See more photos from Denver SantaCon 2008. Everybody sing along: “On the first and only day of SantaCon a drunken Santa gave to me, a fifth of vodka and a porno DVD.” Such was the naughty yuletide spirit that ran through Denver SantaCon 08, the annual all-day holiday bar crawl…
Update: As an eagle-eyed blog commentor pointed out, the voting for the KFC contest ended yesterday and the winner has already been announced. Turns out we were so awed by the Hulk’s majestic green majesty we just plain screwed up. The good news is that our man Komarnitsky won the…
Hey poor bastards! Bad economy got you down? Sitting there in your shanty-town hovel thinking about which of your kids you can pawn off next just to stay afloat? Stop thinking so hard. The answer is Timmy. That little talentless rube is a financial black hole. But if you love…
The St. Pauli Girl’s beer-pong exploits ranked among westword.com’s best-read stories in 2008. But what was No. 1? The new year is almost here. But before you look forward, you have to look back, to assess where you’ve been, and to make sure you didn’t drop any bras or underwear…
More evidence of the changing economics impacting old-technology journalism. For reasons that were never entirely clear to me (but always appreciated), Rocky Mountain PBS has paid an appearance fee for guests on its public-affairs programming. Ever since the folks there began asking me to gab, the sum’s been $25, although…
My obsession with LeBron James is no secret. After spending 27 years ignorant of everything sports-related, I fell head over heels for the King while living in Cleveland, and watching one absurdly talented athlete lift an entire city from its jobless, weather-beaten depression. It got so bad that I once…
Those hucksters at the Colorado Lottery can’t do enough for us poor gambling fools. Check out this announcement about an exciting new development for Powerball players. The minimum payout is increasing from $10 million to $20 million! The odds of winning a measly three bucks will improve from 37-to-1 to 36-to-1!…
It’s a well-known fact of life: Kids will argue with their parents over just about anything. So why not channel that impulse into some constructive co-criticism over a couple of slices of pizza, some soda and two movies? That’s the idea behind the Denver Film Society’s Old School New School…
I must take a moment to respond to my esteemed colleague Dr. Jason Sheehan, Chief Intelligence Officer of HARDON, who has, in his usual semi-coherent way, attempted to offer some thoughts on the so-called upcoming robot apocalypse. In full disclosure, I find Dr. Sheehan informative and amusing in a rather…
Denver Auditor Dennis Gallagher presented his office’s long-awaited report on the city’s emergency medical response system yesterday, saying that the information his team has compiled “speaks for itself.” His choice of such a careful phrase to describe the scathing assessment is indicative of the bitter inter-agency politics that have hovered…
We like our doctors. We trust our doctors. They are highly trained and they know what is good for us, what makes us feel better. So Dr. Tom Coburn, a family practitioner who specializes in obstetrics and allergy treatment in Muskogee, Oklahoma, must be right when he called the Fort…
We Denverites tend to feel unnoticed and underappreciated by citizens of the larger world. But don’t blame the folks at MSN Travel, who included Denver among the global cities with the finest holiday lighting exhibitions. “Lighting Up the World,” the slideshow in question, places our fair city in tony company…
The Colorado Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice is proving to be one of Governor Bill Ritter’s more promising ideas for finding ways to trim the hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars dumped into the state’s prison system every year. The CCCJJ just released its annual report, which is full of hard…
It will happen tonight, no doubt: At some point during the Nuggets-Cavs game at the Pepsi Center, probably late in the first quarter, LeBron James will step into a passing lane. He’ll lurk, and lurk, and lurk, carefully measuring his distance from things — close enough to make the steal,…
At 9:30 a.m. this morning, Governor Bill Ritter will announce Colorado’s next secretary of state, the culmination of a six-week process that officially started on the night of November 4, when Mike Coffman was elected to replace Tom Tancredo in the sixth congressional district. Although Ritter had the power to…
Every time a bell rings, a drag queen gets her wig! It just wouldn’t be Christmas without the Denver Cycle Sluts caroling at their annual “Alcoholidaze” show. — Jared Jacang Maher…
Welcome to blog central. Today in Cafe Society: • Jax turns twelve with a dozen deals. • La Chaumiere bids au revoir after more than thirty years. • Up for auction: French 250. • We’re rooting for Root Down. • It’s time for a Cricket burger! Free parking today in…
A daily roundup of stuff maybe worth reading about Denver. Send tips. A basketball book with the word “macrophenomenal” in the title. No, it’s not by Charles Barkley. (Denver Stiffs) The good, the bad, and the unknown about Ken Salazar. With hats like that, the ugly goes without saying. (5280)…
Lance Hering, the marine who faked his own death in Eldorado Canyon and disappeared nearly two years ago, days before he was to report back to active duty, will face a summary court-martial Friday at Camp Pendleton, where he is currently being held. Hering will be charged with one count…
Choreographer and dancer Robert Sher-Machherndl is a local treasure. As artistic director of the Lemon Sponge Cake ballet company, he gets to play around with the meaning of movement and the line between theater and dance all the time. But his current project, Man Made Men, takes experimentation a step…
Click here or on the cartoon thumbnail to see a larger image; it’ll take a few seconds.In my many years of making fake forecasts for the future, I have learned one truth. I have learned that predictions are a lot like holiday office parties, family gatherings and sex, in that…
My fellow humans, This week, unabashed robot lover Joel Warner wrote a fine cover story for Westword dealing primarily with the robot Basil, manufactured and programmed by James and Louise Gunderson of Gamma Two, Inc. And while I take no issue with the article per se — having found it…
