The Mtn. vice president and general manager Kim Carver. Last night, on KEPN/1600 AM, ESPN Radio’s Denver affiliate, syndicated host Jon Stashower discussed one of the big college-football matchups of the weekend: Saturday’s faceoff between the Utah Utes and the Brigham Young University Cougars. But in addition to focusing on…
Conspiracists unite. The November 10 blog “Peter Boyles Still Publicizing Obama Birth-Certificate Story” is turning into an evergreen. Far from abandoning this topic in the wake of Barack Obama’s election, KHOW morning-host Boyles is continuing to pump it, and at least a portion of his audience is responding with saucer-eyed…
Regas Christou puts a dome on it. If he can get past the liquor license board on December 3, nightclub magnate Regas Christou is hoping City Hall , his new outdoor venue at 1144 Broadway, will serve a more elite, upper-crust crowd than the grind-happy scenesters who frequent his other…
On the Rocks. Reading is blog-a-rific. Today in Backbeat Online: • Five things to do at Red Rocks besides see a concert. • A free Low Budget Soul download. • Pee Pee will back Nellie McKay this Saturday before hibernating for the winter. Today in Cafe Society: • This beer…
Sean Harrington would like to ask at least one psychiatrist some very pointed questions. KnowYourCourts, a website known for challenging the actions of various Colorado lawyers, judges and credentialed “experts” associated with the divorce industry in the state, continues to demonstrate that some of those experts aren’t all they claim…
Medical treatment for prisoners and halfway-house residents can be tough to swallow. Health care inside prison walls can be downright criminal, a situation we’ve chronicled in some detail in our Crime and Punishment Archive. But the care can actually be worse for parolees, since the Colorado Department of Corrections expects…
The forecast for clueless viewers is slow. Yesterday, all of the Denver TV stations with news operations devoted significant portions of their broadcasts to the conversion from analog signals to the digital kind, which will take place on February 17; visit DTV.gov to learn more about the details than you…
Vance Kirkland’s studio. A warning about Denver ArtsWeek: Beware the free stuff. Friday night’s opening event — free admission to Denver’s museums, and special programs featuring music, food, and story-telling for the kids — was a fantastic idea. But the promise of free stuff tends to bring out the cheap…
Former Marine Lance Hering as he looked at the time of his recent arrest. Lance Hering, the recently arrested Marine whose bizarre disappearance was the subject of the 2007 Adam Cayton-Holland feature article “An Uphill Battle” and yesterday’s blog “The End of the Line for AWOL Marine Lance Hering,” used…
François Bégaudeau in The Class. The Class (Entre Les Murs), which can be be seen at 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday, November 18 at the Starz FilmCenter as part of the 31st annual Starz Denver Film Festival, comes with a tony pedigree. The film won the Palme d’Or at this year’s…
Lord save us. News that Colorado Springs’ Focus on the Familiy is eliminating 202 jobs — the biggest single cut in the ministry’s history — naturally raised the question of whether Focus reps would lay the blame at Barack Obama’s door. After all, prior to the November 4 vote, Focus…
Key lyric from the Prince song “Controversy”: “Am I straight or gay?” In the latest issue of the New Yorker, writer Claire Hoffman checks up on the Artist-Currently-Known-As-Prince in his new Los Angeles mansion and finds that the flamboyantly androgynous musician (who was one pelted with garbage when he appeared…
Associated Content founder and president Luke Beatty. “Ham It Up,” a May 2007 Message column, asserted that Associated Content, a Denver-based operation, “is arguably the most visited media website in the city” — a claim that couldn’t have made the folks at the Rocky Mountain News, Denver Post, 9News, etc.,…
Single File poses side by side. How confusing! No pushing and shoving, blog lovers. There’s plenty for everyone. Today in Backbeat Online: • Single File previews its new recording. • Tickle Me Pink releases the explicit version of its “Typical Whore” video. • KBCO’s Studio C celebrates its twentieth anniversary…
A missing-person playing card. Soon, playing cards in Colorado jails could be replaced by ones emblazoned with the photos of missing persons and unsolved homicide victims, says a Colorado Department of Corrections representative, who adds the new playing-card program “hasn’t actually started, but is a work in progress.” If so,…
Two looks at Lance Hering. The strange story of Marine Lance Corporal Lance Hering — whose story was chronicled in the April 2007 feature article “An Uphill Battle” — just got a little stranger. Hering first came to the public’s attention when his best friend, Steve Powers, emerged from Eldorado…
Ed Asner as Lou Grant. Ed Asner is back at the Denver International Film Festival — at least on film. The irascible star of Lou Grant came to Denver 21 years ago, when the completely forgettable O’Hara’s Wife opened the festival in 1987. But former festival director Ron Henderson won’t…
The late Jack A. Weil. Art is where you find it. And on Friday, November 14, the kick-off of Denver ArtsWeek, when eleven museums across town opened their doors to huge, enthusiastic crowds, I found it in what could be the city’s smallest museum: the mezzanine of Rockmount Ranch Wear…
Mark Cuban Updated, 12:10 p.m. November 17: Billionaire Mark Cuban is most closely associated with Dallas, thanks to his ownership of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team. But he’s got a Denver connection, too. As pointed out in “HDNet Gains,” Cuban’s HDNet — a service that reached out to Dan Rather…
My ticket. Shortly after watching Slumdog Millionaire, the first-rate flick detailed in the blog “Slumdog Millionaire makes for a Big Night at the Denver Film Festival,” I walked with my wife from the Denver Center for the Performing Arts to the lot where I’d parked my fine 1994 Geo Prizm…
Magic Cyclops, in all his majesty. The focus of November 15’s Big Night presentation at 31st annual Starz Denver Film Festival was Slumdog Millionaire, a flick reviewed in the blog “Slumdog Millionaire Makes for a Big Night at the Denver Film Festival.” But there was plenty going on outside the…
