If you stumble upon bad blogs, keep it to yourself. If you find good ones, let us know here. Will the economic-stimulus package’s funding for schools be money down a rat hole? Only vermin know for sure. (Education News Colorado) The handsomest president ever speaks — but he still hasn’t…
Okay, it’s not the actual born-in-1935, died-in-1977 king-of-rock-and-roll Elvis Presley. Instead, it’s the next best thing: Velvet Elvis, aka Chris Barber. And at 8 p.m. every Wednesday night in February, he’s lived at Lannie’s Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe Street, where he shakes his pelvis during a “Love Me Tender” show…
As you’ve probably heard, the mean ol’ IRS shut down the Anti-Gym earlier this month, forcing hundreds of self-hating exercise masochists out into the “fatty lazy” world. But while many media outlets have taken great joy in chipping away at the colossal ego known as Michael “No Chubbies” Karolchyk, no…
The only surprise contained in “Newspaper Agency, Unions Reach Agreement on Wage, Benefit Cuts,” a just-published Rocky Mountain News article about a deal between the Denver Newspaper Agency and assorted labor organizations regarding a new contract, is that the reductions weren’t deeper. Early in the process, one source suggested that…
Miles O’Brien, who left CNN late last year, will reemerge in the coming months on Public Broadcasting System stations from coast to coast. His first project: a documentary series tentatively titled Blueprint America: A Tale of Three Cities — one of which is Denver. The docs promise to “look past…
Move over New York, Paris and Milan: The Mile High City, with its love of loony laws, professional sports and casual formality, deserves a cultural couture showcase of its own…..
Face the State, a conservative online news source, recently introduced its readers to The Constitutional Reporter, a right-wing, student-run newspaper that’s available on the Auraria campus. According to the FTS item, the Reporter’s first edition appeared earlier this month, and a thirteen-person staff is working on issue number three, set…
“New Gig,” an October 2005 Message column, introduced readers to Gabriel Elizondo, who decided to leave his job as an assignment editor at Channel 7 in favor of an opportunity to join Al-Jazeera International, a new English-language spinoff of the controversial Arabic network. Over three years later, the operation is…
There’s a flatulence flap a-brewin’ in Denver’s U.S. District Court. Loveland-based software developer InfoMedia, Inc. — creator of the Apple iPhone app iFart Mobile — has asked a judge to rule that it can use the phrase “pull my finger” in its marketing without infringeing on the trademark of another…
The San Francisco Chronicle, the largest daily newspaper in the Bay Area, is reportedly in such shabby fiscal shape that its owner, the Hearst Corp., says it may have to close the venerable pub within weeks if expenses can’t be brought under control. In the event of such a shut-down,…
Headlines don’t get much funnier than one a reader spotted last night on the Denver Post’s website. At this writing, it declares: “Cop Makes Arrest in Bathroom After Smelling Crack.” As of now, three readers have commented on this Associated Press item, about a Maryland deputy who arrested a man…
Hungry? Today in Cafe Society: • Manischewitz! Denverite competes in national cook-off. • Cafe Bites bites into Mardi Gras. • The List: Eating good in the neighborhood. • AJ’s Super Bowl run through LoDo. • Organixx is greener than a Prius — let’s hope the food tastes good. Today in…
Our daily stroll through Mile High bloggage. Send tips. Young conservatives start right-wing paper on Auraria campus. Sources say their sex column will suck. (Face the State) The Commie, homo-loving sons of guns on the Aurora City Council grant benefits to same-sex workers. (Colorado Independent) State Senator Scott Renfroe will…
Tyler McNally of the Denver Gaels says the local Irish sports club, which promotes the rarefied games of Irish football and hurling, is growing all the time. That, he notes, is because, more than anything, it’s purely authentic. “A lot of our members are the real thing — expatriates from…
Former Minnesota governor (and onetime wrestling star) Jesse Ventura didn’t receive a ton of press coverage when he traveled to Colorado earlier this month for the premiere of Woodshop, an independent film that marks his first on-screen acting role in a decade. (According to the Internet Movie Data Base, he…
Shortly after posting “TV Stations, Newspapers See Coyote-Attack Story Very Differently,” about coverage of a woman who was recently swarmed by coyotes while walking her dog, I received a note from Alek Komarnitsky, whose website, Komar.org, features images of his highly photogenic family and lots of other cool stuff, too…
The craziness couldn’t go on indefinitely. In an attempt to quiet the controversy caused by KHOW radio host Peter Boyles’ off-the-cuff decision to call Congresswoman Diana DeGette “Vagina DeGette” and “Vagina DeJet” (documented in blogs such as “Is It Peter Boyles, Peter Boils or Boil Peters?” and “The Susan Greene-Peter…
The New York Times yesterday published a review of This Beautiful City, a play about Colorado Springs that, in the words of the New York-based theater troupe that performs it, “explores the Evangelical movement and its unofficial U.S capital.” The Times praised the documentary play, which is based on interviews…
Dick Kreck is no longer a staffer at the Denver Post, as he makes clear in a voicemail introduction still lingering in the Post system: In the message, he explains that he accepted a buyout offer circa June 2007 and won’t be in the office again — “ever.” Nonetheless, he…
Today’s edition of Patricia Calhoun’s Wake-Up Call notes the sudden newsworthiness in these parts of the previously humble coyote — a development magnified by a recent attack on a local women while she was walking her dog. But the coverage of this last incident by daily newspapers and TV stations…
In newspaper parlance, a bulldog is an early edition — most commonly a version of the Sunday paper sold on Saturdays. Since time immemorial, the Denver Post has published such a product, but no more. Jim Nolan, spokesman for the Denver Newspaper Agency, confirms that the Post’s bulldog was discontinued…
