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Arrivals and Departures 2019-20
Dallas Observer
We're here, on New Year's Eve, not to praise 2019, but to bury it. It's been ... a year. The Cowboys failed in the most Cowboys of ways. Donald Trump came back to American Airlines Center, as president this time. We've got a new mayor, a new district attorney and...
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Ducey Won't Release Nonviolent Offenders, Ignores Recommendations for Clemency
Phoenix New Times
With just months to live, Arizona inmate Lee Bryson was cleared for release by the Executive Board of Clemency in February. He's still behind bars.
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In a Reversal, Ducey Removes Hair Salons From Essential Services List
Phoenix New Times
Ducey calls it "providing clarity." We call it a reversal.
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Abbott Says Texas Has Enough Hospital Beds, While COVID-19 Cases Continue to Increase
Houston Press
In his press conference Friday, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said at present there are enough hospital beds — more than 19,000 remain available — to handle the state's needs for coronavirus patients. He and Dr. John Zerwas, Executive Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs of the University of Texas System, also...
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Cloth Masks Should Be Worn in Public to Fight COVID-19, Polis Says
Westword Denver
The governor modeled a cloth mask of his own.
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Metro Denver School Buildings Closed for Rest of Academic Year
Westword Denver
The announcement was made jointly by multiple districts.
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Lawyers Ask Colorado Supreme Court to Help Release Jail Detainees
Westword Denver
A coalition of criminal defense lawyers are asking the state Supreme Court to help lower Colorado's jail population.
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Why Air-Quality Researchers See Opportunity in COVID-19 Shutdowns
Westword Denver
"There’s a chance to use this bad thing for a good thing."
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Dallas County Extends Emergency Order Through May 20
Dallas Observer
The long haul is getting longer. Friday morning, Dallas County Commissioners voted to extend the county's Public Health Emergency until May 20. That means all residents of the county will continue to shelter in place for at least the next six weeks, barring intervention from Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins...
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Secretly Chopping Up, Selling Body Parts Finally a Colorado Felony
Westword Denver
The bill's signing was delayed by the COVID-19 crisis.
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StubHub Customers Cry Foul Over New Seller Payment Policy
Westword Denver
StubHub has pushed back its timeline for paying ticket sellers, and the platform's customers are furious.
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Night Sweats Bassist Joseph Pope III Painted a COVID-19 Mural
Westword Denver
He's not a muralist, but he had something to convey.
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Hear It: The Green House Band Started in a Shack
Westword Denver
The Denver band just dropped its debut EP.
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A Meazy Is Back in His Groove
Westword Denver
The Denver rapper just dropped at EP called Deada$$.
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After SXSW Canceled, MusiCares Helped Out Bobby Rogers
Westword Denver
Bobby Rogers lost big money after South by Southwest was canceled this year, but MusiCares was there to help.
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Justin Bieber Postpones 2020 Tour; Red Rocks Season Starts May 13
Westword Denver
Justin Bieber's tour was slated to start one day after Red Rocks season begins.
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Live Nation Pledges $10 Million to Out-of-Work Crew Members
Westword Denver
The company wants to support crew members who have been put out of work by COVID-19 closures.
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Hear It: Sydnie Battie's "Needy" Is a Gut-Wrencher About Desperation
Westword Denver
Denver pop singer Sydnie Battie's "Needy" is a gut-wrenching song about desperation.
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Experimental Musician Adán de la Garza Shazam'd an Air Conditioner
Westword Denver
Audio music artist Adán de la Garza's processes difficult emotions using the sounds most overlook.
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Chris Kresge Blasts Colorado Playlist Through the Pandemic
Westword Denver
The DJ keeps producing Colorado Playlist from home, showcasing the state's best music from the '60s to now.
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Spice Room Spices Up Your Stay-at-Home Experience
Westword Denver
Rice, naan and a variety of saucy dishes do well as takeout or delivery dinner.
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Cody's and Bettola Bistro Owner Sue Smith Spreads Kindness
Westword Denver
Restaurateur Sue Smith helps out employees to keep her restaurants afloat.
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The Bittersweet Taste of Friday's Collaboration Fest Beer Releases
Westword Denver
Score some strange and wonderful brews that would have been served at the annual fest.
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The Best Culinary Online and To-Go Things to Do This Weekend
Westword Denver
Find out about safe and tasty happenings in the culinary world this weekend.
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Openings and Closings: The Local Edition
Houston Press
We are all getting a little cranky and stir crazy as the weeks turn into possible months of quarantine and social distancing. And some of us are still not getting the idea. We are trying to support Houston's restaurants and businesses but we would like to reiterate that in doing...
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Racines Will Return...for a Long Goodbye
Westword Denver
Owners Lee Goodfriend and David Racine are retiring.
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No Baseball, No Hot Dogs — but Biker Jim's Will Be Back
Westword Denver
There's no baseball — or hot dogs — this weekend.
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Support Your Neighborhood Bars: Northeast Denver Edition
Westword Denver
Our continuing roundup of watering holes affected by the coronavirus shutdown.
