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…
Watch out, radio stations. I’m no longer impotent when it comes to determining your success of failure. Suddenly, I’m a force to be reckoned with. Sort of. Kind of. In a way. A few days back, my beloved received a letter from Arbitron, the Maryland-based radio-ratings service. “Be Part of…
Since the holidays, countless piles of boxes have surely been left destitute up and down Denver’s streets. I know this because that was the case by my house last and all down my street last week. Heap after heap of cardboard was ignored by the recycling truck rumbling past, left…
This video, produced by the Yummies’ Gavin Rember, has been out for a while. But it’s still a great reminder of Denver’s often ignored, industrial step-cousin to the north, Commerce City, which “sparkles like a jewel in the cleavage of the Rocky Mountain West.” I’m already planning to relocate my…
How can the folks at the Rocky Mountain News fill the pages of the paper with an overworked staff that’s smaller than it’s been in years? One approach can be found in today’s edition. A three-column version of “Statewide DUI Effort Snags 569,” a piece by April Washington, appears on…
Dana Perino, the Colorado-bred White House press secretary — and 2007 Westword profile subject — came out, so to speak, during an appearance on The Daily Show last night. Wearing a shwing!-worthy red dress, she thoroughly charmed host Jon Stewart during a mammoth eight-minute interview segment, displaying a warmth and…
In last night’s episode of the ABC drama Grey’s Anatomy, the central plotline revolved around guest star Eric Stoltz, as a gravely wounded death-row prisoner whose unapologetically homicidal instincts stir conflicting emotions in the staff at Seattle Grace Hospital. But no doubt the ears of local viewers perked up during…
Sometimes a phrase that’s been around for ages suddenly takes on unexpected significance. Case in point: “Congratulations: You made it through the week.” Morning 9News anchor Gary Shapiro has been delivering this benediction every Friday for years; he started working at the station in 1983, and took over a.m. hosting…
You were saying? Today in Backbeat Online: • The Pirate Signal invades Sundance, takes no prisoners. • Havok inks deal with Candlelight Records. • Mile High Fidelity playlist 01-07-09. • Almost famous? Not for much longer, perhaps. • Rap-Up: Spoke-in-Words can freak it in Spanish, too. • Autokinoton closes up…
Surfing the interwebs for Denver-related awesomeness. Send tips to joe.tone@westword.com.Denver: It’s falling apart one road at a time! (Colorado Independent)Republicans to Ritter: We’ve got your state-of-the-state right here. (Face the State)Nuggets fans: There’s a new place obsess over your favorite team. (Roundball Mining Company)…
Because the Arvada Center for Arts and Humanities has such a great track record for tying all the loose ends together thematically, a trio of West-inspired photography shows open in the galleries today — just in time for the regional influx of National Western Stock Show visitors and next week’s returning Colorado Cowboy Poetry Gathering,…
Thanks to buyouts, resource shifts and other assorted changes for the worse, the folks who put together the Rocky Mountain News’ Spotlight section have had to rely on the newspapering equivalent of smoke and mirrors to fill its pages on a daily basis. Today’s edition provides a zany example: an…
