The last time we blogged about Freshman Year, CNN’s You Tube-y reality show about two totally different congressmen picked to serve in the House, we had these predictions for forthcoming episodes: Conservative Utah father-of-three Jason Chaffetz gets drunk in a hot tub; liberal and openly gay Jared Polis of Boulder…
Today marks the final edition of Fort Collins Now, a weekly newspaper that built up a considerable following dating to 2003, when it was born as the Fort Collins Weekly. Indeed, Northern Colorado as a whole was practically bursting at the seams with weeklies a few short years ago, as…
Scott McInnis has been positioning himself for a political comeback since at least last year. Note that in October, McInnis prematurely pissed on the GOP’s grave by publicly predicting that Bob Schaffer would lose to Mark Udall in the U.S. Senate contest — and adding that he could have won…
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy In case you missed it (and if you’ve got anything resembling a life, you probably did), the Denver real-estate market got a big plug on yesterday’s edition of the Today show. Real-estate contributor Barbara Corcoran, speaking to anchor…
While watching the Orlando Magic’s 107-106 comeback win over the Cleveland Cavaliers last night, I saw connections aplenty between the Cavs and the Nuggets, who fell to the Lakers in a nailbiter they should have won 24 hours earlier. These had been the two top teams in this year’s NBA…
“School Daze,” Patricia Calhoun, May 14 Pomp and Circumstances After reading Patricia Calhoun’s column regarding the principal of North High School and his attendance policy, I am very disappointed. I find it sickening that this lazy student’s behavior has now been rewarded by the publishing of this article, all because…
Denver’s public-art program has attracted plenty of attention over the last year, first with “Mustang” and then “National Velvet” capturing the public’s eye — and ire. And now Greenwood Village has come up with its own artistic oeuvre: pink painted coyotes. As part of its continuing battle against an influx…
Let us infotain you. Today in Backbeat Online: • Q&A with Kevin Devine. • This Just In: blink-182 reuninon tour hits Fiddler’s in September. • Undercover and underage at LIFEspot. • Seems like old times: Jason Heller back in Westword and Off the Wall returns to the hi-dive. • Download…
A little jaunt through the local blogosphere. Direct tips here. If a former congressmen runs for governor and there’s no one around to cover the announcement, is he an idiot? (Colorado Pols) Or is that just how it works when you’re under investigation for ethics violations? (Face the State) In…
No secret: the New York art scene is full of whiners and poseurs and, talent notwithstanding, more than a few major pains in the ass. But it’s still hard to sort out just whose ego sticks out the furthest in the quirky film memoir Guest of Cindy Sherman, a controversial…
With former Denver Broncos like John Elway and Brian Griese chugging down Bazi like it were the almighty sweat of Zeus, the liquid nutritional supplement by local company XELR8 is building a strong following here in Colorado. But unless you’ve been personally hit up by one of the company’s 6,400-or-so…
The Nuggets lost by two points last night in a very close game. Why? Well, a big part of it was unusually poor free-throw shooting from Chauncey Billups and company. My suggestion, then, is that the rest of the team start wearing Carmelo Anthony’s super-phresh shooting sleeve. You know, that…
No shock that the Silver & Gold Record, CU’s faculty newspaper, was allowed to die this week. But the closeness of the regents’ vote (5-4) is fairly surprising given the university’s financial condition — a situation so dire that the same officials just approved a hefty 3.9 percent tuition increase…
Expect more criminals to follow in the footsteps of the “Nighttime Nicotine Ninja” by adopting the late-night-cigarette-thief-dressed-as-a-ninja’s successful “one-time-of-day, one-product, one-costume” formula…..
The upper-righthand corner of today’s Denver Post announces, “Helton’s Day a Hit — No. 2,000,” echoing an article that topped the main sports section. An exciting accomplishment for Rockies first baseman Todd Helton, sure. But the fine print beneath this headline notes that he reached the milestone “in 8-1 loss”…
In a Monday Q&A, Dean Singleton, the CEO of MediaNews Group and de facto owner of the Denver Post, insisted that the Post is retaining 95 percent of former Rocky Mountain News subscribers — and he added that the paper isn’t suffering the 5-15 percent declines striking most other major…
Anyone the least bit interested in urban sprawl and the future of transportation planning in our fair country should hit the highways early tonight and get home in time to catch the 7 p.m. showing of Blueprint America: Road to the Future. The PBS series on transportation infrastructure in the…
Here’s a new way to amuse yourself while not working: TextsFromLastNight.com, which collects text messages that probably shouldn’t have been sent, but were. Odds are strong that an enormous percentage of the submissions are fictional — the equivalent of those vintage Penthouse letters that began, “I never thought something like…
Move over, Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker. Surrogate motherhood isn’t just for celebrities anymore. Or humans. Or the living. Last May, a tornado cut a swath through much of Windsor, Colorado, and among its victims was a badly interested mare whose ovaries were harvested shortly before it was euthanized…
The Boulder Police Department put out an unusual release a short time ago, involving an incident that may have been a crime — or it might have been perfectly innocent. On Monday, a pre-teen girl was approached by a man outside a closed recreation center, who asked if she wanted…
The Los Angeles Lakers’ 105-103 victory over the Nuggets last night was frustrating for longtime Nuggets observers to witness for several important reasons. The Nugs’ ran up sizable leads on a couple of occasions only to steadily give them back — a typical habit back in the day that this…
Local developer David Zucker is making a strong case to be crowned Denver’s earth-friendly answer to Donald Trump. In May 2008, Zucker’s company, Zocolo Development, completed RiverClay in Jefferson Park — a sixty-unit development that was the first residential condominium building in the state to get a Leadership in Energy…
