Any stage director worth his salt knows that it’s all in the timing. Without it, the stars won’t align onstage or backstage and — horrors — the moment will be mediocre. In the world of theater, that’s the kiss of death — a point the accomplished local director José Mercado,…
Investigative reporter Paula Woodward, who confirmed this week that she’s leaving Channel 9, has learned a few things during her 32 years on the job about how not to provide information — or at least not any more of it than she’d like. When asked, for example, if the current…
For some genuine comedy today, I wanted to share with you the e-mail I just received as a student at CU Boulder. It states that I shouldn’t go to the famous CU 4/20 event — where students gather in the center of the campus to “celebrate” International Cannibis Day –…
It’s time to stop the Army’s costly expansion plans and start turning the Pinon Canyon military training site into a money-making family vacation destination… Renaming the site “Camp Swampy at Pinon Canyon” and hiring costumed characters from the Beetle Bailey comic strip will help to soften the Army’s image from…
Two-term Aurora city councilman Ryan Frazier has announced that he’s formed an exploratory committee for the Colorado 2010 U.S. Senate Race. The development, which Frazier will announce today at a Grand Junction tea party rally, makes the 31-year-old Frazier the first Republican to take official steps towards what’s likely to…
Tom Tancredo cut short a planned speech on immigration at the University of North Carolina on Tuesday after a group of protesters sparked what the former congressman has described as a “small riot.” Tancredo’s appearance, at the invitation of a student organization called Youth for Western Civilization, was greeted with…
“John Hickenlooper and the Case of the Vanishing F-Bombs,” published yesterday, told the tale of a trailer for ‘Hick’ Town, a proposed documentary/reality series by George Hickenlooper, Denver mayor John’s cousin, that disappeared from its perch at the EpochFilms.com website shortly after I contacted the mayor’s office to ask about…
On April 25, InvisibleChildren.com is staging events in 100 cities to bring attention to the abduction and forced recruitment of child soldiers — an unspeakably cruel practice that’s all too common in many parts of the world. In Denver, participants will gather at the main gate of Coors Field prior…
Admit it: When you heard the Nuggets were getting rid of defensive stalwart Marcus Camby prior to the start of the season in exchange for virtually nothing, and when the team swapped Allen Iverson for Chauncey Billups a few games into the 2008-2009 campaign, you figured Denver’s ballers were in…
FollowTheMoney.org, a website associated with the Montana-based National Institute on Money in State Politics, tracks spending on campaigns across the country, and the data on Colorado confirms that agenda-driven greenbacks flooded the state last year at an unprecedented rate. Here are some bullets assembled by NIMSP’s Mike Wessler: • Colorado’s…
Today’s tax-day Tea Party protests are predictably hypocritical: I don’t seem to remember any conservative talk-show hosts leading State Capitol rallies when the George Bush administration pushed through the free-spending Troubled Asset Relief Program just a few short months ago. Still, the presence of folks like KHOW’s Peter Boyles, who’s…
Thirsty? Today in Cafe Society: • Sketch introduces Wino Wednesdays. • Common Grounds left its liquor license behind in move. • The suit is slingin’ Spud Bros. spuds! • Snarf’s finally arrives in Denver. • Fear not, sleeved-blanketed drunks: The Denver Snuggie Pub Crawl is very much on. Today in…
Two local news organizations have added baubles to their trophy cases in recent days. The Society of Professional Journalists bestowed its top investigative plaudit upon the Denver Post series “The Battle Within,” in which Erin Emergy and David Olinger revealed that many soldiers suffering from significant medical issues are frequently…
What’s happening around the local blogosphere: Court is in session: Jury selection starts in the Zapata slaying case. (Colorado Independent) The Colorado Legislature went black, but is it now going back? (5280) Eat this, recession! Buildings keep flying up in Denver (w/pics). (Denver Infill)…
Lately, the Union Station redevelopment plan has been cruising along nicely, with one political roadblock after another falling to the wayside. Last month, the citizen-based Open Space Initiative Group all but capitulated in its efforts to have the project’s developers ditch plans to build two modern wing buildings on either…
Every ski area bids the season adieu with a big, sloppy snowball of slushy hoopla. But Vail can confidently declare its ginormous Spring Back to Vail to be one of the biggest spring bashes in Colorado’s high country, not to mention the entire nation. It’s so chock-full of stuff to…
Michael Jason Martinez lived for kicking up out-of-bounds powder at A-Basin, Vail and Aspen — that and robbing banks. Martinez won’t be doing much of either for a while, though, since two weeks ago he was sentenced to ten years in federal prison for his role in four Colorado bank…
The U.S. Army wanted to purchase the entire southeastern corner of Colorado to expand the Pinon Canyon military maneuvers site. However, now that America is broke, the Army needs a new business model. Instead of costing money, it is time to start making money. The Army could start by rebranding…
After the Independent Ethics Commission failed to censure 6th District Congressman Mike Coffman, Colorado Ethics Watch director Chantall Taylor issued a statement expressing disappointment that the IEC had let Coffman off the hook so easily. Not surprisingly, Coffman’s own response to the ruling is considerably different. Instead of taking satisfaction…
The folks at Colorado Ethics Watch, the organization that originally brought a complaint against 6th District Congressman Mike Coffman in regard to his actions while serving as Colorado’s Secretary of State, aren’t thrilled with the just-announced decision by the Independent Ethics Commission to clear Coffman of wrongdoing. Moments ago, CEW…
The Independent Ethics Commission, which has been investigating complaints against 6th District Congressman Mike Coffman, has ruled that there is “insufficient evidence under either a clear and convincing standard of proof or a preponderance of the evidence standard of proof to find that Coffman violated any standard of ethical conduct.”…
So this is … odd. Raphael Saadiq, a former singer from Tony! Toni! Tone! — the California R&B group that serenaded most of my middle-school-dance makeout sessions — apparently has a Denver-based videogame company called Illfonic. And that company has apparently created a videogame called “Ghetto Golf,” a “Tiger Woods”-meets-“Grand…
