When last we heard about Alice 105.9 morning show producer Mikey Goldenberg, he was offering himself up for product sponsorship even though he’s about as famous as you are. Now, however, he’s got another pitch. He’s created a YouTube video, viewable below, offering to rent his apartment during the upcoming…
The Terry Bison Ranch straddles the Colorado/Wyoming border on the eastern side of I-25, but it is largely invisible unless you know it’s there. The only outward sign is the giant bison statue that sits on a hill near the border overlooking the highway. I certainly had never heard of…
On July 24, a few hours from this writing, veteran Denver Broncos receiver Rod Smith will announce his retirement. His decision is hardly shocking. Indeed, ESPN calls the declaration a “formality,” since Smith didn’t play at all last season in the wake of hip surgery — and his productivity had…
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 occasional profiles of metro…
At the top of his KHOW talk show on July 24, Peter Boyles suggested that the mainstream press is showing liberal bias by keeping its distance from reports published on the National Enquirer’s website on July 23 (with an update on July 24) that former Senator and potential Barack Obama…
Want to spend countless hours over the next few years arguing with a bunch of strangers about how many nickels and dimes will be spent for this bagpipe band or that puppet theater — and receive no monetary compensation for your efforts? If so, serving on the Denver County Cultural…
“Ritter’s Approval Rating Slips, New Poll Reports,” from the July 24 Denver Post, reveals that only 41 percent of respondents to a Rasmussen Reports poll felt that Colorado Governor Bill Ritter was doing a “good” or an “excellent” job at the time of the survey. That sort of information makes…
“Merit Badgering,” Kenny Be, July 10 Rants in His Pants It’s rare that I feel compelled to comment on something political. Frankly, I just don’t give a shit anymore. But I just had to say something about this Kenny Be cartoon. I think it is one of the most balanced…
William Newton Byers gave Denver a newspaper and a street, and one of them is in no danger of disappearing. The same year he founded the Rocky Mountain News, in 1859, Byers bought 680 acres of land on the banks of the South Platte River. He named the northern border…
Democratic National Convention, Unconventional Action, Denver, Jared Jacang Maher
We don’t serve just one kind of blog at Westword.com. Try some different flavors. Backbeat Online features a twist on the typical concert review — a report from a show that would have featured Dizzee Rascal (pictured) if he’d actually shown up. Luckily, My Feral Kin, Married in Berdichev! and…
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 occasional profiles of metro…
Football season starts in two and half weeks with the Broncos’ first preseason game, on August 9 in Houston. From there, the team comes back to Denver for games against Dallas, on August 16, and Green Bay, on August 22 – a matchup that will have added media scrutiny depending…
Jim Spencer was very unhappy about being ousted from his columnist gig at the Denver Post last year, as he made clear throughout a subsequent essay; in the piece, he admitted to being “pissed off” and declared, “Like so many laid-off workers, I did nothing to deserve my walking papers.”…
I tried to stay positive. Really, I did. I’m usually Mr. Glass Half Full anyhow, so when the Rocky Mountain News launched its first-rate “Deadly Denial” package on July 21, I decided to focus on Laura Frank’s fine reportage rather than on the initial chapter of a highly dubious five-parter…
Welcome to the Internet, where weirdness is as close as your mouse. Today’s example: The video clip below, which allows users to insert any name they’d like into a mock news story about swelling support for an unknown presidential candidate. Of course, I entered my name, which magically pops up…
Even attorney Dani Newsum doesn’t know precisely how long she’s been affiliated with Channel 12. She’s pretty sure she started working at the station as a volunteer in 1989, then served in a series of mostly behind-the-scenes roles prior to becoming a regular panelist on Colorado Inside Out, a weekly…
Thus far, John McCain’s political ads have displayed unexpected subtlety — and a spot that’s been airing in these parts of late displays that quality again. The commercial is aimed at Latino voters, and twice over the course of its minute and five seconds, the camera lingers on Colorado Rep…
Welcome to the Internet, where weirdness is as close as your mouse. Today’s example: The video clip below, which allows users to insert any name they’d like into a mock news story about swelling support for an unknown presidential candidate. Of course, I entered my name, which magically pops up…
Brian Colón, chairman of the New Mexico Democratic Party, knows a little something about elections in the West. So we asked his take on the Denver convention’s importance to the West, the Udall family dynasty, and the most famous political facial hair in the West. Westword (Joe Horton): What’s the…
The word that Roger Ebert (pictured) and Richard Roeper had severed ties with the film-review program At the Movies — and that their replacements will be Turner Classic Movies’ Ben Mankiewicz and E’s Ben Lyons, who are TV personalities with virtually no hardcore critical background — couldn’t help stirring a…
