Today’s blog titled “ColoradoBiz Editor Thinks New Channel 4/Denver Business Journal Series Looks ‘Very Familiar'” digs into the suggestion that “Beating the Recession,” a co-production of Channel 4 and the DBJ, lifted its concept from “Road to Recovery,” an effort Channel 7 and ColoradoBiz magazine launched a month earlier. DBJ…
Today’s blog “ColoradoBiz Editor Thinks New Channel 4/Denver Business Journal Series Looks ‘Very Familiar'” examines the suggestion that “Beating the Recession,” a collaboration between Channel 4 and the DBJ, borrowed its concept from “Road to Recovery,” a team effort from Channel 7 and ColoradoBiz that debuted in January. Channel 4…
Okay, okay: The clip above has nothing to do with Denver — but it’s too hilarious not to share. (Thanks, by the way, to Andy Bosselman, the person who shared it with me. Bosselman’s entertaining blog can be accessed here.) The video shows Robert Jordan and Jackie Bange, longtime anchors…
Director Rod Lurie has had Colorado on his mind in recent years. His 2007 film Resurrecting the Champ, co-starring Josh Hartnett and Samuel L. Jackson (with a cameo by John Elway), was partially filmed in Denver and based loosely on an article by J.R. Moehringer, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of…
Historical Tweets, a website that imagines what historical figures — from George Washington to Urkel — would have tweeted on Twitter, recently waded into familiar territory with the above offering between El Capitano and Denver’s Molly Brown. So one burning question has been answered. But here’s another: What Would DIA’s…
A ten-year-old Sussex spaniel named Stump took top honors at yesterday’s Westminster Kennel Club dog show — but a different gave Colorado dog lovers something to bark about. Specifically, Kimro’s Soldier Boy, nicknamed Major, who’s owned by Linda and Richard Stark of Conifer, captured miniature pinscher Best in Breed honors…
In case you’re curious… Today in Cafe Society: • From Rock to Riesling: Tool Frontman on a Different Kind of Tour. • No Beach, But At Least Arvada Has Restaurant Blu and C-Level. • Microbrewing history gets its own photo book. Today in Backbeat Online: • Breathe Carolina Premiers New…
Amusing Denver webbiness, the Tuesday edition. Send links here. Turns out you can still party with local politicians and legislators. Not that you’d want to, but just in case… (5280) Going once, going twice: Much less forest land auctioned off than expected, thanks to the man in the funny hat…
I’m a total map freak: I suppose that’s been true since the very first time I ever spun my family’s old globe of the world and let my chubby little finger fall on some far-flung nation. Later, my mother the hiker began bringing home those topographical state forest maps to…
As Joel Warner pointed out in “DIA’s Promo Photo Kicks Ass of All Other Airport Promo Photos, a blog published earlier today, the Facebook campaign to remove the Mustang sculpture from the grounds of Denver International Airport has garnered national media attention from the likes of the Wall Street Journal…
Had to take a trip to my hometown of Grand Junction on a family matter this past weekend, and while there, I happened upon a copy of the Grand Junction Free Press, a no-charge publication that’s taken a dent out of the town’s main newspaper, the Daily Sentinel, since its…
A Harlequin Dog-Crazy Romance: Better Than A Real Boyfriend…
Denver International Airport’s giant blue “Mustang” sculpture — and the controversy surrounding it — has gone national. Public debate sparked by local realtor Rachel Hultin’s Facebook group “DIA’s Heinous Blue Mustang Has Got to Go” — a development first reported by Westword — has spread across news outlets and this…
Words cannot convey what watching this video of Jump Street fun center in Thornton does to my brain…
Kudos to the Denver Post for belatedly assigning one of its finest reporters, David Migoya, to take on a severely underreported story — the likelihood that thousands of Coloradans who currently get free television will lose the ability to do so once a switchover from analog to digital TV signals…
Yesterday’s blog “Media Outlets Line Up to Pummel Anti-Gym’s Michael Karolchyk” told about the downturn suffered by the aforementioned Mr. K — the subject of “No Chubbies? Fat Chance,” a January 2008 Message column in which the cupcake-tossing Anti-Gym owner alternately excoriated TV and radio outlets for not running his…
The folks at the conservative website Face the State have lately been watching a lot of the Colorado Channel — the service that provides video coverage of the Colorado General Assembly — and thank goodness for that. When it comes to sifting through hour upon painful hour of dry procedural…
The February 9 More Messages blog “What’s Up With the Denver Post’s A-Rod Obsession?” noted that the Post splashed reports that New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez had tested positive for steroids in 2003 all over its Sunday front page, and followed up with a jumbo page-one banner and a…
Celebrate February 9. After all, it only comes along once a year. Today in Backbeat Online: • Ichiban shows his majesty. • This just in: Denver has a thriving punk scene. • The Knew lands song on AMC’s Breaking Bad. Today in Cafe Society: • Video: Drinking wine with Pete…
The Denver Museum of Nature & Science got an ironic taste of its own medicine, sort of, Monday when a windstorm knocked out power to the institution, forcing it to close for the day. Why was it ironic? A new exhibit entitled Nature Unleashed is set to open at the…
This here’s the booty from our daily quest for local blogging treasures. Send links here. Yes, Senator Bennet, I have a question: Who the hell are you? (Colorado Pols) When it comes to writing about the stimulus package, Mike Rosen and Chuck Green are not exactly getting intimate with the…
Best known for his assiduously constructed samurai-era drama Ugetsu, 20th-century Japanese director Kenji Mizoguchi is famed for his rehearsed and painterly mise-en-scène style and long takes inspired by the work of Josef von Sternberg and others. And his last film, Street of Shame (more aptly titled Red-Light District in Japan),…
