Our daily homage to local bloggage. Focus on the Family is spreading its hate in Maine. 5280’s on the case. Rep. Jared Polis is speaking out against the what he calls a “sweep of terror” being done on illegal immigrants, Colorado Independent reports. At HuffPo Denver, Erin Rosa says the…
Our daily round-up of local bloggage. Colorado Pols has an interesting little bit about Josh Penry’s sudden and quite convenient about-face on water projects. He seems to like them better when there are a bunch of water geeks hanging out. And so it begins: 60 percent of Mile High Report’s…
Our daily round up of local bloggage. Mile High Report is geeking out about tonight’s Broncos-Chargers game. As they should be. Betsy Markey’s defense of her congressional seat is shaping up to be one of the most expensive in the country. ColoradoPols breaks down the numbers. Colorado Independent rounds up…
This weekend, there was metal thrashing and apple bobbing at the Denver Creative Co-Op; Bombay chugging at DU; and a grand opening at Casselman’s. You can see photos of all of them at westword.com/slideshow. And if you’re more of the strongly worded type, jump to the Backbeat blog for dispatches…
The last of the week’s local-blog wrangling. Happy Friday, all. Senator Mark Udall on HuffPo Denver: “The time has come to end ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.'” If a Senate candidate (Ryan Frazier) announces he’s now a House candidate and there’s no one there to witness it, does it make any…
It wasn’t long after Balloon Boy’s balloon fell gently and empty to the ground that I sent out the above Tweet. Of course, in hindsight, those odds were way too high. And now we’re all left to figure out how to fill up another balloon, attach Balloon Boy’s dad by…
Our daily slog through the local blogosphere. Mile High Report breaks down, position by position, how the Broncos match up against the Chargers. Colorado Independent’s Joseph Boven chimes in on the Byers Library saga. A Denver Stiffs investigation has revealed that the Nuggets wore throwback uniforms zero times last year…
In case you haven’t noticed (and congratulations if you haven’t), Colorado has made quite the contribution to the life-sucking force that is reality television over the past several years, and things around here just keep getting more real. Louisville native Nicole Fox is channeling her crazy in the current cycle…
Our daily cruise through the Colorogosphere. At Colorado Independent, John Tomasic talks to Daniel Hayes about his so-called “impound initiatives,” part of Hayes’s crusade against illegal immigrants in Colorado. Critics think Hayes is a racist; Hayes thinks his critics are racists. On the Huffington Post’s Denver site, Alexia Parks reports…
In the early hours of New Year’s Day in 2002, Denver police arrived at a home in Congress Park after dispatchers received a call about an attempted suicide. But when they arrived, the front door was locked, and the man, Kurt Sonnefeld, either wouldn’t or couldn’t open the front door…
The end of baseball season is always a sad day, no matter when or how it ends. It means, among other things, that Saturday-afternoon errands will no longer be buoyed by the baseball on the car radio; that excuses to drink $9 drafts and yell at grown men are limited…
As part of our search for a marijuana-dispensary critic, we asked applicants to write in and tell us what marijuana means to them. In the coming weeks, we’ll publish some of our favorites, including this one, from a badass hippie girl from Manhattan…
Our daily gathering of local bloggage. On the Huffington Post’s local page, Jim Thomas makes the case for changing the name of Columbus Day. And unlike most of the things written on the topic, his take is reasonable and measured. Colorado Pols breaks down (in their Colorado Pol-y way) the…
On CBS last night, 60 Minutes added to the pile recent stories about brain damage being suffered by NFL football players. Among the story’s lead characters was former Colorado Buffalo Ted Johnson, who went on to star for the New England Patriots. Johnson’s post-career life has been marred by health…
The Used and the Almost played the Fillmore on Sunday. Photographer Aaron Thackeray (we call him the Awesome) was on hand. See his photos on the slideshow page…
I know, we couldn’t believe it either. But it happened — at least according to the slideshows on the slideshow page and the many concert reviews on the Backbeat blog…
When 20-year-old Leo Beitz visited an old friend in Boulder last weekend, they did what old friends do: Went out. Got drunk. Came home. Played video games. But at some point in the night, Beitz, for reasons that remain unclear, did some things old friends usually don’t do: Grabbed a…
If you happen to be a perpetually-stoned TV junkie who toggles between Idol and The Soup and enjoys the occasional Tank-from-Old-Scool-style streaking, tonight’s city council debate in Boulder is most definitely in your wheelhouse. As the Daily Camera reported this weekend, the debate, sponsored by New Era Colorado, will be…
OK, so the excessive fist pumping in the exact location of 47 camera men was a little odd, but other than that, let’s see … – He traded a sore-losing, sore-winning, sour-faced quarterback for one who is calm (and even jovial) under pressure, rarely makes mistakes and has an awesome…
As part of our search for a marijuana-dispensary critic, we asked applicants to write in and tell us what marijuana means to them. In the coming weeks, we’ll publish some of our favorites, including this one, from a guy not fond of the shift key…
Any day that includes a trip to Wal-Mart is bound to suck, low-low prices notwithstanding. But when it ends with getting your ass kicked by a guy in a wheelchair and then a trip to jail, it’s time to change your lucky socks…
As part of our search for a marijuana-dispensary critic, we asked applicants to write in and tell us what marijuana means to them. In the coming weeks, we’ll publish some of our favorites, including this one from a female college student…
