Only three months after replacing Lindy Eichenbaum-Lent — the mayor’s popular former press secretary who chose a reduced role as senior advisor to the mayor after coming back from maternity leave — Marlena Fernández Berkowitz resigned her post. No word yet on who might replace her — or who might…
It turns out us writers at Westword’s “The Latest Word” blog aren’t a bunch of potty-mouths after all. We’re actually as family-friendly as, say, the movie Shrek…
In Colorado’s weedy, parched backyard (aka Wyoming), the odds of winning the state beauty pageant are pretty goddamn good — about one in four, to be exact. The annual pageant managed to scrape up just four contestants this year. Four. I wish I could chalk this up to the good…
Five American men now have Thai branches on their family trees thanks to a Denver-based agency that helped them find the love of their lives overseas (“From Denver, With Love,” March 2, 2006)…
Days on the road: 134 Miles traveled: 6,034 Current location: Bangkok, Thailand The World By Road founders Steve Shoppman and Steve Bouey left Denver five months ago to embark on their drive around the world (“Road Warriors,” January 25). So far, they’ve crossed New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia and…
Just let this sink in for a moment –Crystal Preston-Watson [image via US Magazine]…
For more on the Boulder High sex scandal go here and here. [YouTube via Best Week Ever]…
Teresa Ramirez hasn’t yet mustered up the muscle to tell her 21-year-old daughter Terra that any hope of getting out of prison early is as gone as her freedom…
Here is the podcast of the in-studio radio interview I did Saturday with Greg Hollenback of 850 KOA. The topic was this week’s Westword cover story on graffiti. I talked briefly about the culture, history and lingo of the scene, while callers predictably accused me and Hollenback of glorifying vandalism…
Elitch Gardens shut down its Tower of Doom ride Friday after an accident on a similar “freefall tower” at a Kentucky amusement park resulted in a 13-year-old girl having both of her feet lopped off by a loose cable…
For many months after the 1999 killings at Columbine High School, Randy and Judy Brown were steeped in a special kind of misery. They had tried to warn the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office about Eric Harris and his penchant for bombs and threats a year before the attack, only to…
Afroblu, a monthly after-hours dance party (also a Westword Best of Denver winner), is celebrating PrideFest with Soulful Pride. DJs Musa Baily, Segue, RJ Duran and Mathew Bandy will be spinning AfroBeat, Deep-House and NuSoul from 10 p.m. until 5 a.m. at the Flying Dog Brewery. After spending all day…
Portions of Mr. & Mrs. Smith were filmed in Glenwood Springs. Last week the American Film Institute issued its updated list of the top 100 films of all time. As to be expected, Citizen Kane is still number one, but Casablanca fell to number three in favor of The Godfather…
I love PrideFest weekend. Anytime I get to party with a crowd of six-foot Drag Queens is a damn good time. And in honor of PrideFest weekend I want to share three of the best videos on the web. Planet Unicorn is a show on Channel 101 (The creators of…
Since we’ve been hitting the graffiti tip so hard this week, I thought it important to point out that not all illegal street art is done by and for young folks – why it can include the middle-aged talk radio audience!…
John Cusack grasps for reality in 1408. This weekend is a big one in movies, with eight films opening here in Denver. It’s the good, the bad and the ugly on the big screen. The Good: Bamako: This film-fest fave puts nothing less than economic injustice on trial, arguing the…
As graffiti crews like RTD and TKO fight over wall space around town, Buffalo Exchange, at 230 East 13th Avenue, was giving it away on Tuesday, June 19, to the first aerosol-can carrying, rubber-glove wearing tagger to show up. And word spread fast. In just a few hours more than…
The ceremony began with a blessing and the lighting of the sage, then an eagle’s feather was presented to a “warrior of peace,” a guest that Denver has welcomed to help end wars before, a guest that the city welcomes again to bring peace to our city’s streets. Although despair…
Just in case you’re all dressed up with nowhere to go, here are a few late-breaking events we heard about too late to include in this week’s Night and Day calendar:…
[jump] Last night, I chose like many others to come out for air in the dusk of a torrid solstice eve; in my case, I chose to stroll through Frances Wisebart Jacobs Park, a little patch of green amid a myriad of apartment and condo complexes south of Leetsdale Drive…
A couple in New Zealand has been banned from naming their kid “4real”. I don’t see anything wrong with it. I knew a kid named Skillet. How he got that name I will not say, because I would be fired faster than Imus. –Crystal Preston-Watson New Zealand: ‘4real’ not a…
