“Look! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Obama Man!” Our seats for the Barack Obama DNC acceptance speech were also quite close to a platform from which security personnel continuously scanned for trouble both inside and outside the stadium. The view opposite us, which featured heavily armed officers standing…
Our section. Watching Barack Obama’s Democratic National Convention acceptance speech made my family and I feel more than a mile high — since we were in section 524, in Invesco Field’s north end zone. Still, the view was okay — much better than a lot of folks, who got stuck…
John Lynch — Bronco no more. Just prior to finding my family in the massive line to Invesco Field prior to the Barack Obama acceptance speech, I was handed a bottle of water by a happy volunteer. Since all of us had heard for weeks that no water would be…
The underpass morass. Heeding media reports advising attendees of Barack Obama’s Invesco Field at Mile High acceptance speech to get an early start, I left Westword’s 10th and Broadway offices at around 12:30 p.m. Thursday. On 15th, I asked a DNCC volunteer for the best route to the stadium, and…
Hidden among all the complete crap that was being hawked on the streets of Denver this week was some stuff that we’ll likely wish we snagged when we saw it. Don’t get us wrong, some of it is pretty craptastic. But it would been fun to have in our closet…
The Jet Hotel welcomed the masses. Some of us weren’t VIP enough to get into Invesco last night, and some of us were just too lazy to stand in line. For all of the above, there was a populist screening of the Barack Obama speech in LoDo, where the real…
Vote for Floyd! One of the best Denver moments from Thursday night’s Democratic National Convention was the opening of vice-presidential candidate Joe Biden’s speech. “Ladies and gentlemen I always dreamed I would stand in this place,” he said to some laughs and comments from the audience (in Mile High Stadium?)…
The underpass morass. Heeding media reports advising attendees of Barack Obama’s Invesco Field at Mile High acceptance speech to get an early start, I left Westword’s 10th and Broadway offices at around 12:30 p.m. Thursday. On 15th, I asked a DNCC volunteer for the best route to the stadium, and…
Music ruled Denver this week, from Saturday’s Rock the Bells show to Thursday night at Invesco. Here are some of our favorite performances — also known as the ones we managed to get into…
While most of Westword was stuck in the World’s Longest Line, photographer Kimberly Berky was inside, capturing the historic scene. See her slide show at https://westword-preprod-wpvip.md-staging.com/slideshow/view/134594…
Lauri Lynnx Murphy, Rodney Wallace and Brian Robertson go Boom. The key to grabbing a bit of the spotlight during the convention is to ride on the VIPs’ coattails, as anyone who’s crashed a party or two can attest. Turns out local contemporary artists are using the same strategy to…
How badly do you want to witness history in the making? Denver was having such a nice convention. We were so efficient, so nice. The traffic detours, the police conduct, the weather — so much cooperation, so few snags. But the grotesque logjam at Invesco Field, as folks spiral through…
By Friday morning, most of the big names from the DNC, Hollywood and the traveling press will have packed up their bags and headed for home (or the Twin Cities for the RNC). But for those of you who just aren’t quite ready to let it go, you’ve got one…
A quick haiku concerning the clusterfuck line outside the stadium this afternoon: Line snakes Invesco Like serpent baking in sun Delegates concede. — Alan Prendergast…
The 16th Street Mall today was the same mess it’s been for a week: ugly T-shirts, people selling ugly T-shirts, and bewildered delegates and staffers haggling over a final-day discount on said ugly T-shirts. I dropped in to see my buddy Biker Jim at Biker Jim’s Gourmet Dogs in Skyline…
Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah. No, seriously, do it! Nada Surf, Cold War Kids, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Silversun Pickups Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008 Manifest Hope Art Gallery Better than: Hanging out in the industrial stretches of north Denver when the DNC is not in town. By 6…
Marilyn Blackelk stepped out on the front porch of her small, weathered house in North Denver when she saw a massive anti-war march plodding down Brighton Boulevard. Over 200 cops, 50 police vehicles, a helicopter and a gigantic crowd control tank known as the “BEAR” had the procession of mostly…
Spike Lee, with relish. In the few minutes before Bill Clinton spoke at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday night, I was inching along the perimeter of the floor in the same type of delegate scrum I’d experienced the night before when the Pepsi Center started vomiting celebrities. Suddenly, I…
Bill Clinton makes a point. I made it onto the Pepsi Center floor on Wednesday in time to see Melissa Etheridge belt out a medley of “God Bless America,” “The Times They Are A-Changin’,” “Give Peace a Chance” and “Born in the U.S.A.” — for the latter, she left out…
Bloggers of the world, unite. The so-called “bloggers lounge” at the Pepsi Center during the Democratic National Convention, which I got a chance to eyeball on Wednesday, was a small room accessible through a door in the press room. The space was small, poorly lit, and had an ugly couch…
“Type faster, damn you.” The Democratic National Convention press room was located deep in the guts of the Pepsi Center, and when I stopped by on Wednesday afternoon, nearly every seat was occupied — and no one seemed to be having the slightest fun. It reminded me of the scene…
NBC’s David Gregory. During the Democratic National Convention, the back corridors of the Pepsi Center didn’t only serve as a staging area for carefully planned “spontaneous” demonstrations. They also led to green rooms and dressing rooms for assorted media organizations — and lucky thing. Over the past two days, I…
