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…
It’s a well-known fact that behind every great artist’s print, there’s usually a great printmaker to serve as master technician, problem-solver and perhaps as a muse, too. We Coloradans have been lucky enough to count one of them, Bud Shark of Shark’s Ink studio in Lyons, as one our own…
A task force has named four finalists in the naming-rights battle over the new Denver Justice Center — and historic gangbuster Philip Van Cise isn’t among them. To those who know anything of Van Cise’s remarkable but much-neglected story, the news is a bit puzzling, and disheartening. Not that the…
Local television stations have been hard hit by our current economic meltdown; as evidence, note that Channel 9, whose newscasts have topped the ratings for the better part of three decades, recently declined to renew the contracts of two prominent personalities, anchor Bob Kendrick and forecaster Nick Carter. And the…
A Harlequin Reassignment Romance: Transgender to the Touch. — Kenny Be…
I was driving on Speer Boulevard near 12th Avenue when I spotted this tricked-out 2005 H2 Hummer with a very unadorned “FOR SALE” sign taped to the back. I just had to get a photo. Talk about a sign of the times. It reads: “Factory build-off truck. 1 of 2…
The January 27 blog “Timing Dubious in Push to Raise FasTracks Taxes” suggested that area mayors were exhibiting political tone-deafness by promoting a tax hike to pay for completion of the FasTracks system amid the worst economic downturn in years. But not so fast. As noted in reports by the…
Oh, hell. Sunshine Megatron, millionaire titan of obnoxious Internet humor, name-changing scoundrel of dubious sanity and random Denver transplant is closing up shop on T-Shirt Hell, his notorious and wildly successful T-shirt site. That’s bad news for all those hoping to stock on up casual wear emblazoned with the likes…
The 2006 Message column “She’s Back” begins like so: “There was never any danger of the Rocky Mountain News underplaying the August 16 arrest of alleged child-porn fan John Mark Karr in the 1996 slaying of JonBenét Ramsey. After all, the paper’s previous coverage of this tragic episode had exhibited…
Even those public-radio fans who financially support their favorite stations tend to despise fundraisers that eat into regularly scheduled programming — particularly the ones that stretch out for the better part of a week, if not longer, as is usually the case at Colorado Public Radio, which is currently prepping…
This morning, both Denver dailies feature page-one stories about Agile Group, a Boulder wealth-management firm with a couple of notable local clients — KOA talk-show host Mike Rosen and former congressman Tom Tancredo — who say they’ve lost a bundle. Predictably, the Rocky Mountain News focused on Rosen, who writes…
Blogs guaranteed to appeal to your groundhog. Today in Backbeat Online: • Spinning the wheel. • Charles Spearin: The Happiness Project. • Live review: Hot Congress Show 1 at Moe’s Original Barbecue. • The Boss was made for loving you. • See video of Reno Divorce at the Ogden Theatre…
Here lies our daily cruise through the Colorogosphere. Send tips this way. Let’s get drunk and argue over who can sell full-strength beer. (Colorado Independent) An ode to North Denver. (Buckfifty.org) Still fuming over the Hall of Fame snubbing of Shannon Sharpe. (Mile High Report)…
Valentines go 3D — with an added Latin inspiration — when the Chicano Humanities and Arts Council hosts its annual fundraiser, Milagros del Corazon, a laid-back evening of classical guitar music, snacks, drinks and bidding scheduled this year for Friday, February 13. But the event’s lifeblood must circulate through your…
Yesterday’s New York Times switched the national spotlight onto a fascinating story based in Greeley. “Paying Taxes, and Fearing Deportation” focuses on Amalia’s Translation and Tax Services, a business that has prepared tax returns for a mostly Hispanic clientele since the ’90s. Last October, the Weld County Sheriff’s Office, knowing…
In a Westword Q&A published earlier today, Stuff White People Like author Christian Lander rattles off a list of websites that pay a form of tribute to his Internet creation, which shares its name with a bestselling book he’ll be talking about and signing at the Boulder Bookstore tonight. Among…
The study of neighbors through their lawn ornaments Fiqure 4. Cole: Xmas-Season Xpansion Tree: Holidays may come and go, but some Christmas decorations are made to hang around just a little bit longer. A close examination of this prolific wonder reveals that it is a seven-section plastic evergreen pyramid that…
Starting last Thursday and through Super Bowl Eat Yourself Sick Sunday, Westword.com’s photographers hit a Pabst art party at Tooey’s Off Colfax and some other parties. See their photos at westword.com/slideshow…
Christian Lander is a true Internet-generation success story. Just over a year ago, he launched a website called called Stuff White People Like, and in short order, he became a media sensation — an unexpected turn on which he’s wisely trying to capitalize. He penned a book entitled Stuff White…
If any press observer thought the fate of the Rocky Mountain News, which was put up for sale by E.W. Scripps almost two months ago, would remain unresolved in early February, he must have kept his opinions to himself. “I think people felt the way you did,” confirms John Temple,…
In the January 16 blog “Meet Jeff Wilks, New Owner of The Wolf, The Mix and KOOL 105,” Wilks Broadcasting head Jeff Wilks said that there would be changes at the aforementioned three stations, which his firm recently purchased from CBS, but “they’ll all be to the good.” Of course,…
At this writing, “Denver Deserves Shot as Host of Super Bowl,” the February 2 Open Mic column by the Rocky Mountain News’ Sam Adams (pictured), has yet to make its online debut. (Update, 11:50 a.m.: As pointed out by a commenter, the column is now available on the Rocky’s website…
