Crocs, Mayor John Hickenlooper, Elway’s steakhouse — could only come out of Colorado. Others, like 99-cent strip-mall sushi and Western states hockey, seem anachronistic in this state, yet flourish here regardless. But I’ve been a lot of places and seen a lot of things. And while I’m thinking hard, I…
Cat is working on an gigantic review of the Max Fashion Show that happened last Saturday night — almost 100 images! — but is having technical difficulties making a slide show. Until that’s ready, here’s the fashion calendar for what is one helluva busy week: Thursday, December 7: Lee Alexander…
Radio has been pronounced in near-death condition more times than Augusto Pinochet — and radio news seems to be in the worst shape of all. Among all the stations in Denver, only KOA still maintains a sizable news staff, and when big stories hit, even that outlet is stretched thin…
In 1960, a new medication was released that sparked the second-wave feminist movement and the sexual revolution. It was the Pill, of course — a daily prescription-only pharmaceutical that kept women from getting pregnant. And there was much rejoicing. But there was something missing. It was another drug — the…
The first pair of columns by the Denver Post’s Woody Paige since his return from New York City, where he’d spent the past two years hamming it up on ESPN2’s Cold Pizza, didn’t brim with surprises. At various times, the pieces (which ran yesterday and today, respectively) were dopey, confusing…
Don’t forget to tip the shoe shine boy! Security screeners at Denver International Airport threw the alarm Thursday afternoon when they discovered that an employee of Executive Shine had a .32 caliber gun inside his backpack. Joseph Shaw was on his way to work shining shoes on the Concourse C…
Poor Carmelo Anthony. The headband-rocking Denver Nuggets superstar was ready to blow the sneaker world apart with the release last week of his Melo 3s, the third in his line of Jordan-brand kicks. The shoes appeared to be a leather-clad slices of powder-blue perfection, a Melo memorial from the mid-sole…
Dan Fong’s a bona fied shutterbug. Watching him saunter about last night, mingling with guests, with a camera slung over his shoulder during a sneak preview of ARTRock — an exhibition featuring his celebrated rock and roll photography over the years, which opens tonight at La Rumba before moving over…
This week’s Message, which deals with the return to the city of Denver Post columnist Woody Paige, briefly mentions that the Woodman will tape episodes of the ESPN staple Around the Horn from a studio located in the paper’s fancy new headquarters. However, there’s more to the story of this…
A Special Cat’s Pajamas Report from Susan Froyd, Westword’s own Night & Day editor — and shoe aficionado. Clark’s Indigo Mademoiselle, $93.95 As a former San Franciscan, I always thought that I could safely say I’d left my heart there. In my bedazzled mind, there’s no city on earth more…
The Alexander Group, LLC — consisting of father-and-son team Steve and Shane Alexander — has just purchased the property soon to become infamous on The Real World: Denver. The price? A cool $3.3 million. The vision? To turn the street level into an upscale lounge, the second floor into a…
Denver’s fashion-power couple. Tran and Josh Wills are always on the go. Not only do they have three lovely children to keep up with, they are the owners of The Fabric Lab boutique at 3105 East Colfax Avenue and are now partners in the new Belmar venture A++, along with…
The rehashing of the JonBenet Ramsey case on 48 Hours last Saturday has touched off a wave of Ramsey speculations on the Internet — although probably not the way the producers intended. While many of the program’s claims about John Mark Karr and his pursuer, University of Colorado journalism professor…
As of 3 p.m. December 1, Denver’s favorite faction of pedal-powered radicals, the Derailer Bicycle Collective, will be back on a roll at its new location, 411 Lipan Street. Earlier this year, as reported here, city zoning officials put the brakes on the non-profit bike shop, which since 2003 had…
If Nate Ybanez is ever to see life outside of prison, he needs lots of attention –and Rolling Stone just turned on the spotlight. Nate is one of more than forty people serving life without parole for murders they committed in Colorado before turning eighteen. He and his buddy, Erik…
As I watched Episode 3 of The Real World: Denver, one thought repeatedly ran through my mind: Where do the producers find these people who are legally old enough to drink — yet retain the emotional and social capacity of a seventh-grader? Although Tyrie, Davis, Brooke and Stephen haven’t done…
I’m a Colorado native, so I understand how difficult it is for public authorities to keep the roads clear and passable during inclement weather, and am sympathetic to the challenge of doing so. Nevertheless, the performance of transportation authorities over the past couple of days puts me in mind of…
The small house at 320 East 104th Place is about the closest Northglenn comes to a historic building — and that’s precisely why Bill Sullivan wants to tear it apart. Once, in the age of Ozzie and Harriet, the single-story, 820-square foot, two-bedroom “Matchless” model was an emblem of upward…
In 2004, the Denver Post gave Woody Paige a one-year leave of absence that allowed the longtime sports columnist to move to New York City, where he’d been named a regular on ESPN2’s Cold Pizza. The Post subsequently hired veteran New York Times scribe Thomas George as Paige’s de facto…
The most sluttish national TV performance of the week in a contrived Colorado soap opera wasn’t provided by a member of The Real World: Denver. No, it was on a piece of shamelessness concerning the JonBenét Ramsey murder that aired on the once-proud “news” program 48 Hours. On Saturday night,…
Whenever we visited my grandmother in Virginia, my mom would take us all to see some Civil War battlefield, after which she and my grandmother would mutter under their breath about Yankees and my father would feel uncomfortable. Once, on the way to a battlefield, my mother calmly informed my…
He became a millionaire by pimping out his Colorado Springs-based McDonald’s restaurants with a centralized drive-thru call center and other quick-serve gadgetry (“Mr. Big,” November 3, 2005). Then he bid the Golden Arches adieu to design a high-tech charity that provides the working poor with an alternative to the rapacious…
