News

6.13.07 Kafue River, Zambia Coordinates: S 15 degrees 07.870′ E 025 degrees 58.443′ Zulu Time 0945…

DOA is only opening tonight (June 15) on two local screens — Harkens Northfield and Century Aurora 16 — which doesn’t usually bode well for a movie. Particularly a movie that the studios didn’t offer advance press screenings for until just a few days before the release. But never fear,…

For this week’s on line movie review, I decided to do something a little different. I let my roommate Stoke 27 (his artist name, not his real one) give his thoughts on the latest installment of Fantastic Four, which opened today (June 15) in theaters everywhere. Not because he is…

The Latest Word’s weekly roundup of pop culture news…

06.09.07 Zambia, Africa Chief, I made it into the chicken shack of an airport last night after a twenty-hour travel day. City very dark, just gaggles of young men squatting on the corners. Too hard to make anything of the place in the gloom and smell of burning tires. Too…

Now that the San Antonio Spurs have cakewalked to their fourth NBA championship in nine years, it’s time for Denver Post columnist and resident psychic Mark Kiszla to tuck into a big helping of crow. Way, way back in April, the Denver Nuggets shook up the smart money by snatching…

Rod Rushing has switched from using the Internet as a tool to find meth-fueled sex to using it as a tool to fight meth-fueled sex, the biggest epidemic facing the gay community since AIDS. Rushing is coordinating the Mile High Meth Project, a new support network being built up to…

After seeing this picture, we can conclude that if He didn’t, He damn well should have. This slice of awesome is the work of one divinely inspired artist named Derek Chatwood. You can see more of his incredible work at PopRelics, and order select prints from his Image Kind page…

It’s surreal to watch Tom Tancredo equate illegal immigration and the movie Terminator. Maybe Tancredo believes since illegal immigrants speak in thick accents like similar to Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Terminator character that they both are hi-tech-goal specific robotic killing machines. Regardless of his thought process it is obvious that Tancredo watches way too much TV. As […]

There has been a lot of interest in Westword’s World Naked Bike Ride coverage. And some of you out there might have the idea to recreate the magic that the protest brought to our city. But before you strip and run around the 16th Street Mall, you might want to…

On June 13, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., which owns Fox, announced its intention to sell nine of its owned-and-operated television stations, including KDVR/Channel 31 in Denver. A June 14 Denver Post piece on this development correctly points out that such moves are not exactly rare these days; the New York…

The Rwanda case is the most interesting case in the world,” says University of Denver adjunct law professor David Akerson. “It’s unbelievable: 800,000 killed in ninety days. Six times the rate of the German genocide. Still, you lose sight of the fact that they’re individual people being killed. That’s 800,000…

On Saturday night, they gathered at a secret meeting spot in Capitol Hill. A few people knew each other; others amiably introduced themselves. One man rode up and immediately announced: “Hi, everyone, I’m Gary. I’m going to wear my boxers — is that all right?” Usually this would seem an…

Lunchtime. Downtown Denver. The 16th Street Mall. Is there any better place in the world? Of course there is. There are probably 200 to 250 better places in this state alone, never mind the rest of the planet. I mean, have you been to Paris? It’s beautiful this time of…

For the most part, what happens in the boardroom stays in the boardroom. But attorney Frances Koncilja, who resigned from Colorado Public Radio’s board on June 6, is too troubled by behind-the-scenes events at CPR to keep silent about a range of issues, including what she sees as an ill-timed…

“Main Features,” Michael Roberts, June 7 Mercenary Taffy Eaters I am appalled that our local film critics have been replaced by a bunch of mercenaries from Corporate. Normally, I wouldn’t care — but you’ve replaced writers who could write with people who write (to quote Chuck Jones) “like a dog…

[jump] Hip Tip Archives…

[jump] Worst Case Archives…

I saw this Letterman segment when it first aired in 1987 and I’ve never forgotten it. Crispin Glover, in platform shoes and a bizarre wig, freaking out and nearly staving in Letterman’s head with a roundhouse kick. Who knew George McFly was such a fucking nutter? — Cory Casciato…

It was 25 years ago that Kenny Be first graced the pages of Westword with his warped sensibilities. To celebrate this milestone, here’s that first comic, now digitized and immortalized on the Web. Also make sure to check out the print edition for Kenny’s own take on his quarter century…

Now with added police footage (and we know that is the best kind). Original story and video Slide Show…

There are two things I will remember Mr. Wizard (a.k.a. Don Herbert) for: 1. He was responsible for my mother beating my ass when I tried one of his experiments (It was the one where you suspend a glass of water upside down from a plate. It didn’t work and…