Denver Blogs: Saying no to Gitmo

Our daily blog round up. Send some tips if we’re missing something. Lawmakers are not coming around on the whole Gitmo-terrorists-to-Colorado deal. (5280) Remembering the flood of ’64. (Buckfifty.org) Five simple rules to help the Nuggets reach the Finals. (Denver Stiffs)…

Today’s featured event: It’s raining salsa this weekend in Denver

There’s little out there that’s sexier than salsa dancing, except maybe the delightfully lurid tango, which shares some Latin roots. And Denver, like any multi-ethnic city worth its #10 Scoville-rated habanero juice, is lucky enough to have a tight little salsa community that kicks up its heels to the clavé…

Who’s going to manage these Lakewood girls?

Would you like to be the new city manager of Lakewood? Well, you can’t — because six finalists for the position, which opens up in September, when current CM Mike Rock plans to retire, have already been chosen. They are: Larry Dorr, Mike Hein, Kathleen Elia Hodgson, Jay Hutchison, Gary…

Why did Patrick Roy say “no” to Avalanche head coaching gig?

There’s no doubt that the Colorado Avalanche needed Patrick Roy to take over the team as head coach — and when team president Pierre Lacroix decides to obtain someone’s services, he usually succeeds. But not in this case. Shortly after the Denver Post reported that Lacroix had offered him the…

Twittering up a nice, frothy beer

These days, the Twitter backlash is powerful and vociferous. Today, a colleague of ours coined a new term — “twate” — which means, “To have disdain for anything having to do with Twitter.” But while there are many, many uses of Twitter that are worth, ahem, twatting, we’ve discovered one…

John Temple: We didn’t wish death upon Dean Singleton

It didn’t take former Rocky Mountain News editor, publisher and president John Temple long to react to a startling assertion in 5280’s intriguing account of the Rocky’s death — that execs at E.W. Scripps, the tabloid’s owner, thought the paper might survive if MediaNews Group CEO and Denver Post publisher…

Q&A with James Toback, director of Tyson

James Toback’s career seems to suffer from bipolar disorder. In the beginning, he was treated as a wunderkind thanks to his screenplay for The Gambler, a tough-nosed 1974 James Caan feature, not to mention his 1978 directorial debut, Fingers, a Harvey Keitel vehicle he also scripted. But despite the admiration…

The 5280 take on the Rocky Mountain News‘s demise

During the months between the December announcement that E.W. Scripps had put the Rocky Mountain News up for sale and the February date when the plug was pulled once and for all, as everyone knew it would be, Maximillian Potter, executive editor of 5280 magazine, watched and wrote. Potter was…

No Doubt about the Nuggets loss last night

I faced a dilemma when it came to the Nuggets’ crucial game five against the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA’s Western Conference finals last night. For weeks, I’d been scheduled to attend (and critique) the No Doubt-Paramore concert at Fiddler’s Green alongside my daughter Lora, a basketball fan just…

Jared Polis is having a tough year on TV

This season’s American Idol has sung its last note and Dancing With the Stars has taken a bow, but two more reality shows — with real Colorado connections — are about to ride the airwaves. Pitchmen is a Discovery Channel series that pairs infomercial king Billy Mays, who made his…

From the week of May 28, 2009

“The Giveaway,” Alan Prendergast, May 14 Give and Let Die My definition of a coroner or forensics examiner is an official responsible for investigating deaths, particularly some of those happening under unusual circumstances, and determining the cause of death. Based on that brief explanation, what in the world was Laradon…

The Westword.com blog shortcut, May 27 edition

Will you be game tonight? Today in Backbeat Online: • Last Night: Jane’s Addiction and Nine Inch Nails at Fiddler’s Green. • An extended conversation with Tim Pourbaix. Today in Cafe Society: • Eight is enough at chef’s table dinner at Strings. • Bucking to visit every Starbucks. • Mary…

Video: Five people arrested during yesterday’s Prop 8 protest

Soulforce in Colorado, a Denver-based nonprofit dedicated to ending oppression against gays, lesbians, bisexual and transgender people, has posted a YouTube video of yesterday’s protest of the California Supreme Court ruling upholding Proposition 8, which bans same-sex marriage. (For more about the protest, check out our blog previewing the event.)…