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American Gladiator Auditions the Best of the Worst

By Adam Cayton-Holland

Westword | February 12, 2008

If your wife can kick your ass, you might be an American Gladiator.

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Tags: TV, NBC, American Gladiators

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A Seasoned Drunk Makes the Case for a Lower Drinking Agenew

In my vast and storied experience with the strange and alluring elixir, I have noticed that those who began dabbling with drinking at a younger age tend to develop a more balanced approach toward its consumption in later years.

Westword | Adam Cayton-Holland | 09-08-2008 | Food+Drink

Tags: alcohol, legal drinking age, Mothers Against Drunk Driving

The Flobots Rise and Shinenew

One-thirty in the afternoon on a blistering Monday in late July, and the Flobots are hardly forming like Voltron. The tour bus was supposed to leave from this Save-A-Lot off Federal Boulevard at 12 p.m. sharp, but it's nowhere to be seen and we're still missing several bandmembers.

Westword | Adam Cayton-Holland | 08-25-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: hip-hop, Fight With Tools, Flobots, Universal Records

For Colorado Rapids Fans, It's Hard to be Hooligansnew

Soccer supporters groups are nearly as old as the game itself, with allegiances to squads passed down from generation to generation in the same way most Americans learn to embrace their favorite baseball or football team. For Rapids fans, it's not about the quality of play on the pitch. If it were, they would have left a long time ago.

Westword | Adam Cayton-Holland | 08-11-2008 | Sports

Tags: Soccer, Major League Soccer, sports & fitness, Colorado Rapids, Dick's Sporting Goods Park, Stan Kroenke

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Denver's Channel 2 Drops the Deucenew

Is it possible that Channel 2 president and general manager Dennis Leonard wasn't familiar with the other meaning of "deuce" when he authorized the station's name change? Hardly. Asked if he knew the dirtier designation, Leonard affects a comically exaggerated surfer's voice as he declares, "It's the shit, dude!"

Westword | Michael Roberts | 03-23-2009 | Movies

Tags: Denver, Channel 2, Dennis Leonard

Digital TV Conversion Will Leave Some Coloradans in the Darknew

Because of the impending transition from analog to digital broadcasting, some television sets will go dark on February 17, and unless they pay a satellite provider, they'll stay that way.

Westword | Michael Roberts | 01-26-2009 | TV

Tags: Colorado, Various, television, digital conversion

'Once' Wasn't Enough for Marketa Irglova & Glen Hansardnew

Not long ago, Dublin's Glen Hansard was a little-known quantity in the entertainment industry. Now, however, everything's changed thanks to Hansard's co-starring role in director John Carney's Once, 2007's most unexpected, and well-deserved, independent-film success story.

Westword | Michael Roberts | 11-12-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: John Carney, Once

Dave TV!new

Dave Navarro's chat show is part of a new ManiaTV! strategy to let the pros, not the people, program the site.

Westword | Michael Roberts | 08-27-2007 | TV

Tags: TV

Digitizing Theater Adsnew

National CineMedia is the future of movie-theater advertising -- and probably the future of movie theaters, period.

Westword | Michael Roberts | 07-23-2007 | Movies

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