When Southwest Airlines made its run at purchasing Frontier Airlines this past month, a number of industry observers speculated that it was doing so because Frontier was kicking its ass in Denver. But just because Southwest eventually lost out to underdog Republic Airways Holdings in the Frontier sweepstakes doesn’t mean…
Cincinnati Bengals receiver Chad Ochocinco, who cut off his “Johnson” some time ago, is in self-promotional overload prior to the team’s season-opening contest against your Denver Broncos. But will he be tweeting? NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has warned players not to feed Twitter during games, apparently because he doesn’t want…
On Wednesday, Safeway made what it termed its “final” offer to employees whose contract expired several months ago. Crisanta Duran, associate legal counsel for United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7, responded with a statement dismissing the latest proposal as essentially a repeat of one the UFCW found wanting at…
With ex-speaker of the Colorado House Andrew Romanoff’s entry into the U.S. Senate race merely a formality at this point, Michael Bennet, appointed by Governor Bill Ritter to fill the slot opened up by the departure (to the Department of the Interior) of Ken Salazar, needs to start playing offense…
In April, KOA conservative Mike Rosen and AM 760 liberal David Sirota participated in a debate of President Barack Obama’s first hundred days in office that was simulcast on both stations. And while those with ideological axes to grind disagreed about who won, the general consensus was that Sirota cleaned…
In recent days, metro salons have been under assault, and not just from people upset that that the Chinese symbol they paid to have drawn on their nails looks like unidentifiable smegma. First, the Aurora Police Department reported nine break-ins, mostly at salons, over a seven-hour period. Then the Arapahoe…
Turns out the Englewood bicyclist injured in a lightning strike earlier this week is accustomed to traveling in faster vehicles. He’s Richard “The Rock” Burton, a well-known figure on the local racing circuit; for instance, he won the Snap-On Tools Pro Truck race at Colorado National Speedway almost exactly a…
Unlike most Denver TV stations, the Denver Post leads its offerings today with a report inspired by 9-11. Blessedly, though, it’s not another roundup of anecdotes from people recalling where they were or what they were doing eight years ago today. Instead, the paper offers the first segment in a…
On the eighth anniversary of the 9-11 assaults, cable-news channels are in full-on flashback mode — but not Denver affiliates. As I surfed from station to station in the hour prior to 6:46 a.m. Mountain time (the moment when the first plane hit the World Trade Center), I saw the…
Someone told me about this show…. Today in Backbeat Online: • Last Night: The Killers at Red Rocks. • Monolith Q&A: Red Wire Black Wire. • Monolith Q&A: The Glitch Mob. • Monolith Q&A: The Thermals. • MTV reports on what’s in 3OH!3’s travel bag, tests their red-carpet skills. Today…
Our daily cruise through the Colorogosphere. Did Obama’s healthcare speech really change some Colorado minds? (Colorado Independent) Climate-legislation: The next empty promise for thousands of new jobs! (5280) What Josh McDaniels is saying about Sunday. (It’s not much, but at least he’s talking!) (Mile High Report)…
While it isn’t nearly as cool as neighboring Boulder going all “city of the future” (and yes, we are jealous, thanks for asking), Denver is getting its own energy improvements in the form of a $6 million dollar stimulus check, reports the Denver Business Journal. In addition to boring stuff…
View Larger Map A grisly find this morning at a motel on the 9200 block of East Colfax, an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”). Aurora Police Department reps found a dead man whose upper body showed such clear…
The symbiotic interplay between seemingly antithetical forces of nature — trees and wildfires — forms the underlying theme in artist Anna Kaye’s fastidiously detailed drawings in charcoal, graphite and watercolor, which offer a near-photographic view of a forest in ruins coming back to life. Both eerie and inspirational, the works…
Over the weekend, Andrew Romanoff turned up at a union-sponsored Labor Day picnic where current U.S. Senator Michael Bennet was also glad-handing — one reason why a Tuesday blog about his appearance was headlined “Andrew Romanoff Sure Looking Like a Senatorial Candidate.” As a result, his decision today to file…
It sounds like a tidy piece of inspirational fiction: A coke-snorting, booze-guzzling dropout squanders every opportunity in life, turns to armed robbery, burglary and sleazy telemarketing scams, spends much of his adult life behind bars as a self-proclaimed “worthless piece of shit” — then discovers the secrets of better living…
If you’re searching for some optimism for the forthcoming Broncos season, look no further than the NFL manifesto posted today by ESPN.com’s Bill Simmons, wherein he picks the Broncos to be this season’s no-one-saw-this-coming surprise team. His take: Nobody believes in them because they lost Shanahan (24-24 since 2006) and…
Welcome to the brave new world of “green” healthcare, where every affliction will be treated by a new strain of marijuana marketing! Labels to look for at your local dispensary……
An October 2004 Message column focused on Colorado & Company, a Channel 9 offering in which businesses paid for the privilege of being treated as talk-show guests. Essentially, the program is a super-sized commercial, although industry types prefer the term “advertorial” — and given the continued popularity of infomercials on…
View Larger Map Big news on the transportation front: The long-awaited redevelopment of Union Station into a new transportation hub got underway yesterday. Sure, it’s just some preliminary work on utility lines, but considering the lengthy and convoluted back story to the redevelopment, just the fact that shovels are finally…
Had Freedom Communications, owner of the Colorado Springs Gazette, filed for bankruptcy during better economic times, journalism-business observers would have immediately begun speculating about the odds that it might be purchased by MediaNews Group, headed by Denver Post publisher Dean Singleton. After all, Singleton had taken a run at Freedom…
Another day, another series of contradictory stories about perennial Shmuck of the Week Brandon Marshall. First, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported that the Broncos were exploring a contract extension for Marshall mere days after his preseason suspension for acting like a two-year old in shoulder pads. Since then, numerous sources have…
