In the recent past, relatively few journalists had a burning desire to participate in Colorado’s caucuses during presidential election years — or even to cover them. After all, these sessions generally happened long after presumptive nominees had been determined in both major parties, making the time-consuming process rather redundant. But…
Day One Day Two Day Three January 15, 2008 by Audrey Sprenger, Ph.D The American West | Lowell, Massachusetts, the small industrial town of Jack Kerouac’s childhood and growing up, is not a setting in his most famous novel On The Road. Still, there is a presence of this town…
Day One Day Two Day Three January 15, 2008 by David Amram The American West | Since I was brought up on a farm in Feasterville, Pennsylvania during the 1930s, most of my first impressions of the American West were informed by Saturday matinees at the movies. But my Uncle…
Forgive the President for appearing exceedingly relaxed during his last State of the Union. Sporting the air of resignation that a student council president uses when reminding revelers to drive home safely from the prom — long after the cool kids have moved on to hotel rooms and tomorrow’s conquests…
View larger image Mississippi Total Number of Delegates: 40 Pledged: 33 Unpledged: 7 How to Recognize a Mississippi Delegate: Due to a prolonged history of ill-timed natural disasters and social injustice, Mississippi today is the poorest state in the nation. Fortunately, that poverty has created a form of super-human state…
View larger specimen In order to make more sense of the world around us, illustrator and public house naturalist Nate Stone is compiling here a taxonomy of different barflies. While you’re out and about in Denver, if you spot any of these specimens please add your observations about their habitat…
Switching suddenly from PBS’ Antiques Roadshow to Fox’s new reality-based game show Moment of Truth? Host Mark Walberg must need a neck brace from the whiplash. Or at least a hot shower, you know, to scrub vainly away at the shame…
A quick update on ex-Café Star chef Rebecca Weitzman’s New York adventure. When I checked out her work at Bobby Flay’s Bar Americain in Manhattan, I loved the food and hated just about everything else. Now I just got word that Weitzman has put in her notice and is once…
When Westword profiled former Coloradoan turned White House Press Secretary Dana Perino last September, she admitted that “there weren’t a lot of people lining up” to take the position. But now, her gig looks like one of the easiest in Washington. Americans of every political stripe are currently paying little…
ProgressNow has successfully embarrassed KOA talk-show hosts for unwise statements in the past. Remember that in May 2007, the left-leaning organization made headlines for whipping up an advertiser boycott aimed at rabble-rouser Bob Newman, who’d declared, “I want every Muslim immigrant to America who holds a green card, a visa,…
What would happen to the planet if the human race were to suddenly vanish? The short answer is this: all the animals high-five, and then commence eating one another. Pretty much everything falls down. And then the plants grow over everything. That’s it. Good night! Pleasant dreams. A longer answer…
In 1999, Westword published its sixteenth Best of Denver issue, a celebration of the city that saluted everything from the Best New Public Art (Donald Lipski’s still-beloved “Yearling”) to Best Brunch Served by Drag Queens (Bump and Grind) to Best Hair on a TV Personality (Adele Arakawa, as serious as…
A Denver-based anti-abortion group has issued a deadline of January 31 to the local office of contractor Weitz Co. to halt construction on a Planned Parenthood facility in East Denver. More than a symbolic gesture to mark the 35th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, Will Duffy, lead organizer…
Longtime Denver scenesters may know Zachary Helm best as the head mortician for the Denver Hearse Association, a club devoted to lovers of the casket-carrying cars. Or as an erstwhile urban explorer of the abandoned Gates factory. Maybe you’ve even spotted his black hearse driving around town – you know,…
The Glendale prostitution sting case covered in these pages this past November (Glendale Prostitution Sting Has Fringe Benefits, November 27, 2007) will now be going before a grand jury…
He may have meant no malice by it, and he quickly apologized for it, but when Greeley businessman William Farr said at last week’s Citizen of the West banquet, “They’re going to have to change the name of [the White House] if Obama’s elected,” he shot almost immediately to the…
In the January 10 Message column, Gene Craven (pictured), the new president and general manager of KUVO/89-3 FM, Denver’s jazz-centric public-radio station, talked about his desire to expand the outlet’s reach. A couple of weeks later, he’s already moving forward with this plan. On January 23, the station formally announced…
“Mucha Lucha,” Adam Cayton-Holland, January 10 Mask Confusion Thanks so much for the great article on lucha libre. I am a huge fan, and was unaware that any local scene existed at all. It would have been nice to get a little more information on the sport itself, like the…
If not for all the pink hair and inventive body modifications, the two dozen people wandering around the Golden Triangle on a sunny Saturday could be mistaken for delegates surveying the city in advance of the Democratic National Convention. “Gather ’round, everyone. Welcome to Denver. My name is Rockslide. I…
During his January 14 program, Fox Business personality Neil Cavuto tried to bait Michael Karolchyk, the willfully offensive owner of Denver’s Anti-Gym, into directing one of his trademark tirades against overweight people at the jolliest soul he could imagine: Santa Claus. And Karolchyk was more than happy to oblige. “Santa…
My parents were drug addicts. I wasn’t sure what drug, though; after all, I was only eight. My Dad was always in and out of jail. My Mom and Dad always argued, over anything. Sad part was that my Dad was abusive to my Mom. That’s the part that hurt…
Herbert Beck – one of the men behind the infamous rattlesnake murder plot (pictured above on the left) – got off Tuesday with five years probation and strict instructions not to gamble. Beck had been a player and investor with the Wheat Ridge-based Amateur Poker Tour, which is currently being…
