So, it’s Obama. Did anyone doubt that, except the Hillary faithful? And yes, there were a lot of them, and probably still are, until the news sinks in—a process that won’t even begin until Senator Clinton admits that the writing is not only on the wall, but it’s also being…
Tagging — the use of enigmatic designs sometimes symbolizing gang associations — is an increasing problem for Denver and other big cities, so it may be a little surprising that a group called Your Name in Graffiti (www.ynig.com) wound up with a public art commission. But that’s the case with…
“This has been a long campaign, and I will be making no decisions tonight.” True. Partly true…
A number of Coloradoans have run for president, but no one came closer to actually winning the office than former Senator Gary Hart. In 1984, he presented a heated challenge to anointed party favorite (and subsequent landslide victim) Walter Mondale, ultimately falling short in large part because superdelegates — a…
The achievement of Senator Barack Obama, who’s widely reported to have clinched the Democratic nomination for president, demanded some memorable words, and Channel 4 morning anchor Tom Mustin (pictured) was ready, willing and able to supply them. On a June 4 broadcast, he said, “It’s a historic day in American…
Wrist Deep Productions gets down and dirty with Denver’s progressive hip-hop sensation the Flobots. These two groups will be forever bound by the stain of blood and Cheetos hands…
Denver Broncos coach Mike Shanahan didn’t just throw Travis Henry under the bus on June 2 when talking about his decision to cut the running back. He tossed him beneath the entire Greyhound fleet. “The release speaks volumes,” he told the assembled press. “You’ve got the little things, and if…
Columnists are supposed to write provocatively — to express themselves in ways that force readers to take notice and think. But do such scribes get more leeway than Internet surfers posting comments on newspaper websites? To find out, a blogger conducted an experiment focusing on “Full-Blooded Americans Get a Vote,”…
View larger image South Dakota Total Number of Delegates: 23 Pledged: 15 Unpledged: 8 How to Recognize a South Dakota Delegate: Students at Sturgis High School are known as “Scoopers,” and their mascot is always pictured with a shovel. The nickname dates back to the 1880s and was coined by…
Newspapers, including the mighty New York Times, are having great difficulty making money these days. Luckily, a new idea for generating revenue has cropped up: Charge people to hear how bad the news really is. That’s the concept behind a June 10 conference call examining the future of the Times…
This May 27 More Messages blog wagged a finger (guess which one) at the Denver Post for plugging King Soopers in a portion of its Sunday, May 25 front page typically devoted to editorial copy after the company invested in an oversized advertisement that encased the comics section. Cut to…
Christine Smith wanted to be the first female president of the United States, the first Coloradan and the first Libertarian in the Oval Office. And the 41-year-old Golden woman, who ran a principled if underdog-style campaign, thought she had a good chance of winning her party’s nomination at its national…
What an overachiever! The Rudbeckia Denver Daisy, a Plant Select specimen chosen to commemorate Denver’s 150th anniversary, is supposed to take twenty days to germinate, but this seedling (center, above) popped up five days early. In the process, though, it left all its potential siblings in the dust. Literally. I’d…
After twenty years, it looks like the state, local governments, environmental advocates, and business interests may have finally come to an agreement on what to do about the I-70 mountain corridor – and that agreement includes a train. The Collaborative Effort, a 27-member panel of stakeholders, decided Thursday on a…
Still $15 million short of the $40 million they are contractually obligated to raise by June 16, organizers behind the Democratic National Convention are asking the Democratic National Convention Committee to lower the amount of money needed to host the event. Organizers say the $55 million in private cash and…
Ahh, the ice cream truck, symbol of summer, fun and youth, merrily chugging at two miles per hour, bringing joy and cold desserts to masses of neighborhood kids. Bomb pops, fudgecicles, drumsticks, orange dream bars. Ahh, the ice cream truck, symbol of terror, injury and irresponsibility, evilly rumbling through the…
Nearly two-and-a-half years after her death while in the custody of the Denver jail, the family of Emily Rae Rice have reached a settlement with Denver Health Medical Center. After a car accident in February of 2006 in which Rice was driving intoxicated, Denver Health treated the 24 year old…
Jerry Wingren, who lives and works in the foothills west of Boulder, is one of Colorado’s premier contemporary sculptors and any chance to see his work is worth taking. In Black & White at Walker Fine Art, Wingren carries forward his classic reductive approach to carving, in which simple evocative…
The ends, my friends. The ends. Of the 2008 television season, that is. And due to the writers’ strike, they were spread out all over the early months of the year, from January through to the season finale of LOST in this, the last week of May. Some shows broke…
As has been regularly documented in this space, change is a constant at the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News these days, with staffers switching titles and, often, careers at a steady clip. Below, find a batch of memos from the past month or so, all of them intended…
His name notwithstanding, Colorado Springs’ Noel Black has been among the most colorful media figures in the state during the past several years. But that’s all over, at least for now. On June 1, the man behind an aggressively twisted alternative publication called The Toilet Paper (read about it here),…
Things aren’t looking too hot right now over at the Bob Schaffer campaign. Dogged by questions about his “fact-finding” missions to the Northern Mariana Islands, mocked for putting Mount McKinley in a campaign ad instead of Pikes Peak, the Senate hopeful has a fresh problem on his hands: the verdict…
