View Larger Map The 3100 block of North Franklin, captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”), looks pleasant, bucolic even. However, something bad, very bad, has happened there. The Denver Police Department responded to a call at 5:30 a.m. today, and…
As I write this blog, the Nuggets are down by 24 points to the Los Angeles Lakers with 1:36 to go in game six of the Western Conference finals — playing out the string in the kind of loss we’d come to expect in previous years, but had thought the…
Hello, we must be going. Today in Backbeat Online: • Last night: Punk Rocks at Red Rocks. • Catch the Buzz 3 Mixtape features Spoke-In-Wordz, Playalitical, DJ Chonz. • MP3 Freeloader: Saturday, the Rouge CD release party at Larimer Lounge. • Flier of the Week: Inactivists at the D-Note. •…
This morning, we published a blog asking the musical question, “Clint Hurdle: How Many Times Has He Not Been Fired?” Don’t have to ask that anymore: Believe it or don’t, the Rockies pulled the trigger a few hours later. Bench coach Jim Tracy will serve as interim manager — and…
View Larger Map You can always count on the Denver Police Department’s communication department to communicate slowly, if at all. Finally, the DPD has put out a release on the shooting that took place just before 1 a.m. last night at the El Chapparal night club, 2727 W. 6th Avenue,…
With Intelligent Life, a new documentary screening tomorrow afternoon, Castle Rock filmmaker Brian Malone (the man behind the 2006 media critique Breaking News) sets out to save the world — or at least help slow its de-evolution into a sun-orbiting scrap heap. Malone juxtaposes sequences of nature at its most…
Our daily cruise through the blogosphere. Float tips this way. Shockingly, La Raza disagrees with Tom Tancredo’s description of their organization as the KKK without the hoods. And no, it’s not because they actually do have hoods. They don’t. As far as we know. (Colorado Independent) The latest mug-shot fashion?…
I’m slowly making my way through a detailed report just released by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy that evaluates smart-growth policies in the United States. It analyzes states that have smart-growth programs, such as Florida, Maryland, New Jersey and Oregon. Then it looks at states without legislation aimed at…
I love a spring wedding, don’t you? I especially like spring weddings that feel off-the-cuff, where 300 friends the couple didn’t even know they had decide to share in the joy, and everyone’s happy. If that sounds like your idea of fun, come be the fly on the wall at…
I was feeling a little Shmuck Light this week, unsure that anyone had really risen their shmuck game to a level deserving of this honor, which is fast becoming the Teen Choice Awards of the half-baked-insult-blog world. I engaged our Twitter friends, and even they, at first, were a little…
When the Rocky Mountain News went down for the count in February, the Denver Post brought aboard a slew of the tabloid’s brand names: Mike Littwin, Dave Krieger, Lynn Bartels, Kevin Vaughan, etc. In addition, the paper also reached out to a onetime Rocky reporter who had not yet become…
Completely updated summer programs have evolved to offer children a wide variety of specialized educational activities that reflect current social trends……
No, not Chris Andersen, you fairweather, bandwagon Nuggets fans. I’m talking about the original Birdman, Tony Hawk. It’s not every day that the most famous skateboarder in the world shows up at a mellow, hippie enclave like Nederland. Hawk and and members of his Birdhouse skateboarding team will be doing…
“Rodeo Bucks Video,” an article in today’s Denver Post, notes that Cheyenne Frontier Days, which takes place in July, has nixed the use of all video devices, even cellphones, allegedly because “the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association owns all video rights.” However, Steve Hindi, a spokesman for Showing Animals Respect and…
Yesterday afternoon, I was listening to the Klatt and Kreckman Show on Mile High Sports Radio/AM 1510 when the conversation turned to an item just put online by the Denver Post: To wit, Colorado Rockies manager Clint Hurdle hadn’t been fired yet. That the Post considers a non-event to be…
The middle finger is one of those wondrous little quirks that make life worth living. How is it that a single finger, sticking straight up, can have such an impact on us? Stick up a ring finger or pointer and nobody cares. But when that guy in between them comes…
View Larger Map Although the Denver Police Department has not yet issued an official release (at least not one we’ve received), numerous news agencies are reporting about a shooting late last night at the El Chapparal nightclub, 2727 W. 6th Avenue, a venue captured in the graphic above (if you…
Aisha Tyler may not be the complete package, but she comes a helluva closer than the average human. The Dartmouth grad’s appeared in recurring roles on some of television’s biggest hits, including Friends and 24, hosted Talk Soup back when that meant something, appeared in films ranging from Balls of…
The latest deadline in talks between United Food & Commercial Workers Local #7 and representatives of King Soopers stores is midnight tomorrow — and while neither side seems to want a work stoppage to begin one second later, there’s disagreement over how long an negotiations extension should be. The union…
Okay, okay: I get it. After watching LeBron James’ epic performance during the fourth quarter of Cleveland’s 112-102 victory over the Orlando last night, when he essentially schooled the entire Magic squad singlehandedly, I understand why the NBA, Nike and assorted TV networks would like to see him and Kobe…
Flashing: What a bad feeling — especially if you’re the one being unexpectedly confronted with a closeup view of genitals you really didn’t want to see in the first place. According to the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office, a young man has been waving his package around in serial fashion: once…
This is what we did. Today in Backbeat Online: • Last Night: No Doubt, Paramore and The Sounds at Fiddler’s Green. • Q&A with Tracyanne Campbell of Camera Obscura. • Missed FoCoMx? No worries. Check this out. • Musicians: Get your ears lowered for free. • Update: Monolith to reveal…
