Denver International Airport hasn’t had much good news to celebrate lately, since the last six months have been tough at airports across the country — even those that aren’t bedeviled by loafing cops and groping security screeners. So Steve Snyder of DIA’s public-relations office can perhaps be forgiven for the…
In his introduction to a report on February 4, Channel 7 investigative reporter Tony Kovaleski called the situation viewers were about to see “discouraging” — and if anything, he was guilty of understatement. But the discouragement didn’t stop at the facts of the case, which concerned the botched handling of…
“If I win, everybody will say, ‘Well, of course he won; he’s the top-ranked player.’ But if I lose…” “You won’t lose, Josh.” “What if I do?” “You won’t.” “I’m afraid I might.” — from Searching for Bobby Fischer On the seventeenth move of his sixth game in the final…
Yeah, That’s the Ticket His time’s up! Kenny Be’s “As the world-class city turns,” his February 28 Worst-Case Scenario, had this world-class “cityzen” laughing his ass off. So sad this story is based on real events. Too bad our “world-class-city politicians” play more Marco Polo in Denver than they do…
On April 7, 1995, Coors Field opened for business. Designed to blend into Denver’s lower-downtown warehouse district, the retro-looking, brick-encased home of the new expansion Colorado Rockies baseball club was an instant hit. Of course, at a cost of $215 million, the architecture did not come cheap. But thanks to…
Last summer, Richard Boulware was looking through some photos that his brother, John, had purchased at an estate sale. The photos were all taken in the small Park County town of Como in the 1890s, when it was an important transfer point on the Denver, South Park & Pacific Railroad…
Back at the turn of the last century, lower downtown was the jumping-off point for thousands of travelers who arrived in town by train and then set out to earn their fortunes — some honestly, some less so. A hundred years later, on September 29, 2000, Prince Ali Patrik Pahlavi…
Fortune magazine is the latest mega-media outlet to smile upon Nobody in Particular Presents, the Denver-based concert-promotion company that shook up the music industry last August when it filed an anti-trust lawsuit against Clear Channel Entertainment (“Taking on the Empire,” August 23, 2001). Since then, the fiery showbiz tale has…
Feelings, nothing more than feelings. It’s almost time to say so long to Argenbright Security, the screeners at Denver International Airport who put such enthusiasm into their work (“Busted!” October 11, 2001). Last month, the Department of Transportation announced that the federal government would no longer be doing business with…
Suddenly, business is killer for Denver artist David Johnson. After the holidays, the 31-year-old sculptor’s Web site (www.spectre-studios.com) had been pretty much, well, dead; even before Christmas, the public wasn’t grabbing up his original serial-killer action figures — six-inch toy replicas of Ted Bundy, Ed Gein, John Wayne Gacy and…
The last major shakeup in Denver’s commercial radio market took place in the wake of the 1999 merger of two Texas mega-corporations: Clear Channel, the nation’s largest owner of radio stations, and a previous rival, AMFM. Before it would approve the deal, the Federal Communications Commission demanded that Clear Channel…
For every year they spend at altitude, baseball players and newspaper writers lose a couple of IQ points. But don’t let that stand in the way of a reckless prediction: The Colorado Rockies will return to the playoffs this year. That’s right, Cracker Jack. Despite a shrinking payroll, the absence…
The Unkindest Cuts Banned aid: I just finished reading Stuart Steers’s “Cutting Edge,” in the February 14 issue. Has everyone become so wrapped up in glittery profit that they’ve forgotten about the people who are sick? I am a single mother who works menial jobs so that my daughter can…
Shortly after 8 a.m. on February 5, radio listeners tuned to Colorado Public Radio stations across the state heard hosts Mike Lamp and Monika Vischer engaging in one of public broadcasting’s necessary but irritating evils: a seemingly endless fund drive. Not that Vischer used this phrase very often during the…
The properties in Colorado Public Radio’s hutch have been multiplying so rapidly of late that its acquisition total may change before the ink on this page is dry. At present, its broadcast assets include: • KVOD-FM/90.1 in Denver. Formerly KCFR-FM, the outlet took the call letters of KVOD, the commercial-classical…
Last February, Officer Ronnie Williams of the Denver Police Department observed Black History Month by holding a press conference in City Park in front of a statue of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., at which he announced that he was forming a new organization to protect the rights of…
Less than nine months until Election Day 2002 — do you know who you’ll be voting for? If not, you’re not alone: Keeping track of who’s running for what is tougher than finding an honest Olympic figure-skating judge. To help keep score, we’ve compiled a summary of who is where…
“Based on what I’ve been told,” says Denver Post columnist Woody Paige, “the two evil forces of the Salt Lake City Olympics are the French figure-skating judge and me.” Maybe so — and the comparisons between France’s Marie-Reine Le Gougne and Paige don’t end there. Le Gougne was suspended by…
The bumper sticker reads: “A bad day fishing is better than a good day at the office.” If you are Ted Takasaki, that is not technically true: A bad day fishing is pretty much a bad day at the office, too, because for him they are one and the same…
Wheels of Misfortune Controversy to go: Since I work in Westwood and have lived in this area all my life, I read with interest Harrison Fletcher’s “The Truck Stops Here,” the February 7 article about the mobile food vendors. I like them. There used to be one at Federal and…
Denver resident Steve Bieringer knows what it’s like to suddenly lose insurance coverage that he’d previously taken for granted. A longtime diabetic, Bieringer uses an insulin pump. After changing jobs several years ago, he transferred to his wife’s insurance plan. He was under the impression that the new plan included…
Robin Darbyshire is the first to admit that she hasn’t led an exemplary life. The bad checks, the multiple arrests and convictions, the Texas parole violation — they’re all a matter of record. So when the 41-year-old woman was arrested in Nevada last spring on an outstanding warrant for theft…
