What does a pol do to cap off the week when Time magazine names him one of the top five mayors in the country? If you’re Denver mayor John Hickenlooper, you send an e-mail to all city employees detailing recent accomplishments and noting that you are not “seeking the office…
After waking up on the floor of a weight room in a CU-Boulder fraternity house last week, covered in permanent marker and with a black eye, two broken ribs and a sore asshole, What’s So Funny was understandably confused. The portion of Funny’s memory that might be able to account…
The majority of media types these days fall into three categories: liberal, conservative, and those who aspire to genuine objectivity (as opposed to the sort of faux objectivity that certain members of the press on both ends of the ideological continuum hide behind). Such differences manifest themselves clearly in the…
Have you noticed? They don’t have a last name between them. George, Karl, Doug and Moe sound like four hackers who take turns hitting it in the drink at Park Hill. But down at the Pepsi Center — you know, that big red thing where, once upon a time, a…
Hummus Among Us Hookah hooked: I read Jason Sheehan’s “So Far, So Good,” in the April 21 issue, and was befuddled. This corner is quite familiar to me, yet I’d never seen Hookah Cafe. At any rate, I stopped by that night and pigged out. Lamb kebab, kafta, shish tawouk,…
There it was, the power right — blam! — like a goddamned torpedo launched from Tony’s shoulder, through his elbow and out his glove. The blow hit the champion’s brow, which immediately parted like the Red Sea, streaming blood into his left eye. No one saw it coming, especially not…
A Diamond Cabaret stripper with a new set of breasts found herself addicted to Percocet, a painkiller her doctor would no longer prescribe. That’s when a fellow dancer told her about Dr. Phillip Mallory and his prescriptions-for-porno deal. The two strippers called Mallory, who cruised over to the Diamond and…
Spam king Scott Richter has never been accused of thinking small. Even his company’s bankruptcy promises to be big, big, big — real big. Last month, the wacky saga of Richter’s e-mail marketing company, OptInRealBig, entered a new chapter: Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Although the Westminster-based company has little actual…
The matter is settled: Referendum 1A will pass, and a new jail will grace Civic Center, Denver’s cultural heart. The children will lead the way — and that’s how they laid out their town, Box City, this past weekend. When Denver city planners left work on April 15, they left…
So it would appear, dear readers, that you owe What’s So Funny an apology. That’s right, you owe us an apology, and not the other way around, like that time when we got all fired up from watching Deadwood and let loose with a rambling string of “cocksuckers” long enough…
Denver Post editor Greg Moore dropped a couple of noteworthy digits — $800,000 and 5 percent — on staffers recently. The first was the amount he had been asked to slash from the paper’s budget by corporate parent MediaNews Group. The second was the portion of editorial space (commonly referred…
A strong weekend storm has just dumped a foot of wet spring snow on Denver — perfect weather for the New Siberians. By 8 a.m., e-mails are whipping back and forth between the City and County Building and the Wellington E. Webb Municipal Office Building, across the street. “It turns…
Watt’s New? Interior monologue: As a 27-year, now-retired employee of the Department of the Interior, I cannot thank you enough for Alan Prendergast’s “Grazin’ Hell,” in the April 7 issue. I worked under more than a few Secretaries of Interior, and Gale Norton is absolutely the worst. She took over…
Reverend Benjamin L. Reynolds stands at the pulpit in a rhubarb-colored dress shirt, shaking his narrow hips from side to side, ready to get down and dirty. “In the black church,” he says, eyes wide, “we sit with the saved and the unsaved. We use our hips and our buttocks…
Sarah Eggerichs flexes her biceps like a sailor. “Ladies, I want you to reach over and squeeze your husband’s muscle,” she says to scores of women in the audience at the First Church of the Nazarene. Without word or pause, they reach over and squeeze the arms of the men…
“My family and I have been getting harassed by police officers since I can remember,” Denver resident Paul Lopez told Denver police chief Gerry Whitman during a March 10 meeting. It was one of the few moments of passion in what was a restrained gathering at police headquarters between department…
It’s lights out for the Denver Repertory Theatre Company’s new space, an 18,000-square-foot warehouse at 2162 Market Street that David and Bonnie Riley leased last November with the idea of putting in two theaters, artist studios and a coffee shop. Unfortunately, a neighbor had something else in mind. Last month,…
Look, we all know it’s going to happen. Pretending that it won’t isn’t going to make it go away. And shrieking hostile racist threats whenever anyone brings it up isn’t helping, either. You’ve really got to stop doing that. Whether we like it or not, Denver Public Schools superintendent Jerry…
Channel 9 executive producer Nicole Vap, who oversees her station’s investigative teams, says that when Denver-area reporters talk shop, one of the first things they complain about is access to public records — and earlier this year, she switched from griping to taking action. Vap teamed with Channel 4’s Brian…
HELP WANTED: Tradition-rich athletic team seeks nineteen- or twenty-year-old American who can run like crazed jaguar for two solid hours. Must leap like Michael Jordan, kick leather like David Beckham, possess hand-eye skills of Champ Bailey. Awesome physique not essential, but uncommon courage required — job involves frequent collisions with…
Putting the Public on Notice Land sakes: Surely no one is surprised at the content of “Grazin’ Hell,” Alan Prendergast’s article in the April 7 issue. It’s all too drearily familiar in today’s political climate. The very word “public” puts an institution in the crosshairs of the current batch of…
Taking the oath of office can be a solemn moment in the life of a public servant. For William G. Myers III, a longtime lobbyist for grazing and mining interests, the occasion was an excuse for a corporate bash. On October 4, 2001, Myers attended a reception in his honor…
