Former Minnesota governor (and onetime wrestling star) Jesse Ventura didn’t receive a ton of press coverage when he traveled to Colorado earlier this month for the premiere of Woodshop, an independent film that marks his first on-screen acting role in a decade. (According to the Internet Movie Data Base, he…
Shortly after posting “TV Stations, Newspapers See Coyote-Attack Story Very Differently,” about coverage of a woman who was recently swarmed by coyotes while walking her dog, I received a note from Alek Komarnitsky, whose website, Komar.org, features images of his highly photogenic family and lots of other cool stuff, too…
The craziness couldn’t go on indefinitely. In an attempt to quiet the controversy caused by KHOW radio host Peter Boyles’ off-the-cuff decision to call Congresswoman Diana DeGette “Vagina DeGette” and “Vagina DeJet” (documented in blogs such as “Is It Peter Boyles, Peter Boils or Boil Peters?” and “The Susan Greene-Peter…
The New York Times yesterday published a review of This Beautiful City, a play about Colorado Springs that, in the words of the New York-based theater troupe that performs it, “explores the Evangelical movement and its unofficial U.S capital.” The Times praised the documentary play, which is based on interviews…
Dick Kreck is no longer a staffer at the Denver Post, as he makes clear in a voicemail introduction still lingering in the Post system: In the message, he explains that he accepted a buyout offer circa June 2007 and won’t be in the office again — “ever.” Nonetheless, he…
Today’s edition of Patricia Calhoun’s Wake-Up Call notes the sudden newsworthiness in these parts of the previously humble coyote — a development magnified by a recent attack on a local women while she was walking her dog. But the coverage of this last incident by daily newspapers and TV stations…
In newspaper parlance, a bulldog is an early edition — most commonly a version of the Sunday paper sold on Saturdays. Since time immemorial, the Denver Post has published such a product, but no more. Jim Nolan, spokesman for the Denver Newspaper Agency, confirms that the Post’s bulldog was discontinued…
Update below: According to reliable sources, MCA Denver will soon announce that Adam Lerner, the director of the Lab at Belmar, is to be hired as its new executive director. The MCA is supposed to have mounted an international search, so it does seem strange that the institution wound up…
There are plenty of things you might expect Denver native and Tennessee Titans running back LenDale White to do after a traffic accident. If you’re nice, he might offer to sign the hood of your car. If you’re confrontational, he may rush at you nine times for -5 yards and…
Welcome back. Today in Cafe Society: • Beerdrinker of the Year: A judge’s tale. • Sexy Pizza’s sexy facelift. • It’s Denver Cupcake Week for Lovely Confections Bakery. • Room for one Pho. • Oodles of noodles and more news from Jet Entertainment. • Another round at Katie Mullen’s. •…
Our daily slosh through the blogosphere. Send links here. Aspen: Where the beer flows like wine, and where they swear they’re going green. (Colorado Independent) The Avs do their best Rockies’ impression, shop Ryan Smyth. (Avs Talk) Colorado gets the shaft from the stimulus package. So that’s why Obama signed…
To call the talented alumni of DU’s Lamont School of Music merely “distinguished” seems conservative at times. And that’s a fine reason to make tracks for tonight’s Lamont Distinguished Alumni Series concert, particularly if you’re a fan of well-played jazz and don’t often get to hear it performed with the…
At staff meetings he’s held on Thursdays since the December announcement that the Rocky Mountain News had been put up for sale by its owner, E.W. Scripps, John Temple, the paper’s editor, publisher and president, has frequently reassured his staff that a given week would be “boxless” — meaning that…
The study of neighbors through their lawn ornaments… Figure 8. Five Points: Anarchitechture Back in 1978, architect Frank Gehry added a couple of metal sheds to the front of his Los Angeles home and covered the roof in chain-link fencing. He was instantly crowned the king of the deconstructivists and…
Judging by how long the lines were for waffles, doughnut holes and vodka, I’m guessing you were probably at this weekend’s Artopia, a celebration of art, food, fashion, music and drunken-cab hailing on Broadway. But either way, you can relive the event with Aaron Thackeray’s slideshow at westword.com/slideshow…
Shortly after this morning’s blog “Peter Boyles, Peter Boils or Boil Peters?” went live, Denver Post columnist Susan Greene joined the aforementioned Boyles on his KHOW radio show to debate the subject of the item: Boyles’ reference to Congresswoman Diana DeGette as “Vagina DeGette” and “Vagina DeJet” during programs last…
Watch CBS Videos Online Remember the burst of publicity that accompanied word that Boulder Police Chief Mark Beckner had supported lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18 during an interview with 60 Minutes? If not, don’t feel bad — because the flare-up occurred in March 2008, as documented by…
The name game took a loopy twist after Colorado Media Matters published an item last Wednesday attacking KHOW talk-show host Peter Boyles for referring to Congresswoman Diana DeGette as “Vagina DeGette” and “Vagina DeJet,” for reasons that are too dopey to explain — although CMM did so at length in…
The eight Oscars collected last night by Slumdog Millionaire during last night’s 81st Academy Awards presentation didn’t just reflect well on the Hollywood film community, which chose to reward an oddball tale chock-a-block with subtitles and set in the unlikely locale of Mumbai, India. It also rewards the taste and…
Specifically the MADDEN Art Museum, which sponsored the visual arts category for this year’s MasterMind awards: What seduces you? The MADDEN Museum of Art wants to know. Is it the naked form? A box of velvety chocolates? Are you seduced by the decadence of a bed made of ostrich feathers…
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