Online troublemaker Mike Zinna, whose JeffcoExposed.com website recently claimed Jefferson County Commissioner Rick Sheehan’s scalp, is a bona fide member of the mainstream media, with a new KHOW radio show, Colorado Exposed, set to debut at 7 p.m. Saturday, May 28. Yet this status hasn’t opened doors for Zinna in…
It’s getting so a whore can’t even apply ointment to her festering lesions on Colfax these days without bumping into some yuppie on his way for a margarita. Used to be a time when the only businesses you could find on the ‘Fax were pawnshops and methadone clinics, markets that…
Channel 7 once loomed over the area’s television landscape like a colossus, but that was before a lot of people reading this newspaper were born. The station’s 22-year reign as Denver’s preeminent outlet ended around the time Gerald Ford lost the presidency, and since then, a parade of general managers…
A Walk on the Wilding Side The never-ending story: I was really impressed by Patricia Calhoun’s “A Piece of the Action,” in the May 12 issue. I can’t believe what happened to Quincy Shannon, and I hope he is acquitted of all charges. Unless being a young black man automatically…
No matter how much helium Lawrence Phipps pumped into his inflatable sheep, he could not get the damn thing to levitate. It was 1997. Phipps was making his first voyage to the Burning Man Festival, and he had absolutely no idea what he was doing. He’d flown from Denver to…
Suppose you’re the warden of a women’s prison. Among your valued employees is a correctional officer named Dave, whose job puts him in charge of dozens of female inmates for long, lonely nights. Dave is a popular guy among his colleagues. But there’s also something odd about him. One day…
Not since the days of Pat Schroeder, who coined the term “Teflon President” to describe Ronald Reagan, has Colorado had a congressperson as quotable as Tom Tancredo. Although the longtime Denver Democrat is on the opposite end of the political spectrum from the four-term (and counting) Republican representative, they share…
God, it seemed like 2:30 p.m. would never come Monday at the State Capitol. While Senate president Joan Fitz-Gerald blah, blah, blahed and Speaker of the House Andrew Romanoff droned on and on about only, like, the most boring stuff ever in the history of the whole entire universe, senators…
When it comes to Denver radio, English remains the tongue of choice, but Spanish is getting in its licks. The latest Arbitrons placed two Spanish-language stations — KXPK-FM/96.5 and KBNO-AM/1280 — among the ten most popular outlets as judged by Denverites twelve and older. KFMD, previously known as KISS-FM, landed…
Even staring-mad, orange-to-the-bone Broncos fans were snoozing through the third round of last month’s NFL draft when Mike Shanahan exploded a major bomb under their butts. Maurice Clarett! You gotta be kidding! Only a lunatic on crack would take a chance on the whiny, divisive ex-Ohio State running back. Talk…
The Joke’s on Us Party hearty: After seeing Kenny Be’s “Crusadertainment for Men,” his Worst-Case Scenario in the April 28 issue, I have a Prayboy Party Joke: Q: What is the best way to unmask the religious intolerance of the “liberal” media? A: Take a public stand on a moral…
A wide red line runs across the floor of the visiting room like a clown’s grin, separating the guard post and the civilian exit from the rest of the place. Prisoners are forbidden to cross that line. Joseph Principe stays way, way clear of the line. The last thing he…
It’s thirty degrees and dropping at seven o’clock, and the thick gray clouds that cap the sky in all directions look about ready to dump. Rita Anderson knows this could be bad news for the monkeys. “We have to remember that when we’re out here suffering a little bit in…
May 9 is D-day for me and my dog Madeline, whom I rescued from the streets on New Year’s Day 2004. For the last year, we’ve lived in peace — which means not having to look over our shoulders every time a Denver Animal Control officer drives by. But that…
Is billionaire Phil Anschutz crying poverty? That’s the subtext of an e-mail sent to youth soccer organizations about The Game of Their Lives, an Anschutz Film Group movie that tells the true (or close enough) story of an American team that upset an English squad in the 1950 World Cup…
Sunday was a good day to be a fat man with a mustache in Colorado Springs. Not that every day isn’t a good day to be a fat man with a mustache in the Springs, but May 1 held particular promise for mustachioed practitioners of the cellulitic arts. Because the…
Consumer advocate Tom Martino’s been a busy boy. Since the March 3 publication of “Target: Tom,” a column about former fan Tony Marquette’s unhappiness with a home-improvement business he found on the for-profit Troubleshooter Network, Martino testified in a trial that pits a company for which he’s a paid spokesman…
Growing up in West Virginia, Anna Mead dreamed of being an Olympic swimmer. It wasn’t just a young girl’s fantasy, either. When she swam in meets — her specialty was the breaststroke — competitive coaches would approach her parents and ask about her plans. But at the age of thirteen,…
Pray As You Go Blessed are the mock: Kenny Be’s “Crusadertainment for Men,” the Worst-Case Scenario in the April 28 issue, was his best cartoon yet. Here’s what I pray: that Kenny never stops poking fun at those who so richly deserve it, like Fred Phelps and James Dobson. Rachel…
This luncheon is a celebration, a brief respite in the war against evil. The troops gathered around the white tablecloths are all here to pick up their share of more than $8 million being dished out to keep schools and playgrounds peaceful. A 57-year-old former nun delivers the keynote speech…
The anti-bullying industry has attracted everyone from serious scholars to scam artists to pop stars, including the old hippie who was a smash hit at Jefferson County’s Patterson Elementary in August 2003. Peter Yarrow, the Peter part of ’60s folksters Peter, Paul and Mary, headlined an anti-bullying program at Patterson,…
Experts say the condition most often occurs between the ages of 23 and 27, but you may experience a delayed affliction into your early thirties. Symptoms can include career indecision, resumé fatigue, student-loan remorse, spare-bedroom recidivism, chronic underemployment, a disintegrating social network and reoccurring delusions of graduate school. You may…
