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Words cannot convey what watching this video of Jump Street fun center in Thornton does to my brain…

Kudos to the Denver Post for belatedly assigning one of its finest reporters, David Migoya, to take on a severely underreported story — the likelihood that thousands of Coloradans who currently get free television will lose the ability to do so once a switchover from analog to digital TV signals…

Yesterday’s blog “Media Outlets Line Up to Pummel Anti-Gym’s Michael Karolchyk” told about the downturn suffered by the aforementioned Mr. K — the subject of “No Chubbies? Fat Chance,” a January 2008 Message column in which the cupcake-tossing Anti-Gym owner alternately excoriated TV and radio outlets for not running his…

The folks at the conservative website Face the State have lately been watching a lot of the Colorado Channel — the service that provides video coverage of the Colorado General Assembly — and thank goodness for that. When it comes to sifting through hour upon painful hour of dry procedural…

The February 9 More Messages blog “What’s Up With the Denver Post’s A-Rod Obsession?” noted that the Post splashed reports that New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez had tested positive for steroids in 2003 all over its Sunday front page, and followed up with a jumbo page-one banner and a…

Celebrate February 9. After all, it only comes along once a year. Today in Backbeat Online: • Ichiban shows his majesty. • This just in: Denver has a thriving punk scene. • The Knew lands song on AMC’s Breaking Bad. Today in Cafe Society: • Video: Drinking wine with Pete…

The Denver Museum of Nature & Science got an ironic taste of its own medicine, sort of, Monday when a windstorm knocked out power to the institution, forcing it to close for the day. Why was it ironic? A new exhibit entitled Nature Unleashed is set to open at the…

This here’s the booty from our daily quest for local blogging treasures. Send links here. Yes, Senator Bennet, I have a question: Who the hell are you? (Colorado Pols) When it comes to writing about the stimulus package, Mike Rosen and Chuck Green are not exactly getting intimate with the…

Best known for his assiduously constructed samurai-era drama Ugetsu, 20th-century Japanese director Kenji Mizoguchi is famed for his rehearsed and painterly mise-en-scène style and long takes inspired by the work of Josef von Sternberg and others. And his last film, Street of Shame (more aptly titled Red-Light District in Japan),…

In today’s financial environment, TV stations don’t have a lot of extra cash to offer executives. But they can usually afford to shift around folks already on the payroll — which explains today’s announcement about Channel 7’s Byron Grandy. As pointed out in the September 2008 blog “Changes at Channel…

The headline of the December 9 blog “First Potential Rocky Mountain News Buyer Not Exactly a Media Powerhouse” assumed that multiple firms might want to kick the tires of the venerable tabloid, which E.W. Scripps put up for sale in December — and that may be true. Thus far, however,…

KOA radio host Mike Rosen has had his fill of talking about serious losses he sustained in relation to investments he made with Boulder-based Agile Group, a firm he used to advertise. As he said on the air and during an interview with Westword late last week, he believes that…

The study of neighbors through their lawn ornaments… Figure 5. Villa Park: Yardada Art Garden For many, the practice of yard art starts with the purchase of a ready-made ornament from the garden store and ends with its tasteful display as the focal point of a favored flower bed. For…

After the jump, a round-up of the weekend in Denver, with roller derby and skateboarding and even some things that don’t involve rubber wheels…

The January 30 blog “Those Cards Weren’t Giveaways, Belmar Attendees” reported that the previous evening, some of the 900 folks who went to an event at The Lab at Belmar apparently thought items on the magazine rack pictured here were freebies. In fact, these elaborately painted cards were part of…

This much I know: Russ Fitch is a retired investment advisor who grew up in Illinois, moved to Colorado in 1972, worked for the EPA at one point and now lives in Heather Gardens with his wife, JoAnn, and their cat, Hops. He’s also an artist who claims a kinship…

The banner above the main headline on the cover of today’s Denver Post’s focuses on New York Yankees standout Alex Rodriguez, who allegedly tested positve for steroids in 2003 despite public claims that he never used the stuff. An even larger A-Rod photo accompanies “Time for A-Rod to Come Clean,”…

Brace yourselves: The tenth anniversary of the attack on Columbine High School arrives this April — and it will be accompanied by a media avalanche that will hopefully add enough perspective about these horrific events to at least partially offset the pain many locals will feel at being forced to…

The January 2008 Message column “No Chubbies? Fat Chance” spotlighted Michael Karolchyk (pictured), owner of the Anti-Gym, a workout joint that used tough hate, as opposed to tough love, to get customers to drop pounds. Sample technique: tossing cupcakes at so-called “chubbies” allegedly not working hard enough to sweat off…

Shopping for Valentine’s Day sucks. Roses, ugh. Chocolate. It better be damn good. Jewelry. Be prepared to dump some cash (and probably get it wrong anyway) along with every other dazed-looking dude down at the mall. Lingerie? If your lady doesn’t mind, it’s kind of like getting a present for…

The fun of First Friday is in the variety: Choose your district and you choose the whole ambiance of your evening. And while we encourage you to support your local galleries no matter where they roost, here are a couple of suggestions about where to start tonight. Photographer Hal Gould,…

Economic downturns often see the greatest upswing in old feuds. In keeping with this great tradition, the Open Space Initiative Group is back to do battle with the Regional Transportation District over the Union Station Master Plan. OSIG wants the space around the historic train station to be a public…