Stephen Marley If Jim Morrison has some kids walking around out there, I can’t imagine that they’d get together for a concert and cover some of their father’s tunes. Nor could I imagine a couple of Junior Jimmy Hendrixes, Janis Joplins, Elvis Presleys or Tupac Shakurs paying tribute to their…
Alonzo Bodden Ant Kathleen Madigan 34 Fucking Hours In Line for This? — Tuesday, April 3, 9 a.m. Finally, finally, finally the Last Comic Standing producers show up and they avoid a potential violent insurrection by adopting the unofficial list that the people in line have written and photocopied as…
Good news! Columnist Cindy Rodriguez is leaving the Denver Post! Her April 10 column says she’s moving to Detroit! And, with luck, not coming back! At times, Rodriguez’s columns were entertaining, albeit usually for reasons she never intended. For instance, the last item in this 2005 Message highlights two of…
The hot pool looking over Gold Lake. Cat got away on Saturday and headed up to Gold Lake Mountain Resort and Spa, about 45 minutes outside of Boulder. The intent was to take city-slicker Stacy up to the hills for some R&R with a hike, horse-back ride massage and brunch…
Fat Man at Last Comic Standing — A Poem Fat Man at Last Comic Standing washing your beached walrus body in the tiny public bathroom they’ve provided us I find your compete and total nudity, how you say, surprising I find your fat-fuck-fuck folds ubiquitous, the hypnotic bulge that thankfully,…
What’s wrong with this picture? A good guess would be that two adults are climbing on a piece of art as a Denver police officer drives past without arresting them, or at the very least stopping to club them severely. Had the sculpture climbers been unsupervised teenagers, their art discovery…
Sleep Deprived and Addled — Tuesday, April 3, 5:06 a.m. This is why I love Matt Conty: I ask him to tell me a new joke, since we’re waiting in line together at the Last Comic Standing auditions, I haven’t seen him in a few months and I always loved…
Reality Sets In — Tuesday, April 3, 12:30 a.m. On the corner of Rural Road and University Drive in Tempe, Arizona, hundreds of potential candidates for the Last Comic Standing auditions are bivouacked around the corner of the Tempe Improv, some sleeping, some chatting, some playing cards, all leaving a…
Cat is out and about today with a friend who is in town from New York. Regulars to The Cat’s Pajamas will recognize her as “Stacy,” the commenter who consistently harasses Cat about her taste in shoes. While she’s in town, there’s one event we’ll definitely hit: SEED, Fashion Denver’s…
Unless I missed something profound in the scene in which Jon Heder, as poofy-haired skater Jimmy MacElroy, tugged a trail of cigarette-butt-covered toilet paper into his mouth using his tongue, Blades of Glory isn’t a work of high art. However, the flick, which topped the box-office totals during its first…
Onwards and Upwards — Monday, April 2, 8:30 a.m. “You’re a writer?” some guy asks me, noticing that I’m busily writing into my laptop, cracked out though I am from lack of sleep. “Yeah,” I say. “Well then you and I need to talk,” he says with a slow, creepy…
A recent blog focused on a pair of websites, RadioVote.com and DenverSurvey.com, which ask radio fans to share their listening habits in order to improve stations and win prizes — yet they don’t reveal who’s behind the questions or state up-front precisely what rewards might await. One listener reported hearing…
Nicole Popovich Guess who made Cat’s personal fave from the challenge. Judging the Tamarac Square Fashion Project was a nerve-shattering hell ride, as the Westword music editor likes to say. Each one of the designers really reached for their full potential — and then some. Each dress was incredibly time…
Everyone and their mom has been talking about this season’s Real World ratings — or lack thereof. Rumors abound: MTV is cutting this season short! (No, they’re not; we have six left to watch.) The ratings are so low because the cast is immature! (Gossips repeating those words have clearly…
Cat has some very amazing news for the twelve designers competing in the Tamarac Square Fashion Project: Cydney Payton, the director and curator of the Denver Museum of Contemporary Art, has agreed to judge a special challenge. As one of the leaders of the local arts community — and a…
Once upon a time, raves were an underground phenomenon primariliy attended by in-the-know scenesters who learned of the events via on-the-down-low networks or simple word of mouth. Moreover, they took place at secret locations far from civilization. But those days are long gone, as indicated by “Fat City Rave Calmer…
They had worked their way across some of the best rooftops in Boulder that night. The hot spots along the Pearl Street Mall, a few choice locations on the Hill, then a brief stop at Jimmy John’s for subs before hitting the red-brick buildings of the University of Colorado. But…
Earlier this year, officials at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center quietly settled a long-running lawsuit filed by Robert Schrier, one of their most distinguished professors of medicine. Forged two weeks before the suit was scheduled to go to trial, the deal required CU to fork over more than…
Ad revenue at many U.S. newspapers is sliding downhill faster than Jeremy Bloom at a freestyle skiing competition. For that reason, the Rocky Mountain News recently joined several major dailies from across the country, including the Boston Globe and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, in offering buyouts intended to decrease their numbers…
There’s a part of town so hot, the parking meters operate 24/7. And it’s not Cherry Creek, not LoDo, not Highland, not even South Broadway. It’s the Shops at Northfield Stapleton. That’s right, at this giant new shopping mecca, you’re supposed to feed your meter through the wee hours –…
If you see me out on the town and I have a cigarette between my lips, here’s what I need you to do: Surreptitiously sneak up behind me — go ahead, don’t be shy, just do it — and then back up ten, not eleven, not nine, but ten paces…
Worst-Case Scenario, Kenny Be, March 22 The Poison Pen “Youth Crime (Prevention) Wave Hits Denver” is a sad commentary on Kenny Be. Denver has some very creative and successful alternative programs to crime for young people, including the people whom he attacks in his cartoon. Would Kenny rather that kids…
