Seconds after Scripps-Howard suddenly announced that the Rocky Mountain News was for sale last Thursday, hopeful eyes were turning to Phil Anschutz, the local billionaire who’s already saved another local institution — the Ski Train that has taken generations of skiers from Union Station to Winter Park, the city-owned resort. And unlike other…
Today’s Rocky Mountain News and Denver Post both feature articles about Shawn White Wolf, a Montana entrepreneur who issued a press release last Friday announcing his potential interest in purchasing the Rocky. (Read those pieces here and here.) But White Wolf doesn’t go into any detail about how he could…
When Peyton Hillis became the 47th Bronco running back to go down with an injury this year, he opened the door for rookie Cory Boyd to be the next back to rush his way onto your fantasy playoff roster. Sure, the Broncos will trot out Tatum Bell as the starter,…
In a 2001 Message column, we profiled former Denver Bronco Mark Schlereth under the headline, “Two-Way Player: Mark Schlereth Tries to Balance Local Radio With a Rising TV Career.” Seven years later, he’s still trying to do so. While he doesn’t have a daily radio position in Denver at present,…
What just happened? This stuff. Today in Backbeat Online: • A live review of the Smashing Pumpkins at the Ogden Theatre. • Eric Eyl’s Mile High Makeout deals with dead days. • Ozric Tentacles moves to Fort Collins. Today in Cafe Society: • Steuben’s toasts the end of Prohibition –…
Habitat for Humanity is all about putting a roof over the heads of folks who might not otherwise enjoy that luxury; so is a man-made birdhouse, albeit on a much tinier level. As if to top off that metaphorical comparison with a story that’s almost too good to be true, birdhouses built from…
After the jump, a taste of what partying transpired this weekend in Denver, including a club’s grand opening and a monster show at the Ogden…
Even though they sometimes make me want to drown myself in a souvenir soda, I enjoy going to Broncos games when I get my hands on tickets. What I hate is getting to Invesco. Don’t get me wrong: As stadium clusterfucks go, Denver’s isn’t half bad. But still, most of…
Maybe I missed it, but I didn’t see any comments from Ronald or Loretta Murray in the one-year anniversary stories about the church shootings in Arvada and Colorado Springs. But then, the Murrays haven’t been eager to talk publicly about the multiple tragedies spawned by their deeply disturbed son Matthew,…
In his nationally syndicated December 5 broadcast, robust yapper Rush Limbaugh made mention of the Rocky Mountain News being put up for sale. “Did you see where Scripps Howard may have to close down the Rocky Mountain News?” he asked. “Propaganda organs are just falling by the wayside. The Obama…
Is there anything Barack Obama’s name can’t be used to sell these days? This question arises as a result of a Jack FM promotion I stumbled upon the other day. Those of you with cars manufactured during the past few years know that many radio stations include a signal with…
As you may have read last week in “Denver Aquarium Unequipped to Handle Piranha Attacks or Reporter Queries,” on a recent visit to the Downtown Aquarium I was disturbed to discover just how easy it would be to stick my hand into the open-top piranha tank — and even more…
This 2006 Message column “HDNet Gains” profiled HDNet, billionaire Mark Cuban’s high-definition television network. At the time, Cuban and his Denver-based partner, Philip Garvin, were thrilled about adding longtime CBS anchor Dan Rather to HDNet’s family. But Garvin remained frustrated that the programming was mainly available on satellite operations, as…
Join us for a few cups of blog. Today in Cafe Society: • Izakaya Den (pictured) joins the lunch bunch. • What Denver restaurants would you recommend to Food & Wine? • Charlie Master could be getting back in the game. • Candy Girls sink their teeth into Flake and…
This is the Friday edition of our daily exploration of local blogs. It’s just like the other editions, only it knocks off early to drink thirteen Coors Lights, eat hot wings and argue about the BCS all night. Send blog tips to joe.tone@westword.com.The total Washington outsider Tom Daschle makes the Obama…
Tony Shawcross, a 2007 Westword MasterMind awardee, and Denver Open Media have good reason to celebrate. Two years of cracking open the doors of media production to the community by providing instruction, video equipment and local programming on a shoestring is quite a feat whenever and wherever it happens. But when…
Traffic sucks, and as Colorado grows, it just seems to get worse and worse. Some people leave earlier to deal with the jams, or move closer to their offices. Others pick up their bicycles or take the bus. Still others speed, run red lights, curse their fellow drivers or silently…
Yesterday, staffers at the Rocky Mountain News received an e-mail from editor/publisher/president John Temple with an attached press release explaining why parent company E.W. Scripps had decided to put the paper on the block; read it in the blog “Rocky Mountain News Put Up For Sale.” Today’s follow-up e-mail is…
Millions of bleary-eyed Americans were greeted this morning by the sight of a big blue bear — a living embodiment of the iconic “I See What You Mean” bear statue on the side of the Colorado Convention Center — waving cheerfully to them from their televisions. It was part of…
The nature of print media is strange these days. Pages shrivel and shrink, then disappear altogether, while paid positions dry up like teens on Proactiv, resulting in a frenzied scramble toward writers and editors doing more with less, pissed off at their frozen salaries yet unable to bitch about it for…
On ESPN radio (1600 AM) this morning, host Colin Cowherd veered into an interesting discussion about the best coaching jobs in college and pro football. In judging great coaching gigs, he said he looks for a handful of traits: supportive but not unrealistic fans, supportive but not overbearing owners/administrators, some…
In October, we introduced you to the battle over monster duplexes and neighborhood character in West Washington Park. Now, as a December 15 City Council hearing approaches, the controversy is exploding into a debate over the future of development in Denver’s older neighborhoods. Some residents in West Washington Park want…
