But the station s take on COVID-19 hasn t been universal. Morning-drive personality Peter Boyles has stirred up the audience over his unwillingness to act as a denier of the disease (as well as his belief that Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden), and Tubbs has focused on a range of other issues many of them featured in his 2020 documentary
Denver in Decay, which castigated the city for its response to last summer s social justice protests. Indeed, his 3 a.m. tweet marks the first time the word COVID has appeared in one of his Twitter messages in 2021.
Westword has reached out to Tubbs, who recently traveled to attend a child s graduation ceremonies. According to Boyles, speaking on the air this morning, Tubbs had not been vaccinated.
May 28, 2021
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LET S NOT FORGET WHAT WE ARE MEMORIALIZING THIS WEEKEND And I want to give a big shout out to Lou from Littleton, who was supposed to fill in for me today before my plans changed. He jumped right into the spirit and booked two perfect guests for today that I get to interview now about Memorial Day. They are:
DAVID ROBERTS FROM FORT LOGAN NATIONAL CEMETERY AT 12:35 We re going to talk about what s happening at Fort Logan in terms of honoring the fallen this weekend. Find out more about Fort Logan National Cemetery by clicking here.
Actor Yaphet Kotto died on March 15, and since then, the tributes have rolled in for the 81-year-old actor, with news agencies such as the
New York Times and CNN remembering his compelling work in film and television. But no obituaries we ve found thus far, including ones published by local outfits such as 9News, have included anything about the several years Kotto lived in Colorado during the late 1980s and early 1990s, or the role he played in the 1991 Denver mayoral race between then-auditor Wellington Webb and former district attorney Norm Early.
But we remember. Kotto graced the cover of
Westword s July 3, 1991, edition, published prior to the launch of our internet archive, and my interview with him, conducted at the food court at the Tivoli (now the student union for the Auraria campus), was as entertaining as it was strange. Not only did Kotto talk about an upcoming movie he planned to make about the mayor s race a flick that never actually happened, though we definite
The year was 2003, the summer between my seventh- and eighth-grade years at Falcon Creek Middle School. We were on our annual vacation visiting family back home in Upstate New
The year was 2003, the summer between my seventh- and eighth-grade years at Falcon Creek Middle School. We were on our annual vacation visiting family back home in Upstate New