Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin:”Some of that healing and unification has started with Sen. Clinton and Sen. Obama and their respective camps. The convention, however, has to advance that.” Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin might be Howard Dean’s most experienced choice among his three nominated co-chairs of the Democratic National Convention. She’s…
From Red Rocks to the big white balls of Buckley Air Force Base, Alameda Avenue runs through Lakewood, Denver and Aurora, collecting a series of religious, cultural and ethnic hubs along the way. Westword drove Alameda from one end to another for the fifth in our ocassional profiles of metro…
View large image West Virginia Total Number of Delegates: 39 Pledged: 28 Unpledged: 11 How to Recognize a West Virginia Delegate: If a Sasquatch sighting is ever confirmed, it will no doubt happen in West Virginia. There already are rumors circulating that the state’s governor, Joe Manchin III, is actually…
Look at the paragraph below as a map to our little corner of the blogosphere. The Cat’s Pajamas invites you to see what you missed at a lingerie party at the Chateaux Mansion. Judging by this photo, skin wasn’t in short supply. Cafe Society samples Carelli’s Ristorante Italiano in Boulder…
Education News Colorado is as legitimate a news source as anyone could imagine. The site is sponsored by a slew of well-respected organizations, including the Daniels Fund and the Piton Foundation, and its staff includes folks such as Alan Gottlieb, who spent sixteen years as a newspaper reporter and editor…
Denver magazine has been making news in pages other than its own of late due largely to the departure (under disputed circumstances) of editor Dahlia Weinstein who had earlier left a similar post at another glossy, Shine. (This last switch is at the center of a November 2007 Message column,…
The Post-News Colorado Colfax Marathon has gone through a lot of changes in its three short years, from course alterations to leadership swaps, and it looks like the organization that runs it is changing again. Earlier this week, the Colfax Marathon Partnership, Inc. posted a want ad for a new…
Denizens of the art world in Denver have come to expect a raft of diversions on the first Friday of every month. But having so much going on has led some art-world players to switch their events to the last Friday of the month instead — which, as it happens…
At 11 a.m. or so today, July 25, the 2008 Denver Broncos are expected to officially begin training camp at their headquarters in Dove Valley. Thanks to its peaceful-sounding name, the area doesn’t exactly send out a smash-’em-in-the-chops vibe, and it lacks many of the attributes that made Greeley, the…
From Red Rocks to the big white balls of Buckley Air Force Base, Alameda Avenue runs through Lakewood, Denver and Aurora, collecting a series of religious, cultural and ethnic hubs along the way. Westword drove Alameda from one end to another for the fifth in our ocassional profiles of metro…
Note: Update below. The press advisory from Michael Huttner of ProgressNow Action identifies Carol Kreck, pictured above, as a “60-year-old librarian” — a description that’s technically accurate, but which plays on at least a couple of stereotypes, as noted in this More Messages blog about Kreck’s arrest outside a John…
The press advisory from Michael Huttner of ProgressNow Action identifies Carol Kreck, pictured above, as a “60-year-old librarian” — a description that’s technically accurate, but which plays on at least a couple of stereotypes, as noted in this More Messages blog about Kreck’s arrest outside a John McCain town hall…
Childhood fame doesn’t guarantee a hellish adulthood; Jodie Foster seems to have turned out okay. But the odds are heavily skewed in favor of… let’s call it difficulty. And when such problems end in arrest, we as journalists are required by law to juxtapose a mug shot with an image…
Ian Gold, in A Few Seconds of Panic: “Don’t hug me, don’t touch me, don’t call me your buddy, don’t tell me you love me, because I know you’ll motherfuck me as soon as I leave the room.” As football fans, we’re conditioned to treat kickers with the same mix…
While filling in for Dan Caplis during the KHOW afternoon-drive show on July 24, Bill Owens, once Colorado’s own Governor Woody, didn’t come right out and say he’d love to have a regular talk-show gig — but neither did he reject the notion. He regularly waxed rhapsodic about the medium,…
No need to slog through the blogs. Just click around below. The Cat’s Pajamas parses the Fabric Lab sign that reads “BUY LOCAL BITCHES!” and investigates the inexplicable popularity of wearing winter hats in the summer heat. Would you like your brain broiled or poached? Demver marks the one-month point…
Ahhh, weddings, so romantic, so festive. Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue. Blue, as in the police! What’s the deal recently with wedding couples ending up in jail? It seems like there’s a new one on TV or in the papers every other week. In the old days,…
Heléne Yorke as “Sharpay Evans” and Colorado native Bobby List as “Ryan Evans” in Disney’s High School Musical National Tour. Photo by Joan Marcus. America can’t get enough of High School Musical — and neither can we. A theatrical version of the ubiquitous Disney Channel flick (which has already spawned…
Eighty grand. Obama on the mic. Think there might be a goosebump or two? While we waited for Howard Dean and other Democrats to finish their tour of Invesco Field at Mile High, standing under an incredibly blue sky on the green, green turf, several of us took off our…
The Secret Service has been in contact with officials from Elitch Gardens to possibly utilize the amusement park’s 300 foot observational tower as a security-watch post during the Democratic National Convention. “We still don’t know yet,” says Elitch spokesperson Megan Barber. “We’re still in discussions.” While she cannot go into…
