“No, I’m not going to relax!” “Stop strangling me, fucker! Fuck you! Just fucking shoot me!” The raving man was being held to the ground in the Office Depot parking lot at East Colfax Avenue and Pearl Street when Evan Herzoff walked by around 9:30 p.m. on April 8. The…
A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that sharply limits the rights of whistleblowers could change the landscape for a number of workplace battles in Colorado — including a case alleging heart-transplant fraud and retaliation at the University of Colorado Hospital that was filed just days before the high court’s deeply…
The Denver City Council’s May 22 agenda overflowed with typical items — zoning matters, leasing pacts, the designation of May 21-27 as “Public Works Week” — but one entry qualified as mighty unusual. The paragraph described a bill calling for the approval of a one-year, $504,875 agreement between the City…
Things are looking up in this city — and Ken Schroeppel is a big reason why. By day, he’s a mild-mannered urban planner with Matrix Design Group — a national firm involved in such projects as the Denver Federal Center redevelopment — but by night, he’s the mastermind behind the…
In today’s America, the vast rift between the upper and lower classes grows by the second. The gap reminds me of the tale about Franklin D. Roosevelt campaigning by rail through West Virginia. Roosevelt had recently taken the nation off the gold standard and was promoting the move as he…
Let the Games Begin! Men overboard: I was disgusted by Jessica Centers’s article about Denver pick-up artists, “Game On,” in the June 1 issue. I’m a twenty-something guy, and it is totally obvious to me why people have so much trouble finding real relationships and why the divorce rate is…
The reported $4.1 million paid for the right to publish photographs of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s messiah/baby, Shiloh, is a prime indicator of inflation — and a famous snap of Colorado’s own Gary Hart demonstrates why. An article on the ABC News website produced in conjunction with a segment…
What if your organization spent a lot of coin to conduct a poll whose conclusions you loved — and no one noticed? That’s what appears to have happened to the Lake Cedar Group, the consortium of area television stations eager to build a new broadcasting tower on Lookout Mountain. On…
This week, Channel 4 personnel will accept a Peabody Award — arguably the highest accolade in broadcast journalism — for a story about Army recruiting practices. As a bonus, the station is belatedly giving credit where credit is due. The reports for which the station is being honored were dominated…
The wheels came off Marc Holtzman’s campaign for governor late yesterday afternoon, when Colorado Secretary of State Gigi Dennis threw out almost half the signatures Holtzman had submitted in an effort to petition his way onto the GOP primary ballot. But don’t rule him out yet. Holtzman, the former University…
Did the local media overplay the recent unveiling of two anti-illegal-immigration billboards? Underplay it? Or test everyone’s patience by covering it at all? KHOW talk-show host Peter Boyles, who helped spearhead the effort and used his swing to get Representative Tom Tancredo to serve as a sort of Vanna White…
So far as we’ve been able to discover, no member of the 9News staff has had illicit congress with a bird. Still, during this morning’s news program, veteran anchor Gary Shapiro felt the need to deny any hanky-panky pertaining to a flapper in the family way. A few weeks back,…
On May 11, Channel 4 investigator Brian Maass introduced the first half of a two-part package about Day & Night Mechanical Solutions, a Denver heating and air-conditioning company. Seems that employee Jason Boone had been paying visits to private homes for Day & Night despite being a registered sex offender…
I still remember that day in 2003 when I was first granted access to the secret stash of pictures at Jones Drug and Photo in Boulder. “Check this one out,” my friend said, pulling a picture from the middle of the stack. He motioned for me to come behind the…
Final Testament Richard Velarde, the 29-year-old father of two left paralyzed after a shooting on Market Street last Thanksgiving, was released from Craig Hospital in late January, several weeks earlier than expected. He’d worked hard in rehab and was eager to get on with his life and find a new…
Massholes Need Not Apply Libation-seekers with out-of-state IDs might not want to deposit themselves at the Bank Bar and Grill, 2239 East Colfax Avenue, on a Sunday night. Because while the Bank does offer $2 you-call-its to officially mark the end of the Sabbath, the deal is locals-only. In fact,…
I’m an ornithologist. No, that doesn’t mean I sleep with orthodontists. Well, once, but that was only to get my braces off six months early. It means I like birds. Not in that way. Well, once, but that was only to get my braces off six months early. Damned kinky…
At 37, Brandon was smart, good-looking and well-off. He’d enjoyed hookups and had girlfriends, but he’d always felt like the women had chosen him. He was tired of waiting for things to happen to him; he wanted to make them happen himself. So the Boulder property manager started studying. His…
Debra Fine groans when she hears the title of Matt Buschbacher’s book: Date the Women of Your Dreams. “I hate that,” she says. “We judge people so quickly based on superficial things.” Fine is sitting on an airplane in California, about to return to Denver from one of her many…
Let’s Get It On! The season’s winding down for Spike TV’s The Ultimate Fighter 3. And when two men step into the ring to beat the shit out of each other in the episode airing at 8 p.m. Thursday, June 1, one will be representing Denver. Mike Nickels, a mixed…
Nursing a grudge: Jessica Centers’s “Switch Hitter,” in the May 25 issue, was an excellent article! Every time I hear some flack for a mega-corporation whine to a corrupt politician that attorneys get too big a piece of a contingency-fee lawsuit and shouldn’t we be capping or restricting class actions,…
As threatened/feared, the Goodbye Katie Couric edition of the Today show turned out to be extremely Columbine-centric. During the program’s first half hour, Couric’s 2000 interview with Craig Scott, brother of slain Columbine student Rachel Scott, and Michael Shoels, father of murdered teen Isaiah Shoels, served as the figurative centerpiece…
