Don Knox (pictured), the former Rocky Mountain News and Denver Post business editor who now runs Circuit Media, isn’t happy about how the media is handled at Colorado’s State Capitol — and one area of concern for him is the press room, which is provided at no charge to reporters…
Face the State, a news site with a conservative point of view, has earned a reputation for feistiness. Note that last year, FTS’ Brad Jones (pictured) bought the ColoradoIndependent.org URL as a way of tweaking the Colorado Independent, a left-leaning online source whose web address is ColoradoIndependent.com despite its non-profit…
Yesterday’s blog “George Karl Upset at Nuggets in Victory — As Well He Should Be” applies just as much to last night’s 114-113 Nugs win over the Oklahoma Thunder as it did to the previous evening’s 104-96 escape from the depleted San Antonio Spurs with one notable exception — Karl…
Well, I don’t know where the youth soccer teams in Northglenn are going to go to inhale second-hand smoke now that the Bingo Barn has gone into foreclosure. Documents filed with Adams County a few weeks ago show that the company that ran the operation is in the hole to…
The Bell Tower could be the most talked-about building in Denver that has yet to be built. Ever since real-estate developer Buzz Geller proposed putting a strikingly angled, 34-story condominium complex at the corner of Speer Boulevard and Market Street, folks have been talking about it — some grumbling, others…
See photos of 12 strains of Cannabis Therapeutics’ supply at westword.com/slideshow Behind a locked, unmarked door in a Colorado Springs strip mall, the state’s largest marijuana dispensary is open for business. The operation’s aromatic showroom is packed floor to ceiling with pot and anything and everything related to it. “Welcome…
“Fool’s Gold,” Lisa Rab, January 29 Nasty Nassi My grandparents were unfortunate enough to be swindled into buying a million-dollar flat at the Beauvallon with promises of an on-site grocery store, a “world-class” spa, a resort-style swimming pool with a swim-up bar and a partridge in a pear tree. Though…
Where were we? Today in Backbeat Online: • Lily Allen, Flight of the Conchords, Franz Ferdinand shows announced. • Is it too early to reminisce about mid-’90s rap? • Isaac Slade on the meaning of “You Found Me.” • Update: Join the Photo Atlas video shoot. Today in Cafe Society:…
We’re traversing the local blogosphere daily in search of copy-and-paste-worthy material. Send tips. Is Ritter changing his mind on rolling out the welcome mat to Gitmo detainees? (Colorado Senate News, via 5280) Boulder wants stimulus package to pay for new “super hybrids.” What? Too shy to ask for new bongs?…
When’s the last time you saw a musical that stood right up, kicked its gams in your face and screamed, “Broadway!” to the rafters? When I saw Chicago last night at the Buell Theatre, I thought I’d died and gone to the Great White Way, clutching a top hat and…
“Denver Newspaper Agency Letter Declares the Denver Post to be City’s Surviving Daily,” a More Messages blog published a short while ago, talks about the draft of a DNA release declaring, “Effective March 1, 2009, only one major daily newspaper will serve the metro Denver market — The Denver Post.”…
Ken Salazar, the new Secretary of the Interior, who spent much of last week traipsing around the Denver area declaring that there’s a new sheriff in town, has taken what he calls “an important first step” in restoring balance to federal public lands policy — pulling the plug on a…
Since figuratively getting their heads handed to them during last November’s election, Republican operatives have been trying to figure out how to get off the mat prior to the next big vote less than two years from now, thereby setting the stage for a real comeback in 2012. According to…
As you can see, the logo of the Denver Newspaper Agency declares the business to be “The Publisher of the Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News” — but evidence uncovered by indefatigable Rocky business scribe David Milstead suggests that DNA officials are already preparing for the day when that’s no…
Kent Denver Prep School students, assisted by Senator Jennifer Veiga, have introduced legislation that aims to save the environment by placing a six-cent tax on every plastic grocery bag. It has inspired 7th-graders across the city to pen more new legislation…..
All the Rocky Mountain News had to do was spend a couple of months teetering on the edge of oblivion to find out how many people in the community care about it. On the day after last Thursday’s well-attended candlelight “migil,” an anonymous benefactor dished up a midday feed to…
Denver Police Department spokesman Sonny Jackson probably cringes every time he gets a phone call from Channel 9 reporter Deborah Sherman. Twice in recent days, questions she’s posed to him related to an identity-theft story have made him, and the DPD as a whole, seem like Keystone cops. The tale…
The Bell Tower is the most talked-about building in Denver that’s yet to be built. Ever since local real estate developer Buzz Geller proposed the strikingly angled 34-story condominium at the corner of Speer Boulevard and Market Street, folks have been buzzing about it — some grumbling, while others saying…
Last night, your Denver Nuggets defeated the San Antonio Spurs, one of the NBA’s elite franchises. But afterward, coach George Karl (pictured) blistered his players in private before expressing his disappointment in their performance to the collected media. And good for him. First of all, the Nuggets were at home,…
As pointed out in this morning’s Wake-Up Call, ex-Senator Wayne Allard has taken a job with a Washington, D.C., lobbying firm, The Livingston Group. But in reporting about this development, neither the Denver Post, which blurbed the item, nor the Rocky Mountain News, which published a slightly larger offering that’s…
It’s the fiftieth anniversary of the day the music died. But don’t blame us. Today in Backbeat Online: • Herman Gauche delights and disgusts equally. • Jim Dalton joins Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers. • Good morning, America. Today’s the Fray. Today in Cafe Society: • Are you the best…
Behold, our daily tour of the local blogosphere. Send tips. Colorado Republicans react to new GOP boss. They seem to like him. Weird, eh? (Mount Vitrus, via Slapstick Politics) Stimulus money will not keep that highway from crumbling beneath your tires. (Colorado Independent) Builders are totally over the whole rent-control…
