Subject: Joe Tone

• Twitter Tuesday: Denver Twits you should know

  Editor's note: Starting today, Westword contributor Cory Casciato will be blogging regularly for The Latest Word about the local tech and social-media scene. Feel free to e-mail him with links, story ideas, hate mail, and slices of congratulatory pizza. If you're not on Twitter yet, you're one of about seven people left in the U.S. Seriously, I saw your grandpa on there the other day, sending all sorts of funny quips to @johncmayer. Don't be dissuaded by the fact that so many people use it si

  June 2, 2009

• Denvention Day 3: Why Sci Fi Fans Don't Need Strippers

  August 9, 2008

• Umm, sirs, that doesn't look like Barack Obama

  August 26, 2008

• Umm, sirs, that doesn't look like Barack Obama

  August 27, 2008

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, September 4 edition

  September 4, 2008

• Broncos-Raiders Live Blog: Royal flushes Oakland DBs; Shanahan smacks Al

  September 9, 2008

• A really modest proposal for eliminating the infield dirt from football stadiums

  September 9, 2008

• Monolith Day 1: The Pictures

  September 14, 2008

• Candy Girls: Brach's Soda Poppers

  September 26, 2008

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, October 15 edition

  October 15, 2008

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, October 16 edition

  October 16, 2008

• (Some) Broncos fans want Mike Nolan. (Some) Broncos fans are idiots

  October 22, 2008

• Over the Weekend: Will Smith, Coldplay and various drunk people rock Denver

  The weekend has evaporated, as weekends tend to do. After the jump, a user's guide to what you (probably) missed. -- Joe Tone

  November 24, 2008

• Thanksgiving Dinner Fantasy Draft: What dishes would you pick?

  The Thanksgiving dinner table is a sacred place, and we all have a vision of the perfect holiday meal. But what are the most important dishes? If it came down to stuffing or turkey, which would you choose? We can all be thankful such decisions rarely come to pass, for we Americans can always find room on our plates. But just for sport, I gathered two fellow Thanksgiving fanatics, Melissa and Vince, and held the first-ever Thanksgiving Dinner Fantasy Draft. With 27 dishes on the table, we drew s

  November 25, 2008

• With a test for sports gene, overbearing parents can get an early start

  Sometimes I joke about adopting a teenager. I imagine myself showing up at the adoption agency with a stop-watch around my neck and a tape measure on my belt, dragging prospective dependents onto the lawn to time them in the 40 and measure their wingspan. I'd never do it, of course. Too much paperwork. But when you're built like me -- like a human Mini Cooper whose engine light never goes off -- you don't hold out hope of your natural child being miraculously gifted with superior athletic genes

  December 1, 2008

• Could the end of the election season make Dan Caplis listenable again?

  During the lead-up to the 2008 election, KHOW radio host Dan Caplis focused all of his considerable intellect on the destruction of Barack Obama -- a mission that caused him to become a shrill caricature of himself. (Check out the June blog "Dan Caplis and His Jihad Against Barack Obama" for a sample.) But last night's program, co-hosted as usual with designated faux-liberal Craig Silverman, served as a reminder that Caplis can be an interesting and worthwhile voice when he doesn't allow his c

  December 2, 2008

• Is Rick Reilly losing his bite, or does he just need his bicuspids sharpened?

  No contemporary sportswriter is more decorated (or better paid) than Denver's Rick Reilly, and so no sportswriter is more regularly critiqued. Since leaping wallet first from the sinking Sports Illustrated to ESPN last year -- a move he outlined in the January Message column "Rick Reilly, Loving Limbo" -- he's been among sports bloggers' favorite things to hate, right up there with the BCS, women's sports and everything.The piling on continues this week on Slate (via Deadspin), where Josh Levin

  December 3, 2008

• Ohio man threatened to kill President Bush, bomb DIA

  Federal prosecutors have indicted an Ohio man who they say threatened to bomb the Denver International Airport and then shoot himself in the bathroom this October. According to the indictment, if he somehow survived the bomb and the gunshot (apparently he didn't have much confidence in his mayhem skills), he would kill President Bush."I am going to place a bomb in the Denver International Airport on Friday Oct. 17, 2008 at 3:00 p.m.," he wrote, according to the indictment. "I will shoot myself

  December 3, 2008

• The Josh McDaniels coverage thus far: fawning, with a dash of worshipfulness

  In his blog "Broncos Country is Not Happy About Josh McDaniels. Broncos Country is Wrong," Westword's Joe Tone suggests that everyone in the state of Colorado is up in arms about the selection of New England Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels to replace Mike Shanahan as the Denver Broncos' new head coach. But that's not how coverage of McDaniels's introductory press conference and its aftermath has played out over the past day or so. Indeed, most of the mainstream media's reports to

  January 13, 2009

• Our Daily Bread Special Report!

