Dan Fong’s a bona fied shutterbug. Watching him saunter about last night, mingling with guests, with a camera slung over his shoulder during a sneak preview of ARTRock — an exhibition featuring his celebrated rock and roll photography over the years, which opens tonight at La Rumba before moving over…
This week’s Message, which deals with the return to the city of Denver Post columnist Woody Paige, briefly mentions that the Woodman will tape episodes of the ESPN staple Around the Horn from a studio located in the paper’s fancy new headquarters. However, there’s more to the story of this…
A Special Cat’s Pajamas Report from Susan Froyd, Westword’s own Night & Day editor — and shoe aficionado. Clark’s Indigo Mademoiselle, $93.95 As a former San Franciscan, I always thought that I could safely say I’d left my heart there. In my bedazzled mind, there’s no city on earth more…
The Alexander Group, LLC — consisting of father-and-son team Steve and Shane Alexander — has just purchased the property soon to become infamous on The Real World: Denver. The price? A cool $3.3 million. The vision? To turn the street level into an upscale lounge, the second floor into a…
Denver’s fashion-power couple. Tran and Josh Wills are always on the go. Not only do they have three lovely children to keep up with, they are the owners of The Fabric Lab boutique at 3105 East Colfax Avenue and are now partners in the new Belmar venture A++, along with…
The rehashing of the JonBenet Ramsey case on 48 Hours last Saturday has touched off a wave of Ramsey speculations on the Internet — although probably not the way the producers intended. While many of the program’s claims about John Mark Karr and his pursuer, University of Colorado journalism professor…
As of 3 p.m. December 1, Denver’s favorite faction of pedal-powered radicals, the Derailer Bicycle Collective, will be back on a roll at its new location, 411 Lipan Street. Earlier this year, as reported here, city zoning officials put the brakes on the non-profit bike shop, which since 2003 had…
If Nate Ybanez is ever to see life outside of prison, he needs lots of attention –and Rolling Stone just turned on the spotlight. Nate is one of more than forty people serving life without parole for murders they committed in Colorado before turning eighteen. He and his buddy, Erik…
As I watched Episode 3 of The Real World: Denver, one thought repeatedly ran through my mind: Where do the producers find these people who are legally old enough to drink — yet retain the emotional and social capacity of a seventh-grader? Although Tyrie, Davis, Brooke and Stephen haven’t done…
I’m a Colorado native, so I understand how difficult it is for public authorities to keep the roads clear and passable during inclement weather, and am sympathetic to the challenge of doing so. Nevertheless, the performance of transportation authorities over the past couple of days puts me in mind of…
The small house at 320 East 104th Place is about the closest Northglenn comes to a historic building — and that’s precisely why Bill Sullivan wants to tear it apart. Once, in the age of Ozzie and Harriet, the single-story, 820-square foot, two-bedroom “Matchless” model was an emblem of upward…
In 2004, the Denver Post gave Woody Paige a one-year leave of absence that allowed the longtime sports columnist to move to New York City, where he’d been named a regular on ESPN2’s Cold Pizza. The Post subsequently hired veteran New York Times scribe Thomas George as Paige’s de facto…
The most sluttish national TV performance of the week in a contrived Colorado soap opera wasn’t provided by a member of The Real World: Denver. No, it was on a piece of shamelessness concerning the JonBenét Ramsey murder that aired on the once-proud “news” program 48 Hours. On Saturday night,…
Whenever we visited my grandmother in Virginia, my mom would take us all to see some Civil War battlefield, after which she and my grandmother would mutter under their breath about Yankees and my father would feel uncomfortable. Once, on the way to a battlefield, my mother calmly informed my…
He became a millionaire by pimping out his Colorado Springs-based McDonald’s restaurants with a centralized drive-thru call center and other quick-serve gadgetry (“Mr. Big,” November 3, 2005). Then he bid the Golden Arches adieu to design a high-tech charity that provides the working poor with an alternative to the rapacious…
“Fighting Mad,” Alan Prendergast, November 16 Oil Slick Fantastic story, and I am very interested in the outcome of the November 17 hearing. Is the court going to hear this case? Jack Grynberg’s story raises questions for me. How does this affect the general public? Are we, the end users,…
Anyone who has seen the ubiquitous new Melo commercials pimp-limping their way through prime-time television knows two things. One, Carmelo Anthony is a badass. Two, he is a mogul who has his hands in many pies. The latest pie is energy drinks, with Melo bringing his own take on the…
CNN’s Larry King loves Colorado — or at least Colorado newsmakers. Over the years, he’s done more shows related to the JonBenet Ramsey murder than anyone this side of Greta Van Susteren, and he’s regularly visited by Focus on the Family’s James Dobson, probably because King is less likely to…
How’s this for some serious personal style? The self-appointed Disco Bicuits — Francois Palloux, Justin Cochran, Jason Barzel and Jerome Hermelin of Le Central — got down with their badselves during the annual Turkey Trot race to benefit the Food Bank of the Rockies. And while Cat doesn’t normally go…
Ever since Michael Richards let loose a racist screed at a Los Angeles comedy show ten days ago, he’s been making the I’m-so-sorry rounds on Late Show With David Letterman and Reverend. Jesse Jackson’s radio program. But any cynics out there who doubt the sincerity of K-K-Kramer should check out…
Four years ago, Westword ran a “How United Airlines Ruined My Summer Vacation” contest. Well, this year United Airlines ruined my family’s Thanksgiving. I got a phone call from my mother the Sunday after Thanksgiving. But she wasn’t checking in to see how I was doing, or thanking me for…
Among local critics, the new wing of the Denver Art Museum has been almost uniformly lauded as an innovative, architectural triumph. Nationally, however, the reaction to Daniel Libeskind’s design has been more mixed. In the November issue of House and Garden, critic Martin Filler calls the Frederic C. Hamilton Building…
