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Arianna Huffington at MapQuest party on "frivolous" blogger suit, "useful" Drudge design

Arianna Huffington.​Internet years are like dog years, which makes fifteen-year-old MapQuest more like 105. But this old dog can learn directions home if you believe Arianna Huffington, now a player in the old-money empire of AOL, which owns the company headquartered in LoDo. She talked about ... More >>

Bernie Buescher Pandora ad wins national award (despite not winning him the election)

​So what if Secretary of State Bernie Buescher didn't win re-election last November. In our book, he's still the coolest cat at the Capitol for being the only Colorado candidate (and one of the few in the country) to advertise on Pandora Internet radio, a move that just scored him a prestigiou ... More >>

Arianna Huffington's sale of Huffington Post to AOL not expected to impact HuffPo Denver

Huffington.​The sale of the Huffington Post to AOL this week has been much debated in media circles. Yet most of these conversations haven't addressed what, if anything, the move portends for the four regional HuffPo branches, including the one in Denver. The word we get: status quo.

Susan Greene compares working at Denver Post to Stockholm syndrome in HuffPo debut

Susan Greene.​Update below: Susan Greene resigned from the Denver Post late last year after being told her column would be canceled -- and while she was clearly saddened by the circumstances of her departure, she had only positive things to say about colleagues and didn't criticize the paper a ... More >>

Michael Huttner, ProgressNow not responding to questions about not-awarded Hawaii trip

Michael Huttner.​As part of the August 2009 launch of 50 Ways You Can Help Obama Change America, Michael Huttner, the book's co-author, as well as founder and CEO of ProgressNow.org, promised to give away a trip to Hawaii to the person with the best idea to improve America. Over two years late ... More >>

Colorado Public News gets grant to provide health-care coverage for 14 media outlets

Photo: Joe Mahoney​Ann Imse envisioned Colorado Public News as a way to fill the reporting gap left by the disappearance of newspapers like the Rocky Mountain News, where she once worked. The problem was trying to get someone to pay for it -- and a year later, Imse, CPN's editor, succeeded, la ... More >>

Meet the judges of the 2010 Westword Web Awards

​Pardon this interruption in headlines: We're happy to announce the judges of our 2010 Westword Web Awards. If you haven't nominated your favorite Facebooking restaurant, web start-up or Twittering bartender for the Westword Web Awards yet, what are you waiting for? Get to it!

Ken Buck spokesman: Rape case stories smears that may scare women away from reporting

Ken Buck.​On Monday, we told you about Ken Buck's decision not to prosecute an alleged 2005 rape, which liberal organizations view as evidence that he lacks compassion for women. Buck spokesman Owen Loftus sees something different -- an unfair assault on Buck's character that exploits the wom ... More >>

Michael Bennet welcoming Bill Clinton, Michelle Obama -- and President Barack Obama, too?

Michael Bennet and Ken Buck at 9News debate.​Last night, Senator Michael Bennet and Republican challenger Ken Buck engaged in their most high-profile debate yet -- and shockingly enough, Bennet spokesman Trevor Kincaid believes his guy handily won the 9News-sponsored event on view below. Kinc ... More >>

Tim Tebow's friar cut enters the Colorado Hair Hall of Fame: A photo gallery

Tim Tebow goes monk.​Tim Tebow's teammates reminded him that he was a rookie by cutting his hair friar-style -- appropriate for such a religious young man. And the cut's catching on, at least as a joke: This morning, the a.m. crew at the Wolf/92.5 FM made a listener do the full Tebow in exchan ... More >>

Ali Hasan is going back to Cali, but not before a few last words

Medical marijuana bill changes treat MMJ like crime, says advocate Matt Brown

Matt Brown doesn't like the latest alternations in HB 1284.​Last Wednesday, we shared with you the flurry of alterations made by a senate committee in HB 1284, a bill intended to regulate the medical marijuana industry. On Friday, the bill headed to an appropriations committee, where signific ... More >>

Tom Tancredo: HuffPo is wrong about me questioning Arizona immigration bill

Tom Tancredo says his remarks were taken out of context.​A blog from the Huffington Post yesterday certainly sports a grabby headline. It reads: "Tom Tancredo Says Arizona Immigration Law Goes Too Far, Still Supports It." The problem with this take, which has replicated rapidly across the web ... More >>

David Sirota makes a monkey out of himself in debate, argues councilman Sean Paige

There's no back-down in Sean Paige.​Yesterday, AM 760 host/columnist David Sirota and Colorado Springs city councilman Sean Paige took part in an on-air debate, with the honor of Colorado Springs at stake. But while the program has ended, the scrap isn't over, with Paige continuing to take swi ... More >>

David Sirota-Sean Paige cage match scheduled -- with honor of Colorado Springs on the line!

