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No-tell hotelTo keep up with its trendy downtown neighbors, the posh but dated Warwick Hotel is undergoing a major renovation. By next spring, the Warwick, at 1776 Grant Street, is increasing the number of its guest rooms to more than 200; it’s also adding meeting space, a fitness center, Internet…

Kent Olson is driving through his neighborhood with a notepad in one hand and the steering wheel in the other, and it’s all he can do to keep on course as he surveys row after row of modest brick-and-frame homes. He checks the mirror, flicks his turn signal, slows at…

Viewers tuning in to KMGH-TV/Channel 7 around 5:30 p.m. on August 23 expecting to see World News Tonight with Peter Jennings soon discovered that the station’s five o’clock newscast had been expanded as the result of a pre-season football game featuring the Denver Broncos, around whom so much in this…

She climbed up into the back of the pickup and looked down at dozens of anxious faces. They could hear the sirens screaming several blocks away, where dust still hung in the air above the shattered building. That’s where these doctors, nurses and medical workers needed to be right now…

John Cominsky wants people to know that the Tranzport Hood is easy to use. He demonstrates this by putting one on. The change in his appearance is remarkable. In seconds, Cominsky no longer resembles an inventor and enterprising businessman. Instead, he looks like a dangerous maniac. A maniac with a…

Downtown developer Bruce Berger is giving Denver a lesson in real estate speculation, and it will only cost the public $45.8 million. Fourteen months ago, Berger bought the square block between California and Welton streets and 14th and 15th for the bargain-basement price of $3.3 million. He spent an additional…

he ten-year-old girl came home from school one day and told her parents that a boy was teasing her. He was pulling her ponytail and calling her names. It was her first year at Stedman Elementary School; in fact, it was her first year at any public school. Until the…

he southeast corner of Pearl Street and Louisiana Avenue appeared to be a prime location for Mr. Jay’s newest endeavor. With the Margarita Bay Club next door, the funky Stella’s Coffee House down the street and the University of Denver nearby, Mr. Jay — Leonard — figured his store, Highway…

Worn outColorado Rockies fans shielded their eyes during a day game at Coors Field last week as the hometown heroes and their opponents, the Atlanta Braves, donned space-age togs for Turn Ahead the Clock Day, Major League Baseball’s latest attempt to rejuvenate its fan base. But horrified fashion monitors are…

Juliet Draper stands at the bottom of a five-story tower constructed of steel girders, a spectator…for now. She’s wearing the bottom half of the protective gear she uses at work as a firefighter in Colorado Springs. Counting the air canister worn on her back, the heavy boots and the insulated,…

Bob Visotcky attracts negative press like the Backstreet Boys attract preteen girls. The overseer of six Denver-area radio stations owned by Dallas’s AMFM Inc., a brand-spanking-new conglomerate created by the merger of media giants Chancellor and Capstar, Visotcky has spent most of the past four months being publicly pilloried. He…

Whenever someone handed Pharmacist Bob a prescription for thirty pills, he filled the order for thirty pills. “Not 29. Not 31,” he says. “Thirty. That’s how I see the world.” So when he started seeing nurses fudging the rules at the Colorado prison where he worked, Bob Gusich didn’t like…

Along Elkhorn Avenue, parents with kids in tow pour out of candy stores and T-shirt shops. They fight their way through the crowded sidewalks, quieting the little ones with caramel apples and saltwater taffy. A shiny new black Toyota Solara emerges from a parking lot and pulls out onto Estes…

Michael C. Hill is missing one testicle. Regrettably, this fact is now common knowledge among many guards and prisoners within the Colorado Department of Corrections. According to Hill, a 48-year-old former correctional officer, “very intimate details about my genitalia” were divulged to other prison staffers and to loose-tongued female inmates…

hen the Denver Nuggets trot onto the hardwood floors at the Pepsi Center on November 2 to open the season against the Phoenix Suns, team owner Donald Sturm will be on the edge of his seat. The newly built, $165 million arena will have already hosted its first blockbuster concert…

he roller coaster is already gone, as is the Yo-Yo, a contraption that set riders spinning on metallic swings attached to slender chains — and that’s only the beginning of the end. At 10 p.m. on September 6, Guyton’s Fun Junction, the largest amusement park between Denver and Salt Lake…

Crossing the line Thwarted several times in their attempts to turn Rebel Hill into a permanent shrine with thirteen giant crosses honoring the victims of the Columbine massacre, Steve Schweitzberger and Greg ‘Road Warrior’ Zanis were back in Clement Park on Friday to at least create a permanent record of…

The train is late, again, so the stringy blonde and her friend, the one with the silver stud through her nose, slouch toward a couple of stools at the far end of the Railcar Diner. The friend asks for a banana and a dollar’s worth of change while the blonde…

It was 4:45 a.m. Monday, August 16 — the day students came back to Columbine High School for the first time since April 20, when twelve students and a teacher were murdered there — and while the campus was blessedly peaceful, it wasn’t silent. The building itself was aglow as…

Ray Gifford was stumped. The questions seemed so simple. Why have hundreds of US West customers had to face waits of up to five months for telephone service? Why have these problems plagued the company for five years? A parade of US West Colorado division vice presidents–in gray suits and…