This week on an intimate Denver Diatribe, Jared and John discuss the proposed grocery store for downtown – 20th and Chestnut — and what that might mean for development. We also discuss the noisy, yet somehow ambiguous demise of Denver Magazine and we recommend some of our favorite local tweets. Like: @jimhickox @ariarmstrong @brofax Some […]
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LEAVE A COMMENTThis week on the Diatribe: We get serious about funny with Peter McGraw, the CU humor prof that Joel wrote about in this month’s Wired Magazine. Then we give the TSA a pat-down–a rhetorical pat down!–for the agency’s baffling security priorities at DIA. Also: Things that Boulder Bubble-ites like Professor McGraw should check out when […]
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LEAVE A COMMENTThis week on the Diatribe: A belated postmortem on Colorado’s civil union bill; the religious right’s last gasp? Or a last gasp that’s going lat another five years? Also, RTD fare increases and ridership decreases and, if a gun was at your head, which Denver suburb would you live in and why? Join Joel Warner […]
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LEAVE A COMMENTSo you know how Colbert used to do that segment on The Daily Show called “Interviews We Could Get?” Well, it’s like that this week at the Diatribe, ’cause we somehow managed to hoodwink 5280‘s executive editor Max Potter to come on the show and discuss his piece in the latest issue of Vanity Fair. […]
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LEAVE A COMMENTThis week on the Diatribe John, Jared, and special guest Kazia Jankowski discuss the best and worst of Westword’s Best Of Denver 2011. The panel also assesses the state of local patio watering holes. Here’s that drink recipe from Kazia. And here’s the venomous NY Press issue John wishes Westword might somehow emulate. https://media.blubrry.com/denverdiatribe/denverdiatribe.com/DenverDiatribe_4_5_11.mp3Podcast: Play […]
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LEAVE A COMMENTThis week: Metro State College’s decision to re-brand itself Denver State University spurs head scratching and hullabaloo, a nation of freeloading creative types turn coffee shops into “coffices,” and the Diatribers each offer one practical improvement that would make Denver a billion times better (reversing gravity was not allowed). This week’s episode also ushers in […]
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LEAVE A COMMENTThis week: Denver Mayoral candidates Michael Hancock and Doug Linkhart confound the political peanut gallery with their vote for city council pay hikes. Fallout in Pueblo over a proposed nuclear power plant in wake of Japan’s crisis. Alien-luvin’ Conspiracy theorists have found a link between DIA and…Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind? Jared is way late […]
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LEAVE A COMMENTThe escalating debate over fracking, the implosion of CU’s J-school, and a how-to on how to talk like you’re on NPR. (Here’s a hint: talk very softly and right into the mike.) Special guests: Grace Hood, reporter for KUNC, Northern Colorado’s public radio station, and award-winning author and journalist Vince Darcangelo. https://media.blubrry.com/denverdiatribe/denverdiatribe.com/DenverDiatribe_3_14_11.mp3Podcast: Play in new […]
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LEAVE A COMMENTDenver’s bed bug infestation, exotic mating rituals of the Denver Zoo’s elephant herd and the loss of Denver faux celebrity La La Vazquez. (Sure, we lost Carmelo Anthony, too, but Melo actually has real skills we here at the Diatribe only care about celebrities who don’t provide anything of actual value.) Special guest Melanie Asmar […]
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LEAVE A COMMENTThis week on the Diatribe our esteemed panel discusses Highlands Ranch CIA operative Raymond Davis who is being held in Pakistan on murder charges and, in less globally significant news, the 5280 6-pack and the case against brunch. Special guest this week included 5280’s senior editor Patrick Doyle. https://media.blubrry.com/denverdiatribe/denverdiatribe.com/DenverDiatribe_2_27_11.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download […]
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LEAVE A COMMENTSo the Diatribe episode is a bit more lengthy this week, but only because local music critic Eryc Eyl brought some great new songs from Denver-area bands for us to listen to. Eyl writes for the Denver Post music website Reverb and these were some of his favorite recent MP3s from his regular feature Steal […]
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