Click here or on the cartoon thumbnail to see a larger image; it’ll take a few seconds. The city of Denver was so busy playing host to the Democratic National Convention this year that it didn’t even have time to make any plans for its own sesquicentennial celebration. That leaves…
Time is of the essence at Denver Health. The Denver City Council’s finance committee yesterday approved a one-year, $51.9 million operating agreement with the Denver Health and Hospital Authority — with one significant change over the previous contract: Denver Health has agreed to peg ambulance response times to when an…
Amy Herdy. Journalist Amy Herdy has jumped from place to place in recent years. Her first job in this market was as a reporter for the Denver Post — but she left that position to take a behind-the-scenes role at 9News, as documented in the 2007 Message column “Life Swap.”…
Amy Herdy as she appeared in the Pakistani press. The blog Denver Post and 9News vet Amy Herdy’s Journalistic Mission to Pakistan provides an overview of a trip to Islamabad recently completed by Herdy, who currently serves as the advisor for The Campus Press, the daily online news source for…
Past mug shots of Joe Principe. I have spoken with Lillian Principe, whose son, Joe Principe, was the subject of yesterday’s blog “Breaking News: Joe Principe’s Standoff With the Cops Ends Badly;” a former correctional officer at Florence’s supermax penitentiary, Joe was subsequently indicted as part of a conspiracy case…
From Deadspin, via Fan IQ: A hilarious video has surfaced of Nuggets play-by-play man Chris Marlowe struggling in stunned silence to come back from a break after an Altitude cameraman focused rather intently on the chest of a Nuggets dancers. You can tell he wanted to say something about the…
Gone but not forgotten — by one guy, anyway. Sure, the Broncos beat the Atlanta Falcons this past weekend, earning their second consecutive comeback win. But that doesn’t mean everyone is convinced that young Denver QB Jay Cutler has turned the corner — especially not the fan behind LetPlummerPlay.com, a…
An image from Intimidad. The first measure of any non-fiction narrative, whether written or visual, is how close it gets to the real lives of its subjects. As its title suggests, Intimidad, which screened at the Starz FilmCenter last night as part of the Denver Film Festival, seeks a level…
Thanks to “EC,” who commented on yesterday’s blog “Denver ArtsWeek: Welcome to the Mile High City, Saggy-Boob Electric Penis,” about the new public sculpture at the base of the 16th Street Pedestrian Bridge. EC referred us to this sculpture in Fort Smith, Arkansas, with which Denver’s artwork would seem to,…
Sonny, with a friend. Dogs: you think you know them — but do you really? In recent weeks, this question has taken on a great deal of importance at my house, which is ruled, to one degree or another, by Sonny, our beloved seven-year-old Miniature Schnauzer, who has recently come…
It all started about a year ago, when Boulder scientist Chris Holloway got into a discussion with the brewmaster at his favorite Boulder pub. The brewer insisted that a 22-ounce “bomber” bottle was nearly equal to two 16-ounce pints of nectar from the tap. He knew this because whenever he…
“Con School,” Alan Prendergast, November 6 Prose and Cons Thank you for the story from the ever-brilliant Alan Prendergast concerning the Cheyenne Mountain Re-Entry Center. My husband was sent to the facility last fall against his wishes. Upon entry, he was given a Bible and told that he must sign documents…
For photos of the Snowboard Bandits in action, go to westword.com/slideshow. The guy in the surveillance tape looks more like he’s ready to hit some epic powder than stick up a bank. The black form-fitting mask over his mouth and nose could have come off the rack at a ski…
The Fray are waiting for you. The hits just keep on comin’. Today in Backbeat Online: • The Fray is previewing new songs live at Snow Daze in Vail. • Talking golf and rock in a Q&A with Dead Confederate’s Hardy Morris. • Apollo Sunshine’s Sam Cohen gets the Backbeat…
Three views of Joe Principe. The call came into my voicemail Monday morning, November 17. “I’m calling to give you the exclusive rights to a standoff with the government,” the voice said. “I’m not going to leave my house. They’re jamming me up again… after all this nonsense that I’ve…
An image from Megalopolis. Megalopolis, which screens tonight at 6:45 p.m. at the Starz FilmCenter as part of the Denver Film Festival, is, nominally, a documentary. But it’s a documentary without a specific point to make — a documentary that revels in the details while leaving the big picture or…
Jim Congrove. Jefferson County Commissioner Jim Congrove had such an eventful first term in office — a grand jury probe into his financial dealings, a Colorado Bureau of Investigation inquiry into the county’s use of a private investigator who happens to be a bosom pal of Big Jim, a slew…
An image from Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell. The ongoing Denver Film Festival features a great many cinematic attention magnets, several of which have been covered in this space. (Examples include “The Brothers Bloom Flowers to Open the Denver Film Festival,” “Grappling with The Wrestler at the Denver…
Aaron Harber. At present, twenty people have submitted applications for Colorado’s Secretary of State job, including several big-name politicos: Andrew Romanoff, the term-limited speaker of Colorado’s House of Representatives; Ken Gordon, the majority leader for the state senate; Rosemary Rodriguez, the chairwoman of the Election Assistance Commission, Representative Bernie Buescher,…
Wayne Allard. As soon as word surfaced that Wayne Allard was interested in the open post of Colorado State University chancellor, the folks at the left-leaning ProgressNow organization hit the apeshit button, arguing that Allard would be as bad a CSU administrator as he’s been a U.S. senator. But this…
John Hickenlooper with Saggy-Boob Electric Penis. It’s a daunting task: What to call the new public sculpture at the base of the 16th Street Pedestrian Bridge. No ordinary name will do for such a creation, with its stack of bulbous crimson sacks rising, slipping and sliding, twenty feet into the…
The online logo of the Longmont Times-Call. Talk about a sign of the times in the journalism industry. Staffers at the Longmont Times-Call recently received an internal e-mail inviting them to work as valets at a private Christmas party for the Lehman family, who own the paper. And at least…
