Something strange is going on around Denver. Home owners are replacing sod with vegetable beds and building chicken coops by their garages. A power player is turning prime downtown real estate into a miniature farm, and a developer is planning a subdivision based around farmer’s markets. Citizens are fighting for…
May Day! May Day! Today in Backbeat Online: • Fight Spider with Spider is reading my mind. • Signtologist featured in 9News news report. • Ghost Buffalo gives up the… well, ghost. • A first look at Skyfox’s new video. • Freaky Friday: “Rap Chop” (featuring Vince) — Steve Porter…
Over the past few years, Greeley has become a hotbed for immigration issues in Colorado. In 2006, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents raided the Swift meatpacking plant there, arresting more than 250 people, many of whom were detained and separated from their children. And last year, local law enforcement, led…
Our daily tour of the Colorogosphere. Send tips. Did Bill Ritter promise to sign the death-penalty-repeal bill? He says no. The always-reliable Society of Nameless Internet Commenters say yes. (Colorado Pols) No nameless commenters necessary: Ritter will sign a bill extending health benefits to same-sex partners. (Colorado Independent) How Chrysler’s…
The plot behind the innovative 52-scene play The production called 52 Pick Up is simple. A couple meets. They fall in love. Then, they fall out of love. And they break up. What makes the production so interesting is the order in which these things happen. There are 52 cards…
Denver comic Ben Kronberg shows us what he’s been up to since heading to Los Angeles: getting the shit slapped out of him for telling jokes. In his online video series, Slap Happy, Kronberg has to make random people on the streets of Hollywood laugh or else they get to…
In Denver Post Ends Daily Delivery in Outlying Parts of Colorado, published yesterday, I pointed out that the decision mentioned in the blog’s headline made good business sense but was sure to anger folks who will suddenly be without access to the physical Post except on Sundays. As proof, check…
USED, Denver’s underground syringe exchange program and the subject of the recent Westword feature “”Why Doesn’t Colorado Get the Point of Needle Exchange Programs?,” will be able to stay afloat a little bit longer thanks to a fundraiser that netted the small group $1,006 — or as one USED member…
Even though DJ George McFly has been on Colorado radio stations for more than a decade, he knows how fickle the industry is, even in good times — which these most certainly aren’t. As a result, he always resisted the urge to put down roots. But after being hired to…
The Denver Nuggets tip off their second-round playoff series against the Dallas Mavericks on Sunday afternoon — and their success will likely hinge on the sort of defensive play Kenyon Martin has been bringing to the court of late. Martin was hurt for on and off for many of his…
Free Comic Book Day, which takes place on Saturday, May 2, is a nationwide celebration of the form, which, like other print mediums, is struggling to survive in today’s techno-happy world. And Time Warp in Boulder is pulling out all the stops. Daniel Crosier, an event organizer and co-creator of…
Ernie Barnes, who died yesterday, is a former Denver Bronco — but his days on the gridiron constitute one of the less interesting aspects of his career. After his playing days were done, he became a successful artist, creating canvases that drew upon sport and life with vibrancy and élan…
Since leaving Congress earlier this year, past Westword profile subject Tom Tancredo has been taking his immigration-reform crusade to locations around the country — and as documented in Alan Prendergast’s April 15 blog “Obnoxious North Carolina Students Leave Tom Tancredo Speechless,” he hasn’t always been greeted with kind words and…
May flowers on the way. Today in Backbeat Online: • Danielle Ate the Sandwich (and became an internet phenomenon). • My Bloody Valentine at the Fillmore. • Dialed in: This week’s local music radio playlists. • Mile Hi-Fidelity playlist — 04.29.09. • Sound Bites: Quiet Company, Death Cab for Cutie,…
A blog yesterday teased a KOA/AM-760 simulcast of conservative host Mike Rosen and progressive yakker David Sirota debating Barack Obama’s first 100 days as president — and the program itself, broadcast earlier today, turned out to be diverting. Rather than an imbalanced back-and-forth of the sort that frequently takes place…
Most Americans probably don’t know that Canada has replaced Saudi Arabia as our primary source of imported oil. And fewer still have any idea that much of the Canadian oil, refined into gasoline at places like Suncor Energy’s plant in Commerce City, is some of the nastiest stuff on earth,…
We cruise the blogosphere so you don’t have to. Send tips. NASCAR could be coming to Aurora. Yay? (5280) Pictures of an ice shelf breaking up: Who knew I gave a shit? (DenverPost.com’s “Captured”) Quick! Jump on the Nuggets bandwagon before it fills up! (Denver Stiffs, Pickaxe and Roll and…
Rockies fans will no longer have to worry about their view of the mountains from Coors Field becoming obstructed by a possible high-rise condo building. The special district that owns the baseball stadium quietly purchased the former Light Bulb Supply building at 2010 Delgany Street for $2.4 million earlier this…
VJ Scott Beibin’s Lost Film Festival is a law unto itself. Although it can be loosely compared to work by such artists as Negativland, Pee-wee Herman or the Marx Brothers, its anti-corporate vibe and array of topics addressed puts the Lost Film Festival firmly into its own category. That being…
There are certain sports out there that — no matter how difficult, dangerous or athletic — just look lame when people do them. I’m thinking of curling, speedwalking, skysurfing, downhill telemark skiing, camel racing, frisbee golf, etc. — all so hard to be really good at, and all soooo stupid-looking…
The study of neighbors through their lawn ornaments… Figure 17. Prayer flags: wrong (left) and right (right) Perhaps the most curious observation in the study of yard art in Denver has been in the surprising popularity of Tibetan prayer flags. These stringed banners span the porches in neighborhoods across the…
