Rumors that Channel 2 would be rebranding itself as “The Deuce” brought out the inner thirteen-year-old boy in most people who heard them, and why not? The phrase is a popular synonym for a bowel movement — because, after all, it’s so much cooler to announce you’re dropping the deuce…
How smart are the city’s new Smart Meters? Smart enough to take Visa and MasterCard — but not smart enough to accommodate the refillable CashKeys that many parkers use to plug Denver’s 5,000-plus standard meters. But that wasn’t the complaint that alarmed Ann Williams, director of communications for Denver’s Department…
Read about Erik Osborn’s legal problems at westword.com/news. One Lincoln Park developer Erik Osborn has requested that the public defender’s office assign him a free attorney, despite the fact that he continues to live in a home that he and his wife, Angela Osborn, bought three years ago for $6.5…
“Superhero Anonymous,” Joel Warner, March 12 From Zero to Hero This article about the Wall Creeper, though well-written, is infuriating. Is this news? Some stupid kid in a stupid costume on which he stupidly spent almost $1,000? Why are you encouraging the city’s morally-just-but-socially-insufficient kids with no friends and no…
How many of you are hung over from yesterday? Aside from our managing editor, that is… Today in Backbeat Online: • Well, that’s one way to make sure folks are paying attention. • BDRMPPL 7-inch hand delivered by BDRMPRSN. • Young Coyotes Daytrotter Session posted for free download. • Overcasters…
Our daily cruise through the blogosphere. Send tips. Is Senator Michael Bennet already turning on Obama? (Square State) In the Rocky’s absence, the Post has gone commie. Allegedly. (Face the State) A random lesson on how to survive a wild animal attack, which sent us spiraling into thirty minutes of…
Amy Serrano’s documentary Sugar Babies: The Plight of the Children of Agricultural Workers on the Sugar Industry of the Dominican Republic, with its knowing narration by the Haitian writer Edwidge Danticat, isn’t Serrano’s first film and it isn’t likely to be her last. She’s left behind a long trail of…
Of all the major issues the Denver Post editorial page could have chosen to address today, Broncos QB Jay Cutler’s maturity, or lack thereof, is among the least important in the cosmic scheme of things. As a result, “The Denver Broncos Deserve a Winner, Not a Whiner,” a salvo published…
Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper welcomes a host of global thought leaders from business, government and academia by trotting out his new “Greener Denver” program…..
In “Loss of Rocky Mountain News Doesn’t Add Up to Big Subscription Savings — But I’m Not Complaining,” a March 10 blog, I wrote about receiving a card from the Denver Post letting me know that my “premium dual publication” subscription rate from the days when I received both the…
Each year, I sit down with my daughter Lora — a rabid sports fan with strong opinions about 9News’ Susie Wargin — to fill out NCAA tournament brackets for both the men’s and women’s basketball championships as part of a friendly contest organized by my wife’s peers in the Archdiocese…
As noted in Tuesday’s blog “Highlights from the In Denver Times Launch Announcement Press Conference,” Steve Foster is among the driving forces behind the project, which will debut in May with a thirty-person staff culled from the Rocky Mountain News if 50,000 subscribers agree to pay around $60 per year…
“The Digital Conversion Will Leave Some Coloradans in the Dark,” and blogs like this one note that a percentage of locals who’ve been receiving free, over-the-air TV during the analog era will lose this service once stations switch to all-digital broadcasting. Concerns about problems like these contributed to the feds’…
Channel 4 lost its longtime affiliation with a daily newspaper when the Rocky Mountain News folded in late February — and the station is apparently trying to make up for its absence with volume. Even before the Rocky’s closure, Channel 4 cemented a new relationship with the Denver Business Journal,…
What the hell does “begorra” mean, anyway? Today in Cafe Society: • Live blogging St. Patrick’s Day from the Fainting Goat: Happy Birthday to me! • Centro dinner pairs Chilean wine. • A quick sketch of Sketch. • Go for the green today — the green chile at La Fiesta…
I’m not Irish. Not even close. In fact, I’m so not Irish that I usually forget it’s St. Patrick’s Day until I’m reminded by a storefront four-leaf clover or beer specials or something. So it’s a total coincidence that I wore a bright green shirt today. Walking down Broadway at…
Be vewy, vewy quiet. We’re hunting bwogs. Send tips. Chill, baby, chill: Environmentalists are freaking out over Ken Salazar’s recent comments about drilling in Alaska. (Colorado Independent) The commie bastards at the state Supreme Court have upheld a controversial property-tax increase. Can you guess what Jon Caldara thinks? (Face the…
Unlike our own drunken managing editor at the Fainting Goat, have you been sticking to the straight and narrow, sitting in a cubicle all day, with nary a sip o’ anything green or otherwise? You still have time to carouse before they mop up the St. Patty’s Day mess, and…
Here’s a look at an excellent, and exceedingly timely, moment in local TV history: Channel 31’s coverage of this year’s St. Patrick’s Day parade. What’s so great about it? The report is largely narrated by Adam, a boisterous reveler who spends the better part of two minutes whooping with delight,…
Today may really be the day when former University of Colorado-Boulder prof Ward Churchill finally takes the stand in his wrongful-termination suit against the school — if Churchill attorney David Lane finally tires of excoriating law professor Mimi Wesson, that is. And among the best ways to keep up with…
Originally published in the January 14-20, 1999 issue of Westword. This hand-colored Hip Tip illustrates the first encounter between chickens and eggstra terrestrials…
They’re going to need some pretty big signs to hold all the names of the august Denverites honored at the city’s new justice complex. After a contentious, sometimes bitter and racially charged process that stretched over several months, the Denver City Council finally agreed Monday night, with one notable abstention,…
