Don’t fault Todd Sauerbraun for the Bronco’s heartbreaking loss to the Chicago Bears. Don’t put it on Dre Bly or the defense, or even give the credit to Devin Hester and his ridiculousness. No, when you spin the wheel of blame for the Sunday’s calamitous collapse, the needle will come…
Anti-Gym, Michael Karolchyk
Miles Moffeit, a reporter for the Denver Post, has had his byline on much of the best stuff the broadsheet has published over the past several years, and folks are noticing. As detailed in this November 24 article, the Center on Media, Crime and Justice at New York City’s John…
The Colorado Department of Transportation announced this week that the I-70 viaduct between Brighton Road and Colorado Boulevard will receive $20 million in overhauls beginning next year. Officials hope that the work will extend the life of the bridge by 10 to 20 years, but CDOT has been looking at…
Former Attorney General John Ashcroft was in town on Tuesday and, since he graced our fair state with the honor of his presence, I thought I’d reciprocate by sharing what is probably the best song ever written by a cabinet member. Enjoy. — Sean Cronin…
In 1991, Westword published its eighth Best of Denver issue, a celebration of the city that saluted everything from Best Television Prop (very strong chairs made for Raymond Burr, who was filming his revived Perry Mason series here) to Best Bulletin Board (not cork, but one of those newfangled computer…
“She Got Served,” Joel Warner, November 22 Miss Manners I’m a Starkey grad living in the Denver area. I read Joel Warner’s “At Your Disservice” in the August 9 issue and was impressed that Mary Louise Starkey was quite fairly dealt with. Although her actions weren’t acceptable, her motivation and…
Eat, drink and be wary. Very wary. ‘Tis the season for holiday scams, and one of the first is putting the Scrooge to local restaurateurs. On Monday morning, Racines received the following e-mail: “I visited your location on Friday evening (11/23/07) with several friends that I was taking out and…
While television programs and commercial jingles will soon rape our earholes again, reminding us that this is the most wonderful time of the year, I’m going to disagree. That nifty little title is reserved for June 2, my birthday (see: free shots, me being the center of attention). Shoot, the…
Justin Jahn and Christina Clinkscales met in July 2005 at the Village at Breckenridge. He was a 26-year-old bellman, and she was an eighteen-year-old guest from Missouri who’d tagged along with her mom on a business trip. When Christina locked herself out of the mountain-base hotel on the first day…
Both men accused of hatching a murder-by-snake plot to kill Amateur Poker Tour owner Matt Sowash have now pleaded guilty to extortion in exchange for having the most serious charges against them dropped. Herb Beck and Christopher Steelman were arrested in August, charged with conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, conspiracy…
Colorado Studios houses two of the state’s best-kept media secrets. First among equals at the Stapleton-area facility is HDNet, billionaire Mark Cuban’s ambitious high-definition television service, whose offerings (including Dan Rather’s post-CBS broadcast) can only be seen by Denverites who subscribe to satellite TV, since Comcast continues to shun the…
It’s an early Saturday evening, and the tiny front room of Chubby’s Burger Drive-In is absolutely popping with patrons, all waiting to gorge. There are no tables here, no seats for dining, so customers place their order at the busy counter, then jockey for space to await their Chubby’s infusion,…
Santiago’s Mexican Restaurant, known for the spicy stuff it slips into everything from breakfast burritos to carnitas, isn’t as old as Chubby’s, but it already rivals the famed northwest Denver hot spot for the affections of green chile lovers in Colorado. The 21-location chain was founded in Brighton in 1990…
The most isolated prisoner in America has some new friends at the University of Denver. Student lawyers at the Sturm College of Law filed a lawsuit Wednesday on behalf of Thomas Silverstein, an inmate at ADX, the federal supermax prison in Florence, claiming that his solitary confinement for the past…
For those following the recent travails of Mary Louise Starkey, who’s been accused of mismanagement and physical altercations at her world-famous Denver butler school (“At Your Disservice”) and was recently arrested for allegedly attacking one of her students last February ( “Mary Starkey Got Served”), here’s the latest news: In…
In Minneapolis, the RNC Welcoming Committee – the protest-planning counterpart to Denver’s DNC-dissing Recreate 68 – recently released this hilarious, self-spoofy recruitment video as part of its efforts to draw comrades to the Twin Cities to screw with the Republicans next September. Nationally, an umbrella group to these umbrella groups,…
Diana DeGette has laid claim to the unusual distinction of hosting a Democratic National Convention physically located entirely in a single congressional district: Hers. In the past, conventions have overlapped multiple districts, the congresswoman said Wednesday during a roundtable discussion. The 2008 convention, which takes place next August in Denver,…
And then there was one. There are 46 people serving life without the possibility of parole in Colorado for crimes that they committed as juveniles. But, thanks to a law passed last year, those who commit first-degree murder before they turn 18 are now eligible for parole after 40 years…
Here’s a new way to tell if there’s going to be a snowstorm: Wait for the Denver Post to run a story in which prognosticators suggest that such weather systems will be few and far between. Last year, as sketched out in this More Messages blog, a Post reader noted…
Remember last winter? Remember all the abuse that was heaped on city, county and state representatives in charge of road safety due to their poor preparation in advance of storms and tardy responses once precipitation started to fall? Remember how said government types swore they’d learned lessons from the debacle…
When they use the “cow town” descriptor, what most folks mean is podunk, provincial, lacking in the sort of taste and culture found in the big cities on the coasts. They’re saying that while we, the people of Denver, may be urbane enough to understand that going out for a…
