When he arrived at his office yesterday, Rocky Mountain News editor/publisher/president John Temple was greeted by an e-mail letting him know about a report from KOA radio claiming that executives from E.W. Scripps, the paper’s owner, which put it up for sale last month, would be arriving in the next…
This collectible commander-in-chief wall clock features his cabinet picks as of Inauguration Day 2009. — Kenny Be…
If you’re still jonesing for more Barackness, J. Knight captured the celebration at The World’s Greatest Colfax Motel Bar last night, where they rang in the new regime in truly American fashion: with one-dollar PBRs. We also have photos from the chaos that was D.C. yesterday. It’s believed there are…
The title of a certain December 15 blog — “Denver Newspaper Guild Almost Mum on Renegotiating Denver Post and Denver Newspaper Agency Contract” — pretty much foreshadows the DNG’s lack of eagerness to discuss its recent decision to open pacts with the Post and the DNA early at the request…
The livestock exchange at the National Western Stock Show in Denver this week is the last place I expected to find a political advertisement. So when I spotted a stack of glossy blue fliers on a hay bale with the name “BARACK” printed in huge lettering, I had to take…
National Hirschfeld has earned headlines in this space a couple of times in recent days. First up was the January 14 blog “National Hirschfeld’s Impending Closure: The End of an Era — and a Sign of the Times,” followed by Patricia Calhoun’s January 19 offering “A Look at Hirschfeld Back…
Yesterday’s blog “The Bloodletting Starts at Clear Channel Denver” documents ten layoffs at the Texas corporation’s local properties: five FMs — KTCL/93.3 FM, The Party/95.7 FM, KBCO/97.3 FM, The Fox/103.5 FM and KBPI/106.7 FM — and three AMs — KHOW/630 AM, KKZN/760 AM and KOA/850 AM. This morning, an inside…
Anyone miss George W. Bush yet? Today in Backbeat Online: • Live review: The Killers and M83 at Magness Arena. • Harpoontang at Lion’s Lair. • Jesse Manley is ready for his closeup. • Derek Trucks Band tops Twist & Shout’s top-sellers list. • (hed) p.e.’s New World Orphans tops…
(Illustration from Buckfifty.org) Send your linkable links here. City Spirit: An old Denver cafe where you could get drunk in style. (Buck Fifty) KOA’s Jon Caldera: Making shit up about your new president from Day One. (Media Matters) A day without a Democrat: It’s like a day without a Mexican,…
Today, the Rocky Mountain News reported that various unions had agreed to open contract talks for the Denver Post and the Denver Newspaper Agency early, as had been requested by Dean Singleton’s MediaNews Group, which owns the Post and is linked to the Rocky by a joint-operating agreement. Included in…
The December 17 blog “Clear Channel’s Lee Larsen Talks About Possible Layoffs at Denver Stations” noted strong rumors about impending staff cuts at the area outlets owned by the Texas-based mega-corp: five FMs — KTCL/93.3 FM, The Party/95.7 FM, KBCO/97.3 FM, The Fox/103.5 FM and KBPI/106.7 FM — and three…
Denver cultural mover and shaker Deborah Jordy has known Henry Lowenstein since she was a kid, enamored even then of his many quality children’s productions at the city’s fêted Bonfils Theatre on East Colfax Avenue. And she grew up a true believer in the magic Lowenstein, who was the creative…
Leave it up to us crazy Coloradans to turn anything into an extreme sport. Parallel parking, shadow puppetry, tax preparation — you name it, we’ll “extreme” it. The latest outlet for local adrenaline and bone-fracture junkies, it turns out, is snowshoeing. Yes, snowshoeing, that thing where you strap racquetball rackets…
In the middle of the inauguration, a buddy called me just to say, “It’s kind of awesome Cheney is going out as a Bond villain.” Awesome indeed…
Like millions upon millions of Americans, I just took a break along with my co-workers to witness Barack Obama taking the oath of office as the 44th president of the United States and then delivering a speech that was simultaneously serious and stirring. And as I looked around the conference…
Ever since the Rocky Mountain News was put up for sale, John Temple, the tabloid’s editor, publisher and president, has been the focus of much attention. Not so Greg Moore, editor of the Denver Post (seen here in a photo from several years back), who’s stayed in the background even…
Stopped by Twist and Shout yesterday to paw through vinyl 45s for my vintage jukebox, and when I arrived at the counter shortly thereafter to pay for my excellent finds, I couldn’t help noticing a stack of George W. Bush countdown clocks — small devices that ticked off each day…
During last night’s Kids’ Inaugural concert, a Michelle Obama-hosted bash for military families and Washington, D.C.-area children that was nationally broadcast on the Disney Channel, performers such as Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers shared spotlight time with an extended video package shot in the Denver area. The footage featured…
During his regular midday show yesterday, KOOL 105 midday host Hollywood Henderson (pictured) talked about two impending events that he never thought would occur in his lifetime: today’s inauguration of Barack Obama as America’s first African-American president — and the perennially laughable Arizona Cardinals advancing to the Super Bowl. Kinda…
During the 5 a.m. hour of this morning’s 9News info block, anchor Gary Shapiro chatted with guest co-host Cheryl Preheim (pictured) about special-edition newspapers focusing on today’s inauguration of Barack Obama. As she held up a copy of USA Today (a publication owned by Gannett, which is also Channel 9’s…
Michael Harrison celebrated his Martin Luther King Day trying to sell stuff he wasn’t able to sell during the DNC. Namely, Obama In a Bottle. It didn’t matter that the water bottles – which are stuffed with an American flag, an Obama lanyard, a cardboard party horn, an Obama button,…
