Enough already. Our local guardians of morals have been getting a lot of mileage out of being shocked, shocked, at the way a panel of randy “experts” from the World Affairs Conference were allowed to espouse sexual experimentation to Boulder High School kids last month. Vince Carroll has been turning…
“It feels really, really good to be back in America,” Colie says at the beginning of the end — the very last episode. Thailand is glad you’re back in America, too, Colie. The roommates head over to the Jet Hotel. “Everybody in the world wishes to be us right now,”…
After a week of watching that trailer for the Real World trip to Thailand, I was expecting certain roommates — namely, Colie — to be much less well-behaved than she actually was. They get to Thailand with apparently no drama on the plane, although Brooke (predictably) doesn’t seem to be…
Those lucky enough to be attending the Cannes Film Festival this year can catch a little taste of Colorado talent. Jennifer Platt’s short film Not a Competition is screening at the festival as we speak, and will continue to show through May 26. But Not a Competition isn’t the whole…
Three of television’s biggest shows are wrapping up their seasons tonight -I have only watch one episode of this show (“Swag”). I like what I saw but I never get home in time to see it. Also the second half is on during the The Office. But I am getting…
Chief, I used some miles to upgrade to business class on the flight over here thinking I might cop a few z’s and arrive in Europe fresh. The only problem with this plan is my notorious penchant to abuse open bars. I am older and wiser now, so I thought…
May 17’s Westword features a profile of Dimmu Borgir, Norway’s premier practitioners of symphonic black metal — but there’s a lot more mayhem where that came from. Below, find the entire Q&A with Erkekjetter Silenoz, the band’s guitarist, lyric writer and all-around conceptualist. Along the way, he discusses the narrative…
Looking through the window of room 105 at the Dunes Motel, Amy Limon could see the kids playing outside. She opened the door and slowly navigated her wheelchair down a wooden ramp that she’d had the motel maintenance guy install. The parking lot was littered with cigarette butts, empty beer…
A decade ago, wrestling with crushing legal and financial problems and looking at months of jail time, a cocky 26-year-old stockbroker named Douglas Alan Glaser decided to disappear. He walked away from his business and home in Colorado, only to reappear in New Jersey as a man named Douglas Michael…
A few years back, there was this commercial with Ed McCaffrey standing in front of East High School, looking like that rascal Eddie Haskell and holding a football and talking about something positive. (I believe it was for United Way, but with all the shit McCaffrey hawks these days, you…
TJ Miller’s life is “totally insane.” You can blame Melody Duggan for that. The East High School drama teacher was the first person to encourage Miller to do standup, when he was a sophomore in her class close to a decade ago. Wisely, the now-25-year-old chose comedy over hip-hop as…
Mayor John Hickenlooper is all about the green: He has an initiative to plant a million trees by 2025, a leafy jacket and his Greenprint Denver plan to prove it. But students on the Auraria campus are trying to one-up him by building the largest solar-energy project on a college…
Journalists call it the golden rolodex — the list of numbers to call in case a quote is needed on short notice. Most media types have such digits separated into categories, with a handful of entries in each. Need an academic to weigh in on urban-crime statistics? Dial her. Stuck…
“Baby’s Day Out,” Jared Jacang Maher, May 10 That’s Women’s Work Let’s keep this statistic in mind: 20 percent of pregnancies develop life-threatening complications. This is why the decision — whether it’s the decision to bear a child or to abort, or it’s the decision to give birth at home…
The City of Denver and the American Civil Liberties Union reached a settlement on May 16 regarding a case where a citizen was arrested and sent to jail for requesting a Denver cop’s business card (“Watch and Learn,” June 8, 2006)…
Click here to view the slideshow It was disaster waiting to happen. In the second week of April, Aurora officials got some phone calls warning that the Blue Spruce Motel, a notorious dump on East Colfax, could be closing any day. On Friday, April 13, Aurora’s community development planner, Paul…
It’s early in the current Red Rocks season, but the marvelous venue’s most unusual 2007 show may have already taken place. The May 15 date featuring Icelandic sprite Björk and harpist Joanna Newsom offered the sort of challenging music that wouldn’t be expected to draw a throng. Yet the rows…
There has been big buzz about the Transformers movie coming out this July. Personally, I could care less. Wake me up when there is a ThunderCats movie. I am all about the hotness that is Lion-O. Michael Bay, the director of the Transformers movie, release high-resolution pictures of the robots…
Click here for the slideshow Space. Enough space for nine-year-old Charity Norwood to play. Space for her older sister, Essence, and space for her older brother. Micah. Space for her younger siblings: JoVaughn, Autumn and Majesty. And finally, some space for Lisa Norwood, the mother of the six children who…
“On my second night at Fruition, I lit my menu on fire. It wasn’t a big fire—just the sort one gets from an unfortunate proximity of a heavy-bond paper menu to a small candle on the dinner table. I put the fire out with the palm of my hand—thankful, in…
Former Westword staffer Tony Perez-Giese is now looking for stories around the globe, and will be sending us periodic dispatches. A final weekend in Vegas is just the last in what has proved to be a long string of bad decisions. It is slight comfort to know that I did…
Like Saddam Hussein, the Rev. Jerry Falwell, who died on May 15 at age 73, was satirized so frequently that it’s easy to underestimate his influence. Of late, he was best known for determinedly moronic cultural crusades and brain-dead pronouncements epitomized by his assertion that Tinky Winky, the purple Teletubby,…
