If a company can be said to have reached the big-time when it becomes the subject of jokes, then Clear Channel, the largest owner of radio stations in the known universe, has truly arrived. Here’s an Internet favorite that needles the San Antonio-based enterprise for its aggressive use of voicetracking,…
There’s an even-money chance that the next Oscar de la Hoya was somewhere in the building Monday night — shadow-boxing in a back hall, sleeping in the snack bar or telling his friends in the bleachers that his time had come, that he’s just gotta win the tournament this time…
Fanning the Flames Hot scoop: I want to thank you for Michael Roberts’s excellent article regarding the lack of media coverage during the recent outbreak of wildfires across the state (“Hot Spots,” June 13). A friend and I traveled to Glenwood Springs the weekend of June 8 and 9 and…
Friday, May 3, 7:15 p.m., 13th Avenue and Pennsylvania Street Six men and six women are gathered across the street from a coffee shop, listening to Denver police officer Stacey Goss lay the ground rules for the night. “If I have to take my gun out, get behind me,” she…
Brian and Carmela Giovanetti were the first visitors to arrive at the Children’s Museum on Saturday, April 6. They had come early to prepare for their daughter’s fifth birthday party, and their prudence paid off. Because the parking lot was nearly empty, they were able to get one of the…
Since he moved to the village of Louviers 35 years ago, Jaime Smith has often stood in his back yard, surveyed the rolling grasslands behind his home and imagined the herds of buffalo that once roamed there. But lately, Smith has begun imagining something else on the horizon: bulldozers. Smith…
Jefferson County takes its self-appointed role as “gateway to the Rockies” seriously — so seriously that it’s created a Jeffco wildfire-prevention campaign, complete with a jingle contest based on the humorous rhyming roadside signs that made Burma-Shave famous from the 1920s to the early 1960s. And while no one’s finding…
You don’t have to be a soothsayer to realize that wildfires will be the biggest story in Colorado for months to come. Remember the so-called Summer of Violence? With apologies to Tennessee Williams, this will be the Summer of Smoke. The tale has been building since earlier this year, when…
Eddie Felson (Paul Newman) and Charlie Burns (Myron McCormick) enter the Ames Billiard Hall, a seedy New York City pool establishment. Burns (reverently): It’s quiet. Felson: Yeah, like a church. Church of the Good Hustler. Burns: It looks more like a morgue to me. Those tables are the slabs where…
The Meter’s Still Running A monumental mistake: I think Patricia Calhoun’s “The Big Cheese,” in the June 6 issue, was a great article. The recent city obsession with monuments to Mayor Wellington Webb is premature with thirteen months of his administration left to go. A lot can happen in thirteen…
Marcus didn’t feel at all like an aristocrat when he woke up next to his wife in their room at the Aristocrat Motel. He felt like a 27-year-old recently laid-off motor-home mechanic from Thornton. He felt like a guy with an eviction notice in the back pocket of his jeans…
The first annual Erickson Scott commemorative Italian scooter rally began the morning of June 2 with a festive Sunday brunch of powdered doughnuts, pizza, and Red Bull on the rocks, splash of vodka optional. The gathering point for the mass ride was Soulflower, a club-culture clothing and record boutique on…
Apparently no one ever taught Thomas Jefferson High School geography teacher Alan Chimento not to bite the hand that feeds him — or provides him with soda pop. Because despite a 1998 contract granting Pepsi exclusive rights to sell its products in Denver Public Schools, Chimento tried to run a…
After more than fifty years, my father is going through his letters. This daunting task involves unloading a green Army duffel bag full of papers, and probably mice, as well as decoding ancient computer data dating back to a time when floppy discs actually flopped. He’s been wanting to do…
Kirk Montgomery, entertainment reporter for Channel 9, didn’t hear the routine about him on KOA radio a few weeks back. But he certainly heard about it. Montgomery has never publicly discussed whether or not he’s gay, nor have most of his peers, including Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings, Dan Rather and…
If you’re in Manhattan feeling frisky and need a workout this Saturday morning, leave your empty beer glass on the mahogany in Martin’s and briskly walk the five furlongs to Penn Station. There. All done. Now board the 10:31 train, hunt for a cozy spot in the bar car and…
When Worst Comes to Qwest The numbers game: Stuart Steers’s “Wring Out the Old,” in the May 23 issue, was the best-written article I have read yet on the downfall of US West (Worst), now known as QWEST Worst! The article was readable and understandable, and it was so nice…
Late afternoon, Panorama Park, Wheat Ridge. Greg Storozuk stands beneath a pine tree. Sprinklers hiss in the background, a breeze blows in from the north, a kid rolls by on a scooter, the May sun burns through a milky sky. “To any question in life,” he begins, “the answer is…
Phil Carpenter supervises Grandview Cemetery in Fort Collins. Over the years, he’s uncovered his share of unusual problems. Grandview was built in 1887. Back then, administrators weren’t exactly meticulous about their records. In fact, at the turn of the last century and well into the Great Depression, when poverty and…
Jim Schwartz lives in Centennial, in a home with a sign on the front door announcing that visitors are entering “The Dog House.” When guests ring the doorbell, the refrain from the pop song “Who Let the Dogs Out” plays over a speaker, and Schwartz’s three large black poodles begin…
Home- and private-school students who want to take classes on the Web scored a small victory in May when the Colorado Legislature passed a bill allowing a limited number of them to enroll in online public schools. But for Pam Benigno, the victory was too small. Benigno, who directs the…
Tuesday was the day former Glendale city manager Veggo Larsen was expecting a $100,000 check from his former employers. But instead of a nest egg, he got a goose egg. That’s because Glendale’s city council voted last week to hold off on honoring the May 7 separation agreement (which also…
