Stuck to a chair in the front row. Stroll with us now as we check out the Pepsi Center a few hours before it’ll be packed with enthusiastic Hillary Clinton boosters. Many more photos below. — Michael Roberts…
Word power. Another lonely item in the practically deserted broadcasters corridor on Tuesday morning: a rack filled with copies of speeches by everyone who yakked on day one of the DNC — and I do mean everyone. All of them are marked “EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY,” and since delivery…
Dick Wadhams, alone at Pepsi Center. Most broadcast operations at the Pepsi Center during the Democratic National Convention are ensconced on the club level, and when I entered the zone, I found no security, no technicians, no one at all — except for Dick Wadhams, head of the Colorado Republican…
Thirsty? Shortly after 8 a.m. on Tuesday, the upper level of the Pepsi Center was practically deserted. While completing an entire circuit, I encountered only one maintenance crew member — although I saw her twice, so maybe it should count double. I also discovered that the soft-drink coolers were unlocked…
Here comes the fuzz? According to a longtime media observer, Channel 7 painted quite a visual picture of the Denver Police Department’s transportation equipment during a DNC-eve news report. He writes that in a live shot on the station’s 10 p.m. broadcast, a reporter talked about undercover police vehicles “like…
“What have the Democrats done to my brain?” Channel 9 morning anchor Gary Shapiro is usually pretty upbeat about everything. So when he mentioned during a Monday broadcast that his DNC goodie bag wasn’t all that, well, good, I was taken aback. After seeing mine, however, I realized he had…
The once and former Brooklyn’s, CNN’s temporary home. Wanted to check out CNN’s Democratic National Convention headquarters — Brooklyn’s, a restaurant near the Pepsi Center in an area referred to by the security staff as “the perimeter.” So I ambled up to a secuirty guard at one entrance and asked…
All fenced in. On Monday morning, when Peter Boyles started broadcasting live from Civic Center Park, the park was wide open to all visitors. On Tuesday morning, same thing. But when he arrived at 3:30 a.m. this morning, the park was suddenly surrounded by temporary fencing. He had to open…
At least the outside looks nice. After my success at getting into CNN’s outside-the-Pepsi Center base of operations, I moved a hundred yards or so down the perimeter to Braun’s Bar & Grill, which Fox News has taken over for the run of the Democratic National Convention. Unlike with CNN,…
Ken Salazar. Colorado Senator Ken Salazar has been chosen to help formally nominate Barack Obama for president on Wednesday night, and all I can say is, brace yourself for the thrill of a lifetime. Salazar is among the most laconic, monotonal speakers ever elected to national office, and his verbal…
Soledad O’Brien. Everyone knows CNN’s Soledad O’Brien — including, presumably, Soledad O’Brien. Nevertheless, technicians at the network apparently want to be certain her identity doesn’t occasionally slip her mind. During a walk-through of the Pepsi Center on Tuesday morning, I saw three CNN monitors in different parts of the arena…
Some local street artists — I’m told they go by “Jher451” and “el mac” — had the audacity to paint this totally Obama-less mural on the side of the La Boheme strip club this week. It seems the portrait artist, el mac, was all Obama’d out. OK, fine. But could…
It’s all about who you know. What did Alaska do to piss off the DNC? Its delegation has worse seats at the Pepsi Center than Guam, which, for those of you who started skipping geography in first grade, isn’t even a state — and it’s a helluva lot smaller besides…
Apparently, these are post-primary colors. Loads of Democrats have made sport of the color-coded terror-threat warning system from practically the moment it was instituted by the George W. Bush administration. Turns out, though, that at the DNC, Dems have a color code of their own. A red pass gets the…
Bike. Free. Denver right now is essentially one big schwag bag. Everywhere you go, everyone’s giving stuff away: smoothies, condoms, booze, morals, you name it. The best freebie of all, however, has to be the Freewheelin program that has 1,000 bikes stationed around town for free public use. Yes, the…
Local photographer Jamie Secrest sent in this shot, of an apparently bored cop firing off some shots of his own Monday…
Cinemocracy Rocks! Monday, August 25, 2008 Red Rocks Amphiteatre Better than: Rocking in the free world. Near the end of Alan Dominguez’s film, Cinema+(Dem)ocracy, a guy said, “Voting is like peeing the ocean. It doesn’t make much difference, but you really feel good having done it.” Of all the people…
There’s no shortage of awesome signage floating around Denver. This was our favorite. A few others after the jump. (Photos by Jeff Shaw)…
An expert on foreign policy, law enforcement officer John McClane is a darkhorse to round out the GOP presidential ticket. In the melee of the insatiable, frenzied Obama-fucking that currently is D-town, Colorado, there are glimmers of opposition – fratty, white heads that suddenly poke out of holes, making one…
I think I may count yesterday’s small skirmish outside the Denver Mint as of the most hilarious scenes at the Democratic National Convention. Not the “Shake Your Money Maker” protest by Recreate 68, where activists performed a Yippie-esque “levitate the mint” performance and Marc Cohen donned a wizards outfit and…
Bill Mahr, Rosario Dawson, and Willie Nelson — shown here slyly sticking a joint in Governor Bill Ritter’s pocket — and other celebs made the rounds last night, and we were there to capture them all. Or at least the ones we were there to capture. See the slideshow at…
In the world of DNC-related merchandise, some souvenirs rise to the top of the pile. (And they’re not all condoms). Here’s a favorite found last night, outside the Pepsi Center: “Gay Republican Hypocrites Playing Cards.” Created by some pals from Austin, Texas, these stunningly detailed cards are tiny encyclopedias of…
