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2001 Stories by David Holthouse

• Finding Forrester

  published December 20, 2001

  Dennis Forrester was reading the Bible inside his cell at the Denver City Jail the morning of October 23 when the lock on his cell door all of a... More >>

• Riding Shotgun

  published November 22, 2001

  Holiday-season installments in the ever-popular series of late-night television advertisements for Rocky's Autos have featured the Shagman... More >>

• This Thug's Life

  published November 8, 2001

  The digital clock in the dashboard of the black Nissan Maxima read five minutes after five in the morning as Frank Lontine took a swig from the... More >>

• A Very Fine House

  published November 8, 2001

  Sex and housecleaning aside, electronic dance music is best appreciated in the thick of a sweaty, pulsating, late-night throng with all the usual... More >>

• Property Values

  published August 16, 2001

  In April, Derek Empey, vice president of development in the San Diego office of the Morgan Group, released an intriguing memo to his co-workers. A... More >>

• A Tough Grind

  published July 19, 2001

  Fifteen-year-old Denver School of the Arts sophomore Charly Lewis refers to his most recent bust for illegal skateboarding as "the alleged... More >>

• Signs of the Times

  published July 5, 2001

  The beggars of Denver call it "flying a sign." The endeavor's only requirements are a scrap of wood or cardboard, a magic marker, and a... More >>

• Toast of the Town

  published June 14, 2001

  Sunday morning, coming down, Charles Caesar raises the dusty left cuff of his blue jeans to show off the burn scar on his leg. "Passed out on a... More >>

• Language Barrier

  published May 24, 2001

  For a casino in Colorado to demand that its housekeepers stop speaking Spanish on the job would seem as plausible a management decision as... More >>