[jump] Last night, I chose like many others to come out for air in the dusk of a torrid solstice eve; in my case, I chose to stroll through Frances Wisebart Jacobs Park, a little patch of green amid a myriad of apartment and condo complexes south of Leetsdale Drive…
A couple in New Zealand has been banned from naming their kid “4real”. I don’t see anything wrong with it. I knew a kid named Skillet. How he got that name I will not say, because I would be fired faster than Imus. –Crystal Preston-Watson New Zealand: ‘4real’ not a…
It’s a truism in journalism: Writers often learn as much from readers as from research. An example of this phenomenon took place after the publication of “Going Public,” a June 14 column about Colorado Public Radio, and complaints by former board member Frances Koncilja about the direction in which the…
Thankfully, newspaper reporters aren’t paid by the word. But if you calculate their salaries based on their annual output, then a hack general assignment writer at a mid-sized daily makes around thirty to fifty cents a word. A slightly more highbrow writer, one who cranks out stuff for slick newsweeklies…
Here’s one to get the ball rolling: “In anticipation of the 2008 Democratic National Convention, Denver police today began experimenting with various methods of controlling protesters.” –Jared Jacang Maher…
He is tattooed and pierced, with heavy, sad eyes and a translucent mustache. He walks with a combination of swagger and caution, his hands sunk deep in the pockets of his baggy jeans. He is in his mid-teens — not a little kid and not an adult. Old enough for…
Lucky thing journalists are trained to work under difficult circumstances. If they weren’t, Denver Post reporters would have been practically paralyzed for the past two months. The anxiety began ratcheting up on April 23, when editor Greg Moore announced that economic shortfalls necessitated the issuance of a buyout package —…
When Aurora police officers entered his home, Ramon Ruiz was making himself what looked like a breakfast smoothie. “Where’s Ginny?” they asked. No one had seen Ramon or his new bride since their wedding four days earlier. Ramon, standing barefoot in his kitchen amid broken wine bottles and scattered white…
Coloradans do not believe in moderation. As proof, consider that this small state boasts a dozen chapters of Drinking Liberally, the second-largest showing outside of California for the four-year-old group that’s now 212 chapters strong, with each of them devoted to “promoting democracy one pint at a time.” And this…
Friday was going to be one pill of a day for meth-sucking Hawaiians living in the city of Denver. Because Duane Chapman, better known as Dog the Bounty Hunter, was coming back to the city where he got his start for a “speaking engagement” that day. And Dog eats meth-sucking…
“Going Public,” Michael Roberts, June 14 A Question of Balance I laughed out loud while reading about Ms. Koncilja’s “fears,” particularly the highlighted quote that “public radio has a responsibility to all of its listeners.” I have to wonder if the board spends time on fairness and balance so that…
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Dale Chihuly’s Icicle Creek Chandelier (left) in Leavenworth, Washington, and Victoria and Albert Rotunda Chandelier in the V&A Museum in London. Images from Fire by Portland Press. (Photos by First Look.) Dale Chihuly is making Colorado his second outpost — or at least he should. The Seattle-based glasswork artist has…
Carpaccio di bue dressed in lemon and oil, whole peppers stuffed with cheese and prosciutto, buffalo mozzarella with fresh tomatoes and roasted peppers draped with marinated Italian anchovies, grilled salmon with roasted potatoes and garretto d’agnello—spring lamb braised in red wine, served with grilled eggplant and potato puree. Laura touched…
Here’s something else you won’t read about (yet) in the Denver Post. On June 12, Post editor Greg Moore (pictured) sent out a memo to troops revealing that two more employees, assistant city editor Diane Alters and computer-assisted-reporting editor Jeff Roberts (no relation), had been dismissed in cost-slashing actions. In…
I saw this image on Cool Hunter today, and it made me do a double take. Wow, I thought, doesn’t that look a lot like the new Hamilton Building designed by Daniel Libeskind. Then I read the accompanying story:…
It’s summertime in Colorado and the motorcyclists are out, but it’s not just record setting temperatures that’s bringing the heat down on them this year…
I was in high school when the OJ Simpson verdict was read on TV. I was in public speaking class when it was read. The white kids in the class were close to tears, as the black kids jumped up and down and gave each other high fives. I really…
The title says it all, this is a Bollywood take on Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.” The effects are very special, the choreography is sublimely goofy and the sitar solo absolutely kicks ass. — Cory Casciato…
Rocky Mountain News editor John Temple (pictured) is typically calm and measured in public — but he put his combustible side on display during a riotous morning drive-time argument with KHOW yakker Peter Boyles on June 18. The spur to this confrontation was Temple’s June 16 column “Papers Still Drive…
