It’s Friday. You ain’t got shit to do. You ain’t got no job. Let’s get high… on bloggage. Today in Cafe Society: • The List: Recession special. • Cafe Star now another Trattoria Stella • Santoro’s adds a new location Today in Backbeat Online: • d. biddle’s Duncan Barlow speaks…
Some links to help pass the time. Happy Broncos Draft Day Eve. What better time for some over-analysis. (Mile High Report) Senator Udall wants to help end our credit-card nightmares. (Colorado Pols) A slope divided: Talk of going going nuclear for the oil-shale industry sparks debate. (Colorado Independent)…
The Lingerie Football League’s Denver franchise, the Dream, held an open mini-camp/tryout at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park on Thursday, and because I’m as shameless as the next alleged journalist, I showed up. Here’s what I saw: Professional soccer players: As I made my way down to the field, I saw…
Vote for the 2009 Westword Music Showcase winners. We’ve sneak-peeked the award nominees, asked who we missed, and solicited your dream lineup. Now it’s time to vote — to see which bands will emerge from the 2009 Showcase as your favorites. With the Showcase scheduled for Saturday, June 13 (with…
Our Denver blog round-up. Send tips. Today’s history lesson: the assassination of Captain Silas Soule, who refused to whack Indians and was whacked himself in return. (Buckfifty.org) What RTD wants, RTD shall take. And it wants your backyard. (Face the State) At CSU, nothing solves a budget crunch like… more…
A tour of the local blogoshpere. Send tips. Obama education adviser Michael Johnston wants to replace Senate President Peter Groff. But is he too white? (Colorado Independent) When it comes to torture, the Conservadems are more “conserv” than “dems.” (Colorado Pols) The $10 cigarette pack: Coming to a 7-Eleven near…
Our daily Denver blog round-up. Send tips. How do Democrats see Ritter’s reign? (Colorado Pols) Bob Schaffer is either stereotyping Latinos, shamelessly shilling product, wisely courting the Hispanic vote or… doing all three at once! (Colorado Independent) Crocs: Are they on their last comfortably supported leg? (5280)…
For photos from yesterday’s afternoon ode to herb in Civic Center Park, see slideshows from Joshua Duplechian and J. Knight (NSFW). Or, to smell the smoke for yourself, watch the video above…
Wouldn’t you like to e-mail tips about great local blogs? Hope so. Ski season is on its way out. And it was not a good one. (5280) Dems urge sentencing reform, but GOP doesn’t want to let criminals “in our homes.” Might there be something in the middle? (Colorado Pols)…
With more than one events getting postponed due to weather, you might think it was a slow weekend in Denver. And maybe it was. But not if you ask Dave Herrera, who captured video from about 47 different concerts over the weekend and packaged them tidily on the Backbeat blog…
Our Friday blog round-up. Send tips if you’ve got them. What the Nuggets have to do to avoid letting down an entire city. No pressure, boys. (Denver Stiffs) Meet John Salazar, master of the earmark. (Face the State) When the Left and the Right have a protest-measuring contest, nobody wins…
Not-so-breaking news: Container-ship crewmen are some tough bastards. The Village Voice, our New York sister paper, has obtained an email from a crewmember who was aboard the M/V Maersk Alabama when it was attacked by Somali pirates. Any story that includes icepick-shanking is worth a link to us. Read the…
Why am I so surprised Broncos have been arrested twice as many times as Raiders since 2000? (Mile High Report) Funding education starts… in prison? Yes, according to smokin’ State Senator Morgan Carroll. (SenMorganCarroll.com, via Colorado Pols) When it comes to making laws, you, dear reader, have way too much…
Our daily blog patrol. Send tips. It’s (more) official (than before): This Broncos season is not going to be pretty. (Mile High Report) State agencies are coming around on the whole following-the-law thing. (Face the State) “(T)he future of gay marriage hinges on what happens in states like Colorado.” Gulp…
What’s happening around the local blogosphere: Court is in session: Jury selection starts in the Zapata slaying case. (Colorado Independent) The Colorado Legislature went black, but is it now going back? (5280) Eat this, recession! Buildings keep flying up in Denver (w/pics). (Denver Infill)…
Since we reported last month that Denver would be among the many cities to host a Snuggie Pub Crawl — in which proud owners of the awesomely popular sleeved blanket slip into their Snuggies and get hammered — we’ve been counting the days until the event. We’d heard it was…
So this is … odd. Raphael Saadiq, a former singer from Tony! Toni! Tone! — the California R&B group that serenaded most of my middle-school-dance makeout sessions — apparently has a Denver-based videogame company called Illfonic. And that company has apparently created a videogame called “Ghetto Golf,” a “Tiger Woods”-meets-“Grand…
Our daily blog round-up is here. Send tips this way. According to financial disclosure statements, Ken Salazar is not hiding bundles of money underneath that giant hat. (Colorado Independent) Introducing the Jay Cutler bath mat! (The Decider) The battle over Pinnacol spills into the streets outside the Capitol. (Colorado Pols)…
Some things you might have missed this weekend: • On Thursday — it was a long weekend, alright? — fans of the ganj gathered to raise money for a 420 Rally. Read Chris Castellano’s dispatch. • Also Thursday, people got silly at Alibi, and Jamie Secrest took their photos. •…
Read from the bottom up. Or not at all. 4:44 Two down in the ninth. Before we leave for the bar, let me assure you I am not wearing a Cardinals hat. My hat is not red. It says “SC,” which does not have anything to so with St. Louis…
We read the blogs so you can get drunk at the Sports Column and watch baseball. Happy Opening Day! (Purple Row) Over budget talks, one politician tells another to jump in a lake. Hey, that’s our line! (Colorado Independent and Colorado Pols) Jared Polis is “safely out of Afghanistan.” For…
So five minutes into our baby shower for Cafe Society’s Veggie/Candy Girl (and three other future mothers here at Westword), a crazy singing telegram man showed up and started singing “Push It.” By the time I had my phone out, he was on to “It’s Raining Kids.” It was cute…
