Pay attention to the signs. Getting pulled over by the police sucks. Getting pulled over because your registration has been expired for quite some time is even worse. And when you also can’t find proof of insurance in your overstuffed glove box and the cop gives you no choice but…
Anyone know some good pick-up lines? Great is the hullabaloo surrounding Denver’s cab industry and it seems everyone has an opinion. Some feel that the three existing cab companies (Metro Taxi, Yellow Cab and Freedom) are sufficient to cover the demand of the residents of the Mile High City. Others…
JBS Swift rides the Shmuck truck. In one corner, wearing the corporate suits of a $10 billion meat packing conglomerate, the Greeley-based JBS Swift & Company. In the other corner, wearing head scarves and traditional Somali dress, about 220 low-paid Muslim workers backed by the United Food & Commercial Workers…
Rocky Mountain News editor/publisher/president John Temple. Rocky Mountain News editor/publisher/president John Temple has offered his first response to the controversy that erupted after his paper assigned a reporter to create real-time posts about the Wednesday funeral of three-year-old Marten Kudlis using the micro-blogging service Twitter. His take can be found…
True tales of crime and punishment. Consider this a shameless plug — and a free preview. Every year Otto Penzler, the venerable founder of the Mysterious Press and owner of New York’s Mysterious Bookshop, and novelist Thomas H. Cook put together an anthology of true crime writing from the country’s…
Philip Rivers trash-talking Jay Cutler. This Sunday’s Broncos-Chargers matchup means more than the typical week two NFL game. Since the Chargers conveniently lost their opener to the Carolina Panthers, the Broncos, who mowed down the Oakland Raiders on Monday night, can wind up two games ahead of the San Diegans…
The new-fangled way of getting police reports hits a snag. The February 14 Message column concerned a new approach by the Denver Police Department to make incident reports available to the news media. Instead of printing out copies of full reports and placing them in a room at the department’s…
A vigil is planned for Quincy Henderson. On Tuesday night, Quincy Henderson was shot and killed at 31st and Curtis streets in what police have called “an isolated incident” resulting from an altercation. Other than that, there are few details about the incident — but there’s plenty of talk about…
Marilyn Musgrave in her latest commercial. During this political-commercial-heavy campaign season, we’ve all grown accustomed to hearing candidates state their names and say, “I approve this message” either before or after the spot rolls. However, the latest ad touting Colorado Representative Marilyn Musgrave uses a different verb; she declares that…
John Tesh, Red Rocks god. Blogging is fun-damental. Backbeat Online features a slideshow of fourteen memorable (or not) live recordings made at Red Rocks. Which category would you put John Tesh’s album in? Also earning items of their own: a preview of the new Portugal. The Man album, a behind-the-scenes…
Modern-day dumpster diving: Want a free TV? As the DNC taught us, there’s nothing better than getting free stuff. Free bikes, free water bottles, free condoms to protect us from John McCain. Now, there’s a way to keep the free swag flowing all year round. DenverFreecycle is the cheap, environmentally-friendly…
Run, children! It’s Blinky the Clown! Along with being the world’s number-one source on all things geeky, the widely read blog Boing Boing clearly has a soft spot for Denver, courtesy of blog co-editor Mark Frauenfelder, who grew up around here and who’s apparently been feeling a bit nostalgic lately…
“I want you — to commit a felony.” The hurting the Denver Broncos put on the Oakland Raiders Monday night is nothing compared to the abuse Raiders fans heaped on each other. The level of violence was so bad in the stands that even the folks at the Oakland Tribune…
For tweet’s sake. Word that the Rocky Mountain News tasked a reporter with using the Twitter micro-blogging service to provide minute-by-minute commentary at the Wednesday funeral of three-year-old Marten Kudlis has triggered plenty of outrage in the larger journalism community. Prime example: a busy thread at SportsJournalists.com, which finds several…
Former federal auditor Bobby Maxwell as seen in a Westword cover story. Hot damn, the public servants at the Lakewood office of the U.S. Minerals Management Service sure know how to party. Blowjobs in moving cars, cocaine delivered to your desk as “office supplies,” drunken sexual misadventures with Big Oil…
John Ramsey on Oprah. First, John Ramsey was cleared of suspion in the murder of his daughter, JonBenét, by Boulder District Attorney Mary Lacy. And now he’s been cleared by Oprah. Yep, on Wednesday, Ramsey sat down with Oprah Winfrey for his first national interview since Lacy announced that thanks…
Brad Meltzer. Best-selling author Brad Meltzer, who appears at the Tattered Cover Highlands Ranch today (click here for the details), is known to the comic-book crowd for penning several noteworthy works in the genre, including the controversial graphic novel Identity Crisis, which updated the Justice League of America characters, including…
CELL founder Larry Mizel, left, with Bill and Jeannie Ritter at the CELL If today’s 9/11 anniversary has you recalling those horrible attacks seven years ago, you may want to head over to the CELL, Denver’s new terrorism museum. The space, at 99 West 12th Avenue, has been hailed by…
The Post’s 9/11 front page. Seven years after the terrible events of September 11, 2001, there’s not a lot fresh to report or write on the topic, especially for journalists in cities like Denver. And yet memories of the incidents are still too prevalent for regional print and broadcast outlets…
Tommy Tutone at your service. Lately, Denver TV has been awash in nutty spots for Benjamin Franklin Plumbing, all pointing out that the number to dial for service is the same as the one that forms the hook in “867-5309/Jenny,” the ridiculously catchy Eighties-tastic smash by two-hit wonder Tommy Tutone…
Barbara Siemann woke to the sound of footsteps in her hallway just after 3:30 a.m. on June 1. Judging by the blurred digital clock on her cell phone, it was far too early for her seventeen-year-old daughter to be getting home from staying the night at a friend’s house. Yet…
Even the most ratings-starved radio stations receive listener complaints when programmers decide to switch formats — but such shifts seldom prompt the gusher of regret that inundated NRC Broadcasting after KCUV/102.3 FM clicked off for the last time. In the two days following its midnight August 31 shutdown, approximately 1,000…
