On Monday, the Supreme Court voted to uphold an Indiana law that requires voters to show a photo ID to cast a ballot. The ACLU and Indiana Democrats had challenged the state law, passed along party lines in 2005 by a GOP-controlled legislature, which opened the debate on increasingly restrictive…
Two weeks after a Lincoln County judge yanked 18th Judicial District and state prosecutors off a death penalty case, citing several ethical violations, the Office of the Colorado Attorney General has filed its own motion to withdraw from the case. The motion gives no reasons for the request and is…
Writers at the Rocky Mountain News and the Denver Post appear to have very different ideas about newspaper circulation figures released on April 28 by the Audit Bureau of Circulations, an industry-supported monitoring organization. The Rocky’s piece, “Denver Papers’ Circulation Falls,” penned by the prodigious David Milstead, puts the bad…
John Prine had it right. And this was back in 1971. But your flag decal won’t get you Into Heaven any more. They’re already overcrowded From your dirty little war. Now Jesus don’t like killin’ No matter what the reason’s for, And your flag decal won’t get you Into Heaven…
View larger image Oregon Total Number of Delegates: 65 Pledged: 52 Unpledged: 13 How to Recognize an Oregon Delegate: Perhaps Oregonians have made assisted suicide legal in hopes that California transplants will consider it a viable option after their first nine months of living in near-constant rain and complaint. That’s…
Oh what a weekend. Things we learned: 1. People get all hot an bothered about zoning issues. Weird, we know, but check out some of these comments on Joel Warner’s tour of ugly houses in Highland. The Highland. The Highlands. Whatever your real estate agent or copyeditor wants to call…
Rush Limbaugh is something of an expert on the incitation of riots. Of course, he isn’t inciting riots when he dreams of them disrupting the Democratic National Convention in Denver and destroying the Democratic Party, but was he dreaming of nailing Obama with the charge of inciting riots on his…
On April 25, Denver’s mainstream media weighed in on syndicated yakker Rush Limbaugh’s recent wisecrack about dreaming of riots in Denver at the time of August’s Democratic National Convention. In the Denver Post’s piece, for example, interview subjects included Glenn Spagnuolo, spokesman for Recreate ’68, an organization whose moniker specifically…
Denver, we have a problem. Blubbermouth Rush Limbaugh of advocating rioting in Denver during the Democratic National Convention. For the record, on his April 23 radio show (which airs from noon to 3 p.m. weekdays on 850 KOA), Limbaugh was responding to comments from Al Sharpton, a Barack Obama supporter,…
The Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (1750 13th Street, Boulder, 303-443-2122, www.bmoca.org) hosts a panel discussion tonight (April 24) called “Mickey, Mao and the State of Contemporary Chinese Art.” It will take up the topic of why and how Chinese art has become such a major force in the U.S…
State representative Doug Bruce won’t have to suffer any official consequences for remarks he made during a House floor debate Monday in which he called migrant farmworkers “illiterate peasants” – and why should he? After all, without the Colorado Springs Republican in the Capitol, Denver politics would be a little…
If you didn’t get your three-wheeled fix from “Wheels of Fortune,” here’s even more of everything you wanted to know about pedicabs but were afraid to ask. I would’ve been remiss if I’d written the story without trying to interview Tony Wheeler, one of the global authorities on rickshaws. While…
Westword, April 10 Snark Attack For many years now, I have been coming across variations on the word “snark” in journalistic pieces, used by scribes writing for a wide variety of publications, ranging from Newsweek to Westword. Most recently, in the April 10 edition of Westword, Michael Roberts uses it…
Denver’s big green PR machine has been running on all (solar, renewable and hamster-powered) cylinders as the city administration counts the days (probably on a calendar made from recycled pulp-fiber paper) to the 2008 Democratic National Convention — supposedly the most environmentally friendly one in history, according to Mayor John…
I don’t really care for many of my friends, so generally I do not support their extracurriculars. Oh, I’ll pretend to stand behind them. I’ll show up at their concerts or attend their company picnics, but this is really a false sort of support, a passive-aggressive means of pushing them…
Most politicians spend their lives trying to get people to know their name. But Jason Bane, the Democratic Party candidate for Jefferson County commissioner against incumbent Republican Kevin McCasky, isn’t most politicians. In late 2004, when he helped launch the ColoradoPols.com website, Bane did so anonymously, and he left his…
The sales pitches are assorted and relentless, shouted to an endless flood of pedestrians bedecked in Colorado Rockies attire streaming down the 16th Street Mall. “How about a ride to the game, folks?” “Lighten your load a little bit!” “Give your kids a thrill!” One man in a Red Sox…
Joe Polara and his four-year-old son, Luka, cruise through northwest Denver, past the Victorians topped with solar panels, the dogs yipping through the fence posts and the old men poking at their lawns — many of whom gape at Polara’s shiny black pedicab. “It’s definitely a good conversation-starter,” Polara says…
Tim Blumenthal, executive director of Bikes Belong, a Boulder-based bicycle-advocacy group, has a dream for the Democratic National Convention, and it’s a big one: “I imagine Newsweek or Time, and on the magazine’s first photo spread of the convention, you see a sea of cyclists pedaling on the Cherry Creek…
Democrats, God bless ‘em, love the underdog. Maybe it started in 1960, that magical year when the country put aside 0.1 percent of its prejudices and a few dead-body-ballots in Chicago to elect a young, idealistic Catholic to the White House. Maybe it was his untimely death, maybe the pain…
Lizz Winstead, the subject of the following Q&A, is headlining five shows over two nights at the Comedy Works (click here for details), but she’s hardly the average standup comic. She co-created The Daily Show, one of the most influential comedy programs of the past decade-plus, serving as the production’s…
Coming down from the mountains, I was eating tafelspitz with my fingers. I was scooping up spaetzle — sticky with gravy, dyed purple by the pickled cabbage it’d snuggled up against on the plate — and shoveling it into my mouth. Like a caveman (or just another unprepared culinary day-tripper),…
