Larry Mizel, left, with Bill and Jeannie Ritter at the CELL Colorado Governor Bill Ritter watched silently as the busy 16th Street Mall street scene around him exploded into flames. Thankfully, this was not a real-life catastrophe transpiring on the first day of the Democratic National Convention, but part of…
Five activists were arrested on Capitol Hill around noon today near the offices of the People’s Law Project at 1280 Sherman Street. According to PLP attorney Brian Vicente, the group was walking down 12th Avenue when they were stopped by police and arrested for “failure to obey a lawful order.”…
Kanye West Word is Kanye West, who’s scheduled to perform on Wednesday night at the Exdo Event Center for the ONE Campaign and the Recording Industry Association of America, is staying at the Museum Residences, the ultra high-class Daniel Libeskind-designed apartments across from the Denver Art Museum’s Hamilton Building. And…
The headline says it all. Just click here for the full photo. -JJM…
Who knew MSNBC had a funny guy?…
Charlie Rangel painted the town blue. Denver, worked into a DNC lather, can’t get enough famous people. Either that or longtime Democratic New York Representative Charlie Rangel’s blue suit was the cutting edge of fashion. Because Rangel was absolutely mobbed by reporters, photographers and all-around glad-handers on Monday around 2…
The original “We’ll Beat You Again” flier. In “Artist’s Prank Punks Re-create 68, Other Activists,” a More Messages blog published on July 10, an anonymous artist admitted to having created fliers e-mailed to Democratic National Convention groups such as Re-create 68, which threatened retribution against protesters. He shared information about…
We’re not sure exactly how using one of these trusty Planned Parenthood-issued condoms will protect you from John McCain, unless you plan on sleeping with Johnny Mac sometime soon and don’t want to catch his oldness. But it’s cool nonetheless…
You know who have no sense of humor? National Guardsmen. They were not happy at all about having their pictures taken while they were hanging out in the sun at their official staging area: the Denver campus of Johnson & Wales University…
Allen Toussaint. The New Orleans All-Star Jam-Balaya Fillmore Auditorium August 24 It was clear that the New Orleans All-Star Jam-Balaya, a fundraiser co-sponsored by the Friends of New Orleans featuring some of the biggest and best names in Louisiana music, differed from the typical live-performance event in Denver even before…
“Where the buffet at, yo?” The buzz around my hotel — aside from outrage over the $1 a minute charge to use the business center computers — is about one of the guests. Rapper Method Man of the Wu-Tang Clan was in Denver for the weekend’s Rock the Bells concert,…
The real business begins today, but photos offer a window into the weekend’s business. Here are a few slice-of-the-convention snapshots from Saturday and Sunday. “We riot police are not amused by your endorsement of that Middle Eastern hippie, ‘Jesus,’ if that is his real name.”…
It’s the 16th Street Mall, Downtown Denver Partnership style. An interesting mix of people roamed the 16th Street Mall late afternoon on Saturday. The folks who usually hang out there weren’t entirely absent, but they seemed changed somehow, spiffed up. For instance, I saw what has to be the cleanest…
Starting at Cuernavaca Park, we made the rounds through LoDo on Sunday afternoon, past the MSNBC set behind Union Station and amongst the protesters on the 16th Street Mall. Consider this slide show a sneak peek of the week ahead. — Dave Herrera…
“Wow — they look just like the cabs in the big cities.” Drove past the Pepsi Center a couple of times on Saturday to get a passing look at the DNC preparations there. The first time by, two enormous groups of police officers, clad in full riot gear, posed in…
A willingness to make an ass of yourself if key to enjoying most things in life. The American Presidential Experience, an exhibit that fills a good chunk of the parking lot at Invesco Field at Mile High, is pretty much what you’d expect — in a good way. The primary…
“Howdy folks.” As (bad) luck would have it, my son, Nick, was scheduled to fly to Washington, D.C. to begin his second year at the Catholic University of America early on Sunday morning, during the very weekend that thousands of Washingtonians were fleeing their fair city to come to Denver…
Slideshow. Gas masks, pantsuits and “Buck Fush” shirts aren’t the only fashion statements being made on the streets of Denver as the DNC ramps up this week. An army of street vendors are making sure the politically inclined but stylistically hopeless have every opportunity to embarrass their loved ones with…
Welcome to Denver! Click here to see highlights from Sunday afternoon. Between 300 and 500 self-proclaimed anarchists associated with the far-left group Unconventional Action weaved through downtown Denver for several hour this afternoon, in an unscheduled march that blocked numerous streets and intersections. It began around 2 p.m. in conjunction…
Quick question: What’s more fun than a couple thousand members of the traveling press getting tanked on free beer and then shoved on a rollercoaster? Answer: Almost anything. Yeah, I get it: This wasn’t supposed to be work. This was just supposed to be fun — a chance for the…
At about 11:15 a Denver Department of Corrections bus — the same type used last year to haul away arrested Columbus Day Parade protesters — drove by the Westword offices with a police escort. The windows were covered with mesh, but about a dozen people could be seen in the…
I thought I’d seen everything just before midnight on Friday, when suddenly there were swarms of available cabs around 15th and Platte streets. Denver is many things, but it’s never been a town where you can hail a cab…until now. On Saturday, August 23, the only thing more plentiful than…
