As was noted in this week’s Off Limits, the glitch-ridden Georgetown Loop railroad didn’t open in time for last weekend’s Railroad Days celebration in Georgetown. Some travelers must have showed up in Georgetown expecting otherwise, since on Friday a Denver Post article written by John Wenzel encouraged Memorial Day revelers…

There I was, on the home stretch of the Bolder Boulder, pounding down Folsom Street (read: jogging at an exhausted pace barely faster than a walk), endorphins ramping up for final push over the last hill. Then I heard it, blasting from a loudspeaker at a gas station: “Always have…

News today that Denver International Airport is hoping to place advertisements in the plastic bins used at security checkpoints is sure to stir up complaints about turning security screenings into one big commercial. If you can’t be spared from an advertising bombardment as you take off half your clothes and…

“The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice,” said Theodore Roosevelt. But Roosevelt was wrong, dead wrong. The most successful politician is he who looks most like sexy George Clooney. Of course, old Teddy never could have known this,…

I’m a Boston-born Red Sox fan. Feel my pain. I’m not in pain because of that whole “no World Series championship since 1918” thing. We all know that ended in 2004 during The Greatest Event in the History of the Universe. I’m in pain because I live in Denver, a…

There’s not much to say about this video other than watch it and be impressed. It’s not every day you see a skateboarder bombing down Denver-area hills – on his hands. Makes you wonder: In what fashion does Mr. Cisneros drive a car? – Joel Warner…

The Downtown Denver Area Plan, which will be discussed tonight at a community forum at the Colorado History Museum, 1300 Broadway, from 5:30 to 8 p.m., is the theoretical blueprint for what Denver should look like in the year 2027. Judging from the plan, the Mile High City is getting…

Soon enough, there will be a new landmark on the bluff overlooking Interstate 25 just south of Speer Boulevard: Pinnacle Station, a multi-unit apartment complex planned by developer A.G. Spanos. The project, located in the Jefferson Park neighborhood, will certainly be nicer than the site’s current occupants, the vacant Baby…

Jefferson Park United Neighbors (JPUN) have been butting heads with developers over a proposed apartment complex on the site of the shuttered Baby Doe’s and Chili Pepper restaurants in northwest Denver for a long, heady 20 months, which you can read about here and here. When it came time last…

All of us mile-high slack-jawed mouth breathers can rejoice: culture has finally reached our little Podunk burgh. As the front page of yesterday’s Denver Post declared, “Surreal world comes to Denver.” As Post fine arts critic Kyle MacMillan breathlessly reported, “Bubbling up from the street-smart subcultures of surfing, hip-hop and…

As noted in the March 8 story “Bus-ted,” Parents Television Council Denver Chapter Director George Robison is suspiciously good at the violent video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories – but that doesn’t mean he wants ads for the game splashed all over Regional Transportation District trains and buses…

Offense Report No: 07-0243491 Date: 04-16-07 Type of Offense: Third Degree Assault Location of Offense: Capitol Hill Weapon Used: Skillet Officer Brown reports: “Investigation showed that the suspect [a 23-year-old female] and the victim [a 52-year-old male] were in an argument and the suspect hit the victim with a cast-iron…

The yard signs are out in force in the Jefferson Park neighborhood in northwest Denver, telling passersby that residents here aren’t anti-development, just anti-bad development. Key talking points have been dispersed to neighborhood association members, noting that their neighborhood, an up-and-coming enclave of new condos and town homes alongside empty…

When Michael R. and Deb O’Keefe, owners of a private Commerce City BDSM club, went before the Colorado Court of Appeals to contest the city denying them a sexually oriented business license application, the couple believed the judges in the hearing thoroughly slapped the city’s lawyers around (“Fit to Be…

Just in case you’re all dressed up with nowhere to go, here are a few late-breaking events we heard about too late to include in this week’s Night and Day calendar: On April 13, Denver music hub Twist & Shout and local hip-hop maven Jeff “Apostle” Campbell are hosting WORD:…

As part of the Denver National Convention brouhaha in town yesterday, Howard Dean announced the convention committee’s leadership team. It’s a powerful, experienced bunch, including Leah Daughtry, Dean’s chief of staff, as the convention’s CEO. The list also includes Jenni Engebretsen as deputy CEO for public affairs, an apt choice…

Colorado is known far and wide for its fleet-footed and dexterous athletes, and it’s time to add a new name to that list: Ryan Ford. Ford, a sophomore at the University of Colorado at Boulder, is the driving force behind the Colorado contingent of parkour, the sport/philosophy of using high-speed…

They came to David Mirich looking for answers. Some were referred by the courts, since Mirich, a Wheat Ridge-based licensed psychologist, is a sex-offender evaluator. Some came of their own volition, not waiting for a judge to tell them that they needed help. They got pleasure from pain, they told…

The gray-haired professor cracks his whip in mid-air. “Wake up back there!” he commands the two dozen folks lounging around on plush cream couches. It’s time for class. “It is particularly important to understand the physics of the paddle,” says the professor, who is wearing tight, black leather pants. “The…

Alonzo Bodden Ant Kathleen Madigan 34 Fucking Hours In Line for This? — Tuesday, April 3, 9 a.m. Finally, finally, finally the Last Comic Standing producers show up and they avoid a potential violent insurrection by adopting the unofficial list that the people in line have written and photocopied as…

Fat Man at Last Comic Standing — A Poem Fat Man at Last Comic Standing washing your beached walrus body in the tiny public bathroom they’ve provided us I find your compete and total nudity, how you say, surprising I find your fat-fuck-fuck folds ubiquitous, the hypnotic bulge that thankfully,…