Our daily blog round-up. Send tips. New fiscal forecasts for the state are due in Monday. Anyone have some Paxil? (Face the State) Who’s that new tight end? Oh, that’s the third-string quarterback. (Mile High Report) Legends of Tom Tancredo’s douchebaggery continue to grow. (Colorado Independent)…
There was a time when I wanted Roger Goodell to come down on Brandon Marshall. It was before the ESPN hit piece, but after Marshall’s most recent display of unhinged chauvinism, and around the time former Falcons quarterback Michael Vick was to be released from prison. While most Broncos fans…
The Fray, this nifty little pop band from Denver, dropped in on Jimmy Fallon’s soon-to-be-short-lived late-night show on Thursday to play a little ditty. If you were reading the Tweets of Fallon’s house-band leader ?uest Love, you probably expected Isaac and Co. to play their bizarre cover of Kanye West’s…
A cruise through the local blogosphere. Send thy tips. What do fans want the Broncos to do with Brandon Marshall? (Mile High Report) Jared Polis is pissed about the Defense of Marriage Act. But not pissed enough to piss off his fellow Democrats. (Colorado Independent) At CU, being true to…
See more photos from Dougherty’s, the subject of this week’s restaurant review, at westword.com/slideshow…
Blogs: We read the good ones so you don’t have to read the bad ones. Send tips. Polis tells Obama to sack up and repeal the Defense of Marriage Act. (Colorado Pols) Colorado kids are really, really poor. They should get jobs or something. (Kidding!) (Colorado Independent) Wait, what? The…
The folks at Colfax Love Society recently dispatched a small army of photographers to shoot pictures of Denver’s most colorful street. The results will be on display at the Neopolitan Gallery starting on July 4. But for a taste, cruise to westword.com/slideshow and check out thirteen of the group’s pictures…
Some local blogs worth reading. Send links if you’ve got’em. A retreat’s not a retreat without some Republicans. So why did you pay for it? (Colorado Pols) Hey! We’re getting a 13-1 return on our investment in tourism marketing! Unless, that is, if you ask an economist! (Face the State)…
Obviously there are tons of photos of the Showcase on our slideshow page, if, like us, you’re having trouble letting go. But we’d be remiss to not share with you the one above, which was shared with us by Gabe Rovick of Focus4Design. Click to enlarge the photo. If that’s…
Our daily tour of the local blogoshpere. Send tips. Is Bill Ritter passing the buck on health care? (5280) More Ritter: He really, really likes his bike. (Face the State) The ethanol industry descends on Denver to try to save itself. (Colorado Independent)…
Our slideshow page is loaded up with pictures from yesterday’s showcase, including slideshows from the main stage and of the fans who packed the venues and made the day what it was. Check back later for reviews of the shows and more photos…
It’s 2:27. Do you know where your favorite band is? Chances are they’re here, in the Golden Triangle, blowing the doors back of the boozed up and sun-drenched crowds that are bouncing from venue to venue, bar to bar, soaking up a shit-ton of local music. Chain Gang of 1974…
Links. Click on them. And send some if you feel like it. Tensions over new drilling regulations continue to burn hot. Did Zach Morris teach us nothing? (Colorado Independent) What Sonia Sotomayor can and can’t do for the West. (5280) A look at the future Rockies who could help down…
It was a banner week shmuckwise for members of Team Nature, which grabbed three of the top four spots in our weekly Shmuck Power Rankings. The rankings broke down like this: 4. Gravity. Newton and his God forsaken apple showed up at my very manly volleyball game the other night…
Our daily look at local blogs. Send tips. Picket signs and screaming workers: Coming to a grocery store near you? (5280) Colorado leads the way in green jobs. (Colorado Pols) Tom Lucero gets down and dirty in Loveland. (Colorado Independent)…
Our daily tour of the local blogosphere. Send tips. No one knows how much money the hot deals at HotDealsColorado.com are bringing in. And since we’re paying for it, that’s a problem. (Face the State) A green candidate weasels his way onto the Holy Cross Energy board. (Colorado Independent) For…
The Congress for the New Urbanism is holding its annual conference in Denver June 10-14, complete with bus tours of our most well-known new urbanist enclaves. But how do you judge walkable, neighborhood-based developments? Is it by the diversity (or lack thereof) of their residents, the number of parks nearby,…
Our cruise through the Colorogosphere. Send tips. How to protect gays from hate-crime violence? Make sure they’re strapped. With guns. (Colorado Independent) Watch for flying skeletons: State wants to open RTD’s closet doors. (Face the State) Polis, DeGette get together on clean-water legislation. (Square State)…
Another addition of our daily cruise through the local blogosphere. Send linkable links here. Don’t look now, but the Rockies might not suck as bad as we thought. (Purple Row) When a hospital goes Catholic, does care suffer? (Colorado Independent) Time to clean the junk out of the Capitol building…
See photos of the Broncos Fan Fest, the Larimer Square chalk-art fest and more coverage of the weekend at westword.com/slideshow…
Our little ode to local bloggers. Send your own odes here. Colorado labor leaders are, like, totally over Bill Ritter. (Colorado Independent) In Lakewood, it’s the case of the million-dollar vacant lot — and the taxpayers who footed the bill. (Lakewood Edge) On the 65th anniversary of the Normandy invasion,…
First off, apologies are probably in order. It occurs to me that, over the last six months, you’ve probably managed to wipe clean the stains left on your mind by former Rep. Marilyn Musgrave. Since her election in 2002, Musgrave’s devotion to squashing women’s rights, gay rights — basically the…
