Smells like… less money to spend at Starbucks. There’s been griping recently about the coffee from the cashiers at a local quick-stop gas station that I sometimes go to. No, not about the convenience-store coffee they sell there. The complaints are about Coffee Crossword, the $3 scratch ‘n’ sniff game…
The Circle Jerks’ Keith Morris. A-blogging we shall go… Backbeat Online features an interview with Circle Jerks frontman Keith Morris, who reveals that his band won’t be at an August 22 Red Rocks show because he’s recovering after falling into a near-fatal diabetic coma. Also on tap: The Flobots’ response…
Timothy Thomason One of the items on the agenda of the Denver City Council August 18 is whether to approve a $150,000 settlement for Timothy Thomason, the cancer patient who was deprived of his pain medications at the city jail. Our story “Pain Management,” which explored Thomason’s ordeal and the…
Barack Obama in an image from Fox News (above) and his own website. During one of my regular surfing expeditions through the Internet, I came upon the photo of Barack Obama above, which appeared on a Fox News election page ranking the net’s list of the top eleven conventions in…
Rocky Mountain News editor/publisher/president John Temple. Rocky Mountain News editor/publisher/president John Temple’s August 16 column “8-word Gaffe Ripples Across the Web” is an apologia for a big botch reported about in this More Messages blog — an erroneous Rocky web piece that claimed Barack Obama holds joint citizenship with the…
And stay out! In an August 15 blog about my wife being rejected for Barack Obama acceptance-speech tickets despite having registered for them within fifteen minutes of former Denver mayor Federico Peña announcing, “It’s first come, first served,” I promised to eat some of my accusatory words if more positive…
An image from The Mother’s Bones. Before all the political theater comes to town, we have some real theater. At the Boulder International Fringe Festival, now under way at several Boulder venues, at any moment you might find yourself trapped watching a miserably amateurish performance — or stunned and delighted…
Look closely and you’ll see a player magically floating toward the upper deck of Invesco Field. A little over a week ago, we brought you a Madden 2009 preview featuring a stirring overtime victory by your Denver Broncos over the despicable Oakland Raiders. Today, something much weirder — and much…
See Aaron Thackeray’s slideshow from Skylabhere. Here’s what you missed if you spent the weekend shopping for new galoshes: Thursday — yeah, some of us started early — marked the final Riverfront Park Fashion Show of the summer, and it didn’t disappoint. Aaron Thackery’s slide show is testament to that…
Barack Obama in an image from Fox News (above) and his own website. During one of my regular surfing expeditions through the Internet, I came upon the photo of Barack Obama above, which appeared on a Fox News election page ranking the net’s list of the top eleven conventions in…
Land here, Dems. I just made a fast trip out of DIA, which has been spruced up in anticipation of the hordes of politicos and pundits heading to town this weekend. Acres of carpet have been replaced (and recycled in the greenest way possible), the gift stores are stocked with…
And stay out! In an August 15 blog about my wife being rejected for Barack Obama acceptance-speech tickets despite having registered for them within fifteen minutes of former Denver mayor Federico Peña announcing, “It’s first come, first served,” I promised to eat some of my accusatory words if more positive…
Rocky Mountain News editor/publisher/president John Temple. Rocky Mountain News editor/publisher/president John Temple’s August 16 column “8-word Gaffe Ripples Across the Web” is an apologia for a big botch reported about in this More Messages blog — an erroneous Rocky web piece that claimed Barack Obama holds joint citizenship with the…
Nutritions, delicious and kids like it, too. Last month, I blogged about an irritating trend in spamming — filling the subject line of e-mails with bogus headlines about terrible events, including one allegedly revealing the death of Barack Obama, all in an attempt to coax a few more clicks. Weeks…
Tony’s, Tony’s, Tony’s! The sign is up across the street: Tony’s Market opening early 2009. It’s a sight for sore eyes at Westword, where we’ve been staring at the boarded-up broken glass at 950 Broadway and the remains of the Planned Parenthood sign, which was haphazardly removed sometime in July…
Kind of blue. Welcome to the blog days of summer. The Cat’s Pajamas struts to a Riverfront Park fashion show. Meanwhile, Cafe Society welcomes 8 Rivers to LoDo as the Candy Girls stage a Japanese candy extravaganza. As a bonus, Jason Sheehan introduces you to Troy Guard, cottage cheese pimp…
101.5’s Whip. The whispers about the impending demise of 101.5 FM, a station that calls itself “The Independent Alternative,” continue unabated, and an incident that took place on August 14 won’t squelch such gossip. A listener tells me the station went off the air for an hour and a half,…
An image from the Street’s Hope website. The hookers are coming. Get your prayer books ready. That’s the mantra of a local Christian group planning to help save sex workers during the Democratic National Convention. Streets Hope, a group dedicated to getting hookers off the streets, claims that “an estimated…
Steve Meyer. As noted in a recent Westword story, Denver is essentially ground zero for the growing international pedicab industry thanks to local pedicab designer/promoter Steve Meyer. Meyer had hoped his company, Main Street Pedicabs, would play a large role in the eco-focused Democratic National Convention, but his hopes were…
The Rollin’ Rockies. Sure, Colorado’s Major League Rockies may be mired in mediocrity this year, but this city’s other Rockies team – the Rollin’ Rockies Colorado Wheelchair Softball team – have lately been dominating the diamond. The Rollin’ Rockies, founded in 1996 to provide Coloradoans with disabilities an accessible yet…
Steve Meyer. As noted in a recent Westword story, Denver is essentially ground zero for the growing international pedicab industry thanks to local pedicab designer/promoter Steve Meyer. Meyer had hoped his company, Main Street Pedicabs, would play a large role in the eco-focused Democratic National Convention, but his hopes were…
The green scene. As anyone who’s moseyed across the new Highland Bridge over I-25 can attest, the stretch of 16th Street right there is turning into one of the choicest locales around, thanks to its killer views of downtown and its connection between hopping Highlands and busy Platte Street. No…
