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…
Susan Snipes of the American Institute of Graphic Artists Colorado Chapter conceived of tonight’s Green Salon, AIGA’s environmentally conscientious quarterly networking event, as a kind of speed dating for sustainable solutions. Dubbed a “Sustainability Show and Tell,” it will feature ten random presenters speaking for five minutes each and discussing…
In blogs such as November 7’s “When is Marilyn Musgrave Going to Concede Defeat to Betsy Markey?” and November 25’s “Marilyn Musgrave’s Epic Pout Continues,” I’ve expressed amazement and awe over outgoing Congresswoman Musgrave’s steadfast refusal to publicly acknowledge defeat in last month’s election. Unfortunately, though, she’s finally done so,…
My flight back to DIA last night from an extended Thanksgiving vacation was remarkably stress-free. I was flying United, which always makes me nervous (This is the airline, after all, that once stranded me in Spartanburg, South Carolina, with a $15 meal voucher and a Best Western room with no…
This past baseball season, I wrote “Taco Bell Giveaway a Dinger,” yet another in a seemingly unending chain of hard-hitting, What’s So Funny exposé pieces, which got all up in the guts of a Taco Bell promotion promising four tacos for a dollar from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. the…
It all began with an innocent question. Never did I intend to uncover potential death and dismemberment, not to mention bureaucratic chaos, at the Downtown Aquarium. For some context, my family and I stopped by the aquarium this weekend. Besides the exorbitant entry fees and shameless retail schlock, one thing…
This past weekend, the New York Times published “A Penny For My Thoughts? ,” a Maureen Dowd column that focused on James Macpherson, publisher of the online publication Pasadena Now. To save money, Dowd writes, Macpherson sacked his staff of seven Pasadena-based staffers and replaced them with six contributors who…
“Burning Down His House,” an article in the current edition of New York magazine, focuses on Richard “Dick” Fuld (pictured), the CEO of Lehman Brothers, the largest financial-services business to fail in the current economic fiasco, as well as the most prominent firm not to benefit from the sort of…
Both the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News continue to include weekly inserts aimed at children — and frankly, these features’ explanations of current events can sometimes be clearer and more logically structured than the stuff that appears in the pages intended for grownups. Unfortunately, the “Colorado Kids” section…
During the lead-up to the 2008 election, KHOW radio host Dan Caplis focused all of his considerable intellect on the destruction of Barack Obama — a mission that caused him to become a shrill caricature of himself. (Check out the June blog “Dan Caplis and His Jihad Against Barack Obama”…
Athletic skill seldom waits for developmental maturity to blossom. It’s obvious from the beginning, as is demonstrated by the case of Matt Bouldin. A few years back, my wife was an assistant principal of St. Thomas More School, a K-8 facility that’s in the Archdiocese of Denver system, and she…
New blogs for a new month. Today in Backbeat Online: • Live reviews of Will Swindler’s Elevenet (pictured) at Dazzle, plus Boyz II Men at the Ogden Theatre, Wetlands, Monofog and more at the Larimer Lounge, Baby Birds Don’t Drink Milk and friends at Rhinocerpolis, and Yeasayer at the Bluebird…
An old German tradition, the lagniappe (pronounced lawn-yahp) offers merchants an opportunity to show appreciation for their customers, both loyal and brand-new, by opening their doors for a snow-kissed evening stroll. In other words, it’s a tradition tailor-made for the already cozy boutiques of Olde Town Arvada, where retailers host…
We’re cruising Denver blogs like hookers on Colfax, if hookers could be explored with RSS. See something worth blogging? Send it here. Aspen Mountain is open, but the town is apparently empty. Perhaps people are just busy having their furs dry-cleaned? (5280’s Elevated Voices)The Colorado Springs Gazette’s editorial board supports…
