This week: Guest James Carlson talks about his new 5280 magazine story “The Biggest Green Scam in America” about Denver’s eco ponzi schemer Wayde McKelvy. Co-hosts Jared Jacang Maher, Josh Johnson and Vanessa Martinez also discuss the stupid squabbles between campaigns for pot legalization in 2012 and why James hopes to solve his life crisis […]
This week we talk with Westword’s Amber Taufen about her cover story on cops using meditation to mellow out and where meateaters should go for vegetarian food in Denver. Co-hosts John Dicker, Vanessa Martinez, Josh Johnson and Jared Jacang Maher also discuss death by falling at Red Rocks, Boulder’s peeping porta potty party pooper (watch the […]
It’s Monday morning in Denver and Jared, Josh and Vanessa look in the rear view mirror at the Denver mayoral election. We then attempt to unwind some of the facts behind the ever-developing allegations involving Mayor-elect Michael Hancock (or, er, Mike Handcock), high-end hookers and swinging sketch-ball Scottie Ewing. Also, it’s getting hot outside. Our […]
The first diatribe of 2011 welcomes special guest Ken Schroeppel of the well-trafficked development blogs www.denverinfill.com and www.denverurbanism.com. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following: Denver Mayoral race …what do we want to see from the next Mile High hizzoner? FasTracks light rail expansion is $2 Billion over budget. How can we pay […]
This week on the diatribe we discus the new Anthology of Rap co-edited by CU Boulder’s own Adam Bradley, Denver’s need to perpetually flatter its “creative” jobs sector with a Creative Vitality Index and, finally, the best and worst local places and themes for office holiday parties. Joining us on the discussion is special guest […]
This week, the food-atribe: Special guest Laura Shunk, food critic for Westword, joins Joel Warner and Jared Jacang Maher to discuss the following: Being a food writer in the age of Yelp; If everyone’s a critic, what does it mean to be, um, a “real” critic? What’s the difference? Is Yelp merely a mob of […]
This week we discuss technology, everything from the wheel to 8-track tapes to TiVo. But seriously, we start with a recent California case that may or may not be heard by the Supreme Court having to do with banning the sale of violent video games to minors. The demonization of violent video games is often […]
This week on the Diatribe, our obligatory “what does it all mean?” post-election roundup. Also, we discuss a study by CU Denver professors on the sociology of unfriending on Facebook (because it apparently takes a couple of PhDs to prove that posts about politics and religion can be off-putting) and, finally, now that one of […]
This week Jared, John and our special guest, 5280‘s online editor Vanessa Martinez, assess the carnage of the Denver media landscape. First, the physical challenge: Each of us made a point of sitting through as many broadcasts as possible of local TV news. We each took a network and stuck to it. Other media related […]