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Russell Scott, aka Blinky the Clown, in his namesake store. Today’s Denver Post features a story about the impending closure of Blinky’s Antiques, the Broadway store owned and run by Russell Scott, known to multiple generations of Denver children as Channel 2 kiddie personality Blinky the Clown. Predictably, the piece…

An image from a Ted Haggard report on Good Morning America. It’s about time we heard from Ted Haggard. The former pastor with Colorado Springs’ New Life megachurch, Haggard fell from grace, in a manner of speaking, after male escort Mike Jones went public with stories of sex and meth;…

Got any fliers? This past weekend, a couple of days after a blog dubbed “The Boulder Daily Camera’s Building Goes on the Block” was published, I happened to be in Boulder, and I stopped by the facility in the hope of finding out how much the place is selling for…

In 2006, veteran Denver Health paramedic Robert Loop unmasked serial paramedic impersonator Brett Andrews at the scene of a rollover car crash (“The Impersonator,” August 31, 2006). “I knew that something wasn’t right, because he was wearing our uniform, but I didn’t recognize him,” Loop said then. Two years later,…

“Mix Well,” Michael Roberts, October 23 TV or Not TV I’d love to have the opportunity to cuss out Dennis Leonard, the new vice president and hatchet man at Channels 31 and 2, because I think he’s an ass. He thinks Fox 31 is such a fantastic station compared to…

Jay Kriner has invented a way to get people to stare at your crotch and be polite about it at the same time. It’s the Beer Buckle — patent pending — and while it may not change your life, it will certainly make you the life of the party. A…

He was one of the smartest dumbasses you’ll ever meet,” Harry Haney says of his son. Chris Haney was an honors student who took all advanced placement classes at his Texas high school and was the lead-off hitter on the 5A varsity baseball team his freshman year. “Then he hooked…

Madonna rides on something a lot older than she is. Link up below. Today in Backbeat Online: • Dave Herrera’s live review of Madonna at the Pepsi Center. • The skinny on tonight’s Madonna cast and crew after-party. • A Q&A with Minor Threat, Fugazi and Dischord Records founder Ian…

People will be lining up for this opportunity. Reports about layoffs are about as rare as oxygen molecules these days; our blog “The Colorado Independent is Downsizing But Not Disappearing” is just one of many, many examples. In this environment, Denver Teaching Fellows, a Denver Public Schools program to train…

Where will Juan Pierre be listed? Thanks to the Colorado Rockies’ decision to send Matt Holliday to the Oakland A’s for three players who don’t appear to equal the sum of his parts (see “Matt Holliday and the Rockies’ Case of Premature Ejaculation” for details), fans will soon have to…

Face the State’s Brad Jones. These are difficult times for the politicalliy progressive Colorado Independent website, as detailed in a series of recent blogs: “The Colorado Independent is Downsizing But Not Disappearing,” “Cara DeGette on Layoffs at the Colorado Independent” and “Colorado Independent Staffers Warned Not to Talk About Layoffs.”…

Let’s take it to the scales. Upon my arrival at Westword’s offices this morning, I picked up our copies of the Rocky Mountain News and the Denver Post and was surprised — and pleased — by how heavy they felt. But how bulky were they really? To find out, I…

Tatum Bell: hang onto that pigskin!. How desperate are the Denver Broncos for a healthy running back? Desperate enough to reach out to former Bronco Tatum Bell, whose release earlier this year by the Detroit Lions only made headlines because teammate Rudi Johnson accused him of stealing his bags on…

The Center for Independent Media wants staffers to zip it — zip it good. Hope I didn’t get Cara DeGette into trouble. DeGette is the former editor and current senior writer with the Colorado Independent, a news-and-information website affiliated with the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Independent Media. After news surfaced…

Jerry Schemmel, left, with Jason Kosmicki, who’ll take a more prominent role in Nuggets broadcasts this season. The news that Jerry Schemmel, the longtime voice of the Denver Nuggets, would be reducing his on-air appearances this season in order to coach a completely different sport — baseball — seemed to…

One of the many quotes stamped into the walls at Boulder’s Rembrandt Yard. Rembrandt Yard Art Gallery & Events Center in Boulder has a lot of advice to offer. The entire building is covered with quotes from famous artists, musicians, inventors and thinkers (from Leonardo da Vinci to Freddie Mercury)…

At the original Davies Chuck Wagon Diner, a horse is a horse, of course, of course. Join us as we salute blogging veterans — and the other kind, too. Today in Cafe Society: • Rounding up a third edition of Davies Chuck Wagon Diner. • Could Denver’s Daniel Young wind…

Cara DeGette. Today’s blog “The Colorado Independent is Downsizing But Not Disappearing” deals with significant layoffs at the Colorado Independent, a news-and-information site sponsored by the Center For Independent Media in Washington, D.C. But although David Bennahum, the Center’s CEO and president, was able to address big-picture matters in an…

The Colorado Independent laid off much of its staff yesterday. The Colorado Independent, a state-based satellite website funded by the Washington, D.C.’s Center For Independent Media, is shrinking in order to survive. That’s the bottom line according to David Bennahum, CIM’s president and CEO, who responded to an inquiry prompted…

Bill Cardona. On Monday, November 10, the Denver City Council approved Resolution 185, authorizing a payment of $438,968.80 to settle claims brought against the city by ex-firefighter Bill Cadorna, who was dismissed after being falsely accused of shoplifting a cookbook. Add that amount to back pay and the amount Cardona…