One elephant produces a lot of poop — nearly 200 pounds per day, on average. Twelve elephants produce a shitload. It was that fact that got George Pond, the Denver Zoo’s vice president for planning and capital projects, thinking. Would there be a way, he wondered, to turn the thousands…
“The Body Shop,” Alan Prendergast, July 2 Dead Reckoning I blame CSI and all those other medical shows for giving people an irresponsible, inaccurate image of coroner’s offices, one that Adams County Coroner James Hibbard is doing nothing to correct. This is serious work that requires rigid adherence to science…
Muhammad Ali Hasan, the wealthy Muslim Republican, filmmaker and flashy former candidate for House District 56, made quite a name for himself when he was running for office in 2008. His political style stirred up conflicting opinions within the state’s Republican Party — particularly after his former girlfriend and campaign…
Raw testosterone leaks from slits on either side of their broad faces, running in rivulets down the wrinkled folds of their gray skin like liquid sideburns. The smell is acrid; one elephant researcher even described it as “evil.” It’s a stench that, when mixed with the potent urine constantly dribbling…
Anyone for a little gin and juice? Today in Backbeat Online: • Q&A with Snoop Dogg. • Last Night’s Show: The Rouge at Red Rocks. • Magic Cyclops + Lion Sized = The Germs? • Harmony Interactive Music Experience postponed. • The Informants reveal details of new album. • Introducing…
We cruise the local blogosphere for decent linkage. Missing something? Send it our way. Canada: It’s the new Colorado! (Colorado Pols) Wind: The new solar! Maybe! Okay, probably not! (Colorado Independent) Matt Barnes: The new Dahntay Jones? (Denver Stiffs)…
We’re all entrenched in the talkies these days, and silent films strike most of us as just a little bit hokey. What’s with all the broad gesticulating, subtitled inserts and tinkly, melodramatic piano music, anyway? A lot, actually. First, it’s food for thought on the subject of how the film…
“Caution: A Herd of Bull Elephants is Coming to the Denver Zoo,” this week’s cover story, looks at the Denver Zoo’s plan to build Asian Tropics, a new exhibit that will be capable of housing up to eight male elephants. The plan is (literally) a big deal, because so few…
The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon – Thurs 11p / 10cBurka Banthedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorEconomic Crisis Last night, Comedy Central aired a repeat of the July 1 Daily Show that included a segment with comedian Kristen Schaal (whom you might recognize from her role as obsessive fan Mel on…
Open your wallets! DIA officials need $1 billion to redesign the main terminal building. The money will pay for the removal of the security screening stations, and their long lines, from the “great hall’ of Jeppesen Terminal. The plan is to draw layover travelers with loose change from terminals A,…
Shouting Fire: Stories From the Edge of Free Speech, a documentary currently airing on HBO, includes passages implying that attacks against former University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill were coordinated by a number of ideologically driven organizations, including the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, which was linked in the…
We’ve been lobbying for the Denver Nuggets to re-sign Chris Andersen for over a month, and the more time that passed, the more likely it was that other teams would start knocking on his door. Fortunately, though, the deed is finally done, with the Birdman agreeing to a five-year, $26…
KUNC-FM is licensed in Greeley, but many listeners in the Denver-metro area seem to like it as well — when their radios can pick up the station, that is. The signal was particularly weak along the foothills in western Jefferson County communities such as Golden and Arvada. But within the…
Obviously, we hope no one ever assaults anyone. Give peace a chance! But goons hoping to get away with such a crime should know better than to stand in front of a bus camera en route to their chosen butt-beating locale. That’s what the man in the photo attached here…
A small item in the Business section of today’s Denver Post announces that the paper is raising the price of single copies for sale at stores and newsstands from 50 cents to 75 cents beginning on Monday — a decision as startling as the revelation that water is wet, wingless…
Here’s a crime that really stinks: Wheat Ridge Police are on the lookout for a man who poured raw sewage directly from his camper into a drain leading to a retention pond near Wheat Ridge High School. No big deal? Well, Wheat Ridge authorities say it could take six weeks…
Shortly after word broke yesterday about the impending retirement of the Colorado Avalanche’s Joe Sakic, Brian Engblom, a hockey vet, Versus TV commentator and onetime mullet king, appeared on Mile High Sports Radio/1510 AM to discuss Super Joe’s legacy. During the chat, hosts Joel Klatt and Nate Kreckman asked Engblom…
View Larger Map A man shot and killed July 4 on the 1700 block of Billings Street, an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”), has been identified as forty-year-old Aurora resident Macwinston Dowthard. At this point, that’s pretty much…
View Larger Map Information has been dribbling out about a robbery attempt at a cigarette and check-cashing store at 9445 E. Colfax that resulted in one man being fatally shot; the area is captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”). Now,…
Yesterday afternoon on KHOW, host Dan Caplis, who’s been verbally tarring and feathering former University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill for several years now, did a Miss America impression following Judge Larry Naves’ decision not to give Churchill his old CU job back, accepting the plaudits of callers with evident…
Everyone form a line. Today in Cafe Society: • Hot Diggity Dog: Denver’s Mongo Marquez joined the big leagues at Nathan’s on July 4. • Civic Center Eats: Sweet Revenge cookies. • Tonight: Frasca wines paired with small plates from MiniBAR. • Where am I drinking? • Breckenridge Brewery: Yes…
On Monday, prominent Thornton restaurant owner Dan Tang pleaded not guilty to one count of money laundering, a charge that arose from his alleged involvement in a massive indoor pot-growing ring. That ring was broken up last year during Operation Fortune Cookie, a police investigation and raid detailed in a…
