Last Brawl Follow the money: I appreciate David Holthouse’s writing both for its style and content. However, his July 22 “Where the Wilding Things Are” on LoDo’s Let Out was disappointing. He didn’t give a definitive reason for the violent LoDo mentality, but implied that “aggressive” hip-hop is to blame…
It was one in the morning on July 4, and LoDo felt like a fuse that had just been lit. The bars and clubs of lower downtown were about to let out thousands of patrons at closing time. Waiting in the streets and on the sidewalks were more than fifty…
When Denver TV stations broadcast footage of eleven black youths wreaking havoc on the 1900 block of Market Street in mid-June, the coverage drew the attention of white-supremacist organizations across the country. Almost every major white-power website on the Internet linked to articles on the wilding. Some posted video clips…
Folks in Trinidad were relieved to learn last year that the town’s only hospital had obtained the services of Dr. Marci Bowers, an obstetrician and gynecologic surgeon with a distinguished resumé. The community had lacked a board-certified OB/GYN for years, and physicians of Bowers’s caliber — former chair of her…
Sometimes Congressman Tom Tancredo is the most predictable of politicians. On other occasions, he’s anything but. In the year since Tancredo was profiled by Westword (“The Flag-Bearer,” July 3, 2003), he’s frequently lined up with lawmakers on the far-right end of the ideological continuum. For example, he endorses the Marilyn…
Thanks to Kobe Bryant, Eagle County is enjoying more than fifteen minutes of fame — a lot more. The area around Vail was already home to plenty of bold-faced names, but there’s none bolder than Kobe (in so many ways, judging from accounts of that late-June 2003 night at the…
David Parker has worked as the Boulder Daily Camera’s online editor for four years, so it’s more than a little surprising to hear him admit that “when I look at this market as a whole, I don’t really see anything that’s fun to read.” Granted, he amends this statement a…
Fifty years ago, the athletic director of Gunnison’s Western State College, a 950-student school in south-central Colorado, made history when he convinced the National Collegiate Athletic Association to add skiing as an official intercollegiate sport. The idea stuck, and a few months ago, skiers from more than three dozen colleges…
Funny Business Take cover: Ah, Denver. You’ve got to love this town, where a guy who’s only kinda funny, judging from Adam Cayton-Holland’s “Get Up, Stand Up,” in the July 15 issue, can not only climb to the top of the comic heap (by his report, at least), but also…
“My sisters and I have a way of getting back at our parents for giving us this hyphenated last name…” It’s my second time on stage, I’m three jokes into my last-name bit, and I’m sweating like Patrick Ewing. “We always tell them that the first one of them to…
Name, age, day job: Greg Baumhauer, 27 years old, student/drag-queen waiter. How long have you been doing comedy? Ten months. What was your best time on stage? It’s a tie. I did the “Bobo and Blue Show” at Comedy Works a few times and that was a blast, and I…
I doubt that many people would see my fifteen-year-old son, Nick, as a threat to national security. Granted, he’s a pretty big guy — just over six feet tall — and he’s taken karate classes since elementary school. But he’s also soft-spoken and studious. And while he’s recently developed an…
We haven’t seen him much around Colorado lately, but last Thursday Governor Bill Owens voluntarily participated in possibly the most hysterical debate pairing of his political career: taking on former presidential candidate and former Vermont governor Howard Dean at the American Civil Liberties Union’s annual membership conference in San Francisco…
Media consumers who complain about the dearth of good news may change their tune after John Elway’s enshrinement in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The buildup to this get-happy ritual, slated to take place on August 8 in Canton, Ohio, is well under way, and if the offerings to…
Only a devoted masochist — a guy with a thing for hairshirts and moonlight strolls in Fallujah — would envy Bob Apodaca. As pitching coach for the Colorado Rockies, Apodaca is asked to piece together some kind of credibility in a ballpark where earned runs, home runs and pitcher anxiety…
Ticket to Ride This land is your land: I can’t tell you how touched I was by Laura Bond’s “Death and Taxis,” in the July 8 issue. Whenever I feel depressed about the state of this country, I will remember what Alemshet Workie said about this still being a land…
Alemshet Workie is under attack. At nine o’clock this Wednesday night, at the corner of 11th Avenue and Sherman Street, unidentified ammo is hitting his taxicab. It sounds like rocks or paint-gun pellets raining down from who knows where. When one of the missiles zings in through the window and…
On Tuesday, June 29, Alemshet Workie and about ninety other drivers angrily disconnected themselves from Freedom Cab — at least for now. In a demonstration at Freedom’s headquarters, a small office near the train tracks in northeast Denver, drivers formed a caravan along Smith Road and, one by one, removed…
The team is exhausted, but the goal is in sight. Since heading out from base camp, we have endured unimaginable privations (lunch was a bit rushed), the fury of the elements (I hope those were raindrops I felt pelting my shoulder downstairs) and the harsh demands of the ascent itself…
The only good thing I have to say about the Broomfield Police Department is that it has a nice jail. In fact, it is by far the nicest jail I’ve ever spent four or five hours in while waiting to get bailed out — and that’s saying a lot. The…
First, there’s Eugene Wang. Then there’s his girlfriend, Chief. And finally his mother, Selma. And before you even get to the end of chapter one of graphic novel The Wang, Chief and Selma have met in the Fascist Nation Bondage & Sex Superstore (modeled on — you guessed it –…
In 1973, high school athlete Julian Nabozny was playing goalkeeper for his Winnetka, Illinois, soccer team when he collided with a boy on the opposing side. As Nabozny knelt down to receive a pass, David Barnhill came hurtling toward him, kicking him in the head. Many agreed that Barnhill could…
