On Her Toes After reading Patricia Calhoun’s “The Art of the Deal” November 8, I agree with half of it. True, Adam’s Mark should not have taken down the sculpture without talking to the artist first. But it’s also true that bronze ballerinas would be a big improvement over the…
For decades, faithful readers of Ladies’ Home Journal have turned to “Can This Marriage Be Saved?,” a monthly column billed as “the most popular, most enduring women’s magazine feature in the world,” in which troubled spouses tell all, then are counseled by a wise, real-life therapist. In the November issue,…
Denver Post columnist Chuck Green recently reported that he’s raised $39,000 from his readers to, as he puts it, “sue the creep” who poisoned two Wheat Ridge dogs last month. There’s just one problem. He doesn’t have a case. Four columns into his crusade, the cash keeps flowing into the…
Schroeder And McInnis Prove That Chivalry’s Dead. Housekeeping can get pretty messy, particularly when Congress is down to the wire debating budget bills. During last Thursday’s discussion of debt limits, two Colorado representatives got unusually down and dirty. The fight started after a Democrat from Ohio yielded two minutes of…
Mayor Wellington Webb threw around a lot of promises during his campaign for re-election last spring. But few have turned sour as quickly as the one he made to the schoolchildren of Denver: to appoint a cabinet-level “education czar” for the city. Five months after the election and more than…
The weekend was warm, the type of weather that puts a jingle in the cash register of anyone with something sweet and cold to peddle. Customers lined up out the door of Doug Gunn’s I Can’t Believe It’s Yogurt shop in Boulder. The frozen-yogurt racket had proved a tough go…
Flynn spin: The Rocky Mountain News wasted no time in announcing the good news at Denver International Airport. “DIA Bags Rolling at Last: United Finally Using All of Automated System,” screamed the front-page headline October 28. Inside, a breathless story by Kevin Flynn claimed BAE’s notorious automated baggage system–you know,…
Oh, what a beautiful morning. Mike Tyson’s thumb is busted, and Don King is on trial for wire fraud. But don’t ice down the champagne just yet, fight fans. The injury cancellation last week of the Saturday Night Charade that was to pit Tyson against Buster Mathis Jr., a second-generation…
Sixty-nine-year-old John Hickey would rather gamble on a prison term than admit to wrongdoing for breaking the nose of his wife’s lover moments after discovering the two flagrante delicto. “Put one man on the jury,” Hickey has said, “and there’s no way they’ll convict me.” He’ll get a chance to…
When Anne McGill Gorsuch married Robert Burford back in 1983, it seemed like a match made in Republican heaven: the Ice Queen and the Marlboro Man, the steely-eyed darling of corporate polluters and the squinty-eyed sagebrush rebel. Burford, a Western Slope rancher and former speaker of the Colorado House of…
Pprominent Denver company exploits American Indians by using their images to sell buffalo products, according to the country’s biggest Indian newspaper. But Will McFarlane, president of the Denver Buffalo Company, which has a restaurant and sells other buffalo items such as decorative skulls, says he has nothing to apologize for…
Colorado doesn’t believe in mollycoddling its prisoners. Just ask officials at the Colorado State Penitentiary (CSP), the chillingly futuristic, so-called “supermax” prison outside Canon City, where the state’s most dangerous prisoners spend 23 hours a day in solitary confinement. Better yet, ask some of the residents. Ask Janice, Shannon, Debra,…
Mark Her Words Having just finished Patricia Calhoun’s “Carrier Pigeons,” in the November 1 issue, I say, give ’em hell, Calhoun. You’re right: Denver is full of pigeons. MarkAir crashed–but we were the ones who got burned. Joe Levy Denver Feature Attractions With the exception of the usual stridency from…
part 2 of 2 In their lawsuit against the City of Denver, Lane, Sullivan, Powell and two women claim that the city has taken sides, choosing to align itself with Planned Parenthood. “Complaints…by Planned Parenthood, its employees and supporters are routinely and vigorously prosecuted, no matter how spurious,” the suit…
part 1 of 2 It’s early Saturday, just after 7 a.m. on a crisp autumn day. The ash and locust trees that line the sidewalks around 20th Avenue and Vine Street are bright with change. The elderly bungalows behind the trees look no different from those in many older, well-kept…
part 2 of 2 Operating on a shoestring, the Brico Symphony could afford to give only four to six performances a year. Most of its members were housewives or professionals who had full lives apart from the orchestra, and the quality of their work varied greatly. Yet in Brico’s hands,…
part 1 of 2 Dan Frantz remembers The Gaze–that piercing, dark-eyed stare that made prodigies tremble and old tenors sing their lungs out. The Gaze is as vivid to him now as it was three decades ago, the first time he saw Antonia Brico. Frantz was twelve or thirteen years…
How the West is run: Yee-haw! Colorado’s 1996 campaign is shaping up to be quite a horse race. The latest to explore a bid is Wes McKinley, rancher, trail guide, cowboy poet and foreman of the state’s first special grand jury, convened in 1989 to investigate alleged environmental crimes at…
If you thought Paul Weissmann, the 31-year-old bartender candidate for U.S. Senate, was just another “Mr. Smith” trying to go to Washington, it’s probably time to take another look. Jimmy Stewart may have ended up in Washington as a stooge-turned-crusader in the 1939 film, but Weissmann is nobody’s fool. He…
Eighteen months ago Jim Kleber, long suspected of killing his wife, Lois, in 1992, seemed on the verge of confiding what her family wanted, yet feared, to hear: where he’d hidden her body. “I just want to do the right thing,” Kleber told an Arvada police investigator. Now, however, his…
Colorado’s fast-growing wine industry revels in the image of romantic Western Slope vineyards and tasting rooms perched on mesas. But a nasty dispute has many Colorado vintners treating one of the state’s largest wineries like a jug of Ripple at a society soiree. Rick Turley, owner of the Palisade-based Colorado…
Jailhouse Blues Karen Bowers’s “Hard Time,” in the October 25 issue, is Pulitzer material. She writes about the common criminals–the prison guards, wardens and judges who get paid with tax dollars to run modern-day concentration camps. State officials who allow and encourage rapes among prisoners are heinous crime offenders, and…
