Circa early 2006, J.J. McKay and Rick “The Coach” Marshall (seen in the foreground of the accompanying publicity shot) were mainstays of KOOL 105’s s0-called Kool Morning Krew, and they were doing fine in the ratings. According to McKay, “We were number eight with adults from 25-54, number three for…
Each year, RegretTheError.com catalogs the biggest, funniest and most outrageous print gaffes from the previous twelve months. This year’s offering, headlined “Crunks ’06: The Year in Media Errors and Corrections,” sports just one Colorado item: Attention-seeking student Cassidy Grigg is acknowledged for punking national and local news outlets following the…
Public entities are often just as secretive about internal strife as private ones, as the current turmoil at public-radio signal KUVO/89.3 FM demonstrates. In recent weeks, a power struggle has been taking place at the outlet, which Jazz Week magazine designated as the top U.S. jazz station in each of…
Joseph Brodsky eyes the freshly pulled double espresso with scorn. “This looks terrible,” he mutters darkly. From its poorly foamed surface, he can tell the coffee has been extracted from the espresso machine in a few measly seconds rather than the ideal 25. “And there’s a fishy smell. Stomaching this…
Black Gold, a documentary about Ethiopia’s coffee industry, promises that after you see it, “coffee will never taste the same.” In the film, shots of perky Starbucks managers are followed by clips of barefoot Ethiopian coffee pickers; first-world supermarket aisles packed with different coffees are interspersed with third-world therapeutic feeding…
Black Gold, a documentary about Ethiopia’s coffee industry, promises that after you see it, “coffee will never taste the same.’ In the film, shots of perky Starbucks managers are followed by clips of barefoot Ethiopian coffee pickers; first-world supermarket aisles packed with different coffees are interspersed with third-world therapeutic feeding…
This is no bluff. Chuck Humphrey swears it — and his face is giving nothing away. Even though the Lakewood attorney is the sole plaintiff in a New Jersey lawsuit claiming that online pay-to-play fantasy-sports competitions are actually illegal gambling, he’s not some spoilsport out to rid the world of…
One of the most common criticisms of journalism schools is that, outside of internships, they don’t offer students enough in the way of real-world experience. But that’s hardly been the case for Stephanie Clary, a University of Colorado at Boulder attendee who’s just ending her run as editor-in-chief of CU’s…
The Mile High City has snubbed its most famous — and infamous — namesake. Denver no longer gets its parking boots from Clancy Systems. That’s the hometown company that in 1986 bought the patented Denver Boot from the family of Frank Marrugg, who invented the contraption in 1953 and has…
Every year at this time, people start acting real antsy around me. I’m half Jewish and half Christian — what biblical scholars refer to as a “mulatto” — and as a result, people don’t know whether to greet me by exclaiming, “A most fecund Jesus harvest to you, kind brother…
A Denver jury last week found Atlanta-based Mariner Health Care Inc. — the third-largest nursing-home company in the country — liable for negligence, extreme and outrageous conduct and deceptive trade practices. Plaintiff John Gordy, a 41-year-old quadriplegic who suffered injuries at Red Rocks Health Care Center in Denver, was awarded…
“Of Meth and Men,” Luke Turf, December 7 Meth America Kudos, and thank you very much for last week’s cover story on meth and its effect on the gay community. As a recovering meth addict, I can relate and appreciate the honesty and courage Rod speaks of. This drug has…
This week marks the return to KHOW’s airwaves of The Radio Factor, hosted by Fox News personality Bill O’Reilly. However, the evening slot he’s been handed says more about the weakness of KHOW’s schedule than it does about the strength of O’Reilly’s appeal. O’Reilly’s disappearance from the outlet was awkward…
Like any American chef (current or former), I’ve had a love/hate relationship with France for a long time. Before I knew enough to know better, I hated the country for producing some of the white-toqued, chain-smoking, red-faced bastards who trained me — guys who bigfooted their way through the kitchen,…
Anh and Sum Nguyen When Sum Nguyen was invited to be an ambassador of the Universal Peace Federation for its global Peace Tour IV, he was nervous he might say the wrong thing. After all, the organization was sending each of its 120 ambassadors to a different city to talk…
Do Denver Nuggets fans want to say goodbye to Kenyon Martin — or settle for the simple getdafucouttahere now that he’s injured again. It’s tough to tell after reading The Denver Post’s Marc Spears front page sports story on K-Mart yesterday. The story, headlined “Kenyon Plans for Someplace Like Home,”…
Colorado comedy continues to step into the limelight. This past Friday, John “Hippieman” Novosad (pictured) appeared on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. Hippieman, who had impressed Ferguson when he opened for the Scottish comedian at a Comedy Works gig in August, rocked it on the show, and the…
The boys in the Fray have gotten a lot of praise in these parts for earning two Grammy nominations — but little attention has been paid to the one they didn’t get: a Best New Artist nod. Given the format-crossing success the players have enjoyed to date, they seemed as…
On Saturday, The Cat’s Pajamas took her mom out for a day of camera shopping. That is, we embarked on the Holiday Boutique Crawl — hosted by eighteen northwest Denver shops — armed only with a camera (not credit cards) in search of the best that our city has to…
The long-running battle over a Lookout Mountain antenna farm has been declared at an end numerous times in recent years — and this weekend’s developments precipitated the loudest victory claims to date from those supporting the construction of a new broadcasting tower in the area. During the waning days of…
While I was driving across America and Canada last month, I couldn’t escape the influence of home. I detailed how Colorado stories lead the newscasts in every city I visited in my November 23 “Worst-Case Scenario.” While watching the evening news in Canada , for example, I learned that mayors…
This week’s Westword music section includes a Q&A by contributor Quibian Salazar-Moreno with Redman, accompanied by the publicity photo to the right. Too bad we didn’t know about the shot the Denver Post ran with the broadsheet’s own article on Big Red — an image far naughtier than typically appears…
