(Update below) Yakkers at Clear Channel-Denver stations regularly voice their displeasure in respect to topics or issues that make their blood boil. It’s mighty rare, though, for them to rip on each other — and that’s precisely what happened on the morning of May 11, when AM 760’s Jay Marvin…
Greg Kessler, from Style.com This was a sad, sad week for fashion. On Monday, May 8, Isabella Blow died from a drug overdose, and with her passed one of the most interesting, eccentric, fabulous personalities in all of fashion. Her hats alone were cause for celebration. She discovered Alexander McQueen…
If writing poetry seems like a sure trip to the unemployment line, then calling your work a “verse-novel” must be the fastest way to the speedy-express checkout line. But a very brash fellow has published an epic account in blank pentameter (more than 600 eight-line stanzas’ worth) of one of…
The May 10 Rocky Mountain News features a story every bit as unusual (and dopey) as its headline: “Priest’s ‘Illegal Parking’ Taunted.” In it, sobersided Rocky religion writer Jean Torkelson writes about one of Colorado’s least staid journalists, Noel Black, whose latest online project is called Newspeak!. As noted in…
Westword’s May 10 profile of Ramble John Krohn, known to the music world as RJD2, finds the hip-hop producer turned pop-music maker complaining about the press taking comments out of context. There’s no danger of that here. Below, find the entire transcript of our RJD2 interview. The conversation touches upon…
“You’re Toast!,” Jessica Centers, May 3 Feeling Burned Thank you for Jessica Centers’s enthralling and informative story on Quiznos. Her choices of topic and journalistic style have always caught my attention, but this particular article stands out as the first among greats. I’ve noticed for the last six months or…
Elizabeth Vick knew that the contractions she’d been having for the last month were normal. The official name for them is “Braxton Hicks,” after the nineteenth-century doctor who first recorded the intermittent uterine spasms that often accompany the final trimester of pregnancy. But Elizabeth liked to think of the involuntary…
Next week marks the end of The Real World as Denver has known it. So Off Limits had to ask: What sort of lasting effect — if any — will this showcase of inanity have on our city? “I don’t know if the business itself has been impacted, because we…
The plea from the energy-drink company reads as follows: “We know that you have heard of SPIKE SHOOTER Energy Drink when it was so visible in the news several months ago, and you might have formed the impression that the drink has some health concerns and have chosen not to…
There are roughly 900 surveillance cameras in downtown Denver. Tony Ibarra says that’s a conservative estimate, of course, since some of the more principal blocks, like the stretch between Logan and Pennsylvania streets along East Colfax, have hundreds of cameras while other areas have none at all. “I think there’s…
When he launched Associated Content in late 2004, Luke Beatty, the firm’s 36-year-old founder, president and CEO, had one employee other than himself, about $100,000 in seed money, a headquarters that doubled as his basement, and a good idea — that by paying plain folks to submit posts, he could…
Alright, so the wait is over. This year’s Showcase ballot has finally been revealed. As with every year, the event continues to evolve and improve (we like to think so, anyway). This year, you’ll notice that we’ve added five new categories, and there’s 57 acts making a first-time appearance on…
I’m a Boston-born Red Sox fan. Feel my pain. I’m not in pain because of that whole “no World Series championship since 1918” thing. We all know that ended in 2004 during The Greatest Event in the History of the Universe. I’m in pain because I live in Denver, a…
It was the first seriously hot day of the year, maybe the second. Outside, the whole world smelled like cherry blossoms and living earth. I had the speakers on the computer turned down low and Tom Waits was singing You Can Never Hold Back Spring. It was that kind of…
Thursday, May 10 Girls Night Out at Loft 22 Grab the girls and head over to this newish boutique in Larimer Square. They’re offering wine and chocolate, eye makeovers, chair massages, prizes, gift certificates and a Lizzie Sarah Jewelry trunk show. Loft 22 1410 Larimer Street 5 to 7:30 p.m…
As noted in this April 26 Message column, the fallout from the Don Imus controversy so worried the folks at Clear Channel-Denver that they called a meeting of on-air talent from their eight-station cluster to discuss its implications. And judging by KHOW talk-show host Craig Silverman’s reaction to the concerns…
Four hundred horses are on their way to the Colorado Horse Park in Parker, but the legal Mexican workers that Helen Krieble needs to clean up after them are stuck behind the border because the federal government is making an already difficult process practically impossible.
Last season Krieble imported eight legal Mexican workers in a tedious process that cost her $1,000 per head long before any of the workers earned a dime at her non-profit equestrian center. Last year they arrived April 1 and stayed in Colorado until the season ended on Halloween.
The Chingaso Gear skull. After a spin through the local boutiques last weekend, Cat found a constant theme: skulls adorning everything. Skull boots, skull belt buckles, skull hoodies, skull camis, skull skirts, skulls, skulls, skulls. Welcome to the Day of the Dead, Denver – if only a few years late…
Colorado’s legislature may have changed the law so that juveniles convicted of first degree murder don’t get the key thrown away when they’re locked up for life without parole, but there’s still 46 of them sitting behind bars who will never get a chance to walk free again. One of…
Like the wildly successful, crayon-colored line of plastic perforated shoes that started it all, the backlash against Crocs footwear just keeps growing and growing. We were slightly ahead of the curve, examining the garish boat shoes and their lack of fashion or podiatric appeal in the 2005 article “A Really…
Earlier this year, in a Message column profile, radio executive Don Howe talked about how the Wolf, a relatively new country station, planned to sink its teeth into KYGO-FM, which has been the area’s most powerful C&W purveyor for well over a decade. At the time, many media observers thought…
Floyd Mayweather Jr. fought like he was saving something special for Oscar de la Hoya through all twelve rounds Saturday night. Mayweather, whose too swift for most men to hit, threw half as many punches in the first few rounds and seemed to be on the defensive almost all of…
