Hopes are riding high on Barack right now, with many people counting on the Illinois resident to produce amazing results. In fact, so much is riding on Barack that his semen is selling for $2,500 a share! Seriously. A Westword operative cruising the livestock exchange at the National Western Stock…
Michael Tietze lives way off the beaten path. His homestead is “four and a half miles up the road to Mount Evans from Idaho Springs,” he says — well beyond the point where he could hook up to cable television. Not that he minds. He isn’t interested in having access…
“The Battle of the Beltway,” Jared Jacang Maher, January 15 Taking a Toll Jared Jacang Maher’s “The Battle of the Beltway” was excellent. Westword has covered the beltway fiasco for decades now, giving us more information and insight than Denver’s daily newspapers. Fred Harper, the cover illustrator, should tell us…
This week’s cover story — Kenny Be’s “Big Bucks for Builders: How Colorado can ride out the recession” — is available on the Latest Word blog…
You sure about that? Today in Backbeat Online: • The Fluid at Maxwell’s in Hoboken, New Jersey. • Wiretap documentary tells story of jailed Colorado hip-hop producer. • 3Oh!3 gets key to the city. • The Dead announces Denver date. • Rebecca Folsom on the cover of Women’s Magazine. Today…
As always, we’re cruising for Denver-scented enlightenment. Send tips here. Broncos hire five new coaches, all of whom are older than the boss. (Mile High Report) An eminent domain case threatens to take away couple’s livelihood, which is apparently selling totem poles. (Face the State) Nuclear power is crazy expensive,…
“DTV or No TV,” a Message column in the January 22 issue, reveals that some people who’ve been receiving analog television signals for decades will likely lose free TV service entirely once the conversion to digital broadcasting takes place on February 17, the scheduled switchover date, or at some point…
Rocky Horror fans have been doing that same old song and dance for way too long, so I say, “Amen!” If ever there was a replacement vehicle to suit a 21st-century audience, it’s REPO! The Genetic Opera, a ready-made cult classic with a lineup of of rock-star cameos and musical…
The inauguration ceremonies for President Obama seem to have gone smoothly yesterday, with no arrests and only a few small logistical mishaps reported. Quite a feat, considering the record two million people who flooded into Washington for the event. It all serves to illustrate the ways local and national organizers…
“What was the best job you ever had? Mine was reading comics all day.” That’s how cartoonist Lynda Barry begins her comic-strip introduction as editor of The Best American Comics 2008, for which she chose the contents. And I suspect Art Spiegelman would agree, as I learned during a recent…
Yesterday’s blog “The Bloodletting Starts at Clear Channel Denver” documented layoffs of ten people working for one or more of the Texas concern’s eight area outlets, and noted that more cuts were expected. Unfortunately, management isn’t interested in supplying specifics. Clear Channel Denver chief Lee Larsen, who previously discussed layoffs…
(Editor’s Note: This week’s cover story is “Big Bucks for Builders,” a cartoon by Kenny Be. Click on the images for full-sized versions. And check back to the Latest Word for Kenny’s Worst-Case Scenario and Hip Tip cartoons. His full archives, along with Westword’s other comics, are available at westword.com/comics.)…
When he arrived at his office yesterday, Rocky Mountain News editor/publisher/president John Temple was greeted by an e-mail letting him know about a report from KOA radio claiming that executives from E.W. Scripps, the paper’s owner, which put it up for sale last month, would be arriving in the next…
This collectible commander-in-chief wall clock features his cabinet picks as of Inauguration Day 2009. — Kenny Be…
If you’re still jonesing for more Barackness, J. Knight captured the celebration at The World’s Greatest Colfax Motel Bar last night, where they rang in the new regime in truly American fashion: with one-dollar PBRs. We also have photos from the chaos that was D.C. yesterday. It’s believed there are…
The title of a certain December 15 blog — “Denver Newspaper Guild Almost Mum on Renegotiating Denver Post and Denver Newspaper Agency Contract” — pretty much foreshadows the DNG’s lack of eagerness to discuss its recent decision to open pacts with the Post and the DNA early at the request…
The livestock exchange at the National Western Stock Show in Denver this week is the last place I expected to find a political advertisement. So when I spotted a stack of glossy blue fliers on a hay bale with the name “BARACK” printed in huge lettering, I had to take…
National Hirschfeld has earned headlines in this space a couple of times in recent days. First up was the January 14 blog “National Hirschfeld’s Impending Closure: The End of an Era — and a Sign of the Times,” followed by Patricia Calhoun’s January 19 offering “A Look at Hirschfeld Back…
Yesterday’s blog “The Bloodletting Starts at Clear Channel Denver” documents ten layoffs at the Texas corporation’s local properties: five FMs — KTCL/93.3 FM, The Party/95.7 FM, KBCO/97.3 FM, The Fox/103.5 FM and KBPI/106.7 FM — and three AMs — KHOW/630 AM, KKZN/760 AM and KOA/850 AM. This morning, an inside…
Anyone miss George W. Bush yet? Today in Backbeat Online: • Live review: The Killers and M83 at Magness Arena. • Harpoontang at Lion’s Lair. • Jesse Manley is ready for his closeup. • Derek Trucks Band tops Twist & Shout’s top-sellers list. • (hed) p.e.’s New World Orphans tops…
(Illustration from Buckfifty.org) Send your linkable links here. City Spirit: An old Denver cafe where you could get drunk in style. (Buck Fifty) KOA’s Jon Caldera: Making shit up about your new president from Day One. (Media Matters) A day without a Democrat: It’s like a day without a Mexican,…
Today, the Rocky Mountain News reported that various unions had agreed to open contract talks for the Denver Post and the Denver Newspaper Agency early, as had been requested by Dean Singleton’s MediaNews Group, which owns the Post and is linked to the Rocky by a joint-operating agreement. Included in…
