The Heyday is still wet behind the ears. Nine. That’s the number of shows that the Heyday has actually played. In this week’s Beatdown, I speculated that number was fewer than fifty. And before the ink was even dry on that column, I received an e-mail from Heyday bassist Pete…
There’s big news coming out of Cherry Creek, with the announcement that Elway’s is expanding to a second location inside the new Ritz-Carlton, Denver, which is currently under construction at 1881 Curtis Street. And I predicted this almost a year ago, in the April 20, 2006 Bite Me column where…
Here’s how cool I am. Last night, I was at home with my family, watching 30 Rock, Tina Fey’s amusing sitcom (Alec Baldwin rules), on Channel 9. Suddenly, in the middle of the broadcast, my son, Nick, noticed something flash in the middle of the screen. Shortly thereafter, the rest…
Offense Report No: 07-5001573 Date: 1-15-2007 Location of Offense: South Denver Type of Premises: House Weapon/Tool used: Chemical Homeowner writes: “My garage door has been tagged by a ‘gay tagger.’ My white garage door has some moronic red spray painted ‘tag’ as these ‘artists’ like to think of themselves. I…
In today’s blog about Kevin Nealon, the comic noted that his wife was due to give birth around the time of his January 26 show at the Boulder Theater. Well, her doctor’s estimate proved mighty accurate. The performance was just postponed, and Sarah Coffeld, the venue’s publicist, confirms that labor…
Local pundits are a-twitter over the arcane mechanics of the country’s Electoral College as the Colorado legislature considers revising how the state awards its nine electoral votes in a presidential election. Some say the current proposal, which would award the state’s votes to whoever gets the most popular votes nationwide…
For the record, I liked much of the food (if not the service) at John Holley’s Asian Bistro, which makes the fact that they tossed the Westword rack after my review came out a little puzzling. No question, though, that the place has lots of fans, because letters like the…
The piece in this week’s Night & Day section about comic Kevin Nealon, who headlines at the Boulder Theater in a show now scheduled to take place on Friday, March 2 (see this blog for details), offers a taste of a conversation early this month with the Saturday Night Live…
That roll of pre-made cookie dough in the refrigerated aisle of the supermarket harbors a dirty secret: There’s a good chance it will be eaten before it ever reaches the oven. The numbers don’t lie. Of roughly 400 people who bought refrigerated cookie dough in a recent two-month period and…
If there’s one thing the Internet’s good for, it’s propagating endless amounts of useless gossip and slang about how wack and off the heezie it is for the paparazzi to be all up in Lindsay Lohan’s grill. To understand what all these gadflies were talking about — and how –…
The only thing better than a teenage girl’s body is a tan teenage girl’s body. Lao Tzu said that, and it makes perfect sense if you think about it. Would you rather sleep with Lindsay Lohan in Mean Girls or Lindsay Lohan in Herbie Fully Loaded? For Mean Girls, they…
he term “public radio” implies that stations operating under this banner conduct business in a more open and transparent way than do their commercial cousins. Nevertheless, the changes that have taken place at public signal KUVO/89.3-FM in recent months — including the resignation of the outlet’s general manager/co-founder and the…
Today’s cars and tires are stronger, and today’s adventurers are every bit as fit, resourceful, and determined as we were, but because of the international situation, it just can’t be done today. Political animosities, civil wars, virulent ultranationalism, militant religious fundamentalism, and several fanatical dictators have closed the borders, severed…
Commemorative items started appearing at 11th and Delaware just hours after news broke on January 1 that Darrent Williams had been shot dead early that morning. Flowers, candles, notes, stuffed animals and jerseys — all part of an unofficial homage to number 27 — were placed on and below a…
“The Mouth That Roared,” Luke Turf, January 18 Of Hipsters and Hip-Hopsters Oh, goody! In last week’s Off Limits, just what Denver needs: Another skin-and-bones hipster (who likes indie music, surprise! surprise!) and his hipster girlfriend sporting the haircut of a twelve-year-old boy are moving here. Who cares about Danny…
Drunk dialing. C’mon, everyone’s done it at least once. And those who say they haven’t… well, those people are either full of fiction or hardline teetotalers who view abstinence as a virtue. Even if you do happen to fall into the latter category, chances are better than good that you’ve…
Two weeks ago, Elizabeth Plotke of Campo de Fiore (300 Fillmore Street in Cherry Creek) announced that local business tycoon and big-time philanthropist Josh Hanfling had come on board as a partner at the restaurant, which opened back in 2001. Hanfling is allegedly the man who knows everyone, and I’m…
Okay, I admit it, I didn’t shovel my walk. I did the first time, and the second time, and the third, fourth and fifth times, but somewhere after that there was a weekend morning when I didn’t shovel the two inches of fresh snow off of my walk. Fuck it,…
The Cat’s Pajamas is taking a much-needed stretch after a mid-winter cat nap. You see, Cat really hates the cold. Sure, the first day is all sledding and hot chocolate and weeee!, but by week six, nobody looks cute in stocking caps and knitted scarves. Everyone just looks disheveled and…
Why bicker about the nuances of President Bush’s State of the Union address Tuesday night, when you can create your own version of it! Using Westword’s cutting-edge text-processing technologies, we have created a Mad Libs version of parts of Bush’s speech (if you don’t know what Mad Libs are, feel…
Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds… If this Herodotus quote was posted over the main Denver post office rather than the one in New York City, we’d have to delete “swift.” Because over the last…
The arrest yesterday of Scott Cortelyou, the veteran host of radio’s Business For Breakfast program, on suspicion of using the Internet to lure and sexually exploit a child was detailed in articles published today by the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News. However, neither of these pieces noted that…
