What may have been the defining moment in the history of the Governor’s Columbine Review Commission unfolded last month. Consigned to a small meeting room in the basement of the Jefferson County Justice Center, struggling to make sense of the worst school massacre the country has ever seen and faced…
One of the most glaring deficiencies of the sheriff’s report is its cursory treatment of the circumstances that led up to the attack. “While this report establishes a record of the events of April 20,” it states, “it cannot answer the most fundamental question — WHY?…The evidence provides no definitive…
In many ways, the three-story apartment building at 1234 East Colfax Avenue in Capitol Hill is unremarkable — the majority of the tenants are artists or musicians, both young and old, who pay little rent (average price for a large one-bedroom unit: $300) in exchange for keeping mum about the…
Boston gave them Palm Pilots with the August 2000 calendars already filled in with the notation “Democratic National Convention/Boston.” Denver loaded them up with signed Denver Broncos footballs, souvenir necklaces and cuff links, ski jackets from Vail, backpacks from Winter Park, and Pepsi Center hard hats. But in the end,…
For nearly ten years, since long before there was a ballpark in the ballpark neighborhood, Paul Zentgraf has been the Redemption Center’s unofficial apostle. A vigorously healthy 65, tanned but with no visible teeth, dressed in hiking boots and rodeo belt buckle, he is notable for saying “Greetings and salutations”…
It was with high hopes and a glowing sense of community purpose that Ryan Mullaney began this past high school baseball season as head coach of the woeful Evergreen Cougars. A former standout athlete himself — he’d dabbled with a pro football career before being cut by the Minnesota Vikings…
For Brian Hansen, 1999 should have been a year to look back on with unadulterated pride. As a reporter for the Colorado Daily, a Boulder publication with a circulation of less than 30,000, Hansen did much of the heavy lifting throughout an investigation into the activities of Fran Raudenbush, a…
Call Waiting At your service: The skepticism expressed by Stuart Steers regarding Qwest’s promises to treat Colorado customers more professionally is justified. US Worst’s long history of treating its “home state” customers as servants is well-documented, and most of us have a horror story. Even as a resident of Denver,…
Whatever was going down in Lakewood on the morning of August 11, 1999, it was enough to give Jon Carter, a 54-year-old grill chef from Aspen, and his lifelong friend David Ziemer a bad case of the jitters. The two men entered and exited Carters room at the Ramada Inn…
For Sol Trujillo, these are the best of times. Granted, he’s now out of a job. But with unemployment benefits like these, losing your job is even better than winning the lottery: Two weeks ago, Trujillo filed notice of his intent to sell 354,740 shares of US West stock, which…
Milda Scalise had no idea that March 15 would be her last day with her 69-year-old husband, Frank. The two of them had eaten lunch at the Washington Park Grille and then gone to see Fantasia 2000. “We always had a lot of fun together,” she says. On the way…
A week after the University of Northern Colorado Laboratory School let out, Kristen Anderson’s mind was on the summer activities that would keep her two young kids occupied for the next three months. Other parents were planning road trips, backyard barbecues and swimming lessons. No one was thinking about the…
Up in smoke: That mushroom cloud over New Mexico last month didn’t have anything to do with an out-of-control “controlled” fire burning up radioactive material at Los Alamos. Actually, it was Department of Energy Secretary Bill Richardson’s chances of being nominated as Al Gore’s vice-presidential running mate that were going…
So there I was, being led into a roomy townhouse mere blocks from the Denver Dumb Friends League by the Denver Post’s Chuck Green while one of his pooches, eighteen-month-old Auggie, yapped and yowled like Jim Carrey on amphetamines. As Green looked at his furry buddy and said (jokingly…I think),…
This might be a serious game and all, but there’s no getting around it — some big bellies are on the floor. “Skins got too many fat guys,” says one courtside critic, slumped on a bench at the downtown YMCA. “You’ve got big fat Jim and big fat Dave trying…
The Rest of the Best Landmark decisions: Bravo! The Best of Denver 2000 was informative, irreverent and funny! I take exception to a couple of your choices, however. Best Public Golf Course: Arrowhead is a beautiful course, but it’s a private course, open to the public. If you’re looking for…
Part 1 of a seasonal series Spring, Longs Peak to Lyons In the waning days of March, two storm systems approach Colorado from opposite directions. One, carrying evaporated water from the Gulf of Mexico, has been held at bay by a high-pressure system in Texas that has acted as a…
Two months ago, Karen Romeo wandered the aisles of New York City’s famed Carnegie Hall. It was a big event, but she didn’t expect to get emotional. She’d been a professional violinist and had seen her share of world-class stages. The day, she figured, would be more for the kids…
Four years ago, the Cherry Creek North neighborhood was the site of a confrontation between people who wanted to save a hundred-year-old American elm on a Madison Street lot and a developer who wanted to cut it down so he could put up two 5,000-square-foot condominiums. A group called Eye…
Give the city of Denver credit for trying. After failing for ten years to build a golf course at Green Valley Ranch, it’s pondering a new course on a rugged but bare stretch of land off of Peña Boulevard near Denver International Airport. The only catch is that the Green…
The Greens are coming, the greens are coming! Between 600 and 1,000 Green Party members from across the United States — and at least fourteen other countries — have been revving up their VW buses and Volvos (no Corvairs, please) and are, at this very moment, on their way to…
The night Historic Denver visited Lakeside Amusement Park, Denver’s most historic amusement park, you could cut the nostalgia with a knife — or perhaps a pearl-handled dagger. Some fifty people had gathered in a pavilion almost unchanged since it was built in 1937, and none of them were there for…
