Happily ever after is indeed the case for five of six men who went to Thailand in search of love and marriage two years ago as part of a ten-day trip with Richard Beals’ Denver-based Thailand Romance Tours. The company was founded by Richard and his wife, Seow, who guided…
Convicted killer Alberto Valles will be sentenced Friday, February 22, to life in prison without the possibility of parole, likely becoming the last juvenile offender in the state to receive that adult sentence. He will bring the number of Colorado inmates serving life for crimes that they committed prior to…
It has been well reported that certain members of the state legislature have had difficulty comporting themselves, ahem, appropriately so far this session. In just a few weeks, one lawmaker resigned after making an untoward advance on a woman, one was forced to repeatedly apologize for a poor choice of…
Single-game tickets for Colorado Rockies games will go on sale Febuary 16, and yes, the club will once again rely on Paciolan (now owned by Ticketmaster) for Internet purchases. Paciolan is the California company that handled last October’s World Series ticket debacle, which infuriated so many baseball fans when it…
Back in Representative Larry Liston’s day, people called ‘em as they saw ‘em, and Liston calls ‘em sluts. Or at least, that’s how the Colorado Springs Republican chose to describe unwed teenage parents on February 6 during a Republican caucus meeting. “In my parents’ day and age, they were sent…
As noted in Westword’s January 31 cover story, “The Player,” before longtime scam artist Amadeus Harlan started his latest venture, Harlan21, he worked at Legal Aid National Services, Inc., or LANS Corp., a legal-aid operation in Denver that many former employees have accused of unsavory practices. It turns out the…
Maybe it wouldn’t be such a big deal if the Broncos had made it to the playoffs…or won more than half their games…or beaten the Chargers (even once) this season. Maybe it wouldn’t be so irksome if the team had made a sympathetic gesture toward loyal fans by keeping ticket…
House Assistant Majority Leader Michael Garcia, 34, isn’t the first lawmaker to be “exposed” in a lobbyist-related scandal, but in this case, the exposure in question wasn’t about assets under the table, it was about assets on the table – the pool table. The Aurora Democrat resigned Friday after a…
Last night’s bloated “The Celebrity Apprentice” featured the show’s D list of marginal celebs struggling to come up with a clever way to get people to return their old, worn-out Crocs to their local shoe stores, so they can be recycled and donated to the shoeless in developing countries. The…
Looking to get your windshield repaired? Don’t plug “Smart Glass Denver” into Google. You won’t come across the company’s poorly designed website, or even their phone number. Only blog after blog after blog referencing the sad story of Kristi Cannon, a Denver woman who sought revenge after a disturbing incident…
Hi, how are you? Fine, how’ve you been? Terrific. That’s wonderful. How are the kids? They’re great. So what’s new? The answer to that question is the latest book by Debra Fine, Denver’s queen of small talk, conversation expert and author of The Fine Art of Small Talk: How to…
Denver’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Marade (March + Parade) is usually one of the largest King parades in the country. But the festivities, and the way King’s message is presented, has generated debate from people who believe the holiday needs to be less of an exercise in platitudes…
The trial began Wednesday against three people, Glenn Morris, Julie Todd and Koreena Montoya, who were arrested on October 6 and charged with blocking the annual Columbus Day Parade. Charges against a fourth anti-Columbus Day agitator, Russell Means, were dismissed by a Denver County Court Judge (eliciting a cheer from…
New Hampshire votes today, but Denver still has plenty of work to do before February 5, or Super Duper Tuesday as it’s known, when Colorado and 23 other states pick their nominees for president. The Democratic Party, especially, needs to build a massive base of volunteers, and not just wonks…
For many people, the New Year is a time to make resolutions, think about the past and take stock of the future. For the Audubon Society of Greater Denver, it’s time to do the same for city-dwelling birds. More than 75 volunteer birdwatchers have signed up to (figuratively) beat the…
External Malicious Attackers For a while we were tempted to blame Paciolan, the company that handled the online sales, for the ticket-buying fiasco that left Colorado Rockies fans with almost no chance of scoring World Series tickets for anywhere close to face value. We even thought about faulting those cocky…
Life moved fast in 2007, and so did death. We said goodbye to people and institutions that Denver knew and loved. But we said hello to many more. And anyone who stopped long enough to smell the, uh, microwave popcorn, had to cover his mouth and nose when it was…
Diana DeGette has laid claim to the unusual distinction of hosting a Democratic National Convention physically located entirely in a single congressional district: Hers. In the past, conventions have overlapped multiple districts, the congresswoman said Wednesday during a roundtable discussion. The 2008 convention, which takes place next August in Denver,…
This morning’s “Speakout” in the Rocky Mountain News features a curious little rant by one of the University of Colorado’s nuttiest professors, Michael Tracey, the dubious documentarian who made John Mark Karr a household name. The piece is remarkable on several levels, none of which have much to do with…
John Denver may have considered West Virginia to be almost heaven, but the people who live there prefer to think of themselves as wild and wonderful. After months of debate, and two online and telephone polls, the citizenry of West Virginia has chosen ”Wild, Wonderful” rather than “Almost Heaven” as…
Winston Churchill had a saying: “Arguing over the internet is like competing in the Special Olympics – even if you win, you’re still retarded.” Well, maybe it wasn’t Churchill who said it, but any web surfer who’s suddenly found themselves spending hours crafting witty cyber comebacks over topics such as…
Their story usually goes like this. Juan is a disabled ex-Marine living on a monthly check from the Department of Veterans Affairs. His wife, Brenda, is a homemaker who occasionally takes in babysitting money. They have three children — two girls and a boy. They think the house is beautiful,…
