Promotions were announced at the Denver Police Department last week, including one for District Three Commander Tracie Keesee, who will now head research, training and technology as a division chief. This is good news for the groundbreaking research Keesee has led into how racial bias plays into police shootings. Keesee…
If you want to work out in style, you head to the Denver Athletic Club. From the seafood medley served up in the club tavern to the shoe-shine stand, this 124-year-old institution is where the snobs go to sweat. It would seem obvious, therefore, that the DAC would be an…
April 20 wasn’t just a day when pot smokers congregated to celebrate their need for weed; it was also the ninth anniversary of the slayings at Columbine High School. Because nine isn’t a number that typically demands commemoration — and because it immediately precedes ten, which does — some of…
Scene Slide Show! If you were near 2107 East Colfax Avenue on April 12, you would have caught the scene outside of the shop NEWSPEAK—the gallery, tattoo parlor and graffiti vendor drew a swarming crowd by displaying the work of over a dozen graffiti artists affiliated with the Pueblo-based Creatures…
Nothing emphasizes the benefits of newspaper websites over physical newspapers more than a late sporting event — and few games are as tardy as the most recent contest between the Colorado Rockies and the San Diego Padres. The game started on April 17 but didn’t end until almost half past…
Thank goodness the market for public-relations experts appears to be holding steady, or else all those journalists who’ve left their newspaper jobs of late would be in even tougher shape than they already are. Witness Patrick O’Driscoll. As noted in this December 20, 2007 Message column, the longtime USA Today…
The idea of having a separate curator to oversee photography at the Denver Art Museum has been kicked around for many years. Over the last decade, there have been times when a sympathetic curator like Jane Fudge, or a curatorial assistant like Blake Milteer, mounted photo shows, but there has…
All too often these days, the memos at the Rocky Mountain News concern folks who’ve chosen to leave the paper or the entire journalism profession. However, a recent pair of notes reproduced below actually focus on more upbeat developments: promotions for folks such as Gil Rudawsky, who’s been named Deputy…
Booze kills. Tobacco kills. The combination ain’t nothing nice, either, but selective smoking bans can make the whole situation even deadlier, according to a forthcoming study that probes some alarming figures about drunk-driving deaths along the Front Range. “Drunk Driving After the Passage of Smoking Bans in Bars,” an article…
Yet again the little-dog yapping of the Minnesota Mild has gone for naught. As we discussed yesterday, the would-be Hanson Brothers of the Great White North — Derek Boogaard, Chris Simon and Todd Fedoruk — were itching for a fight last night. Instead, the Bruised Brothers got a big, bad…
Ironton Studies and Gallery (3636 Chestnut Street, 303-297-8626, wwwirontonstudios.com) is definitely one of the best spots in the art district along the Platte River north of downtown known as RiNo (www.rivernorthart.com). The gallery portion is an informal place that’s accessed through the complex’s kitchen, but exhibition director, Jill Hadley Hooper,…
Colorado was all over the April 15 Frontline—not that the show was about Colorful Colorado, but our state had a lot to do with the program itself. Denverite T.R. Reid, who lists among his many credits a stint as the Denver Bureau Chief for the Washington Post, wrote and hosted…
Thanks, Bob Schaffer, for not condemning the contemptuous ad campaign done by a 527 out of Virginia (who better to know about Colorado politics, after all?) that uses the pride that kids have for their school to make them into shills for your political aspirations, based on a record that…
We don’t do a lot of reporting on food recalls here, but this recent one really caught my eye. “On April 5, Malt-O-Meal announced that it was voluntarily recalling its unsweetened Puffed Rice and unsweetened Puffed Wheat Cereals produced with ‘Best If Used By’ codes between April 8, 2008 (coded…
Better late than never, I guess. To cap his “Small Town News” segment last night, Dave Letterman picked up a YourHub.com Wheat Ridge police blotter item from August of 2007. The original text from the article follows and Letterman’s writer did nothing to change it. Some things are perfect on…
What is it with these people from Minnesota, where the once-proud Minnesota North Stars have been replaced by the dainty Minnesota Mild? Our sister paper in Minneapolis (and we do mean sister), City Pages, posts this story suggesting that the Avs are “pussies” because the great goon squad of Derek…
An audit of how on- and off-duty work hours, as well as overtime hours, are tracked for officers at the Denver Police Department was released Thursday, April 17, nearly three years after it began. But it may not prove too useful because the police department has since changed the system…
Joel Harvey is Ari from East High School’s new hero. And mine too. On his day off, Harvey happened to head into work at the Bluebird Theater and caught a phone call from Eli asking if the Bluebird would be willing to post his prom date invitation on the marquee…
If you were to walk down the beach somewhere and see a couch, you might think “how odd…a couch on the beach.” But if, as you got closer, you realized that upon that couch, dressed in suits, were the Rev. Al Sharpton and Pat Robertson, you might think: “Yep. I’ve…
What is it with athletes and movie stars? Memo to Melo: Use $ome of that money to hire a driver, for crying out loud! For last week’s Shmuck, click here…
Calling all couch potatoes! Check out the Food Network this Sunday at 7 p.m. for the Iron Chef America battle between Bobby Flay and Martin Rios of the Inn of the Anasazi in Santa Fe. Why? Because Chef Rios brought along his brother Daniel Rios as one of his two…
“The Home Foreclosure Depot,” Kenny Be, April 10 No Place Like Home Kenny Be’s most recent Worst-Case Scenario is the most gut-wrenching and poignant commentary I have seen in print on the so-called housing crisis. Could you guys spring $50 for a Pulitzer Prize application? Kenny deserves it for this…
