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In the current issue, I published Matthew Brandon’s spirited defense of Texas barbecue, and elaborated on my own obsession. Here’s his reply: I didn’t expect little ol’ me to be quoted in your column. You acquitted yourself just fine, though. One thing I didn’t get a chance to cover in…

Before Wednesday, the three juvenile delinquents who were called to testify in a Jefferson County courtroom had not seen Michael Tate in almost three years. Back then, he was a sixteen-year-old boy, locked up in juvie for what he claimed to be murder — although few people believed him. Over…

Book it! The Junior Alliance Back to School Book Drive, tonight from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Blake Street Tavern (2401 Blake Street), marks a new push by Girls Inc. to encourage women ages 21 to 35 to be role models for the girls served by the Girls Inc…

Q. What is Mike Jones doing at the Irish Rover on a Monday? A. Not soliciting gay sex. Sort of. Mike Jones and the Jäger girls are getting along famously. The two scantily clad swag-peddlers get up periodically to make the rounds at the Irish Rover, with red, flashing medallions…

“We don’t have a format,” Dave Navarro boasts about Spread Entertainment, his talk show for Mania TV!, the Denver-based Internet-television purveyor. “We don’t walk in and a band plays and there’s a monologue. But my favorite thing to do is, my partner, Todd Newman, and I go out and shoot…

Do you have what it takes to win a quiz night? Denver’s three leading trivia companies have very different styles, as exemplified by both the questions they ask and the team names their players choose. Try these on for size: Trivia Face Off Favorite Team Names: Alpha Kenny Body (read…

Will the real Alex Emerson please stand up? This column is intended for one person and one person only: Alex Emerson. That’s right, I’m talking to you, Alex Emerson, 21-year-old male living in Denver, Colorado, who graduated from Conifer High School in 2004. Yes, you, Alex Emerson, who “loves to…

John Dicker and Joel Peach wanted their inaugural Geek Bowl to be a gala event, so they packed it to the gills with entertainment: music, short films, comedy. But the legions of Geeks who trekked across the state last January for this quiz-a-thon didn’t want entertainment. They just wanted trivia,…

If you are Steve Horner, quit reading. Right now. Because we’re going to talk about your favorite subject, ladies’ night, which is littering the national news, what with both the New Yorker and then an August 20 Nightline segment focusing on Manhattan lawyer Roy Den Hollander’s equally quixotic (and irritating)…

Carla Madison could have chosen a different place to meet. A more obvious location might have been St. Mark’s or Fluid or any of the numerous other coffee shops closer to where she lives in City Park West. City Council District 8, her district, encompasses new luxury high-rises in the…

On Tuesday, August 14, Quiznos’ most outspoken critic finally went silent. Chris Bray, the founder of the Toasted Subs Franchisee Association, announced that he was settling the lawsuit he filed against the company late last year in U.S. District Court in Denver (“You’re Toast,” May 3). The dispute arose when…

“Your Tube,” Michael Roberts, August 16 Show Is Slow In the Message, Michael Roberts presents Mark Cornetta’s musings as to why Your Show isn’t getting respectable ratings. The answer is not a revelation: To be brutally honest, Adam Schrager is b-o-r-i-n-g! He is a bright guy who seems politically astute…

With the sudden clamor from local news outlets over the scheduled August 24 opening of the controversial Sugar House, you might get the mistaken impression that Scottie Ewing’s west-side nightclub is the first and only swinger-friendly joint in town. You might also think that his prolonged effort to secure a…

This charming machinima explains the essential differences between the Internet and real life, ostensibly for Internet novices. It is the work of Rooster Teeth. It’s “shot” in the Halo 2 multiplayer engine but it has nothing to do with the game. You don’t have to be a gamer to appreciate…

Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean blew into Denver mid-day Wednesday to kick off the one-year countdown to the Democratic National Convention. He stood on the sweltering concrete outside the Pepsi Center, along with Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper and Gov. Bill Ritter to pump up hundreds of party loyalists, thank…

View larger image. An observant alleyway walker in Denver spotted this mysterious letter wheatpasted to a brick wall and snapped a pic. Might we declare this the most magnificent piece of street literature ever discovered? Like the reaction Mr. Terry Gold III described having upon smelling his lover’s natural perfume,…

Other than a short telephone conversation and a brief formal statement, Mary Louise Starkey, founder and head of the Starkey International Institute of Household Management, declined to answer further questions for “At Your Disservice,” which detailed allegations of shoddy management, questionable educational programs and other turmoil at this Denver-based butler…

It was cruel and unusual to only list the answers to these trivial questions here, but here they are: Trivia Face Off Sample Questions • What team was defeated to bring Denver its first major sports championship? Florida Panthers • Alex Trebek provided the voice of “Alan Quebec,” a game-show…

Yesterday was supposed to be D-Day for Lost and Found, a Christian youth residential-treatment facility attempting to move their facilities into Clear Creek County, yet coming up against heated opposition by some NIMBY neighbors afraid of the type of children being transplanted into their community. Because yesterday, in a sweltering…

The debate over gas drilling on the Roan Plateau has become one of the most intriguing and critical environmental battles in the West since the days of Two Forks. The recent acceleration of political maneuvering over the issue deserves close scrutiny, since the outcome will tell us a great deal…

Judge Jane Tidball keeps a tight schedule in her Jefferson County courtroom, but because a couple of jurors showed up late on day two of Michael Tate’s murder trial, the start of testimony was delayed for more than twenty minutes. Once the jury was finally seated, the victim’s wife of…