Until he got bumped off by a diaper-wearing astronaut and the feuding would-be fathers of Anna Nicole Smith’s baby, defrocked New Life Church founder Ted Haggard was all over the late-night gabfests. After it was reported last week that Haggard, who’d undergone intensive counseling after male escort Mike Jones revealed…
“Sky’s the Limit,” Adam Cayton-Holland, February 8 Put to the Test I appreciate your plain-speaking article on Skyland Community High School. As a member of Skyland’s board of directors, I am confident that Skyland can meet all of its and DPS’s objectives and be an exemplary school. It must be…
To beat the swoosh, one has to think like the swoosh. As noted in Westword feature “Sole Survivor”, some people — known as sneakerheads — are crazy about their Nikes. Others, however, are as crazy about Nike in another way — crazy about the shoe company’s spotty labor and environmental…
Fusion is the devil’s cuisine. I’ve been saying that for a long time. And I’ve believed it ever since those dark days of my own forays into the seductive world of galangal, lemongrass and frisee. A chef has to be an absolute genius to make any sort of fusion work…
Everyone who’s ever tried to run a newspaper or magazine knows that coming up with great stories and presenting them interestingly is only half the battle. It’s just as difficult to keep the operation afloat — and an odd cyber-document related to Go-Go Magazine, a defunct local publication, demonstrates why…
Just over four decades ago, actor Peter Sellers presented the Beatles with a Grammy they’d won for the song “A Hard Day’s Night.” In a film of this event that was shown during the 1965 Grammy telecast, Sellers referred to the prize as a “Grandma award” — and his joke…
“It’s not often that ‘diversity’ is used successfully as a justification for building McMansions,” writes a former member of the Loveland Planning Commission. “Try not to tear up as you envision homeless entrepreneurs, forced to sleep in their Porsche Cayennes on the Wal-Mart parking lot for lack of suitably pretentious…
I was surprised as anyone that I loved the Palace Arms, the Brown Palace’s most august restaurant. Here’s a recent letter on that review. Typical Sheehan. This article typifies why I read Jason’s stuff, why I look forward to his next crafted statements. When I read Sheehan, I want to…
Chef Michel Wahaltere has parted ways with the owners at Seven Eurobar in Boulder. And though he didn’t go into a lot of details on the split, Wahaltere did tell me that his reasons were pretty simple. First, he wanted to create a restaurant — whereas the majority partner was…
Colorado Education commissioner William Moloney’s decision to step down from the position in June, which is detailed in the Denver Post article linked here, comes as the biggest surprise since the sun rose in the east this morning. Moloney, who was appointed during the Bill Owens administration, has been under…
When he left his job as city editor at the Denver Post, Evan Dreyer, the subject of this week’s Message column, probably thought corrections were behind him. But Dreyer, who is currently serving as Governor Bill Ritter’s communications director, recently had to revisit this territory. In this week’s “Pressure to…
Slathering raw fish on your hands on live TV is not your romantic Valentines’s date. But can it still be sexy? Damn straight, when it’s under the tutelage of Denver Open Media, Denver’s hip new public access TV station. See for yourself at DOM’s Valentine’s Sushi Dinner & Fundraiser on…
The lights are off most of the time inside Certified Customs, at 4815 E. Colfax. The shop’s owner, grills guru Nando Mondragon, the subject of a recent Westword profile, is locked up in Las Vegas, waiting to hear if he’ll be imprisoned on a parole violation or allowed to return…
Sitting in a seven-by-ten-foot cell all day, every day, for four years, Casey Holden learned how to do a whole lot of nothing. Now the world expects him to be a go-getter, a self-starter, a juggler of appointments and budgets and mounting financial obligations. And he has only a very…
Offense Report No: 07-42941 Date: 1-20-07 Type of Offense: Lost or stolen Location of Offense: South Denver Type of Premises: House Weapon/Tool Used: Keys Victim writes: I feel that we know who stole our tools, and one of the [Steve] was standing there while I was making the report to…
I’ve performed at Comedy Works probably over one hundred times now, and I have never seen cops guarding the green room. There were two of them last night for Dave Chappelle. The scene demanded it: Tickets were hard to come by, people were trying to sneak in the back, everyone…
Today the Associated Press is reporting that nineteen Air Force Academy cadets cheated on a quiz. That’s no slap on the wrist at the Academy; such an honor code violation can lead to expulsion and having to pay back thousands in tuition money. But this is hardly the first time…
The drive into work this morning was a thing of absolute beauty. A heavy fog was draped around the city like a thick winter coat, and Born in the Flood’s latest (specifically “In Debt to the Heart”) was on my iPod. I was staring out the window as the 122x…
As the moment of his sentencing approaches, Tristan Gilmour sits petulantly in an Arapahoe County courtroom. His put-upon attorney, deputy public defender Justin Bogan, wants him to read a pre-sentencing report, but Gilmour is having none of it. Cuffed and clad in jailhouse orange, Gilmour is a baby-faced 21-year-old with…
A cynic might regard the phone call that District Attorney Carol Chambers made to Jonathan Steiner, for which she was publicly censured six weeks ago, as a clumsy attempt to intimidate a lawyer who was hassling the DA’s political ally. Chambers has a different interpretation — but even that version…
Thursday, February 15, marks a day of reckoning for several area charter schools. That’s the day the Denver Public Schools Board of Education will make its final decision on renewing — or revoking — the charters of eight different schools, including P.S.1, the state’s oldest charter school at twelve years…
When Evan Dreyer was city editor for the Denver Post, I contacted him numerous times in regard to this column, but he didn’t always reply when the questions touched on uncomfortable topics — like veteran scribe Chuck Green’s disappearance from the paper under did-he-jump-or-was-he-pushed circumstances in 2002. Now that he’s…
