Dear President Bush, Your appearance at the Air Force Academy’s Falcon Stadium on Wednesday will be an unexpected honor for the Class of 2004. You weren’t scheduled to address this group of future servicemen and women; you were supposed to come for last year’s graduation, but you canceled. And, really,…
A man stands in a black robe and hood, arms outstretched in a crucifixion pose. The image is newly infamous, emblematic of the rapidly escalating Abu Ghraib prisoner-abuse scandal in Iraq. But in this case, the hooded man is not an Iraqi prisoner, and he is not terrified. He’s hanging…
Last week’s auction was supposed to resolve the conundrum of who owns Barnum, a 65-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex with a fascinating and troubled past. But the rancor and intrigue surrounding the much-contested fossil has only deepened, leaving a group of battered Denver investors crying foul — again. Discovered in 1995 in…
The wisenheimers at Mighty Fudge Studios have released their latest assault on the Bush administration — just in time for George W’s fly-by visit to Colorado next week for a major Republican fundraiser and graduation speech at the Air Force Academy the next day (see “It Won’t Fly” ). The…
The biggest news in men’s professional tennis recently occurred over a two-week span and involved a single player. Andre Agassi, whose bald head, startled expression and thick brows make him the world’s most recognizable American men’s player, lost in the first round of the Grand Prix Hassan II, a minor…
Leader of the Pack Soar losers: Regarding “The War Within,” Julie Jargon’s first story on the Air Force Academy: I was watching 7 News last night when they announced that they had received the Peabody Award for investigative reporting on the Air Force Academy scandal. Well, I remember when I…
Bill Masters is looking for a meth lab. In the big city, the search would take him down mean streets, to a ratty duplex or a motel bathroom or some tweaker’s garage. But the resort town of Telluride has no mean streets, and the rest of San Miguel County, where…
When Andrew McDonald started as a freshman at South High School, he thought politics were dumb, boring and totally irrelevant to his teenage life. Four years later, he spends weekends volunteering for the John Kerry presidential campaign and writes and performs politically charged poetry in local slam events. “I didn’t…
Student actors at North High School learned a lot from Zoot Suit Riots, the musical that took over their school — and their lives — this spring (“The Next Stage,” April 22). They learned, for example, how to be better performers and how to pull off an ambitious group project…
Democrat John Kerry may have been born at Fitzsimons Army Hospital, but another presidential candidate really lost his head over Colorado. Mike the Headless Chicken’s campaign for U.S. President officially kicked off last weekend, when the fifth annual Mike the Headless Chicken Festival drew hundreds of supporters to Fruita for…
Heath Urie says that for as long as he’s been with the Mirror, the University of Northern Colorado’s student newspaper, of which he is currently editor, “I have seen nothing but the utmost integrity in journalism ethics from our editors and our reporting staff. All of our stories have been…
George Washington played a couple of seasons with the Chicago White Sox. He hit a respectable .268, with nine homers, 24 doubles and 52 runs batted in. The braided waistcoat and buckle shoes must have slowed him down, though. In his 128-game big-league career, George stole just one base. None…
The Killer Inside Him A life in the balance: I just finished reading “Stalking the Bogeyman,” in the May 13 issue, and have been in tears ever since. I can completely empathize with David Holthouse. When I was twelve, I was raped by a man in his late twenties. He…
This time last year I was plotting to kill a man. I was going to walk up to him, reintroduce myself and then blow his balls off. I was going to watch him writhe like a poisoned cockroach for a few seconds, then kick him onto his stomach and put…
It may have been the first time in sports history that snow and snowboarding were incompatible. But here the snow came, landing in drizzling flakes on Tara Tongco’s hard hat — a freak spring storm hindering the completion of Six Flags Elitch Gardens’ new Halfpipe thrill ride. Standing at the…
The after-work party at Govnr’s Park Restaurant and Tavern was in full swing last Friday, the patio and bar packed with people swilling happy-hour double margaritas. But what Off Limits fondly remembers as a great under-age-drinking joint is no longer. Through a tequila-induced haze, we saw the governor himself get…
When Greg Moore took over as editor of the Denver Post in June 2002, staffers predicted plenty of changes at the paper, and they were right. However, most of them probably didn’t anticipate that shifts would continue to take place at a speedy rate throughout the nearly two years to…
When parents and potential players gathered earlier this spring for the inaugural meet-and-greet with the coaches and founders of the Colorado Impact girls’ basketball club, the main message was all about…losing. And not just letting a few squeakers slip away, either. “We will get thrashed,” coach Gary Anderson promised. “And,”…
The Sprawlful Truth Mall-to-mall carpeting: I just read Alan Prendergast’s “The Next Bad Thing,” in the May 6 issue, about the suburbs taking over the open land in Colorado. I am from unincorporated Parker, and I feel the same way that the two gentlemen in the article do. I was…
John Dunn stands on the deck of his home, pointing out the virtues of country living. On a 160-acre spread in southern Elbert County, they are many. The view from Dunn’s porch is one of undulating hills and gently sloping grasslands ringed by stands of ponderosa pine. A small pond…
Janine Wolfe kept wishing for her birthday to come. Days turned into weeks, weeks turned into months, and still her special day eluded her. A friend tried to comfort her by explaining that it can take a year to “birthday,” but another friend told Wolfe that she’d been awaiting hers…
It wasn’t Elizabeth Gardesani’s idea to confront her tormentor this way. She could think of a lot of places she would rather be than alone in an office with the man who she said had raped her repeatedly. She could think of plenty of things she would rather say to…
