Susan Snipes of the American Institute of Graphic Artists Colorado Chapter conceived of tonight’s Green Salon, AIGA’s environmentally conscientious quarterly networking event, as a kind of speed dating for sustainable solutions. Dubbed a “Sustainability Show and Tell,” it will feature ten random presenters speaking for five minutes each and discussing…
In blogs such as November 7’s “When is Marilyn Musgrave Going to Concede Defeat to Betsy Markey?” and November 25’s “Marilyn Musgrave’s Epic Pout Continues,” I’ve expressed amazement and awe over outgoing Congresswoman Musgrave’s steadfast refusal to publicly acknowledge defeat in last month’s election. Unfortunately, though, she’s finally done so,…
My flight back to DIA last night from an extended Thanksgiving vacation was remarkably stress-free. I was flying United, which always makes me nervous (This is the airline, after all, that once stranded me in Spartanburg, South Carolina, with a $15 meal voucher and a Best Western room with no…
This past baseball season, I wrote “Taco Bell Giveaway a Dinger,” yet another in a seemingly unending chain of hard-hitting, What’s So Funny exposé pieces, which got all up in the guts of a Taco Bell promotion promising four tacos for a dollar from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. the…
It all began with an innocent question. Never did I intend to uncover potential death and dismemberment, not to mention bureaucratic chaos, at the Downtown Aquarium. For some context, my family and I stopped by the aquarium this weekend. Besides the exorbitant entry fees and shameless retail schlock, one thing…
This past weekend, the New York Times published “A Penny For My Thoughts? ,” a Maureen Dowd column that focused on James Macpherson, publisher of the online publication Pasadena Now. To save money, Dowd writes, Macpherson sacked his staff of seven Pasadena-based staffers and replaced them with six contributors who…
“Burning Down His House,” an article in the current edition of New York magazine, focuses on Richard “Dick” Fuld (pictured), the CEO of Lehman Brothers, the largest financial-services business to fail in the current economic fiasco, as well as the most prominent firm not to benefit from the sort of…
Both the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News continue to include weekly inserts aimed at children — and frankly, these features’ explanations of current events can sometimes be clearer and more logically structured than the stuff that appears in the pages intended for grownups. Unfortunately, the “Colorado Kids” section…
During the lead-up to the 2008 election, KHOW radio host Dan Caplis focused all of his considerable intellect on the destruction of Barack Obama — a mission that caused him to become a shrill caricature of himself. (Check out the June blog “Dan Caplis and His Jihad Against Barack Obama”…
Athletic skill seldom waits for developmental maturity to blossom. It’s obvious from the beginning, as is demonstrated by the case of Matt Bouldin. A few years back, my wife was an assistant principal of St. Thomas More School, a K-8 facility that’s in the Archdiocese of Denver system, and she…
New blogs for a new month. Today in Backbeat Online: • Live reviews of Will Swindler’s Elevenet (pictured) at Dazzle, plus Boyz II Men at the Ogden Theatre, Wetlands, Monofog and more at the Larimer Lounge, Baby Birds Don’t Drink Milk and friends at Rhinocerpolis, and Yeasayer at the Bluebird…
An old German tradition, the lagniappe (pronounced lawn-yahp) offers merchants an opportunity to show appreciation for their customers, both loyal and brand-new, by opening their doors for a snow-kissed evening stroll. In other words, it’s a tradition tailor-made for the already cozy boutiques of Olde Town Arvada, where retailers host…
We’re cruising Denver blogs like hookers on Colfax, if hookers could be explored with RSS. See something worth blogging? Send it here. Aspen Mountain is open, but the town is apparently empty. Perhaps people are just busy having their furs dry-cleaned? (5280’s Elevated Voices)The Colorado Springs Gazette’s editorial board supports…
How typical: Ernie Bjorkman, a Denver-area anchorman for more than a quarter-century, finally gets some national exposure — less than two weeks before he leaves the profession for good. In the October 23 Message column “Channels 2 and 31 Mix It Up in Denver,” Bjorkman (seen above in a shot…
At a demonstration yesterday in Boulder, more than fifty gay-rights advocates, joined by newly elected Congressman Jared Polis, raised their voices in protest against the Cinemark movie-theater chain, whose owner, Alan Stock, donated $9,999 to a California campaign to outlaw gay marriage. But the timing of the event made more…
Naming bank robbers is an art, and the boys down at the FBI’s Rocky Mountain Safe Streets task force in Denver hold the paintbrushes. Their latest is the JV Bandit, so named because he was wearing a varsity or letterman-style jacket during one of his robberies. The jacket is…
Back in 2005, the folks at Shop.org declared the Monday after Thanksgiving to be “Cyber Monday” — supposedly the equivalent of Black Friday for e-tailers. Obviously, this designation is a wholly artificial construct intended to pump up business, but the media has signed on anyhow — including local info purveyors…
If you’re anything like us, you spent the weekend in a turkey-induced, All My Children-caliber coma, awaking only for the occasional chuckle at the Macy’s Parade getting Rick Rolled (still funny). For a taste of what you missed by not going out on the town — including the last in a…
Thanks to the way the Broncos handled the New York Jets yesterday, you can bet we’ll be hearing plenty of fans espousing the most popular, and positive, theory to explain the squad’s inexplicable season to date: The team plays up to, or down to, the level of its opponents. And…
Sometimes I joke about adopting a teenager. I imagine myself showing up at the adoption agency with a stop-watch around my neck and a tape measure on my belt, dragging prospective dependents onto the lawn to time them in the 40 and measure their wingspan. I’d never do it, of…
Silly me. I thought the most aggravating Denver local-TV moment this morning would be Channel 9’s use of a seemingly endless promo for the Baz Luhrmann film Australia as a blatant time waster toward the end of the 5 a.m. half hour — a topic already derided here in the…
