Although this year’s joint operating agreement made the business operations at the Rocky Mountain News and the Denver Post inseparable, most members of the dailies’ editorial departments take pride in their continued independence — so much so that their battles for stories are often every bit as intense as they…
Arapahoe County-based AT&T Broadband believes in making holiday wishes come true; it says so right in the glossy advertisement that was inserted in hundreds of thousands of Denver newspapers on Sunday. “With monthly rates starting at $35.95, AT&T Broadband Internet service makes it easy and affordable to shop for everyone…
Naming Names No kidding around: I just wanted to tell you that I really enjoyed Julie Jargon’s article about the Central Registry (“The Name Game,” November 1). I found it very informative and an interesting read. I work at a child-care facility, and not too long ago we were under…
This all started around 65 million years ago, when a large carnivore died badly in the wilds of what is now eastern Wyoming. But no human paid any attention to the big fellow’s demise until one day in the summer of 1995 — the day two men lugged a box…
As theater lovers lined up around the block last weekend to buy tickets to The Lion King, a musical extravaganza coming to the Denver Center for the Performing Arts this April, they may not have realized that the law of the jungle extends to the ticket counter. Since last February,…
Okay, so he’s a not a super-duper star, but he is pretty famous, especially now that he’s co-starring in the remake of Ocean’s 11 with five legitimate superstars — and hey, he’s from Denver, which usually is enough to rate several gossip-column items when an actor visits his hometown. Still,…
Thanks to movies like Broadcast News and television programs such as The Mary Tyler Moore Show, most people have a clear image of how TV newscasts are assembled. We’re familiar with the camera operators, the lighting and sound technicians, the control rooms filled with crew members in thrall to a…
His earthly triumphs interrupted by exhaustion and injury, home-run king Mark McGwire retired a couple of weeks ago. This came as unhappy news in baseball-savvy St. Louis, where the massive, red-headed slugger made home-run history in 1998, and in countless other precincts of the grand old game. It’s a good…
Drug Bust Praisin’ Kane: Regarding federal judge John Kane (Stuart Steers’s “Disorder in the Court,” November 22), I have three words for this man: God bless him. It amazes me that so few in his position see what is painfully obvious: The “War on Drugs” is a colossal waste of…
United States District Court Judge John L. Kane is informally holding court behind his desk in downtown Denver’s federal courthouse. The 64-year-old jurist puts on his reading glasses, arches his bushy gray eyebrows and begins leafing through a pile of articles he keeps in a folder. He pulls one out…
Not long ago, Christie Donner was seen as a fringe figure in state politics, advocating unpopular changes in the stern laws that form the centerpiece of Colorado’s part in the nation’s War on Drugs. Donner, director of the Colorado Prison Moratorium Coalition, argues that Colorado’s prison-building boom has been an…
Holiday-season installments in the ever-popular series of late-night television advertisements for Rocky’s Autos have featured the Shagman character, costumed as a pilgrim and chasing a turkey through rows of used cars with a blunderbuss musket in hand. Given the pending federal firearms charges against Rocky’s Autos co-owner John Rothrock, arming…
For seven years, the hemp ice cream produced in Das Agua’s shop, Original Sources, made him a successful businessman. Today it makes him a criminal. Created with “milk” made from the ground seeds of industrial hemp — marijuana’s low-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) sister plant — Agua’s Hemp I Scream may now be…
The Thanksgiving weekend will be a little quieter at Denver International Airport this year, and not just because United Airlines has retired its entire fleet of rumbling 727s. For the first time in many years, there will be no musicians roaming the concourses, placating tense travelers and making merry. “From…
There’s no denying that the building at 2000 East Buchtel is spectacular. Located next to the equally striking Ritchie Center on the University of Denver campus, it’s massive (a whopping 74,000 square feet), with a curved glass facade that allows light to spill into a circular area accurately dubbed “the…
On a brilliant Indian-summer afternoon outside of Morrison, Gordon Grenfell unhoods his Barbary falcon. The bird rouses — shakes its feathers in preparation for flight — and then, suddenly, in a flurry of motion, swoops off Grenfell’s leather glove and over the field, skimming low across the brown grass. A…
A Hung Jury Read it and weep: I remember when libraries were repositories of great literature. Judging from Patricia Calhoun’s recent columns, they are now institutions devoted to the hanging of penises (“How’s It Hanging?” November 15) and the consumption of cheesy philosophy (“Cheese Wiz,” November 8). Doesn’t anybody read…
Nick Delgado has a tube of the testicle cream in his pocket. He is the author of eight books, including How to Look Great & Feel Sexy, and he’s scouting the room packed with muscular hardbodies at the Olympia competition and product exposition. When Delgado spots magazine publisher Jeff Everson,…
Jeff Peters was getting ready to drive his daughter, Heather, to class at the University of Colorado on September 11 when he turned on the television and saw the World Trade Center’s north tower in flames. “I said, ‘Heather, we’re being attacked,'” he remembers, “and she said, ‘How do you…
When Andrew Herm sealed the envelope on his early-decision application to Brown University just over a month ago, he included the usual materials — test scores, letters of recommendation from teachers, forms detailing his accomplishments as a senior in the top of his class at Littleton High School. But amid…
The developers had money, business leaders and most of the town’s elected officials on their side. But last week, the citizens of Berthoud decided to stick with their beleaguered growth cap, rejecting a proposed exemption that would have allowed for massive development of a 4,200-acre parcel of land along the…
The Denver Botanic Gardens announced this week that it will reorganize its operations, laying off seven employees for budgetary reasons and accepting the resignation of its associate director for operations, Joe Duran, whose position will not be filled. Although the elimination of the positions had nothing to do with employee…
