The first Rocky Mountain News-free weekend since the James Buchanan administration was a melancholy occasion for most journalism lovers throughout Colorado, whether they were subscribers or not. As for the quality of the Denver Post since the switchover, I’ll be sharing many of my thoughts in this week’s print edition…
This is the world as we know it. Today in Backbeat Online: • Last Night’s Show: Broken Spindles, Born in the Flood, Iuengliss at hi-dive. • Last Night’s Show: A Shoreline Dream, Moonspeed, Sonnenblume at the Bluebird. • Last Night’s Show: Andrew Bird at the Ogden. • DJ Vajra rocks…
Denver Blogs: In which we read Denver blogs, and then link to them. Send links. Time for lots of huge, fast rich guys to get richer. That is, it’s NFL free-agent season. And the Broncos are off and running. (Mile High Report) Some Republicans are coming around on in-state tuition…
Cool can be fleeting. That was always the underlying premise of the temporary Denver Community Museum, which is, it turns out, truly and not just conceptually, temporary. Founder Jaime Kopke reports that the Platte Valley pop-up museum will disappear at the end of April — but not until two final…
The Denver Daily News may be small in terms of circulation, but it’s mighty feisty, as its February 27 front-page headline demonstrates. Pretty much every other news organization here and beyond state lines has lamented that the closure of the Rocky Mountain News will leave Denver with just one daily…
I’ve been doing this cultural beat for a long time now, and I’ve come to realize that most things don’t last. Artists are disorganized and sometimes flaky, propelled by great ideas and held back by chancy finances. But those that do survive usually do so because someone, or in some…
Near the end of his hour-long set at Comedy Works South last night, Joe Rogan’s previously polished routine devolved into a call-and-response act, with audience members yelling out keywords off of which Rogan could riff. They yelled DPT, he did five minutes on Dipropyltryptamine, a gnarly psychedelic and dear friend…
Colorado Springs Republican senator Dave Schultheis continued a style of politics this week that values Biblical interpretations and right-wing philosophy over human life, human suffering and common sense. His latest sentiments involved a bill that would require pregnant women to be tested for HIV. The bill is important because if…
Move over, New York, Paris and Milan: The Mile High City, with its love for casual formality, needs a cultural couture showcase of its own…..
If there was just one tenet of belief among the sneaky ranks of big-time criminal defense attorneys, it would be this: Thou shall not squeal on a client. Francis Pignatelli was a prominent defense attorney in Ohio until 2005, when federal agents learned that he had been helping clients launder…
And you thought those arrowhead-like rocks you found in your flowerbed were cool. As several media outlets have been reporting, a cache of ancient tools, including knives and axes, has been discovered in a Boulder yard. University of Colorado researchers determined the tools, discovered by a landscaping crew in May,…
As noted in “News Flash: Rocky Mountain News Kicks Denver Post’s Ass One Last Time,” the final Rocky, published today, is loaded with worthy features, including a slew of reminiscences from staffers, many of whose names seldom appear in bylines. But other equally intriguing and heartfelt writings by Rocky vets…
Okay, our copies of the final Rocky Mountain News finally arrived, and I’ve gotten a chance to spend some time with one of them — although not as much as I will. The wraparound section celebrating the history of the paper, which assembles material that would likely have appeared in…
During yesterday’s press conference announcing the closing of the Rocky Mountain News, MediaNews Group boss Dean Singleton, whose firm owns the Denver Post, declared that the ad rates at his publication are “way below” the national average, but “they’ll just have to stay that way” for now, due to the…
This morning at about 5:15 a.m., I walked to my driveway, eager to peruse the final physical edition of the Rocky Mountain News — but although my delivery person generally drops my newspapers off prior to 5 a.m., it wasn’t there. When I left home for the office at 6…
Reporter Lynn Bartels’s colleagues at the Rocky Mountain News warned her not to try exiting the Denver Newspaper Agency building through the main lobby. After all, the place was swarming with reporters gathered to attend an upcoming press conference at which E.W. Scripps CEO Rich Boehne — and, as it…
Our daily cruise through the local blogosphere in search of buried treasures. Send tips. Oh, the irony: Rocky Mountain News Tweets its own death. (Twitter) Face the State advocates for medical marijuana, and in doing so refers to the “back alleys of the black market to obtain their marijuana.” Umm,…
Sure, Denver hosted the Democratic National Convention in August 2008, filling the town with bold names and high hopes. Still, for sheer exuberance and truly Nobel intentions, it didn’t top the tenth anniversary celebration of PeaceJam, which in September 2006 brought a dozen Nobel Peace Prize winners to Denver –…
Around noon today, the lobby of the Denver Newspaper Agency building was populated mainly by reporters and photographers from other news organizations, hoping to get some info on the big news of the day: E.W. Scripps’ announcement that the Rocky Mountain News’ last edition would hit driveways and newsboxes tomorrow…
It’s official: Denver is a one-daily town. The Rocky Mountain News has announced that tomorrow’s edition will be the last. From the Rocky’s story: The Rocky Mountain News, less than two months away from its 150th anniversary, will be closed after a search for a buyer proved unsuccessful, the E.W…
Move over, New York, Paris and Milan: The Mile High City, with its love of professional sports, needs a cultural couture showcase of its own…..
The stir over KHOW talk-show host Peter Boyles’s use of the names “Vagina DeGette” and “Vagina DeJet” in reference to Congresswoman Diana DeGette has pretty much run its course — which is precisely what Clear Channel Denver exec Kris Olinger hoped when she ordered Boyles to drop the topic. But…
