How does a city change in four years? A look at Westword’s twenty-second Best Of Denver awards, bestowed in 2005, give a sense. We called Devil’s Food Bakery the Best Waffle joint, “a dangerous place firmly dedicated to helping those with a weakness for the venal wrongs of gluttony to…
Happily ever after is indeed the case for five of six men who went to Thailand in search of love and marriage two years ago as part of a ten-day trip with Richard Beals’ Denver-based Thailand Romance Tours. The company was founded by Richard and his wife, Seow, who guided…
Five years ago last week (February 17, 2003), a Denver stripper disappeared. Jennifer Marcum was a single mom working at Shotgun Willie’s to support her child. She got involved with a drug dealer who was running tens of thousands of hits of ecstasy into Colorado from Europe. He got busted…
Buntport Theater’s Brian Colonna doesn’t feel like his group is often recognized for the original work they do – at least not until their 2006 MasterMind award. “The way we promote ourselves is word of mouth and recognition in the paper. It’s a great boon to have your name in…
Winning MasterMind last year gave Jessica Robblee hope, and enabled her to continue the tRUNks project – a live comic book that’s based, in part, on audience suggestions – at Buntport Theater. “When you’re trying to do something unconventional and outside the lines of how people typically make their living,…
Dear John, The New York Times would like to endorse John McCain. And all of his affairs, scandals and conflicts of interest. They are totally breaking up. What a difference a few weeks makes in a political love triangle. Before Super Tuesday, the NYT was smitten, relatively speaking, with moderate…
Amy Holmes holds the pundit trifecta ticket: she’s black, she’s pretty, and she’s a Republican. Or so she’s espousing these days. She’s gone on record in the past to say that she’s registered as an Independent, and that she privately harbors some fairly liberal views, including being strongly pro-choice…
This week, on a very special Vlog the Impaler, Jim Hickox calls up Glaxo Smith Kline to find out just how his medication Veramyst works, thusly resolving the age-old battle between Magik and science…
This week, Charting Graf spotlights the work of RTD crew member Acee with this slide show…
Back on February 7, a Rocky Mountain News reader got a mighty big surprise. Upon visiting the tabloid’s website, he discovered an article claiming that Denver Broncos Hall of Famer John Elway was coming out of retirement to play for the team again. Included in the piece were comments from…
University of Colorado student and past Westword profile subject Max Karson is an accomplished button-pusher, and this week, his school and the media reacted as anticipated to his latest provocation — an opinion column for CU’s online Campus Press entitled “If It’s War the Asians Want…” Only someone who’s had…
“Reminders,” Patricia Calhoun, January 3 It Could Have Been Us On December 22, my family (my husband and I, our two kids and our two dogs) were driving on I-80 by Rawlins. The blowing wind made the road conditions treacherous. We were right there; the horrific accident could have been us. …
Liquor news is all over America’s drunkest city (thank you, Men’s Health), whether it’s speculation on the future headquarters of Molson Coors (Off Limits, February 14), the dastardly hops shortage hurting craft breweries, or a proposed state law that might finally, blessedly, allow alcohol sales on Sunday (thank you, state…
I was recently fortunate enough to travel to Tanzania with my family. Our first morning there, we were loading our bags into a Jeep when a man on the sidewalk took one look, sized us up as Americans and yelled “Obama!” with a thumb up and a smile. How he…
In the 1996 Cameron Crowe film Jerry Maguire, the title character, portrayed by Tom Cruise, is a high-powered sports agent who begins to feel guilty about the avaricious, unfeeling way he and his colleagues treat the athletes they represent. Then he has an epiphany. “The answer was fewer clients,” he…
The city looks different when you have a pocket full of magnets. Bricks, concrete, glass and anything containing organic matter recede into the background, leaving only metal. So what Matt Feeney and Harrison Nealey see are dumpsters, light poles, air conditioners, electrical boxes and LOADING ONLY signs. Even in the…
Lauri Lynnxe Murphy: Hopefully just as vibrant and bigger, with international attention regularly and lots of cultural tourism. However, if we don’t have good stewardship for the scene we have now, that won’t happen. Ken Hamel, denverarts.org: It would be beautiful to see Denver as an international destination on the art scene, playing…
The Denver Office of Cultural Affairs is thinking very hard about what this city’s arts community will look like in twenty years. At the Cultural Visioning 2028 town hall meeting at the Denver Art Museum on January 29, DOCA director Erin Trapp led a couple dozen artists and arts enthusiasts…
Convicted killer Alberto Valles will be sentenced Friday, February 22, to life in prison without the possibility of parole, likely becoming the last juvenile offender in the state to receive that adult sentence. He will bring the number of Colorado inmates serving life for crimes that they committed prior to…
Westword published its twenty-first Best Of Denver issue and 2004, with nods to John Hickenlooper (Best Political Upset), the Denver Public Library’s web site (Best Free Service), Jeff Bzdelik (Best Pro Coach) and High Street Speakeasy (Best New Bar). See Best of Denver 2004 here…
Chaos at the DNC, riots in the streets of Denver, 1968 relived – no, these aren’t just the protest slogans being voiced by the usual suspects in the local radical scene. They’re potential scenarios that were hashed out by high-profile Democrats on last Sunday’s Face the Nation. If Hillary Clinton…
