On March 12, the pros and cons of putting a new broadcasting tower on Lookout Mountain, discussed in the current Message column, were debated by Jefferson County Commissioners for the umpteenth time. And as documented in this Denver Post article, these officials gave the project the go-ahead, just as they…
Locked down for years, Casey Holden hardly ever talked to anyone. He lived inside his head because there was no one around but the guards, and they were, well, guards. His social skills, never elaborate to begin with, devolved into a series of grunts and cold stares. Now Holden is…
At least he had chicken. Leroy Jenkins is dead. No, not Leeroy Jenkins with a double “ee,” the World of Warcraft video game character who’s achieved global celebrity as described in the story “The Legend of Leeroy Jenkins.” This is the real, flesh-and-blood Leroy Jenkins, an individual famous in his…
Early Saturday morning — around 1 a.m. — anyone trying to get from the east side of Morrison to the west side found themselves in a bit of a pickle. An entire block of the small town, equivalent to about 1/5 of the main street, was cordoned off by multiple…
Offense Report No: 07-138299 Date: 3-02-07 Type of Offense: Sale of Marijuana Location of Offense: Tom’s Diner, 601 East Colfax Officer S. Michael reports: “While conducting an undercover narcotics operation, the undercover officer met with [the 44-year-old male suspect]. The suspect agreed to sell the undercover officer $100 for suspected…
When it comes to printing profanities, the Rocky Mountain News is consistently inconsistent, as two recent articles demonstrate. In the Rocky’s March 10 issue, media writer Dave Kopel’s column equated the approach of Paul Campos, a left leaner who’s among the tab’s regular opinion-meisters, with that of right-wing syndicated shrieker…
While surfing the radio dial on the afternoon of March 11, I stopped on the Mountain, at 99.5 FM, long enough to hear what sure sounded to me like the tail end of a Bob Dylan song — specifically “Shelter From the Storm,” from the 1975 album Blood on the…
The eighth anniversary of the Columbine shootings is rapidly approaching. So is the moment of decision for U.S. District Judge Lewis Babcock, who plans to rule on the fate of a trove of court-sealed documents dealing with the massacre’s last remaining secrets. The materials include medical and psychiatric information about…
The last time we reported on Troy Anderson, known on the street as Evil, he’d been trying for more than a year to get an appointment with a psychiatrist at the Colorado State Penitentiary. Being locked down with little human contact for year after year can do things to your…
Is Focus on the Family scold James Dobson’s power waning? Doubt it. Plenty of pundits have suggested that religious conservatives won’t have as much pull during the 2008 presidential election as they did when it came to the votes that gave us George W. Bush for two four-year terms. Yet…
Remember right after Columbine, when reports suggested that the killer students may have taken their marching orders from Marilyn Manson? These claims were subsequently debunked — as it turns out, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold weren’t Manson fans. But even if they’d spent their every waking hour earholing Antichrist Superstar,…
As reported in the Westword story Pot of Gold and in follow-up blogs, some folks in the coffee business are casting a critical eye on fair trade coffee, a certification system that guarantees coffee farmers get paid a minimum $1.26 per pound of beans. Some argue that not only is…
A Fox 31 reporter and her cameraman were getting into an elevator at the Denver City and County Building this morning when they were approached by a man in a red, zoot-ish suit, who handed them a business card for a tanning spot. The man with the card, who had…
Brooke caused problems between Davis and PJ. Episode 18 This is getting difficult. I’m not sure how many different ways I can call Brooke a psychotic termagant. But I will press on … This episode begins with Brooke causing mad problems between Davis and PJ. Within the first five minutes,…
Cat may have found a new obsession: the Hyundai QarmaQ. The concept car, which debuted this week at the Geneva Motor Show, is just a prototype overseas, but it looks super sleek, and the skin is made from recycled plastic. Plus, it has a diesel engine in it, so you…
I’m a stranger in a strange land. Chirping birds and stands of medieval forest surround me. Though I’m a fresh-faced, Level One warrior, I’m already attracting attention. An armor-clad soldier asks me to take out a nearby pack of wolves. A blue-hatted gnome a third my size challenges me to…
Scott Brown, president of NetDevil, wanders happily through the online-game development company’s Louisville headquarters, very much like an oversized kid given the keys to the toy store. “For me, this is a dream job,” he gushes. And NetDevil’s office looks like the stuff of every techno geek’s dreams. The kitchen…
“I am not a video-game player,” George Robison admits, but he’s suspiciously good at Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, the video game whose ads he’s attempting to have banned from the Regional Transportation District system. Robison expertly weaves his stolen Jeep through traffic, ripping light poles out of the…
Dear Lindy Eichenbaum-Lent: We’d like to be the first to welcome you back from maternity leave — and not a moment too soon. Because while we’re sure you’ve been doing great with all that mother stuff, you’ve been sorely missed. The reputation of Mayor John Hickenlooper, your first charge, has…
By the night of February 23, everyone in Denver knew who Michael Andre was. For eight hours, the popular criminal defense attorney had been enmeshed in a standoff with police SWAT units that ended when Andre was found dead in his Cherry Creek townhome, killed by an apparently self-inflicted gunshot…
There’s no denying that Michael Andre was a public figure. As a defense attorney, he represented numerous well-known individuals over the years, including Koleen Brooks, the former stripper who once served as mayor of Georgetown, and Willie Clark, a so-called person of interest in the slaying of Denver Broncos cornerback…
I probably should have taken a year off between high school and college. Though I was eighteen years of age, fit as a fiddle made entirely of awesome abs, and smart enough to predict the outcome of Goosebumps adventures long before reading their conclusions, I still was not ready for…
