Trouble is percolating once more in the 18th Judicial District, where District Attorney Carol Chambers seems to have fallen into the habit of blasting everybody else for their lack of judicial decorum. A few months ago Chambers was publicly sanctioned for butting into a civil case on behalf of an…
Crack numbed the hooker so much that she didn’t even realize the foot that she was walking on was broken. For weeks she walked down Colfax, too high to feel the pain, turning tricks for as little as $10 to get another rock. By the time she finally sobered up,…
Offense Report No: 07-258069 Date: 04-21-07 Type of Offense: Criminal Mischief Location of Offense: Hampden South Victim Type: Christ Community Church Officer R. Harris reports: “Investigation disclosed that unknown suspects removed listed items [four 8-foot florescent bulb, 2 Plexiglass sign letters] from the victim’s sign, then wrote “Repent of your…
Well, it’s not exactly the 100-year flood, but the overflow on the Cherry Creek near downtown sure felt that way to people who use the path everyday. Because of recent rains, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been releasing water out of Cherry Creek Reservoir south of the city…
There is something about Chipper Jones that just drives white-trash women crazy. It’s uncanny. Much like NASCAR, buckets of fried-chicken, pit bulls, cold sores, black eyes and having way more babies than they can afford, white-trash women are unable to exist without a love of the Atlanta Braves slugger. It’s…
Camel No. 9 Glamour Ball 3 Kings Tavern 04/206/2007 Slideshow R.J. Reynolds has redirected its energy. No longer does the cigarette company focus on baiting children with a seemingly innocent mascot, but they have now moved on to cornering the hipster market. Or maybe the children of the Joe Camel…
If you have an extreme fear of heights, it’s wise to not accept a job that requires you to work on the side of a mountain. I realized that a little too late last May, as I found myself faced with a dilemma: choose certain death working on the side…
THURS, 3/24 Saturday night at my grandma’s house was always Welk night. Once a week, we would dress up in hats and furs and do the polka. That wasn’t as strange as it sounds: From The Lawrence Welk Show’s inception in 1955 through the early ’70s, millions of viewers tuned…
FRI, 3/18 Charles Dickens once said that “home is a name, a word,” but for the students at P.S.1, the concept of “home” can also be expressed in images. For the past month, more than a dozen students from the charter school have been working with digital storytellers Daniel Weinshenker,…
Most mothers of small children know the score: They shyly finger the racks at Oilily or April Cornell, purposely ignoring the price tags and, well, dreaming. Because unless they’ve got hundreds of bucks to throw away on a gorgeous ensemble their kid will outgrow next month, they know they’ve got…
