Some games, I suppose, I just wasn’t meant to enjoy. For the bulk of the past month I have been gorging on the beautiful, bountiful orgy of international football — I’m sorry, soccer — that is the World Cup. There are many Americans who may find this habit curious; to…
The page-one headline atop the Denver Post story announcing the death of onetime Boulderite Patsy Ramsey was generic in the extreme: “Slain Girl’s Mom Dies.” But despite the best efforts of Post editors, Ramsey will not slip anonymously into the grave. Her death at age 49 (she was first diagnosed…
Who knew the people of Denver were so passionate about reality TV? The response to Westword’s Real World prank has been both lovely and livid. Mere hours after the article hit the stands, the letters started coming in, with sentiments ranging from Abbe’s “brilliant, truly brilliant,” to Randy’s “yet another…
Marc Holtzman’s emotional exit from the governor’s race Thursday, after the Colorado Supreme Court declined to monkey with the established process for petitioning your way onto the ballot, was the final take on a death scene that’s been dragged out for weeks — or months, if you believe he never…
On June 22, Diane Woolwine, 65, died after being hit by a motorhome while participating in the annual Ride the Rockies bicycling tour; the accident took place outside the small community of Salida. Even though the motorhome driver wasn’t cited in the accident, the story seemed likely to get big…
In the June 22 Message column, Channel 9 sportscaster Drew Soicher revealed that he collects insulting e-mails directed at him — but due to space constraints dictated by the printed page, only a couple of excerpts were included as examples. What follow are some additional, and equally hysterical, examples of…
Waited too long at Scarlet Ranch on 6/10… Couple near the play bed/swing wearing a see-through black top and short skirt. You kept smiling at us and we were too shy to come over. We were the couple sitting on the edge of the massage table. We waited too long…
Rumors started flying after the article “Pimp” was published in last September’s issue of Skiing magazine. “A lot of gossip,” says World Cup skier Lindsey Kildow, who lives in Boulder. “I don’t remember if we figured out the deal with it.” Jon Billman’s story followed a pro big-mountain skier –…
The founding fathers and mothers of Colorado’s swingers scene meet twice a month at the Best Western Hotel at 200 West 48th Avenue. Established in 1969, the Golden Circle Social Club is considered one of the longest-running swingers clubs in the nation, and its 300 members include couples from their…
Our town, our beautiful Denver, is being hussied up in slut skirts and hair gel just so some corporate dicks can film their next season of The Real World. Our pure mountains majesty, our folksy ways, being sullied and pranced around like some martini-infused, oversexed marionette peering into the wasted…
Channel 9 sportscaster Drew Soicher is more interested in appealing to people who don’t follow sports than those who do. “The sports fans are easy,” he says. “Even if they don’t like you, they’ll watch — so why would I aggressively recruit them? But I personally think non-sports fans make…
Top Ten Reasons for David Letterman to Call Colorado and Banter With KYGO DJs: 10. Because Regis Philbin’s phone was busy. 9. Because he wanted to make sure his old stalker, Western Slope resident Margaret Ray, had stayed dead after committing suicide back in 1998. (She knelt in front of…
Teachers are fast becoming the postal workers of the modern era. There was a time back before the Commies ruined everything, back when June Cleaver made dinner and sucked Ward off and liked it, when being a mailman was as noble a trade as a young boy could aspire to…
Made in the Shade A new leaf: Inspired by Amy Haimerl’s “Civic Duty,” in the June 15 issue, here’s my version of “Trees” (with apologies to Joyce Kilmer): I thought that I would never see A park that didn’t have a tree, But Denver Parks turned down its thumbs: These…
Dinner at Mel’s on Monday night for Gael Greene (see “Sex and the City”) and about fifty of her dearest admirers. Was it a good time? Tough to say. For starters, the median age in the room (not counting press) was ancient, and most of the diners were rushing the…
Some of the best scenes at the Colorado Theatre Guild’s Henry Awards Monday night: Donna Debreceni and her band tearing into the evening’s songs and musical commentaries. The creators of Assassins — a show that was put together by Next Stage with gum, safety pins and a treasure trove of…
Dino Costa is an unlikely media star — except in his own mind. So if his profile continues rising on Fox Sports Net, it’ll be a case of mind over matter. Costa has been a contentious figure in local broadcasting since his arrival at Denver’s KLZ radio in 2002. He…
As expected, this morning Jefferson County Sheriff Ted Mink announced that he’d decided not to release the basement tapes — the audio and videotapes seized from the homes of killers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold shortly after the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School. Although many victims’ families had pressed…
For at least a decade, talk radio in Denver — and pretty much everywhere else — has been conservative through and through. That equation changed slightly a little less than two years ago, when Clear Channel, a broadcasting conglomerate whose founder, L. Lowry Mays, is a longtime friend of a…
10:30 p.m. Civic Center Park is breathtaking at night. The moonlight illuminates the white marble of the Beaux Arts buildings, bringing out every curve, every cornice. There is a stillness that makes the park seem like its own insular world, with the sounds and rhythms of city life muffled far…
Talk about mixed messages. In the same June 5 announcement that touted a $26.5 million economic-development package inked that day by Governor Bill Owens, state PR types trumpeted a deal between the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT) and the Denver Newspaper Agency for “a year-long marketing…
We’ve counted the vote for this month’s Good Citizen award, and Lisa Jones is the clear winner. She only worked for the Denver Election Commission for a few weeks back in May 2003 — during the race in which John Hickenlooper pulled a surprise upset and moved on to the…
