This time of year can be so draining for everybody, what with the before-Christmas frenzy — so why not find a secular reason to celebrate the season? Here’s a good one for all you seafood addicts out there: Jax Fish House Denver is celebrating its twelfth anniversary, and hence is…
You’ve already read about the drunken Santas who took over downtown Denver during Santacon 08 this past weekend; now you can have a drunken Santa for your very own. DRUNKEN SANTAS FOR HIRE, a new operation advertising on Craigslist, is all about providing folks with the perfect shitcanned St. Nick…
Heading to D.C. for the inauguration? The last thing you’ll want to do is help usher in the Obama presidency with your supersized, Bush-era carbon footprint. The solution, according to TripVerde, an Austin, Texas (ironically)-based company with offices in Denver and Palo Alto, is ride-sharing, and TripVerde’s RideJockeys are now…
The Denver Rescue Mission and more than fifty volunteers are serving up their traditional holiday dinner to homeless men, women and children today from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Lawrence Street Shelter, 1130 Park Avenue West. New this year: every guest – and the organization expects about 500…
Continental Airlines probably should have known better. After all, the airlines have long understood that pacification of terrified passengers in a time of crisis keeps a bad situation from getting worse. The purpose behind those oxygen masks that drop from the ceiling of the plane? Oxygen gets you high, making…
Ten Denver sports moments we’ll remember (sometimes against our wishes) from 2008.10. The Birdman flies back into DenverReserve center and reformed party addict Chris “The Birdman” Anderson re-joined the Nuggets this year after a two-year suspension for an unspecified violation (cocaine). He’s not the second coming of Shaq — he’s…
When times are tough, it’s comforting to know you can always get a nice, cushy government job. And at the City and County of Denver, this can mean earning $28 an hour as a yoga teacher.Yes, Denver is currently advertising for a long list of jobs, including an “on-call fitness…
All day long, we be bloggin’: On the Backbeat blog:Rather than sitting by idly, Denver artists take action 3OH!3 really crosses over…Top Ten Dance Collections of 2008, Both Mixed and UnmixedBeyond Playlist presents Xmas-rated, part four: Variety Packs On the Cafe Society blog: New digs in the new year for…
Tired of all the holiday hoopla yet? If you could use a few moments of sheer escapism from this hectic season, then the Curtis Arts and Humanities Center has just the solution: Cartoons — More Than Just Comics, an exhibit featuring work by Lonnie Allen, Daniel Crosier, Amy Reeder Hadley,…
See more photos from Denver SantaCon 2008. Everybody sing along: “On the first and only day of SantaCon a drunken Santa gave to me, a fifth of vodka and a porno DVD.” Such was the naughty yuletide spirit that ran through Denver SantaCon 08, the annual all-day holiday bar crawl…
Update: As an eagle-eyed blog commentor pointed out, the voting for the KFC contest ended yesterday and the winner has already been announced. Turns out we were so awed by the Hulk’s majestic green majesty we just plain screwed up. The good news is that our man Komarnitsky won the…
Hey poor bastards! Bad economy got you down? Sitting there in your shanty-town hovel thinking about which of your kids you can pawn off next just to stay afloat? Stop thinking so hard. The answer is Timmy. That little talentless rube is a financial black hole. But if you love…
The St. Pauli Girl’s beer-pong exploits ranked among westword.com’s best-read stories in 2008. But what was No. 1? The new year is almost here. But before you look forward, you have to look back, to assess where you’ve been, and to make sure you didn’t drop any bras or underwear…
More evidence of the changing economics impacting old-technology journalism. For reasons that were never entirely clear to me (but always appreciated), Rocky Mountain PBS has paid an appearance fee for guests on its public-affairs programming. Ever since the folks there began asking me to gab, the sum’s been $25, although…
My obsession with LeBron James is no secret. After spending 27 years ignorant of everything sports-related, I fell head over heels for the King while living in Cleveland, and watching one absurdly talented athlete lift an entire city from its jobless, weather-beaten depression. It got so bad that I once…
Those hucksters at the Colorado Lottery can’t do enough for us poor gambling fools. Check out this announcement about an exciting new development for Powerball players. The minimum payout is increasing from $10 million to $20 million! The odds of winning a measly three bucks will improve from 37-to-1 to 36-to-1!…
It’s a well-known fact of life: Kids will argue with their parents over just about anything. So why not channel that impulse into some constructive co-criticism over a couple of slices of pizza, some soda and two movies? That’s the idea behind the Denver Film Society’s Old School New School…
I must take a moment to respond to my esteemed colleague Dr. Jason Sheehan, Chief Intelligence Officer of HARDON, who has, in his usual semi-coherent way, attempted to offer some thoughts on the so-called upcoming robot apocalypse. In full disclosure, I find Dr. Sheehan informative and amusing in a rather…
Denver Auditor Dennis Gallagher presented his office’s long-awaited report on the city’s emergency medical response system yesterday, saying that the information his team has compiled “speaks for itself.” His choice of such a careful phrase to describe the scathing assessment is indicative of the bitter inter-agency politics that have hovered…
We like our doctors. We trust our doctors. They are highly trained and they know what is good for us, what makes us feel better. So Dr. Tom Coburn, a family practitioner who specializes in obstetrics and allergy treatment in Muskogee, Oklahoma, must be right when he called the Fort…
We Denverites tend to feel unnoticed and underappreciated by citizens of the larger world. But don’t blame the folks at MSN Travel, who included Denver among the global cities with the finest holiday lighting exhibitions. “Lighting Up the World,” the slideshow in question, places our fair city in tony company…
The Colorado Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice is proving to be one of Governor Bill Ritter’s more promising ideas for finding ways to trim the hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars dumped into the state’s prison system every year. The CCCJJ just released its annual report, which is full of hard…