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Growing Up — Urban Farms Have the Potential to Transform Phoenix
Phoenix New Times
A in-depth look at the many urban farms across greater Phoenix
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Brewpubs Were Making a Comeback...Until the COVID-19 Lockdown
Westword Denver
Those kitchens are helping keep some open, though.
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It's Curtains for John Moore at the DCPA
Westword Denver
This is a real loss for the theater community.
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Denver Made Madam C.J. Walker — Which the Netflix Series Ignored
Westword Denver
Although the new Netflix series, Self Made, doesn't mention it, Walker's fame started in Denver.
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Forget Tiger King Joe Exotic. Meet HoExotic, Kalyn Heffernan's Alter-Ego
Westword Denver
Wheelchair Sports Camp MC Kalyn Heffernan parodied Joe Exotic, and it's amazing.
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Any Of You Weirdos Still Watching Contagion?
Houston Press
Among the — to me — more surprising revelations during the opening weeks of this, the Great Pandemic of 2020, was that Steven Soderbergh's 2011 virus epic Contagion was one of the most-watched streaming movies: Contagion is currently trending on both Amazon Prime and iTunes and is in the top four...
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High Times: How to Conserve Your Cannabis During the Quarantine
Dallas Observer
We know how hard it is to get through this time without the things you deem essential. If you couldn’t make it to your favorite CBD store before they were forced to shut down, you will need to find a way to make what is left in your stash last...
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Rockies Throw Online Opening Day Food-Bank Fundraiser Bash
Westword Denver
Celebrate Rockies Opening Day online with a virtual game and a fundraiser for Food Bank of the Rockies.
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Denver Artists Make Masks to Fight COVID-19 in Homeless Shelters
Westword Denver
They've banded together to try to stop the spread of COVID-19 in homeless shelters.
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In Destructive Times, Pat Milbery Is on a Mission to Preserve Art
Westword Denver
Now, more than ever, it's time to Love this City.
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Colorado Book Award Finalist Readings Move Online
Westword Denver
The series starts April 9 and runs through May 15.
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Watch This: Filmmaker Laura Conway Is Unapologetically Nostalgic
Westword Denver
She's staying busy making films and hosting virtual events.
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L.A. Weekly Movie Pick: Two Hip Indie Classics Showcased in Jarmusch Festival
Westword Denver
As L.A. gears up for Jim Jarmusch’s zom-com this June, the American Cinematheque has prepared a double feature consisting of two of the director’s earliest films, co-presented by Beyond Fest.
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L.A. Weekly Movie Picks: El Chicano's Latino Superhero Saga
Westword Denver
El Chicano is being billed as the first Latino superhero film. Co-written by Joe Carnahan (Narc) and co-written and directed by Ben Hernandez Bray (a veteran stuntman who plays one of the guys who gets eaten by wolves in Carnahan's The Grey), the film boasts an all-Hispanic cast and a low-fi look right out of the 1990s.
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L.A. Weekly Movie Picks: Heathers Is 30 Years Old?!
Westword Denver
Heathers, the wickedly funny 1989 cult classic about a teenager (Winona Ryder) who gets involved with a popular girl clique and starts dating a cool nihilist (Christian Slater), gets a special 30th-anniversary screening.
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L.A. Weekly Movie Picks: A Tribute to Claire Denis
Westword Denver
Claire Denis, vanguard of the contemporary French cinema, will be in town this weekend for a retrospective organized by the American Cinematheque. The series begins on the day her newest film, High Life, opens on U.S. screens.
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L.A. Weekly Movie Picks: Dogman, Mary Magdalene and Emily Dickinson Unbound
Westword Denver
Matteo Garrone, the Italian filmmaker who helmed the internationally acclaimed Gomorrah and Reality (as well as the less acclaimed but equally interesting Tale of Tales), returns with Dogman.
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L.A. Weekly Movie Picks: Breakthrough Targets Faith-Based Demographic
Westword Denver
The story of a teen who falls through the ice and lands in a coma while his parents find hope in the power of prayer is based on The Impossible, a lightly fictionalized account of an incident.
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L.A. Weekly Movie Picks: A Fresh Take on Hellboy
Westword Denver
A solid decade has passed since we last saw the hulking red hero in a movie — long enough for the franchise to have faded, if not quite vanished, from cultural memory.
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L.A. Weekly Movie Picks: After Takes a Cue From Harry Styles
Westword Denver
After is the latest film based on a "best-selling worldwide phenomenon," in this case a new-adult genre novel by Anna Todd about a good girl who goes to college and falls head over heels for the class rebel
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L.A. Weekly Movie Picks: Father-Daughter Drama Humanizes High Life
Westword Denver
High Life is a science fiction film with a strange pedigree. Claire Denis, a key architect of modern French cinema, had been kicking around the idea for more than a decade.
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Danish Thriller The Guilty Dazzles Without Ever Leaving a Call Center
Miami New Times
Pretty much the whole film consists of phone exchanges between Asger Holm (Jakob Cedergren), a police officer who has been temporarily demoted to working the phones, and others out in the field as he struggles to save a woman who is being abducted by her ex-husband
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