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Five toys for girls that need a gender makeover

Hasbro's Easy-Bake Ovens are getting a masculine makeover fifty years after the toy was introduced, thanks to a market-savvy thirteen-year-old girl in New Jersey who wanted to buy her little brother one as a gift -- and found only purple and pink ovens. Her campaign got a media-smooch after a handfu ... More >>

Your vote doesn't matter: Why there are better things to do on election day

Editor's note: Election day is almost here, and if you haven't voted early, you have decisions ahead of you -- including whether to vote at all, according to Westword contributor Josiah Hesse. Disagree? Chris Utterback takes the opposite position in "Your vote matters: Why you should head to the pol ... More >>

Saturday Night Live's post-debate MSNBC satire almost as funny as the real thing

Denver blog posts add up. At People's Press Collective, the Intermittent Blogger shares SNL's hilarious evisceration of MSNBC's Denver debate coverage. Colorado Pols: A University of Denver poll shows Obama still leading Romney in Colorado, but not by as much as earlier. Colorado Peak Politics: W ... More >>

Videos: Rachel Maddow, MSNBC make Mike Coffman birther star

Yesterday, we recapped how Rachel Maddow had made Mike Coffman a national laughingstock over recent birther comments and his bizarre interview with 9News' Kyle Clark, when he said he stood by his statement that he misspoke and he apologized five times in a row. Now, plenty of Maddow's MSNBC colleagu ... More >>

Video: Rachel Maddow wonders if Rick Santorum win in Colorado matters

The headlines say that Rick Santorum, of all people, was the big winner yesterday among wannabe Republican presidential nominees thanks to victories in the Colorado and Minnesota caucuses and the Missouri primary. But his prize didn't come in delegates, since none were at stake in any of the contest ... More >>

State of the Union: Five drinking games to get you through it

With Denver Mayor Michael Hancock in Washington last week and with the president scheduled to be in Denver this Thursday, we're in a political mindset. And as anyone who's seen the recent GOP debates can attest, political spectating often drives one to drink. In that spirit, here are five drinking g ... More >>

Emily Sirota on MSNBC to talk about "America's Wildest School Board Race" (VIDEO)

Emily Sirota.​Last night, MSNBC's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell devoted a hefty five-minute segment (on view below) to the Denver school board race and candidate Emily Sirota. Why? O'Donnell followed an article from The Nation that called the contest the wackiest in the country. But it ... More >>

Rachel Maddow applauds Denver's Newmont Mining, Monday's stock market champ (VIDEO)

Video below.​Why did proud progressive Rachel Maddow pay a slow-clap tribute to, of all companies, Denver-based Newmont Mining on her MSNBC show last night? Because, in a day of epic losses on Wall Street following Standard & Poor's U.S. credit downgrade, Newmont stood out as the rare non-los ... More >>

Guess where I'm eating?

Lori Midson​MSNBC's Douglas A. McIntyre recently wrote that the double-dip recession has arrived, a pronouncement that has its share of skeptics (and others who wonder if we ever recovered from the first recession), but double-dip recession or not, there's nothing wrong with pinching pennies, ... More >>

There is No Poop Fairy pitch named Best New Thing in the World by Rachel Maddow (VIDEO)

Video below.​Last night, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow named a press release the Best New Thing in the World -- but not just any press release. An amazing press release. There's nothing ordinary about "There is No Poop Fairy," a Jefferson County Sheriff's Office campaign to get people to clean up aft ... More >>

Rachel Maddow showcases CO author Stephen Singular, abortion doctor George Tiller's murder

Stephen Singular.​MSNBC's Rachel Maddow has been very kind to Colorado authors of late. On the same March program in which she tried to teach America how to say the the word "Colorado," she spotlighted David Sirota's Back to Our Future. And earlier this week, she offered an astonishing fifteen ... More >>

Denver the guilty dog giving Denver the city a bad name? (VIDEO)

Video below.​Search for recent funny Denver videos on YouTube right now and you'll be taken directly to the tail -- tale, that is -- of Denver the dog, who doesn't exactly look innocent when he's asked if he got into the cat treats. Turns out Denver is actually from Maryland -- so is this a ca ... More >>

Reader: The person who told Rachel Maddow how to pronounce "Colorado" was wrong

Maddow.​In a post yesterday, we shared a clip of MSNBC's Rachel Maddow in which a viewer argued that "Colorado" should be pronounced "colo-RAD-o," not "colo-ROD-o," which, in her opinion, makes the speaker sound snobby. We gave this guideline a "Hell, yeah" -- but one of our reader's didn't.

