Who better to write about the problems of “issues involving children” than the Denver Post? Considering the drastic action city editor Mark Harden recently had to take, the paper’s November 26 front-page treatise on “the faltering family” makes sense–Harden has his own juvenile-delinquency woes. Only five days earlier, he wrote…
“Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to Larry King Live. I’m Larry King. But you already know that. You know it, Portland, Oregon. You know it, Bellevue, Washington. And you know it, Dunedin, Florida. You know that there’s nobody quite as important as Larry King. And that’s me. Larry…
The next TV camera in a Denver courtroom may have to be wheeled in from the trashiest of the talk shows. Last week Denver sheriff’s deputy Karen Kirchberg stood accused of flourishing a weapon and threatening to “put a bullet” in a couple of other female co-workers following a love-triangle…
In the wake of a series of uprisings at federal penitentiaries across the country last month, jittery officials seem determined to crack down on troublesome felons housed in the Federal Correctional Complex just outside the high desert town of Florence. The result? At least three separate incidents of alleged civil…
Enter, Stage Right I would like to compliment M.S. Mason for her two wonderful reviews of recent DCPA productions, The Last Yankee and You Never Can Tell (“Medicine Women” and “Shaw and Order,” November 1). I thought the reviews were wonderful, because I agreed with every word. Barbara Moe Denver…
Denver prosecutor Craig Silverman was just beginning to launch into a well-rehearsed spiel explaining why convicted teenage murderer Cheryl Armstrong should be punished to the fullest extent of the law when he was cut off mid-sentence by District Judge Warren Martin. “You may sit down, Mr. Silverman,” the jurist instructed…
On the morning of October 1, 1992, Tina Knox, a 29-year-old aerobics instructor, gave birth to a healthy baby boy at Littleton Hospital. Twenty-four hours later Tina was dead, killed by a rare but treatable condition related to her pregnancy. Three years later, Tina’s son, Preston, is a toddler; her…
The strangest bedfellows in Colorado’s sexual politics are Colin Cook and Kevin Tebedo. Cook, after an exhausting lifetime of fighting his sexual desires for men, calls himself “redeemed” and uses pornography to teach gay men to be straight by praying to Jesus for their erections and thanking God for “handsome…
part 2 of 2 January 31, 1995 Met T downtown. Afterwards we went and fucked once, then I saw Rachelle’s picture in his wallet & I took it. He totally tweaked out on me so I got all hurt. Got in hugest fight ever. He told me we’re over. When…
part 1 of 2 January 2, 1995 Me and T are over. I wanna commit suicide. I love him so much. –excerpt from Cheryl Armstrong’s diary It may have been something about living in the tame Littleton suburbs that made sixteen-year-old Cheryl Armstrong and her friends long for a more…
Suit yourself: Last week the Justice Department announced that the number of hate crimes reported to police had dropped across the country, including in Colorado. In 1993 the state reported 166 incidents, according to FBI figures; in 1994 there were 98. But one of those had already fallen from being…
It is 7 p.m., tail end of the rush hour, and a cold, hard rain is falling on Atlanta, Georgia. All along Peachtree Street you can make out fugitive figures with umbrellas unfurled and wind-bent, ducking into doorways, dodging out of the paths of their fellows in the nick of…
And Snow It Goes If I may be irreverent and politically incorrect, I have just one comment in regard to Patricia Calhoun’s “Klondike and Snow Job” column in the November 15 issue: You go, girl! After all, we are talking about polar bears–not toys, not cartoon characters, and certainly not…
Even after state legislators passed a bill last March meant to open Colorado’s telecommunications market, one small Lakewood company is accusing the Public Utilities Commission of helping US West enforce a monopolistic stronghold. Three and a half years ago, Lynn Langford and Jeff Smith founded Mountain Solutions Ltd. Inc., a…
Spurred by a recent double-digit drop in traffic at Denver International Airport, city officials are exploring the use of a controversial carrot to lure discount carrier Southwest Airlines: a subsidy funded by the state aviation fuel tax. Mayor Wellington Webb and aviation director Jim DeLong will travel to Southwest’s Texas…
After 63 years in the turkey business, Don Peterson isn’t squeamish about much. But when it comes to grabbing a turkey chick and squeezing it until its rectum pops out, he’d just as soon call in the experts. “I can do it, but it sure isn’t easy,” says Peterson. Unfortunately,…
In the beginning, there was beer. “About three hundred beers,” remembers Bill Jones, who owns and manages Reiver’s restaurant on Old South Gaylord. “We got to chatting over at least that many drinks. I don’t drink anymore and neither does Neal, but that was then.” Then was a culmination of…
Late last month a smiling Edward Beauvais appeared at the Colorado Springs Airport in a wizard’s costume to announce his Western Pacific Airline’s new $59 “mystery trip” fares. To Beauvais’s many Colorado Springs admirers, the sorcerer’s garb was appropriate. For civic boosters in Colorado Springs, after all, the last seven…
Not to be outdone by Ladies’ Home Journal, Westword concocted the following therapeutic scenario to put the Schnarch crucible theory to the test: Consider the case of Carlos and Helga, who say they have been happily married for seven years. Both say they enjoy pleasant sex but that something is…
Out of the mouths of babes: Channel 9 has emerged the lucky winner with its network affiliation switch to NBC, but the good ratings news hasn’t translated into more news. Unless, of course, you count the stunning comparison of lipstick shapes offered up by Adele Arakawa on last Thursday’s ten…
In the dead of winters to come, you can bet that John Elway’s long-battered knees will ache and that Dan Marino’s torn Achilles tendon–an injury some ironic classicist must have picked out for him–will start to act up. In winters to come, Warren Moon’s shoulder will surely pain him again…
The civilian watchdogs entrusted with investigating complaints about Denver police have become so discouraged by a lack of support from the city administration that resignations appear imminent. And that would suit the police–and some city officials–just fine. “If they were to go away,” city councilman Ed Thomas, an ex-cop, says…
