As you’ve probably heard, MediaNews Group head and de facto Denver Post owner Dean Singleton is hoping to save $20 million in wages by tinkering with a union agreement not due to expire until March 2010. At least you did if you read our December 15 blog “Denver Newspaper Guild…
In case you haven’t had enough of Westword-christened Saggy Boob Electric Penis, the molten-red glistening pile of suggestive public-art bulbousness that now graces one end of the Highland pedestrian bridge, click below to see a delightful video collage “BunchaHicks,” one of our blog commenters, directed us to. It’s full of…
Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’. Keep them bloggies rollin’… Today in Cafe Society: • It’s getting harder to find deep-fried Twinkies at Wingin’ It. • A Milking It review of Lucky Charms with the New Hourglass Marshmallow Charm. • How we get from here to there on Urbanspoon. • Another spoonful of…
The more we read local blogs, the more we want to start wearing giant hats. Send your worthy reads to joe.tone@westword.com.What happens if Mr. Salazar goes to Washington? (Colorado Pols)Colorado Republicans: The only debt-free group in America. (Colorado Independent)A typically unabashed Broncos homer is rooting for the Chargers this weekend…
Like so many others around the world, I was awed by the spectacle of President Bush ducking to avoid a pair of shoes hucked by Iraqi TV journalist Muntadar al-Zeidi at a news conference yesterday. Apparently, flashing footwear at someone is one of the worst insults a person can give…
Adam Sikorski silk-screens every one of his hip graphic tees by hand, so whenever you buy one, whether it be adorned with sequenced birds in flight or toothbrush-toting bunnies or floating ghosts, you’re guaranteed an original, with an image that won’t be seen all over town, unless it’s on you…
Our October 24 blog “Protesters Don’t Want Focus on the Family’s James Dobson in Radio Hall of Fame” told the tale of DumpDobson.com, a website that decried the planned induction of JD in the Chicago-based Museum of Broadcast Communications’ National Radio Hall of Fame. These efforts failed, and Dobson was…
What’s up with Colorado and crappy houses these days? The multi-unit rectilinear abominations sprouting up in West Highland and Sloan’s Lake led to a neighborhood-splitting battle last spring about how to stop them (to get a taste of what we’re talking about, here’s a gallery of some of the most…
Another new development in the crazy world of Denver newspapers: Shortly after news broke that Moody’s Investor Services had downgraded the credit rating of MediaNews Group, the owner of the Denver Post, MediaNews head Dean Singleton asked unions to open negotiations on new labor contracts as early as this week,…
Veteran Rocky Mountain News staffer John Ensslin (pictured) isn’t one of those reporters who files his stories and then forgets about journalism until he’s back on the clock the next day. As president of the Colorado chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and the program director for the Denver…
There must have been a time, in sunnier days, when the idea of 400 tubas playing holiday tunes in Skyline Park sounded like a really cool idea. In fact, the Tuba Christmas Concert, now in its 29th year in downtown Denver, bills itself as “one of the most celebrated and…
George W. Bush’s recent press conference in Iraq has gotten a lot of attention for obvious reasons; a journalist chucked not one but two shoes at the president during the session. But less attention has been paid to the fate of White House press secretary Dana Perino, who reportedly suffered…
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…
