“A little bit softer now, Hillary.” All dressed up for the DNC and nowhere to go? Fear not, since here’s the tentative list of the myriad shindigs, bashes and blow-outs planned throughout the city during the convention, August 23 to 28. As this schedule demonstrates, there’s ain’t no party like…
“Admit you? No way.” While watching the August 6 news conference at which the ticket giveaway plan for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama’s August 28 Invesco Field at Mile High acceptance speech was announced, I had a nagging sense that the sunny platitudes being dispensed by Denver National Convention…
If you can’t stand the irony, stay out of Gitmo on the Platte. That’s a nice little phrase I’m coining to describe the “temporary arrestee processing center” – aka vacant warehouse filled with cages and razor wire – that Denver is preparing in the event that protesters arrested during the…
Jared Polis. In following up on Democratic congressional candidate Jared Polis’ primary victory, the August 14 Denver Post put the focus on his homosexuality. “Polis’ Win a Big Gain for Gay Movement” appeared on page one of the Denver & the West section, while the editoral page featured a full-color…
Channel 4’s Rich Sallinger. It didn’t take long for Channel 4 investigator Rich Sallinger’s report about a warehouse where police plan to take protesters if there are mass arrests at the Democratic National Convention to move beyond the station’s website. Alex Jones, a filmmaker and talk-show host, is among those…
It’s The Bill and Feddy Show! Considering the amount of cheese the folks at the Democratic National Convention Committee have been churning out in the weeks leading up to this year’s big show, they must think the forthcoming festivities are taking place in Wisconsin. Exhibit A is a video teasing…
You’ve got to fight for your right to wear cool protest shirts. A few local anarchists who are helping to coordinate planned disruptions of the Democratic National Convention have been raising funds by selling off these spiffy “Defend Denver” T-shirts. I picked one up myself after being approached by the…
Photos by Jared Jacang Maher Fire hydrants in LoDo have been outfitted with locks. More after the jump …..
His bark was worse than his bite. Really. The August 12 primary election results don’t overflow with surprises. The electorate proved again that name recognition is the most important factor when turnout is low. Hence the victories of Mike Coffman, well known as Colorado’s secretary of state, and former Westword…
The turban doesn’t prove Kenyan citizenship, either. Thank goodness Countdown With Keith Olbermann’s nightly “Worst Person in the World” feature is flexible, or else the man with his name in the program’s title wouldn’t have been able to award the August 12 bronze to our own Rocky Mountain News. The…
Volunteers wanted. I was waiting by my phone for the call or text that was supposed to be coming from the Obama campaign today, letting me know if I’d be given a ticket to the acceptance speech at Invesco on August 28. Instead, I received an e-mail from a friend…
“I’m pretty sure there’s a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking.” Wait a second. Is that Barack Obama striking the famous “Blue Steel” pose perfected by Derek Zoolander? Pretty damn close — and it’s all thanks to the artistry of one Ron Keas, who’s whipped…
Actually, there were only four Yippies — one for every two journalists desperately trying to fill their DNC quota. The sixty or so younger activists who had also attended the “consulta” gathering of DNC protest groups at the Tivoli center earlier on Sunday wanted nothing to do with the Yippie…
Is it the Denver Public Library or the Way-Bac Machine? A couple of blocks from the downtown Denver Public Library, they’re already shutting down and removing the mailboxes outside of the 14th Avenue post office because of “security concerns” during the upcoming DNC. They’re putting special locks on fire hydrants,…
Here’s where the DNC media will be camping. With the opening of the Democratic National Convention exactly two weeks away, national media organizations have begun to move into the giant white tents that surround the Pepsi Center. As you can see, there’s much work to be done, and the matter…
Today, just in time for the DNC, civic boosters plan to turn on SkyNet. Don’t worry, you can keep your end-of-the-world weapons stockpile locked away; we’re not talking about Skynet the scary computer-based defense system that takes over earth and spews out Arnold Schwarzenegger robots in the Terminator movies. We’re…
View larger image Wyoming Total Number of Delegates: 18 Pledged: 12 Unpledged: 6 How to Recognize a Wyoming Delegate: The majority of Wyomingites are uneducated, foul-mouthed cretins who look like toothless meth addicts out on parole. But those are just the Republicans who hate to pay taxes and abide by…
Newly spiffy Block 162, formerly one of the worst blocks in Denver, will be strutting its stuff during the convention. On the 16th Street Mall side of the block, the oft-maligned Fontius Building, now officially the Sage Building (named after future tenant Sage Hospitality), is now scaffolding-free, its historic renovation…
The new issue of Newspeak, Colorado Springs’ alt-alt-publication, hits the stands today with a great Obamaham Lincoln painting by Ron English on the cover. Nice. –Jared Jacang Maher…
According to the DNC, half of the 60,000-plus seats available for Barack Obama’s DNC acceptance speech at Invesco Field at Mile High will go to Coloradans. Those hoping to attend need to fill out an application here. Officials say it’s first come, first served, but we all know they’ll be…
The Divine Ms. C campaigning in the Lone Star state. In an August 7 web chat covered by the Rocky Mountain News, Hillary Clinton emphasized that she’ll come to Denver to praise Barack Obama, not to bury him. But conflicting signals continue to beam forth from her supporters — not…
Mo Udall, mo problems. Our sister paper in Phoenix carries a lengthy cover story this week about the Arizona legacy of John McCain, who allegedly is some sort of presidential candidate (although I haven’t seen him on the cover of any magazines. Weird.) The story — “Postmodern John McCain: the…
