State senator Dave Schultheis, a Colorado Springs Republican, has long been an expert at saying things that slacken jaws — but he truly outdid himself yesterday, when he spoke out against legislation that would require pregnant women to receive HIV tests in order to prevent their babies from being infected…
In case you missed it, the Vail Daily reported on February 13 that several Eagle-area residents have seen a female elk wandering around with a bar stool stuck on her head. But — extra, extra! — there’s an update. The elk has been photographed wearing the bar stool like a…
About an hour ago, I was a guest on the KHOW radio show hosted by Peter Boyles — who, much to my chagrin, didn’t mention vaginas even once — and he said two sources had told him that executives from the E.W. Scripps company, owner of the Rocky Mountain News,…
A couple of recent coyote-related incidents (read about them here and here) have kept the yipping varmints in the local news — when newspapers and TV stations haven’t been reporting about the travels of a certain lovesick wolf, that is. When the hell did Colorado media turn into the Discovery…
“Crush Hour,” Alan Prendergast, February 19 Drive, He Said Alan Prendergast’s excellent piece on Denver traffic both disturbed and excited me. I wish there was a central hub to control all the intersections in the metro area instead of the hodgepodge of jurisdictions now in place. Imagine how much more…
Even though Rockmount Ranch Wear, the last manufacturer left in LoDo, went through a major facelift a few years back when it opened its ultra-cool retail component, there are still some surprises in store. When Steve Weil went to Nevada for a trade show last week, his wife, Wendy Weil,…
Rice, stew, cornbread. Rice, stew, cornbread. There’s a comforting repetition to serving food at the Denver Rescue Mission. From behind the cafeteria window, I can see only the tops of the heads of the hungry as they pass in single file. Rice, stew, cornbread onto a metal tray and out…
Greetings and salutations. Today in Backbeat Online: • Oakhurst on tour and in need of veggie oil. • Ghost Buffalo gets robbed. May the burglars burn in hell. • Everything Absent or Distorted (a love story) makes top 20 adds on CMJ. • Van Morrison revisits perhaps his finest hour,…
If you stumble upon bad blogs, keep it to yourself. If you find good ones, let us know here. Will the economic-stimulus package’s funding for schools be money down a rat hole? Only vermin know for sure. (Education News Colorado) The handsomest president ever speaks — but he still hasn’t…
Okay, it’s not the actual born-in-1935, died-in-1977 king-of-rock-and-roll Elvis Presley. Instead, it’s the next best thing: Velvet Elvis, aka Chris Barber. And at 8 p.m. every Wednesday night in February, he’s lived at Lannie’s Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe Street, where he shakes his pelvis during a “Love Me Tender” show…
As you’ve probably heard, the mean ol’ IRS shut down the Anti-Gym earlier this month, forcing hundreds of self-hating exercise masochists out into the “fatty lazy” world. But while many media outlets have taken great joy in chipping away at the colossal ego known as Michael “No Chubbies” Karolchyk, no…
The only surprise contained in “Newspaper Agency, Unions Reach Agreement on Wage, Benefit Cuts,” a just-published Rocky Mountain News article about a deal between the Denver Newspaper Agency and assorted labor organizations regarding a new contract, is that the reductions weren’t deeper. Early in the process, one source suggested that…
Miles O’Brien, who left CNN late last year, will reemerge in the coming months on Public Broadcasting System stations from coast to coast. His first project: a documentary series tentatively titled Blueprint America: A Tale of Three Cities — one of which is Denver. The docs promise to “look past…
Move over New York, Paris and Milan: The Mile High City, with its love of loony laws, professional sports and casual formality, deserves a cultural couture showcase of its own…..
Face the State, a conservative online news source, recently introduced its readers to The Constitutional Reporter, a right-wing, student-run newspaper that’s available on the Auraria campus. According to the FTS item, the Reporter’s first edition appeared earlier this month, and a thirteen-person staff is working on issue number three, set…
“New Gig,” an October 2005 Message column, introduced readers to Gabriel Elizondo, who decided to leave his job as an assignment editor at Channel 7 in favor of an opportunity to join Al-Jazeera International, a new English-language spinoff of the controversial Arabic network. Over three years later, the operation is…
There’s a flatulence flap a-brewin’ in Denver’s U.S. District Court. Loveland-based software developer InfoMedia, Inc. — creator of the Apple iPhone app iFart Mobile — has asked a judge to rule that it can use the phrase “pull my finger” in its marketing without infringeing on the trademark of another…
The San Francisco Chronicle, the largest daily newspaper in the Bay Area, is reportedly in such shabby fiscal shape that its owner, the Hearst Corp., says it may have to close the venerable pub within weeks if expenses can’t be brought under control. In the event of such a shut-down,…
Headlines don’t get much funnier than one a reader spotted last night on the Denver Post’s website. At this writing, it declares: “Cop Makes Arrest in Bathroom After Smelling Crack.” As of now, three readers have commented on this Associated Press item, about a Maryland deputy who arrested a man…
Hungry? Today in Cafe Society: • Manischewitz! Denverite competes in national cook-off. • Cafe Bites bites into Mardi Gras. • The List: Eating good in the neighborhood. • AJ’s Super Bowl run through LoDo. • Organixx is greener than a Prius — let’s hope the food tastes good. Today in…
Our daily stroll through Mile High bloggage. Send tips. Young conservatives start right-wing paper on Auraria campus. Sources say their sex column will suck. (Face the State) The Commie, homo-loving sons of guns on the Aurora City Council grant benefits to same-sex workers. (Colorado Independent) State Senator Scott Renfroe will…
Tyler McNally of the Denver Gaels says the local Irish sports club, which promotes the rarefied games of Irish football and hurling, is growing all the time. That, he notes, is because, more than anything, it’s purely authentic. “A lot of our members are the real thing — expatriates from…
