At about 12:30 p.m. today, police officers showed up at the UnConventional Action Convergence Center near 44th Avenue and Brighton Street, a space the anarchist group has rented as a staging ground for its Democratic National Convention protest activities that’s approximately a hundred yards from the Denver Colisieum, where Rage…
Photo by Eric Syl Gruneisen Willie Nelson & Family with Jerry Jeff Walker and Jakob Dylan Tuesday, August 26, 2008 Red Rocks Amphitheater Better Than: Sitting inside watching the Hillary Clinton speech. It was a gorgeous night at Red Rocks when Jakob Dylan and his three band members took the…
A photo of a woman about to be struck by an officer named Stewart. A Westword staff member took photographs before and after a woman was struck by a police officer during an August 26 protest near Civic Center Park; They can be seen below. In an August 27 Rocky…
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Looking to embarrass celebs? Come right in. Turns out all you have to do to get into the glitziest parties in town is to be one of the sleaziest folks around. Flush with democratic fervor, a bunch of us attempted to exercise our God-given right to get into parties we…
Etown DNC Show with James Taylor, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Ani DiFranco, Tom Morello and Irma Thomas Tuesday, August 26, 2008 Temple Buell Theater Etown founders Nick and Helen Forster have hosted some stellar shows throughout the radio program’s seventeen-year history, but the king of them all may have been…
“When we pose, pretend like you’re my best friend.” In the midst of the ridiculous line to the Pepsi Center on Tuesday night, I found myself standing alongside none other than British-born comedian John Oliver, a correspondent for The Daily Show With Jon Stewart who I’d just enjoyed at the…
The 9/11 Truth movement may have found a friend in Buddy Moore, who is running for the U.S. Senate as an independent. Buddy Moore’s bus. Moore’s giant, and questionably road-worthy, bus led a contingent of Truthers down 14th Street Tuesday, while someone inside — likely Moore himself — shouted something…
Jon Stewart. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart is taping shows at the University of Denver’s Newman Center Tuesday through Friday during DNC week, and after trying and failing to snag tickets through the show’s website (admittedly, I started late), I figured I’d be watching it on TV like the…
We’d follow this Shepard anywhere. Of course, it’s understandable why Fox News’ Carl Cameron would spend so much time on his makeup — he’s got to compete with his FNC colleague, super-dreamy Shepard Smith. I walked past him on Tuesday, and he’s got the most beautiful complexion I’ve ever seen…
Makeup! That’s Carl Cameron, veteran Fox News political reporter, applying pancake makeup prior to a live shot from the DNC-prepped Pepsi Center floor. And he didn’t just pat the stuff on. He slowly, meticulously rubbed a puff over every inch of his face for what had to be a good…
Once more, with feeling. Don’t know the name or network affiliation of the reporter in this ultra-mediocre photo from the Pepsi Center on Tuesday morning — but I do know she’s a perfectionist. She had to deliver the following rather awkward line about the DNC festivities to date: “The effort…
Stuck to a chair in the front row. Stroll with us now as we check out the Pepsi Center a few hours before it’ll be packed with enthusiastic Hillary Clinton boosters. Many more photos below. — Michael Roberts…
Word power. Another lonely item in the practically deserted broadcasters corridor on Tuesday morning: a rack filled with copies of speeches by everyone who yakked on day one of the DNC — and I do mean everyone. All of them are marked “EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY,” and since delivery…
Dick Wadhams, alone at Pepsi Center. Most broadcast operations at the Pepsi Center during the Democratic National Convention are ensconced on the club level, and when I entered the zone, I found no security, no technicians, no one at all — except for Dick Wadhams, head of the Colorado Republican…
Thirsty? Shortly after 8 a.m. on Tuesday, the upper level of the Pepsi Center was practically deserted. While completing an entire circuit, I encountered only one maintenance crew member — although I saw her twice, so maybe it should count double. I also discovered that the soft-drink coolers were unlocked…
Here comes the fuzz? According to a longtime media observer, Channel 7 painted quite a visual picture of the Denver Police Department’s transportation equipment during a DNC-eve news report. He writes that in a live shot on the station’s 10 p.m. broadcast, a reporter talked about undercover police vehicles “like…
“What have the Democrats done to my brain?” Channel 9 morning anchor Gary Shapiro is usually pretty upbeat about everything. So when he mentioned during a Monday broadcast that his DNC goodie bag wasn’t all that, well, good, I was taken aback. After seeing mine, however, I realized he had…
The once and former Brooklyn’s, CNN’s temporary home. Wanted to check out CNN’s Democratic National Convention headquarters — Brooklyn’s, a restaurant near the Pepsi Center in an area referred to by the security staff as “the perimeter.” So I ambled up to a secuirty guard at one entrance and asked…
All fenced in. On Monday morning, when Peter Boyles started broadcasting live from Civic Center Park, the park was wide open to all visitors. On Tuesday morning, same thing. But when he arrived at 3:30 a.m. this morning, the park was suddenly surrounded by temporary fencing. He had to open…
At least the outside looks nice. After my success at getting into CNN’s outside-the-Pepsi Center base of operations, I moved a hundred yards or so down the perimeter to Braun’s Bar & Grill, which Fox News has taken over for the run of the Democratic National Convention. Unlike with CNN,…
Ken Salazar. Colorado Senator Ken Salazar has been chosen to help formally nominate Barack Obama for president on Wednesday night, and all I can say is, brace yourself for the thrill of a lifetime. Salazar is among the most laconic, monotonal speakers ever elected to national office, and his verbal…
