Steve Horner leans in for a hug. But I do not hug on a first interview. Not even if the subject of the interview has already left me a lengthy voice-mail warning that I, and this newspaper, "have been totally insensitive to the needs of this egalitarian society" -- not...
Okay, so the big man may not have granted all the Christmas wishes I outlined in this space two weeks ago (although I've heard there's some interest in the pros' market idea), but I don't mind -- because someone gave me the massive, two-volume set of cookbooks from El Bulli...
Dear Mexican: How can you explain the disparity between Japan and Mexico? Japan is a nation a fraction the size of Mexico, with zero natural resources, suffered a devastating war of four years that included two atom bombs, yet has reached the highest in educational achievements, technological advancements and economic...
The October 12 edition of the Message concerns the process by which political advertisements are approved for airing on local TV stations. The general managers of these outlets are the folks best able to answer questions on the topic, but in the end, only one person in this position --...
The fates of David and Dina Weller all came down to a cigarette butt and blood. In the spring of 2005, the modern-day Bonnie and Clyde were ransacking the West Washington Park neighborhood, but Denver Police Department detective Philip Stanford didn't have enough evidence to charge anyone. There were no...
There are a lot of very cool things about living in Denver. The availability of cheap tacos and Mexican Coca-Cola (see my review of El Coyotito #3). The ready access to excellent sushi and cheeseburgers and pho and menudo and kitfo and Chinese dumplings and tandoori -- sometimes all within...
Boysetsfire is still a band? Apparently, yes. Bred in Newark, Delaware, the quintet has been shucking out albums for the past decade and racking up as many travel miles as that damn Frontier Airlines dolphin. The Boys are now bearded men, and after burning through four different labels, they've settled...
As human beings, we are built for adaptation. On both a micro and macro scale, this knack for going with the flow, for finding solutions, for reading prevailing trends and riding them into the ground is what has elevated us above all the llamas and spore molds and ocelots and...
Denver Maps www.denvergov.org/denvermaps/Denver Maps puts Google Maps to shame. Not only can you get aerial photos, but you can ask the online mapper to show Denver City Council districts, police stations, golf courses, future streets, a Wastewater Management Platmap Index, Enterprise Zones, schools, polling places, bike paths and more — all layered on one map. There’s also […]
The Denver DefendersThis place just hasn’t been the same since Joe Phillips, aka the Commish, founder of the Denver Kickball Coalition and general city asset, headed west. But Phillips hasn’t left Denver entirely behind. In fact, he’s now producing an online comic titled “The Denver Defenders” — “the world’s most democratic comic book,” he explains, because the […]
Off Limits knows the identity of #127 on the University of Colorado Police Department's hit parade of people caught smoking dope at Farrand Field on April 20, and we're not about to narc. The proud mother of #127, a former Westworder, learned of her son's extracurricular activities when someone at...
This is not George Lazenby making his doomed run at James Bond, or even Mel Gibson presuming to play Hamlet. This is serious heresy, combined with a touch of felonious assault. It has evidently not occurred to Steve Martin that, just as there is only one Eiffel Tower, there is...
SAT, 11/19 Winter is a despondent time for motorcyclists. As the weather turns cold and the roads get icy and unsafe, they unenthusiastically nestle their cycles and motorbikes into a warm, safe space for ninety days or more of hibernation. And though those motorcycles totally have it made, the owners...
FRI, 10/14 Heeeeeeey, girlfriend. Trying to land a man in Denver but don't seem to be having any luck? Well, don't waste your time squeezing into clothing three times too small for you. And forget about trying to cook that hombre a delicious meal. The way to a guy's heart...
You recognize their stiff shuffle, their coated eyes. The oozing and groaning. You're paralyzed by the realization that you are in lower downtown -- and it's after last call! You begin to sweat, searching for an escape. But it's too late. They lurch out from the doorways of Polly Esther's,...
Thursday, September 8 At a time when Hurricane Katrina's gut-wrenching aftermath drives home the value of service to others, you can find an outlet for your concerns at the tenth annual 16th Street Mall Volunteer Fair, taking place today during the lunch hour along 16th Street in downtown Denver. Hosted...
Thursday, July 21 Local mainstream fashionistas will stylishly strut out of the woodwork to land in the Ballpark neighborhood tonight for Undercover, a chic evening featuring new designs by Frisco native Gabriel Conroy. The event runs from 7 to 9 p.m. at + Gallery, 2350 Lawrence Street. Conroy's couture this...
FRI, 7/22 The ascendancy of hip-hop as a cultural phenomenon has brought a kindred form of expression to the masses: the spoken word. Landmark proto-rap records by the likes of the Last Poets and Melvin Van Peebles more than thirty years ago paved the way for artists such as Michael...
While Ingrid Vachier, a 35-year-old Coloradan who's originally from the Dominican Republic, was getting the works for ABC's Extreme Makeover, she had no idea her husband was cutting a rug with another woman. Ingrid was in California for two months, where plastic surgery was done on her face, breasts and...
In June 2003, Richard Florida, author of the hot-hot-hot Rise of the Creative Class, was speaking to a group of despairing alternative-newspaper types when one asked if Florida had any hope for the political future. Yes, he replied. In Denver, where John Hickenlooper had just been elected mayor. Two years...
Stele Ely has a message for environmentalists who are searching for new Earth-saving endeavors: Think globally, screw locally. "Giving love to the planet, somehow it makes lovemaking more fun," he says wistfully -- and with no trace of irony. In fact, he's so focused on his tangent about the preciousness...
The first time I tried Star of India -- two years ago, during one of my warm-weather Indian binges -- I immediately put the meal out of my mind. The food wasn't just spicy, it was punishing. Brutal. The heat was so overwhelming that it fried the synapses in my...
