During its Denver tryout, The Little Mermaid was awash in criticism, including this review from Westword’s Juliet Wittman that should have sent it to the bottom of the ocean. Now the show’s opened on Broadway, and judging from a January 11 piece in the Wall Street Journal, the New York…
It’s going to be a long, long time before Michael Rollie sees daylight again. Two months ago, Rollie was found guilty on three charges of attempted manslaughter, two charges of first-degree assault, one charge of second-degree assault, one charge of attempted first-degree murder and one for murder in the first…
In 1997, Westword published its fourteenth Best of Denver issue, a celebration of the city that saluted everything from the Best Place to Put the New Broncos Stadium (Los Angeles!) to the Best Sneak Preview of an Art Project (the Robischon Gallery’s show on the proposed Christo project on the…
Once upon time, journalists were fighting to get a foot in the door at the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News. Today, plenty of editorial types aren’t letting said door hit them on the way out. Among the departures in the past month or so: Julia C. Martinez at…
Get the back story here to attorney David Lane’s decision to call Westword reporter Jared Jacang Maher to the stand during a suppression hearing for Columbus Day protestors…
The Internet-television network known as ManiaTV! has been based in Denver since its inception — but not for much longer. A press release issued late on January 9 confirms rampant speculation that “the majority of content operations will be moving to Los Angeles, CA.” The item goes on to state…
The Year in Review, December 27 The shmuck stops here Wow! I’m being called a “shmuck” (Jewish for prick) and top Westword’s “Hall of Shame” simply because I acted as a whistleblower against irresponsible bar owners who illegally use women as marketing ploys with their sexist ladies’ night promotions? Me…
Gene Craven, the recently named president and general manager of public-radio outlet KUVO/89.3 FM, sees the economic challenges bedeviling the operation in simple terms. “The station has experienced a downturn in reserves, and expenses rose faster than the revenue coming in to cover them,” he says. “Over the course of…
It’s a cold Sunday night, the kind of night that eats at a man, makes him start thinking crazy thoughts, like heading out on the town for some kicks, maybe watching men in masks and underpants bludgeon the holy hell out of each other. The Independent Wrestling Federation is putting…
It’s been a long time coming, but the anti-ladies night activist has finally done something to deserve some sort of public honor. His tireless efforts to rid the world of sexist Ladies Night bar and club marketing ploys brought him national notoriety, which we have repeatedly, thoroughly and vigilantly documented…
At 6 p.m. today, All American Vogue will close its doors at 10 South Broadway. It’s the end of an era. Of many eras, actually, since Ronnie Crawford’s store specializes in vintage Americana. For the past thirty years, Ronnie has defined cool at a succession of stores on Broadway. But…
Could it have been just a year ago that news of Steve Horner’s anti-ladies’ night crusade first appeared in the Rocky Mountain News? Just a year ago that he first threatened to sue us? Just a year ago that I met him for an interview in a bar that he…
The January 10 issue includes part of a letter from David Hahn of Denver. Here it is in its entirety, along with Jason Sheehan’s response:…
Although the mandatory life without parole sentence for first degree murder no longer applies to juveniles in Colorado, the fight continues for the 45 people who are still serving life sentences for murders that they committed before turning 18. Still in the corner of the juvie LWOPs, as they’ve become…
Get all the news you need, and more, from the New Hampshire primaries tonight at the Elephants In The Room blog of our Minneapolis sister paper, City Pages, as they liveblog all the ins and outs of this evening’s masterpiece of political theater. Sure they’re 1,000 miles away, but this…
Last night, college football’s bowl season came to an end when the coveted ADT National Championship trophy was awarded to the Louisiana State Tigers following their defeat of the Ohio State Buckeyes in the Allstate BCS National Championship game. The corporate names littering that last sentence go a long way…
On Monday, Quiznos announced that its executive management team transformation is complete with the appointment of David Deno as President. In a prepared statement, Quiznos CEO Greg Brenneman called Deno the final piece in the company’s strategy to bring in outstanding quick service management. Deno, who will now oversee all…
The choice is clear, New Hampshire. At least for those of you Granite State Republicans. Vermin Supreme. Vermin is officially on the primary ballot, and with such pledges as mandatory toothbrushes, time traveling to forceful abort Mrs. Hitler’s gestating catastrophe, and no flying monkeys in the city of New York,…
New Hampshire votes today, but Denver still has plenty of work to do before February 5, or Super Duper Tuesday as it’s known, when Colorado and 23 other states pick their nominees for president. The Democratic Party, especially, needs to build a massive base of volunteers, and not just wonks…
Editor’s note: sorry about that headline. I’d had duck’s blood before, had used it in my own kitchens, but until I came to Ha Noi Pho, I’d never cared for it beyond its capacity to mount a voluptuously glossy sauce. Here the blood is one of the main points of…
On January 8, Darrin Bell’s Candorville — one of my favorite newspaper comic strips, as noted in my survey of the funnies last September — more or less takes on Dana Perino, the longtime Coloradoan currently serving as the press secretary for President George W. Bush. In the second frame…
In a January 7 More Messages blog, Denver Post managing editor Gary Clark said that, to his knowledge, his paper had only received one reader complaint owing to the decision of higher-ups to distribute the January 6 Parade magazine, whose cover story presented former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto as…
