In sports, there’s a well-known phenomenon referred to as “the curse of Dr. Z.” Every year, Dr. Z, Sports Illustrated’s renowned football analyst, predicts which team is going to win the Super Bowl, and that team is then featured on the cover of the magazine. And every year, without fail,…
The writing is on the wall for Marc Ecko. The hip-hop fashion mogul’s original plans to hold a graffiti festival in Denver on June 18 in Skyline Park seem unlikely to come to fruition, as the Denver Office of Cultural Affairs reports that he has yet to apply for a…
Residents of Vail will be able to voice their opinions officially on the controversial Crossroads redevelopment, because the proposal is going to a public vote on July 11. For the past year, the legendary ski town has been divided over developer Peter Knobel’s vision for the $250 million Solaris project,…
Freedom’s Just Another Word Slave labor: Thanks for Patricia Calhoun’s column on Juneteenth (“Free for All,” June 8). If the truth will set us free, I am compelled to tell my truth. We (blacks) were not set free then or now. How do you define “free”? A piece of paper…
The planets in the art world must have been out of whack yesterday, because tragedy befell two of its biggest stars. Daniel Libeskind had to cancel his presentation on his vision for Civic Center Park that was scheduled for Thursday, June 15. The architect of the Denver Art Museum’s new…
Getting signatures on petitions isn’t rocket science, and that’s a good thing. If the people in charge of Marc Holtzman’s effort to petition his way onto the Republic primary ballot were running NASA, we’d still be chasing Sputnik. After Colorado Secretary of State Gigi Dennis threw out almost half of…
As of this moment, the Rocky Mountain News is the most entertaining daily newspaper in Denver, if only because it’s equally capable of excellent journalism and questionable judgement from one day to the next. At this writing, the Rocky is in the midst of a five-day series, “Immigration: The Border…
The June 8 blog item “Musical Chairs” featured a memo announcing upper-level staff shifts at the Denver Post, as well as speculation from yours truly about what the changes mean in the greater scheme of things. At one point, for instance, I suggested that moving former metro-news boss Jeff Taylor…
June 10’s KS-107.5 Summer Jam at Coors Amphitheatre was not for the linguistically sensitive. F-bombs went off more frequently than Iraq IEDs during the hip-hop festival, with headliner Snoop Dogg certainly holding up his end. The D-O-Double-G’s most frequent call-and-response chant was “Hell motherfuckin’ yeah!,” but he also led the…
The Oprah Winfrey for Queen campaign has just received another boost. In the May 25 edition of Westword’s Off Limits column, readers were introduced to Aurora’s Nathanial Trotter, whose goal in life involves putting the royal Ms. Winfrey on a throne, where she belongs. Trotter, who outlines his plan on…
Residents of Vail will be able to voice their opinions officially on the controversial Crossroads redevelopment, because the proposal is going to a public vote on July 11. For the last year, the legendary ski town has been divided over developer Peter Knobel’s vision for the $250 million Solaris project,…
Since editor Greg Moore arrived at the Denver Post in 2002, his staff has been shuffled more times than cards at a Texas Hold ‘Em tournament. For the most part, though, the folks switching seats have been in the reporting ranks. Now, Moore has given several supervisors similar treatment, as…
For several years, life was one long, lovely road trip for Sandy and Joann Bush, as the retired couple cruised from state to state in their RV. But while they were on the road in Iowa in the summer of 2004, Sandy’s leg suddenly swelled to twice its normal size…
“No, I’m not going to relax!” “Stop strangling me, fucker! Fuck you! Just fucking shoot me!” The raving man was being held to the ground in the Office Depot parking lot at East Colfax Avenue and Pearl Street when Evan Herzoff walked by around 9:30 p.m. on April 8. The…
A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that sharply limits the rights of whistleblowers could change the landscape for a number of workplace battles in Colorado — including a case alleging heart-transplant fraud and retaliation at the University of Colorado Hospital that was filed just days before the high court’s deeply…
The Denver City Council’s May 22 agenda overflowed with typical items — zoning matters, leasing pacts, the designation of May 21-27 as “Public Works Week” — but one entry qualified as mighty unusual. The paragraph described a bill calling for the approval of a one-year, $504,875 agreement between the City…
Things are looking up in this city — and Ken Schroeppel is a big reason why. By day, he’s a mild-mannered urban planner with Matrix Design Group — a national firm involved in such projects as the Denver Federal Center redevelopment — but by night, he’s the mastermind behind the…
In today’s America, the vast rift between the upper and lower classes grows by the second. The gap reminds me of the tale about Franklin D. Roosevelt campaigning by rail through West Virginia. Roosevelt had recently taken the nation off the gold standard and was promoting the move as he…
Let the Games Begin! Men overboard: I was disgusted by Jessica Centers’s article about Denver pick-up artists, “Game On,” in the June 1 issue. I’m a twenty-something guy, and it is totally obvious to me why people have so much trouble finding real relationships and why the divorce rate is…
The reported $4.1 million paid for the right to publish photographs of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s messiah/baby, Shiloh, is a prime indicator of inflation — and a famous snap of Colorado’s own Gary Hart demonstrates why. An article on the ABC News website produced in conjunction with a segment…
What if your organization spent a lot of coin to conduct a poll whose conclusions you loved — and no one noticed? That’s what appears to have happened to the Lake Cedar Group, the consortium of area television stations eager to build a new broadcasting tower on Lookout Mountain. On…
This week, Channel 4 personnel will accept a Peabody Award — arguably the highest accolade in broadcast journalism — for a story about Army recruiting practices. As a bonus, the station is belatedly giving credit where credit is due. The reports for which the station is being honored were dominated…
