When is Marilyn Musgrave going to concede defeat to Betsy Markey?

Marilyn Musgrave. A day or so after Tuesday’s election, I was talking with a co-worker about fallout from the vote when she mentioned that she hadn’t seen any snippets from Marilyn Musgrave’s concession speech, and I realized that I hadn’t, either. Even so, it didn’t seem possible to me that…

Polyvore: cut, copy and paste your way to creative bliss

An image from the Polyvore website. Lately, I’ve been encountering a lot of style blogs where the authors are completely obsessed with Polyvore, a website that allows its users to make elaborate fashion and interior design-style collages using images they’ve uncovered all over the web or on the site itself…

Disorder in the court: buzzed on Obama

You’re making some legal history, too, my friend… At 9 a.m. Thursday morning, Denver County Judge Melvin Okamoto, who’s retiring at the end of the month, called Courtroom T into session and promptly began dispensing justice to a motley crew of folks charged with misdemeanors — shoplifting, trespassing, public intoxication,…

The Boulder Daily Camera‘s building goes on the block

The Daily Camera building can now be yours. In yesterday’s blog “The Denver Dailies: No Post-Election Shrinkage Yet,” I argued that the hefty size of the Rocky Mountain News and the Denver Post shouldn’t be interpreted as a sign that the newspaper business is back on track. More indicative of…

The Westword.com blog shortcut, November 6 edition

The Fray. Take a visit to Blogville. Today in Backbeat Online: • The Fray sets the date for its next album. • Eric Eyl’s Mile High Makeout offers tricks and treats. • A Q&A with Gang Gang Dance’s Lizzi Bougasos. • A free MP3 from Rabbit Is a Sphere. Today…

Kenny Be’s Worst-Case Scenario: Naked Ambition

Click here or on the cartoon thumbnail to see a larger image; it’ll take a few seconds. The election is over and we can all turn out attention from the people who run for political office to the people who run naked through the streets. Nearly a dozen of the…

T-shirt asks: What Would Jay Cutler Do? But do we really want to know?

Do you really want to know? Call me crazy, but I have to think the guy who printed this “What Would JC Do?” T-shirt is second-guessing himself a little these days. Because while Cutler still has a chance to one day become the Broncos’ floppy-haired, doughy-cheeked Messiah, in recent weeks…

The Denver Nuggets’ quarter-life crisis

Carmelo Anthony doesn’t seem to be in a Golden State of mind in this image from the Denver Nuggets’ website. If NBA games were decided after the first quarter of play, the Denver Nuggets would have been league champs several years in a row. Over and over again, the team…

ICE deportations in Denver set record; see the release here

ICE cold. During the just-concluded campaign season, immigration, a hot-button topic in recent years, was seldom mentioned by candidates for any major office. But two days after Americans cast their ballots, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the agency known as ICE, has stepped forward with a new report that attempts…

The Denver dailies: no post-election shrinkage yet

Page one of the November 6 Denver Post. In “Bob Schaffer’s Election Hopes are in the Bag,” a November 4 blog, I noted Rocky Mountain News editor/publisher/president John Temple’s pledge that the tabloid’s day-after-the-election paper would be its largest ever — and indeed, the offerings that morning from the Rocky…

Liga Latina de Beisbol vet’s baseball dream is coming true

Juan Martinez. At 24, Juan Martinez still has the same dream that he had two years ago, when I wrote about him in “A League of Their Own,” an April 2006 feature about Denver’s Liga Latina de Beisbol, a predominately Mexican Front Range baseball league. It’s the same dream he’s…

Cool School

When high school principal Michael Johnston settled in, like 33 million other Americans, to watch Barack Obama’s thirty-minute prime-time infomercial on October 26, he had no idea the school he leads was about to get a nationwide shout-out. The $3 million commercial was a feel-good address with clips from Obama’s…

From the week of November 6, 2008

“Hotel Martino,” Jared Jacang Maher, October 30 No-Tell Hotel Well, there’s a chill in the air, which means its time for the annual Tom Martino-bashing at Westword. I read Jared Jacang Maher’s article about Mr. Martino’s involvement with the project at Park Avenue West and Glenarm. As far as I…

War is heck in the battleground state of Colorado

I woke up early in Colorado, still a battleground state, according to the November 4 Wall Street Journal. I prepared myself for battle by studying the election items that had arrived at my home yesterday: a flier under my doormat headlined “Vote for the Change We Need,” with a number…

Backyard Politics

We first noticed the change in the mammoth LED billboard on I-25 near 50th Avenue during an afternoon rush hour in late October. The marquee, which normally just lists the time and the temperature, was now offering an opinion on which way the political winds were blowing, flashing a McCain/Palin…

Can a troubled Colorado prison change the way inmates think?

Jay Lewis assumes the position. He slouches, arms folded across his chest, knee bent and foot braced on the wall behind him. He looks like your typical green-tunic-clad felon, lazily taking in the passing show at the Cheyenne Mountain Re-Entry Center, a 750-bed private prison in Colorado Springs. “He’s jailin’,”…

The Westword.com blog shortcut, November 5 edition

k.d. lang. You’ve got questions. Our blogs have answers. Today in Backbeat Online: • A revealing Q&A with k.d. lang. • A live review of Metallica at the Pepsi Center. • Getting to know former Pavement frontman Stephen Malkmus. • A vintage Pavement profile that hinted at the breakup to…