  So, Westword web editor Joe Tone and I tried going to Mendelson's today for a triple-decker sandwich so I could start working on my Mendelson's sweatshirt (free if you eat all 21 varieties), but it was closed, I'm assuming, because of the rapidly melting snow.. As a result, we headed across the intersection to the Heidi's Brooklyn Deli outpost at 17th and Welton streets, where I encountered three things to warm my chilled heart. The first was free cookies. Gooey-chocolate chip free cookies

  March 27, 2009

• Rockies Opening Day 2009: The ill-advised live blog

  One of these shirts is not like the other. Read from the bottom up. Or not at all. 4:15: So I'm sitting here with one of those guys who wears his own team hat to a game even though that team is not playing. What I mean is that Joe is wearing a Cardinals hat even though the game is between the Phillies and Rockies. What a wanker. Also, Phillies suck. Rockies rule, baby. 4:05: Joe, what time is It? Oh shoot. Did I say taht out loud. So, my boss called and said she would fire me if I didn't blo

  April 10, 2009

• Mile High Music Fest Live Reviews: Day One

  Aaron Thackeray See photos of Day One's fans on the slideshow page. It's here: The second edition of the Mile High Music Fest is underway, and our gaggle of writers and photogs are shvitzing their way around the grounds to bring you ongoing, as-close-to-live-as-my-fingers-allow coverage of Denver's biggest music festival. Check back throughout the weekend and on Monday, and get 140-character updates on Twitter. Gregory Alan Isakov, 11:15 a.m., Westword Tent Brian Landis Folkins What it was

  July 19, 2009

• Relive the Mile High Music Fest on YouTube

  Joe Tone If you missed the Mile High Music Fest -- and I did too, thanks to a wedding that was occurring simultaneously -- or if you were there, but were just so trashed your memories are hazy, you can relive it in glorious lo-fi, shaky-cam glory on YouTube. A quick search for "Mile High Music Fest" revealed around fifty videos uploaded today -- most of them of Tool's Saturday performance, especially ironic given their management's steadfast refusal to let us take pictures. There's also a heal

  July 20, 2009

• Can't go to Broncos training camp? Read Stefan Fatsis's A Few Seconds of Panic instead

  ​The Broncos start training camp today, and, sure, you could go watch. But unless you sneak into the locker room and hide behind Brandon Marshall's ego, going to camp won't give you even a hint of what life is really like for the Broncos. For that, you'll have to hit your favorite bookseller. Almost exactly three years ago today, the Broncos started the 2006 training camp with 3/4 an extra body in camp: Author Stefan Fatsis, who somehow had managed to persuade the team to let him go throu

  July 31, 2009

• Who will be the Broncos' Twitter MVP?

  ​As training camp gets into full swing and the football season looms ever closer, our beloved Denver Broncos are stuck in what's known as a "rebuilding" year. As a team in flux, the orange and blue face many questions. Can Josh McDaniels succeed as a head coach? Will Kyle Orton be able to execute McDaniels' offense? Will the defense improve enough to stop anybody? Why is Brandon Marshall such a punk ass? All legitimate questions, yet they pale before the one, big question of the year: Who

  August 7, 2009

• Take an end-of-the-summer road trip down Colorado, Denver's boulevard of dreams

  September 3, 2009

• Monolith 2009: The Ten Best Photos

  Joe Tone​ As the Guy Who Sits in the Media Tent and Updates Our Live Music Fest Coverage, there are two perks to my job: 1. Proximity to free food. 2. Opportunity to pick which photos we use in our slideshows and live-review blogs. Monolith, like Mile High before it, served up scores of photos that captured the weekend perfectly. Here are my Ten Favorite. Be sure to click the photos to enlarge them:

  September 15, 2009

• 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 David Axelrod, would serve as the editor of HuffPo Denver. And today, the site launched, complete with a welcome column by the younger Axelrod, plus a number of rather bland pieces by political heavy-hitt

  September 15, 2009

• Help wanted (and not for pot): Westword seeks outdoors writers

  A Flickr photo.​Westword.com is looking for mountain-addicted wordsmiths to help us tell the stories of Colorado's outdoor-sports scene. If you spend your weekends dodging lift lines, count Sniagrab as a national holiday, and -- here's the kicker -- can write as well as you board or bike, we want to hear from you. (And unlike that other job, you can't be high all the time). We're looking for year-round, part-time (a few hours a week) help from passionate, experienced freelancers who can b

  October 6, 2009

• From the week of October 22, 2009

  October 22, 2009

• From the week of October 29, 2009

  October 29, 2009

• Cafe Society: Week in review

  Sausage king​What you might have missed this week on Cafe Society while you were counting the minutes to Zolo Southwestern Grill's 105 days of tequila. While we locals aren't pleased that the Rockies blew another season of baseball, we understand that not everyone is a fan of the purple and black (or any other Denver sports team color scheme, for that matter), which is why our listage of Denver's best bars at which to root for your favorite sports team should make all you Denver sports

  October 30, 2009

• From open to close at one of Denver's best dives: The Nob Hill

  November 5, 2009