The Message column “DTV or No TV” discusses a likely complication in the move from analog television signals to the digital kind, which is scheduled to take place on February 17. Specifically, some viewers west of the main digital tower on Lookout Mountain who have been receiving free analog signals…
There’s plenty of shmuckyness to go around in this delightful story. On Tuesday evening, a Federal Heights man left his car running — with his two-year-old and five-month-old kids in the back — while he ran into a Shell gas-station convenience store. While he was inside, another man got into…
As noted in a January 20 blog about Channel 9, the Gannett Company, whose portfolio includes 9News and the Fort Collins Coloradoan, among many other media properties nationwide, announced that in an attempt to prevent further layoffs, the vast majority of its 31,000-person workforce would be required to take a…
Oversight Underwear Featuring the Wonder Obrama and Baroxer Shorts. — Kenny Be…
YouTube continues to be a fount of John Denver tributes. But few are odder than the one viewable above, in which the guy on the left hears the ocean in a shell, while his buddy holds a crystallized rock to his head and hears… “Leaving on a Jet Plane.” Sorry,…
The Denver Business Journal is reporting that Tim Wiens wants out of his agreement to manage the Broomfield Event Center, which opened in 2006 — and that’s not good news for local officials. The city bankrolled the 6,000-seat arena with $60 million worth of bonds that are supposed to be…
There’s a great deal of uncertainty about the future of the Rocky Mountain News, which was put up for sale by its owner, E.W. Scripps, in December. As such, the timing of a planned demonstration in support of the paper — it’s scheduled to take place on Thursday, January 29,…
The latest blogosphere blather suggests that recently fired Denver Broncos coach Mike Shanahan could be headed to Kansas City to take over the struggling Chiefs franchise. Not happening, insists 9News sports anchor Drew Soicher. He’s so sure this rumor isn’t worth the breath it takes to pass it that last…
On last night’s episode of 30 Rock, the funniest sitcom on network television by a very wide margin, our fair state was the target of two surreal yet amusing zingers. Early on, NBC page Kenneth (Jack McBrayer, to the right of the attached photo) is trying to convince cluelessly vain…
Click yo fingers. Today in Backbeat Online: • Q&A with Adele. • James Han’s solo sortie. • Leo Kottke, Shawn Colvin highlight RootsFest. • Q&A with William Elliott Whitmore. • Cacheflow teams with Brer Rabbit for dubby goodness. Today in Cafe Society: • PETA in the news again: “Sea Kitten”…
Send worthy bloggage here. Obama snuffs last-minute Bush proposal on oil-shale royalties and hooks up endangered wolf in process. I guess he’s saving walking on water until day four. (Colorado Independent) Accomplishing nothing is a slow process for the Colorado Legislature. (Face the State) But they are finding time to…
Get a head start on the Year of the Ox celebration, which officially begins next Monday, when the Highlands Ranch Cultural Affairs Association and the Great Wall Chinese Academy join forces to bring an authentic Chinese New Year Celebration to Cherry Hills Community Church, 3900 E. Grace Boulevard, Littleton, tonight from 6…
The Pew Internet & American Life Project released a study last week that found young people are more likely to use social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace than old people. In other breaking news, milk mostly comes from cows and water is mostly wet…
Many folks at the Rocky Mountain News have been downbeat about the paper’s chances for long-term survival ever since it was put up for sale by E.W. Scripps. But those in charge of keeping the Rocky’s offices tidy displayed a lot more optimism in an e-mail about a new cost-saving…
The Obama Watch Keeps “Time For Change” close at hand. — Kenny Be…
Street artist Shepard Fairey, whose “HOPE” poster became an icon of the Obama campaign, did an interview with Terry Gross of NPR’s Fresh Air earlier this week. Now that the Smithsonian recently purchased the original stenciled poster for its National Portrait Gallery in Washington, Fairey has officially gone from outsider…
Business writer David Milstead and sports columnist Dave Krieger (pictured) are two of the genuine standouts on the Rocky Mountain News staff — and in the past day or so, both have penned articles that consider the plight of their paper, which was put up for sale by parent company…
The Broncos’ (former) quarterbacks coach, Jeremy Bates, has left to be the assistant coach/play caller at USC — and according to the Denver Post, Jay Cutler realllllllllllllly didn’t want Bates to leave. Deductive logic therefore gives me the right to say that Cutler may not be a happy man. I…
The knock on Tom Strickland, during his two unsuccessful runs for the Senate, was that he was a (shudder) “lobbyist-lawyer.” Not as appealing, it turned out, as folksy horse-vet Wayne Allard, whose basic charm seemed to be an almost complete absence of anything that might be described as a fresh idea…
The Rocky Mountain Collegian, the student newspaper affiliated with Colorado State University, scored a scoop this week with a devastating story about CSU police chief Dexter Yarbrough, who’s been on administrative leave since last month, when he became the subject of what’s been termed a “personnel investigation.” The centerpiece of…
In yet another example of why global warming sucks, Denver Parks and Recreation announced yesterday that they are once again postponing the January 24 opening of the Ruby Hill Rail Yard, the nation’s only urban snowboard park, “until further notice.” The culprit? Unseasonably warm weather. Obviously, the photo above is…
Although the current economic woes are negatively impacting plenty of industries, they’re striking old-technology media firms with special vengeance. As such, most firms are trying to cut costs in ways that are meant to be invisible to most, but not all, customers. Case in point. The Denver Post and the…