And in this corner...​On Monday, we told you about the rhetorical battle between AM 760 host/columnist David Sirota, who thinks Colorado Springs' conservative fiscal policies are largely responsible for the community's sizable economic woes, and Springs councilman Sean Paige, who sees Sirota's ... More >>

Rob Corry says new medical marijuana bill gave him a bad case of déjà vu

Rob Corry doesn't know if calling this bill "new" is truth in advertising.​Prominent medical marijuana advocates such as Matt Brown and Brian Vicente have already weighed in on the medical marijuana bill sponsored by Representative Tom Massey. But one of the most notable figures in the medical ... More >>

Twit of the Week Ef Rodriguez to view Twitter "with cool resentment" for the rest of 2010

Ef Rodriguez playing it cool.​Ef Rodriguez has been among our most popular-ever featured Twits. But today, he's not that happy with the service that's made him a must-follow. Why? As he explains in this Huffington Post blog, Twitter has introduced a new "local trends" feature to a select numb ... More >>

Twitter Tuesday: Ef Rodriguez, our featured Twit

Rodriguez onstage at Ignite Boulder 7 ​Our featured Twit this week goes by the handle @pugofwar on Twitter, and Ef Rodriguez most other places. When he's not busy blogging (on his own blog and for the Huffington Post), he can be found playing World of Warcraft, organizing events such as Boco.m ... More >>

Wake-Up Call: Putting a lid on medical marijuana dispensaries

​Despite suggestions that he hold his horses and wait to see what the Colorado Legislature does, Charlie Brown pressed on with his proposal to regulate medical marijuana dispensaries in the city of Denver, and that proposal will go to a vote of the full council tonight, after a two-hour public ... More >>

Senator Chris Romer to medical marijuana community: "There's nothing so keen to focus the mind as a bullet fired near your head"

Chris Romer thinks that if members of the medical marijuana community doesn't compromise, law enforcement will have its way with them.​Senator Chris Romer has been working on medical marijuana legislation for many weeks -- and he's clearly grown frustrated with the chore. On Saturday, he publi ... More >>

Rob Corry threatens Denver City Council with lawsuits over medical marijuana ordinance

A spoof ad showing Rob Corry as a "scorced earth warrior" for medical marijuana.​On Friday, we shared with you a letter by attorney Rob Corry shredding Senator Chris Romer's latest draft of a measure to regulate the medical marijuana industry. Shortly thereafter, Romer backed away from the bil ... More >>

Are you sitting down? Good -- because Colorado Democrats have a deep bench

​By now, the rest of the country knows that Colorado Democrats are either very tired or have fat butts. They must, because they keep talking about benches -- deep ones. "The Colorado Democratic Party has a deep bench, there are a lot of people who are able to step in and do this job," Governo ... More >>

Denver Blogs: Claudine Longet has nothing on this allegedly homicidal Aspen socialite

We haven't forgotten you, Claudine.​Denver blogs are bloggeriffic! George Jahn at Huffington Post Denver shares the fiery tale of Pamela Phillips, an Aspen socialite busted in Austria for allegedly killing her ex-husband with a pipe bomb in 1996. Oh, sweet memories of Claudine Longet... Stev ... More >>

Denver Blogs: "Pull 'em over, ship 'em out"

"I'm rich, biatch."​Our daily cruise through the Colorogosphere. At Colorado Independent, John Tomasic talks to Daniel Hayes about his so-called "impound initiatives," part of Hayes's crusade against illegal immigrants in Colorado. Critics think Hayes is a racist; Hayes thinks his critics are ... More >>

Denver Blogs: Happy Columbus "Americas Day"!

A Flickr photoA Columbus Day Parade in San Fran.​Our daily gathering of local bloggage. On the Huffington Post's local page, Jim Thomas makes the case for changing the name of Columbus Day. And unlike most of the things written on the topic, his take is reasonable and measured. Colorado Pol ... More >>

The Obama administration: a Colorado College cabal?

​Every presidency has its own biases about the kind of education that makes for good leaders. JFK stacked the deck with Harvard grads; Bush I and Bush II leaned toward Yalies, of course. Snobbery, Eastern elitism, Ivy Leaguism--it's been expected of the White House since the days of Woodrow Wi ... More >>

Steve Foster on the death of the Rocky Mountain Independent

​ Years don't get much rougher than the one Steve Foster is living through. After the Rocky Mountain News shut down in February, Foster and a batch of fellow Rocky journalists started an online news site, INDenver Times, with the help of three investors. When that project faltered because a g ... More >>

Legalizing marijuana -- medical or otherwise -- has become the toke of the town

Denver Blogs: I need fuel!

