You’re making some legal history, too, my friend… At 9 a.m. Thursday morning, Denver County Judge Melvin Okamoto, who’s retiring at the end of the month, called Courtroom T into session and promptly began dispensing justice to a motley crew of folks charged with misdemeanors — shoplifting, trespassing, public intoxication,…
The Daily Camera building can now be yours. In yesterday’s blog “The Denver Dailies: No Post-Election Shrinkage Yet,” I argued that the hefty size of the Rocky Mountain News and the Denver Post shouldn’t be interpreted as a sign that the newspaper business is back on track. More indicative of…
Hugh Ragin. KUVO, a jazz-oriented radio station at 89.3 FM, has had a good many financial challenges of late, as pointed out in “Changes in the Air at KUVO,” a January Message column. But the outlet remains devoted to one of its primary missions — introducing new generations of listeners…
The Fray. Take a visit to Blogville. Today in Backbeat Online: • The Fray sets the date for its next album. • Eric Eyl’s Mile High Makeout offers tricks and treats. • A Q&A with Gang Gang Dance’s Lizzi Bougasos. • A free MP3 from Rabbit Is a Sphere. Today…
Click here or on the cartoon thumbnail to see a larger image; it’ll take a few seconds. The election is over and we can all turn out attention from the people who run for political office to the people who run naked through the streets. Nearly a dozen of the…
Do you really want to know? Call me crazy, but I have to think the guy who printed this “What Would JC Do?” T-shirt is second-guessing himself a little these days. Because while Cutler still has a chance to one day become the Broncos’ floppy-haired, doughy-cheeked Messiah, in recent weeks…
Carmelo Anthony doesn’t seem to be in a Golden State of mind in this image from the Denver Nuggets’ website. If NBA games were decided after the first quarter of play, the Denver Nuggets would have been league champs several years in a row. Over and over again, the team…
Dikembe Mutombo during his days with the Denver Nuggets. At age 42, former Denver Nuggets star Dikembe Mutombo is ancient by NBA standards, but he hasn’t given up on the sport to which he’s devoted his entire adult life; although he’s not currently on the active roster of his most…
ICE cold. During the just-concluded campaign season, immigration, a hot-button topic in recent years, was seldom mentioned by candidates for any major office. But two days after Americans cast their ballots, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the agency known as ICE, has stepped forward with a new report that attempts…
Dan Caplis. In yesterday’s blog “Options for Dan Caplis’ First Show Since Obama’s Election,” I expressed my fervent hope that KHOW host Caplis, the Colorado media’s number-one Barack Obama hater, would launch into a Chicken Little routine as energetic and extreme as his dire pre-vote predictions for what might happen…
Page one of the November 6 Denver Post. In “Bob Schaffer’s Election Hopes are in the Bag,” a November 4 blog, I noted Rocky Mountain News editor/publisher/president John Temple’s pledge that the tabloid’s day-after-the-election paper would be its largest ever — and indeed, the offerings that morning from the Rocky…
Juan Martinez. At 24, Juan Martinez still has the same dream that he had two years ago, when I wrote about him in “A League of Their Own,” an April 2006 feature about Denver’s Liga Latina de Beisbol, a predominately Mexican Front Range baseball league. It’s the same dream he’s…
When high school principal Michael Johnston settled in, like 33 million other Americans, to watch Barack Obama’s thirty-minute prime-time infomercial on October 26, he had no idea the school he leads was about to get a nationwide shout-out. The $3 million commercial was a feel-good address with clips from Obama’s…
“Hotel Martino,” Jared Jacang Maher, October 30 No-Tell Hotel Well, there’s a chill in the air, which means its time for the annual Tom Martino-bashing at Westword. I read Jared Jacang Maher’s article about Mr. Martino’s involvement with the project at Park Avenue West and Glenarm. As far as I…
I woke up early in Colorado, still a battleground state, according to the November 4 Wall Street Journal. I prepared myself for battle by studying the election items that had arrived at my home yesterday: a flier under my doormat headlined “Vote for the Change We Need,” with a number…
We first noticed the change in the mammoth LED billboard on I-25 near 50th Avenue during an afternoon rush hour in late October. The marquee, which normally just lists the time and the temperature, was now offering an opinion on which way the political winds were blowing, flashing a McCain/Palin…
Jay Lewis assumes the position. He slouches, arms folded across his chest, knee bent and foot braced on the wall behind him. He looks like your typical green-tunic-clad felon, lazily taking in the passing show at the Cheyenne Mountain Re-Entry Center, a 750-bed private prison in Colorado Springs. “He’s jailin’,”…
k.d. lang. You’ve got questions. Our blogs have answers. Today in Backbeat Online: • A revealing Q&A with k.d. lang. • A live review of Metallica at the Pepsi Center. • Getting to know former Pavement frontman Stephen Malkmus. • A vintage Pavement profile that hinted at the breakup to…
Ryan Frazier. Aurora city councilman Ryan Frazier was largely unflappable during his beleagured year-long attempt to pass Amendment 47, the right-to-work ballot issue he sponsored; see the Westword feature “Ryan Frazier Puts His Job On the Line for Amendment 47” to learn more. And he’s just as composed confronting the…
Adam Brickley as he appeared a few months back on The Colbert Report. Blogger Adam Brickley was credited in many quarters — including Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report — with helping Alaska governor Sarah Palin rise to national prominence via his PalinForVP.blogspot.com website. (See his appearance on Stephen Colbert’s signature…
Union Station. The developers behind the new-and-improved Union Station — the subject of the August feature story “Union Station May Become Denver’s Gateway Again… If It Stays on Track” — are hard at work crafting a plan for the public spaces around this future transit hub — plazas and walkways…
Chill… 10. No uncontrollable giggling. 9. No naming babies “Barack” or “Obama” or any mash-up of his name. 8. No changing your e-mail to Obama_Mama@yahoo.com 7. No smugly walking up to white people and saying, “Boo-Yah!” 6. There will be no “Hustle,” “Running Man,” “‘Electric Slide” or dances inspired by…
