Michael Wheeler, one of the Pleasures Dudes, is riding the stripper like a horse. She scampers on her hands and knees while Mike slaps her butt and flails for the television camera. It’s just after 9 p.m. on a Tuesday — a slow night at Dandy Dan’s, which makes the…
The small house at 320 East 104th Place is about the closest Northglenn comes to a historic building — and that’s precisely why Bill Sullivan wants to tear it apart. Once, in the age of Ozzie and Harriet, the single-story, 820-square foot, two-bedroom “Matchless” model was an emblem of upward…
Boulder’s Twenty Ninth Street retail district held its grand opening in mid-October, and thousands of shoppers strolled along the wide sidewalks and plazas, eyeballing the 875,000 square feet of restaurants, specialty retailers and office space. Built at the intersection of 28th Street and Arapahoe Avenue atop the ruins of the…
The women do not look like they are having fun. Some are screaming in protest, while others stare fearfully at something beyond the edge of the computer screen. Sometimes their heads are sheathed in clear plastic bags, sometimes their mouths sealed with duct tape. And always, there is a weapon…
Twice this past summer, I left business cards at the west Denver home of Joetta Bailey, asking her to call me about her 22-year-old son, Brett Allen Andrews, who’d been arrested in July at the scene of an auto accident, where he’d pretended to be a paramedic while brandishing an…
The day begins with Corporal John Harris leading Pond Patrol Third Force Recon Team amongst the blood-red cliffs and knife-shaped outcroppings of Mulberry Ridge. Suddenly, Private Carlos Rodriguez spots Dr. Jefferson Johnson down by the ravine side. “What’s he doing out here?” Harris thinks. “Wasn’t he supposed to be at…
Federal Boulevard stretches almost thirty miles down the spine of the metro area, from Bowles Boulevard in Littleton, where the Southglenn Luncheon Optimist Club keeps the last mile litter-free, to north of 120th in Westminster, where the Belger family handles clean-up duties as the road loses its U.S. Highway 287…
It was near midnight on Friday, July 14, and the blue and red lights chased each other across the intersection in a delirious rotation. The cause of the hustle was a blue SUV that lay on its side like a tin mailbox that had been kicked down the street and…
“I guarantee you, if we don’t get our liquor licenses because of anything you write, not only will your fucking paper be sued, but you will be sued personally. Everything you own will be gone.” Thus began my strange trip into the many worlds of Scottie Ewing. The former professional…
Nothing says summer like the mobile ice-cream man. But what about the methamphetamine man? On July 23, Denver police pulled over a car in the Cherry Creek area only to discover that the vehicle housed a mobile meth lab — a “rolling lab,” in law-enforcement jargon. (So, do addicts chase…
For the past thirteen years, Carolyne Janssen has used her mountain bike to commute from Governor’s Park to downtown, where she works as a graphic designer with Denver’s Department of Community Planning and Development. On June 30, she’d had a drink with co-workers in LoDo and was just heading home…
The Derailer Bicycle Collective doesn’t advertise its services in newspapers or the Yellow Pages. There’s no sign in front of the shop. Calls to the main number are returned sporadically, if at all. But for the collective’s eight core members, luring cash-carrying customers through traditional means simply isn’t a priority…
Our town, our beautiful Denver, is being hussied up in slut skirts and hair gel just so some corporate dicks can film their next season of The Real World. Our pure mountains majesty, our folksy ways, being sullied and pranced around like some martini-infused, oversexed marionette peering into the wasted…
The founding fathers and mothers of Colorado’s swingers scene meet twice a month at the Best Western Hotel at 200 West 48th Avenue. Established in 1969, the Golden Circle Social Club is considered one of the longest-running swingers clubs in the nation, and its 300 members include couples from their…
Rumors started flying after the article “Pimp” was published in last September’s issue of Skiing magazine. “A lot of gossip,” says World Cup skier Lindsey Kildow, who lives in Boulder. “I don’t remember if we figured out the deal with it.” Jon Billman’s story followed a pro big-mountain skier –…
Waited too long at Scarlet Ranch on 6/10… Couple near the play bed/swing wearing a see-through black top and short skirt. You kept smiling at us and we were too shy to come over. We were the couple sitting on the edge of the massage table. We waited too long…
Residents of Vail will be able to voice their opinions officially on the controversial Crossroads redevelopment, because the proposal is going to a public vote on July 11. For the past year, the legendary ski town has been divided over developer Peter Knobel’s vision for the $250 million Solaris project,…
The writing is on the wall for Marc Ecko. The hip-hop fashion mogul’s original plans to hold a graffiti festival in Denver on June 18 in Skyline Park seem unlikely to come to fruition, as the Denver Office of Cultural Affairs reports that he has yet to apply for a…
I still remember that day in 2003 when I was first granted access to the secret stash of pictures at Jones Drug and Photo in Boulder. “Check this one out,” my friend said, pulling a picture from the middle of the stack. He motioned for me to come behind the…
Like all great landmarks of the underground scene, the skateboard bowl at Fallen Warehouse was spectacular, haphazard and not particularly legal. Culled from the remains of “Bruce’s ramp” after uptight Boulder residents persuaded town administrators to force the deconstruction of that unofficial backyard facility in the summer of 2005, the…
In 1997, Internet surfers looking for a good time on sites like www.sexygirls.com, www.erotic2000.com and www.1adult.com learned that they could access “MORE SEX for FREE” and “ALL NUDE ALL FREE PICTURES” simply by downloading special image-viewer software identified as “david.exe.” But while the porn seekers were getting “FREE XXX IMAGES,”…
The three tourists stare at the sculpture in front of a fur boutique advertising Black Diamond female mink for “only $3,488.” A life-sized bronze of a young woman holding a sun hat and flowers, the piece has a classical vibe — but the woman’s metal dress is dyed a bright,…
