Al Gore, bigger than life (if that’s possible). What an unlikely journey it’s been for Al Gore. When he ran for the presidency in 2000, he didn’t engender the sort of enthusiasm among rank-and-file Democrats that his predecessor, Bill Clinton, enjoyed — and that accounts for his subsequent loss more…
I’ll say this first: I walked and rode around downtown a lot this week, and every cop I saw — including some being taunted by protesters — were very chill, patient, and totally unlike the officer who struck the Code Pink protester in the face (allegedly). So this slide show…
No slowdowns on I-25… Took a look outside Invesco Field at Mile High around 6 p.m. on Thursday in time to catch an astonishing sight: the security-related closure of I-25, seen here. For a moment, I thought I spotted Will Smith strolling the pavement with his dog, but this was…
“And a-one, and a-two.” With hours to wait until the main festivities began, those of us fortunate enough to make it through the huge lines leading to Barack Obama’s Invesco Field at Mile High DNC acceptance speech searched for ways to amuse ourselves. No wonder we eventually turned to one…
Jennifer Hudson wisely fleeing the little people. Most of the celebrities and performers on hand at Barack Obama’s Invesco Field at Mile High acceptance speech no doubt came and went through entrances as special as they are. I was surprised, then, that during a walk on the stadium’s general access…
“Look! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Obama Man!” Our seats for the Barack Obama DNC acceptance speech were also quite close to a platform from which security personnel continuously scanned for trouble both inside and outside the stadium. The view opposite us, which featured heavily armed officers standing…
Our section. Watching Barack Obama’s Democratic National Convention acceptance speech made my family and I feel more than a mile high — since we were in section 524, in Invesco Field’s north end zone. Still, the view was okay — much better than a lot of folks, who got stuck…
John Lynch — Bronco no more. Just prior to finding my family in the massive line to Invesco Field prior to the Barack Obama acceptance speech, I was handed a bottle of water by a happy volunteer. Since all of us had heard for weeks that no water would be…
The underpass morass. Heeding media reports advising attendees of Barack Obama’s Invesco Field at Mile High acceptance speech to get an early start, I left Westword’s 10th and Broadway offices at around 12:30 p.m. Thursday. On 15th, I asked a DNCC volunteer for the best route to the stadium, and…
Hidden among all the complete crap that was being hawked on the streets of Denver this week was some stuff that we’ll likely wish we snagged when we saw it. Don’t get us wrong, some of it is pretty craptastic. But it would been fun to have in our closet…
The Jet Hotel welcomed the masses. Some of us weren’t VIP enough to get into Invesco last night, and some of us were just too lazy to stand in line. For all of the above, there was a populist screening of the Barack Obama speech in LoDo, where the real…
Vote for Floyd! One of the best Denver moments from Thursday night’s Democratic National Convention was the opening of vice-presidential candidate Joe Biden’s speech. “Ladies and gentlemen I always dreamed I would stand in this place,” he said to some laughs and comments from the audience (in Mile High Stadium?)…
The underpass morass. Heeding media reports advising attendees of Barack Obama’s Invesco Field at Mile High acceptance speech to get an early start, I left Westword’s 10th and Broadway offices at around 12:30 p.m. Thursday. On 15th, I asked a DNCC volunteer for the best route to the stadium, and…
Music ruled Denver this week, from Saturday’s Rock the Bells show to Thursday night at Invesco. Here are some of our favorite performances — also known as the ones we managed to get into…
While most of Westword was stuck in the World’s Longest Line, photographer Kimberly Berky was inside, capturing the historic scene. See her slide show at https://westword-dev-wpvip.md-staging.com/slideshow/view/134594…
Lauri Lynnx Murphy, Rodney Wallace and Brian Robertson go Boom. The key to grabbing a bit of the spotlight during the convention is to ride on the VIPs’ coattails, as anyone who’s crashed a party or two can attest. Turns out local contemporary artists are using the same strategy to…
How badly do you want to witness history in the making? Denver was having such a nice convention. We were so efficient, so nice. The traffic detours, the police conduct, the weather — so much cooperation, so few snags. But the grotesque logjam at Invesco Field, as folks spiral through…
By Friday morning, most of the big names from the DNC, Hollywood and the traveling press will have packed up their bags and headed for home (or the Twin Cities for the RNC). But for those of you who just aren’t quite ready to let it go, you’ve got one…
A quick haiku concerning the clusterfuck line outside the stadium this afternoon: Line snakes Invesco Like serpent baking in sun Delegates concede. — Alan Prendergast…
The 16th Street Mall today was the same mess it’s been for a week: ugly T-shirts, people selling ugly T-shirts, and bewildered delegates and staffers haggling over a final-day discount on said ugly T-shirts. I dropped in to see my buddy Biker Jim at Biker Jim’s Gourmet Dogs in Skyline…
Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah. No, seriously, do it! Nada Surf, Cold War Kids, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Silversun Pickups Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008 Manifest Hope Art Gallery Better than: Hanging out in the industrial stretches of north Denver when the DNC is not in town. By 6…
Marilyn Blackelk stepped out on the front porch of her small, weathered house in North Denver when she saw a massive anti-war march plodding down Brighton Boulevard. Over 200 cops, 50 police vehicles, a helicopter and a gigantic crowd control tank known as the “BEAR” had the procession of mostly…
