I witnessed the kind of chaos that would completely shatter any normal restaurant crew: dining rooms filled to double-capacity, lines stretching out the door, crowds waiting out on the sidewalks and absolutely no room to move on the floor. The Southlands outpost of Tokyo Joe’s is designed like a Ginza…
My meals at Tokyo Joe’s — which I review in the next issue — were among the least interesting things I found when I braved the wilds of the new Southlands development. The grand-opening festivities were like the Do Loung bridge sequence in Apocalypse Now, a crowded, freaked-out mess about…
Polling places are always scary places. It’s where you really learn about humanity and all its foibles. Where you realize that the future of our nation is in the hands of the guy behind you reading the initiatives for the first time and making instant decisions, the woman in front…
The final votes have been cast, long hours have been logged tallying numbers, computer glitches have been carefully covered up, and we now have the results of our all-important MyRace gubernatorial election. As you may recall, in our original piece , we promised that whichever candidate garnered the most “friend…
Jack Finlaw, the director of Denver’s Division of Theaters and Arenas, has a handsome collection of cufflinks. He should — he’s been collecting since he was a boy. “I got my first pair when I was nine or ten,” Finlaw says. “I wanted to copy my grandfather.” When he landed…
Iraq is arguably the major issue in today’s election — and while the vote in the Denver metro area is going better than the war in that far-away country, the qualitative difference isn’t as sizable as it should be. KOA’s morning show was filled with reports of problems in city…
The freefall from grace of Pastor Ted Haggard (pictured) has generated loads o’ interest in New Life, the Colorado Springs megachurch he founded. But leave it to the folks behind a Springs original dubbed the Toilet Paper to discover a theme song for the controversy. At this point, there’s no…
Court was in session Monday morning and everyone was ready for the sentencing of 19-year-old Hector Cibrian. But the guest of honor was nowhere to be found. Denver District Court Judge Christina Habas heard lawyers say that Cibrian’s family and his attorney both claim to have not heard from Cibrian…
An item in the current edition of Westword features a few words with illustrator Ralph Steadman, who makes appearances this evening at the Denver Press Club and the Denver Newspaper Agency auditorium. Turns out, though, that Steadman had more to say about his new book, The Joke’s Over, and his…
The buzz is still building about Steven Holl, the architect who will not be designing the courthouse that will be part of the new Justice Center at the Civic Center. (For Michael Paglia’s recent take on the contretemps, click here.) But on Monday night, that controversy can take a breather…
Skinnies or boot-cut jeans? Is black really the new black? Getting stylishly dressed in the morning is hard enough, but what do you wear on election day if you’re vying for Colorado’s top job? The Cat’s Pajamas decided to help Bob Beauprez and Bill Ritter out with that pressing question,…
The current issue of Westword sports an item about “Hell’s Guardian Angel” (pictured), an artwork that’s slated to go up for auction on eBay at midnight on November 5. But there’s a lot more to the story of this piece — enough to have filled an entire feature article. “Avenging…
The fate of Alimata, whose story was part of a 2005 Westword profile of immigration attorney Lilian Shea (pictured), is up in the air for at least another year. A former high school philosophy teacher and published novelist, Alimata is from the Ivory Coast. She is of the Dioula class,…
In early October, reports on assorted blogs declared that Woody Paige would soon be returning to the Denver Post, a paper he left a while back for a high-profile gig at ESPN. In this blog item, dated October 11, Paige dismissed these rumors, saying that although he had recently visited…
A blog entry posted yesterday chided the Rocky Mountain News for overplaying the argument between President George W. Bush and Senator John Kerry over a poorly delivered joke by the latter, and criticized the Denver Post for underplaying the same subject. Today, both papers tried to make amends for their…
The women do not look like they are having fun. Some are screaming in protest, while others stare fearfully at something beyond the edge of the computer screen. Sometimes their heads are sheathed in clear plastic bags, sometimes their mouths sealed with duct tape. And always, there is a weapon…
It’s a sunny fall afternoon at the rugby pitch in Denver’s Cook Park, and fans of the Denver Highlanders are restlessly watching their club fight a losing battle for possession of the ball. Shirtless twenty-somethings and their girlfriends stand on the sideline, sipping from cans of PBR and Bud Light…
“It’s not like we’re trying to create a television show every night,” comedian Tom Green says about Tom Green Live, the Internet program he hosts under the auspices of Denver-based ManiaTV! “We’re actually doing a web television show, and it’s different from what you’d see on regular television, just because…
Dress for Success Skinnies or boot-cut jeans? Is black really the new black? Getting stylishly dressed in the morning is hard enough, but what do you wear on election day if you’re vying for Colorado’s top job? The Cat’s Pajamas, Westword’s fashion blog, decided to help Bob Beauprez and Bill…
It’s a dog-eat-dog world. But while this story in no way involves a canine actually consuming another canine, it does involve a dog. And a diamond ring. Michael McCullough has been in Colorado for two months, having moved here from Michigan, where he attended Michigan State and at some point…
A Laugh Riot! Strike while the irony’s hot: I have always enjoyed the wit, satire, biting humor and irony of Westword. But with the October 26 “MyRace.com,” you really outdid yourselves. I can’t stop laughing! I will frame the pictures of Bob Beauprez and Bill Ritter, so whenever I need…
Thanks to Audrey Hepburn’s Gap commercial, skinny jeans are everywhere this fall. But, seriously, The Cat’s Pajamas knows that unless you actually want to exaggerate those child-bearing hips, these things should only be worn by the tiniest of bulimics — and then only if they’ve got waif legs, too. So…
