As Michael Roberts reported yesterday, live from his dusty cave, Westword’s headquarters building at 969 Broadway is undergoing major surgery this month, to make room at the front of the building for a new tenant. We’re also getting new carpet, new paint, new cubicles and, I can only assume by…
Our rundown of the local blogosphere. Send links. Why trade for Roy Halladay when you can land a sort-of light-hitting second baseman? (Purple Row) Congratulations, local blogger, you are one of Keith Olberman’s World’s Worst People. (Face the State) A Colorado professor has been threatened with firing for shooting his…
We cruise the local blogosphere for decent linkage. Missing something? Send it our way. Canada: It’s the new Colorado! (Colorado Pols) Wind: The new solar! Maybe! Okay, probably not! (Colorado Independent) Matt Barnes: The new Dahntay Jones? (Denver Stiffs)…
Our cruise through the blogosphere. Send links. Broncos release training camp schedule. Watch them when they can’t lose! (Mile High Report) The Denver Post, 1926, under the hardwood floors. (Buck Fifty) Afghanistan: a forgotten war in pictures. (Captured)…
Every day, we sift through local blogs in search of links worth clicking. What’d we miss? Send links this way. Channing Frye and other potential free agents that could sizzle for the Nugs. (Denver Stiffs) Rep. Betsy Markey: She’s a maverick! (no, really!) (Colorado Pols) Senator Bennet engages religious leaders…
See photos from Blue Traveler at Red Rocks, the Cherry Creek Arts Fest, and various local watering holes from the long weekend at westword.com/slideshow. And read a review (with pictures) of Wilco’s Red Rocks show on the Backbeat blog…
I have very few rules in life. Don’t eat ice cream right before bed, unless you want heartburn. Don’t watch Jimmy Fallon right before bed, unless you want heartburn. And never, ever, under any circumstances, get high and drunk on a Monday night and have a threesome with another dude…
We’re at Katie Mullen’s for the official release of Jason Sheehan’s book, Cooking Dirty, and get this: There are actual people here! And they have his book! And they want him to sign it! And someone just took a picture of him! Perhaps this shouldn’t be surprising, but it’s always…
Pete Marczyk and Barbara Macfarlane do not leave their work behind when they leave Marczyk Fine Foods and head for their great old Denver house with the big, new kitchen. They usually bring a selection of some of their market’s choicest ingredients home with them, and cook up a feast…
We went blog picking. These, as always, are the fruits of our labor. If we left something delicious hanging on the branch, drop it in our basket. My god, this metaphor is tired. Will the Birdman fly the coop? Here’s hoping no. (Pickaxe and Roll) Independence Day: A lovely day…
The cheery gentlemen of Meese will play some music at 6 p.m. this evening at Twist and Shout (2508 E. Colfax, 303-722-1943), in celebration of the release of their first album, Broadcast. The store gave out wristbands to everyone who pre-ordered the album, and as usual, the Wristbanded People will…
Another look at local blog goodness. Missing something? Send links here. If you thought you were rid of the folks behind last election season’s anti-abortion movement, then…. Who am I kidding? We all knew they’d be back. (Colorado Pols) Rep. Betsy Markey probably didn’t mean she she reads the entire,…
Rep. Laura Bradford has a pitchfork in her pantsuit, and she’s not afraid to use it. Our daily cruise through what’s decent in local blogs. What’d we miss? Tell us here. Republicans are breaking out the pitchforks over new drilling regulations. Hey, better than Palin and her shotgun. (Colorado Independent)…
If, like me, you sat around all weekend salivating over the U.S.-Brazil soccer game before realizing as you watched it that you still don’t care about soccer and likely never will, well, you missed this stuff: White Rabbits rocked the Bluebird, and stole our reviewer’s heart (again). Here We Go…
*Just kidding. Maybe. The degenerates at this humble (but glossy!) rag took home five awards at the recent Association of Alternative Newsweeklies annual conference in Tuscon, where it was decided for the 14th straight year that, yes, being free and having ads for massages and pot lawyers is still totally…
Our daily blog-o-rama. Missing something? Send tips. Grading the Nuggets draft. (Denver Stiffs) Colorado doctors have been arrested for participating in a truly weird and despicable fraud scheme. (5280) Remember old Matt Holiday, the fella you were mourning before the Rockies ripped off 94 wins in a row. Well, this…
There are days when sifting through the world’s deadbeats in search of a stand-out shmuck just doesn’t feel right. This, dear reader, is one of those days. So instead, I give you Gary. For anyone watching from their living-room windows, it must have been quite the sight: a lonely little…
Our daily blog roundup. Missing something? Send it here. Consider yourself stimulated: Federal dollars have created dozens of new transportation jobs in Colorado. (Face the State) Marilyn Musgrave’s loss had more to do with Marilyn Musgrave, less to do than that other bullshit she’s been trying to sell. (Colorado Pols)…
Our daily cruise through the Colorogosphere. Are we missing a worthy blog? Let us know. A lot of fuss over a very little mouse. (5280) With the 34th pick in the 2009 NBA Draft, the Nuggets select… (Denver Stiffs) The rise (and rise and rise) of the downtown Four Seasons…
A leisurely stroll through the local blogosphere. Send tips. Jared Polis and Diana DeGette don’t ask but tell Obama to kill Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. (Colorado Independent) In Aurora, a curious play to discourage new construction. (Face the State) A Denver illustrator whose work you should know. Or at least…
The daily blog roundup. Send links. Who will the Broncos turn to if Marshall gets traded? (Mile High Report) The governor’s chief of staff is still his chief of staff, according to him. Do you believe him? (Colorado Pols) Guns, booze, and Joe the Plummer. My kind of party. (Face…
See photos from the weekend in Denver, including the Hoop-it-Up tournament in Civic Center Park and various nightlife spots around town, plus a fashion show from Thursday night, at westword.com/slideshow…
