Here’s what happening on the local Interwebs today. Let us know what we missed.The NBA season is 25 percent over. Almost time to start paying attention! (Nugg Doctor)Aurora passes totally gay-friendly legislation. Aurora totally pusses out. (Colorado Independent)Broncos fans seem to think the Broncos will win in Carolina on Sunday…
Most pet lovers have heard of the bestselling novel by journalist John Grogan, Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog. Hollywood couldn’t wait to get its hands on the story: A mere three years after the book was published, 20th Century Fox is releasing the film…
The opening section of Westword’s main article about the plight of the Rocky Mountain News, mentions a video of the announcement in the tabloid’s newsroom featuring E.W. Scripps CEO Rich Boehne and John Temple, the Rocky’s editor, publisher and president. Click above to witness this painful yet inevitable moment for…
One of the most intriguing questions about the possible closure of the Rocky Mountain News — the subject of December 11 feature article supplemented by sidebars about Rocky scribes the Denver Post should covet and the joint-operating agreement that connects the Denver dailies — involves the impact of the joint-operating…
As is the case with all articles, plenty of interesting stuff gathered for Westword’s December 11 feature about the dire circumstances facing the Rocky Mountain News and sidebars focusing on Rocky writers who the Denver Post should try to hire and the joint-operating agreement between the Rocky and the Post…
A feature article about the difficulties facing the up-for-sale Rocky Mountain News plus a sidebar about Rocky journalists who could land at the Denver Post and a piece about the Rocky-Post joint operating agreement appear in the December 11 Westword. As a bonus, we’re also offering a series of outtakes…
The current Westword includes a feature article about the Rocky Mountain News, which was recently put up for sale, as well as a sidebar about the marquee Rocky talent most likely to leap to the Denver Post in the event of a closure and a look into the mysteries of…
Got an e-mail yesterday from Westword contributor Teague Bohlen, who noticed something I hadn’t about the December 4 Rocky Mountain News — the edition that contained the paper’s initial print coverage about the decision by its parent company, E.W. Scripps, to put it up for sale. On page two, to…
The December 1 blog “Boulder’s Milk Boycott Missing One Thing: Milk” tells of a protest against the Cinemark movie-theater chain, whose head man, Alan Stock, donated $9,999 to the California campaign to outlaw gay marriage. Locals activists inspired by a campaign headquartered on the web at NoMILKforCinemark.com are expressing their…
Late last night or early this morning, someone affixed this giant sticker (it’s a couple of feet in diameter) to the north side of Westword’s Broadway office building. Presumably, it’s meant to suggest that we haven’t written enough about “Malnourishment,” “Corruption,” “Scarcity of Resources,” “Poverty,” “Economy” or “Deforesting.” With luck,…
Jay Marvin was once the fieriest of radio talk-show hosts, as is made clear in our 1998 feature article, “Double Trouble.” By the time of a 2007 Message column, “Progress?,” which profiled him in the context of his current station, AM 760, he’d mellowed considerably. But the combative Marvin resurfaces…
I knew there had to be a reason why my hangover was magically cured Monday morning — Benny Hinn was in town! The mega-televangelist brought his Benny Hinn Ministries healing sideshow to the Pepsi Center for the first time in three years, drawing thousands of believers for the 2008 Denver Holy Spirit…
May we escort you to some blogs? Today in Cafe Society: • A slice from Mermaids Bakery and Pie House. • Now open: Mangia Bevi at Palazzo Verdi. • Mark Tarbell dubs his new restaurant Mark & Isabella. • Tyler Nemkov on what burned his toast. • The Cody Inn’s…
We’re carving up the mountains of the Colorogosphere in search of hidden trails that we can… ah, screw this metaphor. Here are a bunch of links. Send us more.Colorado Republicans: Coming to a Facebook page near you. (Face the State)If you stumbled on this while surfing the web for a…
You can’t fault Chris Loffelmacher for being sweet on Marlene Dietrich: Her timeless, leggy androgynous beauty and sultry singing voice (not to mention the cruelly sexy German accent) still ring chimes for plenty of folks, a truth that Loffelmacher, director of the Denver Public Library’s Fresh City Life series, clearly took to…
Josh Penry (pictured here) wasn’t a happy man at the legislative hearing on parole policy December 8, and that’s probably a good thing. Penry, the Fruita Republican state senator who takes a back seat to no one in his tough-on-crime posturing, has been hollering about the supposedly alarming increase in…
Yesterday, the Denver Board of Realtors made a last-ditch effort to protest a proposal to keep mega-duplexes out of West Washington Park. As we chronicled here last week, Councilman Chris Nevitt’s rezoning plan to preserve the bungalow, single-family feel of one pocket of the city has exploded into a controversy…
Tom Tancredo may be near the end of his service as a U.S. Representative from Colorado, but he’s still making wacky public pronouncements — and thank goodness. Today’s example? According to the Denver Post, he suggests that some of the money proposed by president-elect Barack Obama for an enormous public-works…
Precious little coverage of the yesterday’s bankruptcy filing by the Tribune Co. has been devoted to its most prominent Denver property, KWGN-TV/Channel 2 — not even by the station itself. (At this writing, its home page doesn’t mention the development on its ten top stories.) That’s understandable, however, since the…
The results are in from the Loews Denver Hotel’s Scrooged contest — in which workplaces that can’t afford an office party could submit three-minute videos to YouTube featuring their boss and the reasons why the office deserves a festive holiday gathering. And judging by the winner’s dry humor, that party…
What with the news about the Tribune Co. filing for bankruptcy yesterday, it’s no surprise that the folks at Gawker are wondering if some notable newspapers will fail in the near future. “Newspapers: The Official Survival Odds” finds writer Hamilton Nolan weighing in on the future of the New York…
