Soledad O’Brien needs reminding sometimes

Soledad O’Brien. Everyone knows CNN’s Soledad O’Brien — including, presumably, Soledad O’Brien. Nevertheless, technicians at the network apparently want to be certain her identity doesn’t occasionally slip her mind. During a walk-through of the Pepsi Center on Tuesday morning, I saw three CNN monitors in different parts of the arena…

Umm, sirs, that doesn’t look like Barack Obama

Some local street artists — I’m told they go by “Jher451” and “el mac” — had the audacity to paint this totally Obama-less mural on the side of the La Boheme strip club this week. It seems the portrait artist, el mac, was all Obama’d out. OK, fine. But could…

Alaska gets the shaft

It’s all about who you know. What did Alaska do to piss off the DNC? Its delegation has worse seats at the Pepsi Center than Guam, which, for those of you who started skipping geography in first grade, isn’t even a state — and it’s a helluva lot smaller besides…

The DNC Color Chart

Apparently, these are post-primary colors. Loads of Democrats have made sport of the color-coded terror-threat warning system from practically the moment it was instituted by the George W. Bush administration. Turns out, though, that at the DNC, Dems have a color code of their own. A red pass gets the…

Denver’s Freewheelin Bikes: Best Freebie Ever

Bike. Free. Denver right now is essentially one big schwag bag. Everywhere you go, everyone’s giving stuff away: smoothies, condoms, booze, morals, you name it. The best freebie of all, however, has to be the Freewheelin program that has 1,000 bikes stationed around town for free public use. Yes, the…

Cop shoots protester!

Local photographer Jamie Secrest sent in this shot, of an apparently bored cop firing off some shots of his own Monday…

Cinemocracy Rocks! at Red Rocks: a review

Cinemocracy Rocks! Monday, August 25, 2008 Red Rocks Amphiteatre Better than: Rocking in the free world. Near the end of Alan Dominguez’s film, Cinema+(Dem)ocracy, a guy said, “Voting is like peeing the ocean. It doesn’t make much difference, but you really feel good having done it.” Of all the people…

The best DNC signs (so far)

There’s no shortage of awesome signage floating around Denver. This was our favorite. A few others after the jump. (Photos by Jeff Shaw)…

John McClane for President

An expert on foreign policy, law enforcement officer John McClane is a darkhorse to round out the GOP presidential ticket. In the melee of the insatiable, frenzied Obama-fucking that currently is D-town, Colorado, there are glimmers of opposition – fratty, white heads that suddenly poke out of holes, making one…

9/11 Truther Alex Jones takes on Michelle Malkin, hilarity ensues

I think I may count yesterday’s small skirmish outside the Denver Mint as of the most hilarious scenes at the Democratic National Convention. Not the “Shake Your Money Maker” protest by Recreate 68, where activists performed a Yippie-esque “levitate the mint” performance and Marc Cohen donned a wizards outfit and…

DNC Party Scene: Monday Night

Bill Mahr, Rosario Dawson, and Willie Nelson — shown here slyly sticking a joint in Governor Bill Ritter’s pocket — and other celebs made the rounds last night, and we were there to capture them all. Or at least the ones we were there to capture. See the slideshow at…

Get your Gay Republican Trading Cards at the DNC!

In the world of DNC-related merchandise, some souvenirs rise to the top of the pile. (And they’re not all condoms). Here’s a favorite found last night, outside the Pepsi Center: “Gay Republican Hypocrites Playing Cards.” Created by some pals from Austin, Texas, these stunningly detailed cards are tiny encyclopedias of…

Channel 4 leading the charge on Obama assassination threat story

Tharin Gartrell. In the 8 p.m. half hour on Monday, shortly before Michelle Obama took the stage at the Pepsi Center for the climactic speech of the Democratic National Convention’s first day, Channel 4 ran an onscreen crawl about arrests in a possible assassination plot. And during its 10 p.m…

8 Simple Rules for Surviving a DNC Party

To help you navigate the DNC party scene, we hit Headcount.org’s kick-ass party at the Ogden Theatre, which featured a performance by Robert Randolph and plenty of chicken wings. And we put together these easy-to-follow rules for surviving a DNC party. Follow them closely, and you just might not get…

Fox News: trust issues

The forbidden entrance — from the other side. Walking down to the Pepsi Center, I came upon an open gate leading to Braun’s, the restaurant that’s been taken over by Fox News for the run of the Democratic National Convention. A reporter, accompanied by a staffer, was passing through it…

Pepsi Center danger: spigots

Scrub up, politicos. Water stations have been placed at several locations around the Pepsi Center during DNC week — the idea being that delegates can refill their bottle rather than pitching it and opening up another one. Also included: hand sanitizer mounted on the side — because shaking hands with…

DNC Music Cheat Sheet

Update (8/25): Just got the drop on a late night party hosted by MySpace at Mile High Station featuring Nelly. Hold on. Before you start Googling Mile High Station, you should know that this event, a salute to the screen actor’s guild, is another invite-only shindig. Update (8/22): Welp, looks…

At the DNC, Raging Against the Machine looks more boring than expected

We can only hope the Tent Staters recycle their signs. After checking out a cruiser from the overly friendly folks at Freewheelin — the nonprofit that’s lending free bikes to convention folks all week — I pedaled up to Cuernavaca Park today, to audit the day’s course at so-called Tent…

Least popular button on 14th Street: FluVote

There are a lot of people working 14th Street today. T-shirt vendors, protesters, booths encouraging recycling, demonstrators against the war, against INS raids, against George Bush and everything else under the sun. And while there are plenty of DNC-related buttons available for sale on the street, the one that’s probably…