The long-running battle over sealed documents stemming from the 1999 Columbine massacre spilled into a federal appeals court yesterday. But the dispute has become more fractious and complex than most reporting on the issue would have you believe — pitting victims’ families against each other, the killers’ parents and the…
“Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.” That’s a line from an 1810 potem by Robert Southey, and the first cited reference of the roosting-chicken term, although the story dates back to Chaucer. On Tuesday morning, March 18, a little over an hour from the time…
In an unpublished portion of an interview conducted for the March 6 Message column about changes on the Denver radio dial, Don Howe, who oversees the CBS cluster of outlets that includes KOOL/105.1 FM, responded to a question about the annual KOOL Koncert. Traditionally, the show has featured retro acts…
We get soused and remember the glories of DuckTales…
Today is my birthday. Which is all well and good. St. Patrick’s Day babies get to be honorary citizens of Ireland; our birthdays are remembered by more people; and there is an entire section of greeting cards dedicated to those born on March 17 (if you divide the U.S. population…
I finally watched Jesus Camp this weekend. It’s a documentary about a North Dakota-based Pentecostal summer camp for children called Kids on Fire School of Ministry. Yeah, a terrifying name for a camp. But in the context of the cult-like atmosphere where 7-year-olds are instructed on how to properly speak…
View larger image New Mexico Total Number of Delegates: 38 Pledged: 26 Unpledged: 12 How to Recognize a New Mexico Delegate: If Hawaii is the state that is the most like a foreign country, then New Mexico is the state that is most like another planet. It is an established…
When radio executive Steve Keeney commented for a March 6 Message column about changes in the local radio scene, he was exceedingly forthcoming, noting the reasons the outlet formerly known as Sassy had flipped to a format dubbed One FM and outlining an audio revamp at Martini, another property under…
John Nichols, Washington correspondent for The Nation, came to Denver last week and gave just a taste of what this city will be like this August, when the whole world will be watching, Nichols, who spoke at the Central Library as part of the DPL’s Fresh City Life program, offered…
Wayne Allard isn’t ready to go fishing in the clear mountain streams of retirement just yet. The Colorado Republican, who was famously criticized by TIME magazine for being one of America’s five worst senators as the “Invisible Man” who never did anything, brought a $1.4 trillion budget amendment to the…
Maybe you’ve seen Bridget the Midget as the Mechanical Elf in New Wave Hookers 6 or on Cathouse, HBO’s documentary series about the Moonlite Bunny Ranch brothel. Or maybe you saw her last August at La Boheme for the Adult Film Star Ball. If you didn’t, the little gal is…
While Denver itself frequently ranks in national polls for having one of the biggest St. Patrick’s Day celebrations, none of our local Irish pubs ever get so much as nod from out-of-towners. Whatever, we don’t need some national booze critic to tell us where to get soused. For a town…
Lawyers take a back seat to no one in the muffled expression of their delight in the suffering of others. So, now that one of the meanest, most imperial judges in the history of Colorado finds himself under investigation after his phone number was reportedly found in the files of…
As you may have heard, crazy millionaire Sunshine Megatron, creator of the notorious and highly successful website www.tshirthell.com, recently moved to Denver. Our newest celebrity may not stick around long, however, since he’s already growing weary of the Mile High City. To find out why, we gave Mr. Megatron a…
The Salt Lake City Tribune is reporting that John McCain will stop in Utah on March 27 to raise funds for his upcoming GOP presidential run. He was trounced there by Mitt Romney 90-5 percent in the state’s primary on Super Tuesday, but what a difference two months makes: McCain…
“The entire unfolding of these events was a shock for us. Matthew had never expressed a desire for violence toward anybody. We had no idea he had ownership of weapons or any plan.” That’s Ronald Murray, the neurosurgeon father of New Life Church gunman Matthew Murray, expressing his bewilderment on…
The Internet, unwieldy and nebulous as it may be, still has a number of defining characteristics. You can uncover trivial facts or basic information in just a few short moments. There’s the convenience of email, the power of search engines, social-networking capabilities, maps and directions, free music, stupid videos and,…
Ever since news broke last fall that Senator Larry Craig had not limited his wide-stance activities to the Minneapolis airport, but had also tried his luck at Denver International Airport, an intrepid Demver correspondent — we’ll call him Mr. seX — has been scouting the bathrooms at DIA looking for…
Despite my repeated pleas, a people’s poll and the work of the good folks at nodinger.org, Dinger, the Colorado Rockies’ insipid dinosaur mascot, somehow survived the last season, and is once again ready to bare his belly at Coors Field. The Washington Nationals have the right idea – they’re keeping…
Though it’s hard to begrudge a man the chance to make $1 million solely because he was in the right place at the right time, I hereby call for the revocation of Boulder resident Jameson Sutton’s right to call himself a Rockies fan. At a March 13 press conference organized…
Elliot Spitzer’s career is exploding in New York. But even before it was revealed the soon-to-be-former governor had repeatedly utilized the services of a super-duper high-priced escort service – prostitutes with Emperors Club VIP reportedly charge as much as $5,500 per hour – Colorado has been at the cusp of…
The Denver wing of the anti-DNC anarchist group Unconventional Action has released a tentative schedule for direct action protest strategies for the convention this August. Rather than taking on the heavily-guarded Pepsi Center directly, Unconventional Action “will target a variety of the 1,500 proposed fundraisers, countless delegate hotels, and designated…
