I don’t suppose you’d be gassing up and heading your car south on I-25 to Pueblo tonight, but if you are up for that 90-minute haul (you never know!), it’ll be worth your while, especially if you’re a freak for folk art, like me: Tonight from 5 to 7 p.m.,…
There’s no word yet on whether a boisterous game of PlayStation will lead to a criminal record for Sean Duffy. Duffy, a 38-year-old former emergency medical technician, was arrested by the Aurora police in December after they responded to his apartment for a noise complaint. They claim Duffy violently resisted…
Peter Boyles’s show isn’t popular for its intelligent discourse. Sure, the longtime Denver radio shock jock is a smart man himself and he gets plenty of intelligent people on his program, but things typically devolve quickly. As with most radio shows, ratings trump reason. But Vagina DeJette? Seriously, Peter? That’s…
With the ongoing controversy over the the late Luis Jimenez’s deadly “Mustang” sculpture at Denver International Airport getting bluer and veiny-er with each passing day, we decided to call up another artist (a live one) who has also been on the receiving end of airport-art criticism: Denver artist Lawrence Argent…
This Hip Tip was originally published in the February 17-23, 1988 issue of Westword. Now, twenty years later, a look at the bright side means hoping that the environment (and its new energy economy) will be great for (ending) the recession…
The dress code calls for black on black, or at least dark on dark, but I wear red pants. It sets me up as an outsider, which is exactly what I am – at least when I arrive. But by the end of the day, I’ll feel like a fellow…
Word that Denver Post managing editor Gary Clark was among six managers laid off at the newspaper yesterday prompted plenty of positive comments about his integrity and commitment to journalism from staffers who’ve worked with him during his six-year stint at the broadsheet. Among those singing his praises and wishing…
Join us, won’t you? Today in Backbeat Online: • Dialed in: local music on the radio. • Update: Lineup for Mile-Hi Fidelity day party at SXSW confirmed. • Holding on by letting go, part one. Today in Cafe Society: • Ted’s Montana Grill offers a “real deal.” • Today’s bite…
Yes, George Carlin would like this art very much. (Buckfifty.org) Shooting free throws blind-folded is harder than it looks. Just ask Chauncey Billups. (Pickaxe and Roll) Peter Boyles is officially a third-grader. Someone give him a wedgie. (Media Matters)…
There’s no more democratic way to make a difficult decision than to draw it out of a hat. And that’s basically how things work at the devil-may-care Boulder Fringe Festival. Performers vying for a spot during the two-week event in August cross their fingers every February and hope their rabbits…
Across the metro area, artists and arts enthusiasts are working hard — often unappreciated and uncompensated — to change the cultural landscape. Catherine O’Neill’s Art From Ashes uses poetry to elevate people, particularly children, above unfortunate surrounding. The organization’s efforts are so exemplary that it was a clear choice for…
In today’s Rocky Mountain News, FOX News contributor Michelle Malkin claims she didn’t realize she posed for a photo with a man holding a swastika-bearing sign at an anti-Obama stimulus bill protest Tuesday outside the State Capitol in Denver. Malkin suggests to Rocky reporter David Montero that “Swastika Guy,” as…
According to the official 2009 City of Lone Tree calendar, February 19 is the official Park Meadows Mall Appreciation Day. Since December of last year, when the owners started threatening to declare bankruptcy if they could not renegotiate some $27 billion worth of loans with Goldman Sachs, the mall has…
“Six Major Layoffs at the Denver Post,” a blog published yesterday afternoon, noted Stephen Keating among the half-dozen supervisors let go by the broadsheet. However, his affiliation with the paper continues, in a manner of speaking. Keating is in the midst of a major project for MediaNews Group, owner of…
“Dick Wadhams Has a Greeting for Barack Obama,” a February 16 blog, shared the text of a full-page ad financed by the Colorado Republican Party and published in both Denver dailies on the day President Barack Obama visited the city to sign the $787 billion economic-stimulus package. Unfortunately, one of…
Multiple inside sources say that the Denver Post has interviewed numerous Rocky Mountain News staffers with an eye toward bringing a handful of Rocky types aboard when and if the tabloid stops publishing. No names have been confirmed at this writing. This development is especially intriguing given the layoff yesterday…
Anyone hoping for quick answers from an E.W. Scripps conference call held this morning (and noted previously in the blog “Rocky Mountain News Editor John Temple on the Paper’s Future: ‘We Have No Idea'”) wound up disappointed. As detailed in typically complete fashion by Rocky business scribe David Milstead, the…
In “Rocky Mountain News editor John Temple on the future of the paper: ‘We Have No Idea'” — a blog published on February 16 — the aforementioned Temple mentioned that approximately half-a-dozen members of his staff had left the tabloid of late, with some landing newspaper jobs despite the horrific…
In this cyber-space, Alan Prendergast has written on several occasions about the campaign to name part of Denver’s new justice complex after Philip Van Cise, a gangbusting district attorney who fought corruption and the Ku Klux Klan during the 1920s. Learn more by reading Prendergast’s 2008 feature article “Scourge of…
Read a list of Denver’s eight worst intersections on the Latest Word blog. Just south of downtown, a fender bender on Speer Boulevard jams up a long line of cars, which spills into the intersections at 13th and 14th avenues. A white van making a right turn on red from…
“Growth Industry,” Joel Warner, February 5 Pot and Pans Thank you for a fair, comprehensive, well-written article on medical cannabis. This sets the standard for intelligent, adult discussion of this issue. I believe that we will begin to see more of this kind of propaganda-free investigation across mainstream media. For…
Denver artist and educator Lawrence Argent has been closely following the controversy over “Mustang,” aka the Blue Demon Horse of Death, which some critics would like to see gallop away permanently from Denver International Airport. While Argent’s “I See What You Mean,” his sculpture of a big blue bear peeking…
