Noooooooooooooooooo

This immediately supercharges University of Denver's art collection, and gives Denver Art Museum an excuse to clear up some warehouse space. All without any money being exchanged.

Good catch!

Haha, indeed. "Play the hits!" I yell, clutching my friend's mixtape of them from the late '90s that first got me going.

Imagine what $15 million could do to any indie venue or promoter in Denver. Transformative. But no firepits at the hi-dive, I think.

The future of 9News is up in the air, but younger viewers may have already moved on from TV news Nexstar’s Tegna takeover may decimate the 9News, critics say. But will younger audiences even notice?

“Eating up loved broadcast stations is a cop-out to actual innovation and catering to your audience," Angelica Kalika, who teaches journalism at the University of Colorado Boulder, tells @johnwenzel.bsky.social. "Everyone is scrambling and taking advantage of an almost regulation-free FCC.”

I think so. I don't notice it on my DualSense in any other game except Minecraft, but maybe there's some kind of idle auto-pan there.

“War itself is, of course, a form of madness. It’s hardly a civilized pursuit. It’s amazing how we spend so much time inventing devices to kill each other and so little time working on how to achieve peace.”

~Walter Cronkite.

Image: Library of Congress.

Calhoun?

Denver arts magazine takes strong anti-AI stance | Opinion The local arts publication is packed with original writing, art and love for the Mile High City — along with an AI-free guarantee.”

ICYMI #Denverse Magazine is one of the city's newest and already-best publications. Here's my ode to its literate, long form, earnest and funny and heartening and perspective-shifting original work.

Notably (and to my heart) they're resolutely anti-AI and pro-print. More for @denverpost.com

Among a multitude no doubt!

Get out of my brain

Not blasphemous at all (at least to me). They stopped being a sacred cow when the dads who made them started retiring and having grandkids.

Good get!

I talked to a former Westword music editor (Laura Bond), writer (Bree Davies) and luminaries like former Denver Post editor Greg Moore and U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper about Patty's brilliance. Hard to believe this.

😂

I get hackly when I see something like August or November NOT abbreviated

150 Colorado-related films, from ‘Indiana Jones’ to ‘Catch and Release,’ will screen in the cities that inspired them The larger Colorado150 initiative is tied to the state’s sesquicentennial this year.

As one of the most ambitious film projects in state history, the #CO150 Film Fest is looking to collect 150 films set or shot in -- or starring CO folks -- for statewide screenings at 30 different venues.

Details, including early titles, for @denverpost.com

This post makes my ink-stained wretchedness happy

You didn't used to have to, anyway

The easier to surveil you with, my dear

I spent a good amount of time at this place's former, scuzzy, chock-with-PBRs incarnation, RockBar. Hard to believe it's the same building, given how dingy RockBar was. Did I mention it was scuzzy?

Colorado AG Phil Weiser, who's vying for governor, told me the DOJ settlement was a back-room, politically biased travesty and is pushing forward with a trial that includes 30 other states AGs to hold Live Nation and Ticketmaster to account.

Will it work this time, when so many others have failed?

From Comedy Works to the Oscars: Troy Walker finds jokes in the journey The Emmy-nominated Denver comic, now in L.A., has been writing for “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” since 2021.

I've known and been a fan of #TroyWalker for most of my adult life, so seeing him find success in L.A. (including Emmy nominations) is deeply heartening.

He's got new standup album (his first, recorded at Comedy Works), staff gig at "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" and more on tap. Check it @denverpost.com

Live Nation Can ‘Gouge’ Fans on Fees, Ticketing Executives Boast Two Live Nation Entertainment Inc. ticketing directors bragged about the high fees the company charges fans at its venues, joking in internal messages that the company is “robbing them blind” and that...

As is often the case in these cartoonishly villainous days, it's generally worse and meaner than I even thought:

"Visceral no" sounds about right. Fellow guest and comedian Miriam Morena told me on City Cast that she saw them for less than 1/10th of that during an early Denver visit. Ugh.

Denver's Best Daily Podcast - City Cast Denver Listen to the City Cast Denver podcast. Here's what Denver's talking about today.

Thanks to @citycastdenver.bsky.social for having me on to talk about the dueling Denver music fests in July, the Ford Amphitheater noise-lawsuit drama, and what it means when Gorillaz tix cost $500.

Listen free: denver.citycast.fm/podcasts

I prefer a bumpier, more bricked-over fireplace but that's just me

Denver Fan Expo adds ‘Scream’ cast reunion to ‘Lord of the Rings,’ ‘The Goonies’ celebs The guest list for the May 28-31 event in Denver is falling into place with movie-franchise additions.

I will forever love #ElijahWood for many reasons, including signing Apples in Stereo to his label and standing up to eternal chode Jared Leto (Google it). Good news then that he just added a DJ gig to his Denver stop for Fan Expo.

More details below in this update for @denverpost.com

I LOVE THIS IDEA