Better late than never. Today in Backbeat Online: • Vintage Q&A with the late, great Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton. • Mile High Makeout: Coming home. • A review of the Fray at the Gothic Theatre. • Baji wants to announce your calls. • Femi Kuti cancels Boulder Theater show. Today…
Links, copied-and-pasted fresh daily. Send yours to joe.tone@westword.com. Unemployment on the rise in Denver. Hey, maybe traffic will get better! (Denver Business Journal, via 5280.) Who is Josh McDaniels, and would he make a good Broncos coach? Really obsessed minds want to know. (Mile High Report) In search of a…
Sure, ladies, there is a downside to skiing: You have to take care of the darned gear if you want to schuss the slopes smoothly and without mishaps. But Colorado’s twin women’s gear shacks, outdoor Divas, understands your consternation about this lowly task, which especially plagues those of you who don’t have…
You heard it here first, Colorado. Thanks to a reader tip, Westword has discovered video proof of some type of Sasquatch-type creature that lives in the foothills of Fort Collins and appears only during Colorado State University football games. Amazingly, the beast was first spotted romping on a nearby hill…
As publications throughout Colorado suffered declines in recent years, one seemed immune from problems afflicting the journalism industry: 5280. As noted in “Dan Brogan’s a Mile High on 5280 ,” a July 2007 blog featuring an interview with the aforementioned Brogan, the magazine’s founder, editor and publisher (pictured here), the…
The case of Richard Lopez, a sergeant in the Army who died outside a Steamboat Springs bar shortly after returning from a tour in Afghanistan, would have been terrible under any circumstances. But the ultra-trivial dispute that led to the tragedy — a jukebox spat that pitted Jimmy Buffett-loving Lopez…
As reported with merciless pix on TheSmokingGun and with keen analysis by our own intrepid Joel Warner (“New Ski Move Spotted at Vail”), a 48-year-old skier at Vail got depantsed on the chair lift yesterday, dangling upside down for fifteen minutes while rescuers tried to get him down and fellow skiers snapped…
The death of Channel 2’s 5:30 p.m. newscast, which will occur following Friday’s edition, shouldn’t shock anyone. In “Channels 2 and 31 Mix It Up in Denver,” an October Message column about the new partnership between these longtime rivals, Dennis Leonard, the vice president and general manager of Channel 31,…
It’s always dangerous when sportswriters include music references in their columns. Such citations are typically moldy — as, for instance, Rocky Mountain News staffer Bernie Lincicome’s dopey mention of Loggins and Messina, who hailed from an era “when music was fun,” he claimed in a December 7 piece. And all…
MediaNews Group vice chairman and chief executive officer/Denver Post publisher Dean Singleton faces the same kind of bleak economic outlook as any newspaper magnate, albeit with a number of intriguing twists — among them the potential closure of the Rocky Mountain News, the Post’s joint-operating-agreement partner in Denver. But at…
Now… where were we? Today in Backbeat Online: • Apples in Stereo energize Pepsi’s new ad campaign. • Hello Kavita checks in from the studio. • The new, improved Aubrey Collins. • Mile High Makeout: My head is spinning. • Rap-up: DJ Sabotage makes the finals for Scion Hypeman contest…
Links: They’re like hot links, but not as delicious and awesome. Send yours to joe.tone@westword.com.Why do the Broncos suck? The answer is a guy named Gary in Houston. (Mile High Report)Sen. Wayne Allard and Rep. Tom Tancredo are riding into the sunset. Sunsets just got 34 percent more boring. (Face…
We already love that the Denver Public Library’s changing, themed, free Fresh City Life programs always include a cooking series from season to season, offering culinary tips, demonstrations and samples for every local closet gourmet worth a dash of salt. Fittingly, in a fledgling new year marked by the need to tighten our…
At last night’s game at the Pepsi Center between the Indiana Pacers and your Denver Nuggets, Carmelo Anthony suffered a significant injury to his hand — a very bad thing. But before then, the 135-115 victory was a lot of fun, as I was able to document thanks to some…
Leave it to those merry pranksters at the Smoking Gun to spot this moment of utter embarrassment and hilarity at Vail Mountain resort last Friday. It turns out a skier attempted to ride the high-speed lift at Vail’s Blue Sky Basin, but when the seat didn’t fold down all the…
Unlike most laid-off journalists, Adam Cayton-Holland has another current vocation: standup comedy. So allow us to help hype it. A Cayton-Holland DVD called Dick Jokes for Artists is available now at his MySpace and Facebook pages, as well as at better retailers such as Wax Trax and Twist & Shout…
A handful of those who’ve commented on assorted blogs since we published information about layoffs at Westword have raised the topic of my alleged snarkiness as it applies to the Rocky Mountain News, which was recently put on the market — the suggestion being that I’ve chortled about the Rocky’s…
It’s been a mighty tough year or so for Lisa Rab, one of the staff writers laid off at Westword yesterday. She came to Denver from the Cleveland Scene, a onetime Village Voice Media property whose assets were sold to another firm and its archives taken offline. Hence, her award-winning…
Adam Cayton-Holland, who was among the writers laid off at Westword yesterday, is best known for his “What’s So Funny?” column — a natural outlet for someone who’s developed into one of the area’s most acclaimed young standup comics. A prime example: his October article about surviving a cougar attack…
Amber Taufen, one of the Westword staffers laid off yesterday, served as the paper’s assistant calendar editor — a position that calls for an ability to write well and often about a vast variety of topics and events. She did so with skill and lively wit — but she also…
A memo by Village Voice Media executives Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin published in the wake of a blog about layoffs at Westword mentions staff reductions across the chain of fifteen alternative weeklies across the country. These moves have been well documented, often by the papers themselves…
Today in Cafe Society: • Twelverestaurant introduces its third menu. • Spice Boys to close shop, go all online. • A Milking It review of Blueberry Monster Crunch. Today in Backbeat Online: • A fresh start for Eric Eyl’s Mile High Makeout. Today in The Latest Word: • The Rocky…
