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Boy howdy, you can learn a lot about rich people by touring this year’s Parade of Homes, located on the cusp of Aurora and Kansas. At least, you can learn a lot about what the Home Builders Association of Metro Denver and its architects, designers, spa dealers, kitchen-and-bath hustlers, furniture…

The extent to which layoffs, buyouts and attrition have slimmed staffs at major metro dailies is illustrated by the August 6 Rocky Mountain News. As usual on a Monday, religion writer Jean Torkelson (pictured) is represented by her regular column: The latest edition concerns an open house at Colorado’s largest…

Kiwi International Hotel Auckland, New Zealand Boss, My sketchy travel mode had to catch up with me at some point, so I guess I’m glad it happened here instead of, say, Zambia. At any rate, I came into the Auckland airport kinda loopy as I finally got SOMEONE to take…

Sydney, Australia Hey Boss: I knew that in order to get my head right and tight down under this rock, I had to stay clear of the cities and concentrate my efforts on the small towns. I’m talking hamlets like Gin Gin, Bil Bil, Yeppon, win the hearts and minds…

Underdog opens tonight, but the good people over at Buenea Vista Pictures decided not to host press screenings until after most weekly’s print deadlines. But never fear, Underdog is here … now. But before we get to that, if you’re looking for reviews of other movies opening this weekend, try…

Check out the Plankton Art Co.’s “Gamecock” and other works at Limited Addiction Gallery on Santa Fe Drive. It may be the dog days of summer, when most art galleries close down — but not in Denver. No things just keep buzzing along in a post-Libeskind haze. So gear up…

The morning did not end well for Steve Horner. After Horner had spent several hours sorting through piles of paper and piling on the circuitous arguments to prove that he had been grievously injured by ladies’ nights ads in Westword, had been “humiliated over not being invited to the party…

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It’s not nice to string along a 106-year-old man. Last night, the Tonight show ran its piece on Denver — Mo Rocca’s advance look at the town in anticipation of 35,000 descending on it for the Democratic National Convention — but the promised bit on Jack A. Weil, founder of…

The dance begins in the eyes of a man, searching from woman to woman. Some of the women will make eye contact for a second, then break it off. Others don’t even acknowledge him. But when his eyes land on the right one, there’s no confusing the look. And there’s…

Reporter Heath Urie has faced plenty of obstacles while covering Jefferson County for the Columbine Courier newspaper, and he’s convinced that many of them were placed before him improperly. “When it comes to open-records laws and open-meetings laws, they are clueless,” he says, “and it’s frustrating as hell.” Rather than…

“So I’m working on a piece about Jay Cutler,” I told the dubious Broncos PR guy I’d finally been connected to after being bounced from flack to flack as I attempted to land an interview with Cutler, the Broncos quarterback returning for his second season and thus the fourth-most-important man…

“Welcome to Denver,” says a friendly male voice as the DIA train heads to the terminal. The man sounds familiar — and he’s certainly familiar with where passengers should pick up their luggage, the gist of his message — but he does not identify himself. Why, it’s Mayor John Hickenlooper,…

The man with the cart at the corner of 13th Avenue and Broadway sure sells a tasty Cuban sandwich. The bread is made with lard instead of oil or butter, so it has a crunchy exterior and a chewy interior. Between the pressed slices are strips of marinated pork, Swiss…

A Denver Police Department officer who refused to allow the victim of a possible hate crime to press charges will face disciplinary action. On March 17, Nima Daivari, a 24-year-old law student visiting from New York, was strolling down the 16th Street Mall with friends. When a passing male called…

Worst-Case Scenario, Kenny Be, July 26 Get a Life! Thank you for the hilarious “Ads for Bad Moms and Dads” Kenny Be cartoon! It makes me wonder: Why would anyone try to make abortion or birth control illegal when there is already so little respect for the life that’s already…

When I rolled up to the Division of Motor Vehicles this morning, I didn’t encounter any illicit ticket selling. No one induced me to reach the front of the line for a mere $50 — a practice, I’d heard, that has become increasingly common along the DMV’s unbearable wait times…

The nice suburban home covered in garish tchotchkes. Every town has one. In my home base of Ogden, Utah, we had the troll house, an old Victorian plastered by tiny naked dolls with neon hair. In Colorado Springs, where I recently moved from, we had the Theatre of Mankind. The…

Slide show Used to be a time that Broncos Training Camp. meant one thing and one thing only: Greeley, Colorado. You see, these Broncos now-a-days, they’re soft, I tells ya. They cozily meander from their McMansions in Cherry Hills or whatever neighboring suburb in which they’ve set up shop and…

My cell phone rang around one in the morning. For most people, this would be a harbinger of bad news — kid in jail, someone in the hospital. For me, it almost always means work: a debriefing, confession, eleventh-hour emergency like a restaurant on fire or, worse, dead cold on…

As noted in this July 24 More Messages blog, former Colorado Public Radio board member Frances Koncilja, who resigned from the organization over her objections to a series of planned moves, is part of a new website that largely focuses on CPR. For proof, check out a recent entry revealing…