There are a lot of people working 14th Street today. T-shirt vendors, protesters, booths encouraging recycling, demonstrators against the war, against INS raids, against George Bush and everything else under the sun. And while there are plenty of DNC-related buttons available for sale on the street, the one that’s probably…
Who knows how to party? The Ohio delegation knows how to party. That’s right, the lucky Buckeyes got what I think is the best draw in the city with their delegates, staff, families, fixers, riggers, middlemen and hangers-on lodged in the Curtis Hotel at 14th and Curtis Street, right in…
Who knew MSNBC had a funny guy?…
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…
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…
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…
“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.”…
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…
Slideshow. Gas masks, pantsuits and “Buck Fush” shirts aren’t the only fashion statements being made on the streets of Denver as the DNC ramps up this week. An army of street vendors are making sure the politically inclined but stylistically hopeless have every opportunity to embarrass their loved ones with…
“Where my reality show at, dogs?” DMX gets a reality show Even though DMX is sitting in a Miami jail waiting to answer to a variety of charges including drug possession, weapons possessions and animal cruelty, some television producers think his life would make for some great entertainment. The show…
An image from a 1979 police training video viewable below. “Are you another fucking Mexican?” the Sergeant asks the recruit to the Denver Police Department. “Jesus fucking Christ, is there any white people in this class?” Westword has obtained a police-training video from 1979 that shows a group of new…
There’s really nothing to say. Just listen…
An image from a 1979 police training video viewable below. “Are you another fucking Mexican?” the Sergeant asks the recruit to the Denver Police Department. “Jesus fucking Christ, is there any white people in this class?” Westword has obtained a police-training video from 1979 that shows a group of new…
Anti-abortion protesters will hold several rallies this weekend. The DNC has inspired hundreds of protests and programs. Below are a half-dozen of the most interesting. And for glimpse at all the different protesters you’ll encounter this week — from angry Hillaryites to street-theater weirdos — see Jared Jacang Maher’s Protester…
Party at Dan’s place! As anyone who’s searched for an apartment in the last month knows — and as the New York Times pointed out this morning — Denver’s craigslist outpost is little more than a DNC housing swap meet these days. Everyone within 25 miles of the Pepsi Center,…
Now you know why the wolf is howling… The Associated Press is reporting that Denver-based Frontier Airlines will begin charging a fee when customers book tickets using frequent-flier miles. Starting September 15, your repeated business will cost you $25 a ticket — unless it’s last-minute repeated business, in which case…
Condoleeza Rice. So on August 21, four days before the start of the Democratic National Convention, Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice says the United States and Iraq have agreed that timetables should be set for U.S. troop withdrawl from the wartorn country, and major news agencies are reporting the target…
Al Franken. Recently announced Democratic National Convention speakers such as Jimmy Carter, Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy share at least one characteristic in common: They’re not very funny. Meanwhile, someone who has coaxed a laugh or two in his day, and who’s planning to be in Denver for the DNC…
Saving humanity one sexy photo at a time. Listen to this lineup for an August 27 roundtable discussion at Boettcher Concert Hall on the topic of “Combating Global Poverty,” as announced by the Denver 2008 Convention Host Committee: Madeleine Albright, former Secretary of State and co-chair of the Commission on…
