In the July 2008 blog “Colorado Public Radio Plans Two-Hour Weekday Info Block,” Sean Nethery, CPR’s vice president of programming, said that “in a matter of weeks, not months,” the service would formally announce the expansion of its weekday news program, Colorado Matters, from thirty minutes to an hour in…
A Harlequin Human Rights Romance: Love’s Fantastic Gitmo Ambush . — Kenny Be…
My twin daughters are subscribers to Seventeen magazine — they’re only fifteen, which goes to show how advanced they are — and last night, Lora, the older of the pair (by fourteen minutes), curled up with the just-delivered March issue, which sports a cover photo of Gossip Girl star Leighton…
. A woman got off an RTD bus outside of the Denver Public Library main branch at about 9 this morning and asked library staff for some assistance. But she wasn’t trying to check out a book. No, the woman was in labor. In fact, she was so far along…
Word broke yesterday that longtime Channel 9 weatherman Nick Carter is the station’s latest cost-cutting casualty. The final broadcast by the veteran air personality (to the left of the affixed image, with his soon-to-be-former 9News colleagues) is scheduled for Friday. Unlike anchor Bob Kendrick, whose hefty contract was likely a…
Yesterday, the Regional Transportation District took the wraps off an RTD-financed survey in which more than 60 percent of respondents said they’d “generally support” a tax increase to complete current FasTracks exansion by 2017. This info spawned prominently placed stories in the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News this…
Suddenly, Ted Haggard is everywhere again. Yesterday, the disgraced former pastor of Colorado Springs’ New Life Church, who left that post following revelations of homosexual conduct unveiled by onetime male escort Mike Jones (who’s made a new video lambasting the church), was named in headlines and featured on cable-news channels…
Given how often I’ve bitched about poor road maintenance on stormy days — most recently in this January 12 blog — it’s only fair that I figuratively doff my cap in honor of what, from my perspective, was a job well done. After more than a day of on-and-off snow…
Look out below! Falling blogs! Today in Cafe Society: • Rock, paper, scissors, booze at Nine75. • Mark & Isabella now open in Belmar. • Just in time for the Super Bowl, a Milking It review of Cap’n Crunch’s Touchdown Crunch. • Buenos Aires Grill to close. • Thanasi Foods…
Send your bloggable bloggage here. Stimulus package won’t do anything to stimulate your ride to the mountains. (Colorado Independent) Republicans still hung up on this whole alleged-terrorists-to-Colorado thing. (Face the State) Could Governor Ritter lose his job in 2010? I mean, everyone else is losing their jobs, right? Why not…
Catching up on my reading over the weekend, I found that the January 19 New Yorker has a terrific piece by Caleb Crain discussing the emergence of new, revisionist accounts of the Ludlow Massacre. “There Was Blood” delves into the bloody conflicts in the southern Colorado coalfields a century ago that…
Last week, while I was waiting on hold to speak with a Denver Newspaper Agency representative about delivery issues (little knowing that operators’ hours had been changed in an apparent cost-savings move), I got an audio preview of the “Post-News Economic Stimulus Sweepstakes” that was formally introduced with a giant…
The study of neighbors through their lawn ornaments Figure 3. Wash Park West: Pigskin-O-Lantern Football Festoonery has had a long and rich history in Denver. Most often it is displayed in orange-and-blue banners purchased at a premium by Broncos fans. Occasionally, the more fervent of these followers will paint their…
The best thing about Valentine’s Day? If you’re under twelve, it just might be making your own Valentines, a time-honored activity for kids that’s guaranteed to break the dead-of-winter doldrums. But the thing of it is this: It’s damn fun for adults, too — those, anyway, who are wracked with…
After the jump, a guided tour to what you missed in Denver this weekend, from the Geek Bowl to the rodeo, and from shining sea of beer to shining sea of beer. Click on the photos to see more…
Though the pub quiz is rumored to have been invented by the Egyptians shortly after they invented beer, the sport has only recently achieved the kind of worldwide status accorded to other top sports, like soccer, baseball and beer pong. And it is here, in Denver, where the top teams…
In a January 21 blog, Rocky Mountain News editor/publisher/president John Temple emphasized that “the grapevine doesn’t know what it’s talking about” when it comes to the future of the paper, which was put up for sale in December by its owner, E.W. Scripps. Given the silence coming from Scripps, however,…
Gloria Neal, a strong new addition to the Channel 4 morning-news program, covered last week’s inauguration of President Barack Obama for the station — and her online account of her time in Washington, D.C. was consistently upbeat. However, her January 20 post makes note of some “logistical challenges” she promised…
This morning on Peter Boyles’ KHOW talk show, Mike Jones, the onetime male escort who went public about his relationship with nationally known New Life Church pastor Ted Haggard, blasted New Life Church for covering up information that Haggard had been involved in a sexual relationship with another young man…
You’ve got a lot of reading to do. But not like three chapters of The Grapes of Wrath, due by tomorrow. Fun reading. Today in Backbeat Online: • Meese finishes new album and lands mug in Spin. • Has hip-hop dance crew BreakEFX met their match? • A first look…
Send locally created blog brilliance for inclusion in future episodes of “Denver Blogs” here. Gitmo prisoners could be housed at Supermax, but lawmakers are acting like they’ll be cruising the produce aisle at SuperTarget. (Colorado Independent) Lawmakers to spend money on making sure you can track how they spend their…
Indian dancer Renu Kansal of the Bollywood West dance studio teamed up with her promoter friend Norvan Massey and DJ Ashish B. a few years ago to host the occasional Passport to Bollywood International Dance Party partly because she wanted to provide a social setting for her students to hear Indian…
