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Where were all the prostitutes at the DNC?

By Joe Tone
Sep 2, 2008

"I wish I'd been hooking in Denver for the DNC." Right now, everyone is hard at work dissecting the various successes and failures of the DNC. They're talking about the dearth of cabs, the profusion of really ugly T-shirts for sale, and who ate what and where and when. Me?...
Busting Cindy Adams' balls, and other WTF moments from the Democratic National Convention

By Joe Tone
Aug 29, 2008

We awoke this morning and wouldn't you know it: The stench has lifted. You know, that smell that hung heavily all week -- that subtle mix of patriotism (the proud delegates) and patchouli (the street whores), with a touch of bad-ass (Obama) and a slight whiff of bullshit (still Obama)...
The Music of the Democratic National Convention

By Joe Tone
Aug 29, 2008

Music ruled Denver this week, from Saturday's Rock the Bells show to Thursday night at Invesco. Here are some of our favorite performances -- also known as the ones we managed to get into...
Local artists’ Boom truck has a blast during DNC

By Joel Warner
Aug 29, 2008

Lauri Lynnx Murphy, Rodney Wallace and Brian Robertson go Boom. The key to grabbing a bit of the spotlight during the convention is to ride on the VIPs’ coattails, as anyone who’s crashed a party or two can attest. Turns out local contemporary artists are using the same strategy to...
Live Review: Nada Surf, Cold War Kids, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Silversun Pickups, at the Manifest Hope Art Gallery

By Joe Tone
Aug 28, 2008

Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah. No, seriously, do it! Nada Surf, Cold War Kids, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Silversun Pickups Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008 Manifest Hope Art Gallery Better than: Hanging out in the industrial stretches of north Denver when the DNC is not in town. By 6...
Mad for Mad Men at the DNC

By Joe Tone
Aug 28, 2008

Smokin' hot stars Jon Hamm and John Slattery in Mad Men and with Mayor John Hickenlooper at the Pepsi Center. I'd been getting kind of cranky about all the celebrity hype surrounding the Democratic National Convention. Where were the big parties? a radio producer wanted to know. The only party...
Does the Democratic National Convention make you feel like roadkill?

By Joe Tone
Aug 28, 2008

The DNC is smashing. I first saw the remains of this unfortunate lil' feller as I moved past the first security checkpoint outside the Pepsi Center early on Tuesday morning -- and when I headed toward the arena on Wednesday after five p.m., he was still there. Way to go,...
DNC crowds overwhelm 16th Street Mall shuttles

By Joe Tone
Aug 28, 2008

The Rocky Mountain News' front-page headline described the mobs that have descended on the 16th Street Mall as a "hundred-year flood of humanity," and that's about right. How packed with people is the area? Yesterday, I walked from Westword's offices, at approximately 10th and Broadway, to the mall with the...
Shut out of the DNC Vanity Affair party -- again

By Joe Tone
Aug 28, 2008

Hello, you must be going. When we stopped by the visitor's bureau booth in Pavilion 3 outside the Pepsi Center yesterday -- chips, beer and hits of oxygen! -- the conversation turned to an e-mail that several Denver bold names had received that day, a painful slap in the face...
A big can of whoopee at the Pepsi Center

By Patricia Calhoun
Aug 28, 2008

Jesus, why didn’t I think of this sooner? I mean, I know those floor passes are hard to get, but still… Thanks to my anonymous poster from gayzetteblog.com for the heads up. A quick scan of the craigslist personals proves that this isn’t the only guy looking to get a...
Bellying up to the BarackBar

By Patricia Calhoun
Aug 27, 2008

Still haven’t managed to wrangle yourself a floor pass for the Pepsi Center? Then the next best place for celebrity spotting is turning out to be Jesse Morreale’s Rockbar, renamed Barackbar for the festivities. (It’s located at 3015 East Colfax Avenue, on the ground floor of the All-Inn Hotel). Last...
Live Blog: Tent State University Music Festival to End the War

By Joe Tone
Aug 27, 2008

UPDATES BELOW: With photos from Rage and the Flobots. Oh yeah, and the cops have the place surrounded. It's just after 11 a.m. and things are just getting underway at the Denver Coliseum. State Radio just took the stage and is in the midst of playing an energetic set in...
Shepard Fairey’s Manifest Hope camps out at Andenken Gallery

By Patricia Calhoun
Aug 27, 2008

A lot’s been said, here and everywhere, about Democratic National Convention protests, parties and politics. But in the meantime, who’s minding the art? Never mind the Denver Office of Cultural Affairs’s Dialog:City offerings that have been unfolding around town since Monday, or the dozens of DNC-inspired shows at local galleries:...
Limelight shines on Denver pedicabs

By Joel Warner
Aug 27, 2008

Steve Meyer. Anyone who’s moseyed around downtown the past few days has surely noticed Denver’s turned into a spoke-and-handlebar town. Not only are the Freewheelin free bikes turning the streets into a sea of green, but Denver’s many pedicabs are out in force day and night. And in the heat...
Live Review: Willie Nelson with Jerry Jeff Walker and Jakob Dylan at Red Rocks

By Joe Tone
Aug 27, 2008

Photo by Eric Syl Gruneisen Willie Nelson & Family with Jerry Jeff Walker and Jakob Dylan Tuesday, August 26, 2008 Red Rocks Amphitheater Better Than: Sitting inside watching the Hillary Clinton speech. It was a gorgeous night at Red Rocks when Jakob Dylan and his three band members took the...
DNC Day 2, in pictures

By Joe Tone
Aug 27, 2008

Slide show...
Wanna get into ritzy DNC parties? Be paparazzi

By Joel Warner
Aug 27, 2008

Looking to embarrass celebs? Come right in. Turns out all you have to do to get into the glitziest parties in town is to be one of the sleaziest folks around. Flush with democratic fervor, a bunch of us attempted to exercise our God-given right to get into parties we...
Live Review: Etown's DNC show with James Taylor, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Ani DiFranco, Tom Morello and Irma Thomas

By Joe Tone
Aug 27, 2008

Etown DNC Show with James Taylor, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Ani DiFranco, Tom Morello and Irma Thomas Tuesday, August 26, 2008 Temple Buell Theater Etown founders Nick and Helen Forster have hosted some stellar shows throughout the radio program’s seventeen-year history, but the king of them all may have been...
Soledad O'Brien needs reminding sometimes

By Michael Roberts
Aug 27, 2008

Soledad O'Brien. Everyone knows CNN's Soledad O'Brien -- including, presumably, Soledad O'Brien. Nevertheless, technicians at the network apparently want to be certain her identity doesn't occasionally slip her mind. During a walk-through of the Pepsi Center on Tuesday morning, I saw three CNN monitors in different parts of the arena...
Denver’s Freewheelin Bikes: Best Freebie Ever

By Joel Warner
Aug 26, 2008

Bike. Free. Denver right now is essentially one big schwag bag. Everywhere you go, everyone’s giving stuff away: smoothies, condoms, booze, morals, you name it. The best freebie of all, however, has to be the Freewheelin program that has 1,000 bikes stationed around town for free public use. Yes, the...

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