Get a head start on the Year of the Ox celebration, which officially begins next Monday, when the Highlands Ranch Cultural Affairs Association and the Great Wall Chinese Academy join forces to bring an authentic Chinese New Year Celebration to Cherry Hills Community Church, 3900 E. Grace Boulevard, Littleton, tonight from 6…
The Pew Internet & American Life Project released a study last week that found young people are more likely to use social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace than old people. In other breaking news, milk mostly comes from cows and water is mostly wet…
Many folks at the Rocky Mountain News have been downbeat about the paper’s chances for long-term survival ever since it was put up for sale by E.W. Scripps. But those in charge of keeping the Rocky’s offices tidy displayed a lot more optimism in an e-mail about a new cost-saving…
The Obama Watch Keeps “Time For Change” close at hand. — Kenny Be…
Street artist Shepard Fairey, whose “HOPE” poster became an icon of the Obama campaign, did an interview with Terry Gross of NPR’s Fresh Air earlier this week. Now that the Smithsonian recently purchased the original stenciled poster for its National Portrait Gallery in Washington, Fairey has officially gone from outsider…
Business writer David Milstead and sports columnist Dave Krieger (pictured) are two of the genuine standouts on the Rocky Mountain News staff — and in the past day or so, both have penned articles that consider the plight of their paper, which was put up for sale by parent company…
The Broncos’ (former) quarterbacks coach, Jeremy Bates, has left to be the assistant coach/play caller at USC — and according to the Denver Post, Jay Cutler realllllllllllllly didn’t want Bates to leave. Deductive logic therefore gives me the right to say that Cutler may not be a happy man. I…
The knock on Tom Strickland, during his two unsuccessful runs for the Senate, was that he was a (shudder) “lobbyist-lawyer.” Not as appealing, it turned out, as folksy horse-vet Wayne Allard, whose basic charm seemed to be an almost complete absence of anything that might be described as a fresh idea…
The Rocky Mountain Collegian, the student newspaper affiliated with Colorado State University, scored a scoop this week with a devastating story about CSU police chief Dexter Yarbrough, who’s been on administrative leave since last month, when he became the subject of what’s been termed a “personnel investigation.” The centerpiece of…
In yet another example of why global warming sucks, Denver Parks and Recreation announced yesterday that they are once again postponing the January 24 opening of the Ruby Hill Rail Yard, the nation’s only urban snowboard park, “until further notice.” The culprit? Unseasonably warm weather. Obviously, the photo above is…
Although the current economic woes are negatively impacting plenty of industries, they’re striking old-technology media firms with special vengeance. As such, most firms are trying to cut costs in ways that are meant to be invisible to most, but not all, customers. Case in point. The Denver Post and the…
Hopes are riding high on Barack right now, with many people counting on the Illinois resident to produce amazing results. In fact, so much is riding on Barack that his semen is selling for $2,500 a share! Seriously. A Westword operative cruising the livestock exchange at the National Western Stock…
Michael Tietze lives way off the beaten path. His homestead is “four and a half miles up the road to Mount Evans from Idaho Springs,” he says — well beyond the point where he could hook up to cable television. Not that he minds. He isn’t interested in having access…
“The Battle of the Beltway,” Jared Jacang Maher, January 15 Taking a Toll Jared Jacang Maher’s “The Battle of the Beltway” was excellent. Westword has covered the beltway fiasco for decades now, giving us more information and insight than Denver’s daily newspapers. Fred Harper, the cover illustrator, should tell us…
This week’s cover story — Kenny Be’s “Big Bucks for Builders: How Colorado can ride out the recession” — is available on the Latest Word blog…
You sure about that? Today in Backbeat Online: • The Fluid at Maxwell’s in Hoboken, New Jersey. • Wiretap documentary tells story of jailed Colorado hip-hop producer. • 3Oh!3 gets key to the city. • The Dead announces Denver date. • Rebecca Folsom on the cover of Women’s Magazine. Today…
As always, we’re cruising for Denver-scented enlightenment. Send tips here. Broncos hire five new coaches, all of whom are older than the boss. (Mile High Report) An eminent domain case threatens to take away couple’s livelihood, which is apparently selling totem poles. (Face the State) Nuclear power is crazy expensive,…
“DTV or No TV,” a Message column in the January 22 issue, reveals that some people who’ve been receiving analog television signals for decades will likely lose free TV service entirely once the conversion to digital broadcasting takes place on February 17, the scheduled switchover date, or at some point…
Rocky Horror fans have been doing that same old song and dance for way too long, so I say, “Amen!” If ever there was a replacement vehicle to suit a 21st-century audience, it’s REPO! The Genetic Opera, a ready-made cult classic with a lineup of of rock-star cameos and musical…
The inauguration ceremonies for President Obama seem to have gone smoothly yesterday, with no arrests and only a few small logistical mishaps reported. Quite a feat, considering the record two million people who flooded into Washington for the event. It all serves to illustrate the ways local and national organizers…
“What was the best job you ever had? Mine was reading comics all day.” That’s how cartoonist Lynda Barry begins her comic-strip introduction as editor of The Best American Comics 2008, for which she chose the contents. And I suspect Art Spiegelman would agree, as I learned during a recent…
Yesterday’s blog “The Bloodletting Starts at Clear Channel Denver” documented layoffs of ten people working for one or more of the Texas concern’s eight area outlets, and noted that more cuts were expected. Unfortunately, management isn’t interested in supplying specifics. Clear Channel Denver chief Lee Larsen, who previously discussed layoffs…
