Limp noodles: Stymied in his attempts to broadcast live from Pasta Jay’s restaurant, Geraldo Rivera nonetheless showed up right on schedule in Boulder, where on Monday he interviewed Ramsey family spokesman Pat Korten–his clients are “up there at the top of the potential suspect list,” the full-time flack allowed–and hosted…
That hint of springtime you feel in the air can mean only one thing. The attention of red-blooded sports fans in these parts will soon turn to the fluid dynamics of air flow, plausible stress-strain cycles at fixed impact velocities and (everybody’s favorite up in the Rockpile) the Navier-Stokes Equation…
She’ll Vouch for That Regarding Stuart Steers’s “Readin’, Writin’ and Rabble-Rousin’,” in the February 20 issue: The panic of Boulder parents when confronted by the middle-school philosophy is understandable when one looks at Dean Damon’s previous adventures in Denver Public Schools. He engineered the middle-school model in Denver first. Despite…
Not so very long ago, a Colorado kindergartner was murdered, her body violated in the most awful, intimate way before it was discarded. Her name was not JonBenet Ramsey. Under a peculiar Colorado statute, you might not know her name at all–except that the disappearance of Ashley Gray from her…
Stephanie Hult, 1960s feminist and anti-war activist, says she’s misunderstood. Her numerous enemies portray Hult, now the president of the Boulder Valley school board, as the spiteful leader of a band of right-wing elitists who want to destroy the Boulder Valley school system. But Hult says she’s every bit the…
Now that NBC’s Asteroid has leveled much of Denver (which stood in for Dallas and Kansas City), it’s time to sift through the smoking rubble and unearth some more of our state’s memorable celluloid moments. Hollywood fat cats come here because they like the mountains and because it’s cheaper to…
The City Park Golf Course has long been a jewel of Denver’s parks system. These days it’s looking more like a political sand trap. Most of the attention surrounding the city’s beleaguered municipal golf system in recent weeks has focused on the dispute over whether to raise greens fees for…
The sound and the furry: It wasn’t just that Boulder police chief Tom Koby’s uniform looked so unused that mothballs might have fallen out of his pockets during last week’s news conference on the JonBenet Ramsey case. Something else didn’t quite fit the picture of a metro police chief. The…
When you’re working 24-hour shifts on an ambulance crew, there’s always plenty of time to kill while waiting for someone to almost get killed. Upstairs at Columbine Ambulance headquarters in Littleton, the restless paramedics hang out in a day room that resembles a college dorm. On a typical morning, near…
Denver may be about to lose an art collection that was a fixture in the Capitol Hill neighborhood for nearly twenty years. The Turner Museum was housed in a home at 773 Downing Street until last year. Its founder, Douglas Graham, owns hundreds of lithographs and other works by the…
He doesn’t remember much from that night at the Bossert Hotel, except that someone kept refilling his glass with champagne, and he could see from the windows that the whole length of Montague Street was clogged with delirious people. “We had to take turns going outside and waving to them,”…
What did Boulder do to deserve this? That’s a stupid question. Next question. Okay. So why did Boulder call a rare news conference last Thursday, introduce it as a “briefing” and then let Boulder County District Attorney Alex Hunter launch into a half-hour, Mayberry-meets-Naropa soliloquy that covered everything from his…
Fetal Attraction I just finished reading Steve Jackson’s February 13 feature, “The Fight of Their Lives,” on Dr. Warren Hern, and felt compelled to comment on it. I first encountered this amazing man in his anthropology class last fall at the University of Colorado-Boulder. I was fascinated by his account…
The plainclothes cops, their shoulder holsters bulging beneath suit coats, confer quietly with a knot of uniformed state troopers outside the old Supreme Court chambers. Here on the second floor of the State Capitol, the air is as heavy as the moment before a summer thunderstorm. Mike Newell, Denver detective-turned-security-consultant,…
The members of the Greater Metro Cable Consortium know Tele-Communications Inc. has a habit of making surprise announcements. But even veteran TCI watchers weren’t ready for the bombshell dropped by company spokeswoman Margaret Lejuste during a group meeting last December. “She simply said, ‘The rebuild has stopped,'” recalls Norman Beecher,…
To market, to market: Funny, but we could swear that just a month ago Mayor Wellington Webb said he didn’t think Stapleton was an appropriate place for a new football stadium. Late last week, however, in light of reports that the proposed November vote on a taxpayer-subsidized replacement for Mile…
Expect an increase in the number of pranksters, scientists and new-age tourists fooling around in Colorado wheat fields this summer. Crop circles, those nifty geometric patterns of flattened plant stalks that infest the English countryside, are moving this way. Actually, it’s the belief in the mystery and power of crop…
For 28 years, Denver’s Police Athletic League has honed the athletic skills of inner-city youth and taught them the value of competition and fair play. But when it comes to locking up city park sites for its ballgames, PAL doesn’t mess around; the well-connected group has no interest in competing…
MIAMI (October 3, 1997)–Say it loud, South Florida. The Marlins are going to the World Series. Playoff veteran Bobby Bonilla blasted a three-run homer off Mark Wohlers in the seventh inning at Joe Robbie Stadium last night, breaking a 2-2 deadlock with the favored Atlanta Braves. The Marlins went on…
Airport ’97 Just when I thought everyone had forgotten all about the scandals at Denver International Airport, Patricia Calhoun comes along with her February 6 column, “Soar Loser.” I don’t know if Richard Boulware would have done a better job of telling us the truth about all the delays at…
An hour before Frank Martinez’s first professional boxing match, his uncle is chain-smoking cigarettes while his mother, Irene, paces among the gathering crowd at the Great Room in LoDo on January 22, her fight program rolled tightly in her fist. But if these two could see the fighter their Frankie,…
Good schools have always attracted parents considering a move to a new neighborhood. But suppose a developer took a more active approach–making the local schools better as a marketing tool? Tom Hannon remembers the day he convinced his boss that happy, wealthy schools could be part of a real estate…
