Emerald Isle high. The Irish love Denver. The man, anyway. I spent last week on a driving tour along the southern coast of Ireland, from Galway to Dublin. And while the narrow roads winding through rolling, lush green hills and mystical-looking forests and past countless sheep, rocky cliffs and mountain…
The Colorado Rockies during spring training — back when there was hope. As recently as a few weeks ago, Colorado Rockies fans dreaming about another late-season miracle took each loss like a shot to the gut. But when the Colorado Rockies lost 11-5 to the San Diego Padres last night,…
Life of the Potty. For elementary school principals, education is typically priority Number One. But in the case of Michael Auclaire, principal of Peyton Elementary in Colorado Springs, Number Two is priority Number One, and education is priority Number Two. Wait. Let’s back up. According to reports out of Colorado…
Joe Euteneuer. Qwest’s choice of Joe Euteneuer as its chief financial officer makes sense for the company given its new hire’s years of experience as a Comcast executive. But it really makes sense for Euteneuer, who’s spent the past six years handling the financial end of things at XM Radio,…
Shhh… CPR is still available at 1340 AM. Remember when Colorado Public Radio made such a big deal about moving its news-and-information service from 1340 AM to 90.1 FM this past July? The service emphasized that listeners should switch their pre-sets to FM — and I dutifully did so. But…
Penny Parker. The Democratic National Convention was manna from heaven for gossip columnists like the Rocky Mountain News’ Penny Parker. Instead of having to give the bold-face-print treatment to low-profile radio personalities, local TV types or socialites about whom few in the general public know or care, they spent a…
The doctor’s office Newsweek — and the telltale scrawl. In his September 16 column about Sarah Palin’s appearance at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds yesterday, Rocky Mountain News columnist Mike Littwin expressed disbelief that Barack Obama and John McCain are running neck-and-neck in most national polls despite the hideous condition of…
Monty Miranda’s Skills. Colorado’s small film scene lost one of its stars recently when Monty Miranda, director of the upcoming indie caper Skills Like This, packed up and moved to Los Angeles. “Yes, I signed with a new production company in Santa Monica, BeachHouse Films, and my manager had been…
An incredible fashion feat. Today, the Westword.com blog universe revolves around this past weekend’s Monolith Festival, with live blogs from day one of the Red Rocks spectacular, followed logically by day two. As a bonus, there are day one and day two Monolith photo roundups, too. For a change of…
The luckiest mastermind in the entire NFL. Going into Sunday’s matchup between the Denver Broncos and the San Diego Chargers, I hoped for a Broncos performance that would wipe the smirk off San Diego QB/classless putz Philip Rivers’ face. But while I’m thrilled that the Broncos wound up on the…
Sarah Palin. Alaska governor and Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s raucous appearance at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds today was the sort of event that’s more interesting and revealing when viewed in close-ups, not long views. Consider it to be the positive side of the parable about the blind men who…
Objectifying Sarah Palin — but in a nice way. While a few dozen protesters gathered along the roadside and near the entrance of the Jefferson County Fairground’s main buildings prior to today’s appearance by Alaska governor and Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin, a handful of others — like the woman…
Obviously, this woman isn’t as impressed as she should be by Sarah Palin’s female parts. Unlike the pro-Sarah Palin sign-wavers at the Alaska governor-turned-Republican vice-presidential candidate’s appearance today at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds, those protesting her presence weren’t jazzed by her meteoric rise to political stardom. Indeed, their signs advertised…
Early arrivers gathered around the bandstand an hour or so before Palin was set to speak. A country band was twanging up a storm when I entered the Jefferson County Fairgrounds building where Alaska governor and Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin was slated to appear today. Didn’t catch the name,…
That blur at the far end of the press table is CNN’s Dana Bash. The press tables were arrayed in long rows along one side of the main Jefferson County Fairgrounds building where Alaska governor and Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin visited today, and some of them were notably sticky,…
The assembled multitude. The human rainbow in evidence throughout the Democratic National Convention events in Denver didn’t exactly stretch over the Jefferson County Fairgrounds today, where Alaska governor and Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin spoke. I saw precisely three African-Americans in a crowd a volunteer estimated at 6,000 — and…
Dan Caplis. As he did during the John McCain-Sarah Palin appearance in Colorado Springs mere days after the end of the Republican National Convention, KHOW radio host Dan Caplis served as emcee at Palin’s appearance at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds today. And although he’s known for his way with words,…
Surprise: Sarah Palin offered up some new material. Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin was scheduled to begin speaking to the faithful gathered at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds at 9 a.m. today, but just prior to that time, KHOW yakker Dan Caplis announced that President George W…
I got to know the back of this car very, very well. Getting into the Jefferson County Fairgrounds for Sarah Palin’s speech there today was a snap. Volunteers were extremely well organized, particularly given that the bash was originally supposed to be a pancake breakfast for 1,000 people, not an…
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Ready for your close-up, Jeeves? 20/20 delved into the cushy, diamond-encrusted worlds of America’s super-rich last week and, as is usually the case with such “Lifestyles of the Rich and Richer” pieces, the story included an obligatory interview with America’s number-one butler teacher: Denver’s own Mary Louise Starkey, head of…
What you missed while you were telling Philip Rivers to shove it … Thursday: Yes, we started early here at Westword.com, with Richie Hawtin’s DJ set at Beta Nightclub. Cory Casciato reviewed the show, and Uriah West took pictures of the DJ and his fans. Saturday: Yeah, we missed Friday,…
