Like metro newspapers, local TV stations are suffering from significant resource shortages these days — and as a result, the sort of investigative reporting that was once a staple of the medium is becoming rarer and rarer. And yet somehow, Channel 7 managed to assemble one of the most sweeping…
While searching for the text of a certain Colorado law completely unrelated to inter-neighbor vacuum cleaner loan, I stumbled across a website which featured exactly that. DumbLaws.com is pretty much what it sounds like: a website that catalogs dumb laws in all fifty states, including this law, purportedly on the…
Unlike former Rocky Mountain News editor, publisher and president John Temple, who love-love-loved speaking for his paper, Denver Post editor Greg Moore seems to prefer a lower public profile. Today, however, a note sporting his signature appears on page one of the Post for the second time since the Rocky…
Jay Marvin, the morning host for AM 760, Clear Channel Denver’s progressive talk outlet, has been out of commission of late, after undergoing gall bladder surgery. He’s on the mend and expected to be back at the microphone next Monday. In the meantime, however, his most frequent fill-in, syndicated columnist…
Today in Backbeat Online: • Over the Weekend: The Pirate Signal at the Marquis Theater. • Over the Weekend: Cut Copy at the Bluebird Theater. Today in Cafe Society: • Aw, shucks: Jax kicks off oyster week in Denver. • Kevin Taylor goes for seven. • A Milking It review…
Our daily slog through the blogosphere. Send tips. Wait, what? Some politicians have interests other than their constituents? Say it ain’t so! (Face the State) Expect a little touch-up work for some Denver hotels. (5280) The Jonas Brothers are in Denver! Sort of! Okay, not really! Why were you so…
It was only a matter of time before drag queens hit reality TV. To prove the point, RuPaul’s Drag Race, an elimination competition hosted by America’s favorite female impersonator on MTV’s GLBT-centric Logo network, is speeding around the bend tonight with its fifth fantastic episode. The show features a super-heroine…
Hear that? An angry “cluck” in the distance? The sound of a talon scratching anxiously in the dirt? That’s because there’s a chicken battle a-brewin’ here in Denver. And yes, the feathers are gonna fly. “The current process for obtaining a chicken permit in Denver is cumbersome and expensive and…
At around 11 a.m. today, two prominent churches on the Auraria campus were hosting very different functions. A group of down-on-their-luck people stood in a line behind St. Elizabeth of Hungary to receive a donated lunch. Meanwhile, several hundred yards away, thirty former Rocky Mountain News journalists and a trio…
It was a busy weekend in Denver, starting Friday with tryouts for the city’s new Lingerie Football League, and ending on the couch Sunday, with everyone trying to remember why they were wearing green underwear. See photos at westword.com/slideshow…
As Michael Paglia reported in a blog published earlier today, all but one member of the Lab at Belmar’s staff has been laid off in the wake of head Lab man Adam Lerner’s appointment as new chief at MCA Denver. Nevertheless, the Lab faithful continue trying to fix a mess…
The study of neighbors through their lawn ornaments… Figure 11. Jefferson: Silvery One-Eared Bathtub Bambi After ass-soaking and tornado shelter, the third most popular use of a clawfoot tub is in the commission of a yard shrine. With clawfoot legs removed, the bathtub is upended and buried half-way into the…
Saturday on the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder was so absolutely gorgeous that probably 50 percent of the out-of-towners strolling the area are now seriously thinking about moving to the city. Of course, they’ll change their minds as soon as they learn more about housing costs. But they’ll be left…
What’s in a name? In the case of former Rocky Mountain News reporter Kevin Vaughan, twelve letters — one of them an “a” that didn’t make the final version of a newsrack display listing eight Rocky veterans recently hired by the Denver Post. Who the hell is Kevin Vaughn? I…
At this writing, the press conference to announce the new project inspired by IWantMyRocky.com is still more than an hour away. But Artemis Communications, a firm handling public relations for the folks involved in the enterprise, has already posted a press release announcing the hoped-for creation of In Denver Times…
It costs a pretty penny to collect the news that’s an intrinsic part of the word “newspaper” — but the paper itself is mighty expensive, too. That’s why oodles of publications, including Westword, have reduced their physical size in recent years — and even newspaper inserts aren’t immune to such…
This morning’s blog about the new LakewoodEdge.com website notes that its founder, Charley Able, took a buyout from the Rocky Mountain News in 2007. So, too, did Dusty Saunders, who spent over 53 years on the staff, most of them as a broadcasting critic — and even after signing off,…
At 11 p.m. today, a gaggle of former Rocky Mountain News staffers will take part in a press conference at which they’ll announce the particulars of a venture that grew out of the website IWantMyRocky.com. But not every Rocky vet is involved. For instance, IWantMyRocky.com co-founder and onetime spokesman John…
There are indications aplenty that the potential bromance between Broncos QB Jay Cutler and new head coach Josh McDaniels is permanently broken. After all, it’s tough not to see the symbolism in Cutler’s decision to put his Colorado house up for sale in the worst housing market since the hottest…
Mark Falcone, head of the board at MCA Denver and the founder, former board chairman and current boardmember of the Lab at Belmar, is apparently running both not-for-profit institutions as though they were his own private business interests — which they are not. With the announcement that Adam Lerner, the…
This Friday the 13th isn’t even remotely scary. Today in Backbeat Online: • Meet Danielle Ate the Sandwich, your new favorite singer-songwriter. • New Heavyweight Dub Champion album features KRS-One, Killah Priest. • Enjoy 1,200 songs free courtesy of SXSW. • Freaky Friday: Thru You by Kutiman. Today in Cafe…
St. Patrick’s Day is on Tuesday. So if you’re Irish, or sort of want to be Irish, or have ever met anyone who knows roughly where Ireland is on a map, you’re probably planning on taking a half day and jumping in the octagon with your liver for a twelve-hour,…
