Benjamin Whitmer. “Try Again,” a January 2007 Message column, dealt with the revelation that the Try-Works, a fiery pro-Ward Churchill blog, wasn’t the work of Churchill himself, as some observers argued. Instead, the person responsible was Benjamin Whitmer, an untenured, part-time instructor in the same Ethnic Studies program at the…
Mike Coffman. With so many competitive races in Colorado this year, it’s something of a novelty to discovery one that’s not close at all. So it is with the 6th Congressional District, currently represented by outgoing Republican Representative Tom Tancredo. When GOP officials left positions elsewhere, Dems saw the vaccum…
The crowd gathers. For all of its commercialization, the Komen Race For the Cure, a breast-cancer fundraiser that took place on Sunday, remains one of the most positive annual events in Denver — a gathering at which all of the things that divide us are set aside in favor of…
JabbaWockeeZ. JabbaWockeeZ, the mask-wearing, insanely inventive first winners on the MTV hit America’s Best Dance Crew, headline the show’s inaugural live tour, which comes to Denver on Wednesday, October 8. (Click here for details.) For Rynan “Kid Rainen” Paguio, one of the original JabbaWockeeZ, the journey from the streets to…
Rabbi Jamie Korngold. The holiest days of the Jewish year have arrived, which means it’s time for cynical, kvetching people everywhere to count their blessings and remember why, even in the midst of the Great Depression Sequel, they have reason to celebrate. Last Tuesday was Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New…
Stick to it. Recent polls have suggested that the majority of Walmart shoppers support the presidential aspirations of Republican nominee John McCain and his hockey-mom running mate, Sarah Palin, over those of Dems Barack Obama and Joe Biden. That probably explains the presence this weekend of an Obama volunteer in…
Ahoy. May we interest you in a fresh serving of blogs? Cafe Society spends happy hour at Oceanaire. It’s an alternative to the recently closed Ocean, whose former employees don’t have a raft of compliments for their ex-boss. Thank goodness the Candy Girls deal with sweeter stuff: M&M’s Premiums. Also,…
My new jersey. Okay, so I’ve whined. And I’ve moaned. And I’ve generally grumbled about how few Denver Broncos stars there are and how, because of that, I wouldn’t know which jersey to buy this football season if I were to buy one at all. And now it’s time for…
Pat Bowlen back in the day. Technically speaking, Canadian millionaire Edgar Kaiser sold his interest in the Denver Broncos to Pat Bowlen in 1984. But it’s been hard to let go — especially as the team’s value has soared from the $60 million or so that Bowlen paid for it…
Dean Singleton. An October 3 Denver Post editorial headlined “11th Hour Deal Puts Colorado First” praises a coalition of business and labor leaders for reaching a bizarre agreement to pull four initiatives — Amendments 53, 55, 56 and 57 — from the November ballot. But there’s no shortage of vitriol…
Transportation panel co-chair Doug Aden. Governor Bill Ritter’s Transportation panel recently launched a five-week, 25-meeting community outreach effort to raise awareness about Colorado’s transportation funding crisis, and engage the public in a debate about possible solutions. At least that’s what the press release said. Since the biggest roadblock standing in…
Dad? Travis Henry has problems. Lots of problems. The former Denver Broncos running back ran himself right out of the NFL – and his lucrative salary – after getting busted last year for smoking marijuana (he had signed a five-year, $22.5 million contract, but ended up playing only one year…
Kevin Corke. Following last night’s debate, NBC presented a “Truth Squad” segment aimed at determining what vice-presidential hopefuls Sarah Palin and Joe Biden said that was varying degrees of wrong — and the person doing the judging was none other than Kevin Corke, who has executed what may be the…
Lisa Kennedy. The downsizing of newspaper staffs has decimated the ranks of locally based film reviewers across the country, Denver included. Neither the Rocky Mountain News nor Westword currently use area scribes to analyze flicks, meaning that the Denver Post’s Lisa Kennedy is the last fulltime Denver movie critic with…
If you were this hot, we’d let you cheat, too. When the St. Pauli Girl, the six-foot-tall Russian vixen charged with promoting St. Pauli beer, needed to shamelessly promote her product through a friendly game of beer pong, she called Westword’s Adam Cayton-Holland, because who the hell else would you…
Brian Griese during his Broncos tenure. This weekend, the Denver Broncos take on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who are in the desperately sad situation of believing that quarterback Brian Griese gives them the best chance to win. Broncos fans have been here before — from 1999 to 2002 specifically (and…
“I eat candidates like you for lunch…” Content? We can help you out when it comes to both meanings of the word… Cafe Society leads with Jason Sheehan’s guide to the care and feeding of political volunteers. That’s followed by the evaporation of one 8 Rivers, a recommendation about where…
Click here or on the cartoon thumbnail to see a larger image; it’ll take a few seconds. Editor’s note: In addition to the return of Hip Tip, Kenny Be’s Worst Case Scenario will also appear regularly in The Latest Word. Here’s the first installment. As Mary Poppins cheerfully intoned, “For…
Nearing Book Buffs’ last chapter. Like World War II veterans, used bookstores are getting harder to find — especially stores with a quality inventory spanning classic and modern literature. With Amazon, eBay, AbeBooks and other online services offering a virtual clearinghouse of good reads, the whole experience of browsing the…
Shoo, cat. A sidebar to an article introducing three new comic strips to the Rocky Mountain News mentions in passing that the tabloid has bid farewell to a trio of older offerings: “Herman,” “Hagar the Horrible” and — most notable of all — “Garfield.” Oh, how the times have changed…
Travis Henry when he was running from defensive linemen, not the law. Former Denver Broncos running back Travis Henry’s arrest yesterday on federal cocaine charges doesn’t exactly put him in exclusive company. Indeed, he’s the second high-profile Broncos ball carrier in the past couple of years to be busted in…
Richard Scudder. With only about a month to go until the presidential election, local media observers have begun speculating about who the Denver Post will endorse, and for good reason. In 2004, the paper touted George W. Bush in a backhanded, convoluted piece that ran alongside a salvo by two…
