Sorry, Jared Polis: You’re fired (from your CNN series)

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…

How the Nuggets can go to school on Cavs’ loss

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…

From the week of May 21, 2009

“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…

Pretty in pink turns coyote ugly in Greenwood Village

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…

The Westword.com blog shortcut, May 20 edition

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…

Denver Blogs: The McInnis files

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…

Nugget fans should wear allegiance on their sleeves

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…

The death of CU’s Silver & Gold Record

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…

Kenny Be’s Worst-Case Scenario: Copycat criminals

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…..

Is the Denver Post‘s circulation really holding steady?

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…

At CSU, surrogate motherhood enters the stable

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…

Colorado Crimes: Another scary sketch from Boulder PD

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…

With Solera, David Zucker may expand his green building empire

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…