The wheels came off Marc Holtzman’s campaign for governor late yesterday afternoon, when Colorado Secretary of State Gigi Dennis threw out almost half the signatures Holtzman had submitted in an effort to petition his way onto the GOP primary ballot. But don’t rule him out yet. Holtzman, the former University…
Did the local media overplay the recent unveiling of two anti-illegal-immigration billboards? Underplay it? Or test everyone’s patience by covering it at all? KHOW talk-show host Peter Boyles, who helped spearhead the effort and used his swing to get Representative Tom Tancredo to serve as a sort of Vanna White…
So far as we’ve been able to discover, no member of the 9News staff has had illicit congress with a bird. Still, during this morning’s news program, veteran anchor Gary Shapiro felt the need to deny any hanky-panky pertaining to a flapper in the family way. A few weeks back,…
On May 11, Channel 4 investigator Brian Maass introduced the first half of a two-part package about Day & Night Mechanical Solutions, a Denver heating and air-conditioning company. Seems that employee Jason Boone had been paying visits to private homes for Day & Night despite being a registered sex offender…
I still remember that day in 2003 when I was first granted access to the secret stash of pictures at Jones Drug and Photo in Boulder. “Check this one out,” my friend said, pulling a picture from the middle of the stack. He motioned for me to come behind the…
Final Testament Richard Velarde, the 29-year-old father of two left paralyzed after a shooting on Market Street last Thanksgiving, was released from Craig Hospital in late January, several weeks earlier than expected. He’d worked hard in rehab and was eager to get on with his life and find a new…
Massholes Need Not Apply Libation-seekers with out-of-state IDs might not want to deposit themselves at the Bank Bar and Grill, 2239 East Colfax Avenue, on a Sunday night. Because while the Bank does offer $2 you-call-its to officially mark the end of the Sabbath, the deal is locals-only. In fact,…
I’m an ornithologist. No, that doesn’t mean I sleep with orthodontists. Well, once, but that was only to get my braces off six months early. It means I like birds. Not in that way. Well, once, but that was only to get my braces off six months early. Damned kinky…
At 37, Brandon was smart, good-looking and well-off. He’d enjoyed hookups and had girlfriends, but he’d always felt like the women had chosen him. He was tired of waiting for things to happen to him; he wanted to make them happen himself. So the Boulder property manager started studying. His…
Debra Fine groans when she hears the title of Matt Buschbacher’s book: Date the Women of Your Dreams. “I hate that,” she says. “We judge people so quickly based on superficial things.” Fine is sitting on an airplane in California, about to return to Denver from one of her many…
Let’s Get It On! The season’s winding down for Spike TV’s The Ultimate Fighter 3. And when two men step into the ring to beat the shit out of each other in the episode airing at 8 p.m. Thursday, June 1, one will be representing Denver. Mike Nickels, a mixed…
Nursing a grudge: Jessica Centers’s “Switch Hitter,” in the May 25 issue, was an excellent article! Every time I hear some flack for a mega-corporation whine to a corrupt politician that attorneys get too big a piece of a contingency-fee lawsuit and shouldn’t we be capping or restricting class actions,…
As threatened/feared, the Goodbye Katie Couric edition of the Today show turned out to be extremely Columbine-centric. During the program’s first half hour, Couric’s 2000 interview with Craig Scott, brother of slain Columbine student Rachel Scott, and Michael Shoels, father of murdered teen Isaiah Shoels, served as the figurative centerpiece…
Does anyone read newspapers on paper anymore? Strangely enough, yes — and publishers hope such folks continue doing so, since they make a lot more money from print ads than Internet equivalents. Underlining this point are two full-page house ads that began appearing in the Denver Post and the Rocky…
Jake Plummer didn’t need any more bad press — but he sure as hell got some anyway. His alleged role in what’s been characterized as a road rage incident filled news pages and airwaves yesterday; thus far, the coverage shows no sign of waning. It does appear to be getting…
Trapped inside a place where people come to die, John Gordy waits and watches. His athletic six-foot-five-inch frame is dead weight. Gordy has just enough use of his contorted right hand to control his electric wheelchair. The slender black man in his early forties is handsome despite his cracked front…
I’m not going to lie to you: I love The Real World. Always have. I loved The Real World when it first blazed onto the airwaves as a semi-noble experiment in documentary television, with an eclectic, not necessarily beautiful cast of people in New York City, all as clueless as…
Nathanial Trotter has never met Oprah Winfrey, but he knows she’s nice. So nice, in fact, that he’d like to make her Queen of America. “I believe God gave me the idea,” the Aurora inventor explains. “I would listen to Oprah, and there’s so many things she’s accomplished. She’s won…
Like all great landmarks of the underground scene, the skateboard bowl at Fallen Warehouse was spectacular, haphazard and not particularly legal. Culled from the remains of “Bruce’s ramp” after uptight Boulder residents persuaded town administrators to force the deconstruction of that unofficial backyard facility in the summer of 2005, the…
On May 17, the main news story plugged on the fronts of the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News revolved around a damning report about University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill — but the papers’ presentations were hardly mirror images. The Post printed a straightforward headline — “Panel on…
GOP of the Heap Send in the clowns: Regarding Alan Prendergast’s “Clowns to the Left of Me,” in the May 18 issue: Who would think we’d all get nostalgic for Ronald Reagan? Kudos to Marc Holtzman for making the Republican Party take a long, hard look at what it really…
The last American Idol faceoff of the season provided all the thrills and suspense of the average episode of Teletubbies — but with lousier music. Several of the predictions made in jest yesterday on this blog actually came true (eeesh), but the joke was on the record companies that will…
