Jerome Biffle wants to be remembered. For the thousands and thousands of students he counseled at East High School between 1962 and 1992, that won’t be a problem. “Oh, Lord, there’s been quite a few,” Biffle says. “I can’t count them.” When they run into him around town, they’ll say,…
National Western Stock Show CEO Pat Grant may have forgotten to brief some speakers before they addressed the town’s moovers and shakers at last Friday’s Boots ‘n Business Luncheon. Denver has the “best” Stock Show facilities, said one of the honored rodeo stars of “yesteryear.” Echoed National Western announcer and…
Joining the list of bigwigs who’ve publicly berated Denver International Airport is George Mitrovich, who chided the airport in a letter to the Denver Post last month. “I have often cited DIA as a state-of-the-art airport, a model for the rest of the world,” he began. “But after barely making…
Tourism is suffering in Colorado, and as governor, Bill Owens is certainly in a position to help. In late September, the Colorado Tourism Office — the relatively new agency in charge of promoting the state as a travel destination and run by a board of governor-appointed representatives of the tourism…
When the National Western Stock Show stampedes into town on January 12 for its yearly two-week stay, one of the regular guests won’t be part of the party. The elk, which were added to the show’s lineup of unusual livestock just a few years ago, will be staying home this…
It was the year no one wants to remember, the year no one will ever forget. For half a decade, Colorado — and the rest of the country — had reveled in high times and good spirits. Even all those predictions of a catastrophic Y2K had come to naught, and…
It’s been five years since JonBenét Ramsey’s Christmas 1996 murder in Boulder rocked the known world, but even time hasn’t quelled much of the weirdness associated with this case, nor has it mellowed some of the strange and peripheral characters who got involved in the crime’s aftermath. One of the…
Movie screenings aren’t normally a tough ticket in this town. Free passes to early showings of the average flick can be snagged easily — not just by local film critics, but by anyone who knows where to go to get one. But then, The Fellowship of the Ring — the…
For Greg Kolomitz, election “day” this year felt like it lasted forever. In actuality, it was three weeks long. But the 21-day stretch between when the polls opened in Denver’s first all-mail-ballot election and when they closed November 6 meant that politicians and political strategists such as Kolomitz had to…
Arapahoe County-based AT&T Broadband believes in making holiday wishes come true; it says so right in the glossy advertisement that was inserted in hundreds of thousands of Denver newspapers on Sunday. “With monthly rates starting at $35.95, AT&T Broadband Internet service makes it easy and affordable to shop for everyone…
Okay, so he’s a not a super-duper star, but he is pretty famous, especially now that he’s co-starring in the remake of Ocean’s 11 with five legitimate superstars — and hey, he’s from Denver, which usually is enough to rate several gossip-column items when an actor visits his hometown. Still,…
The Thanksgiving weekend will be a little quieter at Denver International Airport this year, and not just because United Airlines has retired its entire fleet of rumbling 727s. For the first time in many years, there will be no musicians roaming the concourses, placating tense travelers and making merry. “From…
It’s no wonder Harold Hasselback, a longtime defensive end for the Denver Broncos, didn’t make the team this year — he was too busy cooking to practice. Specifically, he was perfecting his “Come and Getty Your Shrimp, Shrimp Spaghetti.” And Hasselback isn’t the only ex-Bronco (along with ex-Broncos’ current wives)…
Jeff Peters was getting ready to drive his daughter, Heather, to class at the University of Colorado on September 11 when he turned on the television and saw the World Trade Center’s north tower in flames. “I said, ‘Heather, we’re being attacked,'” he remembers, “and she said, ‘How do you…
Hundreds of grass-guzzlers lined up at the one-and-only Mile High Stadium late last month to buy rolls of souvenir sod lifted off the soon-to-be-paved-over playing field. The turf, which sold at $10 for a six-foot section, was so popular that the city — with a big assist from Denver City…
Columnist and National Public Radio commentator Andrei Codrescu came to town to speak at the University of Denver last month — but it was his trip back to New Orleans that made headlines. “I waited two and a half hours to go through security at the Denver airport. The people…
The accomplishments of two Boulder-based researchers were all over the news earlier this month after the men, University of Colorado physics professor Carl Wieman and Eric Cornell, of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics. Less heralded was the award another Coloradan recently…
An already incipient recession fueled by the September 11 terrorist attacks may have closed most people’s pocketbooks to purchases of anything other than guns, flags and shares of defense-industry stocks, but apparently it hasn’t affected those who pay top dollar to attend the theee-ater, particularly when the highbrow evening is…
The current conflict is bringing all kinds of Coloradans front and center. First, former U.S. senator Gary Hart issued a very public “I told you so,” since his study predicting that terrorists were almost certain to strike U.S. soil — okay, sometime in the next 25 years — had gone…
Just as they did in the weeks prior to his eleventy-first birthday, “the history and character of Mr. Bilbo Baggins” have again become a topic of conversation among those who pay attention to the world of Hobbits. But as September 22nd, the date of Bilbo’s birthday and that of his…
Suddenly, it was Groundhog Day. Sunday evening, ABC ran the very same Who Wants to Be a Millionaire that it had shown last Monday night, just twelve hours before the world exploded. Intended as a kickoff to Monday Night Football, whose first match of the season featured the Broncos and…
Rules rule in Denver Public Schools, but there’s a difference between the golden ones and those that are tarnished with age. And as part of his effort to revamp DPS, new superintendent Jerry Wartgow last month created the Dumb Rules Committee, with the goal of getting to the bottom of…
