Because of misinformation provided by Pollstar, regarded as the most reliable concert-industry information provider, this preview item about the May 29 KBPI Birthday Bash at the Fillmore Auditorium inaccurately states that Horse the Band is part of the bill. Actually, the group in question is just plain Horse, featuring KBPI…
5.21.07 Edinburgh, Scotland Chief, I wish I could give you a nice tourism round-up from my four-day drive around Scotland, but it’s kind of hard to take field notes when you’re afraid for your life. Big D established the rules right after him and his son, Little D, scooped me…
This stop-the-presses story from Monday’s Denver Post has the kind of cheery headline and deck you just have to admire: “METH COOKING 101/DEA holds awareness class to show how easy it is to make the drug, which is increasingly imported.” Aside from the fact that homemade meth is the definition…
The Colorado History Museum’s current exhibition, The Italians of Denver, celebrates the numerous contributions to local culture made by the proud immigrant families who came here from Italy and settled primarily in the northwest part of town. Yet for one painting in the exhibition — “The Agony in the Garden”,…
A still from Abel Ferrara’s Go Go Tales. “Whaddya love about it so much?” Abel Ferrara — director of the strip-club-set Go Go Tales, my favorite film at Cannes — is interviewing the interviewer. Well, I say, it’s consistent with the Ferrara oeuvre — King of New York, Bad Lieutenant,…
A still from the Cohen brother’s No Country for Old Men. Sometimes the competition is actually competitive. No one disputes that the official section at the 60th Cannes Film Festival has been the strongest in recent memory. The heavy favorites are the Coen brothers’ No Country For Old Men; Julian…
Slideshow Some people just don’t listen. A few weeks ago, I wrote about a combustible little energy drink that goes by the name of SPIKE. In that column, I pointed out how kids have been going to the hospital for drinking too much SPIKE, and I then proceeded to drink…
Slideshow Bob Dylan is a weirdo among freaks. Even when he was a leader of the ’60s folk scene, he considered himself an outcast, a stranger who was lost, and by his own admission had “no direction home.” So maybe it was fitting that the Bob Dylan tribute show last…
The May television ratings period known as “sweeps” is over, and while Channel 9’s newscast continues to lead all competition in the marquee 10 p.m. slot (and most others), the margin of victory was smaller than it’s been in ages. Predictably, the final daily update compiled by KMGH-TV/Channel 7 publicity…
At 4:30 p.m. on May 24, staffers at the Rocky Mountain News are slated to bid farewell to fellow workers who chose to take the paper’s buyout offer — meaning that the list of names that’s been circulating for several weeks will finally be proven accurate, dubious or somewhere in…
I don’t know if I’m the last one to know about these automatic pot hole-filling trucks, but I was thoroughly wowed when I saw one in action today near downtown. The driver simply pulled up to the 2-foot-wide gouge in the street and started spitting asphalt through a long robotic…
Offense Report No: 07-330054 Date: 05-18-07 Type of Offense: Burglary Location of Offense: Prospect Place neighborhood Property Stolen: Fried Chicken ($5) Officer E. Quintana reports: “On the listed date and time, the unknown suspects(s) gained entry into the listed location by kicking in the front door. Once inside, the unknown…
Driving to work today I saw a bumper sticker that said “Keep the Field in Broomfield,” obviously some sort of open space plea. But it was stuck to an old Chevrolet Suburban cruising down a tiny Capitol Hill street, which inspired me to come up with a new bumper sticker…
When we last checked in with Casey Holden, he was scraping by as a wage slave at a pizza joint in Grand Junction. This was a better life than being locked down in the Colorado state pen, mind you, but a bit short of Holden’s dreams of getting an education,…
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Being a native of Littleton, I felt an immediate affinity for Januar while researching their Myspace Music page. Their profile was incredibly straightforward. From: Littleton (who owns up to that?); influences: Jeff Buckley, Mojave 3, Sigur Ros; band name is Icelandic for “January,” and they’re wearing woolly beanies in their…
The spotlight’s on the Senate’s debate over immigration reform but most of the men in Washington don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to the crux of the issue. None of them have to fill low paying jobs like the farmers and hotel owners in Colorado do. None…
The title says it all. If Denver’s had anything like Atlanta Public Access’s Alexyss Tylor, I would cancel Comcast in a second. Not like they haven’t already canceled it for nonpayment. Not Safe For Work—Don’t gamble with your finances. [As seen on Crunk + Disorderly] –Crystal Preston-Watson…
Old newspapers line the windows of what used to be the Clara Market on East Colfax, the shop sits empty, still for rent. The shops former owners, Mohamad Aboub and family are officially out of the convenience-store biz, Aboub says, after pleading guilty to unauthorized use of a transaction device…
Ethan Iverson, keyboardist for the Bad Plus, had a lot more to say than could be squeezed into the profile that appears in the May 24 edition of Westword. But the web has plenty of room — so here’s the full Q&A. The topics discussed include the reasons behind the…
One of Colorado’s most notorious celebrities made the Dlisted.com blog last week, with a picture taken from the cover of Westword. Yes, Storme Aerison was the Slut of the Day for May 17. Only one problem: Storme’s a guy. Or was, when she started out life as Charles Daugherty. That…
Angelina Hergenreder doesn’t usually give money to the homeless men who call out to her as she leaves her hostess job at a restaurant on the 16th Street Mall. But the man who asked for spare change one Wednesday evening in early April was so polite — even after she’d…
