No more shortcuts after this. Today in Backbeat Online: • Over the Weekend: Vendetta Festival. • Beer today, gone tomorrow: Synthetic Elements shoot new video at LoDos. • Katie Herzig and Frito-Lay are evidently Made for Each Other. • The String Cheese Incident readies Trick or Treat in time for…
Our daily stroll through the local blogosphere. Over at Denver Stiffs, Nate Timmons has a nice little look at why Nene will help the Nuggets back to the playoffs this year. 5280 is counting the ways that Bill Ritter has pissed off Labor. There seem to be many. If you…
Once a week, Susan Froyd muses on five things about Denver worth celebrating. Don’t let them slip through the cracks. Flobots.org is on a roll. The nonprofit started by the Flobots, Denver’s own activist band, to promote the community and cultural engagement of youth is beginning to roll out the…
We’ve been doing the Twitter Tuesday thing long enough to fill your feed up with some interesting Twits — so we’ve decided to open things up a bit and have some fun. We’re harnessing the power of the Internet’s latest and greatest darling to answer the big questions in life,…
Love him or leave him: Michael Moore is either a political tastemaker an acquired taste, depending on which side of the spectrum you stand on. But one thing’s for sure — with each new film, he will always stir up a discussion, often a heated one, and you never know…
It didn’t take long for KHOW talk-show host Peter Boyles’ dream of putting up so-called birther billboards to come true. In late August, he first began talking about erecting World Net Daily billboards reading “Where’s the Birth Certificate?” — a mantra of zealots who believe President Barack Obama wasn’t born…
Boulder County District Attorney Stan Garnett loves, loves, loves talking about medical marijuana, unlike just about all of his colleagues. In a recent Joel Warner blog, he confirmed his willingness to consider legalizing marijuana, enforcing his previously stated desire to be the most progressive DA in the state when it…
Update: Thanks for your interest, everyone. We’ve received well over 100 applications and will be culling through them shortly in search of the best candidate(s). Unfortunately, we can’t accept any more essays/resumes. Original post: Do you have a medical condition that necessitates marijuana? Do you have a way with words?…
Pitcher Adam Eaton swings in a cocktail dress by Asha Monique, while center fielder Eric Young, Jr. hits his first career home run in an evening dress by Rachel Tai…..
View Larger Map Yesterday, we told you about the early morning shooting of a woman in a parking lot on East 40th Avenue. Just in: A release from the Denver Coroner’s Office slightly amending the address where the crime took place, from 2535 E. 40th to 2530, an area captured…
Our Basebrawl series of trash-talking with the folks at the SF Weekly, our sister paper, en route to the MLB playoffs is winding down thanks to the Giants’ 1-3 series against the Cubs over the weekend and a kind call on a Clint Barmes “catch” that allowed the Rockies to…
Clint Barmes’ astonishing grab, which helped the Rockies preserve a 4-3 win over the St. Louis Cardinals on Sunday, turns out to have been neither astonishing nor a grab, as assorted photos that have been popping up in the past day or so prove. Clearly, the umpires missed Barmes’ bobble…
Best of Denver winner Sandy Clough has a reputation as the last angry man of local sports-talk radio — a thirty-year veteran of the market who figuratively shouts from his yard at all the kids playing in the vicinity. In truth, he’s no ol’ yeller. But because he uses his…
Some of the celebrities who take part in the long-running “Got Milk” campaign pull off the moo-curdling look better than others. Chauncey Billups, for instance, actually looks kind of distinguished, as if he’s rocking a gray ‘stache in keeping with his status as one of the NBA’s elder statesmen –…
The White House wants us to believe that the economy is on the mend, but teachers in the Denver Public School system aren’t buying it. Why else would they agree to a midstream contract revision that reduces a 4.15 percent cost-of-living increase to 2.5 percent, with a 1.65 percent bump…
There was something strange about last night’s report by Channel 4’s Rick Sallinger about terror-suspect Najibullah Zazi. While his counterparts at other local TV-news outlets offered their updates from the comfort of their home studios, Sallinger was actually in New York City, trudging through Zazi’s old apartment building and being…
Where does the Denver Post stand when it comes to the legality of medical-marijuana dispensaries? In an August 31 editorial, the paper declared, “It would be much easier if marijuana use were legalized and regulated,” but added that “authorities ought to make sure certified users truly are deserving of the…
Spin me right ’round. Today in Backbeat Online: • Over the Weekend: DJ Craze at Beta. • Over the weekend: Bryan Adams at the Paramount Theatre. • Denver House Authority off Vinyl rooftop. • Win a pair of tickets to see Manic Street Preachers tonight. • Dialed In: This week’s…
Our daily search for worthy local bloggage. The Pols react to Douglas Bruce’s tax-slashing plan for Colorado. As you might suspect, they don’t like it. (Colorado Pols) The Nuggets start training camp this week, so Andrew Feinstein is wondering aloud: “Are we in a good place?” (Denver Stiffs) John Bena…
Years ago, there was this thing called repertory cinema, where you could see a different second-run film every day, in a real theater — which, once upon a time, people really wanted to do. A shared experience! In Denver, you’d sometimes hit places like the Flick in Larimer Square and…
Colorado Frockies manager Jim Tracy shows who’s boss in a power-fringe ensemble from Team Firefox, and Matt Murton comes from way out of left field in a duct-tape and plastic-tarp gown designed by Izzy Bristow…..
Another day, another article in a major publication implying that Arthur Folsom, the Denver-area attorney representing terror suspect Najibullah Zazi, couldn’t be more doomed to disaster if his legal background consisted entirely of watching season three of Night Court on DVD. This time, the doubt is slathered on by the…
