Jeff Peckman (pictured) is best known as the man who fought to put a measure on the November ballot to create an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission in Denver. (Refresh your memory by reading Jason Sheehan’s June profile of Peckman here.) In the end, this bold mission proved impossible. But Peckman remains…
Bob Ewegen began working at the Denver Post in the early ’70s, most recently serving as the paper’s assistant editorial-page editor. So his departure from the paper in mid-November should have been a time for tribute. Instead, the paper has responded with near silence, as has Ewegen himself…
In today’s Rocky Mountain News, Lynn Bartels demonstrates once again why she made our list of the five journalists who the Denver Post should poach first in the event of a Rocky closure — a sidebar to the feature article headlined “The Rocky Mountain News is Going Down.” In her…
This morning, the Denver District Attorney’s Office will release new city protocols for how law enforcement, social services and legal agencies should deal with kids found in drug-endangered households, such as those living in meth labs or indoor marijuana grows. While that may not sound momentous, it is. For far…
I have to admit: I always thought the men Cosmopolitan magazine chooses for its annual Most Eligible Bachelor contest were cheeseballs. Every year, fifty eligible bachelors (one from each state) pose shirtless in the mag, next to a brief description and quote, in the hopes of being crowned the Most…
An interesting cyber-conversation cropped up in Tuesday’s blog “Help the Denver Post by Paying Extra for Obama’s Mile High Moment,” much of it fueled by someone identified as Diane, who made several charges against yours truly. The gist: Village Voice Media, the parent company of Westword, is teetering on the…
For all the holiday travelers who hate making the 21-mile trek from downtown to Denver International Airport, the History Channel has an answer. The Mega Movers show created a step-by-step video for how Denver could move the main airport terminal closer to the city using a system of steel beams,…
The whining starts about 5:30 a.m. — a slow, heartbreaking cry from the crate at the foot of my bed that I can usually silence by screaming “No!” as loud as I can, then collapsing back into my pillow. (The neighbors probably think that the curious fellow next door greets…
If anyone can make dirt fascinating, it’s J. John Cohen. That’s why a recent meeting of Colorado Cafe Scientifique, a popular free seminar that takes place ten times a year at the Wynkoop Brewing Company, was standing room only. Everyone was there to listen to Cohen, an immunologist at the…
Last week, Off Limits got you inside the big blue head of the Big Blue Bear, via an interview with the Visit Denver staffer who’d donned the costume of the iconic statue for an appearance on Good Morning America. On the December 5 show, Mayor John Hickenlooper was in GMA’s…
Eight years after she first reported a sexual assault to police and four years after prosecutors told her they were dropping the case, a young woman has won an unusual court ruling that orders prosecution of her alleged assailant, a former University of Colorado football player who was also implicated…
“Sale of the Century and a Half,” Michael Roberts, December 11 Both Sides Now Why are newspapers failing? Virtually every paper, including Denver’s, endorsed George Bush and lied us into a war. Even the New York Times, on the front page, assured us of the existence of weapons of mass…
When people ask Jim and Louise Gunderson if they have kids, they reply, “No, we have robots.” But right now, Louise feels like any other harried mother carrying a kilo of toys and bottles and diapers wherever she goes. Today is the first big day out for her little one,…
Blow, fat man, blow! Today in Backbeat Online: • Beyond Playlist presents Xmas-rated, part one: Noel Notables. • Eric Eyl’s Mile High Makeout on reading a top-ten list and checking it twice. • Swallow Hill is calling the next generation of Denver bands. • Chairlift continues its ascent… upward, of…
Bloggers: Send blog-able blogs to joe.tone@westword.com. With Salazar’s departure, Republicans (including AG John Suthers, pictured) are apparently salivating. Yeah, we think it’s gross, too. (Colorado Independent) Guys fighting CU gun ban are not “just a bunch of drunks who are going to shoot each other.” Which is too bad, because…
I really feel for my husband sometimes. In fact, I really feel for all men around this time of year. No, I’m not getting all Glenn Beck on you… I just can’t imagine how difficult it must be to shop for the important woman in your life. After all, if…
Denver’s Road Home, part of Mayor Hick’s plan to end homelessness, launched this pretty creative web video to encourage people to channel their donations away from panhandlers. Check out the clip above courtesy of The Denver Egotist. — Jared Jacang Maher…
This week’s Westword features an overtly robo-gandist cover story about Basil, a beer-serving robot created by Denver’s Jim and Louise Gunderson. But with all this talk of robots, I would’ve been remiss in not listing — as a service to humanity — the most evil robots of all time and…
You’ll be reading all about Basil the amazing bot in this week’s Westword cover story (which will be available online later today, December 17). But you can see him in action here. While the video above may not look all that exciting — Basil’s not slinging any beers or electrocuting…
In an “Extra!” side channel item from today’s Rocky Mountain News, Lynn Kimbrough, spokeswoman for Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey (pictured), expresses her displeasure at an online headline affixed to a story announcing that her boss might receive a $32,000 boost in pay. “I don’t want to sound like I’m…
Local coverage of Barack Obama’s selection of Colorado Senator Ken Salazar as the next Secretary of the Interior has mostly been rah-rah, sis-boom-bah. Take the Denver Post editorial “Salazar a Wise Choice for West, Nation.” But as noted in a National Public Radio story, assorted environmental groups are considerably less…
Layoff rumors of the sort Fox 31 general manager Dennis Leonard addressed in this December 16 blog are common throughout the media industry these days. But the loudest such rumblings around here may be emanating from assorted Clear Channel outlets — particularly those on the FM side of the dial:…
