The Denver Post has done some mighty fine work since it became the city’s only major daily, as pointed out in today’s blog about an impressive drunk-driving-stats package. But that doesn’t mean every subscriber to the Rocky Mountain News, which closed in late February, is switching his loyalties to the…
The slicing and theft of two hippie-era concert poster reprints from a temporary cloth wall in front of the Denver Art Museum two weeks ago wasn’t quite the art crime of the century. But it certainly qualifies as a bad trip for patrons heading into the mind-bending Hamilton wing to…
“DUI Arrest Stats Staggering,” from Sunday’s Denver Post, more than lives up to the assertion in its headline. The package smacks readers in the face from its first sentence: “Each year, roughly 10,000 drunken drivers are busted in Colorado for driving drunk again — and during a recent three-year span,…
Watching the NFL draft during the Mike Shanahan era was consistently frustrating, since the team regularly made odd personnel choices, far too many of which didn’t work out (Maurice Clarett, anyone?). For that reason, a lot of us were looking forward to the first draft since the arrival of a…
As even occasional listeners to KHOW’s morning-drive program understand, host Peter Boyles is capable of using virtually any current event to argue in favor of stricter immigration policies — and the public-health emergency regarding a possible swine flu epidemic in this country provides him with the simplest of transitions. The…
Go to the Denver Art Museum to see the Psychedelic Experience poster show, stay to overhear visiting family members talk about their generations…..
It’s Friday. You ain’t got shit to do. You ain’t got no job. Let’s get high… on bloggage. Today in Cafe Society: • The List: Recession special. • Cafe Star now another Trattoria Stella • Santoro’s adds a new location Today in Backbeat Online: • d. biddle’s Duncan Barlow speaks…
Some links to help pass the time. Happy Broncos Draft Day Eve. What better time for some over-analysis. (Mile High Report) Senator Udall wants to help end our credit-card nightmares. (Colorado Pols) A slope divided: Talk of going going nuclear for the oil-shale industry sparks debate. (Colorado Independent)…
The end of the Lab, at least as we know it, is nigh. And nothing could make that more apparent than a garage sale, where, yes, everything must go! But count on Adam Lerner to take his little Lakewood contemporary art museum out with a bang, before proceeding to restructure…
The competition for the Best in Show Auction at the mid-century/modern emporium Mod Livin’ has never been stiffer: The long list of local artists, designers and mod-livin’ citizens who’ve undertaken to decorate one of the shop’s plain white Eero Aarnio plastic puppies for this year’s third annual Downtown Animal Care…
I had a lot of time to think about my dog yesterday afternoon while waiting at Denver Police headquarters to clear an active warrant for my arrest. My crime: missing a court appearance on an off-leash dog ticket. My accomplice: a six-year-old beagle named Jacques. Seeing as how we were…
We’ve done our share of bitching about the prospect of the Broncos going into the 2009 season with party-boy Kyle Orton and rusty Chris Simms as their only quarterback options. The situation may be addressed during this weekend’s NFL draft (note the rumors about Mark Sanchez) — but it’s more…
The Lingerie Football League’s Denver franchise, the Dream, held an open mini-camp/tryout at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park on Thursday, and because I’m as shameless as the next alleged journalist, I showed up. Here’s what I saw: Professional soccer players: As I made my way down to the field, I saw…
If you’ve watched Gossip Girl, American Idol or any number of TV staples with large youth audiences over the past week, you’ve likely caught the new commercial for KONN-FM/107.1. The station hasn’t changed its format — a style known in the trade as CHR, or contemporary-hit radio. But it’s got…
Call it a good idea, call it a bad idea, call it the nadir of American couch potato society. But there’s no doubt that the Snuggie is pretty damn popular. It’s everywhere — including the Snuggie Pub Crawl in downtown Denver this Saturday. Which prompts the question: Will the Snuggie…
Monday’s blog “Is the Media Focusing Too Much on Principal Frank DeAngelis in Regard to the Columbine Anniversary?” noted that the administrator had been featured in a staggering number of reports tied to the tenth anniversary of the slayings at the Jeffco high school, locally and nationally. Among those: Oprah,…
Remember Allen Iverson? He used to be a member of the Denver Nuggets. In fact, he used to be the Nug who, in tandem with Carmelo Anthony, was supposed to lift the team to the next level. And when he was swapped to the Detroit Pistons early in the season…
It’s the number 23. Think Jim Carrey is freaked out? Today in Cafe Society: • Delicious Designs: Eat this restaurant, part two. • Katie Mullen’s will be hot tonight. • Qdoba pulls the pepper on its chile verde. • Do good when Dos Casas returns to Lola. • Benny’s gets…
It looks like Stan Lewandowski will be keeping his job for a while as general manager for Intermountain Rural Electric Association, the state’s largest rural power co-op. Lewandowski had vowed to quit his 35-year post if IREA Voices, a progressive group, had succeeded in getting its three candidates elected to…
Our Denver blog round-up. Send tips. Today’s history lesson: the assassination of Captain Silas Soule, who refused to whack Indians and was whacked himself in return. (Buckfifty.org) What RTD wants, RTD shall take. And it wants your backyard. (Face the State) At CSU, nothing solves a budget crunch like… more…
You’ve got to hand it to the folks at etown. In addition to running a class operation, Boulder trailblazers Nick and Helen Forster were clearly ahead of their time when they first melded eco-centric interviews and musical performances into a radio show eighteen years ago. The first couple of green…
Former Rocky Mountain News business writer David Milstead wasn’t among the group of Rocky types who founded IWantMyRocky.com, a website that served as the foundation for INDenver Times, a site that’s not going forward with a full-scale launch early next month because only 3,000 subscribers signed up to pay for…
