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A good bet? Like many of the amendments crowding this year’s ballot, the scheme to inject steroids in Colorado’s gambling industry, better known as Amendment 50, has its pros and cons. But even its pros may turn out to be cons of one kind or another. On one hand, there’s…

Can an Obama press secretary entertain the trained monkeys press corps as well as President Bush did? If the polls hold up and Barack Obama is elected president, among the first decisions he’ll make is selecting his White House Press Secretary. It’s also one of the most important decisions, because…

Chris Lopez. When former Denver Post higher-up Chris Lopez was chosen to serve as communications director for the Democratic National Convention’s host committee, he let everyone know that one of the main appeals of the position for him was the opportunity to return to Colorado, his home state. But now…

Harry Potter, Randian hero. No one is off limits from the cerebral scrutiny of local political writer Ari Armstrong. On his FreeColorado.com blog, he smacked down the liberal website ProgressNow for its hypocritical stance on the word “bitch-slapped.” Lately right-wingers, too, have been feeling his highbrow wrath, thanks to columns…

What’s So Funny columnist Adam Cayton-Holland and his co-conspirators at Wrist Deep Productions are going all out to help Barack Obama get elected:…

Going down? Circulation continues to fall at major metropolitan daily newspapers around the country — and the numbers at the Rocky Mountain News and Denver Post are worse than the national average. According to the most recent survey conducted by the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the organization charged with tracking…

That’s showing those scallywags, professor. For the past month or so, commuters who travel along 6th Avenue on the west side of the metro area likely saw a giant Obama banner affixed to a fence near the Wadsworth exit. This apparently didn’t sit well with at least one person, who…

David Eugene Edwards of Wovenhand. Blogs are everywhere — and you can get to them here. Today in Backbeat Online: • A live review of Wovenhand at the Mercury Cafe. • Remembering Rudy Ray Moore, the epically profane star of Dolemite: a Westword profile. Today in Cafe Society: • Is…

Flower power. Flowers are expensive, what with the economy and all. So why not buy the next best thing: the $3 Crossword Bouquet from the Colorado Lottery! Well, “the next best thing” might be stretching it. But the latest scratch ‘n’ sniff lotto ticket certainly smells more strongly than the…

If Barack Obama is elected, Focus on the Family thinks we’re in for a hell of a time. Here in Colorado, the conservative Christian forces trying to prevent the election of Barack Obama aren’t limited to the Colorado Family Institute, the organization behind The Colorado View newspaper featured in the…

Jason Gomez was shot and killed during an altercation with a Denver officer in December. Jason T. Gomez was shot and killed last December after officials say he pulled what looked like a gun on a Denver Police Officer. It turned out that the only thing in the 33-year-old’s hand…

Not quite sky-high for Obama — but at least branch-high. The October 27 Rocky Mountain News features “Crowd Was Big, But Just How Big?,” an amusing and timely piece about the difficulty of estimating the number of folks who actually watched Barack Obama deliver a speech at Civic Center yesterday,…

The Colorado View newspaper. As noted in an October 24 blog, a newspaper dubbed The Denver Independent is scheduled to debut on October 31. However, another new publication, The Colorado View, is already available thanks to the largesse of the Colorado Family Institute, which describes itself on the front page…

And you thought Denver had a bye week. After the jump, a guide to what you may have missed this weekend, starting with one bizarre night at Wish Nightclub (above)…

Wolves found no sanctuary at CSU Sunday. Barack Obama’s appearances in Denver and Fort Collins on October 26 set records for starstruck crowds and creative guesstimates of crowd size by reporters. But the Democratic presidential hopeful’s latest swing through our candidate-besieged state (you’d think we had ninety electoral votes here,…

Hop aboard the “Never Surrender” bandwagon — er, cart. The banners and signs on view outside Pro-Tint, located at 1398 Wadsworth Boulevard, don’t have anything to do with the window-tinting services the business provides. Rather, they’re all about an RTD plan to seize the operation as part of its expansion…

Caleb Followill, a King of Leon. Here are some more blogs that really click. Today in Backbeat Online: • A live review of Kings of Leon at the Fillmore Auditorium. Today in Cafe Society: • Tyler Nemkov gets hot and bothered over Sexy Pizza. • Lew Cady shares more Wynkoop…

Will who? You may have noticed them around town, these maddeningly cryptic black billboards that display only one word: “WILL,” decorated with a simple white hat resting on the bottom of the second “L.” At first, I assumed they must be political messages, because who else is posting billboards these…