The Democratic National Convention convenes in Denver in exactly ten weeks. But right now, it’s nail-biting time. The first hurdle: today’s deadline for raising the rest of the $40.6 million that the Denver host committee is required to pour into the pot — money that’s slated to be used for…
Anyone in these parts who’s tuned in a Colorado Public Radio station lately has heard frequent mentions of the impending July switches involving two of the network’s metro-area signals; as outlined in this More Messages blog, KVOD, the operation’s classical-music purveyor, leaps from 90.1 FM to 88.1 FM, while KCFR,…
In celebrity-starved Denver, it’s no surprise that the PleasuresDudes have parlayed their late-night TV ads for a local adult-store chain into a certain star status peopled with parties and porn stars. But thanks to the web, the Dudes have gone global – and their fame earned them an invitation to…
The garden glove has been thrown. “Sounds like your thumb is anything but green, Patty,” Cloudclimber posted in a comment responding to my Denver Daisy, Day Fifteen entry. “I got 14 plants out of that little seed packet and am going to set them out tomorrow.” In that report, I…
Just when you thought air travel couldn’t get any more annoying, United Airlines has decided to start charging $15 to check your suitcase. Make that your first suitcase. Your second bag will cost another $25. Oh, and in the event of a sudden drop in cabin pressure, oxygen masks will…
The Friday theme at Everyday Democracy’s National Conference, which began on June 12, was open dialogue. The intent: opening a national forum to discuss…discussions. Everyday Democracy, a non-profit group devoted to setting up round-table conversations among community members about race, poverty, and other hard-hitting issues, is big on talk. Attendees…
The sleek and chic Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver (1485 Delgany Street, 303-298-7554, www.mcadenver.org), designed by African-born British architect David Adjaye, has won a lot of praise around here for its high style and its incredible functionality and flexibility. Now it’s starting to win awards in Adjaye’s hometown of London as…
Many cities have begun giving out their own equivalent of the Tonys, according to a recent article in the New York Times, and Denver is no exception. Our Henry Awards (click here for a list of nominees) are named for Henry Lowenstein, who for years staged plays at the old…
John McCain’s daughter Meghan will be coming out with a children’s book based on the life of her father; the book will be published by Simon and Schuster just in time for the Republican National Convention in September. Meghan McCain, known to some as a blogger, said in a prepared…
With the two major-party nominees picked and the long slog until November ahead of us, let the message of change be carried by Smokey the Parrot. I have but three questions:…
Sometimes a television show comes along that just seems to name itself. Sometimes this is a good thing. Sometimes, not so much. The new anthology series Fear Itself? Yeah, the latter. Fear Itself is an anthology show, which means of course that its quality will vary from episode to episode…
With data compiled in the interim census of 2005, the National Endowment for the Arts recently released information on working artists in the United States called “Artists in the Workforce.” The sample revealed that almost two million people in this country earn their principle income as artists with more than…
In celebrity-starved Denver, it’s no surprise that the PleasuresDudes have parlayed their late-night TV ads for a local adult-store chain into a certain star status peopled with parties and porn stars. But thanks to the web, the Dudes have gone global – and their fame earned them an invitation to…
For the first and probably last time, a select group of citizens, politicians and members of the media got a chance this afternoon to get up close and personal with what is quite possibly the nation’s most terrifying piece of public art, “Mustang,” by Luis Jimenez. Since the 32-foot-tall fiberglass…
Groups hoping to organize marches during the Democratic National Convention got a better idea today of what route they’ll be allowed to take. The Mayor’s office has released what will be the only designated parade route through the city from August 25 to 28. Marches will only be allowed to…
In celebrity-starved Denver, it’s no surprise that the PleasuresDudes have parlayed their late-night TV ads for a local adult-store chain into a certain star status peopled with parties and porn stars. But thanks to the web, the Dudes have gone global – and their fame earned them an invitation to…
The ad on page 3B of the June 8 Boulder Daily Camera sported the terse diction and inconsistent capitalization of a ransom note — but its text focused upon cracking cases, not commiting crimes. Beneath a heading that read, “The JonBenét Ramsey Murder Has Been Solved,” the copy began: “Download…
“Untwisters,” Kenny Be, May 29 Breaking Wind Kenny Be, your “Untwisters” made me laugh. You made me laugh out loud. You made me laugh for some time after that. I haven’t laughed out loud so hard since that YouTube video with the monkey that sticks his finger up his butt,…
In celebrity-starved Denver, it’s no surprise that the PleasuresDudes — the alter egos of Mike Wheeler and Fred Gates — have parlayed their late-night TV ads for a local adult-store chain into a certain star status peopled with parties and porn stars, as Jared Jacang Maher described in his January…
Everyone knows that 27 is the rock-star death year. Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison — they all died at that very young age. Naturally, it made sense to assume that I would pass then, too. What’s So Funny is to humor columns what Hendrix was to guitar: on drugs…
For 45 months, and as recently as last week, Denver Health and Hospital Authority administrators told anyone who asked — paramedics, union representatives, Channel 7, Westword — that they were correctly calculating the ambulance response times that they provide yearly to the city. Then, on Tuesday evening, as our story…
Ever since KHOW talk-show host Dan Caplis began attacking the presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee, Senator Barack Obama, he’s received a steadily accelerating barrage of hate e-mail. That’s nothing new for Caplis, who’s grown accustomed to criticism during his sixteen years on the radio, nearly four of which he’s spent…
