Troy Lowrie’s work clothes confuse his staff. Sometimes he’s spiffed-out in a courtly suit, fine leather shoes and a shiny watch. Some days he comes dressed in Dockers and a smart polo. On the occasions he wears blue jeans and a T-shirt, it’s not uncommon for one his female employees…
More than a year ago, just before he was elected to a third term, Mayor Wellington Webb pledged that within six months, he would appoint a “drug czar” who would oversee the city’s battle against illegal substance abuse. The March 31, 1999, promise was part of a sweeping plan suggested…
Fans of John Travolta are causing a run on pre-registrations for Starfest 2000, a massive science-fiction convention to be held this weekend at the Holiday Inn DIA. Along with Kate Mulgrew (aka Star Trek Voyager’s Captain Kathryn Janeway), Travolta is the featured star power at this year’s big bang. And…
The style is instantly identifiable: hyperactive language, frequent pop-culture references mingled with absurdly trivial arcana, plenty of ludicrous catch phrases and a winking acknowledgement that caring about muscle-headed athletes who spout cliches like Linda Blair spews pea soup in The Exorcist is kinda silly, but what the hell? That’s the…
There are many secrets, but you can never underestimate the importance of good blush. As any drag queen worth her mascara will tell you, everything starts with foundation. Then it’s contouring, highlighting, accentuating and blending. Blending, blending, blending, with special attention to the area under the chin to smooth the…
Marcus sure loved spending time outside that house of his on Lookout Mountain. He was a software engineer, a profession known for attracting pasty-faced dudes who prefer dark rooms to sunlit skies. But Marcus didn’t fit the mold. Like his wife Robin, he was a fitness freak — a nonsmoker…
When it comes to radio frequencies (RF), safety can be mighty tough to define. Many people who warn about the risks of nonionizing radiation below thermal levels, including B. Blake Levitt, the Connecticut-based author of the award-winning 1995 book Electromagnetic Fields: A Consumer’s Guide to the Issues and How to…
The clash between Lookout Mountain residents and broadcasters is a minor scuffle compared to an incident in Usfiya, a village in Israel near Haifa. On March 15, the Jerusalem Post reported that eighteen people, ten of them police officers, were hurt there during a riot provoked by anger over cell-phone…
On December 13, 1999, Scott LeRoy’s seven-year-olddaughter came home from Majestic Heights Elementary with a letter explaining that her school might close. The letter said that in order to save money, the Boulder Valley Board of Education planned to consolidate several schools within the city. The note came as quite…
A vasectomy performed with a scalpel goes something like this: The doctor reaches for a scalpel, makes an incision on both sides of the patient’s scrotum, fingers around for the vas, cauterizes each side of the spermicidal conduit, and stitches ’em up. If the patient is lucky, he can expect…
The most pressing things on the minds of most eleven-year-old girls is whether Mom is going to let them wear makeup before they’re sixteen, or if the boys in English class are ever going to stop pulling their braids. The eleven-year-old boys, in the meantime, are busy playing Little League…
Parents in northeast Denver have had enough. They’re sick of learning every year that their schools are failing, they’re tired of hearing that their kids aren’t doing well because they’re from poor neighborhoods, and they’re fed up with bringing their demands for better teachers and more schools before the Denver…
Last week’s news that the state legislature wants to cut the lieutenant governor’s budget by 25 percent — meaning the elimination of two positions from a six-person staff — came as a blow to Joe Rogers, the man who currently holds the job. But since there are only four people…
I’m sitting in the snow at the top of the half-pipe at Eldora, watching Chris Pappas ride down. The eighteen-year-old boys around me stop doing whatever they’re doing and stare down into the pipe. They all know who Chris is, and it’s commonly accepted that on some level, he has…
Journalists love anniversaries — and why not? It’s all but impossible to plan in advance for the specifics of breaking news, since in most cases no one knows where, when or how it will happen, or whether it will ultimately achieve a lasting significance. But story commemorations don’t suffer from…
Basketball players and boxers, in particular, like to talk about how they get no respect. What this usually means is that the athlete allegedly being disrespected (see also: “dissed”) feels his opponent is not showing proper regard for the dissee’s sporting skill. Denver-area curlers, though, have a much more basic…
Mad TV Regarding T.R. Witcher’s “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised!” in the March 30 issue: What a typical Denver story: A legitimate bid for a building is rejected so that the city can play favorites with a certain political faction. But this time, the joke is on the Hispanic…
Lee Hill pulls his truck over to the curb in an older, tree-lined Boulder neighborhood. He gets out and glances around, a Glock 9-millimeter handgun concealed beneath his black trench coat. The home where he’s stashed The Witness is a few blocks away, but he doesn’t want to park in…
On Wednesday, February 23, Sharon Vigil and Scott Flores, the president and chairman of the Denver Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, respectively, posed in front of the former Denver District Attorney’s building at the busy corner of Colfax Avenue and Speer Boulevard. They were announcing that the Hispanic Chamber would be…
Tracy Jenkins sounds like she’s fielding three calls at once. It happens when you’re one of two people responsible for a new cable channel that was supposed to air last week but at the last minute has been delayed. Though the Hispanic Entrepreneur Channel has fizzled out, the Black Entrepreneur…
Near the mouth of Denver International Airport’s Jeppesen Terminal, right before Peña Boulevard splits into the east and west entrances, and just out of view, is a huge parking lot filled with hundreds of taxicabs, a dozen shuttles, several limousines and an RTD bus or two. In the middle of…
Bounty hunter Duane “Dog” Chapman slips out the front door of his office, which is across the street from Sloan Lake Park, dodges the cars speeding down Sheridan Boulevard and rescues a fellow dog, a large black poodle named Copper. Lost for hours, Copper had roamed onto the street. When…
