After a five-year legal battle, this morning the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office finally released diaries and other documents seized from the homes of Columbine killers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. The materials– a melange of the mundane, the thoroughly adolescent, and the sociopathic– will probably keep school-shooting researchers busy for…
When Bold landed at Denver International Airport six years ago, he felt as if he’d gotten off not a plane, but a time machine. Born into a relatively well-to-do Mongolian family — his father ran the country’s largest cement factory, and his mother worked in a hospital — Bold had…
Four years ago, Paul Lambert built one of the biggest luxury houses in Douglas County, a 9,100-square-foot tribute to Vegas excess that was the buzz of the 2002 Parade of Homes. Despite lawsuits and other setbacks, he’s even managed to live in his dream house, the Villa Bellagio, following a…
As the clock struck twelve last Friday, smokers in restaurants and bars across Colorado snuffed out their cigarettes and stogies. All in all, the atmosphere was very civilized — particularly compared with the puffed-up behavior exhibited a few days earlier by a rowdy crew on the patio at the Tavern…
At this point, I’ve got the weapons, I’ve got the rations, and I’ve got the brood of buxom sister-wives knitting away at various undisclosed locations on the eastern plains, just waiting for my call. Pretty much all I’m waiting on right now is for that shiftless sack agent from Re/Max…
Channel 7 has long boasted that its 10 p.m. newscasts start with ten minutes of “non-stop news” — a term that’s at least half accurate. The June 22 program certainly zipped along, moving from one example of mayhem to another. Shots of two homes under construction in Elbert County that…
“If anything, I’m the underdog in this fight,” Denver tattoo artist Mike Nickels said to the Spike TV cameras before his June 1 bout for The Ultimate Fighter. “If I topple the giant, then I’m the hero of the show.” The “giant” Nickels was referring to is Matt Hamill, a…
Swap Meet Come out swinging:We are a couple in the lifestyle, and we enjoyed Jared Jacang Maher’s “Swap Talk,” in the June 22 issue. It was very well-written and gave a great insight into the Denver swing scene. Great job! Names withheld on request The really wild West: “Swap Talk”…
It’s official: The nation’s (not to mention Denver’s) highly competitive live concert business just got a little less, well, competitive. Live Nation today announced that it will purchase House of Blues Entertainment for $350 million in cold, hard cash. As part of the deal, Live Nation will presumably gain control…
When was the last time you opened an ear to a classic-rock station on the standard radio dial and encountered a song you’d never heard before, or hadn’t stumbled upon for quite a while? Anyone listening on July 2 to the Fox, Denver’s highest-rated classic-rock broadcaster, experienced this unexpectedly pleasurable…
During the June 29 edition of Channel 2’s late newscast, anchor Asha Blake introduced a segment on the latest unimportant story to clog up more than its share of national TV airtime: the messy departure of the terrifying Star Jones Reynolds from The View, ABC’s long-running, self-satirizing daytime chat show…
This week, Gannett announced that it had won FCC approval for its purchase of KTVD-TV/Channel 20; since the company also owns KUSA-TV/Channel 9, the deal creates a television tag team known as a duopoly. The news hardly came as a surprise, given that a memo about the formal transfer of…
Galileo got crosswise with Pope Urban VIII. Robert Oppenheimer didn’t see eye-to-eye with Edward Teller. Every original thinker has a bête noire who torments and goads him. For William Gray, a lean, six-foot-five emeritus professor at Colorado State University and one of the world’s leading experts on tropical storms, the…
In the journalism racket, there’s an age-old phenomenon known as a “tip.” Someone out there in readerland calls or e-mails, “tipping” us off to an allegedly hot story. “Hey, What’s So Funny,” one of these “tips” might begin. “My brother Karl can swallow sixteen used AAA batteries in under a…
In radio jargon, “brokered” programs are shows created by folks who purchase airtime on a station or stations in order to get their messages heard. Many of them are little different from TV infomercials — they tout products or services related to wealth-generating schemes, wonder diets and the like –…
Brandon MacGillis, communications director for Congresswoman Diana DeGette, insists that his boss understood the risks when she agreed to be interviewed by Stephen Colbert for the 25th in a series of interviews with all of the United States representatives for The Colbert Report. “She knows the show and watches it,”…
Nobody wants to talk about Jennifer Marcum. Not the girls who stripped with her at Shotgun Willie’s. Not the man with whom she was living. Not the men she may have testified against. Not the father of her child. Not her incarcerated ex-boyfriend, who was the last man to see…
After seven days of deliberation in Arapahoe County — the longest trial Judge Stephen R. Ruddick’s courtroom had ever seen — Bill Stiffler was acquitted on six counts of animal cruelty on June 21. Witnesses who testified to the neglect they had seen and documented at Stiffler’s Denver-area horse rescue…
In January, it looked like the McAdam family was finally on their way to a happy ending. Denver Juvenile Court was letting parents David and Tiffany bring home their oldest son, four-year-old Martin. Once he was settled, the Denver Department of Human Services would start transitioning the couple’s six-month-old baby,…
Rock My Real World! Shake and fake: Regarding Jared Jacang Maher’s “Get Real,” in the June 22 issue: The story about the fake Real World was quite possibly the most entertaining thing I have read…ever. I absolutely loved every juicy and drunken word, not to mention the flat-out lies. I’m…
In most cities, the move of a bookstore from one part of the metro area to another would make about as much news as the average homeowner’s decision to stop mowing his lawn crosscut-style. In Denver, however, the Tattered Cover isn’t just a point of pride. It’s taken on near-landmark…
Talk about an unpleasant flashback. On the June 26 edition of MSNBC’s Live & Direct, vile hostess Rita Cosby was rasping about the unsolved murder of JonBenet Ramsey amid the squawking and exhortations of two (loudly) talking heads: Mike Kane, listed as a “former special prosecutor” (he was part of…
