The JonBenét Ramsey movie Perfect Murder, Perfect Town may have been mostly filmed in Utah, and the John Denver movie airing this Sunday, Take Me Home: The John Denver Story, may have been shot in Vancouver, but that doesn’t mean that everybody thinks Colorado is a bad location for moviemaking…
Kim Chlumsky was returning from lunch when her mom heard the shots echo in the backyard garden. As Kim approached the school, which is only a few blocks from her Littleton home, the streets were already blocked off by police. She thought it was a car wreck until her mom…
What if they gave a media event and only the media showed up? That’s not quite how things worked out on April 20, the one-year anniversary of the shootings at Columbine High School, but it was closer to the truth than the press reporting about the would-be spectacle let on…
Paper Trail Now that both dailies have their Pulitzers (as Michael Roberts predicted and then recapped in his April 13 Message), maybe they’ll quit forcing Columbine onto Page 1 day by day, month by month. And since the local and national media, the jocks-rule administrators, some parents and students and…
The days tick by slowly for Wen Ho Lee, the scientist who has been accused of downloading and transferring onto portable tapes virtually every nuclear-weapon secret in the United States arsenal. In late February, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver agreed with a federal judge in New Mexico…
The phone rang. It was a Littleton woman who said her kids’ candy had been disappearing. Jack Murphy smelled a rat. He fired up the Dodge van and headed over. “I get under the sink and look under there, and there was really no place where the rat could go,”…
They flowed into the streets, shouting and waving signs, angry at Denver police. Mostly they were young teens and college kids, more than a thousand of them, demanding justice for two boys they say were in the wrong place at the wrong time. But the protesters weren’t in Denver. They…
In charging a petty thief who attempted to rob a Safeway with felony murder, Denver District Attorney Bill Ritter is making use of one of a DA’s handiest tools. He’s also stretching the definition of felony murder as far as it will go — and possibly further. In March, Kenneth…
When five slow-growth advocates decided to take on town hall in Erie’s April 4 election, they had grand plans for establishing a new order in this old mining community, where particle-board homes have been popping up as quickly as prairie dogs in an open field. But the result is not…
It’s not offered at any of your finer acting schools, and it certainly won’t be found in the theater section of the New York Times, but performing along with the Rocky Horror Picture Show — a tradition carried out at movie houses nationwide by cultish followers of the 1975 flick…
At 8 p.m. one Friday every month, it is Officer Dean Abeyta’s solemn duty to administer a form of juvenile justice that has been called everything from “groundbreaking” to “cruel and unusual.” Entering the single courtroom of the Fort Lupton municipal building, he sets up rows of chairs, drags a…
It’s 12:45 a.m., and the spacious new Clear Channel headquarters, located in the vicinity of the Denver Tech Center, isn’t exactly hopping. Aside from a mysterious-looking man who’s sitting behind the wheel of an older model car in the building’s parking lot as if he’s waiting for Alan Berg to…
If you look hard enough, there are plenty of similarities between a car dealership and a strip club. For starters, both rely heavily on sex to sell. (If you’ve ever been to an auto show, the comparison becomes even clearer.) You’ll probably find more pinkie rings per person in either…
They Sought the SheriffRegarding Alan Prendergast’s “Stonewalled,” in the April 13 issue: Kudos to Westword for a story that finally puts Columbine in perspective. While the rest of the media continues to tell us everything we do not want to know, Westword and Alan Prendergast ask some hard questions about…
Away to Go Regarding Michael Roberts’s “The Making of a Media Event,” his April 6 Message: Even if the Columbine anniversary “event” attracts “only” 10,000, that’s still insane. The only people who should be anywhere near the school and park on April 20 are Columbine students and staff, their families,…
In 2000, life among the Colorado Rockies remains a pennant or so short of bliss. National League batting champ Larry Walker recently went to Las Vegas, he reports, where he lost not only his money but his swing. Six games into the season he was hitting an un-Walkerlike .133. “Oh,…
The Story They Don’t Want to Tell On the morning of Judgment Day, minutes before they launch their deadly assault on Columbine High School, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold complete their last video project together. Guns loaded, bombs and extra ammo packed in duffel bags and trench coats, they take…
Troy Lowrie’s work clothes confuse his staff. Sometimes he’s spiffed-out in a courtly suit, fine leather shoes and a shiny watch. Some days he comes dressed in Dockers and a smart polo. On the occasions he wears blue jeans and a T-shirt, it’s not uncommon for one his female employees…
More than a year ago, just before he was elected to a third term, Mayor Wellington Webb pledged that within six months, he would appoint a “drug czar” who would oversee the city’s battle against illegal substance abuse. The March 31, 1999, promise was part of a sweeping plan suggested…
Fans of John Travolta are causing a run on pre-registrations for Starfest 2000, a massive science-fiction convention to be held this weekend at the Holiday Inn DIA. Along with Kate Mulgrew (aka Star Trek Voyager’s Captain Kathryn Janeway), Travolta is the featured star power at this year’s big bang. And…
The style is instantly identifiable: hyperactive language, frequent pop-culture references mingled with absurdly trivial arcana, plenty of ludicrous catch phrases and a winking acknowledgement that caring about muscle-headed athletes who spout cliches like Linda Blair spews pea soup in The Exorcist is kinda silly, but what the hell? That’s the…
There are many secrets, but you can never underestimate the importance of good blush. As any drag queen worth her mascara will tell you, everything starts with foundation. Then it’s contouring, highlighting, accentuating and blending. Blending, blending, blending, with special attention to the area under the chin to smooth the…
