http://denver.yourhub.comThe latest blog posts in The Denver Newspaper Agency YourHub.comen-usnews@yourhub.com(c) 2009, YourHub.com5Update: Westword's Sean Cronin discovered the man who made the magic happen for Eli (an East High School student). Click here for the story . Got a tip from YourHub.com's Lush Reporter John Zwick this morning that there was a prom proposal on the Bluebird. He was right and this th...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Blog~457375.aspx4/17/2008 11:13:51 AMEric LubbersThe Flobots, the long-standing hip-hop spearheads in our fair city, have announced that next month, they're heading for the desert, at least for one show . The septet (2 MCs + Violist + Drummer + Guitarist + Bassist + Trumpeter) will be opening for Metallica (yes, the Metallica) at the...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Pop-Culture/Blog~453336.aspx4/9/2008 11:33:23 AMEric LubbersBesides the Burger King on St. Paul, the most incongruous business in Swankville, Colo., (Cherry Creek North, that is) was always the Village Inn on Columbine. I remember thinking as a high school kid driving by the place thinking "Well, it can't be so high-class if it has a huge Village Inn ...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Local-Business/Blog~451772.aspx4/4/2008 4:22:07 PMEric LubbersAfter reading about Longmont's Bryce Perica and the small eBay fortune ($1) he made off of a random potato chip , I decided to take a look at the world's online marketplace and see who else is capitalizing on a population with disposable income and an appreciation for curiously shaped snack it...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Local-Business/Blog~451153.aspx4/3/2008 3:25:03 PMEric LubbersI just got the press release for the Brooks Center "Spring Greening Bazaar" event that will contain not only the craftiest of local crafts, but also performances by local all-stars like Paper Bird, Married in Berdichev, New Denver Orchestra and a whole lot more. Here's the press release in ful...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Blog~450961.aspx4/3/2008 10:48:44 AMEric LubbersIt's Dolly Parton night. Man, Kristy's going to be around another week? Lame. Dolly, formerly a good, if not great, beauty, looks like she's been through a food dehydrator. She's only 62? Oh, maybe it's her dieting technique . Well, we're in for a long night of countrified everything (except...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Pop-Culture/Blog~450802.aspx4/2/2008 9:38:25 PMEric LubbersAmerican Idol is back. Has it really only been 6 days? Well, America, here's your top ten. I hope you're proud of yourselves. The theme this week is Beatles! Just kidding. I totally almost had you there. This week, all the singers have to sing a song from their birth year. Many of them choose to ...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Pop-Culture/Blog~446852.aspx3/26/2008 3:02:12 AMEric LubbersDisclaimer: Sarah and I had a really long day, followed by a really long night yesterday, so Sarah won't be writing and I won't be making much sense. Also, Simon seems to have been reading Sarah's part of the blog, as everything he said to almost every contestant was either verbatim or a slig...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Pop-Culture/Blog~443883.aspx3/19/2008 10:02:54 AMEric LubbersMario Acevedo , Denver's leading authority on the subject of vampires, loose women and day jobs of the supernatural (and author of Nymphos of Rocky Flats and X-Rated Bloodsuckers ), has a new book coming out. Here's the publisher's summary: "The aliens are back...in a fiendis...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Literature/Books/Blog~443697.aspx3/18/2008 3:42:38 PMEric LubbersClick here to read this week's power rankings David Hernandez , the overconfident, bronzed "I tell people I worked in a pizza bistro but in fact was a stripper" shocked the increasingly small portion of the nation who watch American Idol by being voted off the show last night. If y...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Pop-Culture/Blog~441159.aspx3/13/2008 9:00:11 AMEric LubbersThis week of American Idol always feels like the first time you had a boy-girl party when you were in fifth grade: Everyone's excited, a little uncomfortable and someone ends up crying. Sybaritic excess is a term lost on the producers of the show, apparently, as the ridiculous new stage, ch...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Pop-Culture/Blog~440524.aspx3/11/2008 11:58:11 PMEric LubbersSarah: Pretty good for our first predictions, eh? Yeah, we're super talented (but only at useless crap like this). Dead on for the guys and one away from being right on the ladies. I'm not actually so shocked that Kristy Lee Cook made it though...there's always one terrible girl that makes it...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Pop-Culture/Blog~438340.aspx3/6/2008 9:54:13 PMEric LubbersIt's round two for the American Idol Power Rankings, and this time, it's Girls + 1980s = Ten Pounds Of "Meh" in a Sixty-Minute Bag. Combine the lackluster performances, personalities that aren't nearly as fun to snark/analyze as the guys (I mean, come on, the dudes have strippers/angsty gay teens...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Pop-Culture/Blog~437854.aspx3/6/2008 7:26:08 AMEric Lubbers5. David Hernandez / "A Canadian Actor Portraying Ricky Martin" Eric: His nickname is a riff on a joke David Letterman made about Mitt Romney ("He looks like the American president in a Canadian movie") and it's about the sum of his appeal and his problems. For some reason he chose to sing a so...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Pop-Culture/Blog~437177.aspx3/4/2008 11:31:08 PMEric LubbersThere are literally thousands of people blogging about American Idol , and I know I'm not the best or the brightest one out there. That's why I enlisted the best and the brightest (and the best-looking, to boot) reality TV scholar in the country: My girlfriend, Sarah . To add an extra k...