part 4 of 4 Best Real-Life Adventure for Grown-Ups Inner Reality After all the hype about last year’s “summer of violence,” Dave Stalls, former recreation director for the Denver Department of Parks and Recreation, decided it was time for a reality check. Specifically, an Inner Reality check, Stalls’s invaluable, adult-oriented…
part 1 of 4 Best Place to Watch The Simpsons The Sink 1165 13th St., Boulder Tired of sitting at home on your butt every Thursday night watching The Simpsons? Then why not sit on your butt and watch The Simpsons at the Sink instead? The beer, Bart burgers (complete…
part 3 of 4 Best Place for a New-Age Cat South Penn Cat Clinic 311 S. Pennsylvania St. Cats whose owners follow holistic lifestyles may want to stock up on vitamin treatments and herbal remedies, too. Many of them find their way to the South Penn Cat Clinic, where Linda…
part 3 of 3 Best Lowdown on Lowriders Royalty Car Club James Quintana, president of Arvada’s Royalty Car Club, wants to elevate lowriders to a higher calling: keeping kids out of trouble. “Nowadays kids are just trying to find something to do,” he says. “We’ve got something that interests them…
She-Mail As a regular reader of Denver’s other daily newspaper, I was unaware that the Rocky Mountain News was socially and sexually insensitive. Unaware, that is, until I read Patricia Calhoun’s June 15 column, “Smokin’ in the Boy’s Room,” on the paper’s efforts to clean up its act. I don’t…
part 1 of 2 Allah-who-akbar. At the call to prayer, the Brown family assembled in the living room of their home near the tiny town of Mosca, in the San Luis Valley. Rolling out their prayer rugs in rows–the males in front of the females–they faced northeast, having determined that…
part 2 of 2 Three generations is what passes for old money in Denver. So it’s not surprising that along with the Hirschfeld name and the family’s tremendous wealth comes a great deal of accumulated power and influence. Much of that influence has been used in the traditional ways of…
part 2 of 2 In the spring of 1991 Tony entered an Alamosa pawn shop carrying his television. The family had moved to the San Luis Valley almost a year before, and things weren’t going so well. He’d been reduced to selling his possessions in order to feed his children…
part 1 of 2 When the 100 or so members of the Graphic Communications International Union who staffed the production facilities at A.B. Hirschfeld Press decided to go out on strike two months ago, they would have been well advised to look up a fifteen-year-old lawsuit filed against the company’s…
In living color: If the new Rocky Mountain Magazine recalls the go-go early Eighties, the new Colorado magazine echoes the early Sixties–blocky type, “colorful” slogan, lace-up ski boots and all. But at least publisher Merrill Hastings is cribbing from himself: He founded the original Colorado in 1964, then went on…
The next time some genius with five or six Miller Lites in him spins around on his barstool and starts regaling you with that old business about how sports reflect the agony and ecstasy of life, tell him to go home and put his head in the sink. Sports reflect…
How secure is a prison with locks that don’t work? Only three and a half years after Colorado’s Limon prison opened, taxpayers are going to have to shell out $155,000 to replace its 712 cell-door locks. No matter, apparently, that the locks at the Limon Correctional Facility carried a warranty…
Red, White and Jew Regarding Ward Harkavy’s “Out of the Norm” in the June 15 issue: It is an outrage that Norm Resnick can say the things he does on the radio and still pretend that he upholds Jewish traditions. A man is known by the company he keeps. Resnick…
When the City of Denver hired the public relations firm of Hill & Knowlton last year to deal with the national reporters who were filing stories about its new airport, it agreed to pay top dollar for the company’s expertise. But it took the chief researcher at the prominent Washington,…
part 1 of 2 As a professor of education for twenty years at the University of Northern Colorado, Norm Resnick specialized in training prospective teachers how to handle the emotionally disturbed. And in light of that, his new career as a radio talk-show host makes strange sense: His callers worry…
part 2 of 2 Norm Resnick may relish his combative reputation, but when it comes right down to it, his Dr. Norm routine is often meek. He usually cuts off callers rather than argue with them. Epperson’s conspiracy theory went “beyond my comfort level,” he says, and adds that one…
The Anheuser-Busch brewery rises from the agricultural flatlands north of Fort Collins like a beer lover’s Magic Kingdom. Rows of flowers line the sidewalks and the road leading to the main entrance, and visitors are invited by sunny collegiate greeters to take the brewery tour, a highlight of which is…
Don’t let the fax get in the way: Ears must still be ringing in the office of Lynn Graves, US West Communications staff manager in Denver. Last month Graves’s office sent a memo to phone company area managers in Colorado and Wyoming that noted the following: “The traditional summer service…
When baseball was the national pastime, the owners smoked two-dollar cigars and the players, even the underpaid ones, went to work with smiles on their faces. In the reserved grandstand (tickets three bucks), fans drank beer out of real bottles, and there was no need to cut them off in…
When Dale Pruce submitted a promotional idea to the Miller Brewing Company five years ago, the Milwaukee brewer’s rejection letter ended with the encouraging, “We look forward to hearing from you.” It got its wish. This February Pruce fired off another letter to the company, this time contending that Miller…
Dress for X-cess I thought Patricia Calhoun’s June 8 column, “Wake Up and Smell the Coffee,” kicked butt, to borrow a phrase from Jim Norris. I only hope that he and the workers from Sound Warehouse continue to show the courage of their convictions. As many of us from the…
In most places the disappearance of a low-level city panel would register barely a blip on people’s personal radar screens. But most places aren’t Colorado Springs, where every civic move seems to be invested with enough meaning and symbolism to provide work for a generation of laid-off Kremlinologists. The panel…
