Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s new book, Living History, may be sitting on top of the New York Times’s bestseller list, but the true Clinton aficionado’s collection isn’t complete without It Takes a Hillary, written by local author, student teacher and grandmother Cheryl Osburn-Housley. The recently published 35-page “multi-genre work” is…
The Purrfect Storm Itch, itch, itch: Kenny Be usually skewers popular metro celebrities with shrewd, funny insights. However, this was not the case with “Maybe Curiosity Killed the Cats,” his July 10 “Worst-Case Scenario. I understand that he’s trying to add a little levity to a bad situation — but…
The Bullard family has leased the building at 1443 Stout Street for 35 years, most of which were seriously downscale. “It was nothing but a joint all those years,” Rusty Bullard, now forty, admits. And until five years ago, that joint was divided down the middle into two clubs: the…
Depending on your job, there could be fifty good reasons to bring a gun to work. If you happen to work in a law firm, make that a hundred. The top five: 5. Compare muzzle velocity with that smug paralegal’s puny .32. 4. Annual brief-shredding contest, semiauto division. 3. Elegant…
1. According to one expert, cat mutilations sweeping the area may be caused by: A. Roving skinheads. B. Roving pinheads. C. Roving corvids. D. Raving rockers. 2. Andon Guenther, a Denverite kicked off the Paradise Hotel reality show, snickered that which of these was forbidden for contestants? A. Necking. B…
At ten before six on Sunday evening, the last of the Fourth of July weekend’s heat wave blazed over the shiny, happy shoppers braving the third and final day of the Cherry Creek Arts Festival. Sipping four-dollar lemonades in souvenir cups and pushing babies in designer strollers, they perused the…
On the surface, the story of how Father Eustace Sequeira came to Colorado seems fairly straightforward. His decision to study counseling and psychology at Regis University was influenced by the institution’s fine reputation among Jesuits like himself and by the presence in the area of his brother, Everton Sequeira, an…
When I was coming of political age, in the late 1970s, there were important decisions to be made. Learning what adults meant when they used complicated words like “filibuster” and “the Senate,” for example. And, of course, deciding which political party to join. After carefully researching the Democratic and Republican…
From Tancredo to Grave Darts and flowers: Regarding Michael Roberts’s “The Flag-Bearer,” in the July 3 issue: Thanks for the great cover with Tom Tancredo. It’s just what my dartboard desires. Samuel Nelson Denver The Tom Tom club: As an American living and working in Mexico (with a legal permit,…
On the first weekend of summer, more than twenty members of the Colorado Federation of Republican Women gather in a ballroom at the south-metro Embassy Suites for a day of fun and politics, conservative style. Julie Lewis, the CFRW’s District 6 director, is the jubilant mistress of ceremonies, as well…
Tom Tancredo may seem to be the most prominent public figure to have graduated from the Independence Institute, but there’s no shortage of competition for the top spot among the think tank’s alumni. Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton is a former senior fellow and boardmember at the institute. Donald…
For Buddy Schmalz, the buzz about John Hickenlooper going from brewpub owner to mayor-elect is old news. Schmalz has been there, done that. The brewer at the Schmalz-family-owned Dostal Alley Brewpub & Casino in Central City, he was sworn in as mayor of that mountain town in January. Like Hickenlooper,…
Amy Rickords stands near the southbound light-rail station at 16th and California holding two five-and-a-half-inch nails in her hand. “Wanna see a trick?” she asks passersby. Most pedestrians either ignore her or mutter “No” and continue on their way. But for those who stop, Amy will push the nails into…
1. With a hot Fourth of July predicted, the Denver Health Department advises residents to do all but which of these? A. Drink lots of fluids. B. Ice your coffees. C. Avoid hot and heavy meals. D. Don’t use your oven. 2. Which performer has made an explosive tradition of…
The Denver Health and Hospital Authority board of directors voted unanimously last week not to recognize attempts by nurses to organize union representation — after employees at Denver Health filed a lawsuit against the city agency, saying the hospital violated their constitutional rights by threatening and intimidating them and disregarding…
A Boulder correspondent recently — and sullenly — reported that she’d looked at the cheapest house for sale in that town (a 900-square-foot dump), but at $296,000, it was still too pricey. She, or at least her ego, might have taken less of a beating had she instead entered the…
The apocalypse may not be upon merry old Wimbledon just yet, but there are signs: This year, some of the gentlemen are wearing sleeveless shirts, of all unspeakable garments — an offense to sartorial standards unthinkable in Don Budge’s day, or even in John McEnroe’s. There’s been a distressing row…
Ticket to Pride Hair today, gone tomorrow: Regarding Kenny Be’s artful malice in his June 19 Worst-Case Scenario,”The Straight Person’s Guide to Gay Pride”: Kenny Be and I have never met, yet the man has savaged me twice now. It’s only a cartoon; does he have to portray my receding…
The seven men sat around the defense table Tuesday afternoon, murmuring quietly to each other and exchanging hearty good-luck handshakes with their attorneys. The tension was thick, anticipation high. Shortly after 4 p.m., the jurors filed into U.S. District Judge Wiley Daniel’s courtroom. The seven men, now deathly silent, tried…
Like most of us, Nirvana Pakravan never really gave wigs a moment’s thought. Because wigs are, well, wigs. A product of limited usefulness, a diversion on holidays. A way to show support for the home team. The perfect topper for a Nehru jacket and filthy Levi’s. But that was before…
1. At the Cabrini Shrine on Lookout Mountain, hope springs eternal, even when the water slows to a trickle. According to tradition, Mother Cabrini discovered the spring in 1912 when she: A. Fell to her knees in rapture and water gushed out of the ground before her. B. Consulted a…
Members of a military panel charged with studying the sexual-assault problem at the Air Force Academy didn’t give the officers in charge there a slap on the wrist; they gave them a pat on the back. A thirteen-member “working group,” assembled by Air Force Secretary James Roche earlier this year…
