The amount of time 9News has to fill each weekday morning is enormous. First, the station must create two hours worth of programming for the 5 a.m.-7 a.m. time slot immediately preceding the Today show. Then, the outlet does it again from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. on its sister…
If you could predict the future, would you be a sportswriter? As cool as it would be to state unequivocally during the preseason, “Eli Manning will lead his team to the Super Bowl ” or, “the Vikings and Browns will both finish just one game out of a playoff spot,”…
“Age was never an issue when you stuck to your guns!” White House Communications Director Connie Spano reminds youthful President Whitmore minutes before spaceships begin demolishing all humans in that keenest of all political meditations, Independence Day. For John McCain, who loves guns and those who shoot them, his 71…
Great basketball teams often take on the personality of their star players. Without a dominant big man, the Dallas Mavericks are more of a perimeter shooting team keyed by Dirk Nowitzki. Steve Nash pushes the Phoenix Suns up and down the court. Tim Duncan leads the Spurs by playing solid…
When Tim Masters walked free from prison after serving ten years for a crime he probably didn’t commit, the number of juveniles serving life without the possibility of parole dropped to 45 in the state of Colorado. But the number of Colorado inmates serving life without parole sentences for crimes…
House Assistant Majority Leader Michael Garcia, 34, isn’t the first lawmaker to be “exposed” in a lobbyist-related scandal, but in this case, the exposure in question wasn’t about assets under the table, it was about assets on the table – the pool table. The Aurora Democrat resigned Friday after a…
Last night’s bloated “The Celebrity Apprentice” featured the show’s D list of marginal celebs struggling to come up with a clever way to get people to return their old, worn-out Crocs to their local shoe stores, so they can be recycled and donated to the shoeless in developing countries. The…
Looking to get your windshield repaired? Don’t plug “Smart Glass Denver” into Google. You won’t come across the company’s poorly designed website, or even their phone number. Only blog after blog after blog referencing the sad story of Kristi Cannon, a Denver woman who sought revenge after a disturbing incident…
In 2000, Westword published its seventeenth Best of Denver issue, a celebration of the city that saluted everything from the Best Name for the New Football Stadium (brewmeister John Hickenlooper’s campaign to keep the Mile High Stadium brand inspired customers to suggest he run for mayor), to Best Performance by…
On January 31, a two-day barrage of panels dealing with global warming issues concludes at Colorado State University. The sessions are part of an “unprecedented teach-in” taking place around the country coordinated by the Green House Network under the rubric Focus the Nation. But of the fifty CSU profs involved…
A More Messages blog from January 30 includes an e-mail Q&A with Ward Churchill, who responded to a query about the dropping of charges against one of his supporters over an episode involving Boulder Daily Camera reporter Heath Urie. However, the final section of the communique was temporarily omitted because…
The fliers appeared on northeast Denver doorsteps in late November 2007. “Attention,” they announced in bold letters. “The former East Family YMCA Center is now the new home of Harlan21 LLC.” Vacant since the Y moved out a few years earlier, the rec center at 3540 East 31st Avenue would…
Parties who attended what was supposed to be a secret January 22 meeting at Colorado State University insist that CSU executives and personnel from the Coloradoan, Fort Collins’s Gannett-owned daily, never used the word “sale” when chatting about the Rocky Mountain Collegian student newspaper. But Collegian editor J. David McSwane,…
I’m on to you, Colorado House of Representatives, you sly dogs, you. Check and mate, you pack of ruddy-faced bastards. Oh, don’t pretend you don’t know what I’m talking about. You look so ugly when you play innocent, and as a collective whole, you’re in no position to engage in…
Mayor John Hickenlooper is Denver’s biggest pitchman, but he took that love to a new level this month, actually draping himself in a version of the city flag — a Western shirt patterned with bright-red mountains, a dark-blue sky and a golden sun — along with a bolo tie and…
Amadeus Harlan calls me because he says he wants me to know the truth. “I wanted to tell you right out I haven’t refused to talk to you,” he assures me, talking on a phone at the Douglas County Jail in Castle Rock several weeks after his parole hearing, and…
“Fat Chance,” Michael Roberts, January 24 The Biggest Loser How much did Michael Karolchyk pay you for your cover photo? Your story on his Anti-Gym brings to mind two old chestnuts: “I don’t care what they say, as long as they spell my name right,” and “No one ever went…
When local gamer Ben Schulz and his pals made the inane video “A Rough Go” in the massively multiplayer online game World of Warcraft, they created a global phenomenon – one that launched Schulz’s video game character Leeroy Jenkins to international stardom, as described in the story, “The Legend of…
The January 31 Message includes an update about an incident involving Boulder Daily Camera reporter Heath Urie and a supporter of professor/controversy magnet Ward Churchill. The item includes the first public comments either Urie or Churchill has made about the case — and there’s much more from both of them…
As noted in this January 29 blog, Denver Post editor Greg Moore isn’t wild about the idea of his employees participating in caucuses set for February 5, but he’s given some staffers permission to join in, while restricting others from doing so. At the Rocky Mountain News, the message is…
Rudy Giuliani couldn’t even quit first. So much for the know-it-alls who predicted big things still in store for John Edwards, whose small but solid support in the proportionally awarded Democratic primaries may have given him a powerful delegate voice at the national convention. Provided he pulled at least fifteen…
Next to me was a man old enough to know better drinking Jager shots with Guinness back, and when Green Bay made an ultimately pointless fourth-quarter fumble recovery deep in Giants territory, he found it reason enough to grab me around the neck and shake me like a kitten he…
