Defense lawyer Harvey Steinberg wants a copy of the alleged child pornography his client is accused of possessing and distributing. Arapahoe County prosecutors say Steinberg can look at it, but he can’t have a copy, because it’s illegal for anyone — including a defense lawyer — to possess child porn…
The Denver Botanic Gardens is trying to be a better neighbor to residents who have long complained about noise from summer concerts, the high volume of traffic and street parking during DBG events. An apologetic Brinsley Burbidge, the organization’s executive director, made the initial peace offering on July 18, during…
While Colorado’s Ocean Journey is awash in financial woes, its founders are doing swimmingly. Back in February, William Fleming and Judy Petersen-Fleming, who created the aquarium and now serve, respectively, as its director of life sciences and its vice president for creative and strategic planning (at a reported salary of…
At first glance, the $7,000 fine the Federal Communications Commission levied on May 31 against Colorado Springs-based KKMG, known as Magic FM, seems inconsequential. But because the station, which is appealing the decision, was punished for playing a so-called radio edit of “The Real Slim Shady,” a hit by Eminem…
The crooks, whores and liars who run the Olympic Games have a weakness for symbolism almost as powerful as their taste for cash. They love their flag-raising ceremonies and their five-ring logos almost as much as they love bribery, and they go ape for big pots of fire. Most of…
Things to Do in Denver When You’re Ed Concrete dreams: I was glad to read David Holthouse’s “A Tough Grind,” in the July 19 issue — an honest article addressing the new public skate park. Thank you, Westword, and thank you, Joyce Foster, for giving our subculture the respect we…
Fifteen-year-old Denver School of the Arts sophomore Charly Lewis refers to his most recent bust for illegal skateboarding as “the alleged trespassing incident.” It happened last month. Summer vacation had just begun. “It was a beautiful day,” Lewis recalls. “It was the kind of day where I didn’t care what…
Nobody knows what’s going on inside Colorado’s nursing homes better than Virginia Fraser. One recent morning, Fraser spent several hours visiting the Cherrelyn nursing home in Littleton, introducing herself to residents as their ombudsman. “I’m here to advocate for the people who live here,” she told an elderly woman with…
Bill Coleman is a hardworking man. He’s reliable and responsible, and he shows up on time. In fact, his previous employers have nothing but good things to say about him. “He’s definitely a people person,” says Merilyn Lyons, special events coordinator for Conoco in Colorado. “I would recommend him to…
Alan Prendergast is on a roll. The veteran Westword staff writer has just racked up two more journalism wins — and the contest season isn’t over. Last week, Prendergast’s “Lessons From the Third Grade,” published in the January 27, 2000, issue, was named winner of the Paul L. Myhre Single…
John Denver died in the water — he crashed his experimental plane into California’s Monterey Bay in 1997 — but he lived in, and for, the mountains. So it’s fitting that a group of climbers is now trying to reach, and then scale, the northernmost — and never-before-climbed — mountain…
On May 25, Erik Weihenmayer was sitting on top of the world. Well, technically speaking, he was lying near the top of the world. With his stomach convulsing. He’d just yanked himself over the 39-foot rock face called the Hillary Step, the last technical hurdle on the way to the…
Fire When Ready! Taking aim at ammo: In his July 12 “Attention, Kmart Shoppers,” Alan Prendergast did an amazing job of ignoring the real issue surrounding guns: people who abuse their usage and why they do it. Congrats. Angel Shamaya, executive director KeepAndBearArms.com Freak show: I have to wonder whether…
Electric Company Zap comics: I have all the symptoms described in Harrison Fletcher’s June 28 “Unlucky Strike”: memory loss, loss of balance, general confusion. I thought it was age, but now I know better. I must have been struck by lightning! Great story, by the way. Susan Mulligan Denver Greased…
Wherefore art thou, Tony? Let us count the ways, Cal. America’s love affair with sports heroes can be a pretty sordid business, based more on flash than substance. One year, the madding crowd worships a steroid-stuffed behemoth who whacks lots of Flubber-filled cowhide into the cheap seats. The next, they…
Dan Leventhal has always considered himself a safe motorcycle rider. He makes it a point to obey all posted traffic laws and doesn’t take advantage of his bike’s superior maneuverability by cutting off other motorists or splitting lanes to trace the white line. For Dan, who’s in his late twenties…
Media coverage of the most recent Colorado legislative session concentrated on a handful of grabby issues: the failed attempt to pass a growth package, a pro-marriage proposal popularly characterized as the “Dr. Laura bill,” and so on. But plenty of other goings-on took place at the State Capitol, including an…
Although no-fault auto insurance was once seen as a cure for expensive policies and endless litigation, it’s been far from perfect. The no-fault law in Michigan, however, seems to be working better than most and is arguably kinder to motorcycle riders than any similar measure in the country. But while…
The cookbook looks more like a scrapbook than something a person would refer to for information — much less precise, instructional information. Pieces of torn paper and yellowed newspaper clippings stick out from all sides, and a thin veneer of sugar, shiny and browned, coats much of the back. Both…
Colorado Cache Reading through the three cookbooks produced by the Junior League of Denver serves as an armchair tour of Colorado’s recent culinary history. The now legendary Colorado Cache, published in 1978, featured an intriguing mix of salt-of-the-earth favorites (Spaghetti Pie, Corn-Broccoli Bake, Perfect White Cake), exotic-sounding foreign classics (Twelve-Boy…
Two weeks ago, when Kmart officials announced that their stores would stop selling handgun ammunition, they described the decision as a shift in “merchandising strategy” that had been in the works for some time. It was just a coincidence, they suggested, that Kmart executives had met with filmmaker Michael Moore…
Villa Italia Mall, which opened in 1966 on one hundred acres at the corner of Alameda Avenue and Wadsworth Boulevard in Lakewood, will officially close on July 15, another victim of bigger and better malls on all sides of Denver. Although it has been suffering since the early 1990s, Villa…
