See more photos at westword.com/slideshow. They say we’re beaten down, beleaguered, ready to collectively empty our 401(k)s and slit our wrists with our sliced-in-half Visa cards. But if the several hundred high-heeled, high-smiled women standing in a line that stretched halfway around downtown Denver on Tuesday for an America’s Next…
In the past week or so, reports have circulated that the Fort Collins Coloradoan, a Gannett property, was planning to outsource its printing to the Denver Newspaper Agency, which owns a high-tech press with lots of extra capacity thanks to the closing of the Rocky Mountain News. More recently, a…
Yesterday’s blog “The Jay Cutler Silent Treatment: More Than a Month and Counting?” noted that actual evidence of human speech traveling back and forth between Broncos quarterback Cutler and newly minted head coach Josh McDaniels has been scarce since January. Hours later, however, new reports suggested that communication has indeed…
Bring it on! Today in Backbeat Online: • Brooks Center Arts Tea House closing? • Last Night: The Bad Plus at Soiled Dove. • So What! back at Sengers on the Fax tonight! • The economy sucks, so here are 570 free songs. Today in Cafe Society: • For ladies…
These are the fruits of our daily blog-surfing labor. Make our jobs easier by sending nutritious links here. One cadet’s experience with Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: As you might guess, it pretty much sucked. It was also expensive. (Colorado Independent) Lawmakers have asked the governor to squash new oil-and-gas rules…
V-Day doesn’t correspond to a specific date on the calendar. Rather, it’s an organization dedicated to ending violence against women and girls across the globe. And tonight offers a highly enjoyable way to support the cause: a benefit performance of The Vagina Monologues, the award-winning play penned by Eve Ensler,…
The old adage about not believing everything you read goes double for comments placed on blogs. Today’s example: An item attributed to “Buster,” which popped up on a piece entitled, “Denver Post Chairman and MediaNews Group CEO Dean Singleton Responds to This Week’s Message Column.” It reads: Every time Mikey…
Much of America was steamed when the latest television Bachelor, Jason Mesnick, dumped Molly Malaney to propose to Melissa Rycroft, only to subsequently give Rycroft the heave-ho in order to pursue a relationship with Malaney — a roundelay that took place entirely in front of TV cameras. And Vail’s Ryan…
In recent days, Pueblo Bank & Trust has been running an unusual ad on local stations. The message: The federal government has been pushing bailout money on healthy banks as well as sickly ones — but PB&T doesn’t need rescuing, because it’s in sound financial condition. This approach is echoed…
We all know that Broncos QB Jay Cutler isn’t talking to new coach Josh McDaniels, who pissed off JC by listening to trade talks involving former New England Patriots signal caller Matt Cassel, now a member of the Kansas City Chiefs. But how much time has passed since the pair…
This morning, National Public Radio broadcast a first-rate report about mortgage scams. Yet its source was more surprising than its content — because it’s a product of Colorado Public Radio. The appearance of a CPR package on the national broadcast shouldn’t be that rare. After all, the service is by…
Although the closing of the Rocky Mountain News was an unfortunate development for the city in general, at least its disappearance seemed sure to save a double subscriber like me some big bucks. But no: Yesterday, I received a card in the mail that read as follows: Notice of change…
Here are some things we published not too long ago… Today in Backbeat Online: • Over the Weekend: Cut Off Your Hands at the hi-dive. • Over the Weekend: Tauntaun and Kingdom of Magic at the Bluebird. Today in Cafe Society: • Prime (rib) time at Dazzle. • A Milking…
Our daily cruise through the Colorogosphere. Send tips in this general direction. Developer Bobby Ginn wanted to build the Vail Valley’s poshest resort. Instead, he owes a Swiss bank $700 million. That’s gotta hurt. (Colorado Independent) Unions will be involved in the distribution of education stimulus cash. And that makes…
The just-published blog “Former Enemies Penny Parker and Bill Husted Finding Ways to Co-Exist at the Denver Post” describes the intriguing repercussions of changes at the broadsheet since the closure of the Rocky Mountain News — and plenty more are on the way. Earlier today, Post editor Greg Moore sent…
“MATTER: Disregarding the barriers between design and art since 1999.” That’s the motto of MATTER, the fast-forward local design studio masterminded by Rick Griffith — and it perfectly describes the show Griffith has hung in the fourth-floor Jury Selection Room at the Denver City and County Building as part of…
The February 26 announcement that the Rocky Mountain News would close was accompanied by word that the Denver Post had hired a handful of Rocky notables. This move was a positive development for readers, as well as for the staffers in question — but combining these forces can present internal…
The study of neighbors through their lawn ornaments… Figure 10. Hilltop: Daily Platitudes In addition to sculptors and painters, there is a more literal sub-species of yard artist known as the yard author. These creators are small in numbers and usually have big problems finding successful ways to transform the…
In an odd bit of timing, the Colorado Press Association’s convention got under way at the Brown Palace on February 26, the day word broke that the Rocky Mountain News would close after nearly 150 years. No wonder that, the next day, a mini-job fair held at the Brown in…
The Frozen Dead Guys celebration, a bizarre tribute to cryogenics and shrinkage, returned to Nederland over the weekend, and it anchors our weekend coverage at westword.com/slideshow…
Ever since word leaked out that Adam Lerner, who’s guided the Belmar Lab, would replace Cydney Payton as executive director of MCA Denver, many art-scene observers (me included) were concerned that he would bring his hip geegaws and trendy gimcracks to the museum, and in the process start to dumb…
