The most sluttish national TV performance of the week in a contrived Colorado soap opera wasn’t provided by a member of The Real World: Denver. No, it was on a piece of shamelessness concerning the JonBenét Ramsey murder that aired on the once-proud “news” program 48 Hours. On Saturday night,…
Whenever we visited my grandmother in Virginia, my mom would take us all to see some Civil War battlefield, after which she and my grandmother would mutter under their breath about Yankees and my father would feel uncomfortable. Once, on the way to a battlefield, my mother calmly informed my…
He became a millionaire by pimping out his Colorado Springs-based McDonald’s restaurants with a centralized drive-thru call center and other quick-serve gadgetry (“Mr. Big,” November 3, 2005). Then he bid the Golden Arches adieu to design a high-tech charity that provides the working poor with an alternative to the rapacious…
“Fighting Mad,” Alan Prendergast, November 16 Oil Slick Fantastic story, and I am very interested in the outcome of the November 17 hearing. Is the court going to hear this case? Jack Grynberg’s story raises questions for me. How does this affect the general public? Are we, the end users,…
Anyone who has seen the ubiquitous new Melo commercials pimp-limping their way through prime-time television knows two things. One, Carmelo Anthony is a badass. Two, he is a mogul who has his hands in many pies. The latest pie is energy drinks, with Melo bringing his own take on the…
CNN’s Larry King loves Colorado — or at least Colorado newsmakers. Over the years, he’s done more shows related to the JonBenet Ramsey murder than anyone this side of Greta Van Susteren, and he’s regularly visited by Focus on the Family’s James Dobson, probably because King is less likely to…
How’s this for some serious personal style? The self-appointed Disco Bicuits — Francois Palloux, Justin Cochran, Jason Barzel and Jerome Hermelin of Le Central — got down with their badselves during the annual Turkey Trot race to benefit the Food Bank of the Rockies. And while Cat doesn’t normally go…
Ever since Michael Richards let loose a racist screed at a Los Angeles comedy show ten days ago, he’s been making the I’m-so-sorry rounds on Late Show With David Letterman and Reverend. Jesse Jackson’s radio program. But any cynics out there who doubt the sincerity of K-K-Kramer should check out…
Four years ago, Westword ran a “How United Airlines Ruined My Summer Vacation” contest. Well, this year United Airlines ruined my family’s Thanksgiving. I got a phone call from my mother the Sunday after Thanksgiving. But she wasn’t checking in to see how I was doing, or thanking me for…
Among local critics, the new wing of the Denver Art Museum has been almost uniformly lauded as an innovative, architectural triumph. Nationally, however, the reaction to Daniel Libeskind’s design has been more mixed. In the November issue of House and Garden, critic Martin Filler calls the Frederic C. Hamilton Building…
Today’s Rocky Mountain News sports an intriguing investigation into Hope Online Learning Academy Co-Op, a taxpayer supported charter network of 81 schools in Colorado that’s run afoul of critics. It’s fine work that might not have been done if the Denver Post hadn’t goaded the Rocky into taking a closer…
At last, the saga ends. In two previous blogs, I recounted my attempts to vote in the November 7 election. The first noted that three out of four voting machines at my Jefferson County polling station weren’t functioning on the big day, forcing me to opt for a provisional ballot;…
Jen hasn’t found anything she doesn’t want to kiss. Last week, we introduced the Real World Drinking Game, designed to answer this burning question: Which roommate is the worst for your liver? The score thus far, after the first episode of The Real World: Denver: Davis: sips/chugs Stephen:…
In a November 25 Rocky Mountain News column, media writer Jason Salzman wrote about the process by which the Denver dailies arrive at their list of political endorsements. However, the piece’s most intriguing bit of information pertained to a specific plug — the Denver Post’s 2004 decision to back George…
Denver finally made an appearance on the super-groovy site The Cool Hunter: Roaming the Globe So You’re in the Know. So what got us there? The Hamilton building? The new Clyfford Still museum? The Lab at Belmar? Or maybe some of our local designers? Nope. Denver Water. That’s what got…
Real World Denver cast: Stephen (clockwise from top left), Colie, Davis, Brooke, Tyrie, Jenn and Alex (center). On Wednesday, all of Denver waited with bated breath as MTV aired the first-ever Real World episode set in our fair city — actually, it was the first two episodes. And it wasn’t…
Heather Cameron heard the sound of the gunshots that killed her mother. On Saturday, April 20, 1996, the twelve-year-old was waiting for Debra Cameron — Debbie, to her friends — to return from a charity auction at Graland Country Day School, where Heather was in the sixth grade. Debbie had…
The goal for me is just to get people to read my writing, and the newspapers definitely helped with that,” says Max Karson, a University of Colorado at Boulder student who’s recently received plenty of coverage thanks to The Yeti, a controversy-courting newsletter he publishes. “As far as any personal…
You can’t watch The Real World: Denver without a drink, and you shouldn’t watch it without a drinking game. This one is based on the X-Files version and is guaranteed to get players a mile high. (If any player misses a turn — and the others call him on it…
You would have thought we’d landed on the moon the way people were falling all over each other at the opening of Southeast Light Rail last Friday, with every politician from Lone Tree to Denver — as well as every administrator, router, bus driver and guy-who-cleans-the homeless-from-the-undercarriage-of-buses for RTD –…
The Audi TT coupe is a quick little sports car that handles well — particularly the automatic version, thanks to a computer-assisted transmission that downshifts around the turns, revs up the engine and is almost like having a tiny race-car driver under the hood. “It’s sort of freaky, in a…
“Guest Wishes,” Luke Turf, November 9 Labor Daze How refreshing to read a Colorado article on illegal immigration without a single reference to a certain blowhard, bullying, say-anything-but-do-nothing local congressman. He is finally getting the attention he deserves. Rolf Asphaug Centennial As Helen Krieble notes in “Guest Wishes,” nobody wants…
