A few hours after news broke that Darrent Williams had been shot dead, people started leaving tributes to the Bronco at the scene of the shooting — hats, signs, cards, flowers. Keith Schrum, associate curator of manuscripts at the Colorado Historical Society, decided to take a look at the unofficial…
At seven last Friday morning, as I shoveled my walk — again — I watched a city trash truck coming down a nearby street, pause so that the driver could contemplate the right-hand turn that would have led to my rutted, iced-in block — and then continue on in the…
I have realized the greatest dream of every attention-starved American. I was on reality TV. It wasn’t MTV’s booze-fueled LoDo soap opera, but rather the home-improvement show that refuses to die: TLC’s Trading Spaces. That’s how Westword contributor Michelle Baldwin starts her account of being a Trading Spaces star –…
Spotted at Moontime: Bartender Gillian Gertridge’s new tattoo, done by Ben “Chase” at Th’ink Tank, in honor of her new home. (The area code of her hometown in Massachusetts is on the inside of her other wrist.) The sight inspired this haiku: Location at hand 508 left, mile high now…
“I would call it serendipity,” says Colorado Chamber Players artistic director and violist Barbara Hamilton, explaining how this month’s program came about. “About a year ago, I met Dean Sobel at the Clyfford Still Museum, and we realized we could have a great collaboration.” Around the same time, she heard…
Aspen is not all skiing and shopping and partying and beautiful people. Thanks to the Aspen Writers’ Foundation, the brain gets some exercise, too, with Winter Words — a series of talks billed as “Après Ski for the Mind.” When the AWF started the program ten years ago, it already…
Three cheers for the efficiency of the Traffic Division of Denver County Court! This horror story started when my mom called me at the office the day before Thanksgiving. She was firmly bivouacked in her seasonal holiday trench of hysteria, overwhelmed by all there was to get ready, and she…
“Our data indicates that the rate of methamphetamine use has doubled in the last five years,” Colorado Attorney General John Suthers said at the release of the first Methamphetamine Task Force Report yesterday. And for the gay community, that estimate could be low. While meth use is soaring everywhere, it’s…
There’s no business like shoe business for the 400. When the designer sneaker store opened at 1010 Bannock Street in September 2005, it was the first of its kind in the state, and some wondered whether there were enough mile-high sneakerheads to foot the bills. But since then, several similar…
December turned Denver into a giant snow globe, sealed off and insulated from the rest of the world — but with a whole lotta shaking going on. Especially at the corner of 11th and Speer Boulevard, where Bronco Darrent Williams was shot dead early New Year’s Day. He was in…
There are some restaurants where the world does not intrude — rooms where time does not pass, weather does not change, current events go unnoted. Often inadvertently, these restaurants have successfully stopped time — a trick that mad scientists and evil super-geniuses have been attempting since forever with dark matter…
There are some restaurants where the world does not intrude — rooms where time does not pass, weather does not change, current events go unnoted. Often inadvertently, these restaurants have successfully stopped time — a trick that mad scientists and evil super-geniuses have been attempting since forever with dark matter…
Ever since last week, we’ve known that Brooke was going to have a freak-out party in Episode 7. But that didn’t make it any less painful to watch last night. In most seasons of The Real World, the producers tend to include one person who is relatively normal and relatively…
After six episodes of The Real World: Denver, we still haven’t seen anyone do any work — which makes me wonder if having them employed by Outward Bound was more of a liability than it was worth. This could also explain why the cast members have that nasty habit of…
Media types are suckers for anniversary stories. Even if it’s the anniversary of a homicide, which just sounds so…wrong. What are we celebrating, exactly? On Tuesday it will be ten years since the death of JonBenet Ramsey. There have already been a couple of prime-time recaps of the crime, and…
Throw the bums out. The grumbling started even before Denver City Council convened its December 2 hearing on the election debacle. Snowflakes were falling; where were those snow plows? Thanks to the Parade of Lights, which had kicked off the night before, meters were bagged and streets blocked off all…
The Ski Train’s 67th season gets rolling today, and although the ride to Winter Park is an old Denver tradition, there’s always something new. “This year we have a new car, the Retreat,” says president Jim Bain. “That doesn’t mean it goes backwards. It’s a presentation car with a podium,…
In the white squall of media coverage surrounding the Denver Nuggets of late — and I do mean “white” — the criticism has been flying like a Southern pilot on the Concorde: fast and racist. Take the latest Carmelo Anthony smack-my-bitch-up incident against the Knicks this Saturday in New York,…
Excess—that’s what I love about the Palace Arms. And not just plain excess. Not cheap, tawdry, modern excess but classy, well-aged and dignified excess. The kind of excess that almost demands you don an ascot and monocle before partaking. And yet, there is no credit check at the door, no…
Excess—that’s what I love about the Palace Arms. And not just plain excess. Not cheap, tawdry, modern excess but classy, well-aged and dignified excess. The kind of excess that almost demands you don an ascot and monocle before partaking. And yet, there is no credit check at the door, no…
We knew it was coming, but nothing could prepare us for the true awfulness of the deed itself. The fourth (and, if God is merciful, last) television documentary on the JonBenet Ramsey case concocted by University of Colorado journalism professor Michael Tracey and British producer David Mills aired in the…
Baby Girl has a baby girl. About a year has passed since the former Colfax streetwalker graduated from the Chrysalis Project, a program designed to rehabilitate women who’ve been selling their bodies for crack. It hasn’t all been smooth sailing for Baby Girl. She did a little time this past…
