Subject: State Capitol

• Ka-Ching!

  May 3, 2006

• More Messages: Lost in the Stream

  May 1, 2006

• Fashion for the People!

  March 19, 2009

• Capitalizing on Capitol History Tees

  June 5, 2008

• Regas Christou's City Hall looks a little too stately

  Regas Christou puts a dome on it. If he can get past the liquor license board on December 3, nightclub magnate Regas Christou is hoping City Hall , his new outdoor venue at 1144 Broadway, will serve a more elite, upper-crust crowd than the grind-happy scenesters who frequent his other clubs nearby. But let's hope the lawyers, politicos and high-society folk will be too busy slamming Chardonnay to notice that the logo for City Hall features the silhouette of the State Capitol dome – not D

  November 19, 2008

• Wake-Up Call: The week ahead, November 24-30

  It's the economy, stupid. While chairmen of the Big Three auto-makers jetted by private plane to Washington, D.C., looking for a handout last week, hundreds of out-of-work Coloradans lined up before each prospective employer at job fairs across the state last Thursday. And on Saturday, 40,000 people descended on a Weld County field to glean the last of a harvest. Which all explains why Colorado Senate President Peter Groff and Speaker-designee Terrance Carroll aren't waiting for the next legisl

  November 24, 2008

• Dianne Reeves to sing national anthem at Capitol on Wednesday morning

  Just received word that Diane Reeves, a Denver native and four-time Grammy Award-winning jazz vocalist, is slated to open the Colorado Senate's 67th general assembly. Tomorrow morning at 10 a.m., Reeves, a George Washington High School and University of Colorado alumna, will join Senate president Peter Groff and his colleagues at the State Capitol, where she'll sing the national anthem. No word on whether Groff and his associates briefed Reeves in advance in an effort to avoid any Rene Marie-esq

  January 6, 2009

• Letters to the Editor

  February 8, 2001

• Best Power Lunch

  March 29, 2001

• Best Moonlight Ride

  March 29, 2001

• Best Appearance by a Cat at the Colorado Legislature

  April 4, 2002

• Best Appearance by a Minister Stalking Miss America

  April 4, 2002

• Best Elevator Button in the State Capitol

  April 4, 2002

• Best Place to Watch Drug Deals on Your Lunch Hour

  April 4, 2002

• Circuit Media's Don Knox sees capitol press room as ethical conflict

  Don Knox (pictured), the former Rocky Mountain News and Denver Post business editor who now runs Circuit Media, isn't happy about how the media is handled at Colorado's State Capitol -- and one area of concern for him is the press room, which is provided at no charge to reporters from credentialed news agencies. In his view, that's ethically questionable. "I think actually accepting something of value from the very entity you cover is problematic," he says. With that in mind, Knox has asked f

  February 5, 2009

• Jon Caldara on today's Barack Obama protest

  In addition to buying a full-page ad needling President Barack Obama, who's in town today to sign a $787 billion economic-stimulus bill, Colorado Republican Party chairman Dick Wadhams is also taking part in a protest at the Colorado State Capitol co-starring a number of big names in local conservative circles: Jim Pfaff, state director of Americans for Prosperity; State Senator Josh Penry; Fox News contributor Michelle Malkin, who relocated to Colorado Springs earlier this year (more about th

  February 17, 2009

• Colorado conservatives' porkiest anti-stimulus protest ever

  Nate the pig takes a stand at the State Capitol! Or, he searches for food. Either way. (And yes, that's conservative Fox News-er Michelle Malkin in the background, taking a photo with her cell phone.) There were plenty of pork jokes -- and about 300 people -- at today's "Barack Obama: You Don't Know Stimulus" rally on the steps of the State Capitol. The packed demonstration, the details of which were explained in the earlier blog "Jon Caldara on Today's Barack Obama Protest," was organized by l

  February 17, 2009

• Denverite to Obama: Hope you don't fuck it up

  About a week after Barack Obama was elected, conservative Denverite Dave Griebling set in motion a T-shirt idea that he says had been percolating since last August's Democratic National Convention. Riffing off Shepard Fairey's famous HOPE design, Griebling came up with his own catchy slogan: HOPE You Don't Fuck It Up. Griebling's design copies Fairey's red-and-blue template but uses a slightly different photo of Obama, one in which he looks a bit arrogant. But the 37-year-old, who does sales

  February 18, 2009

• Enough about the "pork" -- where did Malkin get the pig?

  And we're not talking Jon Caldara.FoxNews contributor Michelle Malkin is now an unlikely resident of Colorado Springs -- not exactly the state's hot spot for barbecue. So where did she get the whole roasted pig (and rolls) that she brought to the State Capitol yesterday for Caldara and company's "no more pork" anti-stimulus rally?Enquiring -- and hungry -- minds want to know.For the record, Barack Obama's entourage at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science was served chicken piccata and squas

  February 18, 2009

• More from yesterday's State Capitol Obama protest: Michelle Malkin with "Swastika Guy"

  The photos captured by Melanie Asmar for "Colorado Conservatives' Porkiest Anti-Stimulus Protest Ever," a blog about a State Capitol rally yesterday, were plenty weird -- but as a commenter to that post pointed out, they were nowhere as jaw-slackening as the image above, captured by ProgressNow Colorado and initially published on this page of the Daily Kos. The so-called "Swastika Guy" seen posing with beaming Fox News commentator Michelle Malkin also popped up in Channel 31's coverage of the

