Easter was last month, so the bunny sighted at Argonaut Wine & Liquor on May 5 must have been another animal altogether. Indeed. Playboy’s Miss May, Crista Nicole, was at the giant liquor store on East Colfax Avenue preening, penning autographs and promoting Pete’s Wicked Ale — which has paired…

Talk about greasing the wheels! At last Saturday’s Carousel of Wishes Ball (not to be confused with the Carousel Ball hosted in the early ’80s by Barbara and Twentieth Century-Foxy Marvin Davis, before they took off for La-La Land), sweeter-and-lighter-than-a-Krispy-Kreme Bob Goen, the Entertainment Tonight anchor who emceed the benefit…

Denver will get its chance to make a lasting impression on Boeing executives next week when the aerospace company makes a second visit to the Mile High City. Boeing, which announced last month that it plans to move out of its Seattle headquarters — taking 500 jobs and lots of…

It’s not easy working for the state prison system. You spend the majority of your waking hours dealing with the criminal element — or at least thinking about the criminal element — and when you get home, you have to selectively edit out details of the workday for your kids’…

Andy Warhol quipped that in the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes — but he didn’t explain how to make it happen. The following makes a good first lesson. On April 1, the Boulder Daily Camera ran a story previewing an April 3 Boulder City Council meeting at…

Of the nine candidates running for the District 6 city council spot recently vacated by Susan Casey, Charlie Brown probably has the best name recognition. Unlike the browbeaten cartoon character, however, this Charlie Brown is no blockhead: A former teacher, he served for two years in the mid-1980s in the…

Writer Neal Pollack is not to be trusted. In his first book, The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature, the former Chicago Reader columnist takes on the persona of a man with the same name — one who has led a startlingly full life as a globe-trotting journalist and whose…

The $500-an-hour man, lawyer Steve Farber, was roasted Tuesday at a luncheon benefiting the I Have a Dream Foundation. And how appropriate was that? Farber apparently believes so strongly in the concept of sponsoring kids’ education that every year, he adopts the entire freshmen class of the Colorado Legislature, then…

The scrubby hills between East Sand Creek and East Drennan Road in Colorado Springs are a perfect spot for coyotes. There are rabbits and mice to chase, crevices to hide in and sunny spots to snooze in. The only drawback is that the coyotes must share the place with the…

Cliff May is bigtime. Over the past few months, the former Rocky Mountain News editor/columnist and sometimes Denver talk-show host has gone from his post as spokesman for the Republican National Committee to acting as new Interior Secretary Gale Norton’s temporary media advisor to a job with one of the…

Wild West adventurer turned entertainer William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody was no stranger to the spotlight. He knew how to please a crowd, and, true to form, so does Buffalo Bill lookalike Lance Michaels — even if it took Michaels six or seven takes to nail a plug for CBS’s…

U.S. Representative Joel Hefley was no fan of President Bill Clinton; the Colorado Springs Republican regularly critiqued the Clinton administration. But Hefley does have reason to mourn the changing of the guard: He’s losing his favorite target. Although Coloradans know Hefley as the most silent, and arguably most conservative, member…

They don’t call sunny skies “chamber of commerce weather” for nothing; the last thing any of these membership organizations wants is clouds on the horizon. That’s why officials at the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce were taken aback last week when they were criticized for their portrayal of pioneer businessman…

Oh, the heartbreak! For all these years, we thought we’d been buying Girl Scout cookies in support of the organization’s efforts to build character in young girls and help them do good deeds (and because we have no self-control when it comes to Tagalongs). But as it turns out, our…

Peter Reshetniak respects wildlife. Dale Todd respects life. Neither man feels he is getting much respect from the state legislature, however, since lawmakers are well on their way to approving a bill that would not only make it harder for groups to qualify for specialty license plates but could also…

For once, the City of Denver and local Freedom From Religion Foundation activist/attorney Bob Tiernan are on the same page — if not the same chapter and verse. Tiernan, who has battled the city and other government agencies over separation of church and state matters, won his recent fight to…

Not much happens in Woodland Park. It’s the place where the Millennium Holiday Tree, which was used to celebrate Christmas in Washington, D.C., will be sliced up to make park benches; it’s a jumping-off point for people heading into the Pike and San Isabel national forests for hiking, biking and…

There weren’t any trees at first. Maybe a few cottonwoods — scrappy, messy tangles along the banks of Cherry Creek and the South Platte River — but the rest was just sagebrush and tall grass. Then the gold miners came, and the bartenders, the merchants and the ranchers, the doctors…

Unless you were a cashier in one of the original toll booths at Denver International Airport and on a bathroom break, you probably never noticed the toll plaza office building that sits on the median between Peña Boulevard’s inbound and outbound lanes. The nondescript, 6,600-square-foot structure (with another 6,000-plus square…

On January 2, the day after Mayor Wellington Webb said he was looking for a corporate sponsor to partner with the city on next year’s New Year’s Eve bash (conveniently overlooking the fact that one of the obstacles faced by the Mayor’s Millennium Commission in its 2000 fundraising efforts was…

Had the Rocky Mountain Arsenal produced a 2001 version of the slick, award-winning wildlife calendar that it’s published since the late 1980s, it would have been appropriate to feature a different sarin gas bomblet every month instead of the usual pictures of deer, foxes and eagles. After all, over the…

Mile High bigwigs like to think of Denver as “the city that has reinvented itself for the 21st century.” At least, that’s how they touted it in a 24-page, $370,000 ad supplement in the September edition of Forbes ASAP magazine. Headlined “Convergence Corridor: Technology With Altitude,” the insert was part…