As a resident of the metro area near Columbine High School, I found the tenth anniversary coverage of the shootings to be particularly unpleasant — although not nearly as bad as it was, I’m sure, for relatives or friends of those who were killed, injured or directly traumatized by Eric…
Here’s a video that should get sports fans’ day off on the right foot: a montage of Chauncey Billups three balls from the Denver Nuggets’ game-one rout of the New Orleans Hornets. It’s a clip calculated to make your every swish come true…..
Editor’s note: Melanie Asmar is live blogging the Greeley trial of Allen Andrade, the man charged with murdering Angie Zapata, a transgender teen. Look for updates here — and click these links to catch up on Asmar’s coverage of the proceedings on day one, April 16, and day two, April…
Smoke ’em if you’ve got ’em. Today in Cafe Society: • Smother love: Happy 100th, Stella Cordova. • Eat here now! Do good, eat well, smell stinky cheese. • Milking It: Banana Nut Cheerios. • Ask the Critic: The art of the Man Date. • Biker Jim now takes credit…
Wouldn’t you like to e-mail tips about great local blogs? Hope so. Ski season is on its way out. And it was not a good one. (5280) Dems urge sentencing reform, but GOP doesn’t want to let criminals “in our homes.” Might there be something in the middle? (Colorado Pols)…
The ease with which the Denver Nuggets pulled away from the New Orleans Hornets during the second half of last night’s 113-84 playoff victory certainly bodes well for the Nugs in the series — although game two, scheduled for Wednesday night, remains key. Still, Hornets star Chris Paul remains dangerous,…
Just over ten years ago, local filmmaker and stage director donnie l. betts took a chance on radio drama, a medium some might deem obsolete, by reviving the works of Richard Durham, whose long run of live radio theater programs profiled cultural and historical African-American figures beginning in the late…
As pointed out earlier today in a blog about the many media appearances of Columbine principal Frank DeAngelis, Colorado journalist Dave Cullen, author of the widely praised volume Columbine, was scheduled to appear on Oprah today, the tenth anniversary of the massacre at the high school. However, yesterday afternoon, Cullen…
The study of neighbors through their lawn ornaments… Figure 16. Skyland: Poodle pines Mother Nature, as we know her in Denver, is a wild beast with no self-control and a complete disregard for personal grooming. Four months will pass without the faintest thought of moisturizing, and then a quarter of…
The most resonant information that’s come my way thus far today in relation to the anniversary of the April 20, 1999 shootings at Columbine High School was contained in an e-mail sent to Westword by Vicki Newell, a public-policy director with the Colorado PTA. It’s a list of school shootings…
With more than one events getting postponed due to weather, you might think it was a slow weekend in Denver. And maybe it was. But not if you ask Dave Herrera, who captured video from about 47 different concerts over the weekend and packaged them tidily on the Backbeat blog…
Despite the obvious enthusiasm for its legalization — see today’s rallies in Denver, Boulder, Santa Cruz and other hemp-friendly havens — marijuana is still technically illegal. So it behooves us to consider that it might sometimes be advisable to, you know, hide it. Many have tried. And many have failed…
Columbine principal Frank DeAngelis has made himself the face and the voice of tenth anniversary coverage related to the killing spree that took place at the high school on April 20, 1999. Indeed, he got started weeks before the actual date. On April 2, FM 104.3/The Fan host Jim Armstrong…
The trial of Allen Andrade, who’s accused of killing transgender Greeley teen Angie Zapata last summer, continues today at 8:30 a.m. So far, as noted in live blogs filed during the April 16 and April 17 proceedings, the fourteen jurors have heard opening statements from both sides, as well as…
A word that applies to the vast majority of the stories I’ve seen, heard or read about today’s tenth anniversary of the killings at Columbine High School is “obligatory.” Although fewer commemorative efforts have appeared on April 20 in recent years than in the immediate aftermath of the bloodshed caused…
The Wrist Deep Crew — Adam Cayton-Holland, Greg Baumhauer, Ben Roy and Jim Hickox — were supposed to be at Rockbar tonight for “Slumming It: A Night of Live Comedy at Rockbar.”But the game’s been called on account of rain. “Slumming It” has been rescheduled for May 2; for more…
Slush, little baby, don’t you cry. Today in Backbeat Online: • Record Store Day preview: The MC5 will be kicking out the jams tomorrow. • Beyond Playlist: Dish — Ma Raison de Vivre Ton Amour. • Brandi Carlile drops in on Gregory Alan Isakov at the Meadowlark. • Tim Pourbaix…
Editor’s note: Melanie Asmar is live blogging the Greeley trial of Allen Andrade, the man charged with murdering Angie Zapata, a transgender teen. Look for updates here — and click this link to catch up on Asmar’s coverage of the proceedings on day one, April 16. To catch up with…
Our Friday blog round-up. Send tips if you’ve got them. What the Nuggets have to do to avoid letting down an entire city. No pressure, boys. (Denver Stiffs) Meet John Salazar, master of the earmark. (Face the State) When the Left and the Right have a protest-measuring contest, nobody wins…
I’m not gonna mince words, here, people: There’s a lot to do here throughout the weekend, if you care to slog out into the slush to do it. Here’s a smattering of worthy stuff on our radar. Boulder’s Frequent Flyers aerial dance troupe will take to the sky again beginning…
Yesterday afternoon, Jim Armstrong and Sandy Clough were talking Denver Nuggets on FM 104.3/The Fan, and while the hosts kept the team’s playoff chances in perspective, many of the callers weren’t concentrating on the New Orleans Hornets, the Nugs’ first-round opponents (who they meet for the first time on Sunday)…
It’s time to stop the Army’s expansion plans and start turning the Pinon Canyon military training site into a money-making vacation destination… In addition to providing world-class firing ranges, the Army will stage a firepower show every evening that features the latest in high-tech weaponry and can be enjoyed from…
