This 2006 Message column “HDNet Gains” profiled HDNet, billionaire Mark Cuban’s high-definition television network. At the time, Cuban and his Denver-based partner, Philip Garvin, were thrilled about adding longtime CBS anchor Dan Rather to HDNet’s family. But Garvin remained frustrated that the programming was mainly available on satellite operations, as…
Join us for a few cups of blog. Today in Cafe Society: • Izakaya Den (pictured) joins the lunch bunch. • What Denver restaurants would you recommend to Food & Wine? • Charlie Master could be getting back in the game. • Candy Girls sink their teeth into Flake and…
This is the Friday edition of our daily exploration of local blogs. It’s just like the other editions, only it knocks off early to drink thirteen Coors Lights, eat hot wings and argue about the BCS all night. Send blog tips to joe.tone@westword.com.The total Washington outsider Tom Daschle makes the Obama…
Tony Shawcross, a 2007 Westword MasterMind awardee, and Denver Open Media have good reason to celebrate. Two years of cracking open the doors of media production to the community by providing instruction, video equipment and local programming on a shoestring is quite a feat whenever and wherever it happens. But when…
Traffic sucks, and as Colorado grows, it just seems to get worse and worse. Some people leave earlier to deal with the jams, or move closer to their offices. Others pick up their bicycles or take the bus. Still others speed, run red lights, curse their fellow drivers or silently…
Yesterday, staffers at the Rocky Mountain News received an e-mail from editor/publisher/president John Temple with an attached press release explaining why parent company E.W. Scripps had decided to put the paper on the block; read it in the blog “Rocky Mountain News Put Up For Sale.” Today’s follow-up e-mail is…
Millions of bleary-eyed Americans were greeted this morning by the sight of a big blue bear — a living embodiment of the iconic “I See What You Mean” bear statue on the side of the Colorado Convention Center — waving cheerfully to them from their televisions. It was part of…
The nature of print media is strange these days. Pages shrivel and shrink, then disappear altogether, while paid positions dry up like teens on Proactiv, resulting in a frenzied scramble toward writers and editors doing more with less, pissed off at their frozen salaries yet unable to bitch about it for…
On ESPN radio (1600 AM) this morning, host Colin Cowherd veered into an interesting discussion about the best coaching jobs in college and pro football. In judging great coaching gigs, he said he looks for a handful of traits: supportive but not unrealistic fans, supportive but not overbearing owners/administrators, some…
In October, we introduced you to the battle over monster duplexes and neighborhood character in West Washington Park. Now, as a December 15 City Council hearing approaches, the controversy is exploding into a debate over the future of development in Denver’s older neighborhoods. Some residents in West Washington Park want…
There was plenty of incentive for the Rocky Mountain News to soft-pedal the decision of its parent company, E.W. Scripps, to put the tabloid up for sale on the cusp of its 150th anniversary. But to the paper’s credit, editors put the story front and center. As seen here, the…
Ho-ho-holy crap, it’s that time of year again. The North American Aerospace Defense Command has gone live with its weird, kid-friendly NORAD Tracks Santa website, offering its Santa-centric obsession in seven languages. Among goofy local holiday traditions, I’ve never quite understood this one. NORAD gets some cutesy publicity, I suppose,…
Denver’s spent decades trying to convince the rest of the country that everyone in this town doesn’t walk around singing the tunes created by John Denver, a man who a) wasn’t born in Denver (he hailed from Indiana) and b) wasn’t born John Denver (his birth name was Henry Deutschendorf)…
One of the few things worth laughing about among reporters and editors following yesterday’s announcement that E.W. Scripps has put the Rocky Mountain News up for sale was columnist Mike Littwin’s newsroom reenactment of a famous scene from Animal House — John Belushi’s “It’s not over!” speech. (“Was it over…
Now is a great time to enter the banking industry, wouldn’t you say? As our economy collapses, some unlucky schmuck still has to make cold calls from the vacant desks at the newly merged WaMu Chase Wachovias of America, asking customers to entrust their savings to the corporate titans who…
Nothing to do? Allow us to help you fill your time. Today in Cafe Society: • A brief (100 year) history of Sixth Avenue — including a stop at Little India (pictured). • Oodles of noodles are coming to town. • Cheer! We’re not number three in binge-drinking. • Prices,…
Jason Bosch, sole dynamo behind the weekly ArgusFest human-rights film series, originally planned to screen the Errol Morris documentary Standard Operating Procedure, a stark look at the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, tonight at the Mercury Cafe. But he changed his mind when he decided to also host the fest’s annual Fair Trade Holiday…
Don’t worry, doomed Rocky Mountain Newsers! When you start your blog, we’ll link to it! We do it every day! Send your links to joe.tone@westword.com!Here’s a story/Of a man named Clady/Who was holding up the Broncos’ offense on his own. (Mile High Report)Sure, we voted Democratic. But is Colorado really…
In the hours since the development spotlighted in today’s blog “Rocky Mountain News Put Up For Sale” first broke, I’ve had the chance to speak with numerous staffers at the paper. The majority chose to talk on background, and with only a couple of exceptions, they had similar reactions to…
Click here or on the cartoon thumbnail to see a larger image; it’ll take a few seconds. Good Morning America is turning the holiday spotlight on Denver! The Mile High City, along with Atlanta and Kansas City have each been chosen to decorate a window and transform the studio into…
It’s the sort of headline most media observers in this area have been anticipating for quite some time, but it’s still a shock to see it in print: “Rocky Mountain News For Sale.” The article, published moments ago on the Rocky’s website, quotes from a press release in which Rich…
A report that suggests an aroma for CSU perfume — the topic of today’s blog “Colorado State University Smells Like… Deer and Locker Rooms?” — wasn’t only the unusual mention of this state we’re in on National Public Radio yesterday. An unexpected local reference popped up in “Mumbai Attacks Offer…
