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In 1992, Westword published its ninth Best of Denver issue, a celebration of the city that saluted everything from Best Last Stand (the Denver Zephyrs, about to be supplanted by the Colorado Rockies) to Best Bail Bondsman (Duane Chapman, before he became known as “Dog”) to Best — and Sometimes…

On December 5, the University of Colorado Boulder announced that it would pay a total of $2.85 million to two women, Lisa Simpson and Anne Gilmore, whose claims of having been sexually assaulted in 2001 launched what became popularly known as the CU recruiting scandal. The decision finally closes a…

The Denver Post has been on a columnist search ever since word leaked that longtimer Diane Carman would be moving on — the topic of this blog. Moreover, Post editor Greg Moore made it clear in the October 25 Message that he was hoping to find a strong internal candidate…

“Hot for Teacher,” Adam Cayton-Holland, November 29 Teacher’s Fret As a former Graland alumna (alumnae? — I didn’t take Latin at Graland), I found Adam Cayton-Holland’s take on the whole sex-scandal situation almost dead-on. I feel his indignance about many former classmates. It’s been twenty years, and I’ve stayed in…

Coors hasn’t canceled Christmas, but after two decades, the brewer is no longer making its seasonal Winterfest beer for the public, choosing to focus instead on a winter beer from the company’s Blue Moon brand. The news brings the same mixed sentiments that accompanied the retirement of Jesse Helms: hard…

First of all, City and County of Denver, I want to thank you for coming to me in this, your hour of need. Okay, okay, so it was actually the Diversity Advisory Committee (the less-fun DAC) of the separate Career Service Authority that made the impossibly awful diversity training video,…

Late last January, David Isberg took a urine test at a hospital to figure out what was wrong with him. The 42-year-old inmate had started peeing blood while serving a three-year sentence at Kit Carson Correctional Center in Burlington for marijuana possession. But before the results came back, Isberg was…

Managers at the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News value veteran journalists for their experience, their wisdom and their institutional knowledge — and for the way they improve the bottom line when they leave. The Rocky submitted a buyout proposal to longtimers earlier this year, and the Post has…

Justin Martinez missed school — again — on November 2. But this time, the nineteen-year-old’s absence was excused. He had to go to Pueblo to see his father. In the morgue. Justin’s parents had split when he was just a kid. Justin and his brothers stayed with their mother in…

Christina Clinkscales sued Justin Jahn in August 2006, claiming the former Breckenridge bellman had sexually assaulted her a year earlier, when she was eighteen (“Out of Bounds,” November 29). Justin, who maintains that the sex was consensual and who earlier was found not guilty of sexual assault in criminal court,…

“I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled, and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in…

It’s whaling season again and Greenpeace and the more zealous Sea Sheperd Conservation Society (profiled in this great National Geographic piece by Denver writer Peter Heller, which he later expanded into a book) are surely steaming their way to the Antarctic Ocean to stop the Japanese whaling fleet. But back…

Be honest: You thought Travis Henry’s career as a Denver Broncos running back was deader than Napoleon, didn’t you? After all, as local attorney Harvey Steinberg told the Rocky Mountain News, nobody wins NFL appeals on third-strike drug cases like Henry’s, which revolved around a positive test for marijuana that…

If you wiped California off the face of the planet, just made it disappear—left behind no car or SUV, politician, person or cow—you’d eliminate only about 1.6 percent of the greenhouse gases that are warming the planet. Keep California and lose Texas, and you’d more or less double the benefit…

The Kyoto Accord began the race to halt global warming. On its 10th anniversary, why are we barely past the starting gate? I remember so well the final morning hours of the Kyoto conference. The negotiations had gone on long past their scheduled evening close, and the convention-center management was…

Dozens of alternative newsweeklies across the country have joined together on the 10th anniversary of the Kyoto Protocol, in league with the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies in Washington D.C., to publishing stories all at once, with national and local content, about global warming and the significance of the Kyoto agreement…

Earlier this week, the Denver Police Department released a list of safety tips for holiday shoppers. I gave it a shot, but no mockery I could muster topped the list itself. So here you go, Denver, the DPD’s list of suggestions to make your holiday shopping a safe one. And…

There’s no ice cream in prison. But Ice Cream and Activism seeks to combine the two tonight at the cafeteria at Regis University, where a panel discussion will begin at 8 p.m. concerning the issue of juveniles serving adult sentences in prison. (Read a whole slew of stories about the…

Laura does not eat breakfast out. Ever. She’s one of those people who dreams of someday living in a hotel penthouse — not for the housekeeping or the views or the glamour of being the sort of person who lives in a hotel penthouse, but just for the room service:…