The tourism-and-hospitality industry didn't stay angry at Governor Bill "Nuclear Winter" Owens for long. On Monday night -- just eight days after Owens told the nation that "all of Colorado is on fire" -- HOSTPAC, the Colorado Restaurant Association's political action committee, held a reception in the governor's honor to...
Q: I'd happily patronize restaurants that don't allow smoking. Where are they? A: The easiest way to find Denver's smoke-free eateries is to get a copy of the Smoke-Free Dining Guide from Boulder-based GASP of Colorado (Group to Alleviate Smoking Pollution). The nonprofit will mail the booklet, which includes over...
On the flatbed trailer is a bed of nails, and on the bed of nails is a contortionist who is performing oral sex -- on himself. "Damn, look at that," says Martin, a 26-year-old DJ at a topless bar in Denver. "That boy's flexible and stiff." Martin goofs on his...
The last group of students who were at Columbine High School during the April 1999 massacre will graduate on May 18 at Fiddler's Green Amphitheater, but you won't be able to watch the ceremonies on TV -- if, for some reason, you even wanted to. According to a statement issued...
In the digital age, it's a simple matter for a police agency to record incoming calls for help. Every 911 call, from the most trivial to the most urgent -- say, a call from a frantic cafeteria worker at a local high school reporting gunfire and three victims down --...
On the eve of her entry into adult life, Debbie Baker had a change of heart that would alter her destiny. "I didn't like Barbie when I was a little girl," she says. "I liked baby dolls to play with." All of that changed in 1978, when a friend gave...
Esperanto a sort of alphabetic goulash that, some hope, will eventually be spoken by all of the worlds people as a linguistic interface for humanity may well have found a musical manifestation in the Denver band of the same name. Esperanto, which performs Sunday, January 20, at the 15th Street...
Denver Doesn't Pass the Smell Test Scratched and sniff: Just scanned over "Funky Town," your January 10 article about the Big Stink in parts of Denver. I'm alarmed, as I'd concluded last night -- through much research on the Net -- that I might move to Denver. How prevalent is...
Harlan Hendrickson has issued a challenge to all the closet lovers of '80s metal: It's time to step up -- fist held high, pinkie and index fingers extended -- and get ready to rock. "There's no need to be embarrassed any- more for loving Mötley Crüe," he says proudly. Grab...
Shhh! No complaining in the library! Or about the library. Last November, the Denver Public Library proudly announced it had been named the top library in the nation. Its new building had already snagged national awards, it had recently fended off the evil Dr. Laura ("The Doctor Is Out," September...
Since forming last summer, Hi-Fidelity, Thursday, June 7, at the 15th Street Tavern, with the Gravity Index and Los Federalis, has become one of Denver's more appealing arbiters of the garage-rock gospel. Fronted by vocalist/guitarist Joaquin Liebert, the band's live set is peppered by a batch of irresistibly crunchy pop...
Drive-by, He Said Outrageous impression: Ed Thomas's statements in David Holthouse's story about the new skate park ("Big Air," July 19) are truly outrageous. He is totally out of touch with reality. Skateboarding is a mainstream sport (whether you like it or not) with hardcore roots. Thomas's impressions of thuggish...
Whenever they're blowing up Mile High Stadium, it's not soon enough -- and the 24,000 sweaty fans who converged on the arena for last week's Ozzfest would probably agree. As one of the last shows ever to grace the stadium where John Elway ascended to sainthood, Ozzfest was an appropriately...
John Hopper got a job teaching history at Granada High on the day before school started eleven years ago. His predecessor had quit unexpectedly, leaving behind her students, her classroom and a single piece of yellow paper taped to the desk outlining her courses: world history, government, geography, U.S. history...
It's still possible to see justice done -- as long as somebody pays the attorneys. Coloradans who spent weeks, sometimes months, sometimes even years waiting for US West to install new telephone lines will soon be eligible for credits on their telephone bills, thanks to a class-action lawsuit filed back...
In the waning months of 2000, history -- or in Denver's case, historic preservation -- marched down the street. The Denver City Council, with the full support of Mayor Wellington Webb, unanimously authorized the creation of a non-contiguous downtown historic district. It includes more than forty buildings that have played...
If Tiger Woods knows what's good for him, he'll keep an eye on the Wongluekiet twins. That's because ten, twelve, maybe fifteen years from now, Aree Song Wongluekiet or his brother, Naree Song, might sneak up on Tiger and snatch away first-place money at, say, the $35 million Arnold Palmer...
Qwest for Ire Stall in the family: Thanks for keeping the name of Qwest in the spotlight with Patricia Calhoun's "Life's Bitter Here," in the August 24 issue. Needless to say, they are not making friends by undoing the good that US West has done for the community. What Qwest...
Hunched over the counter of the only 7-Eleven in Widefield, an elderly black man named Leo mulls over what could be his most consequential purchase of the day. You never know; this could be the time, the magic moment, that life-altering, red-letter, once-in-a-lifetime lucky day. You just don't know. This...
It's Sunday, August 11, 1996. Somewhere on the 17000 block of East Dickenson Place, an alarm is going off, which is not uncommon. It could be a car alarm or maybe a home alarm, but Nsikak Ekiko says it's not coming from her house or her garage. Her neighbors think...
Two men in their mid-twenties are talking outside a Capitol Hill bar. It's 5:17 p.m. on July 5. Dirty D: "There's this new guy in town. He's from Philadelphia. He's short, stocky." Jerry Bronze: "Put him against Butz?" Dirty D: "Nah, he'll kill him." Bronze: "What about Crane?" Dirty D:...
In the computer-generated photographs of Rocky Flats in the year 2006, the squat, proletarian buildings where plutonium was once shaped into deadly pits have been airbrushed away. The artist was wise to get rid of them: Those vast, concrete edifices were an anachronism, a Cold War artifact from a loony,...
