Is there a more selfless profession in America than that of the rodeo clown? Seriously. First, they get tagged with a title that invites mockery. Then they run around for hours, placing themselves in between cowboys and the horns of a pissed-off bull, only to risk head injury by being…
Like Denver Boone, the longtime University of Denver mascot seen here, who was deep-sixed a few years back in part because he was deemed insufficiently manly and sophisticated, plenty of DU employees will soon be leaving the school. According to “Staff Leave Under Voluntary Severance Plan,” a story in today’s…
In his blog “Broncos Country is Not Happy About Josh McDaniels. Broncos Country is Wrong,” Westword’s Joe Tone suggests that everyone in the state of Colorado is up in arms about the selection of New England Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels to replace Mike Shanahan as the Denver Broncos’ new…
What are people saying about the Broncos’ new coach? Well … Terrell Davis, the former Bronco and current NFL Network analyst, thinks McDaniels, at 32, is too young. The Mile High Report thinks he’s too much like Belichick. Our own Michael Roberts thinks he’s too offensive-minded. The Rocky’s Dave Krieger…
In this day and age… Today in Backbeat Online: • Hear Nathaniel Rateliff on Matt Pinfield’s morning show. • Holy treasure trove of live local boots. • Mile High Makeout: Frontmen on the front lines. • The Blackout Pact is back, Jack! • Live review: Buzzards and Fanatics at Carioca…
Among the many, many funny things that daily newspapers do to cater to their aging audience, this is among the better I’ve seen in a while. In a story posted Monday to denverpost.com about a Colorado Springs anesthesiologist arrested for dealing ecstasy and pain killers, the Post took the time…
We’re like the Kelly Slater of web-surfing, only we’re way uglier. Send your waves to joe.tone@westword.com. In Aspen, the beer still flows like wine… if you can afford it. (Colorado Independent) Happy Josh McDaniels Day. (Mile High Report) Could CU become the country’s biggest-partying private school? (Face the State) So…
Comic books aren’t just for kids. That’s really been true for a long, long time, from the day they started zipping comics up in plastic bags and calling them collectors’ items. But the rise in the last few decades of the graphic novel, an inventive form that covers endless miles of literary…
Denver-based robot designers Jim and Louise Gunderson did pretty well when they invented Basil, a wicked smart beer-delivering robot. But they seem to have forgotten a cardinal rule in robot pop culture: Every robot is guaranteed by universal law to have an equally talented and somewhat similar-looking arch nemesis. And…
Editor’s note: Beginning today, The Latest Word will feature a daily contribution from esteemed cartoonist and man-about-town Kenny Be. This inaugural effort kicks off a series he’s dubbed “Yard Arteology,” in which he’ll spotlight photos he’s taken around the city along with his distinctive arteological commentary. Figure 1. Capitol Hill:…
From ice-racing to a new club to a Roller Derby party, it was a busy weekend in Denver. Check out slideshows of what you missed after the jump…
Rumors are rife at the Rocky Mountain News that representatives from E.W. Scripps, the tabloid’s owner, will come to Denver this week to announce that a buyer for the paper has not been found. Why? Scripps CEO Rich Boehne told Westword and other news agencies that his firm would consider…
Latest Word readers got a taste of my 15-year-old daughter Lora’s no-holds-barred approach to sports commentary when she blistered 9News’ Susie Wargin in this November blog. Today, check out her supremely disgusted take on the four teams that may wind up in this year’s Super Bowl, delivered as an impromptu…
Local media outlets are reporting that Denver Broncos owner Pat Bowlen has selected New England Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels to replace Mike Shanahan, who was fired on December 30 after fourteen years as the team’s head coach. Moreover, multiple sources add that former Broncos assistant Mike Nolan, who most…
My occasional rants in this space about local highway officials being asleep at the plow are obviously having no impact whatsoever. This morning, for example, I emerged from my Ken-Caryl Ranch garage at about 6 a.m. to see a snowfall predicted by every forecaster I caught over the weekend. Nevertheless,…
U.S. District Court Judge Lewis Babcock has at last issued a ruling denying a motion for acquittal or new trial filed by attorneys for William Orr, the alternative fuel entrepreneur whose battles with the EPA led to a guilty verdict on 23 counts of fraud and tax charges in Babcock’s courtoom…
It’s almost over. The week, that is. Today in Backbeat Online: • One Tree Hill becoming defacto repository of Denver music. • A Shoreline Dream becoming a reality. • That’s the sound of a man working on a Chain Gang. Today in Cafe Society: • Follow up on Star Kitchen…
The latest installment of MTV’s Real World premiered on Wednesday, this time bringing eight annoying young strangers together in Brooklyn. New York is cool and all, but can the show really top the scandalous plotlines seen in the 2006 season set in Denver’s LoDo? One thing is sure: No one…
Links to make you hmmm. Send worthy ones daily to joe.tone@westword.com.So that’s why everything at Macy’s has been 70 percent off for the last year. (5280)Governor wants to put state expenses online for Joe Public to read and say, “Hey, now I don’t feel so bad about checking wellsfargo.com.” (Face…
These queens are most certainly not the “let them eat cake” variety: I can’t count the number of times Denver’s favorite dragster Nuclia Waste, aka mild-mannered humanitarian David Westman, and his/her ravishing Demented Divas have put it all on — feathers, frills and mustaches, too — to go all out for charity, tongues…
Will 2009 go down in journalism history as the year when every two-newspaper town turned into a one-newspaper town? Events seem to be pointing in that direction. The Associated Press is reporting that Hearst Newspapers has put a for-sale sign on the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, another publication involved in a joint-operating…
It’s a new year, so all of the Shmucks from 2008 — well their transgressions are just raging, unclaimed water under the bridge. But a new year means new Shmucks! And the first is making a claim for some of that raging water. Earlier this week, Shell Oil filed for…
