The University of Colorado Hospital. News that the University of Colorado Hospital has hired a PR firm, dovetail solutions, that “centers on the idea of community investment” as a way “to promote brand awareness and help the bottom line,” probably won’t make headlines anywhere, but it does raise a question…
Chuck Klosterman. Music critic and memoirist Chuck Klosterman visits Denver tonight (click here for details) to introduce his first novel, Downtown Owl. But before he greets the crowd at the Tattered Cover LoDo, he talked about his latest offering, and a whole lot more, during a generous, free-flowing interview with…
An image from Obsession. In yesterday’s blog about Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West, a DVD inserted into the Sunday Denver Post and many other newspapers from coast to coast, I noted that editorial department personnel were forwarding the many complaints from readers they’d received to Greig Smith, vice…
This tweet wasn’t so sweet. The stir created by the Rocky Mountain News’ move to use the Twitter micro-blogging service at a child’s funeral (details can be found here and here) came mere days after the paper had used the technology extensively during the Democratic National Convention, sometimes to unintentionally…
Some Rocky scribes don’t like the idea of Twittering at a graveside. The Rocky Mountain News became the target of criticism within the journalism community after the paper assigned a reporter to use the micro-blogging service Twitter to provide minute-by-minute updates at the funeral of three-year-old Marten Kudlis. Now, sources…
Read my lips! During mass demonstrations, it’s the most extreme and violent incidents that usually garner the most attention. This was certainly true during last month’s Democratic National Convention, when the most heavily covered protest events – by both the mainstream press and the activist media – involved arrests or…
Sorry, but this is the only nut-sack image we’re publishing… The September 18 issue of Rolling Stone magazine is devoted to comedy, and among the amusing features is a section entitled “Please Pick Your Ass & Other Low Points in Comedy Notes.” The piece deals with bizarre recommendations from TV…
Daniel Seddiqui in Colorado. Wanna get press coverage? It’s easy. Just come up with a gimmick, contact someone at the local media outlet’s news desk, who’s undoubtedly desperate for material, and you’re in. For proof, look no further than Daniel Seddiqui. The California resident has decided to work a job…
There’s more than one way to explain the latest scandal erupting within the Bush administration. The release last week of three reports from the inspector general’s office of the Department of the Interior, detailing graft, drugs, unethical sexual liaisons and brazen conflicts of interest within a federal program in charge…
Lilith Forzane is looking for steamy geek love. She’s just popped in (having materialized out of thin air) at the entrance of the Science School, where the school’s director, zazen Manbi, and I are about to embark on a tour. “I believe Lilith is an escort,” says Manbi, eying her…
“Off the Wall!,” Patricia Calhoun, September 4 The Writing’s on the Wall Great article! Yes, the police really did “overreact.” But where does urban art fit in an urban environment? And why don’t we have more of it? What is the difference between “tagging” and graffiti”? Or is there a…
Brain-rattling fighter-jet flyovers of Invesco Field are nothing new, but Broncos fans got a special treat last Sunday before the team’s first home game: a B-2 Spirit stealth bomber, its black, angular shape cruising straight out of the 1990s. It’s not the first time the strange-looking aircraft has made a…
Have you ever actually studied how the city of Denver came to be? It was an accident. And not like a whoops-daddy-got-mommy-drunk-and-now-I’m-born kind of accident; more like there was really never any reason why people should have been here in the first place. Oopsie. In 1858, a group of prospectors…
Lindsey Buckingham. Bloggin’ along. Backbeat Online offers two opportunities to get inside the head of Fleetwood Mac mastermind Lindsey Buckingham — a brand spankin’ new Q&A and the resurrection of a lost Buckingham interview from 1993 that sheds even more light on the latest conversation. Also on tap: Dan Craig’s…
Forward into the past. As reported in this week’s cover story, University of Denver employees Jeff Corbin and Robert Amme are using the online game Second Life to train workers for a new wave of nuclear power plants expected to be built around the country. If any of these plants,…
Does Uncle Sam really want you to vote? Voter registration drives have descended on Denver in the last few months. You can now find eager young volunteers tempting you with voter applications at Whole Foods, at the corner of Colfax and Broadway, even in line for ice cream at Liks…
A banner from the Obsession website. Denver Post subscribers found something extra stuffed into the advertising fliers that bulked up this past Sunday’s edition: a DVD entitled Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West. A “pre-release one-hour edition” of a larger documentary, the DVD is touted as “a film about…
Jason Sheehan ate these — and lived to tell the tale. As Westword’s September 18 issue is about to hit streets and screens, here’s a chance to catch up on our top content from the previous week… Cafe Society is the place to find Jason Sheehan’s offering about Mysterious Fruit…
Sarah Palin. One of the biggest cheers Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin got during her Monday speech at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds came after she complemented the Federal Reserve for saying no to another bailout of a faltering financial institution, Lehman Brothers. She pledged that she…
The KWGN news team — for now… Since late spring-early summer, I’ve been hearing rumblings about negotiations to combine operations at two rival TV organizations: Channel 2, a Tribune outlet and CW affiliate, and Channel 31, part of the Fox system. Indeed, I mentioned this very prospect in a July…
Studio 12 host Dominic Dezzutti. I take no joy in expecting the worst from someone appearing on a public-affairs show. But it’s got to be said: A guest on tonight’s episode of Studio 12, Channel 12’s signature chat program, is guaranteed to look stupid by the broadcast’s conclusion. And that…
Joined a gym the other day. 24 Hour Fitness, over by the Super Target on Colorado. I really hate when they put gyms next to Targets, because every time I work out I end up buying a Corona hat or a rotisserie chicken. I hate that. But not as much…
