We already love that the Denver Public Library’s changing, themed, free Fresh City Life programs always include a cooking series from season to season, offering culinary tips, demonstrations and samples for every local closet gourmet worth a dash of salt. Fittingly, in a fledgling new year marked by the need to tighten our…
At last night’s game at the Pepsi Center between the Indiana Pacers and your Denver Nuggets, Carmelo Anthony suffered a significant injury to his hand — a very bad thing. But before then, the 135-115 victory was a lot of fun, as I was able to document thanks to some…
Leave it to those merry pranksters at the Smoking Gun to spot this moment of utter embarrassment and hilarity at Vail Mountain resort last Friday. It turns out a skier attempted to ride the high-speed lift at Vail’s Blue Sky Basin, but when the seat didn’t fold down all the…
Unlike most laid-off journalists, Adam Cayton-Holland has another current vocation: standup comedy. So allow us to help hype it. A Cayton-Holland DVD called Dick Jokes for Artists is available now at his MySpace and Facebook pages, as well as at better retailers such as Wax Trax and Twist & Shout…
A handful of those who’ve commented on assorted blogs since we published information about layoffs at Westword have raised the topic of my alleged snarkiness as it applies to the Rocky Mountain News, which was recently put on the market — the suggestion being that I’ve chortled about the Rocky’s…
It’s been a mighty tough year or so for Lisa Rab, one of the staff writers laid off at Westword yesterday. She came to Denver from the Cleveland Scene, a onetime Village Voice Media property whose assets were sold to another firm and its archives taken offline. Hence, her award-winning…
Adam Cayton-Holland, who was among the writers laid off at Westword yesterday, is best known for his “What’s So Funny?” column — a natural outlet for someone who’s developed into one of the area’s most acclaimed young standup comics. A prime example: his October article about surviving a cougar attack…
Amber Taufen, one of the Westword staffers laid off yesterday, served as the paper’s assistant calendar editor — a position that calls for an ability to write well and often about a vast variety of topics and events. She did so with skill and lively wit — but she also…
A memo by Village Voice Media executives Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin published in the wake of a blog about layoffs at Westword mentions staff reductions across the chain of fifteen alternative weeklies across the country. These moves have been well documented, often by the papers themselves…
Today in Cafe Society: • Twelverestaurant introduces its third menu. • Spice Boys to close shop, go all online. • A Milking It review of Blueberry Monster Crunch. Today in Backbeat Online: • A fresh start for Eric Eyl’s Mile High Makeout. Today in The Latest Word: • The Rocky…
The layoffs at Westword mentioned in this blog didn’t take place in a vaccum — and had I not been on vacation until today, I would have seen them coming thanks to a memo issued by Village Voice Media chairman and CEO Jim Larkin and executive editor Michael Lacey (pictured)…
In the December 18 blog “Westword: All About Us,” publisher and Village Voice Media Chief Operating Officer Scott Tobias offered a relatively sunny assessment of the paper’s health, particularly in comparison with daily newspapers in major metropolitian areas. But today, the forecast is far less positive. At a meeting that…
Our daily scouring of the blogoshere for mile-high goodness. Send tips to joe.tone@westword.com. Ain’t no sunshine in the Colorado statehouse this legislative session. (Colorado Independent) For the Great Depression, there sure is a lot of construction news in Denver. (Denver Infill) The Spin Cycle: Local PR folks make predictions about…
A true veteran of the Denver arts scene, Joshua Hassel’s done time as a professional gallerist, curator, art historian and video producer/director. But every hat he’s worn has hung on his reputation as an indefatigable local arts booster. When he isn’t touting someone’s works in a gallery, he’s making videos and documentaries…
We all think that our actions have sweeping repercussions — or at least that’s what I tell myself after being admonished by my team of therapists each week. But this time, it seems to me, I really might have, maybe, sort of, spurred last week’s sacking of longtime Denver Broncos…
Less than an hour ago at this writing, the Rocky Mountain News website published “7News, 9News Sharing Helicopter,” an uncredited item about a decision by these two longtime rivals to use a single helicopter in order to save money during these economically agonizing times. But while the story will probably…
In mid-December, news broke that MediaNews Group head Dean Singleton (pictured) asked unions to open negotiations on new contracts early in the hope of saving a combined $20 million at the Denver Post and the Denver Newspaper Agency. But, as mentioned parenthetically in a December 16 More Messages blog, this…
More envy than pity has accompanied Bill Ritter’s appointment of Denver Public Schools’ Michael Bennet to fill Ken Salazar’s soon-to-be-vacated U.S. Senate seat. But the folks at Face the State have found a reason to feel sorry for the rising political star: He’ll be making less money in his new…
Kudos to sharp-eyed Denver Post writer David Harsanyi for spotting a hilarious news clip from Channel 31. In it, anchor Ron Zappolo almost but doesn’t quite manage not to laugh while reading a story about a naked home intruder in Oregon named Michael Dick, who was arrested after an 88-year-old…
If you, like me, stepped out of the media bubble over the holidays, you may well have missed a curious New York Times editorial about Obama-cabinet-bound Colorado senator Ken Salazar, published under an unusual headline: “Is Ken Salazar Too Nice?” Too bad the answers provided by the piece aren’t as…
Around here, implying that the Fray is something less than the second coming of the Beatles borders on apostasy. In the world at large, however, the Denver band seldom gets special treatment — unless said treatment is especially nasty. Take the “Coming Reactions” section of Entertainment Weekly’s January 9 edition,…
The December 4 blog “Denver Dailies Didn’t See Possible John Salazar Cabinet Post Coming” now seems charmingly dated. The piece was prompted by word that Representative John Salazar, not his higher-profile brother, Senator Ken Salazar, was likely to be named to Barack Obama’s cabinet — a prospect few political prognosticators…
