Just over ten years ago, local filmmaker and stage director donnie l. betts took a chance on radio drama, a medium some might deem obsolete, by reviving the works of Richard Durham, whose long run of live radio theater programs profiled cultural and historical African-American figures beginning in the late…
As pointed out earlier today in a blog about the many media appearances of Columbine principal Frank DeAngelis, Colorado journalist Dave Cullen, author of the widely praised volume Columbine, was scheduled to appear on Oprah today, the tenth anniversary of the massacre at the high school. However, yesterday afternoon, Cullen…
The study of neighbors through their lawn ornaments… Figure 16. Skyland: Poodle pines Mother Nature, as we know her in Denver, is a wild beast with no self-control and a complete disregard for personal grooming. Four months will pass without the faintest thought of moisturizing, and then a quarter of…
The most resonant information that’s come my way thus far today in relation to the anniversary of the April 20, 1999 shootings at Columbine High School was contained in an e-mail sent to Westword by Vicki Newell, a public-policy director with the Colorado PTA. It’s a list of school shootings…
With more than one events getting postponed due to weather, you might think it was a slow weekend in Denver. And maybe it was. But not if you ask Dave Herrera, who captured video from about 47 different concerts over the weekend and packaged them tidily on the Backbeat blog…
Despite the obvious enthusiasm for its legalization — see today’s rallies in Denver, Boulder, Santa Cruz and other hemp-friendly havens — marijuana is still technically illegal. So it behooves us to consider that it might sometimes be advisable to, you know, hide it. Many have tried. And many have failed…
Columbine principal Frank DeAngelis has made himself the face and the voice of tenth anniversary coverage related to the killing spree that took place at the high school on April 20, 1999. Indeed, he got started weeks before the actual date. On April 2, FM 104.3/The Fan host Jim Armstrong…
The trial of Allen Andrade, who’s accused of killing transgender Greeley teen Angie Zapata last summer, continues today at 8:30 a.m. So far, as noted in live blogs filed during the April 16 and April 17 proceedings, the fourteen jurors have heard opening statements from both sides, as well as…
A word that applies to the vast majority of the stories I’ve seen, heard or read about today’s tenth anniversary of the killings at Columbine High School is “obligatory.” Although fewer commemorative efforts have appeared on April 20 in recent years than in the immediate aftermath of the bloodshed caused…
The Wrist Deep Crew — Adam Cayton-Holland, Greg Baumhauer, Ben Roy and Jim Hickox — were supposed to be at Rockbar tonight for “Slumming It: A Night of Live Comedy at Rockbar.”But the game’s been called on account of rain. “Slumming It” has been rescheduled for May 2; for more…
Slush, little baby, don’t you cry. Today in Backbeat Online: • Record Store Day preview: The MC5 will be kicking out the jams tomorrow. • Beyond Playlist: Dish — Ma Raison de Vivre Ton Amour. • Brandi Carlile drops in on Gregory Alan Isakov at the Meadowlark. • Tim Pourbaix…
Editor’s note: Melanie Asmar is live blogging the Greeley trial of Allen Andrade, the man charged with murdering Angie Zapata, a transgender teen. Look for updates here — and click this link to catch up on Asmar’s coverage of the proceedings on day one, April 16. To catch up with…
Our Friday blog round-up. Send tips if you’ve got them. What the Nuggets have to do to avoid letting down an entire city. No pressure, boys. (Denver Stiffs) Meet John Salazar, master of the earmark. (Face the State) When the Left and the Right have a protest-measuring contest, nobody wins…
I’m not gonna mince words, here, people: There’s a lot to do here throughout the weekend, if you care to slog out into the slush to do it. Here’s a smattering of worthy stuff on our radar. Boulder’s Frequent Flyers aerial dance troupe will take to the sky again beginning…
Yesterday afternoon, Jim Armstrong and Sandy Clough were talking Denver Nuggets on FM 104.3/The Fan, and while the hosts kept the team’s playoff chances in perspective, many of the callers weren’t concentrating on the New Orleans Hornets, the Nugs’ first-round opponents (who they meet for the first time on Sunday)…
It’s time to stop the Army’s expansion plans and start turning the Pinon Canyon military training site into a money-making vacation destination… In addition to providing world-class firing ranges, the Army will stage a firepower show every evening that features the latest in high-tech weaponry and can be enjoyed from…
They said it couldn’t be done. No way could a feature-length movie filmed and produced in Colorado make it big-time. Local commercial filmmaker Monty Miranda thought differently and, with Academy Award-winning Colorado filmmaker Donna Dewey signed on as producer, he came up with Skills Like This. The indie caper comedy…
When I first met Steve Shoppman and Steve Bouey more than two years ago, their plan sounded a little crazy. The longtime roommates and adventure lovers had read a 1967 memoir called Who Needs a Road?, about a road trip all the way around the world, and they decided to…
These days, every online news operation, including this one, is desperately searching for ways to increase its number of page views — and one approach is to insert links to other stories on their respective sites. But an example of this phenomenon in today’s Denver Post shows how absurd the…
The last time Chad Laughlin saw his buddy Dylan Klebold, the two almost smashed into each other in the parking lot of Columbine High School. Laughlin was driving his Mistubishi Galant, headed off-campus with a friend for lunch. Klebold, wearing his black duster, was barreling into the lot in his…
Personnel at channels 7, 9 and 20 have been hoping against hope that the conversion from analog broadcasting to the digital kind would go off without a hitch — but my inability to get through to 9News’ DTV help line after twenty or thirty tries yesterday morning was an indication…
According to talk-show host Dino Costa, one of the principals behind DenverSportsRadio.com, a new online project that will be introduced at a press conference today in advance of its scheduled Monday, April 20, launch, the sports-radio offerings in Denver at present are “below mediocre.” He adds, “We’re confident we can…
