Subject: Michael Roberts

• Letters

  July 8, 1999

• The highway department was overprepared for bad weather -- and that's a good thing

  Last night, the local newscasts were filled with foreboding about a.m. nightmares today, due to a major snowstorm slated to hit the metro area after midnight. Turns out those predictions were premature: During my 23-minute commute this morning, which began at 5:51 a.m., I saw nary a flake. However, I did spot a snowplow driving down 6th Avenue, lights flashing. Wasted resources? Not in my view. In recent years, the biggest commuting catastrophes have come as a result of crews not being ready

  December 3, 2008

• Rumor confirmed: Blackout Pact to record followup to Hello Sailor. Really.

  Looks like the rumor first floated last week by my cohort Andy Thomas on Mile Hi-Fidelity is true. (Not that I ever doubted you for a minute, man.) The original members of the Blackout Pact are indeed reconvening to record a followup to their stellar 2005 Astro Magnetic debut, Hello Sailor. When the Blackout Pact unceremoniously imploded at the end of 2006 after a show in Vegas, the prospects of the guys playing together again seemed slim -- even slimmer when the members scattered across the glo

  December 16, 2008

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  July 17, 2003

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  August 28, 2003

• At the Rocky Mountain News' headquarters as word of its impending closure breaks

  Photo by Michael Roberts.The Denver Newspaper Agency building, with the Denver Post's logo prominently displayed. Around noon today, the lobby of the Denver Newspaper Agency building was populated mainly by reporters and photographers from other news organizations, hoping to get some info on the big news of the day: E.W. Scripps' announcement that the Rocky Mountain News' last edition would hit driveways and newsboxes tomorrow. Not that there was a lot of scoop to get. The primary representativ

  February 26, 2009

• Denver Post to add Rocky Mountain News voices

  Photo by Anthony Camera.Kevin Vaughan, a Rocky reporter who'll soon be writing for the Denver Post. Almost two months ago, Michael Roberts offered an all-star list of five Rocky Mountain News staffers that he suggested the Denver Post hire should the News shut down.Now, with the News's last day tomorrow, the Post has announced that it's adding a handful of News employees, and three of them were on Roberts's list: columnist Mike Littwin, workhorse reporter Lynn Bartels, and sports writer Dave Kr

  February 26, 2009

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  December 20, 2007

• Moovers and Shakers 2007

  Backbeat scribes sound off on their favorite local releases of the year.

  December 20, 2007

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  March 13, 2008

• Moovers and Shakers 2007

  Backbeat scribes sound off on their favorite local releases of the year.

  December 27, 2007

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  Keep those CDs a-coming.

  August 19, 1999

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  May 22, 1997

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  February 9, 1994

• Westword wins five AAN awards, proves paying off judges still works*

  Illustration by Craig Hoggatt. He didn't win anything, but he's got a killer beard.Michael Roberts' coverage of the Rocky's closure helped him nab an AAN award for media reporting. *Just kidding. Maybe. The degenerates at this humble (but glossy!) rag took home five awards at the recent Association of Alternative Newsweeklies annual conference in Tuscon, where it was decided for the 14th straight year that, yes, being free and having ads for massages and pot lawyers is still totally the way t

  June 29, 2009

• One year ago today at the DNC: Spike Lee just wants to eat his hot dog

  Crappy Razr photo by Michael RobertsSpike Lee, with relish.​This week marks the one-year anniversary of the Democratic National Convention, an event that made Denver the center of the media universe for several unforgettable days. To mark the occasion, we'll be offering selected flashbacks of Westword coverage. Today's entry: a Pepsi Center celebrity roundup. In the few minutes before Bill Clinton spoke at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday night, I was inching along the peri

  August 27, 2009

• Death-defying repair work at Denver Art Museum

  Photo by Michael RobertsCareful, guys. It's not a thrill ride.​ The Denver Art Museum, designed by Daniel Libeskind, is an architecturally striking building on any day. But lately, it's been even more eye-catching than usual due to a noteworthy visual element: crews of repairmen walking gingerly on its radically slanted roof in order to avoid shooting off the edge and creating a Jackson Pollock-like splatter piece on the sidewalk below. Since March, DAM has featured a display Westword's J

  September 1, 2009

• Furries race for the cure, too!

  Photo by Michael Roberts​Yesterday, the Race for the Cure took over the area near the Pepsi Center, with the total participants estimated at well over 50,000. The Race may be growing more commercial as time goes by, but it remains one of the most positive community events in Denver each year -- and one of the largest. Look for your friends and neighbors in our slideshow of highlights, and keep your eye out for a certain furry friend.

  October 5, 2009

• Anti-abortion zealots think Race For the Cure's about them

  Photo by Michael RobertsAnd the protests go on.​Each year, the positivity of Race For the Cure, the subject of a huge slideshow today (complete with a shot of a friendly furry!), is disrupted by anti-abortion protesters, who scream at walkers as if they're all guilty of committing womb homicide. Their hook: They claim that abortions increase the odds of a woman getting breast cancer. This year, as I was walking by, plenty of marchers were shouting back at the placard wavers -- all men, as

  October 5, 2009

• Renegade graffiti crew makes Capitol Hill hate peace

  Photo by Michael Roberts​ Give peace a chance? Not in much of Capitol Hill today. Over the weekend, a graffiti practitioner and/or crew with, presumably, a keen sense of irony, tossed up hastily scrawled peace signs on businesses, government buildings and even some private residences, much to the chagrin of those whose property was turned into an impromptu canvas. Last night, the story led Channel 7's late newscast, with one commentator who described herself as "a bleeding-heart liberal" (

  October 5, 2009