So if you’ve been following the headlines closely, you may have already seen the Bloomberg News item reporting that top hedge-fund managers make more in ten minutes than the average American worker earns in a year. The average annual pay of a truly motivated manager runs around $650 million —…
Offense Report No: 07-5822293 Date: 08-26-07 Type of Offense: Trespassing. Threats Location of Offense: West Denver Officer J. Craig reports: “Investigation revealed that unknown suspect entered victim’s apartment through the closed/unlocked front door. After unknown suspect enter victim’s apartment unlawfully and without victim’s permission, he took approximately two-three steps into…
Day eight of Michael Tate’s murder trial was a glimpse into the early years of the now19-year-old, who has plead not guilty of murdering his friend’s father because he was, perhaps he still is, insane. Although Tate was a juvenile at the time of the crime, he is being tried…
Leo Tanguma’s murals at Denver International Airport are rich with symbolism. The artist maintains the works have nothing to do with Illuminati’s plans for one world government, but the internet, in all it’s glory, is rife with people who won’t be convinced. For the most in-depth discussion out there on…
Malas Semilla, Light Travels Faster and Dark Meat August 28, 2007 The hi-dive Better than: A psychedelic tent revival Malas Semillas was the sound of an alternate universe where hipster culture spontaneously generated in the Appalachians, complete with irony and punk rock roots intact, but lacking all other indie touchstones…
Day seven of Michael Tate’s murder trial got off to a slow start on Tuesday because of the stabbing of a CU student by a man who, when previously charged with another stabbing, had been found not guilty by reason of insanity, the same plea Tate is using for his…
Open since 1974, the Wazee Supper Club predates all the hipness, all the gentrification, all the retro this-and-that of LoDo. Founders Angelo and Jim Karagas actually opened their first spot, My Brother’s Bar, in 1969, nine blocks further down 15th, in a neighborhood known more for the rattle in the…
Open since 1974, the Wazee Supper Club predates all the hipness, all the gentrification, all the retro this-and-that of LoDo. Founders Angelo and Jim Karagas actually opened their first spot, My Brother’s Bar, in 1969, nine blocks further down 15th, in a neighborhood known more for the rattle in the…
The U.S. Penitentiary Administrative Maximum outside of Florence is so thinly staffed that the unit housing some of the nation’s deadliest terrorists has gone as long as 24 hours without any guards supervising the unit. That’s one of the charges hurled this morning by representatives of the guards’ union. With…
Jason Roth, Cap’n Fresh & the Stay Fresh Seals, and All Teeth And Knuckles August 27, 2007 Larimer Lounge Better than: Weeping into your Miller Lite over the incisive musings of another brilliant singer-songwriter. Tard-tronica. Electrobotomy. Hip-schlock. Call it what you will and make of it what you will, but…
For reasons not made public, Jefferson County Sheriff’s deputies decided to shackle Michael Tate’s feet on day six of his first-degree murder trial. The shackles weren’t visible to the jury, and the jurors weren’t in the courtroom when Tate’s defense team objected to the chaining of their client, who’d seemed…
View larger image. California Total Number of Delegates: 441 Pledged: 370 Unpledged: 71 How to Recognize a California Delegate: If the United States of America was a high school and the residents of each state represented a different clique, Californians would be considered the “cool kids,” and California’s Democratic delegates…
Inland Knights & Luke Solomon August 24, 2007 Vinyl & Two A.M. Better than: You know what they say about half a loaf… When something seems too good to be true, it probably is. Something like, say, getting two headlining DJs – Inland Knights and Luke Solomon in this case…
Slide Show First things first. To be honest, I was barely familiar with the 50-plus names of the adult film stars who were at the Fourth Annual Adult Film Star Ball at La Boheme on August 25. But after my seven or so hours of walking between the downtown strip…
Day five of Michael Tate’s murder trial began with Tate’s defense team trying to discredit his partner in crime, Michael Fitzgerald, who was testifying against Tate as a part of his plea agreement to a second degree murder charge, which landed Fitzgerald 62 years in prison for his role in…
8.24.07 Le Meridien Hotel Resort Bora Bora, French Polynesia South Pacific Subject: Death on the Zero Horizon PBC, A fatality introduced me to Niko and Chad a few days ago in Papeete, Tahiti. I had just arrived from Auckland and was settled in by the pool at my hotel, sneaking…
Planned Parenthood’s “secret” property buy in the Stapleton area spurred plenty of angst this week when the women’s reproductive health organization divulged its purchase in the Denver Post. Planned Parenthood apparently kept the plan for a new clinic under wraps to avoid protesting, the likes of which stalled construction at…
The little gremlins are back on the yellow buses, which means it’s time for the 2007 “revised” edition of the School Violence Prevention and Student Discipline Manual, issued by Colorado Attorney General John W. Suthers to schools throughout the state. You can find the complete manual here on the AG’s…
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Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean blew into Denver mid-day Wednesday to kick off the one-year countdown to the Democratic National Convention. He stood on the sweltering concrete outside the Pepsi Center, along with Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper and Gov. Bill Ritter to pump up hundreds of party loyalists, thank…
The Rocky Mountain News today reports on roadblocks to a plan by two Colorado legislators to start a guest worker program with an open employment office in Mexico. Get the deeper dirt here on Helen Krieble, a woman who’s been working toward that end for years…
