It’s that time of year again, when Jewish people everywhere stuff themselves with General Tso’s and buy overpriced tickets to the latest Reese Witherspoon flick, desperate to stave off the boredom of another neon-tinted, Christ-loving holiday. But Denverites refuse to settle for such misery. Instead, they’ve planned an excuse to…
Yesterday’s blog “Pirate Radio Station KBFR Back in Boulder” provided info about an unlicensed radio signal using call letters that date back for the better part of a decade. In that piece, the main commentator was Rob Smoke, a former Boulder City Council candidate who’s producing a regular talk show…
As if the Denver newspaper scene couldn’t get any more confusing… Yesterday, word surfaced that Moody’s Investors Services downgraded the credit rating of Denver-based MediaNews Group, declaring that the Dean Singleton-run newspaper chain is at significant risk of default. Indeed, the firm, whose holdings include the Denver Post, was said…
As soon as I heard that Joe Sakic had broken three fingers in a freak snowblower accident, I immediately flashed on all the other bizarre injuries suffered by Colorado athletes in recent years — and I wasn’t alone. The Rocky Mountain News’ Dave Krieger — who made our list of…
And now, without further adieu… Today in Cafe Society: • A grand tax lien for the Grand Lux Cafe (pictured). • Le Central is even more affordable during happy hour. • Bad health reports, good pancakes at Children’s Hospital. • Beer and Cheer takes the temperature of 2 Below Ale…
We went and harpooned us some links from local blogs, as we do every day. Send anything you spear to joe.tone@westword.com.No idea what the Sportaccord is, but some important people seem to think it’s important. And Denver’s hosting! (Denver Business Journal, via 5280).Ken Salazar was slightly disingenuous in a recent…
The film Girls Rock! is strictly a girl thing, and by that I mean a little girl thing. The visual story of the original Rock ‘n’ Roll Camp for Girls in Portland, it aims straight between the eyes of any rebel tween or teen girl with an itch to be a…
Click here to see a larger image; it’ll take a few seconds. The 16th Street Mall takes civil engineers for granite Imagine that the 16th Street Mall is Denver’s smile, and that the granite pavers are the individual teeth that cost over a million dollars a year to floss, fill…
I can be one hard gal to shop for, and I’ve been known to exchange, re-gift and return gifts. I can’t help it — which means many of my exhausted family members and friends have simply given up and retreated to the faithful standby of gift cards and certificates. Haters…
Unlicensed radio broadcasts, popularly referred to as pirate radio, come and go by necessity. Stations surface only to disappear without notice, generally because operators get information that the authorities are closing in or the Federal Communications Commission has physically pulled the plug and seized their equipment. Somehow, though, KBFR, a…
Should the family of a man who died after a fall at the long-vacant Gates Rubber factory be awarded damages? Or, to put it another way: Are property owners liable if unauthorized persons injure themselves while trespassing on their grounds? Both questions will have to be answered by a jury…
Who’da thunk that liberal Democratic congressman-elect Jared Polis could make conservative Rocky Mountain News editorial-page editor Vince Carroll gush as he does in today’s column “Polis Off to Great Start”? Apparently only Carroll himself, who writes, “More than a year ago, I suggested that Polis would prove to be a…
In case you missed it, The Daily Show took on the print-journalism crisis the other night, with host Jon Stewart kicking off this particular “Depressing News Riddle” segment with the question, “What’s black and white and completely over?” Yep, the answer was “newspapers,” and the Rocky Mountain News was referenced,…
“Going Up,” a sidebar to our main feature article about the for-sale sign hanging on the Rocky Mountain News, spotlighted five Rocky notables who the Denver Post should hire in the event of the tabloid’s closure if it wants to lure its old rival’s subscribers. But the roster is hardly…
Don’t let the headline mislead you. The two-part Youtube vid “The Mysteries of the Denver Airport” still contains the blatant factual inaccuracies and staggering leaps of logic that bedevil all the theories on the internet that seek to link the Denver International Airport to a massive international conspiracy involving the…
Here’s how the state of Colorado defines the act of criminal libel: “A person who shall knowingly publish or disseminate, either by written instrument, sign, pictures or the like, any statement or object tending to blacken the memory of one who is dead, or to impeach the honesty, integrity, virtue,…
Denver’s iconic Big Blue Bear— officially called “I See What You Mean” — got some big exposure last Friday when Visit Denver staffer Tyler Wilcox donned a blue bear costume for an appearance on Good Morning America, touting this town’s holiday window on Times Square. So what was it like…
“About Time,” Patricia Calhoun, December 4 The Rest Is History After reading “About Time,” I drove by those buildings on the old University of Colorado Health Sciences campus and looked at them with a fresh eye. I completely agree with the Landmark Preservation Commission’s recommendation. I hope Denver City Council…
Employees of the Rocky Mountain News work on the fifth floor of the Denver Newspaper Agency building, one level beneath their peers at the Denver Post — and if the Rocky folds, some of them may be pushing a different elevator button shortly thereafter. The theory is that the Post…
The 2001 joint operating agreement between the Rocky Mountain News and the Denver Post adds an element of mystery to the probable disappearance of the Rocky early next year. It’s an extraordinarily complex collection of legalese that neither MediaNews Group head and Post publisher Dean Singleton nor Rocky editor/publisher/president John…
The Rocky Mountain News began marking its sesquicentennial months before the actual date — April 23, 2009 — with the launch of a planned 150-part series spotlighting its coverage of notable historic events that took place during its life span. But the paper has also been embracing new technology even…
It’s beginning to feel a lot like blog roundup time. Today in Backbeat Online: • Twelve things every Wu-Tang Clan fan should own. • Mile High Makeout: Dreaming of me. • An extremely entertaining Q&A with Ryan Hendrix of Colourmusic. • Rap Up: Whygee and Sunken State unite for a…
