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Spotted during an excursion to the wild and woolly northern regions, prompting the following verse: Best busker on Pearl Got no tips, merely handcuffs Only in Boulder. — Joel Warner…

A new voice will be heard over Coors Field. Imagine my surprise this morning when I turned on 850 KOA Radio only to find Alan Roach, the PA announcer for the Colorado Rockies for the past fourteen seasons, about to reveal who was going to take over his job as…

The weather outside is delightful … but not in New York. The National Weather Service codes the Big Apple as a “Winter Storm Warning” area at this precise moment, and that means fans of folk legend Julie Collins are going to have to wait a week or so before they…

In recent years, the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News have grown accustomed to receiving recognition from the Pulitzer Prize committee. The Post and the Rocky each won for Columbine coverage (in breaking news and photography categories, respectively), and the Rocky was subsequently recognized for its photos of the…

The Sablans channeled Hannibal Lecter. This morning’s guilty verdict in the murder trial of William Concepcion Sablan — a federal inmate who, assisted by his cousin, slaughtered and gutted another prisoner named Joey Estrella — wasn’t a surprise to anyone familiar with even the barest details of the case. The…

Tyrie went postal. The end is in sight. Only nine more episodes. MTV has promised us 28 half-hour shows devoted to a bunch of crazies running around our city, and they’re scheduled to wrap up on May 16. Back on June 22, 2006, we wrote about our Real World prank,…

Nando Mondragon (left) before he wound up back in a Nevada prison. For Nando Mondragon, what happened in Vegas did not stay in Vegas. The Nevada state parole board gave him an additional six-month prison sentence for violating his parole by leaving Colorado and heading to Sin City earlier this…

Call it a Colorado rite of passage, or penance for getting to live in such a beautiful place. Either way, it’s a familiar weekly ritual. You fly west at eighty miles per hour past Genesee, mapping out your runs for the day, dreaming of fresh powder and short lines. Then…

When Harry Dale gives a PowerPoint presentation on the I-70 corridor, it’s always riddled with photos of traffic jams and disturbing figures about the construction and environmental impacts of highway widening. He throws in some amusing cartoons. One shows cars stopped in traffic before an enormous “We apologize for the…

On any given weekday, students from East High School can be found passing their free hours with Mohamad Aboub at the Clara Market, a small convenience store just a couple of blocks from campus. Although the nineteen-year-old is an Iraqi immigrant who hasn’t yet finished high school, several of his…

“People like to see death, people like to see people biting it,” explains Eric Medved, waving his steel sword for emphasis. “We need to show good biting!” Medved’s half-dozen tunic-clad pupils nod thoughtfully. This cramped Denver back yard, where dented shields rest against the composter, functions as a training ground…

People who know me know how averse I’ve always been to the idea of journalists as celebrities,” says Rocky Mountain News reporter Kevin Vaughan. “For every invitation to appear on other media that I accept, there’s many more I turn down.” Nevertheless, Vaughan finds himself at the center of what’s…

The Denver Election Commission has finalized the ballot for the May 1election — and one name is conspicuous by its absence. Jake Schroeder, who counts being the lead singer for Opie Gone Bad as one of his four jobs, will not be adding a fifth as a Denver City Council…

Why, yes, it is a beautiful day for a baseball game, a beautiful day indeed! What’s that? No, thank you, I’m fine. Really. Well, if you insist, I guess I will have a hot dog before I begin. Do you have one of those Rocky Dogs? Fantastic! A foot of…

“Split Decision,” Michael Roberts, March 8 Haste Lays Waste I am (was?) a friend of Michael Andre’s, so I cannot claim to be unbiased, but I was angered by the decision of the Denver Post to put Andre’s name on the website that afternoon. I also questioned the portion of…

As I was walking down the street today, I was suddenly seized by very real and overpowering pangs of intense self-loathing upon realizing that I was humming the chorus to the song, “This Ain’t a Scene, It’s an Arms Race,” by those MTV icons/flaming-minions-of-Satan, Fall Out Boy. Upon realizing my…

Looks like taggers are getting political in the Highlands neighborhood. This opinion piece was spotted today near 37th and Tejon. —- Jared Jacang Maher…

Rocky Mountain News editor John Temple rose to Denver’s defense in his March 10 column — but he apparently didn’t realize the writer he criticized for his superficial take on the city’s recent woes was a longtime resident who once worked for his own paper…

The Colorado General Assembly must be on crack to approve making a song like “Rocky Mountain High” the second official state song. After all, the last time it was proposed as a replacement for “Where the Columbines Grow,” soon after John Denver’s death in 1997, legislators shot down the proposal…

Ceviche…fresh chips and chipotle salsa…empanadas and arepas con something-or-other with goat cheese…fried plantains, thick-cut and buttery, crisp at the edges and gooey in the middle. Plantains are hard to do even moderately well, and these were the best fried plantains I’ve had in Denver. Since I eat fried plantains everywhere…

The March 13 Today show gave Colorado another unwanted closeup via an exclusive interview with Tommy Clay, the Brighton Charter School student whose sexual relationship with teacher Carrie McCandless led to her firing, as well as charges of sexual assault of a child by a person in a position of…

Talk about terrifying: The front page of the March 13 Denver Post was dominated by the story of how John Denver’s “Rocky Mountain High” became Colorado’s second state song. Then, to compound the trauma, KHOW’s Peter Boyles spent most of his morning-drive show discussing the ditty and scoffing at the…