Last week, while I was waiting on hold to speak with a Denver Newspaper Agency representative about delivery issues (little knowing that operators’ hours had been changed in an apparent cost-savings move), I got an audio preview of the “Post-News Economic Stimulus Sweepstakes” that was formally introduced with a giant…
The study of neighbors through their lawn ornaments Figure 3. Wash Park West: Pigskin-O-Lantern Football Festoonery has had a long and rich history in Denver. Most often it is displayed in orange-and-blue banners purchased at a premium by Broncos fans. Occasionally, the more fervent of these followers will paint their…
The best thing about Valentine’s Day? If you’re under twelve, it just might be making your own Valentines, a time-honored activity for kids that’s guaranteed to break the dead-of-winter doldrums. But the thing of it is this: It’s damn fun for adults, too — those, anyway, who are wracked with…
After the jump, a guided tour to what you missed in Denver this weekend, from the Geek Bowl to the rodeo, and from shining sea of beer to shining sea of beer. Click on the photos to see more…
Though the pub quiz is rumored to have been invented by the Egyptians shortly after they invented beer, the sport has only recently achieved the kind of worldwide status accorded to other top sports, like soccer, baseball and beer pong. And it is here, in Denver, where the top teams…
In a January 21 blog, Rocky Mountain News editor/publisher/president John Temple emphasized that “the grapevine doesn’t know what it’s talking about” when it comes to the future of the paper, which was put up for sale in December by its owner, E.W. Scripps. Given the silence coming from Scripps, however,…
Gloria Neal, a strong new addition to the Channel 4 morning-news program, covered last week’s inauguration of President Barack Obama for the station — and her online account of her time in Washington, D.C. was consistently upbeat. However, her January 20 post makes note of some “logistical challenges” she promised…
This morning on Peter Boyles’ KHOW talk show, Mike Jones, the onetime male escort who went public about his relationship with nationally known New Life Church pastor Ted Haggard, blasted New Life Church for covering up information that Haggard had been involved in a sexual relationship with another young man…
You’ve got a lot of reading to do. But not like three chapters of The Grapes of Wrath, due by tomorrow. Fun reading. Today in Backbeat Online: • Meese finishes new album and lands mug in Spin. • Has hip-hop dance crew BreakEFX met their match? • A first look…
Send locally created blog brilliance for inclusion in future episodes of “Denver Blogs” here. Gitmo prisoners could be housed at Supermax, but lawmakers are acting like they’ll be cruising the produce aisle at SuperTarget. (Colorado Independent) Lawmakers to spend money on making sure you can track how they spend their…
Indian dancer Renu Kansal of the Bollywood West dance studio teamed up with her promoter friend Norvan Massey and DJ Ashish B. a few years ago to host the occasional Passport to Bollywood International Dance Party partly because she wanted to provide a social setting for her students to hear Indian…
The Message column “DTV or No TV” discusses a likely complication in the move from analog television signals to the digital kind, which is scheduled to take place on February 17. Specifically, some viewers west of the main digital tower on Lookout Mountain who have been receiving free analog signals…
There’s plenty of shmuckyness to go around in this delightful story. On Tuesday evening, a Federal Heights man left his car running — with his two-year-old and five-month-old kids in the back — while he ran into a Shell gas-station convenience store. While he was inside, another man got into…
As noted in a January 20 blog about Channel 9, the Gannett Company, whose portfolio includes 9News and the Fort Collins Coloradoan, among many other media properties nationwide, announced that in an attempt to prevent further layoffs, the vast majority of its 31,000-person workforce would be required to take a…
Oversight Underwear Featuring the Wonder Obrama and Baroxer Shorts. — Kenny Be…
YouTube continues to be a fount of John Denver tributes. But few are odder than the one viewable above, in which the guy on the left hears the ocean in a shell, while his buddy holds a crystallized rock to his head and hears… “Leaving on a Jet Plane.” Sorry,…
The Denver Business Journal is reporting that Tim Wiens wants out of his agreement to manage the Broomfield Event Center, which opened in 2006 — and that’s not good news for local officials. The city bankrolled the 6,000-seat arena with $60 million worth of bonds that are supposed to be…
There’s a great deal of uncertainty about the future of the Rocky Mountain News, which was put up for sale by its owner, E.W. Scripps, in December. As such, the timing of a planned demonstration in support of the paper — it’s scheduled to take place on Thursday, January 29,…
The latest blogosphere blather suggests that recently fired Denver Broncos coach Mike Shanahan could be headed to Kansas City to take over the struggling Chiefs franchise. Not happening, insists 9News sports anchor Drew Soicher. He’s so sure this rumor isn’t worth the breath it takes to pass it that last…
On last night’s episode of 30 Rock, the funniest sitcom on network television by a very wide margin, our fair state was the target of two surreal yet amusing zingers. Early on, NBC page Kenneth (Jack McBrayer, to the right of the attached photo) is trying to convince cluelessly vain…
Click yo fingers. Today in Backbeat Online: • Q&A with Adele. • James Han’s solo sortie. • Leo Kottke, Shawn Colvin highlight RootsFest. • Q&A with William Elliott Whitmore. • Cacheflow teams with Brer Rabbit for dubby goodness. Today in Cafe Society: • PETA in the news again: “Sea Kitten”…
Send worthy bloggage here. Obama snuffs last-minute Bush proposal on oil-shale royalties and hooks up endangered wolf in process. I guess he’s saving walking on water until day four. (Colorado Independent) Accomplishing nothing is a slow process for the Colorado Legislature. (Face the State) But they are finding time to…
