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The students at the Starkey International Institute for Household Management knew something was wrong that day in February: Mary Louise Starkey, founder and president of the Denver-based school, the 57-year-old “First Lady of Service” who’d transformed the lowly world of butlers into the booming and respectable “household management” industry, was…

Couple in 50s seeking experienced household manager with high service standards to manage three homes, two homes in Texas and one in Colorado . . . Light culinary and extensive vendor management are must skills. Salary 100-120k. Male couple seeking household manager with an assertive service style to manage their…

The first stop on the Paul D. Lopez District 3 sightseeing tour is a dirt alley. It’s craggy and rutted, and I grip the armrest as his two-door Honda creeps down the residential corridor. Already his suspension is fucked from bringing observers here — and he’s only been a Denver…

Travel, like war, has a way of unveiling the truth about a man. For it is only when we choose to exist outside of our comfort zone, when we uproot ourselves from all that we know and place ourselves in situations that are completely foreign to our experience, that we…

ProgressNow, an outfit that specializes in promoting a politically progressive agenda and challenging “conservative propaganda,” was founded on the principle that local activists can be more effective if they choose their own battles as opposed to doing the bidding of puppet masters in big cities hundreds of miles away. The…

Nando Mandragon’s out of jail, back on the block — and making a big impression. On Everly Bustos, aka “DJ Shake,” to be precise. Last month, Bustos organized a moneymaking scheme posted on eBay, in which three local twentysomethings offered themselves as the ultimate billboard, willing to be tattooed with…

“Dirty Dancing,” Luke Turf, August 2 It Takes Two to Tango What were those women thinking? I cannot believe the people in Luke Turf’s “Dirty Dancing” waited so long to complain about Chas Gale. If a dance “teacher” exposed himself to me, I’d make sure the next step led directly…

A new study has shown pretty conclusively that marketing to kids works frighteningly well. Some of the scarier highlights include the fact that kids as young as 2 years old have beliefs about certain brands. Or the fact that when given identical items, one unpackaged, the other packaged in a…

Scottie Ewing is wondering why the city is taking so long to give final approval to a liquor license application he submitted for his new club, Sugar House, at 1395 West Alameda Avenue. Well, perhaps a list will help the former pro skier turned party promoter make sense of it…

“You’re dead wrong if ya think that pimpin’ gon’ die.” At least that’s what Snoop Dogg maintained in his 2003 “P.I.M.P.” duet with 50 Cent. But that won’t stop some from trying. This fall, Colorado Coalition Against Sexual Assault will unveil its ad campaign targeting pimp culture and the gold…

Like beer, like ice cream, like truffles, the pig is proof on the hoof — evidence that the food gods love us and want us to be happy. And the masa cake on the menu at Centro is proof (to me, anyway) that not only is Dave Query in league…

Almost two years after its release, Microsoft has finally lowered the price of the Xbox 360. Maybe now you can convince your wife, girlfriend or Mom to let you get one! Not coincidentally, I’m sure, the drop comes just in time for the next wave of killer titles, including the…

It’s a good week to be a UFO fan here in Denver. The Mutual UFO Network, or MUFON, is putting on their 38th annual UFO Symposium this weekend at the Denver Marriot Tech Center. They’re promising a line-up of top-notch speakers in the field, including Stanton Friedman, Timothy Good and…

According to this story, the Thai police are implementing a novel way to shame bad cops: making them wear a bright pink Hello Kitty armband. Call me an optimist, but I think this could work in Denver, and god knows we have our share of bad cops. The Thai cops…

Thousands of man hours a week go into adding to academic databases that make reports on the latest and greatest human achievements available to the public, and this is what America is searching today: Hillary Nutcracker The production of this toy will likely have the same kind of divisive reaction…

KOA talk-show host Bob Newman, known to fans and foes alike as Gunny Bob, has received plenty of honors over time, many of them related to his service in the Marine Corps. Yet the plaudit that came his way on August 3 topped (or perhaps bottomed) any previous salute. On…

The font of human intelligence overflows on Al Gore’s wet dream, and this is the stuff people are using Google to search today: Cirque Lodge Lindsay Lohan is headed to this posh Utah detox center to clean herself out for the next paycheck-induced binge. Last month, Slate.com answered the question…

Lagging foot traffic at the new Twenty Ninth Street retail development in Boulder has prompted harsh words from tenants and a lawsuit from the owners of Laudisio. The Italian restaurant that moved to the outdoor strip after mall management promised millions of patrons annually. The development’s planners over at Macerich,…

On Saturday, the Denver Post reported Duane “Dog” Chapman, bounty hunter and quipmaster extrordinaire, said from his Hawaiian home that growing up in Denver meant something really special to him. In addition to telling Post columnist Bill Husted that he used to orchestrate drug deals in order to steal money…

Boy howdy, you can learn a lot about rich people by touring this year’s Parade of Homes, located on the cusp of Aurora and Kansas. At least, you can learn a lot about what the Home Builders Association of Metro Denver and its architects, designers, spa dealers, kitchen-and-bath hustlers, furniture…