ArgusFest and SAME Café: a match made in heaven. The first-ever opportune clash of these two local-activist titans, combining Jason Bosch’s ongoing documentary film festival focusing on human rights, social and environmental issues with the sliding-scale, pay-what-you-can restaurant on Colfax Avenue, takes place tonight during a Micro Film Fest on…
Happy Birfday Blinky. Denver’s TV clown turned antiques store owner turned one-man nostalgia machine for anyone who grew up in the Mile High City in the 1960s, 70s and 80s celebrated his 88th birfday on June 30 with a meal at White Fence Farm in Lakewood. The staff there knew…
A baseball card series that features Colorado’s boys of summer dresses sporting the fashions of Denver designers. Here Brad Hawpe takes a turn at bat in the cowl-necked hoodie halter dress from the Tricia Hoke Signature Collection 2009 …..
The Terry Bison Ranch is still the best place to stay when you’re visiting Cheyenne Frontier Days, which began July 18 and continues through July 25. Straddling the Wyoming/Colorado border, the place is a massive working ranch — with bison, camels, llamas, goats and all of your other standard farm…
A Denver cop is accused of pulling his gun in an effort to speed up his drive-through order at an Aurora McDonald’s in May, the Post is reporting. From their story: A Denver police officer faces felony menacing and weapons charges based on an allegation that he pointed a pistol…
As I reported last week, things got pretty testy near the end of the three-day disciplinary hearing for attorney Mark Brennan. A physical confrontation between Brennan and his chief accuser, Kim Ikeler of the Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel, erupted when Ikeler approached the podium as Brennan was delivering his…
Broncos wide receiver/resident diva Brandon Marshall has vowed to show up for training camp — not because he’s a loyal teammate, but because he’s “not gonna let them take more money.” And a little luck — or perhaps a little help from a friendly judge or scheduler — could keep…
After 12-plus hours of testimony, the state health board on Monday rejected a key restriction on medical marijuana dispensaries — a rule that would have limited them to five patients each. You have to imagine this was the most attention ever heaped on the health board, which played host to…
The Latest Word is at a Colorado Board of Health’s hearing, where the board will consider new medical marijuana regulations that some believe will jeopardize the newly booming industry, as Joel Warner reported last week (“Will Monday be judgment day for Colorado’s medical marijuana industry?”). We’ll update throughout the day…
It’s all going to pot. Today in The Latest Word: – Live-blogging the medical marijuana hearings. – Mile High Music Festival roundup. – Mile High Murder in Commerce City. – Jared Polis: Not playing nice, standing up for the little big guy. – Ragin’ Hummer driver. Today in Backbeat Online:…
Our daily ticket to blog-land. Got something for us? Send it here. The Pew Center released a report on corrections. Colorado’s correctional population ranks 15th among states. (Square State) The NL West is the second best division in baseball. That sound you hear is ESPN trying to figure out who…
The Colorado Rockies kick off their second-half home opener against the Diamondbacks tonight at Coors Field on a high note, after yesterday’s 6-1 win in San Diego, which gave starting pitcher Jason Marquis his league-leading twelfth win. But Jim Tracy and the boys (and you and me) all know that…
If you’re a Denver-area podcaster — or someone looking to start a podcast or even just interested in the medium — head down to the Wynkoop tomorrow night and meet some of your fellow ‘casters. There’s no real agenda beyond the group’s general purpose of “lively discussion, hands on practice…
In perhaps the least surprising news since the cancellation of Frank TV, Colorado State Patrol troopers are looking for the driver of an Hummer H2 who, in a fit of road rage, may have intentionally caused a wreck that left a motorcycle rider seriously injured. The incident happened Sunday afternoon…
Woody Paige took time from his television foibles to chime in with a pretty decent column on Sunday, about the very fine life of former Broncos coach Mike Shanahan. Shanahan — who talked with Paige at the celebrity golf tourney in Lake Tahoe — has apparently been busy marrying off…
A baseball card collection that features Colorado’s boys of summer dresses sporting the fashions of Denver designers. Here super-slugger Todd Helton sprints to first base in an all-star party dress by Adam Van Eeckhout …..
It looks like Boulder Congressman Jared Polis has taken the lead as one of the Democrats to cross party lines and thumb his nose at President Obama’s health care proposal. But his concerns don’t have to do with health care itself. No, a letter he wrote that was signed by…
View Larger Map (Trouble viewing this map? Click “View Larger Map”) Perhaps they were trying to pin it on Ani DiFranco? The Denver Police is investigating a kidnapping/murder at 3602 North Leyden, which they’ve connected to a body dumped in Commerce City — where the police were busy enough this…
For us, and for thousands who joined us, the weekend was dominated by the Mile High Music Fest — two days of sun-drenched music, booze, vibing and dancing, of friendships struck with both the music and fellow fan, of shit-kicking drummers and dreamy frontmen and women. Experience it all on…
The Denver Public Library is embracing this whole new media/social media thing wholeheartedly. They’re active Twits: @DenverLibrary is the basic account, plus there’s the account for the library’s Fresh City Life program @FreshCityLife and others as well. You an find both of those on Facebook, too: DPL here and Fresh…
Our daily roundup of local blog action. Send links here. Remember free national-park weekends? Well, this is one of those weekends. Go forth and frolic. (Colorado Independent) Live from Las Vegas: Denver Stiffs reports from the Nuggets’ summer league. (Denver Stiffs) The end of Crocs? (5280)…
It’s been three years since Fancy Tiger came to town, changing the face of SoBo in its wake: A perfect fit with existing businesses near the corner of Ellsworth Avenue and Broadway, the groundbreaking DIY craft shop/hipster clothing emporium that later split into two stores on the same block has…
