After studying plans for Montrose’s new library, religiously conservative residents of the Western Slope town fear that their children will be checking out hellish images instead of heavenly reading material. An October 20 library board meeting was packed with residents decrying the planned use of four gargoyles on the exterior…
If we can believe Lawrence Funderburke, the Sacramento Kings’ resident apocalyptician, the world is coming to an end in the next five or six years. Funderburke bases his prediction on biblical prophecy and says his primary regret is that his career will be cut short. Meanwhile, NBA commish David Stern…
One day in mid-November, a San Francisco radio station called my office. “We hear Denver’s overrun by skinheads,” a reporter said. “Can we get a quote?” How about: “Baloney.” On the last day of November, a cabbie heading downtown from DIA reported that the skinhead violence had spread to a…
The Mouse That Roared I appreciated Alan Prendergast’s article on the Preble’s mouse, “Of Mice and Men,” in the November 27 issue. Too often the mainstream media seems to be very biased in favor of growth and development in Colorado. I am a Colorado native and think projects like Highlands…
The eastern-plains town of Grover has never been bashful about its drinking. Tammie Byner recalls the time her mother was roped by a drunken cowboy while walking down Main Street during the annual Earl Anderson Memorial Rodeo. Revelers have been known to topple clean off the Pawnee Buttes that tower…
On a brilliant October afternoon at the future site of the Parade of Homes at the former Lowry Air Force Base, the only new structure standing is a tent set up for a press conference. Construction workers from the site take a break to join the small crowd waiting for…
Hawaii, uh-oh: While the rest of us shiver in the December chill, our tax dollars are working overtime keeping a dozen state officials warm–in Hawaii. One of the beached bureaucrats, state representative Nolbert Chavez, a Democrat from Denver, even bragged at a recent neighborhood meeting that he’d be enjoying a…
The pain-ridden journey of a disabled construction worker who took four people hostage last year at Focus on the Family’s headquarters in Colorado Springs came to an end last week. An El Paso County jury convicted Kerry Dore on thirteen felony counts, including first-degree kidnapping. Dore now faces a mandatory…
Before we get into our discussion of the McLaren F1–the fastest, most expensive and least air-conditioned street-legal car in the history of automotive science–let’s look at a couple of equally eccentric makes and models designed with the enthusiast in mind: If he or she looks around a little, the eagle-eyed…
It’s hard to escape the good vibrations at the Louisville offices of Sounds True, a distributor of spoken-word tapes that has recently branched out into music. The company health-insurance plan covers acupuncture, massage therapy, even mountain bikes. A pack of dogs roams the premises. Incense burns. Feelings count. “We won’t…
It seems like an all-too-familiar tale of the electronic age: A woman goes online, stops by an Internet chat room and falls for a guy thousands of miles away. She thinks it’s love, while he’s in it for less noble reasons. After months of torrid correspondence, they meet; it is…
A kiss is still a kiss. A sigh is just a sigh. And the allegations of sexual harassment leveled against a prominent educator at the University of Colorado continue to multiply as time goes by. It’s been two years since secretary Jennifer Miller filed a lawsuit against the CU Board…
That airplane banner flying overhead Monday, proclaiming the unfairness of Denver Post management to all of downtown Denver, wasn’t the only sign that Denver Newspaper Guild negotiations are under way. The stickiness of those negotiations, which affect up to half the employees of Denver’s two daily newspapers, also explains the…
Victim’s Assistance I wanted to take a few moments to let you know of my appreciation for Patricia Calhoun’s reporting on the trial of Ashley Gray’s killer (“A Case Done to Death,” November 20). Certainly, the News and the Post have chosen not to keep their readers informed of what’s…
Somewhere beneath the tall grasses of Rocky Flats, not far from the small streams that wind through the buffer zone surrounding the former nuclear-weapons plant, a Preble’s meadow jumping mouse is taking a well-deserved nap. Its fate is being decided elsewhere. The mouse–which weighs less than an ounce, sports a…
Promoters describe the city-subsidized Casino Cabaret nightclub in Five Points as the “home of Denver’s finest jazz.” In recent weeks, however, the club in the heart of a black business district has instead been home to hordes of white teenagers at all-night rave dance parties. A recent rave with 500…
The return of Colorado as the center of the universe: Just when everyone seemed to be losing interest in JonBenet Ramsey (what with killer nannies and gift-from-God-and-a-few-fertility-drugs septuplets capturing the public’s imagination), along came the white-wingers. Denver’s “Ten Days of Rage,” as Sunday’s Denver Post dubbed the sorry events of…
Salvino Martinez is singing. But not to the Denver cops. At least not directly, though they’ve shown interest in the first album by the gang member and erstwhile rapper because of a murder investigation he alludes to in his songs. The only CMG Westside Bloods talking to the police, Martinez…
Downtown is on the verge of losing the historic Denver Post building, at 15th and California streets, to make way for a “temporary” parking lot. Preservationists are hoping to find a way to save the building, but they may have little chance of doing so. Developer Bruce Berger says he…
At 6:15 on a recent Thursday morning, the only happy face in the second-floor hallway of the Byron Rogers Federal Building belongs to a bomb-sniffing dog, who is trotting around in advance of the Terry Nichols trial. The thirty or so lawyers milling about are the ones with the sad…
Heard the one about the rich car dealer who goes out and blows 89 million bucks on high-priced hookers? Well, needless to say, he has a pretty good time. So do the hookers. There are lots of them, and they all have talent, so nobody has to work very hard…
Let us now give thanks. It was one big, dysfunctional family reunited in U.S. District Judge John Kane’s courtroom last week, picking at the carcass of this year’s biggest turkey: Guide the Ride. The $3.5 billion, or $8 billion, or $16 billion, or $20 billion (depending on who’s counting) mass-transit…
