At this moment in our country’s history, celebrity can land on people like a terrible, swift sword — or the satisfying embrace of a loving reach-around. University of Colorado at Boulder student Zach Lahn is experiencing the latter, figuratively speaking, with the conservative media giving him a lingering hand for…
We’ve been taught from an early age not to squeal on people. Doing so is seen as such a negative that the action’s been given a number of entirely perjorative names: “rat,” “fink” and so on. But given the crimes for which twenty-year-old Daniel Evaristo-Hernandez-Ramos is wanted — sexual assault…
It was positively Atmospheric. Today in Backbeat Online: • Over the Weekend: Atmosphere at Red Rocks. • Over the Weekend: Green Day at Pepsi Center. • Dialed In: This week’s local music radio playlists. • Behind the scenes at Global Dance Fest with Vista TV. • Placebo postpones North American…
Our daily cruise through the local blogosphere. Let us know about good destinations. The Broncos have traded for yet another Patriot, defensive end Le Kevin Smith. Weird, huh? (Mile High Report) The Denver Archbishop chimes in on health care. (Colorado Independent) Scott McInnis is missing in action. Why are people…
Denver’s burgeoning alternative-energy industry will get a boost this September when formerly Portland, Orgeon-based wind energy company REpower USA Corp. moves its headquarters to Denver. The Denver Business Journal reports that the company, the U.S. subsidiary of German wind-power manufacturer REpower Systems AG, is one of the first to take…
In late July, Judd Golden, chair of the Boulder branch of the American Civil Liberties Union, wrote a letter to the Boulder Police Department complaining about the July 19 tasering of what he described as “an unarmed and apparently mentally impaired man.” He shared this missive with local media –…
It’s only right that the Denver Film Society’s Film on the Rocks series should fête Woodstock’s 40th anniversary, considering that the event, the music and the movie have become inseparably melded in our collective consciousness over time. Besides, FOTR is all about a similar gestalt — so of course they…
Good news for those of you who’ve always felt something stinks at the Colorado Judicial Building, where the state Supreme Court and Court of Appeals are housed: Today, even Supreme Court Chief Justice Mary Mullarkey agrees with you. She’s closed the structure until further notice due to a sewer break…
He was in our front yard and a little hard to miss. About as inconspicuous as a Hummer in a rose garden. And my wife, Lisa, wanted to rescue him. Maybe it’s because of all the old houses and flimsy fences, maybe it’s the proximity to major highways and West…
Republic Airways Holdings’ victory over Dallas-based Southwest Airlines in the Frontier sweepstakes raises more questions than it answers, as Dallas Morning News airline blogger Eric Torbenson makes clear in “What Will Denver Look Like in Two Years?,” an analysis published earlier today. In Torbenson’s view, United Airlines may not survive…
The study of neighbors through their lawn ornaments… Figure 31. Overland: Spaced out fairies, hobbits and zombies Due to geography and street design, Overland is the south-central neighborhood that everyone drives through but no one ever sees. Its long history of invisibility has allowed Denver to pursue a plethora of…
Members of the local media are seldom effusive about the timeliness and responsiveness of the Denver Police Department’s public-information office — and a release issued today exemplifies its effectiveness. or lack thereof. “The Denver Police Department would like the community to know they can now follow the DPD on Twitter,”…
Broncos receiver Brandon Marshall narrowly avoided the prospect of having his jerseys referred to as wifebeaters, or something close to that, due to his acquittal on battery charges in Atlanta on Friday. Afterward, the injury that had kept him out of practice since late July suddenly was better enough for…
Tom Martino: He’s always good for a laugh. Apparently concerned about a recent Jared Jacang Maher article about connections between him and a multi-level marketing company he’d promoted on Martino TV and his KHOW radio show, the self-proclaimed Troubleshooter had an associate call in a phony tip in order to…
Back in March, I wrote about getting a card from the Denver Post letting me know that my annual subscription price following the demise of the Rocky Mountain News would be $133.95 — not exactly a bargain, but far less than East Coast papers like the Boston Globe charge. Afterward,…
Skylab, an annual organized rave-type event, went down on Saturday, and you can see scores of photos of the weirdness here. Also on view: nightlife photos from Wicked Garden, Vinyl, a party at the Boulder Reservoir, and the Green Day concert. You can read a review of Green Day, too,…
A Wall Street Journal article published in the wake of Republic Airways Holdings’ surprising victory over Southwest in the Frontier Airlines sweepstakes may temper the enthusiasm with which most locals viewed this unexpected turn. “Commuter Airline Aims Higher,” written by Susan Carey, calls Republic’s so-called “acquisition spree” risky and points…
Last week, Jeff Norman, president and general manager of The Truth, a new right-wing FM-talk station, explained that a variation of The Pole, a.k.a. “Stripper Radio,” which ran for a week or so after the plug was pulled on Indie 101.5, a cult favorite that continues to survive, kind of,…
It’s a good indication that a temper tantrum has gotten out of control if a S.W.A.T. team is called to respond. That’s what happened Saturday near 68th and Lowell to Christopher Donte Williams, age nineteen, who, for reasons not spelled out in a release from the Westminster Police Department, decided…
On Friday, I pointed out that the team photo on the Denver Broncos’ website was taken in 2007 — and once again this morning, the site is notably behind-the-times. When I searched for passing stats in the Broncos’ 17-16 loss to the San Francisco 49ers on Friday night, I came…
UPDATE8-29: Was this hit-and-run death a hate crime? “Let’s just run them over.” That’s the last thing Shala Parker says she heard from the three strangers in the Burger King parking lot before a green Cadillac DeVille plowed over her mother, 49-year-old Lilian Verdonkschot. Parker rushed to her mother’s side…
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy In the wake of President Barack Obama’s town hall in Grand Junction on Saturday, Colorado Governor Bill Ritter got some spotlight time on the next day’s edition of Meet the Press, claiming that Obama’s mediocre poll numbers relating…
