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 […]
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 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 […]