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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…

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…

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…

A promotional postcard for this year’s Starz Denver Pan African Film Festival features a thuggish-looking white boy with headphones around his neck. Clad head to toe in hip-hop garb, he is a sign of the urban style that is ubiquitous not only in high schools, shopping malls and playgrounds across…

Jim Dahl had a drunken dream. A dream to organize the biggest pub crawl ever — and then hold it along Colfax Avenue, Denver’s most liquid asset. “There are a lot of new bars that have opened and that are doing well,” says Dahl, whose day job is with a…

Growing up, most kids played some variation of Butt Ball. Though decidedly gay-porno-sounding in retrospect, the game was pretty innocent, even if it did fixate on players’ asses. Not sexually, though: The goal was simply to inflict the most pain possible. It was fun, people. Damned fun. Kids would gather…

Do you know that a civil war has been raging in the African nation of Uganda since 1988? Are you familiar with the Lord’s Resistance Army, a rebel militia that restocks its depleted ranks by kidnapping Ugandan children — approximately 20,000 of them over the past decade-plus? Have you heard…

Last Writes The easy way out: Thanks to Michael Roberts for “Death Wish,” his Message in the March 31 issue. I hate almost every take on Hunter Thompson’s death that I’ve read. He’s no hero for his final act. This was one last pimp — only to the whole world…

As we know, theres no crying in baseball. No crying when the first six batters all smash ropes off you and by the bottom of the second, your earned-run average looks like the dinner tab at Mortons. No crying when the left-field bleachers are so sparsely populated you can hear…