There are plenty of things you might expect Denver native and Tennessee Titans running back LenDale White to do after a traffic accident. If you’re nice, he might offer to sign the hood of your car. If you’re confrontational, he may rush at you nine times for -5 yards and…
Welcome back. Today in Cafe Society: • Beerdrinker of the Year: A judge’s tale. • Sexy Pizza’s sexy facelift. • It’s Denver Cupcake Week for Lovely Confections Bakery. • Room for one Pho. • Oodles of noodles and more news from Jet Entertainment. • Another round at Katie Mullen’s. •…
Our daily slosh through the blogosphere. Send links here. Aspen: Where the beer flows like wine, and where they swear they’re going green. (Colorado Independent) The Avs do their best Rockies’ impression, shop Ryan Smyth. (Avs Talk) Colorado gets the shaft from the stimulus package. So that’s why Obama signed…
To call the talented alumni of DU’s Lamont School of Music merely “distinguished” seems conservative at times. And that’s a fine reason to make tracks for tonight’s Lamont Distinguished Alumni Series concert, particularly if you’re a fan of well-played jazz and don’t often get to hear it performed with the…
At staff meetings he’s held on Thursdays since the December announcement that the Rocky Mountain News had been put up for sale by its owner, E.W. Scripps, John Temple, the paper’s editor, publisher and president, has frequently reassured his staff that a given week would be “boxless” — meaning that…
The study of neighbors through their lawn ornaments… Figure 8. Five Points: Anarchitechture Back in 1978, architect Frank Gehry added a couple of metal sheds to the front of his Los Angeles home and covered the roof in chain-link fencing. He was instantly crowned the king of the deconstructivists and…
Judging by how long the lines were for waffles, doughnut holes and vodka, I’m guessing you were probably at this weekend’s Artopia, a celebration of art, food, fashion, music and drunken-cab hailing on Broadway. But either way, you can relive the event with Aaron Thackeray’s slideshow at westword.com/slideshow…
Shortly after this morning’s blog “Peter Boyles, Peter Boils or Boil Peters?” went live, Denver Post columnist Susan Greene joined the aforementioned Boyles on his KHOW radio show to debate the subject of the item: Boyles’ reference to Congresswoman Diana DeGette as “Vagina DeGette” and “Vagina DeJet” during programs last…
Watch CBS Videos Online Remember the burst of publicity that accompanied word that Boulder Police Chief Mark Beckner had supported lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18 during an interview with 60 Minutes? If not, don’t feel bad — because the flare-up occurred in March 2008, as documented by…
The name game took a loopy twist after Colorado Media Matters published an item last Wednesday attacking KHOW talk-show host Peter Boyles for referring to Congresswoman Diana DeGette as “Vagina DeGette” and “Vagina DeJet,” for reasons that are too dopey to explain — although CMM did so at length in…
The eight Oscars collected last night by Slumdog Millionaire during last night’s 81st Academy Awards presentation didn’t just reflect well on the Hollywood film community, which chose to reward an oddball tale chock-a-block with subtitles and set in the unlikely locale of Mumbai, India. It also rewards the taste and…
Specifically the MADDEN Art Museum, which sponsored the visual arts category for this year’s MasterMind awards: What seduces you? The MADDEN Museum of Art wants to know. Is it the naked form? A box of velvety chocolates? Are you seduced by the decadence of a bed made of ostrich feathers…
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I don’t suppose you’d be gassing up and heading your car south on I-25 to Pueblo tonight, but if you are up for that 90-minute haul (you never know!), it’ll be worth your while, especially if you’re a freak for folk art, like me: Tonight from 5 to 7 p.m.,…
There’s no word yet on whether a boisterous game of PlayStation will lead to a criminal record for Sean Duffy. Duffy, a 38-year-old former emergency medical technician, was arrested by the Aurora police in December after they responded to his apartment for a noise complaint. They claim Duffy violently resisted…
Peter Boyles’s show isn’t popular for its intelligent discourse. Sure, the longtime Denver radio shock jock is a smart man himself and he gets plenty of intelligent people on his program, but things typically devolve quickly. As with most radio shows, ratings trump reason. But Vagina DeJette? Seriously, Peter? That’s…
With the ongoing controversy over the the late Luis Jimenez’s deadly “Mustang” sculpture at Denver International Airport getting bluer and veiny-er with each passing day, we decided to call up another artist (a live one) who has also been on the receiving end of airport-art criticism: Denver artist Lawrence Argent…
This Hip Tip was originally published in the February 17-23, 1988 issue of Westword. Now, twenty years later, a look at the bright side means hoping that the environment (and its new energy economy) will be great for (ending) the recession…
The dress code calls for black on black, or at least dark on dark, but I wear red pants. It sets me up as an outsider, which is exactly what I am – at least when I arrive. But by the end of the day, I’ll feel like a fellow…
Word that Denver Post managing editor Gary Clark was among six managers laid off at the newspaper yesterday prompted plenty of positive comments about his integrity and commitment to journalism from staffers who’ve worked with him during his six-year stint at the broadsheet. Among those singing his praises and wishing…
Join us, won’t you? Today in Backbeat Online: • Dialed in: local music on the radio. • Update: Lineup for Mile-Hi Fidelity day party at SXSW confirmed. • Holding on by letting go, part one. Today in Cafe Society: • Ted’s Montana Grill offers a “real deal.” • Today’s bite…
Yes, George Carlin would like this art very much. (Buckfifty.org) Shooting free throws blind-folded is harder than it looks. Just ask Chauncey Billups. (Pickaxe and Roll) Peter Boyles is officially a third-grader. Someone give him a wedgie. (Media Matters)…
