Our daily hike up Blog Mountain. Send tips. A judge has blocked a Bush Administration rule to allow loaded guns in national parks, calling the administration’s process “astoundingly flawed.” In so many ways, judge. (Colorado Independent) Democrats and lobbyists have killed a schools-spending transparency bill. Now that’s change status quo…
They say that tomorrow is always a new day — and if you’re struggling artist or cultural nonprofit in Denver, here’s a way to try to make it brighter: You still have time to register for tomorrow’s fourth annual Create Denver Expo, hosted by the Denver Office of Cultural Affairs…
Art lovers everywhere are raving about the Denver Art Museum’s newest conceptual sculpture, “Giant Scaffolding to Repair Piece of Shit Leaky Roof.” Not long after the $110 million Frederic C. Hamilton Building opened in October 2006, crews began conducting construction dance performances across the silver-skin roof in response to the…
“Ex-Rocky Mountain Newser Tracy Ringolsby Carrying On — After Being Stranded by Scripps,” published on March 5, shared an anecdote about the aforementioned Ringolsby, a Hall of Fame baseball writer who launched InsideTheRockies.com after the News went under. He was in Tucson covering the Colorado ballers when the closure was…
Jay Cutler’s and Josh McDaniels’s ability to sustain their sports spat should qualify them to be the closing speakers at this week’s Sustainable Opportunities Summit at the Colorado Convention Center…..
In Wednesday’s blog “Our March Madness Picks: A Prelude to Humiliation…,” I shared predictions by me and my daughter, Lora, about the NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments. Well, yesterday, the men’s tourney tipped off, and we didn’t exactly get off to a blazing beginning. We finished the day 11-5,…
Although a bad economy impacts everyone and everything in one way or another, nonprofits that rely on the kindness of friends and strangers to keep the bills paid have it especially tough. And so it is with Colorado Public Radio. The statewide service just completed an extensive fundraising drive, but…
Fresh today, and just in time to make print-journalism lovers feel like crap: Daryl Cagle’s Political Cartoonists Index, a regular feature on the entertainment section of MSNBC’s website, has gathered together cartoons spotlighting “Dying Newspapers.” The piece above, by Boulder Daily Camera artist John Sherffius, is included in a collection…
Starz, a cable network best known for screening films, is branching into producing series — and one of the most promising, Party Down, premieres at 8:30 p.m. tonight. The show is about a hapless bunch of starving actors fronting as caterers as they wait for their big break — and…
“Trillion-Dollar Trouble,” the first part of a Denver Post special report entitled “State of Decay,” is a major piece of work. Reporter David Olinger has assembled a slew of shocking facts about the state’s crumbling infrastructure — for example, “the capacities of 169 dams have been restricted until repairs can…
The conflict between Broncos quarterback (for the moment) Jay Cutler and new coach Josh McDaniels seems so stupid on the surface that there’s got to be a motivating factor more sensible beneath it, right? That’s a possibility entertained by Brian Billick, a former NFL head coach turned ESPN talking head…
Get baked. Today in Cafe Society: • Gateaux giving back. • Wine and cheese…and green chile? • Satchel’s Market bags some special meals. • Up Close: Bones. Today in Backbeat Online: • Jewell Tyme Music tapped for Denver Nuggets pre-game show in April. • Epilogues SXSW tour diary. • More…
A-blogging we will go… If you stumble upon a good one, let us know here. Watching a guy devour eight Don Juan Breakfast Tacos on Man v. Food was more exciting than watching a disinterested Nuggets team. But what about those sympathy cramps? (Pickaxe and Roll) How to talk about…
If you didn’t just completely float away on St. Patty’s Day, here’s a last chance to get caught up by a last bit of seasonal Celtic backwash: Scottish guitarist/singer/songwriter Dougie MacLean will bring his singular sound to town tonight with a show at the Colfax Events Center, the new kid…
In Tuesday’s blog “KHOW’s Dan Caplis and Craig Silverman Have the Ward Churchill Trial Covered,” I shared my view that the aforementioned radio duo’s segments about Churchill’s wrongful termination suit against the University of Colorado-Boulder are worth hearing, despite their obvious and oft-stated prejudice against the controversial prof, due in…
Mayor Hickenlooper opened the Sustainable Opportunities Summit by introducing his new “Greener Denver” plan, and the fun continues all week long…..
Today’s blog “Bill Menezes on the Closure of Colorado Media Matters” notes that KOA’s Bob Newman, known to fans and foes alike as “Gunny Bob,” was often blasted by CMM prior to its demise on Tuesday. And to put it mildly, Newman won’t miss having the organization to kick around…
In “On Watch,” a September 2006 Message column, former Rocky Mountain News and Denver Post journalist Bill Menezes explained his mission as head of Colorado Media Matters, the first state-based spin-off from Media Matters, a Washington, D.C. organization. He described CMM as “a progressive research organization that is aimed at…
In “Is Jay Cutler the Reincarnation of Jeff George?,” a January 30 blog, I noted a quote that appeared deep in a Denver Post interview with former Broncos quarterback Jake Plummer. “He’s a great quarterback, don’t get me wrong,” Plummer said about Cutler. “I’m not saying anything to disrespect him…
In late February, Dr. James Dobson announced that he was stepping down as chairman of Focus on the Family — a decision that prompted questions about whether the Colorado Springs-based organization could survive over the long haul without his hands-on leadership. But while Dobson may not be as involved as…
Why do media organizations tend to ask the same handful of people to comment on certain topics again and again? It’s a question I’ve had a chance to consider whenever I’ve been in the company of Artie Guerrero. Local TV viewers and newspaper readers know Guerrero as a veteran who…
Erik Osborn says he can’t afford a defense lawyer. Read about it here. Take a tour of his “villa” and judge for yourself, at westword.com/slideshow. At his latest hearing in Denver District Court, Erik Osborn stood to address the judge, alone. That’s a position in which the 41-year-old developer has…
