When visitors come to Colorado, they flock to the Cherry Creek Shopping Center, to FlatIron Crossing, to Castle Rock Factory Outlets. Those shopping meccas are among the state’s top five tourist attractions, according to a study released last month by the Colorado Tourism Office. But if visitors ventured just a…
The doctor is in — and on. Comic and veterinarian Kevin Fitzgerald may be the most famous veteran of the Denver Barbarians rugby team, which last week apologized for the rowdy behavior of a few members who swiped liquor and urinated in the galley of a flight heading into DIA…
You don’t even want to know how we’d get orange milk when What’s So Funny was a kid. But we’ll tell you, anyway. First we’d shovel four heaping spoonfuls of cottage cheese into a dish, which we would then place in the hot sun for seven hours. After that, we’d…
In New York City, Jack-FM is officially recognized as a giant killer, thanks to its June takeover of WCBS, a heritage operation that had been pumping out oldies for 33 years. Among those getting the gate were “Cousin Brucie” Morrow, remembered for introducing the Beatles at the band’s landmark 1965…
Blast Rites Doctor no: In last week’s “The Gonzo Goodbye,” I was bummed out by a few points that Gig LeCarp made, and the ones he blew, concerning the good doctor. Last Saturday an American icon was blasted off into the sky. Hunter Thompson was one of the legendary, unique…
“People expect you to take corrective action when there’s a problem, and they don’t understand why you don’t do it on a pretty prompt basis,” says Hank Brown, one-term U.S. senator, former president of the University of Northern Colorado, and now interim president of the University of Colorado. “My instinct…
So far, Hank Brown is definitely earning his paycheck at CU — and thanks to him, nearly a dozen others won’t. Before his first day at CU was done, Brown had eradicated ten staff positions: six that were vacant, two occupied by personnel planning to retire by year’s end, and…
“I fought for everything I ever got in the journalism business, and I’m proud of what I did,” says former Longmont Times-Call reporter Bruce Plasket. “But I’m ashamed of the business, too.” He’s none too pleased with the publishing industry, either. Earlier this year, Pearson Prentice Hall, a New Jersey…
You asked me “whom we should dispatch” to cover the monstrous memorial ceremonies for Hunter S. Thompson this weekend. Whom? Whom? Here’s my answer: Send Leary. Send Kesey. Better yet, send nobody. Hell, send Corey Clark — he’s nobody. Just don’t send me. Not that I begrudge the good Doctor…
Anyone who’s anyone is headed to Aspen this weekend for a final farewell to Hunter S. Thompson — whether or not they have an invitation to rub elbows and ashes with Johnny Depp at the official blow-him-up-real-good festivities on August 20. Rick McKinney is walking the 900 miles from his…
Downtown Denver, midday, summer. Car pulls into metered parking space outside Paris on the Platte, known purveyor of caffeinated beverages; two dashing young men — one a writer, one a law student — frantically search pockets and car for coins, find none. Law student agrees to purchase two cups of…
Porn Again Big talk: Kenny Be’s Worst-Case Scenario last week was the meanest — and funniest — thing I’ve ever seen. But I think he drew those talk-show hosts’ “mikes” too big. Sarah Morris Denver Sex ed: The real problem with the comic books is simple: Some people just can’t…
Anyone who can do a quick thumbnail on Sebastian Bourdais is running way ahead of the field. The French foreign minister, you say? A Parisian shoe designer? The pastry chef at Le Central? No. None of the above. If you’ve got a little Pennzoil in your crankcase, you know that…
In celebrity-starved Denver, even Jason Priestley is enough to get our engines running. (Then again, he was Brandon in 90210.) Since he’ll be in town this week to serve as the grand marshal of the Grand Prix, I took a few conversational spins around the track with Priestley, who at…
Kids today have it so easy. Back when I was learning to drive, we didn’t have things like the “BMW All New Series 3 Ultimate Driving Experience Student Driver Program.” No, sir, back then you learned how to drive however you could — even if it meant twenty minutes, no…
“Diesel smoke makes me horny.” As the resident tree hugger in a blue-collar excavating family, I cringe every time I read that bumpersticker on the back of my brother’s 1989 Dodge diesel. Even though I understand all the reasons for needing diesel — power, primarily, for hauling the big loads…
Life on the road can be rough. Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Marc Cohn, of “Walking in Memphis” fame, understands that all too well. After an August 7 gig at the Denver Botanic Gardens, where he co-headlined with songstress Suzanne Vega, Cohn and his road manager, Tom Dube, headed downtown to the Hotel…
Funny comes in many shapes and sizes. There’s the surly dwarf with the lisp and the meth addiction, for example; he’s just a little guy, but damned if he isn’t funny. The 7-foot-2 basketball player from Africa sobbing into the phone to his mother back home because he’s having trouble…
The Rocky Mountain News’s home page features the usual items most surfers look for on the websites of mainstream dailies: links related to breaking news, business, entertainment and sports stories, etc. But a box labeled “Lifestyles” contains something unexpected: a photo of a bikini-clad babe to the right of a…
Some Like It Hot And some like it not: Regarding Jared Jacang Maher’s “Hot Flashes,” in the August 4 issue: Such great journalism. Not! Nick Werle Colorado Springs Warming trends: When I saw the cover of the last issue, I thought Westword had sunk to a new low. Denver’s Hottest…
It’s been one long, sweltering summer. But while it was 105 degrees outside, the temperature was even higher inside when we announced our citywide canvass for the hottest service employees in town. We quickly received dozens of tips on beautiful baristas, cute chefs, virile valets, haute hairstylists and pretty-boy pizza-delivery…
He was ten or eleven, somewhere in there. The senior tour had just rolled into the old Wheat Ridge Funplex, over on Kipling, and a few of the veterans who’d heard his story took him out to Fuddruckers for a burger. One was Bob Hart, the boy’s hero. Couple of…
