The blogsophere never stops, does it? Today in Backbeat Online: • Ten bands we’d watch on TV. • Reviews of new releases by Bruce Springsteen, Charlie Louvin, John Shannon. • See Slipknot free courtesy of FashioNation. • Rowboat, row me to my shore. • The Fray covers… uh, Kanye West?…
As word broke about six major layoffs at the Denver Post, media observers were getting their first chance to digest a memo from Rich Boehne, CEO of E.W. Scripps, which owns the Rocky Mountain News. In the note, Boehne announces salary cuts for supervisors at Scripps publications nationwide, plus the…
Six major layoffs took place today at the Denver Post, with all of those involved in non-union positions. They are: Stephen Keating, the former editor of the Post’s political website, PoliticsWest.com, who will continue to work on a project for Post-owner MediaNews Group; assistant city editor Cynthia Pasquale; assistant design…
Like always, we cruised the local blogosphere for stuff worth a few minutes. Send tips. Senator Bennet, apparently not a speed-reader, did not read entire stimulus bill before voting. The question: Do you care? (Face the State) What the stimulus bill means for Colorado’s New Energy Economy. (Colorado Independent) Should…
What makes an ale a wild ale? Perhaps it’s the barrel you age it in, or the yeast that ferments it into a complex brew. In the case of Avery Brewing Company’s new Brabant Barrel-Aged Wild Ale, one supposes it’s both. Named for a seminal draft horse that spawned what…
In this week’s Westword, Alan Prendergast looks at the future of traffic in Denver. In reporting his story, he got the scoop on Denver’s worst intersections. The police keep track of the city’s most dangerous intersections, based on accident reports. But we wanted to know the busiest traffic nightmares in…
By the time we chose our third class of MasterMinds, we were beginning to feel like Ed McMahon. People were catching on to our sneaky fact-checking phone calls in February, wondering if they were about to get a knock on the door and a big check. But somehow, we still…
“Colorado Needs a New Drug (To Raise Taxes On),” an editorial in today’s Denver Post, suggests that Colorado has already boosted taxes on cigarettes as much as it can — so in order to raise the revenue needed to trim the current budget deficit, lawmakers should consider attaching levies to…
Word that cornerback Dre Bly had joined other Broncos defenders given the heave-ho in recent days initially came as a surprise. After all, he’s widely regarded as one of the NFL’s better defenders. Of course, he was paid like one, and the $3.25 million salary (plus $400,000 in workout bonuses)…
Hey, remember how Sunshine Megatron, a onetime Denver celebrity who nobody around here knew about (and who may or may not have been a big gay robot), declared a few weeks ago that he was shutting down his wildly successful and tasteless website T-Shirt Hell for no apparent reason? Yeah?…
The hoopla yesterday over President Barack Obama’s appearance in Denver, when he used the signing of a $787 billion economic-stimulus bill to hype solar energy, spurred memories in one reader, who recalled another chief executive, Jimmy Carter, promoting solar in Denver three decades ago. However, that visit may have been…
About a week after Barack Obama was elected, conservative Denverite Dave Griebling set in motion a T-shirt idea that he says had been percolating since last August’s Democratic National Convention. Riffing off Shepard Fairey’s famous HOPE design, Griebling came up with his own catchy slogan: HOPE You Don’t Fuck It…
The photos captured by Melanie Asmar for “Colorado Conservatives’ Porkiest Anti-Stimulus Protest Ever,” a blog about a State Capitol rally yesterday, were plenty weird — but as a commenter to that post pointed out, they were nowhere as jaw-slackening as the image above, captured by ProgressNow Colorado and initially published…
It’s that time again — just like clockwork. Today in Backbeat Online: • The jukebox effect. • Former Break Mechanics MC, P.A.A.S., to step off the stage for good? • Whygee capitalizes on CMJ Chart placement. • Flier of the week: Laura Goldhamer at the Oriental Theater. Today in Cafe…
There were plenty of pork jokes — and about 300 people — at today’s “Barack Obama: You Don’t Know Stimulus” rally on the steps of the State Capitol. The packed demonstration, the details of which were explained in the earlier blog “Jon Caldara on Today’s Barack Obama Protest,” was organized…
Another look at the local blogosphere. Send tips. How the West is winning with Obama. (Colorado Independent) A little ironic background on the site of today’s stimulus signing. (Face the State) Eight Republicans who could challenge Ritter. (5280)…
In his latest work, first generation Cuban-American artist Anthony Giocolea explores his heritage and the sense of loss he feels for family members he’s never met in a number of pointedly fleeting ways. In Related, a new exhibit by Giocolea at the Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver, this self-reflective process is…
He came, he saw, he said a lot of no-shit stuff. Thomas Friedman, three-time Pulitzer Prize winning author and caustic foreign affairs mouthpiece for the New York Times, dropped by the Republic of Boulder last night to pimp for his latest and greatest, Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need…
In 2005, Westword introduced its first class of MasterMinds, five aesthetic adventurers working in a variety of mediums, but all changing the cultural landscape of Denver. Those first awards came as quite a surprise — both to the recipients and to us here at Westword. Why? We found that most…
In an attempt to counter, or at least partially compensate for, all the bad radio news in these parts — incidents at the heart of blogs such as “The Bloodletting Starts at Clear Channel Denver,” “Shakeup at KOOL 105, The Mix and The Wolf” and “Jack-FM Lays Off Majority of…
