Remixed National Anthem totally upstages State of the City

Did you catch Mayor Hickenlooper’s State of the City address today? Of course you didn’t. But some wise soul happened to be recording the Channel 8 broadcast of the speech, at least long enough to catch jazz singer Rene Marie’s mashup of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” also known as the Black National Anthem with, [...]

Fun with Google Alerts and dyslexia: financially secure prostitutes

When I quickly glanced at the most recent Google Alert in my work inbox, my deadline-raddled mind connected the headlines and I thought it was mighty progressive for some survey company to poll prostitutes for their financial security. Instead, what I got were two disparate, but equally interesting stories.
On one hand, minors are being recruited [...]

Storm clouds over Colfax

I finally figured out how to stitch together shots for panoramas, and tested it out on the wicked storm cloud cell that captivated much of Capitol Hill/Congress Park on Monday night. It looked a thousand times cooler when the sun was still hitting it, but this still turned out well. Click the photo to see [...]