Even as Rocky Mountain News scribes do what they can to rescue the publication (read about today’s efforts in the blog “Looking at and Listening to Staff Attempts to Save the Rocky Mountain News”), the newspapers that hit thousands of driveways this morning demonstrate how large a task the print-journalism…
The staffers at the Rocky Mountain News may not be in power positions when it comes to saving the paper, which was recently put up for sale by its parent company, E.W. Scripps. (Read our coverage in the feature article “The Rocky Mountain News is Going Down” and two sidebars,…
Main Street Pedicabs owner Steve Meyer, Broomfield-based rickshaw-peddling extraordinaire, is dead set on bringing his three-wheeled contraptions to the world — and now he’s one step closer thanks to the most recent New Yorker cover, shown here. Congrats, Meyer: Now your devices will be known by pretentious snobs everywhere! Huzzah!…
And you thought you’d finished all your assigned reading… Today in Backbeat Online: • Dave Herrera confesses his musical addiction to Friday Night Lights. • Mile High Makeout: Alone again or. • Rap-Up: A Ground Zero Movement reunion? • Memorialize Monolith on the cheap. Today in Cafe Society: • No…
We’ve been scarfing down hot links all day. Here are a few of the most tasty. Send yours to joe.tone@westword.com.Yes. Right. What you need at one of the country’s biggest party schools are lots of concealed weapons. (Face the State)Starting today, there’s one fewer reporter covering the Capitol. (Colorado Independent)Dead…
The Obamamania that ruled Denver this summer has died down in the last couple of months. Maybe it’s the economy. Maybe it’s because we stopped getting weekly visits from The Man once he actually won the election. Maybe the shine wore off when “the change we need” translated into a…
Susan Henderson wears many hats, and you could say that at least one of them is a lampshade. That’s because the third-generation Denverite and Fuller Sotheby’s broker sells lamps in her spare time. And not just any lamps, but magnificent antique ones that she imports from South America, though they’re mostly European…
Last night, 9News scored a mighty strange scoop. The station aired an interview by investigator Paula Woodward with Willie Clark, the man charged with murdering Denver Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams on New Years Day 2007, as well as Kalonniann Clark, who was killed in December 2006 shortly before she was…
Up-and-coming Aurora city councilman Ryan Frazier put his political career on the line by backing Amendment 47, the hugely controversial right-to-work ballot measure that failed in the polls last month. Among other political attacks, the 31-year-old Republican was the subject of an ominous television commercial questioning campaign contributions he received…
LeBron James and his band of merry sidekicks come to Denver next Friday for a nationally televised showdown with the Nuggets. The way the Cavs are playing — with a swagger and confidence unseen in Cleveland since the invention of the elastic wasteband — it’s hard to see the Nuggets…
Again with the animals? Poor Rover. Poor Fluffy. Why is it that we humans take out our aggressions on our pets. Why do we put them in the middle of battles over money and politics? Why? Okay, well, for one, they are annoying and they smell bad. Oh, and they…
It’s that time of year again, when Jewish people everywhere stuff themselves with General Tso’s and buy overpriced tickets to the latest Reese Witherspoon flick, desperate to stave off the boredom of another neon-tinted, Christ-loving holiday. But Denverites refuse to settle for such misery. Instead, they’ve planned an excuse to…
Yesterday’s blog “Pirate Radio Station KBFR Back in Boulder” provided info about an unlicensed radio signal using call letters that date back for the better part of a decade. In that piece, the main commentator was Rob Smoke, a former Boulder City Council candidate who’s producing a regular talk show…
As if the Denver newspaper scene couldn’t get any more confusing… Yesterday, word surfaced that Moody’s Investors Services downgraded the credit rating of Denver-based MediaNews Group, declaring that the Dean Singleton-run newspaper chain is at significant risk of default. Indeed, the firm, whose holdings include the Denver Post, was said…
As soon as I heard that Joe Sakic had broken three fingers in a freak snowblower accident, I immediately flashed on all the other bizarre injuries suffered by Colorado athletes in recent years — and I wasn’t alone. The Rocky Mountain News’ Dave Krieger — who made our list of…
And now, without further adieu… Today in Cafe Society: • A grand tax lien for the Grand Lux Cafe (pictured). • Le Central is even more affordable during happy hour. • Bad health reports, good pancakes at Children’s Hospital. • Beer and Cheer takes the temperature of 2 Below Ale…
We went and harpooned us some links from local blogs, as we do every day. Send anything you spear to joe.tone@westword.com.No idea what the Sportaccord is, but some important people seem to think it’s important. And Denver’s hosting! (Denver Business Journal, via 5280).Ken Salazar was slightly disingenuous in a recent…
The film Girls Rock! is strictly a girl thing, and by that I mean a little girl thing. The visual story of the original Rock ‘n’ Roll Camp for Girls in Portland, it aims straight between the eyes of any rebel tween or teen girl with an itch to be a…
Click here to see a larger image; it’ll take a few seconds. The 16th Street Mall takes civil engineers for granite Imagine that the 16th Street Mall is Denver’s smile, and that the granite pavers are the individual teeth that cost over a million dollars a year to floss, fill…
I can be one hard gal to shop for, and I’ve been known to exchange, re-gift and return gifts. I can’t help it — which means many of my exhausted family members and friends have simply given up and retreated to the faithful standby of gift cards and certificates. Haters…
Unlicensed radio broadcasts, popularly referred to as pirate radio, come and go by necessity. Stations surface only to disappear without notice, generally because operators get information that the authorities are closing in or the Federal Communications Commission has physically pulled the plug and seized their equipment. Somehow, though, KBFR, a…
Should the family of a man who died after a fall at the long-vacant Gates Rubber factory be awarded damages? Or, to put it another way: Are property owners liable if unauthorized persons injure themselves while trespassing on their grounds? Both questions will have to be answered by a jury…
