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…
How typical: Ernie Bjorkman, a Denver-area anchorman for more than a quarter-century, finally gets some national exposure — less than two weeks before he leaves the profession for good. In the October 23 Message column “Channels 2 and 31 Mix It Up in Denver,” Bjorkman (seen above in a shot…
At a demonstration yesterday in Boulder, more than fifty gay-rights advocates, joined by newly elected Congressman Jared Polis, raised their voices in protest against the Cinemark movie-theater chain, whose owner, Alan Stock, donated $9,999 to a California campaign to outlaw gay marriage. But the timing of the event made more…
Naming bank robbers is an art, and the boys down at the FBI’s Rocky Mountain Safe Streets task force in Denver hold the paintbrushes. Their latest is the JV Bandit, so named because he was wearing a varsity or letterman-style jacket during one of his robberies. The jacket is…
Back in 2005, the folks at Shop.org declared the Monday after Thanksgiving to be “Cyber Monday” — supposedly the equivalent of Black Friday for e-tailers. Obviously, this designation is a wholly artificial construct intended to pump up business, but the media has signed on anyhow — including local info purveyors…
If you’re anything like us, you spent the weekend in a turkey-induced, All My Children-caliber coma, awaking only for the occasional chuckle at the Macy’s Parade getting Rick Rolled (still funny). For a taste of what you missed by not going out on the town — including the last in a…
Thanks to the way the Broncos handled the New York Jets yesterday, you can bet we’ll be hearing plenty of fans espousing the most popular, and positive, theory to explain the squad’s inexplicable season to date: The team plays up to, or down to, the level of its opponents. And…
Sometimes I joke about adopting a teenager. I imagine myself showing up at the adoption agency with a stop-watch around my neck and a tape measure on my belt, dragging prospective dependents onto the lawn to time them in the 40 and measure their wingspan. I’d never do it, of…
Silly me. I thought the most aggravating Denver local-TV moment this morning would be Channel 9’s use of a seemingly endless promo for the Baz Luhrmann film Australia as a blatant time waster toward the end of the 5 a.m. half hour — a topic already derided here in the…
Media updates the weekend after Thanksgiving are always filled with attempts to judge the strength of the Christmas shopping season by the opening surge of buyers, and this year is no exception. But reports about a robust start to this annual exercise in consumption tend to ring false when they…
Today in Backbeat online: Gregory Alan Isakov is working on a new album. We play Christmas on Mars: the video game. Last night’s Freddy Rodriguez Sr. and the Jazz Connection show. Today in Cafe Society: The Veggie Girl is MAD for Greens. The rise of the great red beet…
Greeley Mayor Ed Clark has strong opinions, and the people of Greeley have strong opinions on him as well – just ask the University Middle School girls who’ve been scrawling death threats against Clark on the bathroom walls there. The former police officer and head of security at the…
It’s a far stretch from Rockefeller Center, but restaurateur Jesse Morreale goes all out for the holidays at his pair of hipster cantinas, Mezcal and Tambien, by decorating both rooms in true Mexicano holiday splendor that adds – we swear it – an additional sparkle to those already glowing signature…
The news hasn’t been good this holiday season. The world is at war, travel is expensive, companies are canceling Christmas parties, and the economy, well, you know… But Loews Denver Hotel, 4150 East Mississippi Avenue, which is making a habit of turning bad financial news on its head, is…
For lease: the luckiest building in Denver. Four years ago, this space at 11th Avenue and Bannock Street was home to the Ken Salazar for Senate campaign — a race that Colorado’s then-attorney general won easily when the Republicans lined up behind Peter Coors, whose candidacy fell flatter than a day-old…
Click here to see a larger image; it’ll take a few seconds. The last election put many Republicans out of work. As difficult as it is to feel sorry for Bob Schaffer, Tom Tancredo, Wayne Allard and Marilyn Musgrave, it’s even more difficult to imagine them dusting off their resumes…
Perhaps you are in a fowl mood this morning. Too much turkey, pie and pinot noir has made your stomach sour and your head hurt. Well then, don’t even consider how much worse things would be if you had to get up a 6 a.m. to feed your cluckin’ chickens…
