If, like me, you sat around all weekend salivating over the U.S.-Brazil soccer game before realizing as you watched it that you still don’t care about soccer and likely never will, well, you missed this stuff: White Rabbits rocked the Bluebird, and stole our reviewer’s heart (again). Here We Go…
Entrepreneur Michael Karolchyk’s Anti-Gym, a fitness center he promoted via willfully offensive ads (get details in our 2008 profile, “No Chubbies? Fat Chance”), was shuttered earlier this year by the IRS — but that hasn’t stopped Mr. K from promoting himself via the discredited venue. Earlier this month, he got…
Examiner.com, another enterprise bankrolled by Denver-based billionaire Phil Anschutz (currently in danger of losing a a button or two on his shirt related to an aborted Michael Jackson tour he bankrolled), attempts to rack up web hits with help from thousands of “examiners” — journalists with varying degrees of professional…
A lot of people stand to make a lot of money from Michael Jackson’s death — record labels, iTunes, memorabilia manufacturers and more. But don’t count Phil Anschutz among their number. The Denver-based billionaire is among the sharpest businessmen ever to call Colorado home, yet he’s all but guaranteed to…
*Just kidding. Maybe. The degenerates at this humble (but glossy!) rag took home five awards at the recent Association of Alternative Newsweeklies annual conference in Tuscon, where it was decided for the 14th straight year that, yes, being free and having ads for massages and pot lawyers is still totally…
Fears that the Colorado Rockies might turn their win streak upside down after losing for the first time in twelve games to the Tampa Bay Rays on June 16 proved unfounded in a major (league) way. The next day, the team began a stretch of fourteen games in fifteen days,…
Get your mace ready, flight attendants. Westword’s favorite Shmuck of the Week recipient, Christina Szele, will have the opportunity to continue her reign of shmuckiness far sooner than many observers expected. Szele won her first shmuck “honor” in June 2008, when she engaged in “thrashing,” “cursing,” “kicking,” “screaming,” “punching,” “stomping”…
So far today, all of America’s remaining pop-culture icons seem to be hanging in there…. Today in Backbeat Online: • Last Night’s Show: Phoenix at The Bluebird. • Polytoxic drummer Chadzilla hitches a ride with Slim Cessna’s Auto Club. • Beyond Playlist: The Jonas Brothers and more. • Vintage radio…
This week’s Westword cover story about Operation Fortune Cookie has it all: dirty cops, thousands of pot plants, Chinese food, big-ticket politicians, sacks of money and more. Writers for TV police dramas wish they could come up with stories this good. But man, it was, like, 7,000 words and that’s…
I could talk about how Thriller was my first cassette and what it felt like listening to those foreboding synthesizers and Vincent Price monologue coming out of my dinky one-speaker tape player. Or I could talk about what it’s been like watching my two-year-old son grooving to “Billie Jean” on…
A May 13 blog quoted Aurora Police Chief Daniel J. Oates denying that officers involved in the May 9 shooting of Darius Murray had done anything improper, despite claims to the contrary by the Murray family. Now, Adams County District Attorney Don Quick officially concurs with Oates. He’s released a…
Our daily blog-o-rama. Missing something? Send tips. Grading the Nuggets draft. (Denver Stiffs) Colorado doctors have been arrested for participating in a truly weird and despicable fraud scheme. (5280) Remember old Matt Holiday, the fella you were mourning before the Rockies ripped off 94 wins in a row. Well, this…
As noted in a blog earlier today, new media, and social media in particular, played a huge part in disseminating the news of Michael Jackson’s death yesterday. Chances are most of us heard about it directly or indirectly through Twitter, Facebook or MySpace. It’s also worth pointing out that it…
Summer’s here, and Pride is in the air. This year’s PrideFest, and all its attendant festivities, will blossom tomorrow in Civic Center Park and vicinity, and there’ll be so much going on that you won’t even have to think about what to do next — just go where the crowd…
Full-length animated films have traditionally been very expensive to make, requiring teams of artists working over a long period of time. As a result, the medium’s became the near-exclusive province of powerful studios with deep pockets but a box-office-motivated disinclination to take risks on unusual visions. In recent years, though,…
There are days when sifting through the world’s deadbeats in search of a stand-out shmuck just doesn’t feel right. This, dear reader, is one of those days. So instead, I give you Gary. For anyone watching from their living-room windows, it must have been quite the sight: a lonely little…
As we reported several moons ago in a Westword feature entitled “The Zen of Ken,” one of Ken Salazar’s first official acts as Secretary of the Interior was to visit the Lakewood office of the Minerals Management Service and vow to clean up the place. The obscure but vital agency,…
On Wednesday, the Englewood Police Department revealed that a body had been found in an alley near the intersection of East Oxford Avenue and South Lincoln Street, an area captured in a graphic embedded after the jump (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”). Moments ago,…
Don’t let the current economic recession cramp your hot summer style. Instead of paying the high price for a New York vacation in the Hamptons to see trendy celebrities, you can stay in Denver and find glamour galore in the Hampdens…..
The last major Hollywood movie filmed in Colorado was Eddie Murphy’s Imagine That, which prompted yawns from most critics and scored so poorly at the box office that it may well have led to the firing of two top executives at Paramount, the studio that produced it. But independent pictures…
Last week, we told you about a Denver District Court finding against developer Craig Nassi, who was judged to be liable for more than $1 million in damages for fradulently misrepresenting the availability of parking spaces in the Beauvallon, on East Ninth Avenue and Lincoln Street, to a building tenant,…
Last night, the Nuggets scored big in the NBA draft, landing North Carolina guard Ty Lawson without giving away a key player. But now comes word, from Denver Post hockey expert Adrian Dater, that the Colorado Avalanche, which has the number three pick in tonight’s NHL draft, might shrug off…
