This is stuff I couldn’t possibly make up. Of the black comedy Fido, from director Andrew Currie, indie film production company Anagram Pictures says: “Timmy Robinson’s best friend in the whole wide world is a six-foot tall rotting zombie named Fido. But when Fido eats the next-door neighbor, Mom and…
You’ve read news accounts of the Bruce Randolph School visit yesterday by U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Senator (and former Denver Public Schools superintendent) Michael Bennet. Now hear them for yourself. The clip above and three accessible after the jump feature the pair fielding questions from a large group…
Face the State, the feisty conservative political blog and repeated Westword Best of Denver winner, took a break from its liberal-bashing hijinks long enough to come out with its 2009 list of “Hottest Politicos.” We congratulate FTS for its impartiality: The 17 winners include Republicans like Nancy Spence, Democrats like…
Attention all late adapters and chronic procrastinators! Three Denver television stations — channels 7, 9 and 20 — will go digital-only on April 16, 2009. It’s time find the digital converter box that you bought last February and install it post-haste. Don’t wait: You don’t want to miss a minute…
The March Madness predictions made by my daughter Lora and me proved to be much less than spot-on. We haven’t heard the final results of our pool yet, but I’m certain we finished far out of the money. But both last two games in the NCAA men’s and women’s basketball…
When Republican George W. Bush was president, KOA, at 850 AM, ran his regular, Saturday morning radio address, but skipped the Democratic response. Now that Democrat Barack Obama is chief executive, however, the opposing Republican message is airing on Saturdays after The Big O’s talk. Double standard? Given the amount…
Each April since 1992, the Thomas Jefferson Center, located in Charlottesville, Virginia, has awarded the Jefferson Muzzles “as a means to draw national attention to abridgments of free speech and press and, at the same time, foster an appreciation for those tenets of the First Amendment” — and in the…
April 20 isn’t only the anniversary of the killings at Columbine High School. It’s also 4/20, a national celebration of cannabis culture — something long supported by Mason Tvert, executive director of SAFER (Safer Alternative For Enjoyable Recreation), who led the successful 2005 campaign to legalize possession of up to…
A judge has ruled that disgraced Qwest CEO Joe Nacchio must report to a Pennsylvania prison by noon on Tuesday, April 14, to begin serving his six-year insider-trading sentence, which he’s asked the Supreme Court to review. What should he do between now and then? Some suggestions: Today: Run up…
Credit those sharp-eyed folks at the Division of Motor Vehicles for realizing that Kelley Coffman-Lee’s tofu-praising vanity license-plate request — which read “ILVTOFU” — might be read as an endorsement of, er, something else. Coffman-Lee wasn’t trying to slip a naughty reference past the bureaucrats, unlike the maybe real/maybe not…
Eat healthy, live healthy. Today in Cafe Society: • Beer AND donuts at Watson’s? Oh, why do you toy with my emotions! • Sip and slip into spring at Tamayo. • Coffee Spot: Aviano Coffee. • V.G. Burgers currently homeless as well as meatless. • Primebar poised for a May…
Our search for local blog bliss. Send tips. CU Boulder does not seem interested in hiring Bob Schaffer. Is it because he’s a Republican? Was it something he Tweeted? (Face the State) Remember the flood of 1965? Us either. That’s what these guys are for. (Buck Fifty) Anybody need a…
Okay, so Jay Cutler gets traded to Chicago, and his likely replacement, Kyle Orton, seems to be more of a player off the field than on. But at least Broncos loyalists knew that in a few years, a certain someone would be ready to rescue us: Jack Elway, son of…
Suppose a guy from L.A. grew up pinko in a time when that was dangerous — but he longed to make movies and had an inside track until his leftist leanings got him blacklisted. So he hooked up with mobsters, began churning out pulpy porno and made some money. He…
Columbine, the new book by Colorado journalist Dave Cullen, has been garnering excellent notices — this sizable spread in the current Time magazine is a case in point. And Cullen, who’s an acquaintance of mine, was kind enough to provide me with a prepublication copy of the project he’s spent…
Have you ever had one of those days when, for whatever karmic reason, the forces of nature conspired specifically in your favor? Like life just decided to comp your tab that day? The season-opening series between the Colorado Rockies and the Arizona Diamondbacks put me in mind of a memorable…
Yesterday afternoon, several hours after posting a blog about Colorado Public Radio’s morning newscast, which included a packaged report that was little more than an uncredited synopsis of a Denver Post article, I hopped in my primo Geo Prizm in time to hear a KOA post-mortem about the Colorado Rockies’…
With the departure of Jay Cutler and the arrival of former Chicago Bears signal caller and famed party-starter Kyle Orton, the Denver Broncos may be returning to the sort of lackluster quarterbacking that marked the team’s darkest eras. Many of these QBs have been forgotten over time, while the lameness…
Morgan Carroll, a state senator from Aurora, is making a habit of pissing off her fellow Democrats. Carroll made a splash last month when she tattooed Dem leaders in her blog for undermining what she saw as an important health-care-reform measure. And yesterday, she voted with Republicans (and four fellow…
On Friday, a bill to abolish the death penalty and redirect those funds toward investigating unsolved murders passed the House Appropriations Committee by an 8-4 vote. The next step is the House floor. That’s where a 2007 version of the bill was narrowly defeated. Proponents, led by the non-profit Families…
Alex Cranberg, a businessman who was among the most public supporters of Senate Bill 170, the so-called “Dream Act,” which would have granted in-state tuition to the children of illegal aliens had it not been defeated yesterday, is at this hour doing what few proponents of the measure have –…
