This week we discuss how the City of Denver handled the release of the controversial Marvin Booker jailhouse death video. It’s much more complicated than you think. And, PR extraordinaire Ryan Peacock as our special guest, we talk about how small businesses can build off of Create Denver Week  last week and better reach out […]

Episode 33: The PR of Love and Jailhouse Death edition
Denver Diatribe

This week on the Denver Diatribe: Is hip-hop homeless in Denver? Despite other musical genres finding a home with a congregation, hip-hop seems to have trouble keeping a place to call its own. We discuss. Also, we enjoy the company of Westword hip-hop writer Ru Johnson. She’s organizing LollipaRUza, a celebration of music featuring 27 […]

Episode 32: Homeless Hip-Hop edition
Denver Diatribe

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 […]

Episode 31: Grocery Store Gone Wild edition
Denver Diatribe

This 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 […]

Episode 30: Creepy ticklers are not funny edition
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This 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 […]

Episode 29: living in the suburbs at the point of a gun, among other topics edition
Denver Diatribe

So 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. […]

Episode 28: Extortion in wine country and other things Max Potter wants to talk about edition
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This 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.

Episode 27: The Best of “The Best of” edition
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This 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 […]

Episode 26: Metro State of Denver University edition
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This 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 […]

Episode 25: Close encounters of the politically-nuclear kind edition
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The 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.

Episode 24: I’m whispering right in your ear edition
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