Rocky Mountain News

Penny Parker, other Rocky Mountain News survivors: What did they do after love was gone?

It's been four years since the Rocky Mountain News closed just shy of its 150th birthday. What's happened to folks at the paper since then, and where are they now? That's the subject of "After the Love Is Gone -- Following the Rocky Road," a discussion today featuring the likes of longtime columnist ... More >>

Colorado Cannabis Time Capsule, 1934: "Marijuana Growing Wild..."

In doing research for our feature on the history of cannabis in Colorado, we came across some amazing old news stories from local papers about marijuana arrests and more. We'll share the most memorable of them in our quasi-regular feature, Colorado Cannabis Time Capsule. Today's item, from December ... More >>

Colorado Cannabis Time Capsule, 1937: "A growing social menace"

In doing research for our feature on the history of cannabis in Colorado, we came across some amazing old news stories from local papers about marijuana arrests and more. We'll share the most memorable of them in our quasi-regular feature, Colorado Cannabis Time Capsule. Today's item, from August 8 ... More >>

Tyler Despres of Science Partner on how a really good melody should be like a nursery rhyme

Science Partner had its origins as a solo side project of Tyler Despres of Dualistics. When that band split up due to half the band moving out of state for work and the like, Science Partner became Despres main creative focus. The early shows may have been more acoustic affairs, but last year, by th ... More >>

Science Fiction Land could have been Aurora's biggest tourist trap, if its backers weren't crooks

Tomorrow, the Colorado Economic Development Commission will hold its first public hearing on the six projects vying for big-bucks sales-tax rebates under the state's Regional Tourism Act. They include a 1,500-room hotel and conference center in Aurora. The hotel would be the city's biggest tourism d ... More >>

Denver Press Club's Pen and Sword celebrates authors, hacks included

At tonight's inaugural Pen and Sword open house at the Denver Press Club, a turn-of-the-century treasure at 1330 Glenarm Place, thirteen club member-authors will offer "the stories behind the books" from 6 to 9 p.m. But the stories, and the night, won't end there. Stories rarely end that neatly.

9/11 ten years later: What would big stories in Denver have been if the world hadn't changed?

What happened to Ed?​The media coverage of the upcoming ten year anniversary of 9/11 has focused on the terrorist strikes and their aftermath. But what would the big stories in Denver have been if the attacks never happened? Look below at the lost top ten from the day before the tragedy, and ... More >>

Beer calendar for the week ahead: The Copper Kettle opens and the Wynkoop medicates

Copper Kettle Brewing​American Craft Beer Week starts in a little less than three weeks, but the nine (yes, nine!) breweries in Fort Collins have already banded together to brew a collaboration beer that celebrates the seven days that Congress dedicated to the quaffing of craft brew. C.B. & P ... More >>

Denver Post circulation press release and article: Can you tell the difference?

"Told you so."​The Denver Post isn't exactly known for writing about itself in hard-hitting fashion: Note its coverage of the bankruptcy filing by parent firm MediaNews Group's holding company, which attempted to bury the word "bankruptcy." As such, it's not especially surprising that the sam ... More >>

Up Close: The Tasting Cafe

​Marty Meitus , former food editorat the Rocky Mountain News, writes this week about the Tasting Cafe, a pilot project she started that gives low-income children -- and their parents -- a taste of healthy, economical foods. See more photos by Ellen Jaskol on the slideshow page.

The best thing on Arby's menu? Chris "Birdman" Andersen cartoon glasses

​ There's something awesome at Arby's. And it's not the Arby-Q sandwich, believe it or not. It's a set of three collectible Chris "Birdman" Andersen cartoon glasses, which sell for $2.49 each if you don't order a $5.01 roast beef combo, and $1.89 if you do. The glasses are high-quality: They' ... More >>

Denver Blogs: The Nuggets lost to the Timberwolves? At home? Take that back, you lying bastard!

The Nuggets let Ryan Gomes go off. The shame...​Local blog-finding just got a lot easier. Denver Stiffs' Andrew Feinstein calls the Nuggets' home loss to the Timberwolves last night "unacceptable." And a few other choicer words. Over at Lakewood Edge, former Rocky Mountain News scribe Kevin ... More >>

Denver journos talk about saving the news

​"Saving the News: Denver and the Future of Journalism," which gets underway at 6:30 p.m. tonight at the Colorado History Museum, 1300 Broadway, takes place just over six months after the closure of the Rocky Mountain News, and speakers include former Rocky editor, publisher and president John ... More >>

Checking in on the Rocky Mountain Independent

​Today marks seven weeks since the launch of the Rocky Mountain Independent, a news website peopled mainly by Rocky Mountain News veterans who'd previously been involved with INDenver Times, an ambitious attempt to create an online news service that fell far short of initial subscriber targets ... More >>

Colorado Press Association gives former Rocky Mountain News staffers one last shot at contest glory

​Writers at the Denver Post had to figure they'd be walking away with the lion's share of honors at this year's Colorado Press Association awards. After all, the Rocky Mountain News, which tended to win more than its share of baubles in the large newspaper contest, regularly beating the Post a ... More >>

