The forbidden entrance — from the other side. Walking down to the Pepsi Center, I came upon an open gate leading to Braun’s, the restaurant that’s been taken over by Fox News for the run of the Democratic National Convention. A reporter, accompanied by a staffer, was passing through it…
Scrub up, politicos. Water stations have been placed at several locations around the Pepsi Center during DNC week — the idea being that delegates can refill their bottle rather than pitching it and opening up another one. Also included: hand sanitizer mounted on the side — because shaking hands with…
Update (8/25): Just got the drop on a late night party hosted by MySpace at Mile High Station featuring Nelly. Hold on. Before you start Googling Mile High Station, you should know that this event, a salute to the screen actor’s guild, is another invite-only shindig. Update (8/22): Welp, looks…
Scrub up, politicos. Water stations have been placed at several locations around the Pepsi Center during DNC week — the idea being that delegates can refill their bottle rather than pitching it and opening up another one. Also included: hand sanitizer mounted on the side — because shaking hands with…
The forbidden entrance — from the other side. Walking down to the Pepsi Center, I came upon an open gate leading to Braun’s, the restaurant that’s been taken over by Fox News for the run of the Democratic National Convention. A reporter, accompanied by a staffer, was passing through it…
Hopeless? Looks like someone has lost “Hope.” — Michael Roberts…
Who knows how to party? The Ohio delegation knows how to party. That’s right, the lucky Buckeyes got what I think is the best draw in the city with their delegates, staff, families, fixers, riggers, middlemen and hangers-on lodged in the Curtis Hotel at 14th and Curtis streets, right in…
We can only hope the Tent Staters recycle their signs. After checking out a cruiser from the overly friendly folks at Freewheelin — the nonprofit that’s lending free bikes to convention folks all week — I pedaled up to Cuernavaca Park today, to audit the day’s course at so-called Tent…
Tharin Gartrell. In the 8 p.m. half hour on Monday, shortly before Michelle Obama took the stage at the Pepsi Center for the climactic speech of the Democratic National Convention’s first day, Channel 4 ran an onscreen crawl about arrests in a possible assassination plot. And during its 10 p.m…
Ain’t this new technology tweet? Don’t know if many web surfers are reading the Rocky Mountain News’ DNC-timed experiment with the Twitter micro-blogging service — but they should, because it’s hilarious. The 140-character limit on texts forces brevity in the extreme, which could conceivably be a good thing, especially after…
“Speak up! I can’t hear you!” During coverage of the DNC on The Ride Home, KOA’s afternoon-drive show, host Lois Melkonian said that because of coaching responsibilities at Mullen High School, her usual partner, Dave Logan, wouldn’t be sitting at her side in the outlet’s Pepsi Center space. Instead, she…
Here comes the fuzz? According to a longtime media observer, Channel 7 painted quite a visual picture of the Denver Police Department’s transportation equipment during a DNC-eve news report. He writes that in a live shot on the station’s 10 p.m. broadcast, a reporter talked about undercover police vehicles “like…
Here was the line to get into the Pepsi Center around 6:30 p.m. on Monday, August 25. You’ll notice the picture isn’t blurry. That’s because the line wasn’t moving…
“What have the Democrats done to my brain?” Channel 9 morning anchor Gary Shapiro is usually pretty upbeat about everything. So when he mentioned during a Monday broadcast that his DNC goodie bag wasn’t all that, well, good, I was taken aback. After seeing mine, however, I realized he had…
We can only hope the Tent Staters recycle their signs. After checking out a cruiser from the overly friendly folks at Freewheelin — the nonprofit that’s lending free bikes to convention folks all week — I pedaled up to Cuernavaca Park today, to audit the day’s course at so-called Tent…
Here was the line to get into the Pepsi Center around 6:30 on Monday, August 25. You’ll notice the picture isn’t blurry. That’s because the line wasn’t moving…
There are a lot of people working 14th Street today. T-shirt vendors, protesters, booths encouraging recycling, demonstrators against the war, against INS raids, against George Bush and everything else under the sun. And while there are plenty of DNC-related buttons available for sale on the street, the one that’s probably…
Who knows how to party? The Ohio delegation knows how to party. That’s right, the lucky Buckeyes got what I think is the best draw in the city with their delegates, staff, families, fixers, riggers, middlemen and hangers-on lodged in the Curtis Hotel at 14th and Curtis Street, right in…
Larry Mizel, left, with Bill and Jeannie Ritter at the CELL Colorado Governor Bill Ritter watched silently as the busy 16th Street Mall street scene around him exploded into flames. Thankfully, this was not a real-life catastrophe transpiring on the first day of the Democratic National Convention, but part of…
The Flobots’ Jamie Laurie. Not every blog posted on our site today is DNC-related — but it’s not for a lack of trying. Backbeat Online offers a take on the big 3Oh!3 show at the Fox Theatre at which a bunch o’ new bandmembers debuted. The critique is a convention-free…
Five activists were arrested on Capitol Hill around noon today near the offices of the People’s Law Project at 1280 Sherman Street. According to PLP attorney Brian Vicente, the group was walking down 12th Avenue when they were stopped by police and arrested for “failure to obey a lawful order.”…
A nation’s worst nightmare… In this difficult time for the journalism industry, publications must do everything they can to promote themselves — even if it’s dorky or embarrassing. As evidence, look no further than Roll Call, a well-respected Washington, D.C. operation that describes itself as the “Newspaper of Capitol Hill…
