Yesterday morning, during one of his regular updates on KOA/850 AM’s morning-news broadcast, Channel 9 business reporter Gregg Moss talked about a new series of public-service announcements for the automobile industry that would begin running immediately on Clear Channel stations like KOA, as well as on Channel 9 and its…
The study of neighbors through their lawn ornaments… Figure 6. Hale: (Am)Bushed While there is no university program in place to earn a degree as a Yard Arteologist, the training can take years. It would almost be fair to say that the coursework is only available at the School of…
Veteran journalist and executive Alan D. Mutter’s Reflections of a Newsosaur blog has become a popular destination for media members and observers hoping to get a better handle on the troubles being experienced by the industry. He’s been a thoughtful and credible chronicler of the business as a whole, with…
Every nanosecond of every day, new writing appears on the Internet — and for the most part, that’s a good thing. All too often, however, important reportage gets lost in the flood. Today’s, for instance: “Coming Home,” a series of investigative reports on Salon.com about “preventable deaths at Fort Carson,…
School of Thought, a documentary by local filmmaker Tony Perri, makes its Colorado debut tomorrow, February 14, as part of the Boulder International Film Festival. (The screening takes place at 4:45 p.m. at the Boulder Public Library; also on the bill is another short documentary, Come Back to Sudan. Click…
Cute cats rule the Internet, as documented in the February 10 Salon.com article “The Internet Is Made of Kittens.” And in the hierarchy of kitty-cuteness-overload, the LOLCATS reign supreme, mostly because the combination of furry adorableness and cheeky spelling mistakes is enough to turn the world’s manliest carnivore — nay,…
The campaign by several Boulder High School students to rename their facility after President Barack Obama was dropped yesterday due to a lack of support, but not before inspiring our satirical blog “Ten More Things That Should Be Named After Barack Obama Other Than Boulder High School.” Frankly, though, our…
Pundits eager to come up with ideas to rescue the foundering newspaper industry have lately been touting a back-to-the-future concept: charging for online content. Most prominent among this group is Walter Isaacson, who made “micropayments” a cornerstone of his recent Time magazine cover story, “How to Save Your Newspaper.” Meanwhile,…
Welcome. Make yourself at home. Today in Cafe Society: • Arugula’s big night in Boulder. • Our Weekly Bread: Mendelson’s Greenwich Village. • Veggie Girl: Il Vicino. • The Sandwich Solution. Today in Backbeat Online: • An evening with Yes tonight at the Paramount is a no-go. • A time-lapse…
We take daily cruises through the Colorogoshere, with stops at islands of coherence and insight. Suggest other stops here. What happened to the Broncos running game? (Mile High Report) The New York Times loves it some Ken Salazar. Which, as you can imagine, does not sit well with the folks…
Are you in-the-moment, always on top of the wave, quick with your thumbs and have a good heart? Expect a full-blown multi-media event when local Twitterers gather to join others around the world for Twestival, a night to benefit Charity: Water, an organization that funds clean water projects in Africa,…
For details on this week’s Boulder International Film Festival, go to bouldertheater.com, and check westword.com/slideshow next week for photos from the event. Our Boulder International Film Festival top five: 1. Be less poor. If you’re like everyone else in America — broke — Recession Proof Friday is your night. For…
Furloughed friends and laid-off lovers have been reduced to creating new online profiles that project the diminished expectations (and increased opportunities!) of the current global dating crisis by using terms found in home-foreclosure listings…..
Not so long ago, downtown panhandlers merely had to proclaim their misfortunes — disabled, homeless, stranded, just got out of the hospital or the military, pregnant, or any combination of same — in order to secure that every little bit that helps, God Bless. Like Scott, pictured here, working 18th…
At 3:30 p.m. this afternoon, students at Boulder High School will explain why they think the institution should be renamed in honor of President Barack Obama. Since the whole world (or at least Fox News) will be listening, we’re hoping the speakers will consider suggesting some other things whose monikers…
February is to Abraham Lincoln impersonators what July is to ice cream men, Sunday is to preachers and 2 a.m. is to phone-sex operators. Busy. And Littleton’s John Voehl is no exception. He started the month by helping Governor Bill Ritter kick off Colorado’s Lincoln Bicentennial Celebration on February 2…
The Rocky Mountain News typically steers clear of anonymous sources. In a February 2008 column about accusations of lewd conduct by state rep Michael Garcia (read about them in the Message column “A Denver Daily Wouldn’t Touch Michael Garcia”), editor/publisher/president John Temple quoted his paper’s policy on this issue, which…
The November 2008 blog “9News’s Susie Wargin gets blistered — by my daughter” features a rant by Lora Roberts, age fifteen, directed at the aforementioned Ms. Wargin; she became the object of Lora’s ire after Lora tuned in to Channel 9 to see highlights of a Denver Nuggets victory and…
Palisade, Colorado, resident Gilbert Sam Roberts, age 73 — my father — died at 3:30 p.m. yesterday at St. Mary’s Hospital in Grand Junction. Those are the facts. But like any straight-forward recitation of basic data, they tell only a sliver of the story — and in this forum, I…
At about midnight on December 2, Sean Duffy and his girlfriend, Molly Knudson, were playing MVP Baseball on their PlayStation 2. As on most nights, they sat on the couch in the carpeted living room of their neat Aurora apartment, ripping on each other. “When I play Home Run Derby,…
Jell-O wrestling isn’t all that unusual. A staple of biker bars and fraternity parties everywhere, it typically involves wiggling, jiggling and giggling. But at the bottom of the world, on the McMurdo ice station, Jell-O wrestling recently became a firing offense — at least for one employee of Centennial-based Raytheon…
A Brief Primer on Oysters in the West Oysters have been a staple food for thousands of years. The ancient Greeks ate them. The Romans had them imported from the British Isles and then kept them alive in saltwater pools, feeding them pastry and wine (because smart as they were,…