  February 18, 2009

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, February 18 edition

  Devandra Banhart. The blogsophere never stops, does it? Today in Backbeat Online: • Ten bands we'd watch on TV. • Reviews of new releases by Bruce Springsteen, Charlie Louvin, John Shannon. • See Slipknot free courtesy of FashioNation. • Rowboat, row me to my shore. • The Fray covers... uh, Kanye West? • Leftover Salmon's Bill McKay will not be charged. Today in Cafe Society: • Free bread from Panera Bread. • Enough about the "pork" -- where did Malkin get the pig? • A Bould

  February 18, 2009

• The Week Ahead: No storybook endings

  Now that we won't be spending the week buying our Birdman hair gel and getting our support-the-Nuggets tats, it's time to get back to reality. And there's plenty of that. Today marks the start of Denver's "Home Renovation Bonanza," a two-week period in which homeowners and licensed contractors can get remodeling/repair project permits free from the city, saving $20; find more details at www.denvergov.org. Sorry, you don't get to skip the paperwork or the wait at the Wellington E. Webb Buildin

  June 1, 2009

• The astounding adventures of the Wall Creeper, Colorado's own superhero

  March 12, 2009

• KOA's Colorado Morning News letting its bias show in Tea Party coverage

  Today's tax-day Tea Party protests are predictably hypocritical: I don't seem to remember any conservative talk-show hosts leading State Capitol rallies when the George Bush administration pushed through the free-spending Troubled Asset Relief Program just a few short months ago. Still, the presence of folks like KHOW's Peter Boyles, who's on the scene at this writing, and KOA's Jon Caldara and Bob Newman, both scheduled to speak at the noon hour, violates no journalistic tenets that I can see

  April 15, 2009

• Watching the Sunset

  A look at auto-insurance legislation in Colorado.

  July 12, 2001

• Blocks Party

  May 29, 2008

• Mile With Style

  May 29, 2008

• Purple Haze

  While the State Capitol glows, state residents glower over their Xcel bills.

  January 12, 2006

• Peel Rubber

  Longmont breaks out the bikes for winter.

  November 17, 2005

• Take Your Best Shot

  Throwing a few back for Katrina relief.

  September 22, 2005

• What's So Funny

  May 19, 2005

• What's So Funny

  May 12, 2005

• Off Limits

  The yolk's on us

  November 11, 2004

• Off Limits

  Double duty

  April 15, 2004

• High Noon

  When it's springtime in the Rockies . . .

  April 1, 2004

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  September 18, 2003

• Up in the Air

  Juggling Convention tosses fun around

  August 14, 2003

• Summer in the City

  Shopping around for metro Denver's top ten attractions for tourists -- and locals.

  June 12, 2003

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  March 20, 2003

• Edifice Complex

  The new Webb Building gets a mixed review.

  October 31, 2002

• City Haul

  All you ever wanted to know about the Denver City and County Building.

  May 31, 2001

• THRILLS

  January 10, 1996

• I AM NOT A CAMERATHEY'RE WATCHING YOU AT THE CAPITOL--OR ARE THEY?

  October 25, 1995

• FOOD & DRINK

  June 29, 1994

• YouTubers ratchet up the guilt on John Elway, other Denver celebs over child soldiers

  On April 25, InvisibleChildren.com is staging events in 100 cities to bring attention to the abduction and forced recruitment of child soldiers -- an unspeakably cruel practice that's all too common in many parts of the world. In Denver, participants will gather at the main gate of Coors Field prior to "abducting" themselves down Broadway, past the State Capitol. They'll eventually wind up at the Pavilion at Cheesman Park, "where we will wait to be rescued" -- and they want celebrities to be s

  April 15, 2009

• Wake Up Call: The week ahead -- when worse comes to verse

  Before we were panicked about swine flu and twisted by torture-memo leaks, we were terrified by the Devil Horse, Luis Jimenez's killer sculpture that stands guard outside Denver International Airport, its red eyes shooting deadly lasers at unsuspecting passersby. Or are those glowing orbs actually illuminating this town's deep well of creativity? Because just three short months ago, when realtor Rachel Hultin started a Facebook page for horse haters, she asked them to write not just screeds, b

  April 27, 2009

• Tornado picked wrong day to suck up politicians

  Our recent rash of severe weather included the funnel cloud seen in the video above, which seemed to hover directly over the State Capitol building yesterday. "Too bad it didn't touch down," writes the YouTuber who captured these images. "Could have been a crazy place for a tornado." True -- but would any of us have enjoyed being struck by a flying legislator?

  June 15, 2009

• Happy Birthday to Colorado and its canny State Capitol

  State of ColoradoYummy!​ Happy Birthday Colorado. You are 133, and frankly, you are looking a little worse for wear. But that's okay because we're celebrating you anyway on Colorado Day. Although Colorado officially became a state on August 1, 1876, it technically honors that day on the first Monday of every August. This year, Governor Bill Ritter has made it free for anyone to visit a state park today -- which might be worth doing considering the fact that Ritter's administration, faced

  August 3, 2009

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, August 3 edition

  Ballin'.​Meat your maker. Today in Cafe Society: • Maggiano's is on a roll with winning meatball, winning two-fer deal. • Milking It: Kellogg's Raisin Bran Extra! • The Capital Grille kicks off six-week wine tasting event. • Video: Live ramblings from Jason Sheehan at the Denver Press Club. • Guess where I'm eating? • Watercourse owners have a new project in the works -- and on the water. • Today's three square deals: Pho, Mexican suds and a fresh catch. • Ask the Critic:

  August 3, 2009

• On the Road Again

  October 15, 2009