We read local blogs so you don't have to, although you should, 'cause many of them don't suck. Turning trash into electricity: Yet another way that life imitates Back to the Future. (Colorado Independent) Malcom Glenn doesn't think you should be surprised by Obama's endorsement of Michael Bennet. ... More >>

The debut of Huffington Post Denver

Ethan Axelrod.​Back in June, we told you that the Huffington Post would be opening a branch in Denver, to follow offices in New York City and Chicago. Then, in July, we confirmed that Ethan Axelrod, a former Colorado College student who just happens to be the son of big shot Obama advisor Davi ... More >>

Denver Blogs: Behold, HuffPolis

​Our daily slog through the local blogosphere. Polis: If the healthcare debate is a DeLorean, and universal health care is 1985, then Rep. Joe Wilson's outburst was just the plutonium we needed. (Colorado Independent) Also in the Polisphere, the congressman takes on detention reform for the ... More >>

Liberal authors offer prize even birthers can love

​Earlier today, Sean Duffy, spokesman for gubernatorial hopeful Scott McInnis, said he didn't want his candidate to be reduced to a caricature by Michael Huttner, the man behind the left-leaning ProgressNow Colorado operation. After making that comment, Duffy noted that Huttner's very effectiv ... More >>

Cafe Society: Week in review

What you might have missed this week while chowing on local chocolate-covered bacon...What do you wish Denver's restaurant scene had more of?  Jason Sheehan wants your opinion.Pop-Tarts and Bagelfuls: The ten stupidest "breakfast foods" ever.Local brew Blue Moon makes it to the White House's be ... More >>

Huffington Post (and America) thinks Denver bites

​Right this minute, the future of ten of America's great food cities is being decided. By readers of the Huffington Post. No, seriously. This isn't a joke. As you are reading this, the highest-rated, single-most popular story at HuffPo is a poll for the ten best food cities. Denver is on that ... More >>

David Axelrod's 22-year-old son will run Huffington Post's Denver site

David Axelrod's 22-year-old son, Ethan, will run the Huffington Post's Denver news section.​On the off chance you were worried the Huffington Post would abandon its storied brand of knee-jerk Obama-ism when it waded into local news, rest easy: Westword learned today that the news site's forthc ... More >>

The Westword.com blog shortcut, June 25 edition

The kings of poppers. Greetings and salutations. Today in Cafe Society: • Denver's Ritz-Carlton is puttin' on a happy hour! • Today: A celebrity cook-off, wine-tasting event and the kick-off to Telluride's wine festival. • Red Trolley rewards you for your ice-cream gluttony. • A closer loo ... More >>

More information about Huffington Post's plan to open Denver branch

A Flickr photoArianna Huffington. As reported in this space on Monday, the Huffington Post is planning to open a series of local branches -- and in a recent interview, Arianna Huffington, the site's namesake, revealed that an outpost in Denver would follow the launch of ones in Chicago and New York ... More >>

Huffington Post going local, coming to Denver

Arianna has her eyes on Denver. The latest trend on the Internet is local, and new media juggernaut The Huffington Post is wasting no time leading the charge into desirable local markets. Not too long ago, the site launched its first local foray with the Chicago edition of the Huffington Post (arou ... More >>

The Westword.com blog shortcut, June 22 edition

"I've purged binging!" Here's the skinny. Today in Backbeat Online: • Here are my top five workout songs. What are yours? • Get Monolith tickets without fees. • Musicians: Get your ears lowered for free. • Eminem grabs top spot at Independent Records again. • Okay, Denver, we need to tal ... More >>

Columnist chronicles Denver's New Urbanism conference on the Huffington Post

Photo by Jonathan ShikesThe new-urbanist enclave of Highlands' Garden Village. Last week, the Congress for the New Urbanism held its annual conference in Denver -- an event we commemorated with examinations of Bradburn Village, Highlands' Garden Village and several other New Urbanist developments i ... More >>

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John Hickenlooper and the case of the vanishing F-bombs

The video above, promoting Hick Town, a proposed documentary/reality series by director George Hickenlooper starring his cousin, Denver mayor John Hickenlooper, has been available on YouTube for months. Most of the footage was shot during the Democratic National Convention -- hence the presence of ... More >>

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