After prosecuting cases for the City of Denver for thirteen years, Toya Dawson thought she knew the rules. And the most important rule was also the most basic one: innocent until proven guilty. But then Dawson discovered that the city attorney’s office has a different set of rules for its…
Terri Cruz, the up-and-coming featherweight boxer from north Denver, recently took one on the chin in her drive for a belt. But as she’s done throughout her life, she’s come up swinging. “Oh, yeah,” she says. “I’m still training hard and hoping for a title shot.” Cruz, considered one of…
Tears were still glistening on Democratic cheeks when Cody Wertz, the Colorado Democratic Party’s communications director, was on to a new job — the same position, but in Don Mares’s campaign, a switch Wertz announced by e-mail the day after the November 5 election. What? No rest for the weary?…
The last Golden Circle swingers’ social was the most outrageous yet. “We had a Captain Hook and a Tinkerbell, and she lit up when you touched her,” remembers Delilah, one half of the club’s chaircouple. “We had a Tool Time Girl and a hillbilly couple. It was great.” For Halloween…
Advertisers love teens and young adults for a very simple reason: They generally spend more money than members of other demographic groups. That’s why every media manager worth his pension claims that attracting this audience is a top priority — and why they sometimes go to embarrassing extremes to do…
Mark Robbins is running a bit late, as usual, and he’s in a hurry to suit up. He hates to miss any of the action, even at his age. Still, there is a ritual, and it’s important he get it right. The first order of business is to dull yesterday’s…
Vroom Service The wheel thing: Thanks so much for Julie Jargon’s in-depth and thorough article on Pastor Gary Davis and Church in the Wind (“Heaven on Wheels,” November 7). It is refreshing to see motorcyclists portrayed in a positive manner instead of as loud, helmetless burdens to society or gun-firing…
Chiefs, an 87-minute documentary chronicling the struggles and triumphs of high school basketball players on Wyoming’s Wind River Indian Reservation, is getting its first extended theatrical release. The site of the screening — the Starz FilmCenter — is on land that was once prime hunting ground for the Northern Arapahoe…
You think you know someone. You live with him for nearly a year, eat together almost every night. The two of you run together, bike together, share bank accounts, a bed — a life. If asked, you would describe him as your best friend. You feel great when he’s happy…
As Colorado’s Ocean Journey tries to stay afloat in a sea of red ink, bankruptcy experts keep nibbling away at the aquarium’s finances. When it decided to file for Chapter 11 in April, Ocean Journey hired the international law firm of LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae to handle the legal…
The office is locked and dark. Notices about unclaimed packages and unpaid rent and fees festoon the front door. The company Web site hasn’t been updated in eighteen months. Most telling of all, the phone has been disconnected. This could be how the world ends for the Center for the…
Sure, an unprecedented amount of money poured into Colorado’s recent election — $9 million in the U.S. Senate race alone. But big money didn’t necessarily buy big wins, as evidenced by four failed ballot measures, including Amendment 31, pushed by California millionaire Ron Unz. With victories in California and Arizona…
Think you need Mamie Eisenhower’s pink toilet seat? Think again. “It’s in Abilene’s hands,” says architect Karen Harris, referring, of course, to the Army Medical Department Museum in that Texas town. “They say lending us that seat would not be appropriate, and sometimes they act like they don’t even have…
By any standards, the edition of ESPN Classic’s Road Show that was assembled to hype the 2001 Major League Baseball All-Star Game in Seattle featured a dream lineup: Dave Winfield — legendary slugger, member of the 3,000-hit club, a phenom so complete he was drafted by professional franchises in basketball,…
Twenty Things to Do at a Denver Nuggets Game: 1. Contemplate Bad Omen No. 1. Before the season even started, star forward Juwan Howard, who is the league’s fourth-highest-paid player, at $20.6 million per year, was suspended for two games after going ballistic in a pre-season contest and trying to…
Norton Hears a Who Janey, get your gun: Regarding Patricia Calhoun’s perceptive “Calamity Jane,” in the November 7 issue: Jane Norton and Bill Owens, extreme in any other era, are just your average 21st- century Republicans. Only minutes after the Republican takeover of the state senate had been confirmed, my…
One by one, they arrive on their Harleys. Young to middle-aged men wearing ponytails, beards, Sturgis T-shirts, bandannas, black leather vests and matching chaps. Women in fringed leather jackets and denim. Those who don’t ride much anymore come by car, but they still dress the part. If they were pulling…
As he walks through the showroom at Titan of the Rockies, the Lakewood motorcycle dealership where he’s repair-shop foreman, Nick Nichols relays the history of Indian motorcycles. When he passes a vintage 1940s model, he lets out a low whistle: The mint-green bike is a beauty. After years of dwindling…
The good news about the sale of Good Shepherd Catholic Elementary School is that the deal doesn’t have to wait on a decision from Rome, a cumbersome process that could delay any closing by months. And while the transaction still requires final approval from Denver archdiocesan councils, Good Shepherd’s pastor,…
Quick! Before the half-dozen declared candidates in Denver’s May 2003 mayoral election start slinging mud around, there could be just enough time to clean up the muck left by recent political dirty tricks. Among the muddiest: the anti-Wayne Allard ad tagging him as a hater of children (more on that…
Today a woman came to Dr. John A. Grossman to discuss getting her eyes done. Since Grossman is widely considered the finest cosmetic surgeon in Denver — and arguably also in Beverly Hills, where he keeps an office — she assumed she was in the right hands. “I looked at…
If you lived in upstate New York in the late 1980s and early ’90s, as I did, there was really only one sports story worth paying attention to. No, it wasn’t the Buffalo Bills, a team on the cusp of setting a record for Super Bowl futility, dumping four straight…
