Just look how fat this state is… To contradict a lame joke I made in a column that all Texans are big and fat, Angelica Huffman wrote me a letter that is, well, big and fat. She pointed out that not all Texans are racist, as I also said they…
Daxx Dalton’s anti-Obama shirt. Eleven-year-old Daxx Dalton’s suspension from an Aurora school after wearing a homemade T-shirt calling Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama “A TERRORIST’S BEST FRIEND” has led to bays of outrage in the conservative media and blogosphere. But there’s nothing surprising about how the story has circulated, nor…
A photo of DNC protester Alicia Forrest about to be shoved to the ground by a Denver Police officer. So the Denver Police officer who was captured on Rocky Mountain News videotape — and in Westword photos like the one here — roughly shoving CodePink protester Alicia Forrest to the…
William Larimer: Not an official general, not an official city founder. Now that the Democratic National Convention has come and gone, Denver’s getting ready for another big shindig: Its sesquicentennial birthday party. As the (recently much-repeated) story goes, on November 22, 1858, General William Larimer, a town promoter from Kansas,…
The copy of Obsession mailed to my home. The documentary Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West was made in 2005, but it’s been causing a stir of late due to the insertion of a one-hour edition in the September 14 Denver Post and over seventy other newspapers located in…
Barbara Gehring and Linda Klein created Girls Only. Photo by Terry Shapiro. “Did you just come from Mahler?” the dressed-up couple asked my mother as we all boarded the elevator to the Denver Center parking garage. “No, Girls Only,” my mother told them. They both perked up. “Really? What’s that…
Ask a Mexican’s Gustavo Arellano is asking. There’s no place like the home page — but these blogs are pretty nice, too. Cafe Society asks readers to offer advice about where Ask a Mexican columnist Gustavo Arellano should eat Mexican food during his Colorado visit this week. Also on tap:…
Prices are going up for prisoners, too. Anyone who’s paid a grocery bill in the past few months knows that higher energy costs have driven the price of almost every other commodity steadily upward. (It doesn’t count if your manservant paid that bill, by the way.) But the price hikes…
Don’t go, Matt! Hopeless baseball romantic that I am, I attended the Colorado Rockies final home game this past Sunday with my father. It’s kind of a ritual for us. We’ve been season-ticket holders since the franchise began and while we attend many, many games (I went to over twenty…
The Clarion Fund logo. As noted in this More Messages blog and a subsequent followup, the decision by more than seventy newspapers across the country, including the Denver Post, to insert DVD samplers of the film Obsession; Radical Islam’s War Against the West into September 14 editions prompted complaints from…
Mary Starkey Mary Louise Starkey, head of the Denver-based Starkey International Institute of Household Management, lately has been spending almost as much time in court as she does teaching her butlers-in-training. In June, she was in Denver District Court, where she pled guilty to assaulting one of her students, Lisa…
Andrew Hallam as seen on Fox News. Part-time Metro prof Andrew Hallam has been sucked into a media whirlpool after assigning an essay that student Jana Barber (and others, apparently) felt would require them to write a one-sided attack against Sarah Palin. Risking retaliation, the very brave Barber has stepped…
Gary back when he really did glitter. For years, Gary Glitter’s irresistibly neadrathalic ditty “Rock and Roll Part 2” has been a part of live sports events all over the world, including Denver Broncos home games. (See the music video after the jump). But a Broncos season ticket holder tells…
The financial disaster currently looming on the horizon is front-page news throughout the country, as can be seen on the portion of the Newseum website that displays newspaper covers from coast to coast on a daily basis. But in Denver, the two dailies see the story in different ways. The…
Nine people have reportedly died in a shooting at the Kauhajoki, Finland school seen here. During their 5:30 a.m. news segment, channels 4 and 9 announced a “BREAKING NEWS” item — but as it turned out, the news broke a long way from here. It involved reports of a school…
Load ’em up. Football is generally regarded to be America’s favorite spectator sport, followed by NASCAR, baseball, basketball and so on. But judging by the magazine rack at a south suburban King Soopers, such popularity doesn’t necessarily translate to magazine readership. The rack contained twelve — count ’em, twelve –…
The Purple Fluid. Westword’s other blogs are pipin’ hot. Backbeat Online features an on-site report from Wax Trax’s 30th anniversary celebration, complete with a reunion of the Fluid and a set by the Purple Fluid, co-starring the sons of Fluid guitarist Rick Kulwicki. The next generation appears to be in…
David Wroblewski. Whenever I suggest a book for the city’s One Book, One Denver program, it seems doomed. But my jinx worked just fine for David Wroblewski, a local author whose first novel, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, was just picked as the next selection for Oprah’s Book Club. Even…
Christina Szele’s most recent flights have been fueled by nose candy. This city’s most famous accidental tourist is coming back. On June 17, 35-year-old Christina Elizabeth Szele was on a JetBlue flight bound from San Francisco for New York when she lit up a cigarette, then yelled obscenities, including racial…
Bill Ritter. Ten days ago, in a report headlined “Ritter Aide’s Victory Lap Cut Short,” Denver Post staffer Karen Crummy included quotes aplenty from Greg Kolomitz, a former advisor to Colorado governor Bill Ritter. Kolomitz and Ritter had a major falling out a while back, with Ritter’s camp alleging that…
Chalk art’s come a long way since hopscotch. In just five short years, Festival Italiano, whose latest edition was staged Saturday and Sunday at Belmar, has become one of the city’s most enjoyable late-summer gatherings. Of course, I’m not the most objective observer, since these are my people: My original…
What you missed while you were eulogizing baseball season … Thursday: As usual, the weekend started early for westword.com, with DJ John Digweed’s set at Beta. Cory Casciato reviews; Chad Fahnestock checks in with photos (including the one above)…
