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...
When it comes to Denver radio, English remains the tongue of choice, but Spanish is getting in its licks. The latest Arbitrons placed two Spanish-language stations -- KXPK-FM/96.5 and KBNO-AM/1280 -- among the ten most popular outlets as judged by Denverites twelve and older. KFMD, previously known as KISS-FM, landed...
Pray As You Go Blessed are the mock: Kenny Be's "Crusadertainment for Men," the Worst-Case Scenario in the April 28 issue, was his best cartoon yet. Here's what I pray: that Kenny never stops poking fun at those who so richly deserve it, like Fred Phelps and James Dobson. Rachel...
The art world is constantly searching out fresh material, which is why there's always interest in talented artists in their twenties. But another way to come across stuff that's new is to rediscover artists who've been out of sight for a long time -- people who are typically in their...
Michael was eleven years old when he discovered the photo in one of the Penthouse magazines that his parents kept on the lower shelf of their bedroom nightstand. The black-and-white shot had a vintage graininess, like a frame from an old silent film. In it, a group of schoolgirls have...
Thursday, February 17 This weekend's solidly sold-out NBA All-Star Game is carrying a panoply of hoopla and special events on its coattails, some private and some judiciously public, including a full-court press of concerts designed to appeal to Denver's b-ball state of mind. The Fillmore Auditorium, for starters, will be...
Thursday, December 2 Gift shopping has never been better than at the annual Junior League Holiday Mart, a gargantuan, high-quality marketplace running today through Sunday at the Wings Over the Rockies Museum, Hangar #1, 7711 East Academy Parkway in Lowry. The Mart will spotlight nearly 200 vendors, including seventy artists...
Voters have had plenty of opportunities to gather information and pass judgment on President George W. Bush and Senator John Kerry. Most, however, are unsatisfying -- staged debates, advertising swill, convention hoo-ha, editorial folderol. It makes you wonder: Is there really a way to measure the cut of a man's...
You'd think most bands, attention-starved as they are, would jump at the chance to get interviewed by the local paper. But when just such an offer is put to Pariah Caste guitarist Chuck Coffey, the only thing jumping up is his eyebrow. "Why do you want to write an article...
Denver just can't handle a good, hard tongue-licking. Unlike such hot spots as New York, Toronto and Atlanta, which are celebrating decades of Kiss expos, this city has canceled its second attempt to host such an event in as many years. "With a total of seven tickets sold and no...
Anne Landman is addicted to cigarettes. She's never actually smoked a whole one, but she can't stop thinking about them: how they're made, how they're marketed, what's in them, who buys them, who makes sure they'll always be for sale. "People think I'm obsessed, a one-issue person," Landman says. "It's...
