For photos from Jared Jacang Maher’s driving tour of Denver beltway, go to westword.com/slideshow. Read more on developing the Rocky Flats here. Jefferson County has a bold vision for how to brand itself as a leader in the new green economy. Officials talk about smart development, open space, multi-modal transportation,…
From the top of the isolated, windy plateau along the southern border of Rocky Flats, you can see the extended mass of metro Denver and, on a clear day, the distant line of the beltway around it. In anticipation of that line one day extending into the Jefferson Parkway, earth-movers…
Red Rocks Amphitheatre won’t announce its 2009 lineup until this spring, but no matter who takes the stage — whether it’s Lyle Lovett or 50 Cent — concert-goers will likely pay an extra fifty cents to see him. But don’t cry into your smuggled-in flask of vodka. Those two shiny…
“Let’s Get Lost,” Alan Prendergast, January 8 Tattoo You Screws implanted in head, check. Pathological liar, check. Drifter, check. No family comment, check. But Kauri Tiyme sure used the highest-quality ink on the most original of tattoos (fyi, next to stars, cherry blossoms are the next most popular tattoos). Great…
In other words… Today in Cafe Society: • Cafe Brazil builds a bar next door. • Another week, another obsession. • Bistro Vendome’s mussel deal is no shell game. • Alto pushing cuisine with new chef. • Save a buffalo: Eat it at Tommyknockers. Today in Backbeat Online: • Mile…
David Shneer is a one-man dynamo when it’s come to bringing into focus the divergent cultural wings of the Jewish diaspora locally, in the past as a professor and director of the Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Denver and currently in a similar role at CU-Boulder. And he’s…
Denver-based ProgressNow and ProgressNow Action have become among the most effective political organizations in these parts, using a growing network of supporters to push its liberal agenda. So why change its name to ProgressNow Colorado, as is being announced today? The roots of the decision were discussed in an August…
The folks at 107.1 FM/The One are trying to find a way to differentiate themselves from their competitors at high-rated KS-107.5 — and what better way than a vibrator race between DJ Turk and Slick Rick, who co-host weeknights at The One from 7 p.m. to midnight? Only problem: YouTube…
At 7:30 am Mountain Time on January 15, U.S. Senator Ken Salazar will sit down with his colleagues on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee and seek their approval in his quest to become the next Secretary of the Interior. Expect our man to be grilled by Big Oil stooges…
Bottomless Obama Bank Coins fall into a change tray to remind that as long as we have Barack, we won’t go ba-roke!…
Not too long ago, the oil and gas industry was among the only business categories flourishing in Colorado. Even as the economy was getting softer and softer along the I-25 corridor, Western Slope communities like Grand Junction were booming. But thanks to falling fuel costs (among the rare blessings for…
The silence has been deafening in regard to the possible sale of the Rocky Mountain News — at least officially. The last article in the Rocky itself about potential buyers appeared way back on December 24; that piece noted that a “deal book” of financial and demographic information had been…
For some reason, folks around here seem to have an unhealthy obsession with twittering, the social networking phenomenon designed for people with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. A low point was surely the Rocky Mountain News pulling the ultra-classy move of twittering a three-year-old’s funeral in September. On the other hand, Denver resident…
In recent years, sports columns by the Denver Post’s Woody Paige read as if he simply spewed out the first thing that came to mind as opposed to actually thinking about a subject before writing about it — a technique he burnished during his several years as a fulltimer at…
In October 2007, the Denver Post published “Still Printing After All These Years,” an article about National Hirschfeld, a firm that sprang from a business A.B. Hirschfeld started in the basement of a LoDo fruit stand in 1907. The piece featured the photo seen here of A. Barry Hirschfeld, who…
Click it or ticket. Today in Cafe Society: • Tony’s Market gets a witness. • Fallout from Aspen’s New Year’s Eve bomb. • Chipotle salads: The secret is in the sauce. • Root Down joins the brunch bunch. • Class is in session at Bristol Brewery. • Denver-based Quiznos cuts…
Are we missing some link-worthy blogging from or about Denver? Does that make you want to stab us? Do it! Send tips to joe.tone@westword.com, and we’ll give you all the info on the stabbing thing! Buzz Geller’s Bell Tower may well rise after all. (Denver Infill) It’s officially official: Print…
It’s hard to know why a horror novelist whose work has been compared favorably to everyone from his role model, Steven King, to creepy filmmaker David Cronenberg would have a hard time breaking into print. But Internet innovator Scott Sigler took it in stride and never looked back: Instead, he…
Ever notice how politicians get a lot more forthright when they’re out of office? Today’s example comes from Cathy Donahue, a former Denver City Council member. In a letter published in today’s Rocky Mountain News, Donahue expresses her fondness for the Rocky while at the same time denigrating the Denver…
Thanks to the “HD” part of its call letters, KWHD-TV, found locally at Channel 53, has a name that seems made for the post-analog era. So it makes sense that the station would become the first local broadcaster to go all digital — something that will take place at 12:01…
News that Centennial-based Shane Co. has filed for bankruptcy no doubt sent a wave of shock through radio-business folks in all fourteen states where the company’s stores are located. Businesses of every description are cutting back on media buys, but Shane Co. has maintained its hefty presence on the airwaves,…
