Denver residents are getting a taste of big-city living, complete with gridlock traffic, busy pedestrian crossings and hordes of police officers looking over it all.
Tears and cheers in the hall, eating and drinking like the rich and famous, entertaining eavesdroppers after hours, and blowing out the cobwebs with Kennedy, Franken and Dukakis.
Michelle Obama was the keynote speaker on opening night of the Democratic National Convention. She gave a riveting speech about her roots, meeting Barack and how they can relate to the common American.
Trying to find the boss (Jacob). He’s in some undisclosed location on level A. After walking in the front door of the Pepsi Center I made a left, drafting behind some behemoth FOX News goons dragging large duffel bags on…
Derrick Muna Quinata and Chelsa Muna Brecht are a minority around here. The cousins are two of just eight delegates from Guam, that island way out in the South Pacific that makes flying to Hawaii from the mainland feel like…
Downtown Denver is abuzz with politics. The 16th Street Mall is a whole lot busier that usual. That’s to be expected, since the majority of the 50,000 expected Democratic Convention visitors have now arrived. I didn’t spend too much time…
You’re probably already overwhelmed by coverage from the Democratic National Convention, so we’ll try to have a little more fun that the other 14,000 media members as we cover the biggest political party to hit Denver in 100 years.
It will be tough for the Democratic National Convention host committee to top its opening party Saturday. Perhaps getting Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Brad Pitt and a margarita bar in a swank hotel suite would do it. Short of that,…
One of the toughest parts of this job is watching our food critics have all the fun. I hear of a hot new restaurant, and instead of tasting it myself, I have to send a food writer to do it—and…
Being a man in this world often means you cannot go out for fondue without a few snickers from other male friends. After a horrendous experience at a fondue restaurant in downtown Denver (already written about it in this blog,…