Earlier this week, Governor Bill Ritter got an earful from grocery workers while signing a bill they saw as a full-frontal attack on them at a time when they’re involved in a contract drama with three major chains. Not that all labor organizations were upset with him. On its Employee…
Plenty of metro-area schools have shut down for the summer — but there was plenty of action at Overland High School this afternoon. According to the Aurora Police Department, more than fifty high-school-age folks took part in at least three separate fights that were witnessed by several hundred people. Wonder…
Sorry to interrupt you…. Today in Backbeat Online: • Goodbye, Magic Cyclops. Hello, Scotty Ramone. • Rainbow Music Hall now officially only a memory. • Paper Bird in search of intriguing, suitable adjective. • The Fray’s not-so-secret dress rehearsal. • Meet a six-year-old harmonica wunderkind named Aiden. Today in Cafe…
If you’re looking for someone who reads local blogs and then makes dated Dave Chappelle references, you’re in the right place. Send links over here. Face the State dug up the financial disclosure statements for Colorado’s statewide office holders. So we’re linking to it. Unless Michael Bennet doesn’t want us…
According to the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, Brandon Gaitan and Keith Paris II, both 19, had what must have seemed like a good idea at the time: break into the apartment of someone on vacation and do whatever for as long as they wanted. Problem is, said vacationer returned home…
Filmmaker, videographer and subMedia founder Franklin Lopez works in the underground of the underground, painting his radical political agenda in a mashed-up swath of documentary film, video, vlogs and zines. But as a producer of Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now! and the creator of an oft-downloaded post-Katrina music video George Bush…
Yes, I know that the Nuggets-beating Los Angeles Lakers are supposed to school Orlando in the NBA finals series, which begins tonight. But although I’d have to give the edge to the Lakers, too, I’m not ruling out a sweet, ever-so-satisfying Magic victory. No doubt the refs will give every…
News flash: If ski towns were super-strict about marijuana laws, those snowy hills nearby would be a lot less crowded. So it makes sense that Sensible Breckenridge, a spinoff of SensibleColorado.org, would see the community as fertile ground for marijuana reform. To that end, a group that includes town councilman…
Don’t let the recession ruin your summer fun! Instead of paying the high costs for transportation and lodging, you can stay right here in Denver and vacation in the neighborhood that best suits your interests. A staycation in the Sloan’s Lake and Jefferson Park neighborhoods has much to offer……
Today’s Greeley Tribune features an article about 52-year-old Kell Hulsey, a Greeley cop who was arrested last year following a fight at Livermore’s Pot Belly Deli Bar and Restaurant that reportedly started because he and his son, Daniel, “believed another man in the bar gave them a ‘gay look.'” A…
A May 26 blog explored a lawsuit brought by the Fort Collins Coloradoan, the Pueblo Chieftain and the Colorado Independent website over their contention that Colorado State University violated open-meetings law in the way it anointed Joe Blake, former vice chairman of CSU’s board of governors, as the sole finalist…
At a teleconference yesterday announcing that he’d joined the NBC Sports cadre of broadcasters, former Indianapolis Colts coach Tony Dungy was asked about the Chicago Bears’ acquisition of hurler Jay Cutler in exchange for a couple of draft picks and party dude QB Kyle Orton (who’s having trouble grasping new…
As rumors continue to swirl about the sale of the Rocky Mountain News’ intellectual property, the shuttered tabloid’s offices remain idle — expect for workers tearing them apart. Above is a recent photo of the news desk, which onceprovided the Rocky newsroom’s heartbeat. Another shot is on view by clicking…
Because sometimes we all need to see a big, stupid dinosaur mascot looking like an idiot…
The name of the ColoradoSenateNews.com has a wonderfully bland ring to it — one that implies evenhandedness and bipartisanship. But the truth is on view in small print at the bottom of the home page — “An online service of the Senate Minority Office,” the line reads — and in…
View Larger Map The Aurora Police Department has identified Jose De Jesus Martinez, 32, as the victim in a May 28 arson at 2301 N. Emporia Street, an address captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”). Coy Dunn and Douglas Taylor…
Yesterday afternoon, during a conversation with Sandy Clough and Mike Evans of FM 104.3/The Fan, Tony Granato, who’d beeen canned as head coach of your Colorado Avalanche a short time earlier, came across as the classiest of class acts, expressing gratitude to the franchise that treated him like excess ice…
The New Westword Cover Under Cover Under that cool, slick cover, I found the same down-and-dirty Westword inside. Nice move! Heather Vigil Denver Wrapping Westword in the new, super-hip 5280-style cover is like wrapping a fish with a cashmere scarf. I prefer the old rag. Rumaldo Ulibarri Arvada How much…
The world Ryan Ford inhabits looks very different than the one most of us live in. Ours has boundaries, limits, margins and finite possibilities. Our daily paths are delineated by sidewalks and stairwells, corralled by guardrails and building walls. We take this confinement blithely, rarely venturing onto any surface that’s…
View Larger Map Back in the ’90s, the Denver area experienced what was known as the “Summer of Violence.” Today, we seem to be in the midst of an especially murderous spring. This afternoon, a man was shot and killed in a Dollar Value Plus store at 5765 E. 63rd…
View Larger Map There’s been an arrest in the murder last week of security guard Alfredo Gonzalez-Ramos at the El Chapparal night club, 2727 W. 6th Avenue, the venue captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”). According to the Denver Police…
And in the center ring…. Today in Backbeat Online: • Last Night: Animal Collective at the Boulder Theater. • Fell to appear on upcoming soundtrack. • Irony free disco at Problems D’Amour tonight. Today in Cafe Society: • Luca D’Italia kicks off its sixth anniversary chef dinner series tonight with…
