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All Kelly Coffman-Lee wanted to do was share her philosophy of life with everyone else on the road. “We’re all vegan in my family,” the Centennial woman says of herself, her husband and their three kids. “Tofu is a staple, and my car is just a mass of bumperstickers about…

Here we go… Today in Backbeat Online: • Built to Spill, Mudhoney, the Fluid lead the 2009 Westword Music Showcase headliners. • Q&A with Reggie Youngblood of Black Kids. • Record Store Day preview: Flight of the Conchords take on a racist dragon. Today in Cafe Society: • Fork the…

Listen to . Colorado lawmakers last tackled the legalities of syringe exchange — the topic of this week’s feature “Ahead of the Needle” — eleven years ago, when they tried to change the state law prohibiting it. They failed. But not before Governor Bill Ritter, then Denver’s district attorney, weighed…

This is stuff I couldn’t possibly make up. Of the black comedy Fido, from director Andrew Currie, indie film production company Anagram Pictures says: “Timmy Robinson’s best friend in the whole wide world is a six-foot tall rotting zombie named Fido. But when Fido eats the next-door neighbor, Mom and…

You’ve read news accounts of the Bruce Randolph School visit yesterday by U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Senator (and former Denver Public Schools superintendent) Michael Bennet. Now hear them for yourself. The clip above and three accessible after the jump feature the pair fielding questions from a large group…

Attention all late adapters and chronic procrastinators! Three Denver television stations — channels 7, 9 and 20 — will go digital-only on April 16, 2009. It’s time find the digital converter box that you bought last February and install it post-haste. Don’t wait: You don’t want to miss a minute…

When Republican George W. Bush was president, KOA, at 850 AM, ran his regular, Saturday morning radio address, but skipped the Democratic response. Now that Democrat Barack Obama is chief executive, however, the opposing Republican message is airing on Saturdays after The Big O’s talk. Double standard? Given the amount…

Each April since 1992, the Thomas Jefferson Center, located in Charlottesville, Virginia, has awarded the Jefferson Muzzles “as a means to draw national attention to abridgments of free speech and press and, at the same time, foster an appreciation for those tenets of the First Amendment” — and in the…

April 20 isn’t only the anniversary of the killings at Columbine High School. It’s also 4/20, a national celebration of cannabis culture — something long supported by Mason Tvert, executive director of SAFER (Safer Alternative For Enjoyable Recreation), who led the successful 2005 campaign to legalize possession of up to…

A judge has ruled that disgraced Qwest CEO Joe Nacchio must report to a Pennsylvania prison by noon on Tuesday, April 14, to begin serving his six-year insider-trading sentence, which he’s asked the Supreme Court to review. What should he do between now and then? Some suggestions: Today: Run up…

Credit those sharp-eyed folks at the Division of Motor Vehicles for realizing that Kelley Coffman-Lee’s tofu-praising vanity license-plate request — which read “ILVTOFU” — might be read as an endorsement of, er, something else. Coffman-Lee wasn’t trying to slip a naughty reference past the bureaucrats, unlike the maybe real/maybe not…

Eat healthy, live healthy. Today in Cafe Society: • Beer AND donuts at Watson’s? Oh, why do you toy with my emotions! • Sip and slip into spring at Tamayo. • Coffee Spot: Aviano Coffee. • V.G. Burgers currently homeless as well as meatless. • Primebar poised for a May…

Our search for local blog bliss. Send tips. CU Boulder does not seem interested in hiring Bob Schaffer. Is it because he’s a Republican? Was it something he Tweeted? (Face the State) Remember the flood of 1965? Us either. That’s what these guys are for. (Buck Fifty) Anybody need a…

Okay, so Jay Cutler gets traded to Chicago, and his likely replacement, Kyle Orton, seems to be more of a player off the field than on. But at least Broncos loyalists knew that in a few years, a certain someone would be ready to rescue us: Jack Elway, son of…

Suppose a guy from L.A. grew up pinko in a time when that was dangerous — but he longed to make movies and had an inside track until his leftist leanings got him blacklisted. So he hooked up with mobsters, began churning out pulpy porno and made some money. He…

Columbine, the new book by Colorado journalist Dave Cullen, has been garnering excellent notices — this sizable spread in the current Time magazine is a case in point. And Cullen, who’s an acquaintance of mine, was kind enough to provide me with a prepublication copy of the project he’s spent…

Have you ever had one of those days when, for whatever karmic reason, the forces of nature conspired specifically in your favor? Like life just decided to comp your tab that day? The season-opening series between the Colorado Rockies and the Arizona Diamondbacks put me in mind of a memorable…

Yesterday afternoon, several hours after posting a blog about Colorado Public Radio’s morning newscast, which included a packaged report that was little more than an uncredited synopsis of a Denver Post article, I hopped in my primo Geo Prizm in time to hear a KOA post-mortem about the Colorado Rockies’…