As if I don’t already have enough chef Troy Guard/Sullivan Group stuff kicking around in print, here’s another tidbit. In a recent conversation, spin mistress Leigh Sullivan let it slip that she’d just been on the phone checking on dance lessons for Troy, her husband.. “Seriously? Dance lessons? What for?”…
On Monday, Sandra Rivas testified in the trial of her common-law husband, Raul Gomez-Garcia (pictured), who’s accused of murdering Denver police detective Donald Young in May 2005. While on the stand, she acknowledged having had a conversation with Gomez-Garcia in which he admitted shooting Young and a fellow officer (Detective…
Scottie Ewing is becoming a household name in Denver — particularly in southwest Denver. On Thursday night, KDVR Fox 31 News broadcast a story about continued neighborhood opposition to his proposed nightclub at 1395 West Alameda Avenue. Ewing first appeared in these pages in June, when “Swap Talk” detailed the…
Last night’s 10 p.m. newscasts in Denver contained more tension than usual because of an intriguing confluence of events. Under ordinary circumstances, like it or not, channels 4, 7 and 9 probably would have led with the Denver Broncos’ humiliating loss to the St. Louis Rams. But since this defeat…
Word came down from Washington, D.C., last week: No more horse slaughterhouses in the United States. To which most people responded, “Are there horse slaughterhouses in the United States?” Yes, there are. Three of them. All owned by foreign companies that are slaughtering tens of thousands of horses a year…
You remember the tune, don’t you? Foleeeeeeeeey’s Red Apple Sale! Look what’s going on at Foleeeeeeeeeey’s! It was the elongated emphasis on the “e” in “Foley’s” that kept that little ditty pinballing around your cranium for days, like someone hysterically shrieking autumnal savings to the heavens, but in the goddamn…
Why the Krisana Park Modern Home Tour is not just another house tour: I grew up near, but not in, the Eichler-style, mid-century Krisana Park development and went to Ellis Elementary, the recipient of benefit bucks raised by this weekend’s seven-home tour. In those days, the Bruggenthies greenhouse still stood…
When Brett Andrews Allen, the subject of “The Impersonator,” appeared in Denver District Court yesterday, he was alone. His mother, who’d declined to be interviewed for the story, didn’t show up — but Allen didn’t seem surprised. He says his mom is terrified of the cameras and swarms of reporters…
In the end, the plan for gas drilling on the Roan Plateau, one of the most ecologically diverse areas on the Western Slope, displeased just about everyone. Environmentalists, Senator Ken Salazar and an unusual coalition of local recreation and business interests wanted to leave the top of the plateau unscathed…
During my formative years in Grand Junction, my young, snotty buddies and I referred to the local newspaper, the Daily Sentinel, as the Daily Senile. Well, the broadsheet’s having the last laugh now. During a recent visit to the Western Slope, I picked up a copy of the Sentinel and…
The doctor is out — to lunch. Philip Mallory, a physician once featured on Oprah and hailed for saving a Columbine teen, did not renew his medical license when it expired at the end of May 2005. But that didn’t stop him from withdrawing a guilty plea so that he’d…
In late August, hundreds of coffee drinkers showed up at various Starbucks locations in Denver with a coupon for free, and unlimited, grande iced coffees through September 30. But they soon discovered that the too-good-to-be-true voucher, which had been distributed across the Internet, was a hoax. But for anyone who…
Covering — or should I say overcovering — anniversaries of big events is the journalistic equivalent of a no-brainer. It’s much simpler for reporters and editors to figuratively — and often literally — return to the scene of past crimes than to tax their minds finding fresh material. Granted, some…
Federal Boulevard stretches almost thirty miles down the spine of the metro area, from Bowles Boulevard in Littleton, where the Southglenn Luncheon Optimist Club keeps the last mile litter-free, to north of 120th in Westminster, where the Belger family handles clean-up duties as the road loses its U.S. Highway 287…
I was raised in the shadow of the Savery Savory Mushroom tower at 110th and Federal. My cutest back-to-school outfits were purchased at the Westminster Plaza JC Penney store at 72nd and Federal. My favorite Denver landmark is the giant cowboy who guards the Rustic Ranch Trailer Park at 5565…
Man, it’s been a tough couple of weeks for the People’s Republic of Boulder. As if morale wasn’t already at an all-time low — what with that embarrassing JonBenét/John Mark Karr debacle just barely in the rearview — the Colorado Buffaloes, the last bastion of hope in a town marred…
The last time I eagerly waited in line for something, it was a Dave Matthews concert. Yes, I know that’s gay. But there was a time when the Dave Matthews Band severely rocked my world. Severely. That time was 1997. And while the rest of my high school firmly embraced…
Newspaper wars are so passé. Once upon a time, dailies generated windfall profits that were large enough to fight over. But now, with circulation shrinking, readership demographics aging, and more and more advertisers looking for other ways to spend their cash, papers are focused on survival, not siphoning off the…
Brown Cloud Town without pity: Are you kidding me? Reading Patricia Calhoun’s most recent column (“The Eye of the Storm,” August 31), I find out that Michael Brown lives in Boulder? Sounds like a heckuva town for that has-been. They deserve each other. Thanks for the alert, Ms. Calhoun. Joe…
In an absolutely brilliant act of subversion (headslap! — why the hell didn’t someone think of this before?), Banksy, one of the world’s most infamous and prolific grafitti artists, has directed his aim towards the most vapid and inexplicable of American celebrities, the would-be-pop princess who is Paris Hilton. A…
Last night, all TV eyes were on Katie Couric’s debut as anchor for the CBS Evening News. Reviews of the broadcast’s predictably glossy makeover appeared in newspapers across the country, and in local rags, too. Rocky Mountain News scribe Dusty Saunders called Couric “buoyant” in his overview, raising the question…
Props to whoever was responsible for putting together the Subversiv* Records Tour flier that we snagged from a lamppost at 11th and Broadway this morning. Although the handbill hyping a July 14 date at Old Curtis St. featuring Epic, Brzowski, Matre, DJ Chaps, K the I and Ancient Mith was…
