What is it with these people from Minnesota, where the once-proud Minnesota North Stars have been replaced by the dainty Minnesota Mild? Our sister paper in Minneapolis (and we do mean sister), City Pages, posts this story suggesting that the Avs are “pussies” because the great goon squad of Derek…
An audit of how on- and off-duty work hours, as well as overtime hours, are tracked for officers at the Denver Police Department was released Thursday, April 17, nearly three years after it began. But it may not prove too useful because the police department has since changed the system…
Joel Harvey is Ari from East High School’s new hero. And mine too. On his day off, Harvey happened to head into work at the Bluebird Theater and caught a phone call from Eli asking if the Bluebird would be willing to post his prom date invitation on the marquee…
If you were to walk down the beach somewhere and see a couch, you might think “how odd…a couch on the beach.” But if, as you got closer, you realized that upon that couch, dressed in suits, were the Rev. Al Sharpton and Pat Robertson, you might think: “Yep. I’ve…
What is it with athletes and movie stars? Memo to Melo: Use $ome of that money to hire a driver, for crying out loud! For last week’s Shmuck, click here…
Calling all couch potatoes! Check out the Food Network this Sunday at 7 p.m. for the Iron Chef America battle between Bobby Flay and Martin Rios of the Inn of the Anasazi in Santa Fe. Why? Because Chef Rios brought along his brother Daniel Rios as one of his two…
“The Home Foreclosure Depot,” Kenny Be, April 10 No Place Like Home Kenny Be’s most recent Worst-Case Scenario is the most gut-wrenching and poignant commentary I have seen in print on the so-called housing crisis. Could you guys spring $50 for a Pulitzer Prize application? Kenny deserves it for this…
Reporter Joel Stein must be Time’s real man of the year, because the magazine recently sent him to Denver for three days to drink beer and tour some of our local breweries — a nice job if you can get it. Stein chose Denver, which he dubbed the “Napa of…
Not long ago, this country was a diverse place. In Beat America, that fabled land of adventure and intrigue, all you needed was a hitchhiking thumb and a dream to find yourself on the road to adventure. Unique mom-and-pop shops dotted every winding roadway, and even a chance pit stop…
The name of News Corporation, Aussie Rupert Murdoch’s dominating mega-firm, implies that the enterprise is at least somewhat concerned with, well, news — but its interest apparently tilts more toward covering outside events rather than self-revelation. Most financial observers believe Murdoch sold a gaggle of regional television affiliates — including…
Marty Vanover has been part of Denver’s music scene for a dozen years, greeting crowds at the Ogden Theatre and listening to the bands on stage, whether they be hip-hop or hippie. After more than a thousand shows at the East Colfax concert hall, he’s gotten to know hundreds of…
We all knew the DPL’s Central Library on 13th and Broadway is a great place to look at porn and catch a sink-shower when you’re feeling a little ripe. But a place to bring your chemistry set? At 12:49 p.m., Denver Fire responded to the library on a hazardous materials…
As many of you are no doubt aware, April 11, aka College Friday — a day designed to promote higher education by the good folks at College in Colorado – has come and gone, and Mayor Hickenlooper, if that is his real name, which it is, declined to get in…
The trial of Rudy Sablan for the gruesome 1999 murder of cellmate Joey Estrella at the high-security U.S. penitentiary in Florence gets underway this week in Denver’s federal court. It’s only taken nine years — speedy by government work — for the case to get this far, but some interesting…
The video embedded above was posted by the Weld county sheriff’s department to help catch the crooks burglarizing the pictured condo. Who knew the Internets would be turned to such weird uses? Shopping was a given, porn seems obvious in retrospect, and Star Trek discussion and flame wars were clearly…
No sooner had Jason Sheehan’s review of Encore and its crooked tables hit the streets than those tables disappeared. The timing was pure coincidence, Sheehan reports in the current Bite Me. But the new hats on the chefs — replacing their Strawberry Shortcake: The Musical toques — was no coincidence,…
On August 24, the Denver 2008 Convention Host Committee will throw 24 parties for the 54 official delegations to the Democratic National Convention. If you do the math, you’ll see that some delegations are doubling, even tripling up. In some cases, the delegations requested their partying partners. In others, the…
It’s ironic that Kaye Ferry ended her eighteen-year run as head of the Vail Chamber and Business Association this week enmeshed in a controversy over a word as ridiculous as “riff-raff,” considering that she’s said so much worse on the record before. The outspoken commentator on Vail politics was quoted…
Haters of 9News sportscaster Drew Soicher (of which I’m not one) often characterize him as little more than a jokester whose pranks and gimmicks detract from the information he’s being paid to dispense. However, his acerbic wit often enhances rather than detracts from his presentation, as viewers saw clearly during…
It’ll come as no surprise to most moviegoers that actor Crispin Glover is a rather odd fellow. But he’s also an intriguing one, as is clear from the following Q&A, conducted to promote the three days he’ll spend in Denver hosting screenings of his 2005 directorial debut, appropriately named What…
GB Fish & Chips used to be a computer store before owner Alex Stokeld got his hands on it last year. But the place really looks more like the kind of place where computers might’ve been operated in secret, like maybe during the run-up to a nuclear war. It is…
A video recap here of the Bob Schaffer saga, as reported by Veracifier and Talking Points Memo, with a bit of refresher on the Marinas Islands labor situation, provided by a Bill Moyers documentary from 2006. The blowup over Schaffer’s dubious 1999, Jack Abramoff-funded trip to the islands, and his…
