The old adage about not believing everything you read goes double for comments placed on blogs. Today’s example: An item attributed to “Buster,” which popped up on a piece entitled, “Denver Post Chairman and MediaNews Group CEO Dean Singleton Responds to This Week’s Message Column.” It reads: Every time Mikey…
Much of America was steamed when the latest television Bachelor, Jason Mesnick, dumped Molly Malaney to propose to Melissa Rycroft, only to subsequently give Rycroft the heave-ho in order to pursue a relationship with Malaney — a roundelay that took place entirely in front of TV cameras. And Vail’s Ryan…
In recent days, Pueblo Bank & Trust has been running an unusual ad on local stations. The message: The federal government has been pushing bailout money on healthy banks as well as sickly ones — but PB&T doesn’t need rescuing, because it’s in sound financial condition. This approach is echoed…
We all know that Broncos QB Jay Cutler isn’t talking to new coach Josh McDaniels, who pissed off JC by listening to trade talks involving former New England Patriots signal caller Matt Cassel, now a member of the Kansas City Chiefs. But how much time has passed since the pair…
This morning, National Public Radio broadcast a first-rate report about mortgage scams. Yet its source was more surprising than its content — because it’s a product of Colorado Public Radio. The appearance of a CPR package on the national broadcast shouldn’t be that rare. After all, the service is by…
Although the closing of the Rocky Mountain News was an unfortunate development for the city in general, at least its disappearance seemed sure to save a double subscriber like me some big bucks. But no: Yesterday, I received a card in the mail that read as follows: Notice of change…
Here are some things we published not too long ago… Today in Backbeat Online: • Over the Weekend: Cut Off Your Hands at the hi-dive. • Over the Weekend: Tauntaun and Kingdom of Magic at the Bluebird. Today in Cafe Society: • Prime (rib) time at Dazzle. • A Milking…
Our daily cruise through the Colorogosphere. Send tips in this general direction. Developer Bobby Ginn wanted to build the Vail Valley’s poshest resort. Instead, he owes a Swiss bank $700 million. That’s gotta hurt. (Colorado Independent) Unions will be involved in the distribution of education stimulus cash. And that makes…
The just-published blog “Former Enemies Penny Parker and Bill Husted Finding Ways to Co-Exist at the Denver Post” describes the intriguing repercussions of changes at the broadsheet since the closure of the Rocky Mountain News — and plenty more are on the way. Earlier today, Post editor Greg Moore sent…
“MATTER: Disregarding the barriers between design and art since 1999.” That’s the motto of MATTER, the fast-forward local design studio masterminded by Rick Griffith — and it perfectly describes the show Griffith has hung in the fourth-floor Jury Selection Room at the Denver City and County Building as part of…
The February 26 announcement that the Rocky Mountain News would close was accompanied by word that the Denver Post had hired a handful of Rocky notables. This move was a positive development for readers, as well as for the staffers in question — but combining these forces can present internal…
The study of neighbors through their lawn ornaments… Figure 10. Hilltop: Daily Platitudes In addition to sculptors and painters, there is a more literal sub-species of yard artist known as the yard author. These creators are small in numbers and usually have big problems finding successful ways to transform the…
In an odd bit of timing, the Colorado Press Association’s convention got under way at the Brown Palace on February 26, the day word broke that the Rocky Mountain News would close after nearly 150 years. No wonder that, the next day, a mini-job fair held at the Brown in…
The Frozen Dead Guys celebration, a bizarre tribute to cryogenics and shrinkage, returned to Nederland over the weekend, and it anchors our weekend coverage at westword.com/slideshow…
Ever since word leaked out that Adam Lerner, who’s guided the Belmar Lab, would replace Cydney Payton as executive director of MCA Denver, many art-scene observers (me included) were concerned that he would bring his hip geegaws and trendy gimcracks to the museum, and in the process start to dumb…
Of the scads of sentences written about former University of Colorado-Boulder prof Ward Churchill over the past several years, the one that best sums up the story was penned by Mike Littwin in a May 2006 column back when he was still scribbling for the Rocky Mountain News. As Littwin…
In a note to yours truly from a former Rocky Mountain News colleague of journalist James Meadow describes the latter’s death over the weekend following a bicycling accident as “a big-time tragedy that puts the past ten days in perspective” — and that’s as succinct a way to put it…
And now, without further ado… Today in Backbeat Online: • Q&A with the Game. • Little Fyodor celebrates a quarter-century of zaniness. • Lee Ball, RIP. • Next Astrophagus gig to feature Astrophagus playing, uh, its own songs? • Diamond Boiz crew ready to bust through. • The Colorado Rap…
Our daily peek into the local blogoshere. Send links. The NFL: The only place where a serial abuser catches a break because he catches a football. (Mile High Report) The stimulus money is on its way. But will it make a difference? (Colorado Independent and Colorado Pols) Peter Boyles thinks…
If you’ve ever wanted to party with 2,000 lesbians, this is your night. Babes Around Denver is celebrating the sixth anniversary of its monthly First Friday party. “We started it in 2003. It started out with a hundred people and it’s grown to 2,000. It’s been great.,” says organizer Dede…
Here is an example of a condolence e-card you can find at www.bluemountain.com, the online greeting card company originally founded by the parents of Jared Polis, who’s now a first-term Congressman from Colorado’s second district: Memories keep the one you loved close to you in spirit and thought and always…
