It will happen tonight, no doubt: At some point during the Nuggets-Cavs game at the Pepsi Center, probably late in the first quarter, LeBron James will step into a passing lane. He’ll lurk, and lurk, and lurk, carefully measuring his distance from things — close enough to make the steal,…
At 9:30 a.m. this morning, Governor Bill Ritter will announce Colorado’s next secretary of state, the culmination of a six-week process that officially started on the night of November 4, when Mike Coffman was elected to replace Tom Tancredo in the sixth congressional district. Although Ritter had the power to…
Every time a bell rings, a drag queen gets her wig! It just wouldn’t be Christmas without the Denver Cycle Sluts caroling at their annual “Alcoholidaze” show. — Jared Jacang Maher…
Welcome to blog central. Today in Cafe Society: • Jax turns twelve with a dozen deals. • La Chaumiere bids au revoir after more than thirty years. • Up for auction: French 250. • We’re rooting for Root Down. • It’s time for a Cricket burger! Free parking today in…
A daily roundup of stuff maybe worth reading about Denver. Send tips. A basketball book with the word “macrophenomenal” in the title. No, it’s not by Charles Barkley. (Denver Stiffs) The good, the bad, and the unknown about Ken Salazar. With hats like that, the ugly goes without saying. (5280)…
Lance Hering, the marine who faked his own death in Eldorado Canyon and disappeared nearly two years ago, days before he was to report back to active duty, will face a summary court-martial Friday at Camp Pendleton, where he is currently being held. Hering will be charged with one count…
Choreographer and dancer Robert Sher-Machherndl is a local treasure. As artistic director of the Lemon Sponge Cake ballet company, he gets to play around with the meaning of movement and the line between theater and dance all the time. But his current project, Man Made Men, takes experimentation a step…
Click here or on the cartoon thumbnail to see a larger image; it’ll take a few seconds.In my many years of making fake forecasts for the future, I have learned one truth. I have learned that predictions are a lot like holiday office parties, family gatherings and sex, in that…
My fellow humans, This week, unabashed robot lover Joel Warner wrote a fine cover story for Westword dealing primarily with the robot Basil, manufactured and programmed by James and Louise Gunderson of Gamma Two, Inc. And while I take no issue with the article per se — having found it…
At this writing, “Mayor Move Would Roil City’s Politics,” a Denver Post piece by Christopher Osher, lists “several city council members” as possible Denver mayoral candidates should John Hickenlooper be appointed to fill the senate seat presently occupied by Secretary of the Interior-designate Ken Salazar, including “Michael Hancock, Michael Garcia,…
Jeff Peckman (pictured) is best known as the man who fought to put a measure on the November ballot to create an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission in Denver. (Refresh your memory by reading Jason Sheehan’s June profile of Peckman here.) In the end, this bold mission proved impossible. But Peckman remains…
Bob Ewegen began working at the Denver Post in the early ’70s, most recently serving as the paper’s assistant editorial-page editor. So his departure from the paper in mid-November should have been a time for tribute. Instead, the paper has responded with near silence, as has Ewegen himself…
In today’s Rocky Mountain News, Lynn Bartels demonstrates once again why she made our list of the five journalists who the Denver Post should poach first in the event of a Rocky closure — a sidebar to the feature article headlined “The Rocky Mountain News is Going Down.” In her…
This morning, the Denver District Attorney’s Office will release new city protocols for how law enforcement, social services and legal agencies should deal with kids found in drug-endangered households, such as those living in meth labs or indoor marijuana grows. While that may not sound momentous, it is. For far…
I have to admit: I always thought the men Cosmopolitan magazine chooses for its annual Most Eligible Bachelor contest were cheeseballs. Every year, fifty eligible bachelors (one from each state) pose shirtless in the mag, next to a brief description and quote, in the hopes of being crowned the Most…
An interesting cyber-conversation cropped up in Tuesday’s blog “Help the Denver Post by Paying Extra for Obama’s Mile High Moment,” much of it fueled by someone identified as Diane, who made several charges against yours truly. The gist: Village Voice Media, the parent company of Westword, is teetering on the…
For all the holiday travelers who hate making the 21-mile trek from downtown to Denver International Airport, the History Channel has an answer. The Mega Movers show created a step-by-step video for how Denver could move the main airport terminal closer to the city using a system of steel beams,…
The whining starts about 5:30 a.m. — a slow, heartbreaking cry from the crate at the foot of my bed that I can usually silence by screaming “No!” as loud as I can, then collapsing back into my pillow. (The neighbors probably think that the curious fellow next door greets…
If anyone can make dirt fascinating, it’s J. John Cohen. That’s why a recent meeting of Colorado Cafe Scientifique, a popular free seminar that takes place ten times a year at the Wynkoop Brewing Company, was standing room only. Everyone was there to listen to Cohen, an immunologist at the…
Last week, Off Limits got you inside the big blue head of the Big Blue Bear, via an interview with the Visit Denver staffer who’d donned the costume of the iconic statue for an appearance on Good Morning America. On the December 5 show, Mayor John Hickenlooper was in GMA’s…
Eight years after she first reported a sexual assault to police and four years after prosecutors told her they were dropping the case, a young woman has won an unusual court ruling that orders prosecution of her alleged assailant, a former University of Colorado football player who was also implicated…
“Sale of the Century and a Half,” Michael Roberts, December 11 Both Sides Now Why are newspapers failing? Virtually every paper, including Denver’s, endorsed George Bush and lied us into a war. Even the New York Times, on the front page, assured us of the existence of weapons of mass…
