6.25.07 Cape Town, South Africa Chief, We were on our way back to camp talking about the legendary African Hunter Andres DeKock when we got ambushed my the lions. It had been yet another 12-hour day of blood, Tsetse fly swarms and sunburn and we were washing the dust out…
Typographical errors are common in newspapering — but seldom are they more satisfying than the one a sharp-eyed Westworder spotted in “Panel to Target Backlog of Disabled Adults in Need,” a story in the June 30 Rocky Mountain News. The article, by Alan Gathright, reveals what appears to be an…
It’s cool when you can transform to a truck or a spaceship, but what happens in today’s iPod world when you’re the robot that turns into a tape deck boombox? To read our review of Transformers (out today), click here.
The Rocky Mountain News is reporting that the Carioca Cafe — better known as Bar Bar — finally quit allowing smoking inside the establishment, a year after the ban went into effect. But while that great institution has fallen, Paris on the Platte is still flauting the nanny rules by…
EVERYONE PANIC: Bill O’Reilly informs the public about gangs of “lower socioeconomic ” lesbians speading around the country. With Denver’s current gang situation, who knows what will happen if they find there way here and start shooting their pink guns and making out. — Crystal Preston-Watson [Via AOL]
Just in time for the holiday, two blockbusters are hitting screens today: Transformers and License to Wed. Here’s a cheat sheet on which one to choose when beating the Fourth of July heat…
Larry Manzanares. Did you have trouble digesting the Jefferson County DA’s highly defensive, just-doing-my-job rebuttal in the Rocky Mountain News this weekend concerning his office’s handling of the Larry Manzanares case? Join the club…
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Denver Post sports columnist Woody Paige (pictured) loves the spotlight — but he was undoubtedly less than jazzed by the attention he received on June 29, when articles appeared about him being named in a sexual-harassment suit filed by Rita Ragone, a onetime makeup artist for Cold Pizza, an ESPN…
Over the past few months, Rocky Mountain News and Denver Post memos about departing employees have excluded information about replacement hires for a very simple reason: Both papers have been trying to shrink their staffs via attrition and buyouts. But a June 26 note sent to Rocky employees by managing…
Early Friday morning, London police discovered a Mercedes wired to explode outside the Tiger Tiger nightclub – where “Sugar ‘N’ Spice,” a popular ladies’ night, was in full swing. Is nothing sacred?…
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Development in Denver may be booming, but the downtown core still suffers from a nasty blight holding up potential development and fragmenting the urban environment: surface parking lots. These desolate stretches of asphalt and pay stations are a remnant of the1980 Denver real-estate bust in which properties earmarked for skyscrapers…
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From the Himalayas to the Rockies, Tibet’s chief oracle is bringing his positive energy to help overcome negative forces and obstacles facing the Mile High today. He’s the Dalai Lama’s advisor, protector of Tibet, all Tibetan people and Tibet’s government. So the organizers of Denver’s Summer of Peace movement are…
It’ll be comforting to many of the bikers in tomorrow’s Ride for Recovery that they need not fear the police, DUI, getting busted for drugs or drug paraphernalia…
This weekend Naropa is throwing a giant Kerouac Festival, celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Beat poet’s seminal novel, On the Road. There will be a marathon reading of the book, panel discussions, films, music and more. For the complete schedule, click here. This is the second blowout for On…
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Along with biking season comes bike thieving season, but the bandits are particularly brazen this summer. Bikes are still getting jacked from the usual places like backyards and garages. The scumbag robbers are still breaking bikes free from their master’s locks all over town. But some stolen bikes are coming…
The June 28 Message column features excerpts from an anti-ESPN screed Denver Post sports writer Adrian Dater put on the newspaper’s blog, and his superiors quickly removed. Fortunately, a keen-eyed reader saved the text before it disappeared entirely. Below, feast on Dater’s entire piece, which kicks ass and names names…
