Iraqi artist Hakim Alkarim, who now lives here, expresses unique experiences shaped by continued strife in his homeland in many forms, from beautiful environmental installations informed by Iraqi history to The Witness Archive, a series of spooky portraits that stretch their photographic roots to reveal the bare ectoplasm behind every…
The general consensus among Denver Broncos fans with whom I’ve spoken is that the team is going to suck like the world’s largest Hoover in 2009. But plenty of Vegas types are considerably more optimistic. Right now, the line calls for the Broncos to chalk up seven wins in this…
Most Denver dog owners fear that DogaPOOLooza, the annual public-pool dog swim, is a ploy by the city of Denver to get all dogs off their leashes so animal control staff can issue numerous off-leash tickets. Hopefully, the puppy pool party will be so much more……
Back in January, Denver Post columnist Woody Paige wrote that New Orleans Hornets guard Chris Paul “plays basketball like Les Paul played guitar” — a sentence that implied the elder Paul, an ax pioneer, inventor and namesake of a Gibson electric guitar beloved by a legion of famous rockers, was…
… Or a personal-injury lawyer, or a stripper, or the doer of some other job that paid me lots of money and required me to live in an audacious downtown loft. The point is, there are lots of vacant apartments around town, according to a story this week in the…
Today’s supposed to be the day when an auction for Frontier Airlines gets underway, with most observers expecting that Southwest Airlines would walk away with the Denver-based carrier. Moments ago, however, Reuters reported that negotiations between Southwest and Frontier pilots, which were supposed to be completed by last night, apparently…
Today’s conversations with Jeff Norman, president and general manager of The Truth, and John “Whip” Wilbur, who’s trying to keep the spirit of the defunct Indie 101.5 alive on the Indie303.com website, will likely do little to reduce the frustration of Indie 101.5 fans, whose favorite station succumbed to the…
No one tried harder to save Indie 101.5 — a station discussed in a just-published interview with Max Media Denver president and general manager Jeff Norman — than its music director, John Wilbur, known to one and all as Whip. In January, he stepped from behind the microphone to launch…
In late July, Indie 101.5, an acclaimed but low-rated local station, suddenly flipped formats, emerging as The Pole, aka “Stripper Radio.” Yes, the switch was a stunt, and it did what it was supposed to do — attract attention for the outlet’s new, long-term identity: The Truth, a right-wing talk…
Last July, we told you about the case of Carol Kreck, who was ticketed outside a town hall for Republican presidential candidate John McCain for carrying a sign reading, shockingly enough, “McCain = Bush.” Kreck, a former Denver Post reporter then working as a librarian, wasn’t cowed by this treatment,…
Crime must not be rampant in Boulder right now — because the police department there has time to produce a composite sketch and send out a press release on an incident that won’t exactly make aging members of the Manson family wish they’d tried something similar. Yesterday afternoon, a man…
Even when times are good, fiscal conservatives often rail against public spending for the arts — because, apparently, life would be better if we lived in a joyless, monochromatic society modeled on George Orwell’s 1984. And when the economy turns south, such arguments only intensify. Given that, the only surprising…
There are a lot of things for which most of us would put our lives on the line. Our country. Our loved ones. Giant canvas bags filled with unmarked bills. But a ’95 Nissan? Most of us would just bid that sucker farewell — but not Ryan Calles, 31. According…
Today and tomorrow, political heavy hitters of the progressive persuasion throughout the region are meeting at the Colorado History Museum as part of the 2009 Western Summit, sponsored by Project New West, an organization that describes itself as “the leading authority on the values, issues, and demographics that define America’s…
“Focus on the Family: Gay People Can Still Be Fixed,” a blog published last week, made the point that the Colorado Springs-based, James Dobson-founded evangelical organization continues to hold that homosexual proclivities can be “cured” through therapy despite the American Psychological Association’s blanket excoriation of such practices. Days later, Focus…
At a time when U.S. foreclosures have just hit another record high, is there any person more loathsome than a mortgage scamster? Ask yourself that question after pondering the story of Kedrick McDuffie, the subject of a nine-count indictment just returned by a Denver grand jury. He’s charged with obtaining…
The crowd outside Representative Mike Coffman’s healthcare town hall in Littleton yesterday wasn’t as scary as some in recent days, for obvious reasons: Coffman, a Republican, is against many, if not most, of the ideas in the current plan, making him an ally of reform enemies who’ve seemed to be…
Why Is This Man Laughing? I don’t really mind the new format, but did you have to get rid of all of the reporters? Or are they just hiding? If Westword is going to become nothing but a glossy collection of ads and fluff, please just let it die. Somewhere,…
The court-appointed receiver who is managing the commercial portion of the long-beleaguered Beauvallon condo complex at Ninth Avenue and Lincoln Street has an interesting theory on how the few remaining tenants can help lure in more customers: huge, ugly scaffolding. Receiver Eric Grothe is asserting to lease-holders that the estimated…
David Scott is a fixture at Writer Square. He’s part of the architecture — almost as integral as the red bricks that grace just about every surface of this nearly thirty-year-old cluster of shops, condos and offices. Scott is the last original retail tenant left in Writer Square, which occupies…
For Orthodox Jews, anyplace outside New York City is known as “out of town.” And anyplace not touching the Atlantic Ocean — like say, a square state surrounded by other square states in the middle of the country — is considered way, way out of town. “In New York, once…
Is there something alive in the middle of that sandwich? Today in Cafe Society: • Guess where I’m eating? • Guess where I’m drinking? • Coffee break at the Beauvallon. • Chef and Tell: John Broening. • Biker Jim Update: Bad news for the southern suburbs. • Are you up…
