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He was one of the smartest dumbasses you’ll ever meet,” Harry Haney says of his son. Chris Haney was an honors student who took all advanced placement classes at his Texas high school and was the lead-off hitter on the 5A varsity baseball team his freshman year. “Then he hooked…

Madonna rides on something a lot older than she is. Link up below. Today in Backbeat Online: • Dave Herrera’s live review of Madonna at the Pepsi Center. • The skinny on tonight’s Madonna cast and crew after-party. • A Q&A with Minor Threat, Fugazi and Dischord Records founder Ian…

People will be lining up for this opportunity. Reports about layoffs are about as rare as oxygen molecules these days; our blog “The Colorado Independent is Downsizing But Not Disappearing” is just one of many, many examples. In this environment, Denver Teaching Fellows, a Denver Public Schools program to train…

Where will Juan Pierre be listed? Thanks to the Colorado Rockies’ decision to send Matt Holliday to the Oakland A’s for three players who don’t appear to equal the sum of his parts (see “Matt Holliday and the Rockies’ Case of Premature Ejaculation” for details), fans will soon have to…

Face the State’s Brad Jones. These are difficult times for the politicalliy progressive Colorado Independent website, as detailed in a series of recent blogs: “The Colorado Independent is Downsizing But Not Disappearing,” “Cara DeGette on Layoffs at the Colorado Independent” and “Colorado Independent Staffers Warned Not to Talk About Layoffs.”…

Let’s take it to the scales. Upon my arrival at Westword’s offices this morning, I picked up our copies of the Rocky Mountain News and the Denver Post and was surprised — and pleased — by how heavy they felt. But how bulky were they really? To find out, I…

Tatum Bell: hang onto that pigskin!. How desperate are the Denver Broncos for a healthy running back? Desperate enough to reach out to former Bronco Tatum Bell, whose release earlier this year by the Detroit Lions only made headlines because teammate Rudi Johnson accused him of stealing his bags on…

The Center for Independent Media wants staffers to zip it — zip it good. Hope I didn’t get Cara DeGette into trouble. DeGette is the former editor and current senior writer with the Colorado Independent, a news-and-information website affiliated with the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Independent Media. After news surfaced…

Jerry Schemmel, left, with Jason Kosmicki, who’ll take a more prominent role in Nuggets broadcasts this season. The news that Jerry Schemmel, the longtime voice of the Denver Nuggets, would be reducing his on-air appearances this season in order to coach a completely different sport — baseball — seemed to…

One of the many quotes stamped into the walls at Boulder’s Rembrandt Yard. Rembrandt Yard Art Gallery & Events Center in Boulder has a lot of advice to offer. The entire building is covered with quotes from famous artists, musicians, inventors and thinkers (from Leonardo da Vinci to Freddie Mercury)…

At the original Davies Chuck Wagon Diner, a horse is a horse, of course, of course. Join us as we salute blogging veterans — and the other kind, too. Today in Cafe Society: • Rounding up a third edition of Davies Chuck Wagon Diner. • Could Denver’s Daniel Young wind…

Cara DeGette. Today’s blog “The Colorado Independent is Downsizing But Not Disappearing” deals with significant layoffs at the Colorado Independent, a news-and-information site sponsored by the Center For Independent Media in Washington, D.C. But although David Bennahum, the Center’s CEO and president, was able to address big-picture matters in an…

The Colorado Independent laid off much of its staff yesterday. The Colorado Independent, a state-based satellite website funded by the Washington, D.C.’s Center For Independent Media, is shrinking in order to survive. That’s the bottom line according to David Bennahum, CIM’s president and CEO, who responded to an inquiry prompted…

Bill Cardona. On Monday, November 10, the Denver City Council approved Resolution 185, authorizing a payment of $438,968.80 to settle claims brought against the city by ex-firefighter Bill Cadorna, who was dismissed after being falsely accused of shoplifting a cookbook. Add that amount to back pay and the amount Cardona…

Bob Kendrick. Last week, I was invited to take part in a panel discussion at Thorton’s Everest College about the impact of the media on crime victims. In front of a criminal justice class, I joined the Denver Post’s Miles Moffeit, 9News anchor Bob Kendrick and June Menger, whose son’s…

Don’t go nuts at the sight of this sign. The other day, I was supposed to meet a friend at an estate sale to which I’d received a “pre-sale” invitation to attend. She, like me, is an avid collector and seller of vintage clothing, and she drove over an hour…

Kevin Vetter wants you. Gotta love the confidence of Denver’s Kevin Vetter. “Date Kevin Vetter,” his entry on Meetup.com reads, “Ease back into dating with the company of a great guy — me! Share your insights and friendship — and have fun, too!” To that end, he’s scheduled a “Meetup”…

Executive Recycling CEO Brandon Richter as seen on 60 Minutes. “Damning 60 Minutes Report Focuses on Denver-area Recycler,” a blog published yesterday, offers a look at “The Wasteland,” an investigation overseen by CBS correspondent Scott Pelley into the illegal dumping of American e-waste. The de facto villain of the piece…

For the American Petroleum Institute, the campaign isn’t over. On election day a week ago, broadcast outlets were clogged with political ads intended to sway the opinions of folks taking the whole undecided-voter thing to extremes. Such content has dried up for the most part, but not entirely. After all,…

The farewell-to-Matt-Holliday image from the Colorado Rockies’ website. Tough to shake the sense that the Colorado Rockies shot their wad too soon when it comes to Matt Holliday, who the team traded to Oakland for pitchers Greg Smith and Huston Street and outfielder Carlos Gonzalez. Let’s take it as a…