the Association of Former Pentecostals wrote of the decision, “In the interests of…
The gunman who killed four young people in Arvada and Colorado Springs despised his own deeply fundamentalist upbringing but couldn’t quite escape it. Even while quoting copiously from the Web rantings of Columbine killer Eric Harris (“God, I can’t wait until I can kill you people”) in his own cyberspace…
“It’s a hotter issue than it ever has been before, all the presidential candidates are talking about it,” says Helen Krieble, a Colorado woman with a plan to solve the nation’s immigration trauma profiled in this Westword feature, “No candidate can step out in front of an audience without answering…
The Rocky Mountain News has invested an enormous amount of time and resources in “Beyond the Boom.” The four-day series, which debuted on December 10, is an ambitious attempt to grapple with the impact of the current uptick in energy-related projects on the state, complete with special, ad-free sections designed…
White House press secretary Dana Perino, a recent Westword profile subject, admitted to having had a bad week a few days back — and that’s not an example of spin. Perino, a Wyoming native who was raised in Colorado from age two, not only engaged in a heavily reported snipefest…
View larger image Kentucky Total Number of Delegates: 59 Pledged: 50 Unpledged: 9 How to Recognize a Kentucky Delegate: Kentuckians insist that they live in the south, even though the majority of the state’s population lives along the northern border, mainly in Louisville and the suburbs of the solidly Midwestern…
I’m no meteorologist, but I do know this: it was really, really cold out this weekend. We would have more for you this morning, my fellow Denverites, but several of us, after having bundled up to head out to enjoy the amazing culture of this town, decided that the roads…
When I clicked on my television Sunday afternoon, December 9, I thought all I’d see was football. Instead, I got a crystal-clear lesson in TV priorities, as assorted stations covered and/or didn’t cover a pair of local shootings — one at Arvada’s Youth With a Mission center, the other at…
In National Public Radio’s December 10 story about the previous night’s debate, a Republican presidential candidate forum in Miami sponsored by Univision, Tom Tancredo was mentioned first. How did the double T pull off this long-awaited coup? By not showing up — ostensibly because appearing at such a “Spanish-speaking” event…
Even Hillary Clinton does not rank in the Top Ten Queen Bitches of History. Here, in ascending order, is our list…
Let’s be honest, your friends… well, they’re not “grown-ups.” Sure, they’re technically adults, but they know how to have fun. Here are 25 awesome toys to entertain, torment and tantalize your favorite big kids. — Chelsea Ide & Michelle Mathews of the Dallas Observer…
Early on in the season, Denver Broncos coach Mike Shanahan reminded everyone that coaches can effectively “ice” a kicker. And with that, he ruined football. Ok, maybe he didn’t ruin the game, but that move has since become more played out than Peaches this season. We used to worship the…
In 1992, Westword published its ninth Best of Denver issue, a celebration of the city that saluted everything from Best Last Stand (the Denver Zephyrs, about to be supplanted by the Colorado Rockies) to Best Bail Bondsman (Duane Chapman, before he became known as “Dog”) to Best — and Sometimes…
On December 5, the University of Colorado Boulder announced that it would pay a total of $2.85 million to two women, Lisa Simpson and Anne Gilmore, whose claims of having been sexually assaulted in 2001 launched what became popularly known as the CU recruiting scandal. The decision finally closes a…
The Denver Post has been on a columnist search ever since word leaked that longtimer Diane Carman would be moving on — the topic of this blog. Moreover, Post editor Greg Moore made it clear in the October 25 Message that he was hoping to find a strong internal candidate…
“Hot for Teacher,” Adam Cayton-Holland, November 29 Teacher’s Fret As a former Graland alumna (alumnae? — I didn’t take Latin at Graland), I found Adam Cayton-Holland’s take on the whole sex-scandal situation almost dead-on. I feel his indignance about many former classmates. It’s been twenty years, and I’ve stayed in…
Coors hasn’t canceled Christmas, but after two decades, the brewer is no longer making its seasonal Winterfest beer for the public, choosing to focus instead on a winter beer from the company’s Blue Moon brand. The news brings the same mixed sentiments that accompanied the retirement of Jesse Helms: hard…
First of all, City and County of Denver, I want to thank you for coming to me in this, your hour of need. Okay, okay, so it was actually the Diversity Advisory Committee (the less-fun DAC) of the separate Career Service Authority that made the impossibly awful diversity training video,…
