Back in 2002, Mark Obmascik, part of the Denver Post team that won a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the 1999 Columbine High School shootings, took a year off in order to write a book about, of all things, bird-watching — and the slower pace agreed with him. “In…
The Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office would like you to keep an eye out for Brian Wayne Coplen, who’s wanted for questioning in relation to a March bust at a residence in Bennett that’s suspected of being a marijuana-grow house. Either that or the more than 100 pot plants sprouted by…
The earlier blog headlined “INDenver Times Renegades Plan Rocky Mountain Independent” notes the participation in the online-magazine project of Steve Foster, once INDT’s managing editor. Earlier today, Foster, who joins INDT vets David Milstead, Cindy House and John B. Moore at RMI, provided some additional details about the planned service,…
Unless I’ve been sadly misinformed, air bags are considered to be safety equipment — but that doesn’t seem to be the case in the clip above, captured for an upcoming commercial touting Metal Movers, 48 E. 56th Avenue in Denver (find them online at DenverJunkCars.com). About midway through the video,…
The staff at the Denver Assessor’s office wants you to know that you have the right to protest your 2009 property valuation. They make it sound so easy. Here’s how:…
Today’s update about INDenver Times noted that many of the principals in the project, including former Rocky Mountain News business writer David Milstead, had struck off on their own on April 23 after INDT signed up only 3,000 subscribers (its goal was 50,000). In a conversation at that time, Milstead…
A blog yesterday shared sales documents associated with Martino TV, an upcoming program starring self-proclaimed “Troubleshooter” Tom Martino. The show charges businesses to receive the de facto endorsement of its star, who appears in regular consumer-advocacy reports during Channel 31 newscasts (although he’s not a journalist — he swears). Now,…
Really! Just look at this shocking video evidence of the Mustang zapping down a hijacked jet out at Denver International Airport. We knew those laser-beam eyes had to be put there for a reason. Beware terrorists. El DIAblo is coming for ya…
In a bankruptcy filing today, Chrysler reveals that it plans to close 789 of its 3,200 dealerships in the United States — and a source with access to the documents finds at least three in the immediate Denver metro area on the list. They are: • Burt Dodge Chrysler Jeep,…
Editor’s note: Amy Herdy, a former Denver Post and Channel 9 journalist who’s currently the advisor for the University of Colorado at Boulder’s CUIndependent.com online newspaper, is in Pakistan under the auspices of the State Department. Her mission: to give students and professional journalists the tools they need to improve…
Jillian Harris, a 29-year-old restaurant designer from Vancouver, Canada, was given an especially brutal heave-ho by Jason Mesnick on the last season of The Bachelor — a move so nasty that Colorado’s own Bachelorette prize, Ryan Sutter, felt compelled to weigh in. Fortunately, Harris received a reward for becoming an…
On April 23, Kevin Preblud, one of three entrepreneurs backing INDenver Times, an online news service staffed by more than thirty former members of the Rocky Mountain News, revealed that only about 3,000 people had signed up as subscribers by that date — far short of the 50,000 needed to…
Yesterday, the police departments in Lakewood and Boulder put out warnings about wallet thefts within minutes of each other. Seventeen wallet thefts have taken place in Lakewood since February 1, while Boulder is looking for purse snatchers in two specific incidents. A photo of the first Boulder-area suspect is seen…
The driver and passenger involved in a crash at 56th Avenue and E-470 noted in the Wednesday blog “Speed Kills in Off-Highway Crash” have been identified as Nelson Starks, 49, of Denver (who died as a result of the accident), and Frankie Biggs, 25, Starks’ stepson, who was hospitalized. Then,…
As a lifelong Nuggets fan, I’ve grown accustomed over the years to waiting for the team to blow leads. But I don’t think I’ve ever been so zen about the Nugs as last night, during their series-clinching victory over the Dallas Mavericks. My confidence was so high going in that…
John Francis Beech had a date with destiny last summer. He counted down the days on a calendar in his garage, crossing out each day leading to the final Sunday in July, on which he’d scrawled the word “OUT.” But first he had one last bit of business, one final…
“Craigslist Unclassified,” Bradley Campbell and Matt Snyders, May 7 A Killer App When I saw the bloody keyboard image on the front of the May 7 issue, I got that sick feeling that has become normal in the last year and a half. You see, Katherine Anne Olson, whom we…
They say religion and politics don’t mix, but what about mixers and politics? Or better yet, margarita mixes and religious politicians? The answer is hazy — about as hazy as your head will be after a couple of snifters of Coyote Gold, the pre-mixed margarita being marketed by Maureen Schaffer,…
I think his eyes are at cross purposes… Today in Backbeat Online: • Q&A with Mike Watt. • Tori Amos tour hits Denver in July. • Last Night: Ghost Buffalo at 3 Kings Tavern. • Last Night: Mogwai at the Bluebird. • Moving Pictures: the Atlantic, Epilogues, 29th Street Disciples…
Our daily tour of the Colorogosphere. Send some links, yo. Guns, tobacco, liquor and Joe the Plumber, all at the same event? Count me the hell in. (Colorado Independent) Mark Udall continues to fight for credit-card reform, and the Post continues to (basically) ignore him. (Colorado Pols) More on the…
No less than an all-out love affair between British comedy and the Great White Way, Monty Python’s Spamalot pairs a plot blatantly (and with blessings) stolen by Eric Idle and Mike Nichols from the screenplay for Monty Python and the Holy Grail, with music and lyrics by Idle and John…
Shortly after the publication of a Bradley Campbell/Matt Snyders feature about the so-called Craigslist killings, the free-classified service has decided to eliminate its “erotic services” category in favor of a yet-to-be-determined replacement. Learn the latest in this report from the Minneapolis/St. Paul City Pages, a sister publication of Westword where…
