The Westword.com blog shortcut, January 15 edition

In case you’re curious… Today in Cafe Society: • Buffalo to go. • A wake for Auld Dubliner. • Chef Bradford Heap to give it a go in Boulder. • Veggie Girl takes a bite of Parsley. • I can only hope you get some “Yes Pecan.” • In the…

The Rocky Mountain News‘ attempt to stop time

Moments ago, Westword editorial assistant Aubrey Shoe noticed something unusual about the front page of the January 14 Rocky Mountain News: It didn’t mention January 14. The date usually appears at the top of the page, centered in small print directly above the box containing featured headlines. But that area…

Salazar hearing a lovefest among chums

You might expect a confirmation hearing for a new Secretary of the Interior to be tough going, given the multiple scandals and vast challenges facing the agency after years of Bush administration bumbling and plundering. After all, the Department of the Interior manages a fifth of the land in the country,…

Criticism the cost of getting free Inaugural tickets

Today’s Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News both feature editorial-page items knocking local politicos for not sharing information about how they divvied out their allotted free tickets to Barack Obama’s inauguration on January 20. The Post went after all the members of Colorado’s congressional delegation in its unsigned salvo, while…

Colorado Media Matters’ Bill Menezes meets Alex Trebek

By day, Bill Menezes is the editorial director of Colorado Media Matters, a website devoted to highlighting and undermining what the folks there perceive to be conservative misinformation that’s being foisted on an unsuspecting populace. But tonight at 6 p.m. on Channel 7, he’ll be showing another side of himself:…

Rocky Mountain News gets temporary reprieve

Yesterday’s blog headlined “The Latest From the Rocky Mountain News Grapevine About the Paper’s Future” noted that the E.W. Scripps-owned tabloid had reported very little about its potential sale since December 24. That changed this morning with the publication of “Efforts to Sell Rocky Could Extend Into Next Week,” an…

Suggestions for Denver’s new B-Cycle bike-sharing program

It doesn’t take much for Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper to put on a goofy getup for the photogs — but yesterday he had a good reason for doing so. Hick strapped on an ungainly helmet and peddled around a city block in honor of the news that this summer the…

The rocky road to developing around Rocky Flats

From the top of the isolated, windy plateau along the southern border of Rocky Flats, you can see the extended mass of metro Denver and, on a clear day, the distant line of the beltway around it. In anticipation of that line one day extending into the Jefferson Parkway, earth-movers…

A fifty-cent Red Rocks fee will help Denver Mountain Parks

Red Rocks Amphitheatre won’t announce its 2009 lineup until this spring, but no matter who takes the stage — whether it’s Lyle Lovett or 50 Cent — concert-goers will likely pay an extra fifty cents to see him. But don’t cry into your smuggled-in flask of vodka. Those two shiny…

From the week of January 15

“Let’s Get Lost,” Alan Prendergast, January 8 Tattoo You Screws implanted in head, check. Pathological liar, check. Drifter, check. No family comment, check. But Kauri Tiyme sure used the highest-quality ink on the most original of tattoos (fyi, next to stars, cherry blossoms are the next most popular tattoos). Great…

The Westword.com blog shortcut, January 14 edition

In other words… Today in Cafe Society: • Cafe Brazil builds a bar next door. • Another week, another obsession. • Bistro Vendome’s mussel deal is no shell game. • Alto pushing cuisine with new chef. • Save a buffalo: Eat it at Tommyknockers. Today in Backbeat Online: • Mile…

ProgressNow rebrands itself ProgressNow Colorado

Denver-based ProgressNow and ProgressNow Action have become among the most effective political organizations in these parts, using a growing network of supporters to push its liberal agenda. So why change its name to ProgressNow Colorado, as is being announced today? The roots of the decision were discussed in an August…

Listening for the buzz in 107.1’s vibrator race

The folks at 107.1 FM/The One are trying to find a way to differentiate themselves from their competitors at high-rated KS-107.5 — and what better way than a vibrator race between DJ Turk and Slick Rick, who co-host weeknights at The One from 7 p.m. to midnight? Only problem: YouTube…

Senator Salazar’s day of reckoning

At 7:30 am Mountain Time on January 15, U.S. Senator Ken Salazar will sit down with his colleagues on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee and seek their approval in his quest to become the next Secretary of the Interior. Expect our man to be grilled by Big Oil stooges…