A nation’s worst nightmare… In this difficult time for the journalism industry, publications must do everything they can to promote themselves — even if it’s dorky or embarrassing. As evidence, look no further than Roll Call, a well-respected Washington, D.C. operation that describes itself as the “Newspaper of Capitol Hill…
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…
Method Man is in the house. Planned Parenthood is giving out John McCain-themed condoms. And plenty of other weird stuff is happening at Demver, our trusty DNC blog. Don’t be left behind…
The original “We’ll Beat You Again” flyer. 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 flyers e-mailed to Democratic National Convention groups such as Re-create 68 that 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…
The Denver Newspaper Agency building, home to the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News. Rumors that one of the two Denver dailies will close after the conclusion of the Democratic National Convention have been running rampant for months — and they got a considerable boost in July, when Rocky…
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…
Max Karson. University of Colorado student Max Karson’s decision to leave the state (reported in this August 22 More Messages blog, which includes a virtual archive’s worth of links to past Westword stories about his shenanigans) lacked a very important voice: his. Fortunately, we managed to reach the headline-maker in…
You know who have no sense of humor at all? National Guardsmen. They were not happy at all about having their pictures taken while hanging out in the sun in their official staging area: at the Denver campus of Johnson & Wales University…
The CU solar house goes green — literally. I knew there was something different about the University of Colorado’s Solar Decathlon house when I stopped by the Green Frontier Fest Sunday to check it out. The house looked better than it ever had, but I couldn’t quite place my finger…
“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…
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…
Welcome to Denver! There’s something surreal about driving around your own city and seeing riot-gear-wearing cops stuck to the sides of police vans like baton-toting flies. But that was the image of the weekend for most Denverites — at least anyone who was able to find a way off of…
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…
