Other than a short telephone conversation and a brief formal statement, Mary Louise Starkey, founder and head of the Starkey International Institute of Household Management, declined to answer further questions for “At Your Disservice,” which detailed allegations of shoddy management, questionable educational programs and other turmoil at this Denver-based butler…
Slide Show “This song is not a rebel song. This song is ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday!’” This song is beset by incorrectly tuned guitars. But let’s not get too nitpicky about local U2 tribute band Under a Blood Red Sky’s performance of “Sunday Bloody Sunday” and the rest of their act…
In Kama Sutra, the one-act play showing today at 3 p.m. at the Dangerous Theatre, 2620 West Second Avenue, the show’s two characters are nearly naked the entire time. And most of the action — including “action” of the illicit kind — takes place in bed. Not to mention the…
As was noted in a May Off Limits column, promotional efforts for the Georgetown Loop railroad have recently been stymied by www.georgetowncolorado.com, www.georgetownloop.com and www.gtownloop.com – websites owned by former Loop operator Mark Greksa. The sites, which are usually the first to pop up in a Google search on the…
Poor Scooter Brightman. As host of Lannie’s Clocktower Cabaret’s Celebrity Spelling Bee and Quiz Show, the extravagant Irishman (the alter ego of Jefferson Arca, Lannie’s general manager) has to hold his own among local celebrities, burlesque girls and audience members. They’re all matching wits starting at 7 p.m., hoping to…
Couple in 50s seeking experienced household manager with high service standards to manage three homes, two homes in Texas and one in Colorado . . . Light culinary and extensive vendor management are must skills. Salary 100-120k. Male couple seeking household manager with an assertive service style to manage their…
The students at the Starkey International Institute for Household Management knew something was wrong that day in February: Mary Louise Starkey, founder and president of the Denver-based school, the 57-year-old “First Lady of Service” who’d transformed the lowly world of butlers into the booming and respectable “household management” industry, was…
More than a decade ago, actor Robert Dubac launched a one-man, multi-character comedic performance on gender issues titled The Male Intellect: An Oxymoron. After taking that show around the world, the Telluride resident is back with a sequel: Robert Dubac’s Male Intellect: The 2nd Coming, which begins a one-month engagement…
When a Denver cop saw a man drop a cup on the ground in the alley off 15th and California streets on June 20, the officer asked if the man would object to being searched, since the cop knew the alley as a hotbed for criminal activity. The officer didn’t…
Shawn Lukitsch, co-owner of the North Carolina independent production company Agency Films, will never forget the first time he hopped a train. He was in Milwaukee, and his roommate had just skipped town with the rent money. So Lukitsch went down to the snowy railyard and jumped on a train…
On a beautiful summer evening several weeks ago, Red Rocks went green. Under a full moon, the socially righteous artist Michael Franti and his band, Spearhead, took to the arena’s stage in what was billed as “the most energy efficient and environmentally responsible event in the history of Red Rocks.”…
The farming techniques of Africa are being handed down from one generation to the next on a tiny farm in East Aurora. Each day, Somali Bantu parents are there with their young children, planting seeds, tending crops or harvesting a small bit of produce. Their profits are meager, but the…
Denver has seen the future of downtown development, and his name is Evan Makovsky. Makovsky, a discreet yet long-standing Denver developer, first made waves last month when he announced plans to buy and revitalize most of a decrepit downtown block bordered by the 16th Street Mall, California, 15th and Welton…
It’s an age-old lovers’ conundrum: You want to gastronomically spice things up with your significant other, but lately your kitchen creations have been less than romantically inspired. Doing the whole Lady and the Tramp pasta-slurp thing is so passé. Sushi is sexy, but not when you have to make it…
Don’t expect a prim-and-proper ode to the Bard of Avon at the free Shakespeare Festival at Skyline Park, 16th and Arapahoe streets, starting tonight at 6 p.m. Soliloquies may get a little lively, and actors may get feisty with off-stage prompters. After all, the players involved haven’t rehearsed the plays…
As we wrote about in “Pot of Gold,” Joseph Brodsky, coffee buyer for the Denver-based boutique coffee roaster Novo Coffee, traveled to Ethiopia last October to search out the African origins of the Panamanian Geisha coffee bean, widely considered one of the best coffees in the world. When the trip…
HIV information and b-boy jams. Anti-drug messages and basketball clinics. These topics may seem disparate, but it turns out together they’re the perfect subject matter for the all-ages HipHopOsium Art n’ Motion Urban Health Fair today and tomorrow, July 6 and 7, at the Auraria Events Center, 900 Auraria Parkway…
Someone was at the front door. Miranda’s two-year-old daughter rushed toward it, figuring that her father was home. But then the door burst open, narrowly missing her, and the toddler saw that it wasn’t Daddy after all. It was a SWAT team. Armor-clad police officers stormed inside, weapons drawn. They…
This year’s wet winter and spring means that more than just backyard weeds are on a rampage. River levels are up, too, so it’s a better time than ever to check out — or sign up for — the freestyle kayaking fun today and next Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. at…
The Colorado Supreme Court may soon have an opportunity to consider masochism and municipal code. After Commerce City denied a local private BDSM club a sexually oriented business license, the club’s owners, Michael R. and Deb O’Keefe, took the city to court (“Fit to Be Tied,” April 12). The Colorado…
To Whom It May Concern: My name is Aron Palma. I am a proud North High senior. I would first of all like to thank you for your time and consideration in reading this letter. The reason I am writing to you is to hopefully inspire and motivate you to…
Westword’s crack team of political analysts are at it again. Last week they answered the age-old question, “Which local politician most resembles Shakira?” Now they’ve taken their investigation one step further, to bring to you, for the first time (drum roll, please) WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF LOCAL POLITICOS MATED WITH…
