The blog “Debate Over Spiked Rocky Mountain News Media Column Heats Up” deals with a Jason Salzman column that the Rocky declined to publish — so Salzman posted it on his own website, prompting Rocky editor/publisher/president John Temple (pictured) to put together a tough reply. The text from Salzman’s column…
The blog “Debate Over Spiked Rocky Mountain News Media Column Heats Up” deals in part with a piece by Jason Salzman, who feels the Denver dailies haven’t truly measured the chances that the Justice Department might choose to prevent the dissolution of a joint-operating agreement that links the Rocky and…
This March, Westword will publish its 26th Best of Denver issue, a celebration of all the things, people, places and burritos that make Denver the city it is. What does this mean? A few things. First, it means we need your help: Our 2009 Best of Denver poll is now…
A week from tomorrow, January 16, is the day by which MediaNews Group chieftain Dean Singleton and execs at the Denver Newspaper Agency say they need to secure $18 million in labor savings prior to renegotiating $130 million in debt. “If that fails,” says a letter penned by DNA senior…
Strong winds yesterday knocked down a power line that sparked a wildfire in Boulder County that continues this morning. How strong were the winds? Check out this video of several women getting knocked down by powerful gusts as they try to cross an office parking lot in Broomfield. Ignore the…
Folks at TV-news operations would never suggest that they love fires — but the truth is, flames look great on television, particularly after darkness falls. This fact was reconfirmed by last night’s coverage of an ongoing conflagaration in Boulder County, which has resulted in the destruction of at least three…
You remember Michael Brown — or “Brownie,” as George W. Bush liked to call him. He was head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) when Hurricane Katrina hit, and he soon became the walking, talking symbol of the government’s failure to anticipate the size and scope of the disaster…
Reports that a soldier was beaten to death late last week just because he played Jimmy Buffett’s “Margaritaville” on a jukebox in the Tap House Sports Grill in Steamboat Springs sounded preposterous — until we caught Vanilla Ice’s halftime performance during the January 3 Denver Nuggets game. Those mind-numbingly catchy,…
“Perfect 6,” Jason Sheehan, December 25 Clearing the Table Just read Jason Sheehan’s review of Table 6. Great review; they deserve it. But, unfortunately, we have to read through Jason. God, it’s so tiring to have to get through all the cigarette butts, whores, drugs, alcohol, alley rats and all…
For more photos of Kauri Tiyme, go to westword.com/slideshow. The maid found her. It was close to checkout time on Saturday, October 18, and a member of the housekeeping staff at the Denver Marriott Tech Center used her pass key to enter the room. One look, and she knew she…
Better late than never. Today in Backbeat Online: • Vintage Q&A with the late, great Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton. • Mile High Makeout: Coming home. • A review of the Fray at the Gothic Theatre. • Baji wants to announce your calls. • Femi Kuti cancels Boulder Theater show. Today…
Links, copied-and-pasted fresh daily. Send yours to joe.tone@westword.com. Unemployment on the rise in Denver. Hey, maybe traffic will get better! (Denver Business Journal, via 5280.) Who is Josh McDaniels, and would he make a good Broncos coach? Really obsessed minds want to know. (Mile High Report) In search of a…
Sure, ladies, there is a downside to skiing: You have to take care of the darned gear if you want to schuss the slopes smoothly and without mishaps. But Colorado’s twin women’s gear shacks, outdoor Divas, understands your consternation about this lowly task, which especially plagues those of you who don’t have…
You heard it here first, Colorado. Thanks to a reader tip, Westword has discovered video proof of some type of Sasquatch-type creature that lives in the foothills of Fort Collins and appears only during Colorado State University football games. Amazingly, the beast was first spotted romping on a nearby hill…
As publications throughout Colorado suffered declines in recent years, one seemed immune from problems afflicting the journalism industry: 5280. As noted in “Dan Brogan’s a Mile High on 5280 ,” a July 2007 blog featuring an interview with the aforementioned Brogan, the magazine’s founder, editor and publisher (pictured here), the…
The case of Richard Lopez, a sergeant in the Army who died outside a Steamboat Springs bar shortly after returning from a tour in Afghanistan, would have been terrible under any circumstances. But the ultra-trivial dispute that led to the tragedy — a jukebox spat that pitted Jimmy Buffett-loving Lopez…
As reported with merciless pix on TheSmokingGun and with keen analysis by our own intrepid Joel Warner (“New Ski Move Spotted at Vail”), a 48-year-old skier at Vail got depantsed on the chair lift yesterday, dangling upside down for fifteen minutes while rescuers tried to get him down and fellow skiers snapped…
The death of Channel 2’s 5:30 p.m. newscast, which will occur following Friday’s edition, shouldn’t shock anyone. In “Channels 2 and 31 Mix It Up in Denver,” an October Message column about the new partnership between these longtime rivals, Dennis Leonard, the vice president and general manager of Channel 31,…
It’s always dangerous when sportswriters include music references in their columns. Such citations are typically moldy — as, for instance, Rocky Mountain News staffer Bernie Lincicome’s dopey mention of Loggins and Messina, who hailed from an era “when music was fun,” he claimed in a December 7 piece. And all…
MediaNews Group vice chairman and chief executive officer/Denver Post publisher Dean Singleton faces the same kind of bleak economic outlook as any newspaper magnate, albeit with a number of intriguing twists — among them the potential closure of the Rocky Mountain News, the Post’s joint-operating-agreement partner in Denver. But at…
Now… where were we? Today in Backbeat Online: • Apples in Stereo energize Pepsi’s new ad campaign. • Hello Kavita checks in from the studio. • The new, improved Aubrey Collins. • Mile High Makeout: My head is spinning. • Rap-up: DJ Sabotage makes the finals for Scion Hypeman contest…
Links: They’re like hot links, but not as delicious and awesome. Send yours to joe.tone@westword.com.Why do the Broncos suck? The answer is a guy named Gary in Houston. (Mile High Report)Sen. Wayne Allard and Rep. Tom Tancredo are riding into the sunset. Sunsets just got 34 percent more boring. (Face…
