I’m on to you, Colorado House of Representatives, you sly dogs, you. Check and mate, you pack of ruddy-faced bastards. Oh, don’t pretend you don’t know what I’m talking about. You look so ugly when you play innocent, and as a collective whole, you’re in no position to engage in…
Mayor John Hickenlooper is Denver’s biggest pitchman, but he took that love to a new level this month, actually draping himself in a version of the city flag — a Western shirt patterned with bright-red mountains, a dark-blue sky and a golden sun — along with a bolo tie and…
Amadeus Harlan calls me because he says he wants me to know the truth. “I wanted to tell you right out I haven’t refused to talk to you,” he assures me, talking on a phone at the Douglas County Jail in Castle Rock several weeks after his parole hearing, and…
“Fat Chance,” Michael Roberts, January 24 The Biggest Loser How much did Michael Karolchyk pay you for your cover photo? Your story on his Anti-Gym brings to mind two old chestnuts: “I don’t care what they say, as long as they spell my name right,” and “No one ever went…
When local gamer Ben Schulz and his pals made the inane video “A Rough Go” in the massively multiplayer online game World of Warcraft, they created a global phenomenon – one that launched Schulz’s video game character Leeroy Jenkins to international stardom, as described in the story, “The Legend of…
The January 31 Message includes an update about an incident involving Boulder Daily Camera reporter Heath Urie and a supporter of professor/controversy magnet Ward Churchill. The item includes the first public comments either Urie or Churchill has made about the case — and there’s much more from both of them…
As noted in this January 29 blog, Denver Post editor Greg Moore isn’t wild about the idea of his employees participating in caucuses set for February 5, but he’s given some staffers permission to join in, while restricting others from doing so. At the Rocky Mountain News, the message is…
Rudy Giuliani couldn’t even quit first. So much for the know-it-alls who predicted big things still in store for John Edwards, whose small but solid support in the proportionally awarded Democratic primaries may have given him a powerful delegate voice at the national convention. Provided he pulled at least fifteen…
Next to me was a man old enough to know better drinking Jager shots with Guinness back, and when Green Bay made an ultimately pointless fourth-quarter fumble recovery deep in Giants territory, he found it reason enough to grab me around the neck and shake me like a kitten he…
Florida is where New Yorkers go to die. Unsurprising, then, that Rudy Giuliani’s campaign, which had started in the grandeur of double-digit leads in national polls, would crawl from bungalow to bungalow on the I-4 corridor before unceremoniously collapsing in tatty defeat at his headquarters in Orlando. Reeling from a…
Times may be ultra-unpleasant for newspaper operators these days, but specialists in other areas of the media universe aren’t enjoying a smooth ride, either — and Clear Channel represents exhibit A. Toward the end of the last millennium and the beginning of this one, the Texas-based firm seemed to be…
In the recent past, relatively few journalists had a burning desire to participate in Colorado’s caucuses during presidential election years — or even to cover them. After all, these sessions generally happened long after presumptive nominees had been determined in both major parties, making the time-consuming process rather redundant. But…
Day One Day Two Day Three January 15, 2008 by Audrey Sprenger, Ph.D The American West | Lowell, Massachusetts, the small industrial town of Jack Kerouac’s childhood and growing up, is not a setting in his most famous novel On The Road. Still, there is a presence of this town…
Day One Day Two Day Three January 15, 2008 by David Amram The American West | Since I was brought up on a farm in Feasterville, Pennsylvania during the 1930s, most of my first impressions of the American West were informed by Saturday matinees at the movies. But my Uncle…
Forgive the President for appearing exceedingly relaxed during his last State of the Union. Sporting the air of resignation that a student council president uses when reminding revelers to drive home safely from the prom — long after the cool kids have moved on to hotel rooms and tomorrow’s conquests…
View larger image Mississippi Total Number of Delegates: 40 Pledged: 33 Unpledged: 7 How to Recognize a Mississippi Delegate: Due to a prolonged history of ill-timed natural disasters and social injustice, Mississippi today is the poorest state in the nation. Fortunately, that poverty has created a form of super-human state…
View larger specimen In order to make more sense of the world around us, illustrator and public house naturalist Nate Stone is compiling here a taxonomy of different barflies. While you’re out and about in Denver, if you spot any of these specimens please add your observations about their habitat…
Switching suddenly from PBS’ Antiques Roadshow to Fox’s new reality-based game show Moment of Truth? Host Mark Walberg must need a neck brace from the whiplash. Or at least a hot shower, you know, to scrub vainly away at the shame…
A quick update on ex-Café Star chef Rebecca Weitzman’s New York adventure. When I checked out her work at Bobby Flay’s Bar Americain in Manhattan, I loved the food and hated just about everything else. Now I just got word that Weitzman has put in her notice and is once…
When Westword profiled former Coloradoan turned White House Press Secretary Dana Perino last September, she admitted that “there weren’t a lot of people lining up” to take the position. But now, her gig looks like one of the easiest in Washington. Americans of every political stripe are currently paying little…
ProgressNow has successfully embarrassed KOA talk-show hosts for unwise statements in the past. Remember that in May 2007, the left-leaning organization made headlines for whipping up an advertiser boycott aimed at rabble-rouser Bob Newman, who’d declared, “I want every Muslim immigrant to America who holds a green card, a visa,…
What would happen to the planet if the human race were to suddenly vanish? The short answer is this: all the animals high-five, and then commence eating one another. Pretty much everything falls down. And then the plants grow over everything. That’s it. Good night! Pleasant dreams. A longer answer…
