Update below: Hampers’s employer responds. Look below the original item for the update. Dr. Louis Hampers, a prominent staffer at The Children’s Hospital in Aurora, has temporarily lost his medical license…
Who is Lebresus? Where did he come from? What’s up with the halo and the badass beard? Is he any relation to the big J.C.? We first noticed Lebresus last week. He was spray painted onto a window of the castle-sized Sports Authority at 10th and Broadway, catty-corner to our…
Always a bridesmaid, never a bride: Colorado will not receive any money in round two of Race to the Top, President Obama’s federal education-reform grant contest. Though Colorado was one of nineteen finalists, several news sources are reporting that a U.S. Department of Education spokesman says Colorado is not a…
Hesty, the Denver Zoo’s new effing adorable baby Sumatran orangutan, is ready to see and be seen. Born on June 19 to mother Nias and father Mias, she made her public debut on exhibit this past Saturday. (No word on whether the zoo’s other baby animals were insanely jealous or…
Denver Public Schools is launching a radio series aimed at teaching English to Spanish-speaking parents and families. Called Maestro en Casa (Teacher at Home), the series will debut on September 15 on MARIA 1090 AM. At a press conference at Kepner Middle School this morning, Superintendent Tom Boasberg said the…
Denver kids returned to school today. To celebrate, we scoured YouTube for the five best “first day of school” videos. After watching more than a dozen, we came to a stunning conclusion: Teenagers are offensive. It was hard to find a single video without a curse word, offensive taunt or…
Mary Pishney, the first-grade teacher whose arguably accurate negative performance evaluation was the subject of a recent Westword feature, will not return to the classroom when school starts again tomorrow. Pishney hasn’t been back to Bromwell Elementary School in Cherry Creek since stress-related health issues caused her to take a…
This fall’s incoming college freshman were born in 1992. The year of the L.A. riots. The year Dan Quayle misspelled “potato.” The year that brought us Whoopi Goldberg as a mildly-talented-Reno-lounge-singer-turned-sassy-undercover-nun in the cinematic masterpiece Sister Act. So what should college professors know about the lives and brain contents of…
Admission-based events are more than likely coming soon to a city park near you! Last Thursday night, the Denver Parks and Recreation Advisory Board approved in a ten-to-seven vote a controversial policy allowing ticketed events in select city parks, including Civic Center, Confluence and Skyline…
On Monday morning, the Colorado Department of Education will launch its Educator Effectiveness Project. It’s an undertaking made possible by $1 million in grants secured this summer…
Denver’s DogaPOOLooza takes place Sunday, marking the closing of the city’s sixteen outdoor pools for the summer. For $5 a pup, Denver’s dogs can take a ninety-minute dip in two of them, at Berkeley Park and Cook Park. This will be the third DogaPOOLooza to date, and Denver Parks and…
Lawyer and former Colorado Young Democrats president Crisanta Duran defeated Denver Health doctor Mark Thrun yesterday in the Democratic State House primary in Denver’s District 5. The race wasn’t always pretty, with both sides accusing the other of playing dirty. But Duran’s been in that situation before — when she…
SquareState.net has published a chain of e-mails between former DPS superintendent-turned-Senator Michael Bennet, current Denver Public Schools superintendent Tom Boasberg and board members Jeannie Kaplan and Teresa Pena about the DPS pension financing deal that made headlines in the New York Times last week. While the e-mails can be a…
Roller derby can be a bit naughty — what with the tight uniforms, tongue-in-cheek nicknames and racy logos. Maybe that’s why the Food Network decided to forgo using the Denver Roller Dolls’ A-team, the Mile High Club, as inspiration for cake designers tasked with making roller derby-themed cakes on an…
Angie Zapata would have turned 21 yesterday. She died in July 2008, a little more than two years shy of that milestone, at the hands of a man who claimed he “snapped” when he realized that Zapata, a striking Latina beauty, was biologically male. Angie’s friends and family didn’t want…
Herby the Love Judge is leaving the bench. After spending sixteen years as a Denver County Court judge, Herbert Galchinsky is hanging up his black robe in January due to the county’s mandatory-retirement-at-age-72 rule. The court is now accepting applications for his replacement…
Do medical marijuana dispensaries have double-secret, underground agreements with the dorms at the University of Colorado in Boulder? Is there a secret plot to get all the innocent, cherub-faced freshmen at the nation’s sixth-best reefer hot spot school hooked on the ganja? Thanks to one paranoid mother who called to…
You know what’s gross? Poop. You know what’s even grosser? Poop in your water. How to prevent that from happening will be the subject of an outdoorsy conference at the American Alpine Club in Golden this weekend. The conference is cleverly titled Exit Strategies — as in, the poop exits…
Last fall, a committee appointed by Governor Bill Ritter made 29 recommendations for how to fix Colorado’s child-welfare system. The committee was formed after the deaths of thirteen children who had been involved with the system in 2007, including seven-year-old Chandler Grafner, who was starved to death by his county-appointed…
On the agenda for the Denver Zoo’s second-ever Singles Safari event this Friday night: horny elephants, polar bear sex, and why big cats like Calvin Klein’s Obsession so much. “We wanted to give a different way to interpret animals and talk about animals to this crowd,” says marketing director Patrick…
Colorado was chosen today as one of nineteen finalists in round two of the U.S. Department of Education’s Race to the Top grant contest. If successful, the state stands to win $175 million. If not, Colorado gets zilch — which is what happened when it applied for $377 million in…
Back when former Bronco Brandon Marshall was considering leaving Denver, the Denver Post posited that it was because he was haunted by the 2007 murder of teammate Darrent Williams. Marshall was with Williams the night he died and testified at the trial of Williams’ killer, Willie Clark. The other Bronco…
