In an item included in a May 2008 Message column, longtime Denver Post staffer Steve Lipsher talked about his decision to leave the beefy broadsheet in favor of a news-editor gig at the Summit Daily News, a 12,000-circulation free daily based in Frisco. His love for the mountains was one…
The subhead on the July 2005 Message column “Maniacal,” about the web-based television network ManiaTV!, posed the question, “Is ManiaTV! the future, or a new version of the past?” — and founder Drew Massey argued that the former would prove to be true. “We’re shooting to be the Viacom of…
As has been noted in this space a time or ninety, traditional media outlets beset by revenue shortfalls have been aggressively cutting costs — and not all of these efforts have been invisible to news consumers. An example, and a likely harbinger of the future, turned up earlier today during…
Don’t make your weekend a weak end. Today in Backbeat Online: • The Five Peace Band at the Paramount Theatre. • Phish at Red Rocks sells out in minutes; fans call bullshit. • Q&A with David Frederickson of the Prids. • Freaky Friday: “The Force” Swinging robodisco of the ’70s…
The Denver Post is a little late to the fart party. Today, the Post had a story about the court battle between two Apple iPhone app creators — one of them based in Loveland — over the phrase “pull my finger.” The same story was covered by other local and…
Our daily blog trip. Send tips. A chippy history makes tonight’s Nuggets game worth watching. (Pickaxe and Roll) Senator Udall’s move toward the middle is just fine with this liberal. (Colorado Independent) Recent statistics suggest you are not likely reading this from work. (5280)…
Trials can be really stressful, with all the argumentation and whatnot. Though Ward Churchill’s wrongful-termination lawsuit against the University of Colorado has seemed less bombastic than perhaps the drum-beaters might have preferred, no one would blame the chain-smoking professor for grabbing a few puffs during recess to calm the ol’…
Have you ever wondered where those flashy images on your snowboard come from? Just check out the annual Design the Modern Board Competition, sponsored by the Design Within Reach furniture studio in Cherry Creek North, and you’ll have at least one good answer. Competing artists near and far have already…
It’s coming up on the ten-year anniversary of the Columbine High School murders — so what better time to introduce a bill in the state legislature that would ease a restriction on certain people who want to buy firearms? The bill, pushed by Republican senator Greg Brophy of Wray (pictured)…
We keep hearing about how every team that doesn’t have a quarterback named either Manning or Brady would love to see disgruntled Broncos hurler Jay Cutler in their uniform — but at least one player on a QB-challenged squad feels otherwise. New York Jets safety Kerry Rhodes tells the New…
#4. The suburbs gone ghetto…..
A blog by The Atlantic’s James Fallows gives a shout-out to a 2002 Westword feature, “The Mystery of Pai,” dealing with one of the more mysterious figures in the Enron debacle. Fallows was apparently catching up on his Netflix backlog, including the searing 2005 documentary about Enron, The Smartest Guys…
The men’s NCAA basketball bracket assembled by my daughter Lora and me and shared in the blog “Our March Madness Predictions: A Prelude to Humiliation…” was looking pretty good through the first two rounds. It’s not now. Two of the four sweet sixteen games that took place last night blew…
Talk about bad timing. In May 2007, local real estate developer Nichols Partnership Inc. broke ground on Spire, its ambitious 42-story Denver condominium project (the tallest residential tower built in this region in decades). Two months later, the mortgage crisis sent world’s financial markets into freefall. To make matters worse,…
One of the largest costs for newspapers involves distribution — delivering physical editions to the people who read them. But spending the money doesn’t guarantee that a paper will reach its destination when Mother Nature intervenes. Take the Denver Business Journal, which is telling subscribers expecting to receiving the pub…
Denver Police arrested a local businessman earlier this month for allegedly using his high-end cigar boutique on East Colfax to sell meth and other drugs. Matthew Rosen, 44, made an appearance in county court Wednesday on fifteen felony charges for drugs seized from his cigar shop What’s Knot to Love…
In Denver, television stations treat every sizable storm like a Biblical plague, and while that may earn the enmity of commentators like KHOW’s Peter Boyles, it makes sense from a promotional standpoint when the city shuts down and folks unable to go anywhere hunker down in front of their TV…
My one-hour, 45-minute drive home yesterday afternoon couldn’t compare to the nightmare commutes experienced by many other Denverites. I know because I spent most of my time in traffic listening to KOA/850-AM, which wisely dumped its regular programming (sorry, Rush) to concentrate on the storm. Cory Lopez helmed the broadcast,…
Let it snow? Let it snow? Let it snow? Today in Cafe Society: • Top Chef Hosea Rosenberg spreads the wealth. • Updated: Other stirring events, now that “Soup for the Soul” is cancelled. • Desperately seeking volunteers for the IACP conference in Denver. • Co-op grocery looking to open…
Yet another tour of the local blogosphere. Send those links. If Jason Marquis is the Rockies’ third starter, it may be a long season. (Purple Row) Chef conference comes to Denver. Be prepared to overhear copious conversations about molecular gastronomy and worthless busboys. (5280) Denver’s Archbishop is not a fan…
CORE New Art Space member Mark Penner-Howell will celebrate his second show in the CORE fold with the debut today of Too Big to Fail: Handsome Paintings for Ugly Times, a sophomore display of his big, bright paintings satirizing popular culture (we wrote about his freshman show last year). Reminiscent…
Jonathan Mann is a genius. A beautiful, wonderful and very strange genius. Not only has this plucky fellow taken on the daunting task of posting a new homemade music video every day on his www.RockCookieBottom.com website — including a moving ditty on the meaning of Rock Cookie Bottom and a…
