Happy Birthday MCA

Tonight at 6 p.m., Denver’s Museum of Contemporary Art (1485 Delgany Street, 303-298-7554) will be hosting a reception for members, followed by the 12th annual members meeting. Although the museum has been around for a dozen years, this is the first time it has marked a birthday in the new…

Charting Graf: Graffiti del Pueblo, Colorado

Slide Show! Pueblo, Colorado is world-renowned for its public mural project along the cement river canals that divide the city, but traditional graffiti artists have no problems getting their (sometimes) less-than-legal murals up around town as well. — Photos by Adam Gildar…

CU Provocateur Max Karson’s New Rap Album

Max Karson, the University of Colorado student whose attempts at satire have made him a press darling/whipping boy over the past couple of years, has no back-down in him. After an essay he wrote about Asians sparked an uproar that’s put CU’s Campus Press publication in a good many crosshairs…

Ethically Dubious CU Prof Michael Tracey to Lead Ethics Symposium

University of Colorado Boulder journalism professor Michael Tracey, a co-star in the April 10 Message column about CU’s Campus Press publication and its fight for independence, wouldn’t be many people’s first choice to lead a discussion about ethics. He is, you’ll recall, the man behind several objectivity-free documentaries about the…

Journalism Contest-Loving Rocky Editor Attacks Journalism Contests

In his April 12 column, headlined “Of Prizes and Everyday Rewards,” Rocky Mountain News editor/publisher/president led into a piece about the Pulitzers with a surprising series of statements. “Before I begin, let me stipulate: Journalism has too many prizes. Way too many,” he wrote. In his view, the proliferation of…

Off to a Bang

A buttock? Male, female? Muscular. Hair. More hair. Definitely male. REVEAL hard-core gay sex scene between a flawless blond bodybuilder-hooker and a bald, middle-aged 300-pound man. A cell phone rings. The fat man reaches for it, hits a button to stop the ringing. Back to sex. A hotel phone starts…

Dean Singleton and the Obama/Osama Gaffe

MediaNews Group head honcho Dean Singleton made headlines — even in the Denver Post, the flagship paper of his multi-media corporation — for an ” target=”_blank”>April 14 slip of the Freudian variety. At the Associated Press’ annual luncheon, Singleton, speaking in his capacity as chairman for the AP’s board of…

Worst Television Theme Songs

Television shows have always had theme songs. When they’re good, they add to the show in subtle but important ways. They can set a mood, like M.A.S.H.’s theme song “Suicide is Painless.” They can set up the basics of the plot, like the classic opening to Gilligan’s Island or The…

Delegating Denver #39 of 56: Ohio

View larger image Ohio Total Number of Delegates: 162 Pledged: 141 Unpledged: 21 How to Recognize an Ohio Delegate: If the state of Connecticut married the state of Kentucky, their baby would be the state of Ohio. Like no other Americans, Ohioans combine the cold-hearted industriousness of the New England…

Q&A with Artist Ray Young Chu

Ray Young Chu is an artist who routinely convinces grown men to dress like Furries. The Westminster based canvas artist created four wickedly silly avatars—Ninja Nate, Donut David, Sheep Head and Mascot Mannie, who come complete with head to toe jumpsuits—with whom he does mangled hip hop performances, and canvas…

Denver in 103

Tim Russert came to town yesterday, to collect the fourteenth annual Damon Runyon Award handed out by the Denver Press Club — and to give us just a taste of what Denver can expect in August, when the whole world will be watching. Lately, we’ve heard the word “Denver” a…

Dogged Reporting

In all the excitement over Duane “Dog” Chapman returning to Denver on Thursday, April 11, to defend the honorable profession of bounty hunting before the Colorado Legislature, apparently our state’s lawmakers overlooked an important new Dog report. On the cover of the current National Enquirer, right above “Baby for Jen!,”…

Entertainment Editor Ed Smith Latest to Exit Post

These days, it’s far from unusual for newspaper employees to voluntarily leave their jobs. However, the impending departure of Denver Post entertainment editor Ed Smith, whose last day is April 11, remains noteworthy given his reputation at the paper — he’s widely admired by the folks with whom he’s worked…

Park Place

Remember when you could watch free plays in Civic Center Park during the summer? That was awesome. All you needed for a great night out was a blanket, a cooler full of snacks and drinks and a few friends. In my opinion, nothing beats free outdoor theater. Which is why…

Canning the Coors Tour

It has been a Colorado rite of passage for decades. Turn 21, then head to Golden for a guided tour of the Coors brewery and, most importantly, the three free beers that come with it. But that changed on Friday when Coors, now called Molson Coors, unveiled its shorter, self-guided…

Shmuck of the Week

Oh, Dog. You make us feel so used! Duane “Dog” Chapman, the once and former media magnet, author and reality TV star who got his start in Denver as bounty hunter on bail bond row (see stories here and here, graced the state Capitol today, along with his flowing mullet…

Case Almost Closed

On Tuesday, when the Cory Voorhis case was about to go to the jury, Colorado Ethics Watch asked Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey to “launch an immediate investigation of former gubernatorial candidate Bob Beauprez and his former campaign manager John Marshall for making false campaign ads against Mr. Beauprez’s opponent.”…

America’s Penguin

In light of John McCain handily winning the GOP nomination despite his constant on-air harangues about the collapse of conservative values at the hands of this cross-aisle-reaching maverick, Rush Limbaugh might be looking for another outlet for his frustration. After seeing this poor impression of McCain mulling Condoleezza Rice as…

Burrito Bombshell

We are gathered here today to mark the passing of one of the oldest Chipotle restaurants in Denver, the location at 13th and Pennsylvania streets. One of the original, 15-20 pre-McDonald’s Chipotles, the store opened in 1998, back before the big-burrito chain — founded in Denver five years earlier –…

The DAM’s Logan Lectures Launch Tonight

Christoph Heinrich, the newish curator of modern and contemporary art at the Denver Art Museum, is obviously using the 2008 Logan Lectures — underwritten, as you might imagine, by super donors Vicki and Kent Logan — as a way to give the art-erati some insight into his interests. For this…

Letters to the Editor

“Target Practice,” Jared Jacang Maher, April 3 Give the Man a Hand In “Target Practice,” one thing clearly stands out: Jason T. Gomez didn’t die from a policeman’s bullet, he died from stupidity. No other explanation is possible. When a policeman has his weapon pointed at you, you do not…