We knew it was coming, but nothing could prepare us for the true awfulness of the deed itself. The fourth (and, if God is merciful, last) television documentary on the JonBenet Ramsey case concocted by University of Colorado journalism professor Michael Tracey and British producer David Mills aired in the…
Baby Girl has a baby girl. About a year has passed since the former Colfax streetwalker graduated from the Chrysalis Project, a program designed to rehabilitate women who’ve been selling their bodies for crack. It hasn’t all been smooth sailing for Baby Girl. She did a little time this past…
Republicans are courting Dick Wadhams to return to Colorado and run the state party. The political operative’s got the time. While in the past Wadhams has taken jobs with the candidates he’s helped propel into office (Governor Bill Owens, Senator Wayne Allard), no such opportunities will arise from his latest…
In a recent column mourning the deaths of some of Denver’s great dives — Duffy’s Shamrock, the Bamboo Hut (see second item here), I lamented the end of the Micky Manor, now turned into the 12th Man. It’s a Bronco bar, of course — of which Denver already had too…
Forget the champagne fountains: Tonight the ten-gallon fish tank will be swimming with mojitos for MATTER’s 8th Annual Printsale and Party. But the drinks aren’t the only reason the evening is “a guaranteed good time,” says MATTER’s Rick Griffith. DJ Idiom will entertain the crowd while Griffith shows off the…
Like any American chef (current or former), I’ve had a love/hate relationship with France for a long time. Before I knew enough to know better, I hated the country for producing some of the white-toqued, chain-smoking, red-faced bastards who trained me — guys who bigfooted their way through the kitchen,…
Like any American chef (current or former), I’ve had a love/hate relationship with France for a long time. Before I knew enough to know better, I hated the country for producing some of the white-toqued, chain-smoking, red-faced bastards who trained me — guys who bigfooted their way through the kitchen,…
While I was driving across America and Canada last month, I couldn’t escape the influence of home. I detailed how Colorado stories lead the newscasts in every city I visited in my November 23 “Worst-Case Scenario.” While watching the evening news in Canada , for example, I learned that mayors…
Reverend Fred W. Phelps, Sr., of Topeka, Kansas, has had more than his share of press in recent years. The rabid gay-basher and his clan of sign-waving true believers have traveled far and wide, outraging locals by protesting at funeral services for soldiers killed in Iraq and in the wake…
Gorillaz! While checking out the shoes at True Love (read about it in Night & Day, for Wednesday, 12/20), I took a few minutes to walk the boulevard and see what’s hot on Broadway this holiday season. Here’s what I found: At the designer-toy hut, Plastic Chapel, the always-enthusiastic Dea…
Long before midnight, Duffy’s Shamrock had run out of Guinness, that most traditional of Irish brews. And of Jagermeister, that not-so-traditional drink. But while cocktail choices grew more and more limited as Duffy’s last last call approached, the memories flowed freely. So did the advice. “You should put plaques up…
The rehashing of the JonBenet Ramsey case on 48 Hours last Saturday has touched off a wave of Ramsey speculations on the Internet — although probably not the way the producers intended. While many of the program’s claims about John Mark Karr and his pursuer, University of Colorado journalism professor…
As of 3 p.m. December 1, Denver’s favorite faction of pedal-powered radicals, the Derailer Bicycle Collective, will be back on a roll at its new location, 411 Lipan Street. Earlier this year, as reported here, city zoning officials put the brakes on the non-profit bike shop, which since 2003 had…
If Nate Ybanez is ever to see life outside of prison, he needs lots of attention –and Rolling Stone just turned on the spotlight. Nate is one of more than forty people serving life without parole for murders they committed in Colorado before turning eighteen. He and his buddy, Erik…
As I watched Episode 3 of The Real World: Denver, one thought repeatedly ran through my mind: Where do the producers find these people who are legally old enough to drink — yet retain the emotional and social capacity of a seventh-grader? Although Tyrie, Davis, Brooke and Stephen haven’t done…
Duffy’s Shamrock Bar served the first beer of its last day at 6:10 a.m today. Technically, that was fifty minutes before it was legal to do so — but what’s the state going to do, shut down this 56-year-old institution a few hours early? And technically, Duffy’s doesn’t — didn’t…
Anyone who has seen the ubiquitous new Melo commercials pimp-limping their way through prime-time television knows two things. One, Carmelo Anthony is a badass. Two, he is a mogul who has his hands in many pies. The latest pie is energy drinks, with Melo bringing his own take on the…
Where Tom Tancredo goes, trouble follows. Restoration Weekend drew a cadre of famous conservatives to South Florida this past weekend — but the Colorado congressman was the one who grabbed the headlines, after he referred to Miami as a “third-world country.” And President Bush has only himself to blame, Tancredo…
Ever since Michael Richards let loose a racist screed at a Los Angeles comedy show ten days ago, he’s been making the I’m-so-sorry rounds on Late Show With David Letterman and Reverend. Jesse Jackson’s radio program. But any cynics out there who doubt the sincerity of K-K-Kramer should check out…
Four years ago, Westword ran a “How United Airlines Ruined My Summer Vacation” contest. Well, this year United Airlines ruined my family’s Thanksgiving. I got a phone call from my mother the Sunday after Thanksgiving. But she wasn’t checking in to see how I was doing, or thanking me for…
Among local critics, the new wing of the Denver Art Museum has been almost uniformly lauded as an innovative, architectural triumph. Nationally, however, the reaction to Daniel Libeskind’s design has been more mixed. In the November issue of House and Garden, critic Martin Filler calls the Frederic C. Hamilton Building…
The world doesn’t get more real than this: While last Wednesday’s premiere of The Real World: Denver featured, among other things, same-sex kissing in a LoDo hot tub, getting face time with Larry King a few channels away was Focus on the Family’s James Dobson, offering his first public take…
