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Who knew MSNBC had a funny guy?…

Charlie Rangel painted the town blue. Denver, worked into a DNC lather, can’t get enough famous people. Either that or longtime Democratic New York Representative Charlie Rangel’s blue suit was the cutting edge of fashion. Because Rangel was absolutely mobbed by reporters, photographers and all-around glad-handers on Monday around 2…

The original “We’ll Beat You Again” flier. In “Artist’s Prank Punks Re-create 68, Other Activists,” a More Messages blog published on July 10, an anonymous artist admitted to having created fliers e-mailed to Democratic National Convention groups such as Re-create 68, which threatened retribution against protesters. He shared information about…

We’re not sure exactly how using one of these trusty Planned Parenthood-issued condoms will protect you from John McCain, unless you plan on sleeping with Johnny Mac sometime soon and don’t want to catch his oldness. But it’s cool nonetheless…

You know who have no sense of humor? National Guardsmen. They were not happy at all about having their pictures taken while they were hanging out in the sun at their official staging area: the Denver campus of Johnson & Wales University…

Allen Toussaint. The New Orleans All-Star Jam-Balaya Fillmore Auditorium August 24 It was clear that the New Orleans All-Star Jam-Balaya, a fundraiser co-sponsored by the Friends of New Orleans featuring some of the biggest and best names in Louisiana music, differed from the typical live-performance event in Denver even before…

“Where the buffet at, yo?” The buzz around my hotel — aside from outrage over the $1 a minute charge to use the business center computers — is about one of the guests. Rapper Method Man of the Wu-Tang Clan was in Denver for the weekend’s Rock the Bells concert,…

The real business begins today, but photos offer a window into the weekend’s business. Here are a few slice-of-the-convention snapshots from Saturday and Sunday. “We riot police are not amused by your endorsement of that Middle Eastern hippie, ‘Jesus,’ if that is his real name.”…

It’s the 16th Street Mall, Downtown Denver Partnership style. An interesting mix of people roamed the 16th Street Mall late afternoon on Saturday. The folks who usually hang out there weren’t entirely absent, but they seemed changed somehow, spiffed up. For instance, I saw what has to be the cleanest…

Starting at Cuernavaca Park, we made the rounds through LoDo on Sunday afternoon, past the MSNBC set behind Union Station and amongst the protesters on the 16th Street Mall. Consider this slide show a sneak peek of the week ahead. — Dave Herrera…

“Wow — they look just like the cabs in the big cities.” Drove past the Pepsi Center a couple of times on Saturday to get a passing look at the DNC preparations there. The first time by, two enormous groups of police officers, clad in full riot gear, posed in…

A willingness to make an ass of yourself if key to enjoying most things in life. The American Presidential Experience, an exhibit that fills a good chunk of the parking lot at Invesco Field at Mile High, is pretty much what you’d expect — in a good way. The primary…