Do you really want to know? Call me crazy, but I have to think the guy who printed this “What Would JC Do?” T-shirt is second-guessing himself a little these days. Because while Cutler still has a chance to one day become the Broncos’ floppy-haired, doughy-cheeked Messiah, in recent weeks…
Carmelo Anthony doesn’t seem to be in a Golden State of mind in this image from the Denver Nuggets’ website. If NBA games were decided after the first quarter of play, the Denver Nuggets would have been league champs several years in a row. Over and over again, the team…
Dikembe Mutombo during his days with the Denver Nuggets. At age 42, former Denver Nuggets star Dikembe Mutombo is ancient by NBA standards, but he hasn’t given up on the sport to which he’s devoted his entire adult life; although he’s not currently on the active roster of his most…
ICE cold. During the just-concluded campaign season, immigration, a hot-button topic in recent years, was seldom mentioned by candidates for any major office. But two days after Americans cast their ballots, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the agency known as ICE, has stepped forward with a new report that attempts…
Dan Caplis. In yesterday’s blog “Options for Dan Caplis’ First Show Since Obama’s Election,” I expressed my fervent hope that KHOW host Caplis, the Colorado media’s number-one Barack Obama hater, would launch into a Chicken Little routine as energetic and extreme as his dire pre-vote predictions for what might happen…
Page one of the November 6 Denver Post. In “Bob Schaffer’s Election Hopes are in the Bag,” a November 4 blog, I noted Rocky Mountain News editor/publisher/president John Temple’s pledge that the tabloid’s day-after-the-election paper would be its largest ever — and indeed, the offerings that morning from the Rocky…
Juan Martinez. At 24, Juan Martinez still has the same dream that he had two years ago, when I wrote about him in “A League of Their Own,” an April 2006 feature about Denver’s Liga Latina de Beisbol, a predominately Mexican Front Range baseball league. It’s the same dream he’s…
When high school principal Michael Johnston settled in, like 33 million other Americans, to watch Barack Obama’s thirty-minute prime-time infomercial on October 26, he had no idea the school he leads was about to get a nationwide shout-out. The $3 million commercial was a feel-good address with clips from Obama’s…
“Hotel Martino,” Jared Jacang Maher, October 30 No-Tell Hotel Well, there’s a chill in the air, which means its time for the annual Tom Martino-bashing at Westword. I read Jared Jacang Maher’s article about Mr. Martino’s involvement with the project at Park Avenue West and Glenarm. As far as I…
I woke up early in Colorado, still a battleground state, according to the November 4 Wall Street Journal. I prepared myself for battle by studying the election items that had arrived at my home yesterday: a flier under my doormat headlined “Vote for the Change We Need,” with a number…
We first noticed the change in the mammoth LED billboard on I-25 near 50th Avenue during an afternoon rush hour in late October. The marquee, which normally just lists the time and the temperature, was now offering an opinion on which way the political winds were blowing, flashing a McCain/Palin…
Jay Lewis assumes the position. He slouches, arms folded across his chest, knee bent and foot braced on the wall behind him. He looks like your typical green-tunic-clad felon, lazily taking in the passing show at the Cheyenne Mountain Re-Entry Center, a 750-bed private prison in Colorado Springs. “He’s jailin’,”…
k.d. lang. You’ve got questions. Our blogs have answers. Today in Backbeat Online: • A revealing Q&A with k.d. lang. • A live review of Metallica at the Pepsi Center. • Getting to know former Pavement frontman Stephen Malkmus. • A vintage Pavement profile that hinted at the breakup to…
Ryan Frazier. Aurora city councilman Ryan Frazier was largely unflappable during his beleagured year-long attempt to pass Amendment 47, the right-to-work ballot issue he sponsored; see the Westword feature “Ryan Frazier Puts His Job On the Line for Amendment 47” to learn more. And he’s just as composed confronting the…
Adam Brickley as he appeared a few months back on The Colbert Report. Blogger Adam Brickley was credited in many quarters — including Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report — with helping Alaska governor Sarah Palin rise to national prominence via his PalinForVP.blogspot.com website. (See his appearance on Stephen Colbert’s signature…
Union Station. The developers behind the new-and-improved Union Station — the subject of the August feature story “Union Station May Become Denver’s Gateway Again… If It Stays on Track” — are hard at work crafting a plan for the public spaces around this future transit hub — plazas and walkways…
Chill… 10. No uncontrollable giggling. 9. No naming babies “Barack” or “Obama” or any mash-up of his name. 8. No changing your e-mail to Obama_Mama@yahoo.com 7. No smugly walking up to white people and saying, “Boo-Yah!” 6. There will be no “Hustle,” “Running Man,” “‘Electric Slide” or dances inspired by…
An image from Mike Kessler’s 2007 article “Out in the Cold.” The March 2006 Message column headlined “Altitude Check” focused on 5280, a Dan Brogan-founded publication that had broken what seemed like a jinx against successful city magazines in Denver and was continuing to grow at a time of contraction…
The joy of electoral participation. YouTube’s VideoYourVote channel features clips of voters all around the country talking about their voting experiences — and plenty of Denverites participated. Look below for multiple clips in which your friends and neighbors share balloting stories. Also included: a video of Tinkerbull, a bulldog wearing…
Carol Chambers. Marilyn Musgrave isn’t the only dyed-in-the-pantsuit conservative wandering around this bleary morning wondering what the hell happened to his or her mandate. Several other presumably well-entrenched GOP incumbents around the state hung on by their fingernails in what should have been walkaway races. The case of Carol Chambers,…
Nebuchadnezzar: the Obama of Babylonia? You had to figure that the folks at Colorado Springs-based Focus on the Family would react to the election of Barack Obama with memorable dismay. After all, Focus on the Family Action, the outfit’s lobbying arm, recently published “Letter from 2012 in Obama’s America,” which…
Dan Caplis. KHOW afternoon-drive host Dan Caplis spent the election season demonizing Barack Obama in a surprisingly literal sense, portraying the Democratic presidential hopeful as a dangerous creature sure to destroy all that is good and true and right. So now that his predictions of a John McCain comeback victory…
