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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…

View larger image. An observant alleyway walker in Denver spotted this mysterious letter wheatpasted to a brick wall and snapped a pic. Might we declare this the most magnificent piece of street literature ever discovered? Like the reaction Mr. Terry Gold III described having upon smelling his lover’s natural perfume,…

Other than a short telephone conversation and a brief formal statement, Mary Louise Starkey, founder and head of the Starkey International Institute of Household Management, declined to answer further questions for “At Your Disservice,” which detailed allegations of shoddy management, questionable educational programs and other turmoil at this Denver-based butler…

It was cruel and unusual to only list the answers to these trivial questions here, but here they are: Trivia Face Off Sample Questions • What team was defeated to bring Denver its first major sports championship? Florida Panthers • Alex Trebek provided the voice of “Alan Quebec,” a game-show…

Yesterday was supposed to be D-Day for Lost and Found, a Christian youth residential-treatment facility attempting to move their facilities into Clear Creek County, yet coming up against heated opposition by some NIMBY neighbors afraid of the type of children being transplanted into their community. Because yesterday, in a sweltering…

The debate over gas drilling on the Roan Plateau has become one of the most intriguing and critical environmental battles in the West since the days of Two Forks. The recent acceleration of political maneuvering over the issue deserves close scrutiny, since the outcome will tell us a great deal…

Judge Jane Tidball keeps a tight schedule in her Jefferson County courtroom, but because a couple of jurors showed up late on day two of Michael Tate’s murder trial, the start of testimony was delayed for more than twenty minutes. Once the jury was finally seated, the victim’s wife of…

So I went into the LoDo branch of everyone’s favorite independent bookstore today and found they’d rearranged the natural order of things. The bargain books section is gone, the remainder of the remainders are now sprinkled among the full retail titles in fiction, biography, etc. As an epic news event,…

In addition to causing me to neglect far too much work, YouTube has fostered a bizarre fascination with Bollywood within me. I don’t think I could ever get through an entire three-hour epic, but at five to seven minutes each, I find the individual song and dance numbers irresistible. I’ve…

Here’s a brief look at some of the items America is desperate to learn about today: Faceball It’s the hot new sport with the unbeatable motto: “Your face, our balls.” Invented at the offices of Flickr, it’s a simple game that involves mashing a Day-Glo ball into a coworker’s face…

The current issue of Time magazine takes on the nation’s foreclosure crunch by using the Denver housing market as an example of the havoc reaped by subprime loans and adjustable rate mortgages. About 25,000 homeowners will receive a first foreclosure notice this year in metro Denver, the magazine notes, one…

Monday was the first day of a scheduled three-week trial in Jefferson County, a trial in which nineteen-year-old Michael Tate faces charges including first-degree murder. Tate has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. He spent much of that first day in court with his face buried in his hands,…

“Stop giving him pork chops!” The woman is hissing, eyes flashing, using her mom voice on her husband, one arm thrown protectively over the top of the car seat beside her on the banquette, two tables down from me. “I’m not giving him pork chops. I’m giving him pieces from…

Here’s a brief look at some of the items America is desperate to learn about today: Donkey Kong Kill Screen The documentary King of Kong has just opened in select cities and it’s set off something of an Internet buzz about the nearly impossible to achieve Donkey Kong kill screen,…

Boredom can lead to beautiful things, such as this image of DIA that looks more like a gilded city straight out of a space opera than the sprawling monstrosity of an airport we know and love (or hate). Colorado Springs photographer Chris Coleman took this stunning shot to kill some…

In print-journalism parlance, “penetration” isn’t as nasty as it sounds. Rather, it applies to the number of households reached by a particular newspaper — and the folks at the Denver Newspaper Agency, which oversees the business operations at the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News, have frequently crowed that…

As longtime Denver Post readers know, there’s good sentimental Woody Paige and there’s bad sentimental Woody Paige. The former is epitomized by “Little Sis Model of Courage,” a moving December 2006 eulogy for his sister, who had just died of cancer. And “Williams’ Grave Needs Our Help,” which appeared in…

As noted in this August 20 More Messages blog, Rocky Mountain News restaurant reviewer John Lehndorff is doing some copy editing for the paper while dieting in advance of hip surgery. But he’s busy on a lot of other fronts, too, food included. His August 17 column provided readers with…

Slide Show The 2007 Denver Kickball Coalition (DKBC) officially ended its sixth season in style on Saturday night with its annual Kick Ball, a prom-themed awards ceremony and dance party at the Hi-Dive, 7 South Broadway. The night, besides being fantastically drunken, was predictably bittersweet for me (as a member…