In yesterday’s blog “Were Photos of Grieving Mom in the Post and Rocky intrusive — or great journalism?,” I wrote about the ethics behind the Post’s decision to run the image of a mother at the instant she learned her son had been killed by an Aurora police officer on…
What is it with me and red lights lately? In the November 17 blog “No Justification for Denver Police Ticket Trap Near DCPA on Saturday Night,” I wrote about a traffic ticket set-up at the intersection of Glenarm and Colfax, where three traffic officers lined up to snare people who…
As noted in this morning’s blog “Wake-Up Call: Mr. Salazar goes to Washington?,” Colorado Representative John Salazar has confirmed that he’s in the running to become Secretary of Agriculture in the administration of president-elect Barack Obama. This news likely came as a surprise to readers of the Rocky Mountain News…
Saw this sticker on the back of a truck the other day and couldn’t help thinking how quickly its message has dated. Not the oral sex part, of course: That’s timeless — although I suspect that people of all political persuasions would be disturbed by thoughts of an intern giving…
I recently Netflixed Apocalypse Now Redux, the extended version of Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 masterpiece, and had the following thoughts: One, all he added were wet dreams that the studio probably found too racy — the crew hooking up with USO girls, Martin Sheen taking down some smoking French broad;…
Thirteen children whose families had been brought to the attention of child protection workers still died as the result of abuse or neglect in Colorado in late 2007 and early 2008, prompting Governor Bill Ritter to establish the Child Welfare Action Committee last April. “One child’s death is too many,”…
Nothing warms the heart around the holidays like the vision of laughing children playing in the snow, drinking hot chocolate, sending wish lists to Santa Claus or Chanukah Charlie, and wiping their boogery noses with their grody little hands and then touching everything in sight. But it doesn’t have to…
Sharles Johnson was on the phone with his mother when the doorbell rang at his home in Bolingbrook, Illinois. It was a Tuesday afternoon, and the stay-at-home dad was tending to his four youngest kids while the other two were finishing the school day and their mother was working at…
“Name Game,” Off Limits, November 27 Horse With No Name “Mustang” is so ugly that the only possible nickname would be a play on Bucky, the name of the far more appropriate horse that stands above Invesco Field at Mile High. And that name would be: “Sucky.” Joe Manning Denver…
As you like it. Today in Backbeat Online: • Sebastien Tellier (pictured) talks about Sexuality in a naughy Q&A. • Oasis’ Noel Gallagher gets the Q&A treatment, too. • Eric Eyl’s Mile High Makeout gives a listen to Mike Marchant’s campfire songs. • A look at photographer Peter Beste’s black-metal…
Every day, we surf the Internet so you don’t have to. You still do, obviously, but you don’t have to. Send tips to joe.tone@westword.com.The Bush Administration is fast-tracking a new “roadless rule” to “protect” Colorado’s forestland. This can’t be good. (Colorado Independent)A CU forum about breaking our addiction to oil…
Federal prosecutors have indicted an Ohio man who they say threatened to bomb the Denver International Airport and then shoot himself in the bathroom this October. According to the indictment, if he somehow survived the bomb and the gunshot (apparently he didn’t have much confidence in his mayhem skills), he…
As I watched the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade last week with my daughter, most of the attractions just passed me by, an endless queue of deservedly frozen smiles (marching for miles through the canyons of NYC in the dead of November is no picnic, folks), slick marching bands, Snoopy and the…
My twin daughters are taking a journalism class at Chatfield High School, and yesterday, their teacher talked about a series of scenarios that touched on ethics. In one example, the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News each captured photographs of grieving parents standing by a body bag containing their…
No contemporary sportswriter is more decorated (or better paid) than Denver’s Rick Reilly, and so no sportswriter is more regularly critiqued. Since leaping wallet first from the sinking Sports Illustrated to ESPN last year — a move he outlined in the January Message column “Rick Reilly, Loving Limbo” — he’s…
Shortly before Thanksgiving, the U.S. Department of Interior announced it was carving up several turkeys caught in the sex, drugs and graft scandal at the Minerals Management Service office in Lakewood. After months of costly investigation and blistering official reports on brazen conflicts of interest at the troubled agency, the…
Penny Parker’s amusing column in today’s Rocky Mountain News spotlights Yohannes Gebregeorgis, founder of Denver-based Ethiopia Reads, which raises funds to bring books and libraries to Gebregeorgis’ native land. Our November 13 blog “Vote for Ethiopia Reads’ Yohannes Gebregeorgis as CNN’s Hero of the Year” noted that Gebregeorgis was one…
These are good times for the Denver Nuggets. The squad is playing team basketball, and the results have been breathtaking at times: Witness last night’s 132-93 dismantling of the Toronto Raptors. No wonder Carmelo Anthony is so gleeful in an interview with YoungHollywood.com held at the November 20 launch party…
Last night, the local newscasts were filled with foreboding about a.m. nightmares today, due to a major snowstorm slated to hit the metro area after midnight. Turns out those predictions were premature: During my 23-minute commute this morning, which began at 5:51 a.m., I saw nary a flake. However, I…
Not so long ago, plenty of commercial radio stations featured specialty programming on weekends, with local hosts getting the opportunity to share their knowledge of a particular genre of music for a few hours at a stretch. Now, in the age of voicetracking and other cost-saving methodology, only a handful…
Peruse these, won’t you? Today in Cafe Society: • Health magazine declares DIA to be the fifth greenest airport in all the land. • Rooting around Root Down. • Cooking for a cause at the Ice House. • Cafe Bisque loses half its name. • The skinny on Fat Sully’s…
We’re scouring the web for Denver-related stuff that blows our mind, or at least 15 seconds of our time. Send your tips via Frisbee.Well, at least we know Marilyn Musgrave is alive … unless there’s some Weekend of Bernie stuff going on in Georgia. (Colorado Pols and Channel 7)Mayor Hickenlooper…
