The U.S. Penitentiary Administrative Maximum outside of Florence is so thinly staffed that the unit housing some of the nation’s deadliest terrorists has gone as long as 24 hours without any guards supervising the unit. That’s one of the charges hurled this morning by representatives of the guards’ union. With…
Jason Roth, Cap’n Fresh & the Stay Fresh Seals, and All Teeth And Knuckles August 27, 2007 Larimer Lounge Better than: Weeping into your Miller Lite over the incisive musings of another brilliant singer-songwriter. Tard-tronica. Electrobotomy. Hip-schlock. Call it what you will and make of it what you will, but…
For reasons not made public, Jefferson County Sheriff’s deputies decided to shackle Michael Tate’s feet on day six of his first-degree murder trial. The shackles weren’t visible to the jury, and the jurors weren’t in the courtroom when Tate’s defense team objected to the chaining of their client, who’d seemed…
Audrey Hepburn has been called a timeless beauty and I think this gorgeous tat speaks to that. I snapped this pic at Sputnik Saturday night, just before closing. In my drunken state, I didn’t get the name of the lovely hipster sporting this ink, or the name of the artist…
Here’s a brief look at some of the items America is desperate to learn about today: Carpet skates A fun new way to suffer traumatic head injuries! Carpet skates apparently let you slide across carpeted floors like you do in socks over hardwood. Thank god they didn’t have these when…
Didja think the flow of editorial employees leaving the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News would slow after the end of the most recent buyout cycle? Think again. Scribes have been splitting at a rapid clip, with three new names joining the roster of those exiting: Post basketball writer…
View larger image. California Total Number of Delegates: 441 Pledged: 370 Unpledged: 71 How to Recognize a California Delegate: If the United States of America was a high school and the residents of each state represented a different clique, Californians would be considered the “cool kids,” and California’s Democratic delegates…
Inland Knights & Luke Solomon August 24, 2007 Vinyl & Two A.M. Better than: You know what they say about half a loaf… When something seems too good to be true, it probably is. Something like, say, getting two headlining DJs – Inland Knights and Luke Solomon in this case…
Slide Show First things first. To be honest, I was barely familiar with the 50-plus names of the adult film stars who were at the Fourth Annual Adult Film Star Ball at La Boheme on August 25. But after my seven or so hours of walking between the downtown strip…
Resurrecting the Champ, a Josh Hartnett-Samuel L. Jackson film set in Denver, opened on August 24, and local reviewers gave the movie the hometown discount: Robert Denerstein, writing his first critique for the Rocky Mountain News since accepting a buyout from the tabloid, pinned the piece with a B- (a…
Rock the Bells @ Red Rocks Wednesday, August 22 Red Rocks Better than: Ninety percent of the hip-hop you see on television and hear on the radio. This acts on this bill hardly get any radio or video play anymore. It’s been almost ten years since a quality hip-hop festival…
Day five of Michael Tate’s murder trial began with Tate’s defense team trying to discredit his partner in crime, Michael Fitzgerald, who was testifying against Tate as a part of his plea agreement to a second degree murder charge, which landed Fitzgerald 62 years in prison for his role in…
8.24.07 Le Meridien Hotel Resort Bora Bora, French Polynesia South Pacific Subject: Death on the Zero Horizon PBC, A fatality introduced me to Niko and Chad a few days ago in Papeete, Tahiti. I had just arrived from Auckland and was settled in by the pool at my hotel, sneaking…
Here’s a brief look at some of the items America is desperate to learn about today: Fidel Castro dead The Internet is erupting over the rumor that Fidel Castro is dead. It has yet to be announced by any major news service, but it’s dominating Internet searches. If it’s true,…
Planned Parenthood’s “secret” property buy in the Stapleton area spurred plenty of angst this week when the women’s reproductive health organization divulged its purchase in the Denver Post. Planned Parenthood apparently kept the plan for a new clinic under wraps to avoid protesting, the likes of which stalled construction at…
The little gremlins are back on the yellow buses, which means it’s time for the 2007 “revised” edition of the School Violence Prevention and Student Discipline Manual, issued by Colorado Attorney General John W. Suthers to schools throughout the state. You can find the complete manual here on the AG’s…
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With a near-infinite variety of free porn on the Internet, who reads erotica anymore? Women, apparently. For the most part they’re the ones writing it, too, which makes the Provocateur, a Denver-based male erotica author, something of a rarity – and something of a sensation. “Women really get the sensibilities…
Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean blew into Denver mid-day Wednesday to kick off the one-year countdown to the Democratic National Convention. He stood on the sweltering concrete outside the Pepsi Center, along with Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper and Gov. Bill Ritter to pump up hundreds of party loyalists, thank…
The fourth day of Michael Tate’s first-degree murder trial for killing the father of his friend, Michael Fitzgerald, was supposed to start with Fitzgerald on the stand. But for the third straight day, the trial started late. First, Tate’s attorneys tried to keep Fitzgerald from testifying – an effort that…
The Rocky Mountain News today reports on roadblocks to a plan by two Colorado legislators to start a guest worker program with an open employment office in Mexico. Get the deeper dirt here on Helen Krieble, a woman who’s been working toward that end for years…
