Sometimes picking a shmuck is hard work. Sometimes the world presents you with such a vast sample tray of worthy shmucks, you have to employ a team of PhDs to measure their shmuckiness. On other, rarer occasions, the calendar presents a virtually shmuck-free week, and you’re left to pick Bob…
Before Bill Ritter co-hosted a tribute to MediaNews Group CEO and Denver Post publisher Dean Singleton, who’s hardly a fan of his policies, he appeared at a photo opportunity with a dog. Yep, Ritter joined Dealer, a Miami border collie, at the dedication of a solar-panel installation at Nestlé Purina’s…
With soothing water feature… Originally published ten years ago, in the May 27, 1999 issue of Westword…
Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs was one of the finalists to become the home for the 24th Air Force, described by the service as “a new numbered Air Force headquarters focused on the cyber mission.” But it’ll have to settle for Miss Congeniality. Lackland Air Force Base in…
The photo at right was taken by Lakewood police when they entered John Beech’s home last August 1. It shows the 53-year-old retired Coors manager’s will, keys, car titles and other important documents all neatly arranged on a kitchen table and waiting for someone to process after his body is…
The Dallas Mavericks are in the Nuggets’ rear-view at this point — but Mavs owner Mark Cuban continues to make comments sure to rev up the rivalry again next year. As a guest on Dan Patrick’s syndicated radio show, Nugs coach George Karl complained about some of the invective that…
Meet Ethan. He’s nine and in Mr. Kimmal’s third-grade class at the Montclair School of Academics and Enrichment in west Denver. He likes soccer, football, baseball, basketball, swimming and skiing. But his favorite thing to do after school is read, especially the Harry Potter books. Oh, and tomorrow at noon…
Now that the spittle-flecked anger has died down from the whole Jay Cutler-to-the-Bears brouhaha, how do NFL prognosticators rate your Denver Broncos in the months prior to the start of the 2009-2010 season? Not very highly, to say the least. This week, Adam Caplan, who writes for Scout.com (a Fox…
Concern over swine flu may be waning, but that didn’t stop one trenchcoat-ed, nunchuck-ed man from taking H1N1-related matters into his own hands, Mortal Kombat-style. As the Summit Daily News reports, a man claiming to be a “karate master” was reportedly kicked off a bus en route from Denver to…
Dean Singleton haters, of which there are many, likely gagged on their Cocoa Puffs this morning while reading “Post Owner Gets Honors, Ribbing,” a laudatory account of last night’s Mizel Museum dinner, during which the MediaNews Group CEO and Post publisher was given the organization’s Community Cultural Enrichment award. But…
Watching the Houston Rockets-Los Angeles Lakers game last night caused this particular Nuggets fan an uncomfortable sense of déjà vu. Like the Nugs have done for ages (until, for the most part, this year), the Rockets blasted off to an early, commanding, seemingly insurmountable lead only to gradually but steadily…
Love bites. Today in Cafe Society: • Zpizza to open z doors in Greenwood Village. • Uncork at Four Mile Historic Park tonight. • Get a job! Jesse Morreale’s job fair. • Our Weekly Bread: Jersey Mike’s. • Drinking with Pete at Union Station. • The Maker’s Mark Mint Julep:…
Our daily blog roundup. Check it. And send your own blogs to round up. Senate! Candidate! Ryan! Frazier! Loves! Him! Some! Exclamation! Points! (Colorado Pols) Rockies fans take to blogosphere to get manager Clint Hurdle fired. (Hurdling to Rock Bottom via 5280) The state of Colorado’s “liberal infrastructure,” as seen…
The Denver Police Deparment has issued a so-called “Dangerous Suspect” warning about Arthur “Art” Santistevan, who’s wanted in relation to a number of nasty incidents, including stabbing a witness during a robbery on the 300 block of Fillmore earlier this month. Also on the DPD’s radar is Matthew Russell Bonner,…
Back in 2002, Mark Obmascik, part of the Denver Post team that won a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the 1999 Columbine High School shootings, took a year off in order to write a book about, of all things, bird-watching — and the slower pace agreed with him. “In…
The Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office would like you to keep an eye out for Brian Wayne Coplen, who’s wanted for questioning in relation to a March bust at a residence in Bennett that’s suspected of being a marijuana-grow house. Either that or the more than 100 pot plants sprouted by…
The earlier blog headlined “INDenver Times Renegades Plan Rocky Mountain Independent” notes the participation in the online-magazine project of Steve Foster, once INDT’s managing editor. Earlier today, Foster, who joins INDT vets David Milstead, Cindy House and John B. Moore at RMI, provided some additional details about the planned service,…
Unless I’ve been sadly misinformed, air bags are considered to be safety equipment — but that doesn’t seem to be the case in the clip above, captured for an upcoming commercial touting Metal Movers, 48 E. 56th Avenue in Denver (find them online at DenverJunkCars.com). About midway through the video,…
The staff at the Denver Assessor’s office wants you to know that you have the right to protest your 2009 property valuation. They make it sound so easy. Here’s how:…
Today’s update about INDenver Times noted that many of the principals in the project, including former Rocky Mountain News business writer David Milstead, had struck off on their own on April 23 after INDT signed up only 3,000 subscribers (its goal was 50,000). In a conversation at that time, Milstead…
A blog yesterday shared sales documents associated with Martino TV, an upcoming program starring self-proclaimed “Troubleshooter” Tom Martino. The show charges businesses to receive the de facto endorsement of its star, who appears in regular consumer-advocacy reports during Channel 31 newscasts (although he’s not a journalist — he swears). Now,…
Really! Just look at this shocking video evidence of the Mustang zapping down a hijacked jet out at Denver International Airport. We knew those laser-beam eyes had to be put there for a reason. Beware terrorists. El DIAblo is coming for ya…
