This week, as we look forward to this year’s MasterMind awards, we check in with previous MasterMinds. For Vox Feminista, it’s just really nice to be recognized. “We’ve been doing Vox Feminista for 19 years, actually. We felt appreciated,” producer Joy Boston says of last year’s MasterMind win for literary…
“I’m trying to keep it in perspective,” says standup comedian and Denver expat Ben Kronberg of his upcoming, stand-up comedy set on Jimmy Kimmel Live, airing Wednesday night on ABC at 11 p.m MST. “But I also want to be able to function with its full potential. I really just…
This week, as we look forward to this year’s MasterMind awards, we check in with previous MasterMinds. Café Nuba founder Ashara Ekundayo says her 2006 MasterMind win for literary arts was an acknowledgement of the group’s work as a community servant. “Café Nuba is such a guerilla arts underground community…
If it bleeds, it leads: That’s the implicitly critical cliche about the way news directors at television stations choose the first report in the average newscast. Sometimes, though, outlets that consciously stay away from the goriest stories do so at the peril of their own credibility. Witness the initial items…
View larger specimen In order to make more sense of the world around us, illustrator and public house naturalist Nate Stone is compiling here a taxonomy of different barflies. While you’re out and about in Denver, if you spot any of these specimens please add your observations about their habitat…
View larger image Nebraska Total Number of Delegates: 31 Pledged: 24 Unpledged: 7 How to Recognize a Nebraska Delegate: Most Americans experience Nebraska only in passing. At 35,000 feet overhead or speeding through on I-80, the state looks flat and boring. It is neither, but that doesn’t stop the “flatter…
Image courtesy Minneapolis/St. Paul City Pages Courtesy of barackobamaisyournewbicycle.com: Barack Obama helped you move a sofa Barack Obama built you a robot Barack Obama followed you on twitter Barack Obama held your hand when you were frightened Barack Obama is your new bicycle Barack Obama wrote on your fun wall…
Given the number of folks leaving the Rocky Mountain News these days, word of another departure hardly qualifies as a stop-the-cyberpresses moment. But the latest report from longtime Rocky food writer John Lehndorff (pictured — sort of) qualifies as a more significant surprise. Even though Lehndorff is heading out the…
February 12 by Audrey Sprenger, Ph.D New York | When I was seventeen I fell in love with Jack Kerouac, both the stories he wrote, as well as all the stories about his life. Which led me to David Amram, who was, of course, a part of Jack Kerouac’s stories,…
From the word go, the as-yet-unnamed Denver justice center project, just west of the U.S. Mint on Colfax Avenue, has been a disappointment. First, starchitect Steven Holl, who was designing the courthouse portion of the complex, was dismissed — though paid in full — over cost estimate overruns that he…
Colorado’s powerful and compelling lobby of small, independent liquor store owners has once again managed to successfully kill a bill that would have let grocery and convenience stores share in their business. Senate Bill 149 – to allow full-strength beer and wine sales at those retailers – died 5-1 in…
Romance on TV generally sucks. Soap Operas ruin most of it, since love can’t be an ending on a show that never ends—so nothing ends happily, no one stays together, no one can resist the wiles of a hermaphroditic demon patch-eyed midget. But the regular network offerings don’t do much…
My wife and I have been told to arrive between 2 and 3 to get our tickets to see the Late Show with David Letterman. We arrive at a quarter to two just to be on the safe side, and people are already lining up. We’re one of the first…
January 23, 2008 by Audrey Sprenger, Ph.D The American Mid-West | The story of how On The Road was written is perhaps a better known story than the plot of On The Road itself: In 1951, a young writer named Jack Kerouac rolled several scrolls of teletype paper into his…
January 23 by David Amram The American Mid-West | As boy brought up on a farm in Pennsylvania in the late 1930s, I have never forgotten the love of trains, which our generation shared. The distant rattle and rumble of the steam locomotives pulling their freight and passengers across America…
“Scourge of the Underworld,” Alan Prendergast, February 7 Going Gangbusters! Kudos to Alan Prendergast for a marvelous story of crime and corruption in Denver in the early 1900s. Special applause for his use of the vernacular of the times.Joe GallegosDenver I just wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed…
Coors has called Colorado home for more than a century. Even after the Golden-based beer maker merged with Canada’s Molson, Coors remained tied to the Rocky Mountains when the combined company put its headquarters in Denver. But that could change after Molson Coors completes its planned merger with Miller Brewing…
On one of my favorite television shows, Friday Night Lights, there’s a character named Tim Riggins who’s an all-around stud. He has his problems with alcohol, sure, as well as father issues and occasional outbursts of violence, and he’s not the smartest Panther in Dillon, but the ladies all love…
The police blotter is among the most popular features in the Denver Daily News, and Daniel Williams is the reason. Weekdays for over three years, Williams has trekked to the tiny press room at the Denver Police Department’s Cherokee Street headquarters to page through reports, and until recently, he found…
For more than eight years, Sharon Skiba waited behind locked doors. Her life had stopped on February 7, 1999 — the day her son and nine-year-old granddaughter disappeared. In the days and weeks and months that followed, the house she’d once been happy to share with them became her prison…
In June 1975, Howard and Virginia Morton got a call from the boss of their eighteen-year-old son, Guy, in Arizona. He said that Guy had hitchhiked to Phoenix to try to get back the deposit on a car he couldn’t afford, and never returned to work. A dozen years later,…
