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Memo to Hollywood: If you want a feel-good do-good event, do not bring in a comedian who has a reputation as a bad boy. A comedian like George Lopez, who wound up leaving the stage at the Carousel Ball.

The day before the announcement that he’d been hired by 9News, Tom Green, who left a decade-and-a-half stint on Daybreak, the KWGN morning show, in May and has been off the air ever since, posted the photo above on his Facebook page along with a caption that reads, “I tied a tie today…wasn’t sure I’d remember how. I’m kinda proud of myself.”

Last month, I retired from a fifty-year-long career caring for women in Lakewood as an OBGYN. I’ve seen many changes in the way we practice medicine and in how our country approaches women’s health. But in all my years of practice, I am most terrified now for the future of women’s health care in Colorado and in the United States.

On October 11, RTD’s B-line was granted permission to “soon dismiss” its crossing guards—the flaggers, that is, that were hired to make redundant (and assure the effectiveness of) the mechanical gates that normally keep traffic away from the rails. But they’ll still be stationed along the A-line, and that got us thinking: man, that must be an isolating gig. Which led us to wonder what other lonely jobs exist in the Mile-High city?Please note that “lonely” is meant in no way as a pejorative. Chances are pretty good that you’ll read some of these job descriptions as you sit in your cubicle farm and think “actually, that sounds sort of nice.” To each their own, right? So here are the loneliest jobs in Denver—and if you think yours is more lonesome? Come down from your fences, desperado, and tell us about it in the comments.

Once upon a time, ratings were pretty much the only way of judging commercial success for local television news. But that’s no longer the case. Witness a new report by TV Spy, a broadcasting-industry website, which grades Denver TV outlets and personalities by social media engagement. Using that measure, 9News is the clear number one, while Kyle Clark, anchor of Next With Kyle Clark, tops the talent chart in part because of the ways he’s used Facebook, Twitter and Instagram beyond simply establishing and extending his brand, as he explains to us in the following Q&A.

A federal jury has awarded Vietnam veteran Mark Smith a $760,000 judgment to be paid by the Town of Kremmling and two members of the community’s four-person police department, including the chief, over a brutality episode with a long and bizarre backstory. Smith’s attorney says the beating Smith took was motivated by what he calls “small-town politics on steroids.”

Twenty years ago today, on October 12, 1997, John Denver died when an experimental aircraft he was flying crashed into Monterey Bay off the coast of California. But even before this benchmark anniversary, the makings of a full-scale JD revival was underway, as exemplified by the prominent role his song “Take Me Home, Country Roads” plays in two major films currently unspooling at a multiplex near you. And speaking as a longtime resident of the city for which the man born Henry John Deutschendorf Jr. renamed himself, I find that irritating as fuck.

Blair Stapp got the idea to start Blank House after hosting lots of visitors through Airbnb. Stapp was constantly being asked for suggestions of things to check out, and noticed that a lot of the listings that guests were looking at through websites like Denver.org suggested areas of Denver that Stapp considers blasé or touristy.