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It’s getting chilly for management pensions at the Post. Yesterday, multiple sources confirm, managers at the Denver Post and the Denver Newspaper Agency learned that their pensions would be frozen beginning on January 1. Tracy Simmons of the Denver Newspaper Guild stresses that the freeze will only affect so-called exempt…

Emily Rice. Six months after reaching a $4 million settlement with Denver Health Medical Center for the wrongful death of Emily Rae Rice, attorneys for the family of the former Herman’s Hideaway waitress are poised to collect a $3 million settlement with the city. As I wrote in “Rae of…

Danni Boatwright cleaning up. Yesterday, Channel 4’s Brooke Wagner hosted a “Breakfast With Brooke” segment about new Denver Broncos center Casey Wiegmann and his wife, Danni Boatwright, a former Kansas City sports-radio personality who also happens to be the winner of Survivor: Guatemala. Predictably, the piece was ultra-wholesome, prompting Wagner’s…

Adrien Brody and Mark Ruffalo in the Rian Johnson film The Brothers Bloom. The Brothers Bloom offered the folks behind the 31st Starz Denver Film Festival with a win-win situation at last night’s opening night. The film has a local hook of sorts: Its director, Rian Johnson, spent part of…

Ken Jeong gives Paul Rudd the finger in Role Models. Role Models, a new flick co-starring Paul Rudd and Seann William Scott as energy-drink salesmen forced to take part in a mentorship program after briefly going rogue, has some pretty funny bits — although there’s a little too much learning…

California’s Proposition 8 outlaws scenes like this. I don’t know about you, but I had a distinct bittersweet taste in my mouth on November 5. Sweet for obvious reasons; the bitter came from the passing of Proposition 8 in California. I thought it was a damn shame that just as…

A “Radioland” exhibit at Boulder Arts & Crafts Gallery. Today marks the beginning of Denver Arts Week, a cultural celebration that encompasses a multitude of people, places and things — and you’ll be able to read about many of them in this space. But the celebration of art is hardly…

“I thought she ordered a Screaming Orgasm…” Welcome to our daily blogapalooza. Today in Cafe Society: • Did cops find the bartender at K’s China wearing his pants around his ankles? • Pho 7: Talk about a cursed location! • Veggie Girl dines at Lucile’s Creole Cafe. • BD’s Mongolian…

Click here or on the cartoon thumbnail to see a larger image; it’ll take a few seconds. The “Cultural Ambassador,” or Q1 visa, was created by Congress back in 1983 to help the Disney Corporation staff its newly opened Florida theme-park. The Epcot Center showcases the pavilions of eleven foreign…

No Botanic Gardens for you!. It seemed like a brilliant idea at the time. My East Coast folks in for the weekend, we decided to take a jaunt down to Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfield, a place we’d never been but about which we’d heard many a tantalizing tidbit. Nature…

The online banner for KRCC and its sister stations. The economic downturn has affected all of us in one way or another — but its impact is particularly tough on non-profits, whose mission becomes impossible if they can no longer generate enough donations to keep the lights on and the…

If you’re looking to add to your sort-of retro, kind-of hip Broncos sports gear collection, the folks at Derailed Ink — who designed the “What Would JC Do” shirt in honor of Jay Cutler — have added a second shirt to their collection: The “Eddie Royale with Cheese.” Here’s how…

Yohannes Gebregeorgis and friends. Today’s Rocky Mountain News features an appropriately positive profile of Yohannes Gebregeorgis, the man behind Ethiopia Reads, a Denver-based organization that raises funds to build libraries and bring books to the African nation of Gebregeorgis’ birth. Gebregeorgis is one of ten finalists for CNN’s “Hero of…

Russell Scott, aka Blinky the Clown, in his namesake store. Today’s Denver Post features a story about the impending closure of Blinky’s Antiques, the Broadway store owned and run by Russell Scott, known to multiple generations of Denver children as Channel 2 kiddie personality Blinky the Clown. Predictably, the piece…

An image from a Ted Haggard report on Good Morning America. It’s about time we heard from Ted Haggard. The former pastor with Colorado Springs’ New Life megachurch, Haggard fell from grace, in a manner of speaking, after male escort Mike Jones went public with stories of sex and meth;…

Got any fliers? This past weekend, a couple of days after a blog dubbed “The Boulder Daily Camera’s Building Goes on the Block” was published, I happened to be in Boulder, and I stopped by the facility in the hope of finding out how much the place is selling for…

In 2006, veteran Denver Health paramedic Robert Loop unmasked serial paramedic impersonator Brett Andrews at the scene of a rollover car crash (“The Impersonator,” August 31, 2006). “I knew that something wasn’t right, because he was wearing our uniform, but I didn’t recognize him,” Loop said then. Two years later,…

“Mix Well,” Michael Roberts, October 23 TV or Not TV I’d love to have the opportunity to cuss out Dennis Leonard, the new vice president and hatchet man at Channels 31 and 2, because I think he’s an ass. He thinks Fox 31 is such a fantastic station compared to…

Jay Kriner has invented a way to get people to stare at your crotch and be polite about it at the same time. It’s the Beer Buckle — patent pending — and while it may not change your life, it will certainly make you the life of the party. A…

He was one of the smartest dumbasses you’ll ever meet,” Harry Haney says of his son. Chris Haney was an honors student who took all advanced placement classes at his Texas high school and was the lead-off hitter on the 5A varsity baseball team his freshman year. “Then he hooked…

Madonna rides on something a lot older than she is. Link up below. Today in Backbeat Online: • Dave Herrera’s live review of Madonna at the Pepsi Center. • The skinny on tonight’s Madonna cast and crew after-party. • A Q&A with Minor Threat, Fugazi and Dischord Records founder Ian…