Tuning Out Radio

More bad news for terrestrial radio: According to industry analyst Jonathan Jacoby, the focus of this report for Radio Ink magazine, audiences for the venerable broadcasting medium continue to decrease. Although some of Jacoby’s observations about the winter 2007 ratings book are obscured by jargon, his conclusions are as straight-forward…

Hey, All You Haters

For those of you who just can’t get your fill of talking shit right here in town, there’s quite a lively discussion on the Food Media and News forum here at chowhound.com . The focus appears to be primarily about how much I suck, how crooked / deluded / psychotic…

Get Lost!

When Jose was three, he watched his father tie a rope around his mother’s neck and attach it to the back of a Ford F-150. His father then drove off, dragging his mother behind and leaving Jose alone on the sidewalk in front of the family’s house. Jose’s mother spent…

Darren Morrison’s Virtual Aggression

It takes all kinds, this argument over guns in America. Patriots and paranoids, cranks and constitutionalists, handwringers and Huns, they all step up to the plate sooner or later. The debate is rarely polite, often incoherent and generally clouded by suspicion, fear and rancor. But it takes something special to…

Andrew Speaker: The Flying Prick

As we members of the human race continue along our perpetual path of growing, procreating, relocating from the city to the suburbs, then dying, we are forced to endure many insipid rituals along the way. We share baby photos with one another and have to pretend that we’re interested in…

Kink in the System

The Colorado Supreme Court may soon have an opportunity to consider masochism and municipal code. After Commerce City denied a local private BDSM club a sexually oriented business license, the club’s owners, Michael R. and Deb O’Keefe, took the city to court (“Fit to Be Tied,” April 12). The Colorado…

March of the Furries

This past Saturday afternoon, about two dozen fully suited furries — wolves and other canines, a few rabbits, some cats, something that might be a skunk — left the confines of Rocky Mountain Fur Con, Denver’s first furry convention, and paraded down the 16th Street Mall to the befuddlement of…

Dusty Saunders Hits the Trail

In his May 31 farewell column, veteran broadcasting critic Dusty Saunders posited that he’s written more words for the Rocky Mountain News than anyone else in its 148-year history — and the numbers back him up. He spent an astonishing 53 years as a scribbler or editor at the paper,…

Letters to the Editor

“Give It Up!,” Luke Turf, May 24 A Really Beg Deal I found “Give It Up” very interesting. To start off, I would like to say that I sympathize with anyone mistreated by the police. That being said, I have to applaud the police in their efforts to stop people…

A DAM Shame — Miller Leaves the Museum

Lewis Sharp, director of the Denver Art Museum, stunned the board of trustees this morning with the announcement that R. Craig Miller, founder of the department of architecture, design and graphics, was resigning and had taken a job at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. The IMA is one of the…

No Word on Ward

How much of a distraction has embattled Professor Ward Churchill been to folks at the University of Colorado-Boulder? A June 6 press release sent out by Michelle McKinney, director of communications for CU president Hank Brown, offers a clue…

Chicken Wings with a Nice Chianti

I saw this giant chicken cutout while driving toward downtown on Larimer Street this morning. The one at about 25th and Larimer really befuddled me, seeing as how that’s an area real estate developers like to euphemistically call “in transition” — especially for guerilla marketing about California wines. This one…

Nicolas Cage: Woman Fighter

Yeah, you heard right. He fights women. And acts as a human sacrifice. And plenty of other awesomeness. How did Nicolas Cage not win an Oscar for this movie?– Cory Casciato P.S. Watch it. Do it. This is seriously one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen…

Motos! Diablos!

06.02.07 Sant Joan, Mallorca Spain Chief, I´ve got a hot one involving fascist Franquista motorcyclists terrorizing a small village here on the island of Mallorca. Sinister undercurrents abound, but to do this story right, I´m gonna need some money. I´m talking enough money to buy—minimum—a 250cc Yamaha dirt bike, pay…

Downtown Supermarket Planned

About damn time. As reported on the Denver Infill blog, plans are in the works to include space for a much-needed supermarket downtown at 19th and Chestnut, just west of Union Station. The developer, Nichols Partnership, the same team behind the Clayton Lane complex in Cherry Creek, and the Spire…

No Play

The last item of the May 24 Message column noted that execs at the Denver Post had been discussing the future of the Sunday Style section, and suggested that its survival was unlikely. Turns out, though, that Style lives on — sort of. The Tuesday, June 5, Post presents the…

Our Fascist Future Revealed at DIA

This little documentary claims to unravel the secret fascist symbology contained in the design and decoration of DIA. Prepare to be shocked, amazed, even terrified as the listless offscreen narrator expounds on theories that sound like they came straight out of a ten-day cough syrup and model glue bender…