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Day One Day Two Day Three Day Four Day Five Everyone who visits Cuba tells all of their inquiring friends and family the same thing, that the country seems to be trapped in the 1950s, which is the last time most of the buildings had fresh paint. Most of the…

This fine specimen of Puma concolor posed for a portrait around mid-afternoon last Tuesday on the Shadow Canyon south trail, just a few miles south of Boulder. The photographer is Denver Public Library staffer Rob Jackson, who explains that the mountain lion was kind enough not to snack on his…

PR firms and lobbyist groups are expected to be able to morph their political or legal arguments into campaigns that will best advocate for a given client. But two separate controversies dealing with the city’s view plane ordinance this year have awkwardly placed Denver’s most powerful public policy consultancy on…

I’m home from work today. Sick. Sick as a dog that’s sick. (See how lame that simile was? Yeah, that’s how sick I am.) Seriously, back up from your screen, so I don’t include you in my circle of contagion. Thanks. So what else is there to do when you’re…

Plenty of veteran scribes have left the Denver Post during the past year or so — but the impending departure of columnist Diane Carman, which staffers learned about on the afternoon of October 8, may be the most surprising to date. Why? Earlier this year, the Post announced a buyout…

Day One Day Two Day Three Day Four After much indecisiveness, Marcos and I decided to leave Havana for a few more days. But we’d already missed both buses for the day, so we had to cough up about $40 a piece to take a taxi for a three-hour ride…

Like me, you could just say fuck it and eat the pound of bacon guilt-free, figuring there’s also a chance that you’ll get hit by a bus out in front of the new Oceanaire Seafood Room and, if you do, you’ll at least die with a sated smile of your…

If you only recognize Michael Ian Black as the talking head on VH1 or the guy hawking Sierra Mist between first downs, than you have truly been missing out. And you’re an idiot. Because although those appearances are certainly smirk-inducing, Black is a bona fide alternative-comedy superhero, dishing out some…

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It’s hard to miss the ever-proliferating product line of Niwot-based Crocs, those happy-go-ugly purveyors of crayon-colored plastic boat shoes. Factories around the world are now cranking out enough of the patented closed-resin, hole-riddled footwear to fill endless miles of future landfills. Wal-Marts are teeming with endless knockoffs and logo-riddled variations,…

The late Dalton Trumbo was clearly among the most famous (and infamous) persons born in Colorado since 1900. An impassioned novelist best known for 1939’s anti-war manifesto Johnny Got His Gun, he was blacklisted as part of the so-called Hollywood Ten for his past associations with Communism. During the period…

See a slide show of the parade and protest. A reported 88 protesters were arrested at the Columbus Day Parade in downtown Denver earlier today. The demonstration brought the parade procession to a standstill for more than an hour. The stand-off between police and the anti-Columbus group Transform Columbus Day…

This week’s hater comes via Tom Tancredo’s presidential campaign blog which recently began featuring a DAILY OUTRAGE column to highlight crimes committed by immigrants. One commenter, the self-identified “M Sirag” typed oh-so-eloquently on the (widely contested) notion that immigrants strain the U.S. economy:…

David McSwane was back in the pages of the Denver dailies today, with a page-five article in the Rocky Mountain News detailing how the editor-in-chief of the Rocky Mountain Collegian at Colorado State University will be allowed to keep his job after the whole “Fuck Bush” debacle. Appearing next to…

As noted in this October 1 More Messages blog, the Denver Post’s redesign, which was unveiled along with the Sunday, September 30, issue, didn’t make much of a first impression, in part because the changes were comparatively minor and subtle. But the October 5 paper features quite a noticeable alteration…

Here’s a brief look at some of the items Americans are desperate to learn about today: Topps meat After 67 years in business, the Topps Meat company is going out of business. The final straw was a 21 million ton beef recall, the second largest in American history. A few…

Last night’s Witches of Eastwick Meet Le Chocolat soiree at Littleton’s the Melting Pot was a lesson in how decadent food doesn’t necessarily have to kill you. Julie Pech (pictured), the self-proclaimed Chocolate Therapist, was at hand to discuss the various health benefits of chocolate (yes, you read that right)…

Cavemen is nothing new. ABC’s foray into meta-television was touted as being something that TV had never seen before, but really, in no way is that true. Not one way. Let’s count ‘em up. First, it’s not even close to being the first series featuring cavemen. And obviously, I’m referring…

David McSwane, editor of the Rocky Mountain Collegian, the student newspaper serving Colorado State University, was scolded by CSU’s board of student communications at an October 4 meeting for authorizing a September 21 editorial reading “FUCK BUSH.” But he didn’t lose his job over the controversy at the heart of…

News that the state’s Attorney Regulation Counsel won’t be filing a formal complaint against Carol Chambers, the big-stick district attorney for the 18th Judicial District, dribbled out in the backhand fashion typical of the ARC’s highly confidential dealings with Colorado’s wayward lawyers…