The saga of the East Village housing project has finally come to an end. Last week, wrecking crews arrived at the 16.5-acre site off Park Avenue West just east of downtown to begin demolishing what had started as planned housing for the 1976 Winter Olympics but soon deteriorated into a…
1. Which food would not be a breeding zone for bacteria if left at room temp for more than two hours? A. Roast turkey. B. Shrimp. C. Yummy baked ham. D. Brain tacos. 2. Which is not a symptom of food poisoning? A. Rockies pitching. B. Weakness. C. Fever. D…
David Ryan Urton, a 21-year-old cadet at the United States Air Force Academy, faces possible disenrollment and a $100,000 fine for taking beer to an off-campus party attended by underage cadets. This is the second example in as many days of how the academy is compensating for past indiscretions. In…
“I haven’t been measured for anything in years,” says Charlie Brown. Denver City Council’s resident cowboy is standing in Suavecito’s, the Santa Fe Drive boutique run by former social workers Craig Peña and Jay Salas, and he’s looking a little bewildered at the prospect of being fitted for a suit…
Tim Brown, chief executive officer of Denver’s NRC Broadcasting, is normally an upbeat fellow — and why wouldn’t he be? On December 5, he filed paperwork with the Federal Communications Commission to buy NRC’s twelfth radio station in just over eighteen months. KKHI-FM/105.5, currently held by Laramie Mountain Broadcasting, is…
A few years back, I was sitting with a friend in a duck blind. It was a slow day of hunting, and we were discussing the recently passed Colorado initiative outlawing the spring bear hunt. The new law also prohibited baiting while pursuing a bear — a good thing, I…
Wed Alert! Marilyn uh-oh: Regarding Kenny Be’s Worst-Case Scenario in the December 4 issue, “A Most-Grave Situation,” here’s a letter to Marilyn Musgrave: I am saddened by your attempt to devalue me as both an American and a beautiful creation of God. My main issue with you is that you…
For David Mallamo, fantasy has always been kinder than reality. At fifteen, with scruffy brown hair and glasses, he resembles his hero, Harry Potter — a boy who’s abused by his family but finds power and adventure in an alternate world. Now living in his tenth home since birth, David…
The structure of public funding for mental-health care changed dramatically in 1995, when Colorado moved from a fee-for-service system and began to operate on a managed-care model. Eight mental-health assessment and service agencies, known as MHASAs, were contracted by the state to provide mental-health services to Medicaid recipients, while seventeen…
The Gods of the Internet have truly blessed the geeks of Parker. They’ve bestowed onto local gamers a physical location where they can get their fix of virtual violence and computer camaraderie. It fell from the sky, they say, a little more than a year ago, landing with a dull…
1. Which words did the Colorado Supreme Court NOT use when rejecting last year’s GOP-friendly legislative map scribbled by the General Assembly? A. “Unprecedented power.” B. “Abhorring such a transfer.” C. “Res ipso loquitur (The thing speaks for itself.)” D. “Having failed.” 2. Clinton Portis helped keep the Broncos’ possibilities…
Diane and Elaine Klimaszewski, the buxom blond Coors Light twins, have been busy little ladies in the year since they graced Westword’s cover (“The Light Stuff,” January 23). On top of their daily duties of working teenage boys into a frenzy and helping Coors sell buckets of beer, they have…
Colorado’s first family spent a quiet Thanksgiving at their home in Centennial. But Governor Bill Owens wasn’t about to show up for dinner empty-handed. And so the night before, in search of some CDs for his kids, he landed at the Super Kmart at Broadway and Alameda. Savvy shoppers did…
Justin Mitchell’s life in newspapering has taken more twists than Chubby Checker. His curriculum vitae includes a lengthy run as pop-music critic for the Rocky Mountain News and a briefer one spent impersonating fictional columnist Ed Anger, the bizarro conscience of the extraterrestrial-friendly Weekly World News. Yet his current gig…
That ominous rumble gaining volume in the mean saloons and unhappy living rooms of Denver is the sound of a citizen army being mustered. Taking up their cudgels as they pull on their predominantly orange flak jackets, these aroused militia-folk are clearly plotting an advance on Dove Valley, there to…
Bitch, Bitch, Bitch Petty is as petty does: Regarding Eric Dexheimer’s “Scratching the Bitch,” in the November 13 issue: What a bunch of cowards at the State Capitol! First I read in Westword about Joseph Paiva and how Colorado grossly underfunds social services and then incarcerates those who fall through…
The two tickets in the scalper’s hands are so hot he should be wearing oven mitts. They read: “Oakland Raiders v. Denver Broncos, Monday, September 22, Section 104, Row 8.” Way down low, on the forty-yard line. Face value: $78 each. The scalper is demanding $500 for the pair. And…
When Nick Morales began teaching Chicano studies at Metropolitan State College of Denver several years ago, he relied heavily on the standard textbooks in the field. Those texts had a great deal to say about the Chicano experience in California and Texas, but Colorado was scarcely mentioned. “My students were…
1. How many pancake breakfasts could Bronco Daryl Gardener have bought at the Aurora IHOP (where he hurt his hand in a fight last summer) with the salary he’s expected to lose from a one-game suspension? A. About 500, give or take. B. None. He’s known as a selfish guy,…
After three decades as the Sex-Change Capital of the World, Trinidad might have to find a new nickname. Dr. Stanley Biber, who has performed some 6,000 sex-reassignment operations in the southern Colorado town, has set aside his scalpel after failing to find insurance. “I didn’t retire — I was forced…
Listeners of the three local stations owned by Infinity Broadcasting got an unexpected earful this past Monday morning when the nasal tones of Governor Bill Owens suddenly rode the airwaves of Mix 100, Kool 105 and Jammin’ 92.5. Infinity’s offices are in the Denver Post building — just one hot-dog…
In late October, as the Overland fire was scorching hundreds of acres in Boulder County, several Channel 4 executives gathered in the office of news director Angie Kucharski to watch the five o’clock newscast. For the most part, they were impressed with the presentation — until, that is, the monitor…
