This week on the diatribe we discus the new Anthology of Rap co-edited by CU Boulder’s own Adam Bradley, Denver’s need to perpetually flatter its “creative” jobs sector with a Creative Vitality Index and, finally, the best and worst local places and themes for office holiday parties. Joining us on the discussion is special guest […]

Episode 13: Hip Hop anthologized, creativity indexed and parties holidazed
Denver Diatribe

This week, the food-atribe: Special guest Laura Shunk, food critic for Westword, joins Joel Warner and Jared Jacang Maher to discuss the following: Being a food writer in the age of Yelp; If everyone’s a critic, what does it mean to be, um, a “real” critic? What’s the difference? Is Yelp merely a mob of […]

Episode 12: The Food-atribe edition
Denver Diatribe

This week we discuss technology, everything from the wheel to 8-track tapes to TiVo. But seriously, we start with a recent California case that may or may not be heard by the Supreme Court having to do with banning the sale of violent video games to minors. The demonization of violent video games is often […]

Episode 11: The scary technology edition
Denver Diatribe

This week on the Diatribe, our obligatory “what does it all mean?” post-election roundup. Also, we discuss a study by CU Denver professors on the sociology of unfriending on Facebook (because it apparently takes a couple of PhDs to prove that posts about politics and religion can be off-putting) and, finally, now that one of […]

Episode 10: The unfriending edition
Denver Diatribe

This week Jared, John and our special guest, 5280‘s online editor Vanessa Martinez, assess the carnage of the Denver media landscape. First, the physical challenge: Each of us made a point of sitting through as many broadcasts as possible of local TV news. We each took a network and stuck to it. Other media related […]

Episode 9: We watch local news so you don’t have to edition. And yeah, you’re welcome.
Denver Diatribe

This week we discuss Denver’s readiness in the event of a zombie attack with the Onion‘s A.V. Club editor certified zombologist Cory Casciato. In other freaking news, did you even know there’s a proposition on the ballot in Denver to establish a committee to investigate UFO encounters? (The Diatribe’s endorsement: Vote YES on initiative 300.) […]

Episode 8: The zombies, UFOs and naked pumpkin runners edition
Denver Diatribe

This week on the twice-recorded Denver Diatribe we discuss: Amendment 62 – constitutional rights for zygotes? East Colfax’s 11 million dollar dog park, and… A guided tour through the dick-joke jungle that is the Denver stand up comedy scene from none other than our first in-studio guest, Adam Cayton-Holland. Relevant links: Dead Babies: Some background […]

Episode 7: The dick jokes, dog parks and dead babies edition
Denver Diatribe

This week on the Diatribe: Stan Garnett, Colorado’s first pro-marijuana Attorney General and Bill Paxton impersonator. For more on Garnett, here’s Joel’s piece on his pot politics; more Westword coverage of Garnett’s opponent John Suthers’s anti-pot politics and a Republican marijuana defense lawyer’s defense of liberal Garnett in the Huff Po. We also discussed the […]

Episode 6: A Requiem for Loveland’s avant garde art scene edition
Denver Diatribe

This week on the Diatribe: The Ugly Three;  Ballot measures 60, 61 and Prop 101: The tyranny of the pitchfork mob? Can Denver really be a film-making capital or can The Denver Post  really just write a damn profile of a local crank and screw the so-called news value? Finally, our shout outs for some […]

Episode 5: For the love of Cranks edition
Denver Diatribe

We take a trip to Crazy Town this week, counting down our favorite instances of Dan Maes-associated insanity. We also ponder the class-warfare skirmishes that have erupted thanks to Bon Appétit naming Boulder the “foodiest town” in America, and in the process we lay out the important differences between a “foodie” and a “chowhound.” Then […]

Episode 4: Way Down in the Hole in Liberal, Kansas, Edition
Denver Diatribe