This just in from Jack, who’s on the scene with the Tent State crowd: Tent State is about to march from the Coliseum down Brighton and Broadway to the DNC. Rage is walking with them. Looks like 4,000 people or more. This could be fun. Stay tuned. UPDATE: A group of police in riot gear just offloaded near Blake and
Read moreI hate to sound a negative note, but it’s time to call a few DNC attendees on the carpet. Word flying around the waiter and bartender network in downtown and LoDo is that the DNC crowd isn’t tipping very well. (Sorry, no names or locations here – you’re just going to have to trust me.) I’ve talked to several bartenders
Read moreGot to see these guys last night at the show in the Big Tent. Very funny stuff. Nice guys, too. See more from Barely Political here.
Read moreMitt Romney says John McCain earned his homes. All 14 of them, presumably, including the 12 he couldn’t find on a map if his life depended on it. Speaking to reporters at a lunch sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor, Romney said that while McCain deserved his houses because of the “hard work” of himself and his family, “Barack Obama
Read moreI believe I recall Barack Obama quoting Otto Von Bismarck’s edict that “politics is the art of the possible,” and evidence of that optimism abounds everywhere I look in Denver today. The two words we seem to be hearing more than any others are “hope” and “change,” and we saw a wonderfully eloquent articulation of this enthusiasm last night in
Read moreIf you look in the sidebar to the right you’ll see that we’ve added a Twitter stream. Plug us in, turn us on…
Read moreDNC08, day one observation: there’s just way the hell more going on that we can cover. There are 11 of us, and I’m not sure we could do what we feel like we ought to be doing if we had 111. It’s especially tough because S&R isn’t and never has been about being the firstest and the fastest. We rarely
Read moreSo, the Minutemen are in town agitating about securing our borders. We’ve been thinking about the idea of a border fence for quite awhile and up until recently we were adamantly opposed. For one thing, it seemed unlikely to work, and for another, anybody who’s been to a Home Depot lately can tell you that fencing is expensive as hell.
Read moreFor those of you who haven’t found a CNN Radio outlet in your area, below are the clips they’re using from my interview this morning. I’ll warn you in advance – I can’t promise that I’m interesting. They’re doing three different snips. I’ll give you the voiceover lead-in followed by the audio link. 1: Bigger Picture: “Among the standard media
Read moreAnd away we go. I just did an interview with Brendan Gage of CNN Radio, so you’ll be able to hear my voice emanating from a radio near you starting here in about an hour. The reporter asked me about the role and impact of blogs and what we at S&R hope to accomplish in the coming days, and I
Read moreScholars & Rogues is looking forward to meeting as many DNC attendees as possible – we aren’t the official hosts of the convention, but a lot of us live here in Denver and we’re excited about the prospect of introducing you to our town. We’re also pretty excited that Lime, one of the greatest restaurants in a town full of
Read moreAnd now, a few more things that didn’t quite fit into other articles, or that arrived late, or that we forgot, or whatever. The fact that these are all being lumped under a miscellaneous category doesn’t mean they’re not well worth the time and effort. So here are some scattered thoughts about food, neighborhoods, recreation, sports, shopping and more.
Read moreWe had a request for some recommendations on good breakfast places, and there’s good news – DNC attendees have some very good options close at hand. Racine’s, which is located in the Governor’s Park neighborhood just off Speer, is about as good as it gets.
Read moreDenver is an interesting city for Italian food. On the one hand, we don’t really have a lot of very good options, which is odd for a city this size (and for a city with as strong an Italian heritage as we have). On the other hand, what we lack in quantity we make up for in quality. So let
Read moreusquebaugh The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | Date: 1996 usquebaugh WHISKY1. XVI. — Ir. and Sc. Gael. uisge beatha ‘water of life’, i.e. uisge WATER, beatha life. If you like single malt, you’re in for a treat. If you don’t like single malt, bear with us. We may be able to change that. One of Denver’s purest, most
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