Late last night or early this morning, someone affixed this giant sticker (it’s a couple of feet in diameter) to the north side of Westword’s Broadway office building. Presumably, it’s meant to suggest that we haven’t written enough about “Malnourishment,” “Corruption,” “Scarcity of Resources,” “Poverty,” “Economy” or “Deforesting.” With luck,…
Jay Marvin was once the fieriest of radio talk-show hosts, as is made clear in our 1998 feature article, “Double Trouble.” By the time of a 2007 Message column, “Progress?,” which profiled him in the context of his current station, AM 760, he’d mellowed considerably. But the combative Marvin resurfaces…
I knew there had to be a reason why my hangover was magically cured Monday morning — Benny Hinn was in town! The mega-televangelist brought his Benny Hinn Ministries healing sideshow to the Pepsi Center for the first time in three years, drawing thousands of believers for the 2008 Denver Holy Spirit…
May we escort you to some blogs? Today in Cafe Society: • A slice from Mermaids Bakery and Pie House. • Now open: Mangia Bevi at Palazzo Verdi. • Mark Tarbell dubs his new restaurant Mark & Isabella. • Tyler Nemkov on what burned his toast. • The Cody Inn’s…
We’re carving up the mountains of the Colorogosphere in search of hidden trails that we can… ah, screw this metaphor. Here are a bunch of links. Send us more.Colorado Republicans: Coming to a Facebook page near you. (Face the State)If you stumbled on this while surfing the web for a…
You can’t fault Chris Loffelmacher for being sweet on Marlene Dietrich: Her timeless, leggy androgynous beauty and sultry singing voice (not to mention the cruelly sexy German accent) still ring chimes for plenty of folks, a truth that Loffelmacher, director of the Denver Public Library’s Fresh City Life series, clearly took to…
Josh Penry (pictured here) wasn’t a happy man at the legislative hearing on parole policy December 8, and that’s probably a good thing. Penry, the Fruita Republican state senator who takes a back seat to no one in his tough-on-crime posturing, has been hollering about the supposedly alarming increase in…
Yesterday, the Denver Board of Realtors made a last-ditch effort to protest a proposal to keep mega-duplexes out of West Washington Park. As we chronicled here last week, Councilman Chris Nevitt’s rezoning plan to preserve the bungalow, single-family feel of one pocket of the city has exploded into a controversy…
Tom Tancredo may be near the end of his service as a U.S. Representative from Colorado, but he’s still making wacky public pronouncements — and thank goodness. Today’s example? According to the Denver Post, he suggests that some of the money proposed by president-elect Barack Obama for an enormous public-works…
Precious little coverage of the yesterday’s bankruptcy filing by the Tribune Co. has been devoted to its most prominent Denver property, KWGN-TV/Channel 2 — not even by the station itself. (At this writing, its home page doesn’t mention the development on its ten top stories.) That’s understandable, however, since the…
The results are in from the Loews Denver Hotel’s Scrooged contest — in which workplaces that can’t afford an office party could submit three-minute videos to YouTube featuring their boss and the reasons why the office deserves a festive holiday gathering. And judging by the winner’s dry humor, that party…
What with the news about the Tribune Co. filing for bankruptcy yesterday, it’s no surprise that the folks at Gawker are wondering if some notable newspapers will fail in the near future. “Newspapers: The Official Survival Odds” finds writer Hamilton Nolan weighing in on the future of the New York…
Seconds after Scripps-Howard suddenly announced that the Rocky Mountain News was for sale last Thursday, hopeful eyes were turning to Phil Anschutz, the local billionaire who’s already saved another local institution — the Ski Train that has taken generations of skiers from Union Station to Winter Park, the city-owned resort. And unlike other…
Today’s Rocky Mountain News and Denver Post both feature articles about Shawn White Wolf, a Montana entrepreneur who issued a press release last Friday announcing his potential interest in purchasing the Rocky. (Read those pieces here and here.) But White Wolf doesn’t go into any detail about how he could…
When Peyton Hillis became the 47th Bronco running back to go down with an injury this year, he opened the door for rookie Cory Boyd to be the next back to rush his way onto your fantasy playoff roster. Sure, the Broncos will trot out Tatum Bell as the starter,…
In a 2001 Message column, we profiled former Denver Bronco Mark Schlereth under the headline, “Two-Way Player: Mark Schlereth Tries to Balance Local Radio With a Rising TV Career.” Seven years later, he’s still trying to do so. While he doesn’t have a daily radio position in Denver at present,…
What just happened? This stuff. Today in Backbeat Online: • A live review of the Smashing Pumpkins at the Ogden Theatre. • Eric Eyl’s Mile High Makeout deals with dead days. • Ozric Tentacles moves to Fort Collins. Today in Cafe Society: • Steuben’s toasts the end of Prohibition –…
Habitat for Humanity is all about putting a roof over the heads of folks who might not otherwise enjoy that luxury; so is a man-made birdhouse, albeit on a much tinier level. As if to top off that metaphorical comparison with a story that’s almost too good to be true, birdhouses built from…
After the jump, a taste of what partying transpired this weekend in Denver, including a club’s grand opening and a monster show at the Ogden…
Even though they sometimes make me want to drown myself in a souvenir soda, I enjoy going to Broncos games when I get my hands on tickets. What I hate is getting to Invesco. Don’t get me wrong: As stadium clusterfucks go, Denver’s isn’t half bad. But still, most of…
Maybe I missed it, but I didn’t see any comments from Ronald or Loretta Murray in the one-year anniversary stories about the church shootings in Arvada and Colorado Springs. But then, the Murrays haven’t been eager to talk publicly about the multiple tragedies spawned by their deeply disturbed son Matthew,…
