So here I am, getting chased out of the Pavilions shopping center on the 16th Street Mall because I had the indecency to be hanging around with a guy in a fuzzy blue bear suit. How did my life come to this? It all started a few months ago when…
The only surprise in yesterday afternoon’s announcement that Harry Whipple would no longer be in charge of the Denver Newspaper Agency was the identity of his successor: former Denver Post publisher Gerald Grilly, who’s coming out of retirement to take the gig. Indeed, the February 26 press conference announcing that…
City officials announced a new program yesterday that will encourage artists to paint murals on walls across the city as a way to fight graffiti vandalism. Erin Trapp of the Denver Office of Cultural Affairs told members of the city council that $50,000 has been put into something they have…
Rick Schaden is back on the job. The major shareholder in Quiznos has returned as CEO, replacing Dave Deno, who’d been promoted to the post fewer than five months ago. According to the announcement that Quiznos released last week, Deno resigned for personal reasons: The commute between Denver and Louisville,…
“Strong Words,” Off Limits, February 26 Whine and Roses It’s too bad guys like Jack A. Weil, from the best generation, are being replaced by idiots, including our current president, from the worst generation. I am so sick of listening to Obama and all his adoring fans claiming that this…
The Saturday, February 28, edition of the Denver Post — the paper’s first since the Rocky Mountain News put out its final issue the previous day — featured scads of in-house ads meant to convince Rocky readers that subscribing to the Post wouldn’t constitute an act of disloyalty. Most of…
Barack Obama left behind more than memories when he visited the Denver Museum of Nature & Science last month, signing the $787 billion stimulus bill that was supposed to stabilize our miserable economy. He left behind several potential pieces of history, and since museums are all about archiving artifacts, curators…
In this week’s Westword cover story, Kenny Be takes a look at Ward Churchill’s quest for free speech. See his cartoons on the Latest Word blog…
Feeling flaky? Today in Cafe Society: • Up Close: Star Kitchen. • A taste of Sudan at Restaurant 4580. • Anthony Bourdain at an altweekly? • Go help the Whole Planet. • Our Weekly Bread: Summerhill Market. • New Belgium’s Sunshine Wheat gets canned. Today in Backbeat Online: • Members…
Here lies our daily look at local blogging. Send tips. A vote to restrict medical marijuana licenses is delayed after the health board receives hundreds of protest letters, allowing patients to breathe a huge, aromatic sigh of Cherry Bomb-flavored relief. (Face the State) ACORN shows up in Aurora to protest…
This Hip Tip was originally published in the February 11-17, 1999 issue of Westword, at the height of the go-go Nineties! On February 12, 1999, the U.S. Senate failed to get the two-thirds majority vote that it needed to convict and remove President Clinton from office for the perjury and…
Nothing gets your blood pumping faster than a little African dancing and drumming. Doesn’t matter if you’re on the stage or in front of it. By the time the drums start talking and the dancers start whooping and leaping, you’ll be ready to credit the Africans for inspiring the bulk…
Sarcasm drips from the headline on Purple Row, a website devoted to the Colorado Rockies. It reads: “Rockies Find New Ways to Keep the Streak Alive; Now 0-7.” Yep, the Rockies are zilch-for-2009. In a different blog, our Purple Row friends advise Rockies fans not to panic yet, and even…
The most dogged and enterprising journalist to write about the Rocky Mountain News’ closure saga came from the Rocky’s own newsroom. Business columnist and reporter David Milstead broke story after story. For example, he unearthed a confidential letter from executives at E.W. Scripps, the Rocky’s former owner, revealing that the…
In this week’s Westword cover story, Kenny Be takes a look Ward Churchill’s quest for free speech. See his cartoons after the jump…
With the closing of the Rocky Mountain News last week, many in the community — other than Jared Polis, of course — have been disappointed, if not downright angry. This is definitely the case in the art community, which is reeling from the loss of Mary Chandler’s excellent art column…
Online journalism may bring in considerably less revenue than old-fashioned print — but it makes fixing screw-ups a helluva lot easier. Example: In the Message column in the physical Westword, which will arrive at distribution points throughout metro Denver and beyond later today, I write that with the addition of…
Since the Monday publication of our blog “The 412 Suspects Who May Have Killed the Rocky Mountain News, many more potential assassins have surfaced on the WhoKilledTheRocky.com website. At this writing, the total is up to 478. But, for obvious reasons, I was particularly taken by number 418, which reads:…
Only days after the Rocky Mountain News closed up shop, another local publication, RCR Wireless, has reached the same conclusion. RCR, a Crain Communications publication, is less venerable than the Rocky, but hardly fly-by-night. It’s been around for 25 years, “enabling intelligence on all things wireless for industry leaders and…
Freshman Boulder Congressman Jared Polis caused a stir yesterday — both locally and nationally, it seems — when the Denver Post reported that he told a progressive political group on Saturday that bloggers killed the Rocky Mountain News, an act he hailed as “mostly for the better.” Now, we could…
The tide seemed to be turning against Denver Broncos quarterback Jay Cutler in his current pout-off with new coach Josh McDaniels over trade talks in which McDaniels considered swapping Cutler for former New England Patriots signal-caller Matt Cassel. Former Broncos color commentator (and current Denver Nuggets announcer) Scott Hastings called…
An editor’s note by editorial-page editor Dan Haley, featured in the op-ed section of today’s Denver Post print edition, reads: “Good news from the right, and left. KOA radio talk show host and former Rocky Mountain News columnist Mike Rosen will begin writing his column for The Denver Post Friday…
