The day begins with Corporal John Harris leading Pond Patrol Third Force Recon Team amongst the blood-red cliffs and knife-shaped outcroppings of Mulberry Ridge. Suddenly, Private Carlos Rodriguez spots Dr. Jefferson Johnson down by the ravine side. “What’s he doing out here?” Harris thinks. “Wasn’t he supposed to be at…
Cockroaches love lettuce. That’s the word from Six Flags St. Louis, which just got its first shipment of live cockroaches for the company’s annual Fright Fest, says Brooke Brasher, spokeswoman for Six Flags Elitch Gardens. Even though Denver has yet to receive a single cucaracha, she’s been dreaming of the…
If I were promoting a baseball team, I would make sure that the seats closest to the field were always filled. That way, even if there weren’t that many fans in the stadium — because, say, their team had pretty much ensured its sixth consecutive losing season by that point…
“All I want is for the newspapers to admit that they have a liberal bias,” announces Jon Caldara, president of the Independence Institute, a right-leaning think tank. “But talking to newspaper people about this is like talking to an alcoholic. It’s obvious they have a liberal bias, but there’s no…
Good Vibrations A peace of the action: Regarding Patricia Calhoun’s “Speak Your Peace,” in the September 21 issue: It seems fitting to have PeaceJam here in Denver. Colorado has so many great things that attract people from around the world, but Denver has a long way to go in the…
They may get sand kicked in their faces and have their lunch money stolen, but yes, damn it, artists have muscles, too. Their muscles are their creativity and God-given almighty talent. And just like the meatheads toning their freakish pecs at the Denver Athletic Club and sweating buckets of Gatorade…
There are gypsies on our streets, prowling the avenues in their ghetto-fabulous low riders, blasting “LA Woman” from the stereo and telling passersby that although they may not have a taxi license, they’ll still take them to their hotel or convention or flight out of DIA in a ride that…
The reappearance of the streamlined Super Chef sign on Colfax — uncovered as the Walnut Cafe was making way for the new Emilio’s restaurant — reminds me of how I came of age eating two-egg breakfasts — with bacon, hash browns, wheat toast and jelly — in Super Chef’s hallowed…
There’s plenty to gripe about when it comes to the news coverage offered by local television outlets. But when national TV types turn their attention to Colorado stories, the results are often far more distorted. A package that aired last night during NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams offers a…
Because Denver continues to have a severe shortage of celebrities, the gossip columnists at the dailies regularly create their own — and the results can be awkward. Today, for instance, the Denver Post’s Bill Husted devoted a third of his column to the impending departure of Lisa Herzlich, who’s handled…
It seems that squirrels aren’t the only creatures stocking up for winter by hurriedly filling their cheeks with supplies. A September 21 arrest near Skyline Park reveals that a local drug dealer has been following the lead of our furry friends. According to a Denver Police Department incident report, the…
Memo to Denver radio’s traffic reporters: The local metropolitan area actually extends west of the I-25 corridor. As a resident of the Ken-Caryl Ranch area who’s commuted downtown for sixteen years, I know from bitter personal experience that many traffic updates simply overlook the section of C-470 that runs along…
The Sunday Denver Post continues to include a rather large sports section — and the A section isn’t officially part of it. That may be changing, however. Since former Post sports editor Kevin Dale was named the assistant managing editor for the Sunday edition, the most prominent page of the…
Former University of Colorado-Boulder professor Adrienne Anderson says she wants the case of her 2005 dismissal from the school to be heard in “the court of public opinion.” But thus far, a significant number of local media outlets have shown little interest in her story, despite the legitimate news value…
When Josh Blue was named the last comic standing, he automatically became Denver’s second-most-famous living celebrity — after John Elway, of course, and before…Dealin’ Doug? But Denver has no shortage of dead celebrities, and it’s high time we resurrect one: Neal Cassady, the inspiration for Dean Moriarty in Jack Kerouac’s…
Your eyes don’t deceive you. The fall edition of Boulder County Kids, a free quarterly distributed in Boulder County, Estes Park, Broomfield and Westminster, features a cover depicting Michael Jackson as the Mona Lisa. There’s nothing wrong with the image itself, which was sketched by Nick Cochrane, 14, using colored…
The techtonic plates continue to shift along Denver’s increasingly competitive concert scene. Although no official statement has been released, Chuck Morris will be vacating his current post at Live Nation to join his proteges, Don Strasburg and Brent Fedrizzi, at the new Denver outpost of Anschutz Entertainment Group. Morris, one…
There it was, hanging on the wall at St. Mark’s Coffeehouse, looking little different from handmade notices alerting regulars to apartments for rent, bands in search of a new shredder or pets desperate for a new home. But in this case, the scrawled text referred to a couple of area…
According to a recent U.S. Department of Justice study, more than half of all state prisoners in America reported some kind of mental health problem last year. At least one in every five inmates in Colorado’s prison system is seriously mentally ill — and, as this week’s cover story, “Head…
I thought I was supposed to be the funny man! That was until I saw Daniel Libeskind’s plans for Civic Center. Compared to his $100 million plan, the ideas I offered in my “Civic Center Master Plan Defined” cartoon seem almost reasonable. The cartoon, which originally ran on March 31,…
Talk all you want about bad men and madmen. The truly scary ones are those who know rage so well that they scare themselves. The anger pours out of them without warning, like floodwater surging through crumbling earthworks, rolling and roaring over everything in its path. They become howling bedlamites,…
Here she comes: Ms. World Leather 2006. While 28-year-old Jae Januze looks hot in her leather corset and pants, she also looks none too comfortable. In fact, she strips off the outfit as soon as the photo shoot is over. But then, Januze only started her reign as leader of…
