The problem with being a creative person in Colorado is that in order to get truly big, you have to leave. There are a few exceptions, of course: the author who carves a successful career from his Boulder home, the painter who gains renown out of his LoDo studio, the…
On April 3, the good folk of Commerce City will go to the polls — none of those Denver mail-in ballots for them! — and vote on whether to change the name of “the City of Commerce City to another name to be chosen by the registered electors of the…
On a warm spring afternoon, Alexandros Economou stands in the parking lot of Baby Doe’s Matchless Mine, the restaurant that’s been perched on this bluff overlooking Interstate 25 since 1978. Broken bottles crunch underfoot and police tape flaps in the wind; Baby Doe’s and the adjoining Chili Pepper restaurant closed…
There’s less to AM 760 talk-show host Jay Marvin than there used to be. Due to concerns over Type 2 diabetes, he put himself on a diet-and-exercise regimen last year and managed to drop a modest amount of weight. Unfortunately, this reduction didn’t significantly improve his health — so at…
“Crazy Train,” Jessica Centers, March 15 Fresh Tracks Can someone explain to me why the vast majority of us who aren’t skiers should subsidize the ski industry? If moving people up to the ski areas is so important, let them finance it. Steve Read Denver Sure, during the winter months,…
The profiles continue of the twelve designers selected to complete in the Tamarac Square Fashion Project. The winner scores two tickets to New York Fashion Week this fall — which would better than sex for most of the competitors. Name: Kandyce Hudson Company name: Kandyce Kreations and the KMH8 Custom…
Somebody out there really, really doesn’t want Darrell Watson to win the city-council seat in District 8. And he or she is using YouTube in an attempt to undermine his campaign. Of course, other media outlets have presented material about Watson that doesn’t exactly qualify as good publicity — most…
Execs at E.W. Scripps want to shrink the newsroom at the Rocky Mountain News, the firm’s flagship paper — and they’ve taken a major step toward doing so. Today, staffers at the tab received an e-mail from editor/publisher/president John Temple (pictured) announcing a “voluntary separation plan” that targets fifty Rocky…
The Denver dailies are blitzing the insider-trading trial of Joe Nacchio like it was the second coming of the Oklahoma City bombing case. But let’s keep an open mind here; after all, Nacchio’s lawyers have argued that the former Qwest chief exec is guilty of nothing more than “puffery,” despite…
Channel 9’s Adam Schrager is devoted to proving that TV news stories don’t have to stop at the surface — and now, execs at his station have given him a weekly platform to prove it. Your Show, which airs at 6 p.m. Sundays on Channel 20, Channel 9’s sister outlet,…
At the end of a good night, I often have more takeout stacked in the front seat of my car than I can carry up the stairs in a single trip. Some of my to-go compulsion is work-related. When I need to know exactly what ingredients were in the ravioli,…
Meet our second victim in the Tamarac Square Fashion Project rundown. Name: Stephanie Ohnmacht Years designing: Sewing since I was seven. Bio: At seven I was given a beat-up sewing machine, scrap fabric and a license to sew anything I could dream of. Since my sisters on the farm were…
It’s old home week in the Ritter administration, as multi-pensioned top cops who worked with the guv when he was Denver’s DA find new state criminal-justice jobs. Former Denver police chief Ari Zavaras was recruited to try to fix the bloated budget at the Department of Corrections — again; and…
On top of his gig gabbing weekday mornings on KHOW, Peter Boyles has spent the past fourteen years hosting Friday’s Colorado Inside Out, a weekly roundtable on Channel 12 that subsequently spawned Colorado Inside Out Live, an hour-long Wednesday program that’s driven largely by viewer calls heard in real time…
Shawn Reinoehl In preparation for the March 28 kick off of the Tamarac Square Fashion Project, The Cat’s Pajamas got in touch with each of the finalists and asked them a series of questions about themselves, their views on fashion and random other must-knows (red chili or green chile; Ritter…
I have long held that Buffalo, New York — where I spent a few formative years of my cooking career — is a city unjustly labeled as a one-hit food town. Chicken wings, chicken wings, chicken wings, right? Nothing but deep-fried bird parts and snow. But this is wrong. Well,…
Fashions by Gino Velardi. Cat didn’t think it was possible, but she is judged out. She has nothing snide or snarky left to say. At least for a few days. It wasn’t Fashion Week, a trip to Coyote Ugly or even her brother’s upcoming nuptials that finally wore her down…
On March 19, Tim Neverett, seen here, hosted The Press Box, his regular a.m. feature on KLZ-AM/Z560, as if nothing unusual was going on behind the scenes. But this wasn’t just any morning. Late the previous week, Z560 staffers were informed that the outlet’s sports-talk format is going away as…
“Look, Rhumba was never a restaurant that I was fully, culinarily happy with.” That’s Dave Query telling me this. Dave Query, owner of the now defunct Rhumba (above), of the very much funct Lola and Jax and West End Tavern and Zolo Grill. Dave Query, who I took to task…
Because the business operations of the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News are linked by a joint-operating agreement, some readers still think their separate and independent editorial functions are linked, too — and an incident that took place on March 15 could well add to the confusion. What happened?…
Spotted during an excursion to the wild and woolly northern regions, prompting the following verse: Best busker on Pearl Got no tips, merely handcuffs Only in Boulder. — Joel Warner…
A new voice will be heard over Coors Field. Imagine my surprise this morning when I turned on 850 KOA Radio only to find Alan Roach, the PA announcer for the Colorado Rockies for the past fourteen seasons, about to reveal who was going to take over his job as…