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Pop-Culture/Blog~437173.aspx3/4/2008 11:26:08 PMEric LubbersI watched the Grammys for the first time since Jamiroquai was up for a statue (man, I was in 8th grade, give me a break) for two reasons: To see if Amy Winehouse could finally manage a post-rehab great live performance, and much more importantly To see my boy Jeff Hughes (aka Maestro)...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Pop-Culture/Blog~427457.aspx2/11/2008 2:56:58 PMEric LubbersDid you know that Bruce Benson and Hank Brown both donated money to Mitt Romney ? Or that a Capitol Hill tutor named Andrew donated $707 to Barack Obama ? I do. Thanks to The Huffington Post . The Post has brought this year's presidential race fully and unequivocally into W...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Politics/Local-State-Politics/Blog~424966.aspx2/5/2008 3:52:57 PMEric LubbersAuthor's note: The address for The Shoppe was incorrectly listed in print. The address is 3103 E. Colfax Ave. The Shoppe, 3103 E. Colfax Ave., opened its doors to a massive crowd Saturday, causing them to run through, by their own count , 600 linebacker-sized cupcakes and bowls of cereal. T...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Blog~420810.aspx1/28/2008 2:02:11 PMEric LubbersI've been hearing a lot about Led Zeppelin as of late, what with their tight-pantsed reunion and new best-of, Mothership , plastered all over iTunes and the rest of the Web. And wouldn't you know, my daily perusal of Colorado-related Wikipedia entries dug up the fact that Zep's very f...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Pop-Culture/Blog~415411.aspx1/15/2008 1:31:35 PMEric LubbersRemember this? Remember the righteous purple rage that the Colorado Rockies front office spouted at the perpetrators of the alleged "malicious attack" that was to blame for the World Series ticket fiasco? It seems the team couldn't have been too mad about the issue, because the Denver P...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Blog~412663.aspx1/8/2008 3:17:53 PMEric LubbersWill she trade Starbucks for Peaberry? Frequent disoriented trips to the gas station for, well, frequent disoriented trips to Denver gas stations? Google Alerts are usually some pretty boring fare, but this latest weird bit of gossip that the mighty Fox31 crew stumbled into is that the on...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Pop-Culture/Blog~410741.aspx1/3/2008 1:47:07 PMEric LubbersLike thousands of Denverites per day either unable or unwilling to pay for parking downtown, I take the RTD 15 bus down Colfax Avenue. I've got the science of riding the bus down pat. I know where to sit, how to stand, the approximate number of people that will get on and off at each stop and...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Blog~409990.aspx1/2/2008 9:42:05 AMEric LubbersIn which Brofax Cosmonaut brings you chunklets of what the Internet is saying about Denver. "The rise of the jetpack: A Denver company updates and commercializes a fantasy from the 1960s." CNNMoney.com (link) The web just can't get enough of Denver's Go Fast! and its jet pack pilot, t...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Blog~398209.aspx11/29/2007 1:28:55 PMEric LubbersIn which Brofax Cosmonaut brings you chunklets of what the Internet is saying about Denver. "A Notorious Main Drag, in Line for Big Changes" - New York Times (link) The World's Newspaper decides to take Colfax out for its yearly spin around the mainstream media, and it's just as f...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Blog~398180.aspx11/29/2007 12:53:20 PMEric LubbersBrofax Cosmonaut brings you the latest chunklets of what the Internet is saying about Denver. Today: Convention time. Florida left out as DNC assigns hotels for fall *link* Where else but politics could the act of choosing hotels cause this kind of press coverage? True, Florida's Dem...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Politics/National-Politics/Blog~395106.aspx11/21/2007 11:06:14 AMEric LubbersBrofax Cosmonaut brings you bite-sized chunklets of what the Internet said (is saying?) about Denver last week: ----------------------------------- What's a few thousand turkeys between citizens? The Denver Rescue Mission, you know, those people with the several truckloads of good k...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Blog~393798.aspx11/18/2007 11:49:02 PMEric LubbersI, like thousands of newspaper employees across the country and throughout history, took part in the time-honored tradition of staying late on Tuesday to cover the city of Denver's municipal elections. And, just like last year, I left the office bleary-eyed well into the night with some races...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Politics/Local-State-Politics/Blog~389432.aspx11/8/2007 9:19:52 AMEric Lubbers"We're from Denmark, so we don't know about Halloween. I do know that lots of girls walk around dressed like sluts. And we love them." - Sune Rose Wagner , lead singer of the Raveonettes at the Bluebird Theater on Oct. 31 Sarah and I had several ideas for Halloween costumes floating ar...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Music/Blog~386382.aspx11/1/2007 4:15:34 PMEric LubbersAs the proud recipient of several Google News Alerts per day, I get a pretty good feel for what the Internet in general has to say about Denver. As a service to you, Denverites, here's a short collection of the best of the bunch, in a feature I'm christening "The Roundup" (for the love of god, if...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Blog~382332.aspx10/24/2007 3:14:48 PMEric LubbersThe discussion around YourHub.com World Headquarters is philisophical in nature. Does the fact that the page informing you that the Rockies ticket server load is too heavy is loading faster today than yesterday mean that the front office's efforts are failing faster or slower? Most (if not ...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Sports/National-World-Sports/Blog~381655.aspx10/23/2007 12:58:52 PMEric Lubbers