There’s no more democratic way to make a difficult decision than to draw it out of a hat. And that’s basically how things work at the devil-may-care Boulder Fringe Festival. Performers vying for a spot during the two-week event in August cross their fingers every February and hope their rabbits…
Across the metro area, artists and arts enthusiasts are working hard — often unappreciated and uncompensated — to change the cultural landscape. Catherine O’Neill’s Art From Ashes uses poetry to elevate people, particularly children, above unfortunate surrounding. The organization’s efforts are so exemplary that it was a clear choice for…
In today’s Rocky Mountain News, FOX News contributor Michelle Malkin claims she didn’t realize she posed for a photo with a man holding a swastika-bearing sign at an anti-Obama stimulus bill protest Tuesday outside the State Capitol in Denver. Malkin suggests to Rocky reporter David Montero that “Swastika Guy,” as…
According to the official 2009 City of Lone Tree calendar, February 19 is the official Park Meadows Mall Appreciation Day. Since December of last year, when the owners started threatening to declare bankruptcy if they could not renegotiate some $27 billion worth of loans with Goldman Sachs, the mall has…
“Six Major Layoffs at the Denver Post,” a blog published yesterday afternoon, noted Stephen Keating among the half-dozen supervisors let go by the broadsheet. However, his affiliation with the paper continues, in a manner of speaking. Keating is in the midst of a major project for MediaNews Group, owner of…
“Dick Wadhams Has a Greeting for Barack Obama,” a February 16 blog, shared the text of a full-page ad financed by the Colorado Republican Party and published in both Denver dailies on the day President Barack Obama visited the city to sign the $787 billion economic-stimulus package. Unfortunately, one of…
Multiple inside sources say that the Denver Post has interviewed numerous Rocky Mountain News staffers with an eye toward bringing a handful of Rocky types aboard when and if the tabloid stops publishing. No names have been confirmed at this writing. This development is especially intriguing given the layoff yesterday…
Anyone hoping for quick answers from an E.W. Scripps conference call held this morning (and noted previously in the blog “Rocky Mountain News Editor John Temple on the Paper’s Future: ‘We Have No Idea'”) wound up disappointed. As detailed in typically complete fashion by Rocky business scribe David Milstead, the…
In “Rocky Mountain News editor John Temple on the future of the paper: ‘We Have No Idea'” — a blog published on February 16 — the aforementioned Temple mentioned that approximately half-a-dozen members of his staff had left the tabloid of late, with some landing newspaper jobs despite the horrific…
In this cyber-space, Alan Prendergast has written on several occasions about the campaign to name part of Denver’s new justice complex after Philip Van Cise, a gangbusting district attorney who fought corruption and the Ku Klux Klan during the 1920s. Learn more by reading Prendergast’s 2008 feature article “Scourge of…
Read a list of Denver’s eight worst intersections on the Latest Word blog. Just south of downtown, a fender bender on Speer Boulevard jams up a long line of cars, which spills into the intersections at 13th and 14th avenues. A white van making a right turn on red from…
“Growth Industry,” Joel Warner, February 5 Pot and Pans Thank you for a fair, comprehensive, well-written article on medical cannabis. This sets the standard for intelligent, adult discussion of this issue. I believe that we will begin to see more of this kind of propaganda-free investigation across mainstream media. For…
Denver artist and educator Lawrence Argent has been closely following the controversy over “Mustang,” aka the Blue Demon Horse of Death, which some critics would like to see gallop away permanently from Denver International Airport. While Argent’s “I See What You Mean,” his sculpture of a big blue bear peeking…
The blogsophere never stops, does it? Today in Backbeat Online: • Ten bands we’d watch on TV. • Reviews of new releases by Bruce Springsteen, Charlie Louvin, John Shannon. • See Slipknot free courtesy of FashioNation. • Rowboat, row me to my shore. • The Fray covers… uh, Kanye West?…
As word broke about six major layoffs at the Denver Post, media observers were getting their first chance to digest a memo from Rich Boehne, CEO of E.W. Scripps, which owns the Rocky Mountain News. In the note, Boehne announces salary cuts for supervisors at Scripps publications nationwide, plus the…
Six major layoffs took place today at the Denver Post, with all of those involved in non-union positions. They are: Stephen Keating, the former editor of the Post’s political website, PoliticsWest.com, who will continue to work on a project for Post-owner MediaNews Group; assistant city editor Cynthia Pasquale; assistant design…
Like always, we cruised the local blogosphere for stuff worth a few minutes. Send tips. Senator Bennet, apparently not a speed-reader, did not read entire stimulus bill before voting. The question: Do you care? (Face the State) What the stimulus bill means for Colorado’s New Energy Economy. (Colorado Independent) Should…
What makes an ale a wild ale? Perhaps it’s the barrel you age it in, or the yeast that ferments it into a complex brew. In the case of Avery Brewing Company’s new Brabant Barrel-Aged Wild Ale, one supposes it’s both. Named for a seminal draft horse that spawned what…
In this week’s Westword, Alan Prendergast looks at the future of traffic in Denver. In reporting his story, he got the scoop on Denver’s worst intersections. The police keep track of the city’s most dangerous intersections, based on accident reports. But we wanted to know the busiest traffic nightmares in…
By the time we chose our third class of MasterMinds, we were beginning to feel like Ed McMahon. People were catching on to our sneaky fact-checking phone calls in February, wondering if they were about to get a knock on the door and a big check. But somehow, we still…
“Colorado Needs a New Drug (To Raise Taxes On),” an editorial in today’s Denver Post, suggests that Colorado has already boosted taxes on cigarettes as much as it can — so in order to raise the revenue needed to trim the current budget deficit, lawmakers should consider attaching levies to…
