The Sports Guys, Sandy Clough and Mike Evans. Last week, when I spoke to FM 104.3/The Fan’s program director, Tim Spence, for a blog entitled “What’s behind Irv and Joe’s move from 104.3/The Fan to ESPN Radio?,” Spence made it clear that the Denver Post’s Jim Armstrong, who had been…
See the Obama T-shirt slide show Of all the Obama T-shirts being slung during the Democratic National Convention, it was the one above that stood out to me (and many of the people who saw our Obama-shirt slideshow). Designed by Denver DJ and musician Dameion Hines, it depicts Obama on…
“Hi, my name is Robbie, and I’m with the John McCain campaign…” Yesterday, Shannon Barbare of Greenwood Village visited the Huffington Post and stumbled upon a Sam Stein piece entitled “Wave Of McCain Robocalls Reported, Some May Violate State Law,” which warned about an initiative launched yesterday “to alarm voters…
Judge Edward Nottingham in an image from KnowYourCourts.com. “Convergence” is a term used in journalistic circles to describe quasi-formal content-sharing relationships between news organizations operating in different mediums — like, for example, the one linking the Denver Post and 9News. (Read more about it in “Let’s Get Together,” a 2002…
After his near-fatal attack at Comedy Works South, Adam Cayton-Holland has cougars on the brain. So, he presents … The Top Ten Signs You’re a Cougar 10. Given the choice of marinating chicken breasts in Italian dressing or barbecue sauce, you chose AXE Body Spray. 9. You’re in real estate,…
Gabriel Pico died outside the Diamond Cabaret just over a day after the DNC concluded. Democratic National Convention visitor Gabriel Pico, 41, a member of California’s Pechanga Tribal Council, died during the wee hours of August 30 following a scuffle outside the Diamond Cabaret. Since then, news about the investigation…
Mike Coffman. On October 9, the New York Times published a startling article claiming that 37,000 people had been purged from Colorado’s voting rolls since July 21 — a charge to which Colorado Secretary of State Mike Coffman, who’s running for Congress in the safest district imaginable, didn’t respond prior…
Bob Schaffer. In Wednesday’s Rocky Mountain News, Republican senatorial candidate Bob Schaffer insisted that his race against Dem Mark Udall isn’t over despite polls showing him trailing his opponent by a gaping fourteen points. But according to The Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder, the National Republican Senatorial Committee disagrees. In “NRSC Pulling…
The West Bowles Avenue side of Light of the World Catholic Church in Littleton. From 1925 until 1963, Burma-Shave, a then-popular shaving cream, promoted its products using sequential highway road signs that drivers could eyeball as they motored past. For example, one six-sign pitch from 1952 read as follows: “The…
Offensive — and grammatically suspect, too. Editor’s note: To get you in the mood for ballot-casting, The Latest Word is kicking off each weekday between now and the November 4 election with Buttoned Up, a look at political buttons from my family’s extensive collection… I’m guessing this particular slogan, which…
Stereolab sings. To find even more Westword.com blogs, follow the bullets. Today in Backbeat Online: • A review of Stereolab live at the Gothic Theatre, with Monade and Le Loup. • Eric Eyl’s Mile High Makeout column, about a local-music benefit for Metro Denver Partners. • A Q&A with the…
Click here or on the cartoon thumbnail to see a larger image; it’ll take a few seconds. The final installment of Amendmentos, the sugar-coated voter’s guide, covers Amendments 47, 49 and 54 (the anti-union amendments) and Referendum O. These measures should not be taken with a grain of salt. Each…
Will a “Flintstone House” like the one on the left be coming soon to West Washington Park? The battle over big, ugly multiplexes in Denver’s older neighborhoods has made its way south from Highland to West Washington Park, where a meeting last night pitted rezoning proponents against residents who don’t…
Douglas Glaser wants compensation for his detention. Suppose, for a moment, that you’re arrested by Denver police. And held in jail on a convoluted 43-count indictment, unable to make the $750,000 bail, for a staggering two and half years, a local record for pre-trial detention. And then all charges were…
Save the tape. On Friday, October 17 at the Starz FilmCenter, 900 Auraria Parkway, co-curators Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett will present volume two of the Found Footage Festival, which collects the best moments from training videos, home movies and cable-access oddities (see the full listing here). Westword caught up…
Marilyn Musgrave alongside Ken Salazar (not to mention Mark Udall and Wayne Allard) in an image from one of her campaign commercials. Democratic Senator Ken Salazar will never be confused with a charismatic wordsmith. But his blunt way of speaking proved hugely entertaining yesterday, when, during a conference call, he…
Clothes don’t make the man. All of us can agree that it’s a good thing when media organizations are careful with facts. But there’s a difference between reasonable caution and treating the reader like an idiot. Case in point: “Denver Police Focus on Misuse of Computer,” a small item in…
“Thanks for the game, little man.” “Finally I get to guard someone who’s shorter than me!” — the Chick Who Shut Me Down in Pick-Up Basketball the Other Day If you’re anything like me – that is, built like Dakota Fanning – you know the travails of being small. Aside…
John McCain dressed like Joe the Plumber. The morning after Republican presidential nominee John McCain’s final (thank goodness) presidential “debate” against Democratic standard-bearer Barack Obama, KHOW/630 AM is running promos announcing that McCain will appear tomorrow, October 17, during the afternoon-drive show helmed by Dan Caplis and Craig Silverman. This…
Couldn’t she have at least looked at the camera? Editor’s note: To get you in the mood for ballot-casting, The Latest Word is kicking off each weekday between now and the November 4 election with Buttoned Up, a look at a political button from my family’s extensive collection… Denver’s own…
“In the Bag,” Adam Cayton-Holland, October 9 Bag Man I’ve found myself, recently, turning first to Ask a Mexican, then Adam Cayton-Holland’s column — and then I might read more of the paper if time permits. (And if I need more time on the crapper.) With “In the Bag,” the…
The prominent mega-tent that has occupied much of the once-blighted Block 162 at the corner of 15th and California streets since June is coming down much earlier than expected. Known as the Peak, the fifty-foot-high, 20,000-square-foot carpeted and air-conditioned venue hosted movie premiers, concerts and the unofficial post-presidential acceptance-speech party…