E.W. Scripps still mum on sale of Rocky Mountain News intellectual property

The front page of the final Rocky Mountain News.​A blog yesterday focused on complaints about the Rocky Mountain News website, which has been static since the paper's February shutdown. In that item, I mentioned that I'd contacted Tim King, spokesman for E.W. Scripps, the Rocky's longtime owne ... More >>

The Rocky Mountain News' zombiefied website

The cover of the final Rocky Mountain News print edition.​In a post today, Allan D. Mutter, a nationally respected press critics who shares his views on a blog dubbed Reflections of a Newsosaur, takes notice of the Rocky Mountain News website -- which not many other folks have done lately, and ... More >>

Wake-Up Call: Read all about it

​It's been a bad year for newspapers, with cities acorss the country losing important institutions like the Rocky Mountain News. But it's been a very good year for homeless newspapers, judging from the entries in the first annual North American Street Newspaper Association Newspaper Awards. I ... More >>

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 Associati ... More >>

Rocky Mountain News archives going to Denver Public Library

E.W. Scripps, the former parent company of the Rocky Mountain News, has just issued a press release confirming information that's been circulating for a few weeks: the archives of the tabloid, which died just shy of its 150th birthday, will be preserved by the Denver Public Library. In addition, o ... More >>

John Temple: We didn't wish death upon Dean Singleton

John Temple. It didn't take former Rocky Mountain News editor, publisher and president John Temple long to react to a startling assertion in 5280's intriguing account of the Rocky's death -- that execs at E.W. Scripps, the tabloid's owner, thought the paper might survive if MediaNews Group CEO and ... More >>

INDenver Times renegades plan Rocky Mountain Independent

David Milstead. Today's update about INDenver Times noted that many of the principals in the project, including former Rocky Mountain News business writer David Milstead, had struck off on their own on April 23 after INDT signed up only 3,000 subscribers (its goal was 50,000). In a conversation at ... More >>

Closing Rocky Mountain News hasn't solved problems at Scripps

Finances drove the decision by E.W. Scripps executives to shutter their largest newspaper, the Rocky Mountain News, in late February. However, it's clear from data released this morning that removing the tabloid from its books didn't suddenly make everything better. According to a Wall Street Jour ... More >>

Are former Rocky Mountain News subscribers abandoning the Denver Post?

A coupon that attempts to lure Rocky Mountain News fans to sign up with the Denver Post. The Denver Post has done some mighty fine work since it became the city's only major daily, as pointed out in today's blog about an impressive drunk-driving-stats package. But that doesn't mean every subscriber ... More >>

Friday's Rocky Mountain News will be the last

The Rocky reported its own demise on its Web site around noon today. It's official: Denver is a one-daily town. The Rocky Mountain News has announced that tomorrow's edition will be the last. From the Rocky's story: The Rocky Mountain News, less than two months away from its 150th anniversary, wil ... More >>

Country Fun

Have a bucking good time at this charity event.

Wake-Up Call: A pressing engagement

Jinx. Last month, the two dailies stopped arriving at my house. The last time I'd reupped my subscription, I hadn't been able to commit beyond six months -- I simply didn't think that both papers would be around that long. And in November, the end of one seemed so inevitable that I postponed re-up ... More >>

Today's depressing Rocky Mountain News memo: counseling assistance

Yesterday, staffers at the Rocky Mountain News received an e-mail from editor/publisher/president John Temple with an attached press release explaining why parent company E.W. Scripps had decided to put the paper on the block; read it in the blog "Rocky Mountain News Put Up For Sale." Today's foll ... More >>

Rocky Mountain News put up for sale

It's the sort of headline most media observers in this area have been anticipating for quite some time, but it's still a shock to see it in print: "Rocky Mountain News For Sale." The article, published moments ago on the Rocky's website, quotes from a press release in which Rich Boehne, president ... More >>

"Expanded fruiting" instead of holiday party at the Rocky Mountain News this year

Plenty of companies have canceled their 2008 Christmas parties in the face of our current economic downturn, including the Rocky Mountain News. The paper usually has a bash at Maggiano's -- but not this time around, as Rocky editor/publisher/president John Temple revealed in a recent internal e-mail ... More >>

Best of Westword Winners From 1987

Old News

Letters to the Editor

From the week of January 27, 2005

Best Addition to the Rocky Mountain News

The Stump

Best Correction in the Rocky Mountain News

Letters to the Editor

From the week of August 15, 2002

Best Daily Columnist

Mike Littwin
Rocky Mountain News

Best Evidence That Having Something to Live For Staves Off Death

Gene Amole
Rocky Mountain News

Best New Feature in a Denver Daily

"Talk Back to the Media"

Journey's End

The media outlets that helped Ocean Journey float aren't mentioning their roles now that it's sinking.

Best Insult of the Rocky Mountain News in the Denver Post

Written by Chuck Green

Best Development to Come Out of the News-Post Joint Operating Agreement

Comics

The Name Game

The "Denver" is gone from the Rocky Mountain News. What's next?

Winning Ways

Strange but True

Big Bang Theory

Off Limits

THE YEAR IN REVIEW

LETTERS

WESTWORD WINS