Rachel Maddow: MSNBC host teaches America how to pronounce "Colorado" (VIDEO)

Rachel Maddow.​Last night, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow tackled common names of people and places that tend to be mispronounced, at least according to locals -- and praise be that the segment attempts to set America straight on the proper way to say "Colorado." As one viewer writes, "we say it colo R ... More >>

Dolls in thigh-highs and ponies with purses: MSNBC says toys are getting too sexy. And?

Is this horse wearing a bra?​Monday, MSNBC (we know, we might as well be reading Reader's Digest) ran a piece on sexualized kid's toys targeting, you guessed it, young girls. It seems that the media outlet missed the Bratz uproar over a half-decade ago, and decided it was time to cause a paren ... More >>

Glenn Beck might move to Colorado if Tom Tancredo elected governor (VIDEO)

Glenn Beck.​While Tom Tancredo's campaign thinks the Denver Post is trying to drag John Hickenlooper's carcass over the finish line in the guv race, Tanc has honor rally organizer Glenn Beck in his corner. On his radio show, Beck recently declared that if Tancredo was elected, he might move to ... More >>

Colorado Rockies aren't dead yet in NL West, but even Ubaldo Jimenez is on life support

Ubaldo Jimenez.​Want three Denver blog posts? Got 'em for you. Purple Row's Russ Oates has the sad task of recapping the Rockies' second loss to the Diamondbacks in a row. Eeesh. Colorado Pols notes that Ken Buck was MSNBC personality Keith Olbermann's second worst person in the world the ot ... More >>

Denver Blogs: At least Eddie Royal's not a freakin' diva

Eddie Royal's so fast that cameras can't even focus on him.​Welcome to Denver Blogs. Take a load off and read a while. Mile High Report's Emmet Smith sees Eddie Royal's sunny side, despite his sophomore slump. For one thing, he'll probably be around next year, unlike a guy who spells his name ... More >>

MSNBC's prison-reality show and the death of a pedophile

Ronald Ferguson, 50, beaten to death at Territorial prison last week. ​Lockup, MSNBC's voyeuristic peek at life inside America's nastiest prisons, launched its new season Sunday night with some cell floodings and tough talk by thick-necked inmates at Colorado's own Limon Correctional Facility. ... More >>

Third grade teacher was totally wrong: Two snowflakes are exactly alike

​As we anxiously wait for the winter snow, it's important to remember the building block of a blizzard -- the humble snowflake -- is not necessarily a unique individual.Scientists now believe that of the million billion cubic feet of snow that annually falls on the planet, some might well be ident ... More >>

CU Obama basher Zach Lahn gets shut down on MSNBC

Zach Lahn on MSNBC.​Since asking the most confrontational question at President Barack Obama's healthcare town hall in Grand Junction on Saturday, ultra-conservative CU student Zach Lahn has extended his face time by going on a tour of cable-news talking-head broadcasts. Predictably, Fox News ... More >>

The Westword.com blog shortcut, August 20 edition

"Should we beat you up now, or beat you up later?"​It's a different kind of boxing day. Today in Cafe Society: • The 10 worst lunch boxes ever -- and what they say about the kids who carried them. • Tequila and beer tasting tonight at the Wynkoop Brewery. • Mysteries of Sheehan's Desk: ... More >>

Another Coloradan who won't be going to D.C.

When I ran into Daniel Young on New Year's Day, it sounded like the chef who'd brought us Diced Onions (its former home at 609 Corona Street is now occupied by Table 6), ran the Denver Press Club kitchen and also worked for Carmelo Anthony was still in the running to become the new White House execu ... More >>

Colorado takes center stage during Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s MSNBC appearance

Elvis 4 Obama

MSNBC's Pat Buchanan in time out at the DNC

MSNBC at the DNC: all aboard for goofiness

MSNBC's Pat Buchanan in time out at the DNC

MSNBC versus the blue elephant at the DNC

MSNBC versus the blue elephant at the DNC

Elvis 4 Obama

Street scenes from the DNC

Shotgun Willie's and the DNC: A match made in Bill Clinton's heaven

Elitch Gardens: A Celebration with Altitude brings out the attitude

Spammers move from death to comedy

The Broncos, the New Life Church and Arvada Shootings, and Local TV Priorities

Rights and Wrongs

Defining HD

Tom Tancredo's Flop Sweat

Free at Last

Her Meter's Running

More Messages: There's Got to Be a Morning After

More Messages: Incredible Feat

Canceled

The curtain falls on the latest JonBenét revival.

More Messages: Seems Like Old Times

Off Limits

TV or not TV

The Plane Truth

How did bogus information about a Boulder crash wind up going national?

Rescue 9/11

This year, a handful of shows provided the healing power of laughter.

Tale of the Tapes

The Columbine video has a good beat and you can dance to it.

Two Days in the Death of JonBenét

A journal of the media madness sparked by the JonBenét grand jury.