These days, every online news operation, including this one, is desperately searching for ways to increase its number of page views — and one approach is to insert links to other stories on their respective sites. But an example of this phenomenon in today’s Denver Post shows how absurd the…
The last time Chad Laughlin saw his buddy Dylan Klebold, the two almost smashed into each other in the parking lot of Columbine High School. Laughlin was driving his Mistubishi Galant, headed off-campus with a friend for lunch. Klebold, wearing his black duster, was barreling into the lot in his…
Personnel at channels 7, 9 and 20 have been hoping against hope that the conversion from analog broadcasting to the digital kind would go off without a hitch — but my inability to get through to 9News’ DTV help line after twenty or thirty tries yesterday morning was an indication…
According to talk-show host Dino Costa, one of the principals behind DenverSportsRadio.com, a new online project that will be introduced at a press conference today in advance of its scheduled Monday, April 20, launch, the sports-radio offerings in Denver at present are “below mediocre.” He adds, “We’re confident we can…
Couldn’t help being amused by the contrast between the picture painted by multiple weather forecasts on Denver TV stations last night and the one that confronted me this morning when I drove to work. Last night, the tone of folks like Channel 9’s Kathy Sabine suggested an irony-free version of…
Not-so-breaking news: Container-ship crewmen are some tough bastards. The Village Voice, our New York sister paper, has obtained an email from a crewmember who was aboard the M/V Maersk Alabama when it was attacked by Somali pirates. Any story that includes icepick-shanking is worth a link to us. Read the…
Who needs dinner when there’s dessert? Today in Cafe Society: • Pink Hooter cupcake for a cause. • Beer today, gone tomorrow. • Action at the Icehouse. • Great Divide introduces three new beers — and a patio. Today in Backbeat Online: • No 1 Left Standing in talks with…
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. 4:50 p.m.: Court is recessed for the day. Judge Kopcow is telling the jury not to discuss the case with their family or…
Why am I so surprised Broncos have been arrested twice as many times as Raiders since 2000? (Mile High Report) Funding education starts… in prison? Yes, according to smokin’ State Senator Morgan Carroll. (SenMorganCarroll.com, via Colorado Pols) When it comes to making laws, you, dear reader, have way too much…
National Poetry Month is for everyone, and so is El Centro Su Teatro’s tenth-annual Neruda Poetry Festival, which begins today, smack dab in the middle of the nation’s bardish celebration of metered, arranged, improvised and performed verbiage. And you’ll enjoy some of each during this three-day event, kicking off with…
In a March 24 Q&A, Kevin Preblud, one of three entrepreneurs backing INDenver Times, an online project featuring thirty former members of the now-shuttered Rocky Mountain News, declined to say how many people had subscribed to the service, but promised that the data would be released “shortly.” Over three weeks…
While a slow walk through the exhibit, Nature Unleashed: Inside Natural Disasters, currently on view at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science through May 3, will answer many questions you might have about the unleashed power of volcanoes, twisters and earthquakes, chances are it will merely whet, rather than…
It’s time to stop the Army’s costly expansion plans and start turning the Pinon Canyon training site into a money-making vacation destination… Instead of creating invasion schemes to destroy imaginary enemies, Army soldiers will be giving tank hayrides to tourists and demonstrating how military maneuvers supplement the the area’s economic…
Jury selection continues this morning in the trial of the man accused of killing Angie Zapata, a transgender teenager who was beaten to death last year in her Greeley apartment. Opening arguments are expected to begin this afternoon. Westword will be blogging throughout the trial. Check back for updates. Yesterday,…
Here is a cool timelapse video showing the complete installation of “No Anunciar,” the current show at Andenken Gallery. The 22-feet-by-16-feet wall is a collaboration between Ian Millard, Michael Ortiz and Jon Lamb. Check it out in person until April 24th…
There’s nothing better after a long day of governing than getting your punk-rock on, dad! And that’s precisely what Denver mayor John Hickenlooper did on Tuesday night, when he introduced one of his favorite groups, the seminal Los Angeles punk band X, during the first performance of a two-night run…
Lip Dub: Supermodel from NonSociety on Vimeo. Looks like former Broncos baller Jay Cutler’s getting to hang with higher-profile babes now that he’s ensconced in Chicago. The New York Post’s Page Six reports that Sweet Baby Jay was seen in the company of “Internet celebrity” and “fame whore” Julia Allison…
“The Psychedelic Experience,” a Denver Art Museum exhibit that runs through July 19, is touted by a great poster suitable for framing — or ripping off. As you can see by the attached photo, DAM personnel wrapped scaffolding around the museum with advertisements for the show, and persons unknown liked…
At 12:01 a.m., channels 7, 9 and 20 made the transition from analog to digital broadcasting — a switchover that may well result in thousands of people losing free, over-the-air TV either because they paid no attention to the months upon months of on-screen warnings about the impending change, or…
This morning, KHOW’s Peter Boyles, one of numerous Clear Channel Denver talk-show hosts who thrust themselves into the spotlight at yesterday’s tax-day Tea Party protest, was in high dudgeon about a 9News report by correspondent Thanh Truong that allegedly besmirched the reputations of the thousands who joined them at the…
Sprouting up through the haze along the horizon, the three smokestacks of the Comanche coal-fired power station rise far above anything for miles and miles on the dry, empty prairie on the outskirts of Pueblo. Two of them, attached to units 1 and 2, have been puffing away for more…
“Ahead of the Needle,” Melanie Asmar, April 9 Missing the Point Yeah, and we should also teach people how to drive drunk. People are going to do it anyway, regardless if it puts the rest of society at harm, right? And you don’t know why Denver isn’t behind this? Posted…
