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Bye-bye, A.I. So the big NBA trade yesterday happened right here in Denver: Allen Iverson for, most notably, hometowner Chauncey Billups and former Nugget Antonio McDyess (plus Cheikh Samb). Nothing against Billups, who if not as good an all-around player as Iverson, at least has a good narrative to bolster…

Can you feel that burning hope? It was a bit lonely at the Barnum Rec Center polling station, at 360 Hooker Street in Five Points. In the couple of hours after polls opened at 7 a.m., roughly 85 people meandered in to vote, and around 9:20 a.m., most of the…

Vote “yes” on Amendments 47, 49 and 54 — or else union operatives will shoot this dog. Believe your eyes. What you see above is an actual campaign ad (or at least a satire of one) courtesy of the Denver Metro Young Republicans, whose cleverness inspired an article in today’s…

Hank Eng. In “Did You Know Mike Coffman is Running for Congress?,” a blog published on October 6, I noted that Coffman, who’s hoping to fill Tom Tancredo’s old seat in the 6th Congressional District, had been almost entirely absent from the airwaves at that point owing to the impossibility…

Keep away from children. If you’re a subscriber to the Rocky Mountain News, your Tuesday edition arrived in this nifty newspaper condom. The large print on the side you see above reads, “Vote Freedom First: NRA Political Victory Fund: Bob Schaffer for U.S. Senate.” The fine print adds, “Paid For…

An image from Heritage United Methodist Church’s website. Here’s a voting update from my wife, Deb, who cast her ballot at the Heritage United Methodist Church on South Simms in Littleton. As the principal of a school, she gets to work early, so she always arrives at the polling station…

It’s Judgment Day. The Moment of Truth. The Tuesday That Will Determine Whether Or Not All Those Threats to Move to Canada Will Make You Into a Liar, or Maybe a Canadian. Anyway, it’s big — which makes it as good a time as any to get drunk with friends…

Okay, the Highland line isn’t quite this long — but it’s getting there. I’m waiting to vote at the United Way on the edge of Highland. People started arriving at 6 a.m., there were thirty in line by a quarter of seven, and another thirty showed up in the last…

Jack Black posing with a photo of Tenacious D after a press conference at the Fillmore Auditorium this afternoon. Fall back on the following blogs. Today in Backbeat Online: • Tenacious D and the Beastie Boys want you to get off your asses and vote. • Patrick Park and Andy…

The $140,000 in delinquent property taxes owed by a company registered to Troubleshooter Tom Martino was not paid to the City of Denver Treasurer’s office by the Friday, October 31 deadline. How do we know? The debt on the nineteen parcels along Welton Street near Five Points has been posted…

Two Walsh, Colorado residents are seen chatting in an NPR image. At midday on the eve of the 2008 presidential election, National Public Radio’s home page spotlighted an unlikely place: Walsh, Colorado, located in the southeast corner of the state. Why? NPR correspondent David Greene uses the community (population: 700)…

Face the State’s Brad Jones. Face the State, a news website with a conservative edge, has been getting plenty of attention in mainstream newspapers of late. Check out “Were Democrats Dumb Enough to Write This ‘Idiot’ Memo?,” an October 8 Message column, which deals in part with a story that…

Nick Roberts. Much has been written about the enormous volunteer army assembled on behalf of Barack Obama in swing states; this Los Angeles Times story about Ohio is only one example. But judging by the campaign’s focus on making sure that my nineteen-year-old son Nick votes, the stories may actually…

“Say ‘hello’ to my not-so-little friend…” Whenever and wherever people dress up in bizarre costumes and let it rip, you can bet Westword will be there — and we were this weekend. Check out our huge slideshow commemorating Halloween at Beta Nightclub (with DJ Pete Tong) as well as an…

How will the election turn out? The Post is 68 percent sure. The folks at the Denver Post must have some incredible sources. On Saturday night, November 1, a reader visiting the paper’s election-data site, DenverElections.com, discovered that partial results in a slew of races had already been published –…

Eddie Royal was bummed during Sunday’s faceoff with Miami, even though he had a better game than most of his teammates. On Sunday, the Denver Broncos had a home game against the Miami Dolphins — a team they should have beaten like the presidential candidate for the Prohibition Party. But…

The line at the 2099 Wadsworth voting center on October 31. Those of you who cast your ballots during the first portion of the period set aside for early voting likely found it to be as quick and convenient as did our own Jonathan Shikes, who chronicled his experiences in…

Is that one o’ them Three Tenors? Below: sweet blogs that won’t rot your teeth. Today in Cafe Society: • La Sandia Mexican Kitchen & Tequila Bar comes to you courtesy of Richard Sandoval and Placido Domingo. • Dazzle offers a dazzling Halloween deal. • Tambien and Mezcal feature lively…

Jon Parsons When they hand out the good Karma awards, Jon Parsons shouldn’t hold his breath. The 36-year-old Fort Collins man had stopped his 1999 Pontiac Firebird on the shoulder of I-25 about fourteen miles south of the Wyoming state line on October 25. But when a Colorado state trooper…

Rocky Mountain News founder William N. Byers. When I first read in Rocky Mountain News editor/publisher/president John Temple’s October 25 column about the paper’s plan to celebrate its 150th anniversary with a 150-day series spotlighting significant front-page stories published during its history, I thought it was a great idea –…