Ralph Fisch, who co-founded the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Institute (CAAPI) with John Dicke in January 2000 and has supported Dicke’s use of adult sex toys in the treatment of children who have reportedly been sexually abused, will likely lose his teaching job because of his association with the therapist…
Four years ago, the race for Jefferson County sheriff attracted about as much attention as a quilting bee in Punkin Center. The campaign, which pitted a powerful Republican county commissioner against a little-known Arvada police commander running as an independent, produced few fireworks and had a predictable outcome. This time…
“Shame on you.” Like monkeys and reporters, state lawmakers can be a shameless bunch. But that didn’t stop Randy Brown from heaping shame on members of the House Civil Justice and Judiciary Committee last week. After four hours of emotion-charged testimony, including pleas by Brown and other parents to seek…
Last spring, staffers at the Rocky Mountain News were aghast when the paper’s logo was removed from one side of its landmark 400 West Colfax Avenue headquarters and replaced with the words “Denver Newspaper Agency” — the entity created by a joint operating agreement to handle business operations for both…
The Denver Post has gotten a lot of attention from public officials lately. And much of it has been far from positive. Examples? On March 5, the paper published a letter written by state senator Ed Perlmutter, who condemned a February 26 Post editorial lambasting an amendment he’d put forward…
What disorder compels a man to neglect his accounts, shun his family, starve his dog and inflate his bar tab so that it looks like the U.S. defense budget? What terror binds the victim to couch or barstool, gazing at multiple boob tubes for twelve- or fourteen-hour stretches, day after…
Bored Stiff The battle of the bulge: Well, I enjoy clever penis references as much as any other stiff, and Patricia Calhoun and Westword obviously are interested in giving rise to them. So out comes Westword, unzipped and all, to extend El Dildo Bandido’s fifteen minutes of fame and spin…
On a Monday in early January, Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Deputy Jim Taylor was finally brought to account for the strange and disturbing story he’d been telling about the Columbine massacre for nearly three years. Summoned that morning to a meeting with internal affairs, Taylor admitted that the story was, in…
Rumors of the zip code shuffle started bubbling through parts of Sloan Lake and West Highland — north Denver neighborhoods that had been happy with their 80212 label — a few months ago. Then came the special-delivery surprise: Not only was the United States Postal Service proposing to move some…
Denver International Airport hasn’t had much good news to celebrate lately, since the last six months have been tough at airports across the country — even those that aren’t bedeviled by loafing cops and groping security screeners. So Steve Snyder of DIA’s public-relations office can perhaps be forgiven for the…
In his introduction to a report on February 4, Channel 7 investigative reporter Tony Kovaleski called the situation viewers were about to see “discouraging” — and if anything, he was guilty of understatement. But the discouragement didn’t stop at the facts of the case, which concerned the botched handling of…
“If I win, everybody will say, ‘Well, of course he won; he’s the top-ranked player.’ But if I lose…” “You won’t lose, Josh.” “What if I do?” “You won’t.” “I’m afraid I might.” — from Searching for Bobby Fischer On the seventeenth move of his sixth game in the final…
Yeah, That’s the Ticket His time’s up! Kenny Be’s “As the world-class city turns,” his February 28 Worst-Case Scenario, had this world-class “cityzen” laughing his ass off. So sad this story is based on real events. Too bad our “world-class-city politicians” play more Marco Polo in Denver than they do…
On April 7, 1995, Coors Field opened for business. Designed to blend into Denver’s lower-downtown warehouse district, the retro-looking, brick-encased home of the new expansion Colorado Rockies baseball club was an instant hit. Of course, at a cost of $215 million, the architecture did not come cheap. But thanks to…
Last summer, Richard Boulware was looking through some photos that his brother, John, had purchased at an estate sale. The photos were all taken in the small Park County town of Como in the 1890s, when it was an important transfer point on the Denver, South Park & Pacific Railroad…
Back at the turn of the last century, lower downtown was the jumping-off point for thousands of travelers who arrived in town by train and then set out to earn their fortunes — some honestly, some less so. A hundred years later, on September 29, 2000, Prince Ali Patrik Pahlavi…
Fortune magazine is the latest mega-media outlet to smile upon Nobody in Particular Presents, the Denver-based concert-promotion company that shook up the music industry last August when it filed an anti-trust lawsuit against Clear Channel Entertainment (“Taking on the Empire,” August 23, 2001). Since then, the fiery showbiz tale has…
Feelings, nothing more than feelings. It’s almost time to say so long to Argenbright Security, the screeners at Denver International Airport who put such enthusiasm into their work (“Busted!” October 11, 2001). Last month, the Department of Transportation announced that the federal government would no longer be doing business with…
Suddenly, business is killer for Denver artist David Johnson. After the holidays, the 31-year-old sculptor’s Web site (www.spectre-studios.com) had been pretty much, well, dead; even before Christmas, the public wasn’t grabbing up his original serial-killer action figures — six-inch toy replicas of Ted Bundy, Ed Gein, John Wayne Gacy and…
The last major shakeup in Denver’s commercial radio market took place in the wake of the 1999 merger of two Texas mega-corporations: Clear Channel, the nation’s largest owner of radio stations, and a previous rival, AMFM. Before it would approve the deal, the Federal Communications Commission demanded that Clear Channel…
For every year they spend at altitude, baseball players and newspaper writers lose a couple of IQ points. But don’t let that stand in the way of a reckless prediction: The Colorado Rockies will return to the playoffs this year. That’s right, Cracker Jack. Despite a shrinking payroll, the absence…
The Unkindest Cuts Banned aid: I just finished reading Stuart Steers’s “Cutting Edge,” in the February 14 issue. Has everyone become so wrapped up in glittery profit that they’ve forgotten about the people who are sick? I am a single mother who works menial jobs so that my daughter can…
