Watch out, radio stations. I’m no longer impotent when it comes to determining your success of failure. Suddenly, I’m a force to be reckoned with. Sort of. Kind of. In a way. A few days back, my beloved received a letter from Arbitron, the Maryland-based radio-ratings service. “Be Part of…
Since the holidays, countless piles of boxes have surely been left destitute up and down Denver’s streets. I know this because that was the case by my house last and all down my street last week. Heap after heap of cardboard was ignored by the recycling truck rumbling past, left…
This video, produced by the Yummies’ Gavin Rember, has been out for a while. But it’s still a great reminder of Denver’s often ignored, industrial step-cousin to the north, Commerce City, which “sparkles like a jewel in the cleavage of the Rocky Mountain West.” I’m already planning to relocate my…
How can the folks at the Rocky Mountain News fill the pages of the paper with an overworked staff that’s smaller than it’s been in years? One approach can be found in today’s edition. A three-column version of “Statewide DUI Effort Snags 569,” a piece by April Washington, appears on…
Dana Perino, the Colorado-bred White House press secretary — and 2007 Westword profile subject — came out, so to speak, during an appearance on The Daily Show last night. Wearing a shwing!-worthy red dress, she thoroughly charmed host Jon Stewart during a mammoth eight-minute interview segment, displaying a warmth and…
In last night’s episode of the ABC drama Grey’s Anatomy, the central plotline revolved around guest star Eric Stoltz, as a gravely wounded death-row prisoner whose unapologetically homicidal instincts stir conflicting emotions in the staff at Seattle Grace Hospital. But no doubt the ears of local viewers perked up during…
Sometimes a phrase that’s been around for ages suddenly takes on unexpected significance. Case in point: “Congratulations: You made it through the week.” Morning 9News anchor Gary Shapiro has been delivering this benediction every Friday for years; he started working at the station in 1983, and took over a.m. hosting…
You were saying? Today in Backbeat Online: • The Pirate Signal invades Sundance, takes no prisoners. • Havok inks deal with Candlelight Records. • Mile High Fidelity playlist 01-07-09. • Almost famous? Not for much longer, perhaps. • Rap-Up: Spoke-in-Words can freak it in Spanish, too. • Autokinoton closes up…
Surfing the interwebs for Denver-related awesomeness. Send tips to joe.tone@westword.com.Denver: It’s falling apart one road at a time! (Colorado Independent)Republicans to Ritter: We’ve got your state-of-the-state right here. (Face the State)Nuggets fans: There’s a new place obsess over your favorite team. (Roundball Mining Company)…
Because the Arvada Center for Arts and Humanities has such a great track record for tying all the loose ends together thematically, a trio of West-inspired photography shows open in the galleries today — just in time for the regional influx of National Western Stock Show visitors and next week’s returning Colorado Cowboy Poetry Gathering,…
Thanks to buyouts, resource shifts and other assorted changes for the worse, the folks who put together the Rocky Mountain News’ Spotlight section have had to rely on the newspapering equivalent of smoke and mirrors to fill its pages on a daily basis. Today’s edition provides a zany example: an…
Since November 2004, Cause Communications president Jason Salzman (pictured) has written a media column for the Rocky Mountain News; his pieces run every two weeks, alternating with offerings by the Independence Institute’s Dave Kopel, whose perspective is typically as conservative as Salzman’s is liberal. However, his most recent effort, tentatively…
The blog “Debate Over Spiked Rocky Mountain News Media Column Heats Up” deals with a Jason Salzman column that the Rocky declined to publish — so Salzman posted it on his own website, prompting Rocky editor/publisher/president John Temple (pictured) to put together a tough reply. The text from Salzman’s column…
The blog “Debate Over Spiked Rocky Mountain News Media Column Heats Up” deals in part with a piece by Jason Salzman, who feels the Denver dailies haven’t truly measured the chances that the Justice Department might choose to prevent the dissolution of a joint-operating agreement that links the Rocky and…
This March, Westword will publish its 26th Best of Denver issue, a celebration of all the things, people, places and burritos that make Denver the city it is. What does this mean? A few things. First, it means we need your help: Our 2009 Best of Denver poll is now…
A week from tomorrow, January 16, is the day by which MediaNews Group chieftain Dean Singleton and execs at the Denver Newspaper Agency say they need to secure $18 million in labor savings prior to renegotiating $130 million in debt. “If that fails,” says a letter penned by DNA senior…
Strong winds yesterday knocked down a power line that sparked a wildfire in Boulder County that continues this morning. How strong were the winds? Check out this video of several women getting knocked down by powerful gusts as they try to cross an office parking lot in Broomfield. Ignore the…
Folks at TV-news operations would never suggest that they love fires — but the truth is, flames look great on television, particularly after darkness falls. This fact was reconfirmed by last night’s coverage of an ongoing conflagaration in Boulder County, which has resulted in the destruction of at least three…
You remember Michael Brown — or “Brownie,” as George W. Bush liked to call him. He was head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) when Hurricane Katrina hit, and he soon became the walking, talking symbol of the government’s failure to anticipate the size and scope of the disaster…
Reports that a soldier was beaten to death late last week just because he played Jimmy Buffett’s “Margaritaville” on a jukebox in the Tap House Sports Grill in Steamboat Springs sounded preposterous — until we caught Vanilla Ice’s halftime performance during the January 3 Denver Nuggets game. Those mind-numbingly catchy,…
“Perfect 6,” Jason Sheehan, December 25 Clearing the Table Just read Jason Sheehan’s review of Table 6. Great review; they deserve it. But, unfortunately, we have to read through Jason. God, it’s so tiring to have to get through all the cigarette butts, whores, drugs, alcohol, alley rats and all…
For more photos of Kauri Tiyme, go to westword.com/slideshow. The maid found her. It was close to checkout time on Saturday, October 18, and a member of the housekeeping staff at the Denver Marriott Tech Center used her pass key to enter the room. One look, and she knew she…
