The worsening of the economy over the past seven or eight months hasn’t changed Denver Post editor Greg Moore’s opinion about the importance of sending staffers to personally witness the most major of sporting spectacles. In the May 2008 Message column “Olympics Travel a Hurdle for Local News Media,” he…
Like a good Neighbor, Ted Haggard is there… and this time, he’s back as a “traveling insurance salesman,” pitching his policies from motel rooms with these slick brochures… — Kenny Be…
Update below: Yesterday, the U.S. Senate voted in favor of delaying the scheduled February 17 switchover from analog to digital broadcasting. If the House of Representatives follows suit, President Obama will sign the bill into law, pushing back DTV-day until June 12. But such a move will do nothing to…
Amid all the revelations connected with Ted Haggard’s attempted resurrection on HBO and Oprah, the accusations of payoffs involving yet another young man lusted after by the former pastor (“Watch the KRDO report featuring Ted Haggard’s latest accuser”), and assorted other sordidness, a greater bit of deception and denial at…
So a bunch of Denver prep school students are asking state legislators to pass a bill banning plastic bags in Colorado. Good for them! Plastic bags are insidious, earth-hating little contraptions that waste valuable petroleum and choke innocent sea turtles (or, in Colorado, what — prairie dogs?). Too bad plastic…
The January 5 blog “Rocky Mountain News Jumps the Gun on Shared-Helicopter Story” offered the anatomy of an announcement that was premature in more ways than one. On December 30, a Channel 7 rep sent out a press release about a pact between 7News and Channel 9, its longtime rival,…
The story about the possible sale of the Rocky Mountain News by its owner, E.W. Scripps, continues to evolve in unexpected and fascinating ways — and many of the developments have come to our attention via the Rocky ‘s own reporting. Case in point: Today’s article “Scripps says Post Violates…
Look busy! The Boss is coming! Today in Backbeat Online: • Bruce Springsteen due at the Pepsi Center. • Spools of Dark Thread not dead yet. • Mighty 4 Colorado hip-hop event set for May 16. • ManeLine featured on Rebel Radio mixtape. • Trace Bundy gets nod from Acoustic…
Traversing the blogosphere for stuff worth copying and pasting. Send yours here. Off for a hike on Mount Evans, with history as our walking stick. Or something poetic like that. (Buck Fifty) Let the Gitmo guys come here. Otherwise the terrorists win. (Face the State) Republicans introduce meaningless legislation to…
Shakespeare wrote that “brevity is the soul of wit” — but most of his plays were pretty damn long, weren’t they? Not so the entries compiled in Six-Word Memoirs on Love & Heartbreak: By Writers Famous and Obscure. As you’ll see by watching the video above, Ernest Hemingway was once…
In the July 2008 blog “Colorado Public Radio Plans Two-Hour Weekday Info Block,” Sean Nethery, CPR’s vice president of programming, said that “in a matter of weeks, not months,” the service would formally announce the expansion of its weekday news program, Colorado Matters, from thirty minutes to an hour in…
A Harlequin Human Rights Romance: Love’s Fantastic Gitmo Ambush . — Kenny Be…
My twin daughters are subscribers to Seventeen magazine — they’re only fifteen, which goes to show how advanced they are — and last night, Lora, the older of the pair (by fourteen minutes), curled up with the just-delivered March issue, which sports a cover photo of Gossip Girl star Leighton…
. A woman got off an RTD bus outside of the Denver Public Library main branch at about 9 this morning and asked library staff for some assistance. But she wasn’t trying to check out a book. No, the woman was in labor. In fact, she was so far along…
Word broke yesterday that longtime Channel 9 weatherman Nick Carter is the station’s latest cost-cutting casualty. The final broadcast by the veteran air personality (to the left of the affixed image, with his soon-to-be-former 9News colleagues) is scheduled for Friday. Unlike anchor Bob Kendrick, whose hefty contract was likely a…
Yesterday, the Regional Transportation District took the wraps off an RTD-financed survey in which more than 60 percent of respondents said they’d “generally support” a tax increase to complete current FasTracks exansion by 2017. This info spawned prominently placed stories in the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News this…
Suddenly, Ted Haggard is everywhere again. Yesterday, the disgraced former pastor of Colorado Springs’ New Life Church, who left that post following revelations of homosexual conduct unveiled by onetime male escort Mike Jones (who’s made a new video lambasting the church), was named in headlines and featured on cable-news channels…
Given how often I’ve bitched about poor road maintenance on stormy days — most recently in this January 12 blog — it’s only fair that I figuratively doff my cap in honor of what, from my perspective, was a job well done. After more than a day of on-and-off snow…
Look out below! Falling blogs! Today in Cafe Society: • Rock, paper, scissors, booze at Nine75. • Mark & Isabella now open in Belmar. • Just in time for the Super Bowl, a Milking It review of Cap’n Crunch’s Touchdown Crunch. • Buenos Aires Grill to close. • Thanasi Foods…
Send your bloggable bloggage here. Stimulus package won’t do anything to stimulate your ride to the mountains. (Colorado Independent) Republicans still hung up on this whole alleged-terrorists-to-Colorado thing. (Face the State) Could Governor Ritter lose his job in 2010? I mean, everyone else is losing their jobs, right? Why not…
Catching up on my reading over the weekend, I found that the January 19 New Yorker has a terrific piece by Caleb Crain discussing the emergence of new, revisionist accounts of the Ludlow Massacre. “There Was Blood” delves into the bloody conflicts in the southern Colorado coalfields a century ago that…
Last week, while I was waiting on hold to speak with a Denver Newspaper Agency representative about delivery issues (little knowing that operators’ hours had been changed in an apparent cost-savings move), I got an audio preview of the “Post-News Economic Stimulus Sweepstakes” that was formally introduced with a giant…
