“My goal,” says Stephen Keating, who takes over as business editor of the Denver Post on November 3, “would be that when people pick up the paper every day, they have to see what’s in the business section.” If he manages this trick, Keating should package his formula and sell…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Denver-based Go Fast Sports & Beverage Company is bringing to Colorado the ultimate in extreme sporting competition: The Royal Gorge Go Fast Games, slated for October 3-5, 2003, at the 1,053-foot-high Royal Gorge Bridge west of Cañon City, Colorado. The Go Fast Games will showcase the cutting-edge…
Lots of Luck Park and chide: Regarding Patricia Calhoun’s “Attention, Cherry Creek Shoppers,” in the October 23 issue: While, in my opinion, parking in the Cherry Creek shopping district shouldn’t cost a dime, there is a simple solution: Park in the free garage at the mall, and walk the measly…
It’s a beautiful Wednesday in October, bright and cloudless, and the Cherry Creek Shooting Center is packed at noon. Smelling equally of gun smoke and dirt, the small, dusty range rings with the sounds of artillery — metallic pings from dislodged shells; pops and hisses from semi-automatic Glock pistols and…
Don Robinson has a surprisingly gentle manner for a guy who spends so much time around firepower. Red-haired and friendly faced, he resembles Ned Flanders more than John Rambo. Aside from a patch on his shirt, Robinson’s well-worn hands provide the only outward clue to his profession as a range…
The 1999 shootings at Columbine High School put guns at the center of the public scope. But the Second Amendment has long been a loaded issue in Colorado, from decades-old debates over safe storage to a more recent battle over the gun-show “loophole.” And the Colorado Legislature’s passage this year…
When Renee McGaw purchased her East Washington Park home five years ago, she knew the kind of investment she was making. A single mother, she plowed every dollar she could spare into the house, redoing the kitchen and bathrooms, replacing gutters and repainting, determined to see her equity grow. The…
Don’t laugh, Cheri Thurston says. It’s not as easy as it looks. Contrary to popular opinion, she explains, jaw clenched, struggling with the right shoulder, this is a serious instrument. It’s a 25-year-old Petosa from Seattle that cost $6,000. If it were a violin, some would argue, it would be…
1. Kroenke Sports Enterprises is gobbling up venues around town and proposing new ones. What’s Stan’s big plan? A. A privately funded NASCAR track. B. Kroenke Kastle, complete with competitive jousting. C. A soccer stadium designed for the now-Kroenke-owned Rapids. D. L’Stanala, an opera house based on Milan’s L’Scala, in…
Since he was sworn in three short months ago, Denver mayor John Hickenlooper has kept busy naming cabinet members, popping up at every groundbreaking or envelope-opening in the city, and even playing himself (very well, too) in the Denver Press Club Gridiron 2003 skit “Leader of the City” on Sunday…
When retired reporter Dolores Plested says “I’m cracking up,” she means it physically, not mentally. By last summer, she had fully recovered from a broken hip suffered several years previously, but then she sustained a stress fracture in one ankle due to the effects of osteoporosis. The injury slowed her…
In a moment of candor, the hard-knocking jockey Sonny Werkman once said of his trade: “Two things there ain’t in this world: lady hookers and gentleman jockeys.” Old racetrackers claim that Sonny was pretty good at getting a balky filly to go seven furlongs against her will, even a mile,…
Making Their Mark Signs of the times: Regarding David Holthouse’s “Canned Heat,” in the October 16 issue: I’d like to thank David Holthouse for being a “willing accomplice” and sharing his findings about stencil graffiti with us. I’ve seen graffiti tagging throughout the Denver area and have actually tried to…
Many people would say that Pinnacol Assurance is a Colorado success story. Benson Von Feldt would disagree. Von Feldt has spent the last three years fighting Pinnacol, his employer’s workers’ compensation carrier. A hardworking man well into his fifties, Von Feldt had been employed at a greenhouse in northern Colorado…
He is a radical in Republican’s clothing: khakis, loafers, blazer over crisp button-down shirt. Completing the look is the golden retriever trotting merrily beside him as he strolls down Pennsylvania Street between 12th and 13th avenues. The hour is odd, nearly 3 a.m., but he doesn’t look out of place…
1. With Kobe’s image unraveling, Quizlanders need new heroes to look up to. As Fleetwood Mac, in town last week, once sang: A. “I am no better, and neither are you.” B. “Heroes are hard to find.” C. “When you wish upon a star.” D. “Sunshine on my shoulder.” 2…
Last Thursday, museum directors from across the country descended on Golden for a conference hosted by the Mountain-Plains Museums Association, and after a long day of meetings and workshops, a couple dozen conferees ambled into the Denver Sheraton West’s lounge for some refreshment. Once the beer started flowing, so did…
Our award for the most sweeping agenda and the most “isms” of any protest signage at last Saturday’s Transform Columbus Day Alliance protest march goes to a group of young, black-clad rabble-rousers whose banner read: “Anti-Racist Action Denver: Combating Racism, Fascism, Sexism, War, Homophobia, and Oppression.” Faces obscured by bandannas,…
When Andy Bergey and Tom Eldridge tune in Boulder’s Community Access Television, also known as Channel 54, they see two very different things. Bergey, CATV’s executive director, emphasizes the outlet’s noble purpose. “It’s a way for the public to communicate with the government and other citizens in the community,” he…
Is it going too far to say that foosball saved Shelly Langley’s life? Possibly. But it would not be out of line to say that table soccer altered its trajectory — and certainly for the better. “I’m from a tiny town out on the Colorado Plains — Kit Carson –…
Yanks for the Memories Finders, keepers: Bill Gallo, I’m sure I’m not the only reader taken aback by your harsh words about the World’s Greatest Baseball Team in the October 9 “Yanks a Lot.” Fatal dose of West Nile, plane crashing — are you for real? Like a professional businessperson…
Forget Kobe. Adios, JonBenét. To hell with Court TV. Crime ain’t what it used to be. A place is shaped by its resident evil as much as its good, and by how the community deals with its transgressors. If you want to understand why it was once a privilege to…
