One more thing from our conversation with Channel 31/The Deuce general manager Dennis Leonard, who previously weighed in on furloughs at the outlets that went into effect around the time executives sailed off on a Caribbean cruise, as well as a frightening MRSA infection that required a biological cleaning crew…
Yesterday, we told you about furloughs at affiliated stations Channel 31 and The Deuce, which began kicking in right about the time general manager Dennis Leonard and two fellow execs took more than thirty clients on a week-long Caribbean cruise. (Leonard, by the way, says the August junket had been…
No cities in America — okay, maybe Buffalo, but nowhere else — have achieved the same level of football-related pessimism as Denver and Cleveland. (OK, maybe Detroit, too, but that’s it!). So with the Broncos and Browns set to throw down on Sunday, I channeled all the dismay I could…
Senator Dave Schultheis doesn’t do anything by half measures — which is why he’s a multiple-time Shmuck of the Week, as opposed to being a single termer. (Watch out, Brandon Marshall.) Still, he’s a sharp enough operator to understand that national stories can still be used to damage local politicians…
ProgressNow Colorado’s Michael Huttner really, really wants to sell loads of 50 Ways You Can Help Obama Change America, a new book he’s co-written with Jason Salzman, even subjecting himself to a session with Fox News’ Neil Cavuto in the name of publicity. And now, he’s gotten an assist from…
Earlier today, Westword’s sister paper, the San Francisco Weekly, published “Basebrawl — So Those Denver Boys Want to Talk Some Trash, Eh? Well, Two Can Play At That Game,” in which staffer Joe Eskenazi wrote about checking “the pneumatic tube connecting all the Village Voice Media newspapers” and finding “what…
Najibullah Zazi, the Aurora man at the center of an investigation into an alleged terror plot, may have to start using the local FBI headquarters as his permanent address. He’s scheduled to begin a third day of questioning there today, meaning, presumably, that someone else will be manning the shuttle…
The local media is making a big deal out of President Barack Obama endorsing Bill Ritter appointee Michael Bennet in the 2010 U.S. Senate race, even though the timing of his supportive statement — one day after Andrew Romanoff formally announced a challenge to MFB — was as predictable as…
The sexual connotations inherent in the Greeley Tribune headline “Charges Mount For UNC Prof” are creepily appropriate. After all, University of Northern Colorado drama instructor Vance Fulkerson, who once led a “Self-Defense Singing” class, had already been accused of secretly filming children in his bathroom. And now, he’s facing nine…
Trance, trance, trance. Today in Cafe Society: • Notiq Rupture wins Hpnotiq Bartender Competition. • Tonight: Harvest week wine dinner with monkeys at Avenue Grill. • Confusion reigns over Zaidy’s Fusion Grill. • Part two: Chef and Tell with Paul Reilly of Encore. • Ten breweries we can’t wait to…
Our daily cruise through the blogosphere. More reasons to punch Brandon Marshall in the face (as if you needed more). (Mile High Report) The Rockies are gonna have to try hard to fuck this up. (Purple Row) Where’s all the money going? (HuffPo Denver)…
The Denver Center Theater Company is reaching out to audiences with a new tool — YouTube. Using the interactive functions of the ubiquitous video-hosting service, which allow people to click on elements within a video to go to a link such as another video, the DCTC has created a choose-your-own-adventure…
It’ll be an early-season crossover spectacular this weekend at Boettcher Concert Hall, when the Colorado Symphony Orchestra hosts an American Festival with newgrass mandolinist (and founding member of Nickel Creek) Chris Thile, as part of its CSO Masterworks series. Thile, who seems to stray into as many musical genres as…
The economy is down and unemployment is high. Thankfully, there are tons of coffee shops and other spots around town with free WiFi access where you can sit for hours, unkempt or unshaven, and troll the Internet for jobs. But if you’re like my unemployed friends, you’ve come across some…
Like television outlets across the country, affiliated stations Channel 31 and The Deuce have had to make some tough choices in the current economic environment. Approximately thirty people were let go last year when the operations when initially combined; a handful of others lost their jobs in March; and several…
One of Ken Salazar’s first moves as Secretary of the Interior was to visit the Lakewood office of the Minerals Management Service, an obscure agency responsible for collecting billions in oil and gas royalties from companies drilling on federal lands, and vow to clean up the place. As detailed in…
When the Broncos began shopping Sweet Baby Jay Cutler earlier this year, one of his possible destinations was Cleveland, this weekend’s opponent, where he’d have been swapped for Brady Quinn. My twin high-school-age daughters, Lora and Ellie, weren’t very enthusiastic about that prospect from a football standpoint, since this particular…
How many of you have gotten rid of your old landline? Plenty, no doubt — and that’s created a pain in the pocketbook for Denver-based Qwest. Still, the firm’s CEO, Ed Mueller, isn’t ready to toss what was once a centerpiece of the firm’s success on the historical scrap heap…
As Colorado’s medical-marijuana industry grows, marijuana dispensaries of all types and sizes are proliferating around the state. Some resemble swanky bars or sterile dentist offices; others feel like a dope dealer’s college dorm room. To help keep them all straight, Westword will be offering a no-holds-barred look at what goes…
Representative Jared Polis has staged as many if not more healthcare town halls in recent weeks than any of his Colorado congressional colleagues. But the conservative CompleteColorado.com site questions his private investment in another healthcare-related enterprise: BridgeHealth International. The company’s approach is typically shorthanded as “medical tourism,” a term defined…
One of the most difficult tasks on any law enforcement agency’s agenda involves figuring out the best way to handle sexual offenders who’ve done their time and want to return home. That’s the chore before the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office regarding Timothy E. Schreiber, who has been formally designated a…
Most Rockies fans see Ubaldo Jiminez as the blossoming star of the squad’s pitching staff. But Jiminez got absolutely shelled Tuesday night against the San Francisco Giants, making last night’s series-ender against the SF crew the sort of must-win no one wanted to call a must-win — but it was…
