Dinger must go. The most embarrassing mascot in the major leagues is a fossil on the field. Dinger should be as dead as a dodo. Last week, as the Colorado Rockies clinched their place in the playoffs by beating the Padres, a sister who’d been watching the game in New…
“Duck, Duck, Noose,” Adam Cayton-Holland, September 27 The Duck Stops Here Holy lord, that commentary was genius. It was missing just one thing: the tears of one Scott D. Clark, recently unemployed federal prison inmate, to make it even funnier. I am a teacher and decided to share it with my after-school poetry…
We here at Home Sweet Home have a question for you: Who do you think you are? Obviously, you know who you are, but where does a person like you get off? You are more than welcome to come into Home Sweet Home and ask for an interview, and we…
In 1984, Westword published its first Best of Denver issue, a celebration of the city that touted everything from the Best Radio Station (KBCO, then six years old) to the Best Gallery Openings (Pirate Contemporary Art Oasis, still going strong on Navajo Street despite plenty of competition from other now-booming…
The October 11 profile of Dallas Taylor, lead singer of Maylene and the Sons of Disaster (seen above in a graphic photo from the new Sons’ CD II), was drawn from the following interview. It’s a freewheeling and revealing look at a man who believes that bloody tales of mayhem…
The October 11 Message column details the resolution of CSU v. McSwane, in which the Colorado State University board of student communications chose to formally admonish David McSwane, the student editor of the Rocky Mountain Collegian, the campus newspaper, for authorizing and endorsing a September 21 editorial consisting of the…
Eric Shiveley is quite the character. Several years ago, a week or so after he’d appeared in my column with a brief one-line mention of how I’d dug his music and everything he’d had a hand in producing at that point, he sent me a note (which I still have…
I was never very good at math, so it’s no surprise that there’s a computation glitch in my October 9 blog about the impending departure of Denver Post columnist Diane Carman. Luckily, Post veteran Bob Ewegen is helping me to sort it out. Here’s the e-mail Ewegen sent my way,…
Okay, we’re not quite as quick as Annie Zaleski, whose early morning review of the new Radiohead recording In Rainbows can be found here. But below, find a couple of additional takes from two regular Backbeat Online contributors, Sean Cronin and yours truly. The rules were simple: Jot down your…
In the October 4 Bite Me, I asked for suggestions for a new, true Denver omelet. The best recipe so far comes from my friend Stephen Crout, a champion gastronaut of the first order, who’s clearly given the matter some thought. He also reminded me that the prep and service…
In the October 4 Bite Me, I asked for suggestions for a new, true Denver omelet. The best recipe so far comes from my friend Stephen Crout, a champion gastronaut of the first order, who’s clearly given the matter some thought. He also reminded me that the prep and service…
You know, Radiohead, I was just about to go to sleep when I checked my email one last time. And lo and behold, the download code for your new CD, In Rainbows, popped up in my inbox. *sigh* I didn’t need sleep anyway. Since the rest of the blogosphere is…
Day One Day Two Day Three Day Four Day Five Everyone who visits Cuba tells all of their inquiring friends and family the same thing, that the country seems to be trapped in the 1950s, which is the last time most of the buildings had fresh paint. Most of the…
I am a sports fan. I am not one of those girls who throws on a baseball hat who can’t name any of the players on her “favorite” team. I understand the sports “fashion” draw. When attending a Broncos game, I have painted my face, stomach and even worn a…
This fine specimen of Puma concolor posed for a portrait around mid-afternoon last Tuesday on the Shadow Canyon south trail, just a few miles south of Boulder. The photographer is Denver Public Library staffer Rob Jackson, who explains that the mountain lion was kind enough not to snack on his…
PR firms and lobbyist groups are expected to be able to morph their political or legal arguments into campaigns that will best advocate for a given client. But two separate controversies dealing with the city’s view plane ordinance this year have awkwardly placed Denver’s most powerful public policy consultancy on…
Gito Gito Hustler is as fun to say as the band is fun to watch. Check this slide show from their Sunday, October 7 show at Benders…
I’m home from work today. Sick. Sick as a dog that’s sick. (See how lame that simile was? Yeah, that’s how sick I am.) Seriously, back up from your screen, so I don’t include you in my circle of contagion. Thanks. So what else is there to do when you’re…
Plenty of veteran scribes have left the Denver Post during the past year or so — but the impending departure of columnist Diane Carman, which staffers learned about on the afternoon of October 8, may be the most surprising to date. Why? Earlier this year, the Post announced a buyout…
Day One Day Two Day Three Day Four After much indecisiveness, Marcos and I decided to leave Havana for a few more days. But we’d already missed both buses for the day, so we had to cough up about $40 a piece to take a taxi for a three-hour ride…
Like me, you could just say fuck it and eat the pound of bacon guilt-free, figuring there’s also a chance that you’ll get hit by a bus out in front of the new Oceanaire Seafood Room and, if you do, you’ll at least die with a sated smile of your…
Like me, you could just say fuck it and eat the pound of bacon guilt-free, figuring there’s also a chance that you’ll get hit by a bus out in front of the new Oceanaire Seafood Room and, if you do, you’ll at least die with a sated smile of your…
