We can only hope the Tent Staters recycle their signs. After checking out a cruiser from the overly friendly folks at Freewheelin — the nonprofit that’s lending free bikes to convention folks all week — I pedaled up to Cuernavaca Park today, to audit the day’s course at so-called Tent…
Here was the line to get into the Pepsi Center around 6:30 on Monday, August 25. You’ll notice the picture isn’t blurry. That’s because the line wasn’t moving…
There are a lot of people working 14th Street today. T-shirt vendors, protesters, booths encouraging recycling, demonstrators against the war, against INS raids, against George Bush and everything else under the sun. And while there are plenty of DNC-related buttons available for sale on the street, the one that’s probably…
Who knows how to party? The Ohio delegation knows how to party. That’s right, the lucky Buckeyes got what I think is the best draw in the city with their delegates, staff, families, fixers, riggers, middlemen and hangers-on lodged in the Curtis Hotel at 14th and Curtis Street, right in…
Larry Mizel, left, with Bill and Jeannie Ritter at the CELL Colorado Governor Bill Ritter watched silently as the busy 16th Street Mall street scene around him exploded into flames. Thankfully, this was not a real-life catastrophe transpiring on the first day of the Democratic National Convention, but part of…
Five activists were arrested on Capitol Hill around noon today near the offices of the People’s Law Project at 1280 Sherman Street. According to PLP attorney Brian Vicente, the group was walking down 12th Avenue when they were stopped by police and arrested for “failure to obey a lawful order.”…
Kanye West Word is Kanye West, who’s scheduled to perform on Wednesday night at the Exdo Event Center for the ONE Campaign and the Recording Industry Association of America, is staying at the Museum Residences, the ultra high-class Daniel Libeskind-designed apartments across from the Denver Art Museum’s Hamilton Building. And…
The headline says it all. Just click here for the full photo. -JJM…
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…
“Howdy folks.” As (bad) luck would have it, my son, Nick, was scheduled to fly to Washington, D.C. to begin his second year at the Catholic University of America early on Sunday morning, during the very weekend that thousands of Washingtonians were fleeing their fair city to come to Denver…
Slideshow. Gas masks, pantsuits and “Buck Fush” shirts aren’t the only fashion statements being made on the streets of Denver as the DNC ramps up this week. An army of street vendors are making sure the politically inclined but stylistically hopeless have every opportunity to embarrass their loved ones with…
