The Colorado History Museum’s current exhibition, The Italians of Denver, celebrates the numerous contributions made by the proud immigrant families who came here from Italy and settled primarily in the northwest part of town, and even attacks the discrimination that Italian immigrants faced in America, including stereotypes about gangsters and…
Kitty Stark doesn’t seem like the type of person capable of raising anyone’s blood pressure. She’s a 63-year-old child-care provider with a kindly personality and a ready laugh. Yet when she objected to an offhand joke about “Vietnamese hookers” made by KHOW’s Craig Silverman and shared her thoughts about the…
It now costs $63 to take a cab from Bradley International Airport to Wesleyan University. Five years ago it cost only $50. I attribute this discrepancy to the War on Terror. I used to take cabs on that route quite often, either to the airport or from it, alternately heading…
“Girl Trouble,” Patricia Calhoun, May 24 Isn’t That Special? Your column on ladies’ nights gave me a great laugh, Ms. Calhoun. I just love to read about women’s justifications for “special deals” because, well, they deserve them. How would you feel if women had to pay more than men? How…
Westword’s crack team of political analysts are at it again. Last week they answered the age-old question, “Which local politician most resembles Shakira?” Now they’ve taken their investigation one step further, to bring to you, for the first time (drum roll, please) WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF LOCAL POLITICOS MATED WITH…
As was noted in this week’s Off Limits, the glitch-ridden Georgetown Loop railroad didn’t open in time for last weekend’s Railroad Days celebration in Georgetown. Some travelers must have showed up in Georgetown expecting otherwise, since on Friday a Denver Post article written by John Wenzel encouraged Memorial Day revelers…
A still from We Own the Night. Last weekend, as Jerry Bruckheimer’s pirates were once again storming the international box office, the Cannes Film Festival bestowed its two top prizes on a gut-wrenching Romanian movie about backroom abortion and a plaintive Japanese drama about a sad old man who wants…
Patrick Osborn, Westword’s Drunk of the Week columnist, is leaving, and we want to send him off with a properly toasted toast! So we’re collecting the very best drunk stories we can find, and will honor the winner with a hundred-dollar bill he/she can spend at the drinking establishment of…
5.28.07 Palma, Mallorca Spain Chief, I arrived here last week after my fiasco in Gibraltar to find that my old college professor is on the mainland taking care of some business. He booked me into a hotel until he gets back, assuring me that the price was right and that…
Former Westword writer David Holthouse (he of the famous “Stalking the Bogeyman” saga) made his debut in Rolling Stone this week (the one with Johnny Depp and Keith Richards on the cover), writing about Shirley Q. Liquor, a gay white man who puts on blackface and performs as a boozing…
A funny thing happened over Memorial Day weekend; the YouTube clip that accompanied our freebirthing story (“Baby’s Day Out”, May 10) experienced a minor explosion in popularity, garnering roughly ten times as many hits over the weekend as it had received in the weeks since it was posted. Jump on…
There’s plenty about the murder of Denver Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams (pictured) that doesn’t add up — and the folks at KOA appear to be as confused as anyone. On May 29, the station ran spots promoting an update about the Williams investigation, with the announcer expressing astonishment that it…
There I was, on the home stretch of the Bolder Boulder, pounding down Folsom Street (read: jogging at an exhausted pace barely faster than a walk), endorphins ramping up for final push over the last hill. Then I heard it, blasting from a loudspeaker at a gas station: “Always have…
There is only one true Italian restaurant — back east, in that charmed province that runs along the coast, north into New England, south as far as Baltimore. Upstate, downstate, in the barrens and on the shore, just one restaurant with 10,000 names that has grown the way mushrooms grow,…
Today marks the launch of Do Your Thing, a blog created to share fans’ stories and foster the follow-your-heart ethos that inspired the documentary 10 MPH, which chronicles a cross-country trip via Segway scooter, (“Slow Ride,” August 5, 2004, “Storme of the Day,” May 24) also releasing today on DVD…
Some hail on the ground Left view out the office door…
Tommy Lee Jones in No Country For Old Men. The Coen brothers’ pulpy, ultimately pretentious neo-Western No Country For Old Men screened early in the Cannes Film Festival and by the end had maintained its standing as the most widely approved Yankee feature to bow here since Pulp Fiction (though…
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days. The 60th Cannes Film Festival was a generous one — and so was its jury, bestowing the Palme d’Or on the least heralded, most critically acclaimed movie in an unusually strong competition, namely Romanian director Cristian Mungiu’s 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2…
The shackled plaintiff testified by video hookup from a holding cell in the control unit of the highest security federal pen in the country. His lawyers were students from the University of Denver who haven’t yet passed the bar. But Mark Jordan was determined to have his day in court…
Offense Report No: 07-329892 Date: 05-21-07 Type of Offense: Assault on an At-Risk Adult Location of Offense: Regis neighborhood Officer T. Elliot reports: “The victim related that he was at home trying to sleep and heard loud music coming from a vehicle parked behind [his home]. The victim [a 27-year-old…
5.25.07 Ferry Station Málaga, Spain Boss, My Gibraltar connection fell through in a nasty way. I got out there to the big rock yesterday with a whole busload of antsy young backpackers, all of them intent on getting a lift across the strait to Morocco so they could get royally…
Map nerds rejoice! Follow Tony Perez-Giese on the Global Warning Google Map as he travels and blogs around the world. Global Warning (Google Maps)…
