The Nuggets’ brutalization of the New Orleans Hornets on Monday night make it abundantly clear that the team will finish off Chris Paul and company tonight; thanks to a drive and focus we haven’t seen around here for ages, a let-down seems about as likely as cable-news coverage of the…
As every political pundit acknowledges, assessing a new president after his first 100 days in office is artificial and unfair — but if Barack Obama is embracing the notion (he’s holding a primetime news conference tonight), what the hell? Hence, a plan for KOA conservative Mike Rosen and AM-760 progressive…
Press releases yesterday announcing Weld County District Attorney Ken Buck’s entry into the 2010 race for the U.S. Senate listed Jack Stansbery, who fronted Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s Colorado campaign, as a contact person. However, the person sending out the e-mail may actually have a higher profile: Monica Owens,…
The world is your bivalve mollusk. Today in Cafe Society: • Delicious Designs: Eat this restaurant, part three. • New Belgium Rolls Out Sunshine Wheat in a Can. • Casselman’s opens in NoDo. • Dining Out for Project Angel Heart on Thursday. • Over the Weekend: Colorado Bartenders Guild cocktail…
A reliable source reveals that 23 part-time or fulltime employees at Clear Channel Denver were laid off today as part of the San Antonio-based firm’s second series of cuts this year. (The number is confirmed by KOA Morning News host Steffan Tubbs on his Twitter feed.) Many of those impacted…
Our daily tour of the local blogosphere. Send links our way. Kim Allen’s photo tour of Denver: Keep nostalgia inside the car at all times. (Buckfifty.org) Bill Ritter gets his veto on, and it doesn’t go over well in Gambling Country. (Face the State) Meet the undrafted Broncos that will…
According to a reliable source, Clear Channel Denver employees have been called to an all-staff meeting slated for 2 p.m. this afternoon — the very sort of get-together that preceded layoffs in January. (This blog documented the start of the bloodletting at Clear Channel, while its successor estimated the total…
When we think of Boulder, we think of beautiful hiking trails, football hooligans and trust-fund hippies. After all, Boulder prides itself on being free and open, which is why the annual Halloween streak through downtown has become so popular — popular enough that during the ’08 version, police arrested several…
Denver Post columnist Dave Krieger correctly noted the two NFL draft decisions for which coach Josh McDaniels and his crew will be second-guessed: taking more offensive players than defenders even though the defense blows like a $2 hooker, and trading the team’s first-round pick next year to Seattle for a…
Last week, a bill to end the death penalty in Colorado squeaked through the House of Representatives by one vote; it reaches a Senate committee on Wednesday afternoon, April 29. The abolitionists maintain that execution is too costly and time-consuming and that the money could be better spent funding a…
The Federal Aviation Administration has opened its database about birds and other animals struck by planes — a hot topic following the January landing in the Hudson River of a US Airways flight that tangled with a flock of geese. And guess what? Our own Denver International Airport has the…
It’s not often that the New York Times weighs in on Western water issues — but that was the case with “De-Watering Wyoming,” a recent editorial attacking a plan by developer Aaron Million to build a privately financed pipeline from Wyoming’s Green River Basin to Denver and Colorado Springs. The…
As the swine flu scare spreads across the country, people are desperate for answers. They’re looking for experts to give them direction, context and reassurance about this strange new terror gripping the globe. Turns out I’m exactly who they’re looking for. Google search “swine flu” and, as of Monday evening,…
“Post Pleased By Numbers,” a Denver Post article about its latest circulation figures, is journalistically appalling — and absolutely nothing new. Whereas the Rocky Mountain News’ circulation reports were typically tough and unexpectedly evenhanded over the course of recent years, the Post’s versions during the same period have been purely…
The strange confidence that inspired me to write a blog yesterday entitled “Why the Nuggets Will Win Game Four Against the Hornets Tonight” was more than justified by the team’s historic performance last night. By any objective measure, the game was horrible — but I reveled in every glorious minute…
According to Mel Pomponio, the Denver Newspaper Guild chair for the Rocky Mountain News, former staffers of the shuttered tabloid will no longer be employed by E.W. Scripps, the Rocky’s owner, after today. It’s fortunate, then, that a severance package under negotiation for nearly two months, is finally complete. This…
Grrrrrr. Today in Backbeat Online: • Moving Pictures: Casselman’s Bar & Venue, MBV, Autumn Film, Primasonic, Maris the Great, Adai, To Be Eaten and Dualistics. • A first look at the new Fray video. • Are you doing your part to help Green the Scene? • Rick Ross top seller…
Insert good blogs into this slot. Clint Hurdle has been skipper of the Rockies for seven years. Anyone else got the seven-year itch? (Inside the Rockies) Lots of companies are looking for communications specialists. But with so many journalists losing jobs, who will they talk to? (Andrew Hudson’s Job List…
How many different manufactured objects do you lay hands on in an average day? From the moment you hit the snooze button on your alarm clock until the moment you switch off the lights and snuggle into bed, almost every second involves an interaction between you and a manufactured object…
We tend to think of the upper crusters as living in a different world than the rest of us — and liking it that way. But society queen/former Westword feature subject Holly Kylberg and Tom Lorz are actually reaching out to the rabble in relation to their latest event: One…
I’m mad. Mad about new Broncos coach JoshMcDufus’s arrogantly poor handling of the Jay Cutler affair, mad about his signing of, as my friend Mayf called it, the PuPu Platter of washed up running backs (Correll Buckhalter, J.J. Arrington and LaMont Jordan) to compliment (?) our existing cast of beat-up…
As evidenced by this awesome T-shirt design, Denver graphic artist Jake Miller has found true inspiration in the recent hubbub over the scary/beautiful Mustang sculpture at Denver International Airport. Expect to spot a few of his screen prints being worn tonight at the Westword-sponsored Fresh City Life poetry reading devoted…
