The news business is about to get shaken up in a major way. There’s an exciting new-fangled media technology hitting the streets, and it looks like it’s all going down right here in Denver. Boulder media consultant Amy Gahran has the scoop on the Poynter blog she edits, E-Media Tidbits…
I know, I know… this is twice in one week that I’m making fun of the New York Times (see “$115,000 Worth of Pointless Revenge” a few blogs below for my first shot at the Old Gray Lady), but I just couldn’t let this one go without a comment. In…
We’re midway through Denver Restaurant Week, and reports are coming in. Restaurant Kevin Taylor? Full to capacity. Barolo Grill? Booked solid. Luca d’Italia? Ditto. Owner Frank Bonanno (above) has said that he couldn’t find a table for even his mother if she were to wander into Mizuna one night this…
A February 23 blog concerned an admission by folks at the Greeley Tribune that they’d routinely published reports from other area newspapers under an Associated Press byline without going through the AP. The Trib’s article about this practice noted that it had begun under the editorshop of Chris Cobler (pictured),…
In a recent Message column, television weather forecasters such as 9News’ Kathy Sabine (pictured) spoke about the criticism they’ve received from many surly viewers simply because they had to report about two relentless months of unusually extreme weather. As noted in the piece, the overall accuracy of their long-range predictions…
I’d been visiting this stretch for years, following chefs and menus and openings and closings in the rich yuppie/college kid/soccer-mom microcosm of South Gaylord Street. Baked goods, sushi, cheeseburgers, tacos, cold beers, warm sake, expensive wine. There was already plenty to do and plenty to eat. To me, Reiver’s was…
Offense Report No: 07-100558 Date: 2-15-07 Type of Offense: Attempted Robbery/Unlawful Sexual Assault/Aggravated Assault Location of Offense: Near City Park Weapon/Tool Used: Penis Getting robbed would really piss most people off, and although they say it’s better to be pissed off than pissed on, one urinating bandit left his victim…
Deb Henriksen at Equillibrium just pinged and said that there are photos of the Artopia fashion show over here. It’s a great collection of behind the scenes stuff and actual runway images for both Fabric Lab and Equillibrium. More to come later. Getting ready at Vain for the Equillibrium fashion…
This the top Cat paired with Calvin Klein jeans and cowboy boots for her Artopia outfit. If you missed Artopia this year, you missed one hell of a party. At least up on the roof. Except for presenting our annual MasterMind Awards — $4,000 checks to five of the city’s…
How seriously is Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo’s bid for the presidency being taken in his home state? As judged by a recent Tancredo controversy that appears to have been widely overlooked by mainstream media types in Colorado, not very. During a February 23 appearance on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360, Tancredo…
Davis and a friend get tongue and cheek. Engineering a second act is looking much more difficult for cast members of Real World: Denver, who have already started slumming for gigs like professional Hollywood burnouts. The show, which completed filming last fall, is still airing with episodes that are somehow…
Denver Restaurant Week, Day 2. A report by Amy Haimerl: I have a new culinary love. Not fois grae, not sweetbreads, not chili-infused chocolate or any of the other delicacies I’ve had the good fortune of trying while dining with Jason Sheehan and my other foodie friends. No, this is…
In “Just 24, Another Goes Too Young,” published on February 26, Denver Post sports columnist Mark Kiszla wrote about Denver Broncos backup runner Damien Nash, who died shortly after participating in a charity basketball game. Along the way, Kiszla mentioned the New Year’s Day passing of another Bronco, cornerback Darrent…
Offense Report No: 07-84105 Date: 2-07-07 Type of Offense: Trespass Location of Offense: Parkway Center Apartments, Golden Triangle Type of Premises: Apartment building Suspect: A 30-year-old male wearing a black leather jacket and blue jeans. Officer R. Koenigsfeld reports: “Investigation disclosed on the listed date [at 10:50 pm], the victim…
Casey Holden and his parole officer seem to be getting along just fine so far. She approves of his decision to go to school, to try to make something of himself after spending most of the last decade behind bars. He appreciates that she treats him like a human being,…
Big-time international restaurant owner Jeffrey Chodorow — who owns a couple dozen name joints in New York, Vegas and elsewhere, but who you may remember as Rocco DiSpirito’s money guy from that unconscionably awful reality show The Restaurant — got his name in the papers again last week. This time,…
Last we heard from Denver coffee entrepreneur and explorer Joseph Brodsky, he was planning to stay in Ethiopia indefinitely to seek out the best undiscovered coffee beans—such as the legendary Geisha—the birthplace of java had to offer. He’s still there, looking for his beans in wild forests and hillside coffee…
What? A powerful anti-gay pastor in Colorado Springs is getting his gay on? What? He smoked meth? What? What? After three weeks he’s a reformed hetero? Today’s video by brilliant lyricist Samwell is dedicated to the Rev. Ted Haggard. May he live long and well — because repressing the “big…
With local media devoting so much ink to the on-going “war” between tagger gangs in Westside neighborhoods (read the Denver Post’s latest take here), it might come as a surprise to many Denverites that graffiti culture can actually have a positive influence on many youngsters — because it can steer…
The motto that’s affixed to the Greeley Tribune’s logo is “Your Home, Your News.” But while the first part of the slogan makes sense, the second half is a bit dubious when viewed in the context of “Tribune Puts a Stop to Questionable Practice,” an embarrassing article/confession that appears in…
Frank Swider Kirk Rundstrom tearing it up at SXSW Just received word that Kirk Rundstrom passed away today. Though Rundstrom was not from Denver, his main band, Split Lip Rayfield, passed through here often enough that, to many, he and his crew felt like locals. Last spring, he was diagnosed…
Eli Ashby was killed when a car hit his motorcycle. The sun is shining, the snow’s melting, and motorcycle engines are roaring — as are some pissed-off biker advocates. A bill introduced into the state House in January that would require minors under 18 to wear helmets while riding on…
