There’s no Factory and, as yet, no up-and-coming Andy Warhol. But never mind the details: Last Friday, Denver officially launched the newest art-world movement: UNPOP ART. “It’s basically imagery like pop art, but using source material that’s unpopular,” says Boyd Rice, the local musician and artiste who timed the launch…
Most people would call them pirates. After all, the trio of men meeting with yours truly in late April are preparing to launch an unlicensed Denver radio operation — the sort of outlet popularly known as a pirate station. Because such enterprises are illegal under regulations administered by the Federal…
If it’s not one thing, it’s another. The Sharks have laid it to Abby and Foppa. Melo and the Nugs got mauled by mad dogs. The guards are swabbing electrolytes on Gary Barnett’s leg, and Rockies pitchers are falling by Walgreens again for those big bottles of Zoloft. The upstart…
The Party’s Over The light stuff: Getting my Westword on Wednesday night is always one of the highlights of the week. I only wish you could have devoted even more pages to your April 29 cover story, Julie Jargon’s “The Importance of Being Holly.” We really didn’t get into Holly…
Holly Kylberg needs no introduction, but a friend offers one anyway: “This is Holly. Isn’t she fabulous?” Fabulous is right. Just don’t tell her that unless you want to make her blush, because Holly may be a bold name, but she’s also shy, even humble. The 38-year-old balks at the…
I have gone where no one has gone before: into the closet of Denver’s most stylish woman, Holly Kylberg. This was no easy feat. It took weeks of begging before she would allow me to tread in so private a realm. Few people have even been inside Holly’s house, so…
Any good investigative story about a socialite requires getting said socialite out of her element. And so we’re going on a dive-bar tour, beginning at Don’s Club Tavern. Ever fashion-conscious, Holly asks what she should wear. “Not an evening gown, I hope,” she says. No, I tell her, jeans will…
Who or what is your favorite . . . Fashion Designer (local and national): Locally, my dear friend, the incredibly talented Gabriel Conroy. Nationally, it varies, but currently I have a fixation on Gucci, particularly Tom Ford’s last collections. Celebrity icon: When I was young, Elly May Clampett, from the…
Carlton Wayne Stewart has never played the stock market, but he watches it every day. So he can tell you that, at the moment, the market value of a pound of aluminum is roughly 46 cents, or $1,000 a ton, making it the most valuable of all reclaimable scrap metals…
Stephanie Huff was a runner. When she was in a place she didn’t like, she’d run. When she was in trouble, she’d run. But earlier this month, during a sentencing hearing for two separate crimes, Stephanie finally realized that she could no longer outrun her problems — or her past…
Although it’s still spring, northwest Denver is already harvesting a bumper crop of bickering. Seeds of dissension have been sown all over the neighborhood, in plots linking entities as diverse as community gardens, Wal-Mart, T-Mobile and…Clay Aiken? Last Friday night, Laura Altschul, T-Mobile director of national siting policy, sat shaking…
In many journalism circles, “leak” is a dirty word. It wasn’t always so. In 1971, the New York Times was hailed by much of the press — and a sizable portion of the public — for its decision to publish what became known as the Pentagon Papers, and Daniel Ellsberg,…
Almost two decades ago, as she was recovering from yet one more painful shoulder surgery, Andrea Jaeger had a dream. “I was in a wide-open field,” she recounts. “Groups of people were gathering around, calmly conversing.” When she began to leave, she continues, “my stepping away from the crowd caused…
Zoot Allure The kids are alright: I just finished reading “The Next Stage,” Laura Bond’s April 22 article on the Zoot Suit Riots production at North High School. I wanted to thank you for the article. It was such a nice surprise to read something positive about the students at…
A cloudless spring day in northwest Denver. JOSÉ MERCADO is standing in the doorway of a small brick house on Zuni Street, trying to convince an eighty-year-old woman to let him into her basement. That’s where he believes he’ll find the woman’s seventeen-year-old grandson, ERNEST APODACA. JOSÉ: Would you mind…
I first fished the Rocky Mountain National Wildlife Refuge in 2003, but it was an end-of-season tease, and the fish were hardened and crafty. I had dreamed about plying these waters since I was a kid reading In Fisherman. Now, after a winter of waiting, I was going to get…
The people behind the Denver Tent City Initiative are getting restless. They’ve been working on their proposal to create a tent city here since last summer, but progress seems stalled in committee. So when the group met again last Saturday at the St. Francis Center, some members were ready to…
Hometown-girl-made-good Gale Norton was back in Denver this past weekend to preside over a ceremony at which the Army officially turned over 5,000 acres of the Rocky Mountain Arsenal to the Department of the Interior. Norton, Colorado’s former attorney general, grew up a few miles from the arsenal, once known…
Damon Cain, managing editor for presentation and design at the Denver Post, minces no words when describing the broadsheet he was hired to upgrade. When he first saw the paper, he says, “I thought it had visual problems with every turn of the page.” Thank goodness he noticed and is…
Walk into any local saloon or opium den this week and you’re sure to run into the guy. The guy who’s been there from the beginning. The guy who’s been there from the beginning and never lost hope. The guy who never lost hope and always kept his season tickets…
A Tents Situation Homeless is where the heart is: Amy Haimerl’s “Pitching Tents,” in the April 15 issue, was a thought-provoking, well-written article by a woman who chose not to make it an article about the politics of Denver’s homeless population, but rather chose to put a human face on…
It’s dark and rainy outside, but in here it’s warm. Keith has just put another piece of scavenged wood in the stove, and the fire’s popping brightly, illuminating the surrounding faces. Ed, Dog Dave, Tim, JP, Shaun, Mark. A train whistle cuts through the incessant sound of rain beating on…
