Anyone else would surely have given up by now. Here it is, a beautiful Saturday afternoon, the powder steadily accumulating on the Copper Mountain slopes, creating the kind of ideal conditions that serious shredders only dream about. But Tim Gill is stuck teaching a rank amateur the basics of ‘boarding…
Telluride’s George Harrison wants to make one thing perfectly clear: He does not sell, nor has he ever sold, a bong. A bong, mind you, is a piece of drug paraphernalia used to smoke marijuana, and it is illegal to sell one in the state of Colorado. If someone were…
Last month Cindy Martin, an instructor at the University of Colorado at Denver, asked the students in her Internet-based magazine-writing class to submit an introductory essay; she asked them to describe themselves with anecdotes that showed their “uniqueness.” Student Scott Lafferty thought he did a pretty good job. The 34-year-old…
Echo & the Bunnymen Evergreen (London) Most bands on the comeback trail attempt to reproduce their previous sound but don’t quite manage it; an essential, ineffable something is missing. Not so the Bunnymen. Evergreen so precisely duplicates the act’s classic style that it’s downright astounding–and more than a little creepy…
Wu-Tang Clan Wu-Tang Forever (Loud) Anyone who doubts that the Wu-Tang Clan has effectively made the transition from band to corporate entity is hereby advised to scope the notes included with this package (two CDs, natch); in addition to a roster of 900-numbers personalized for each member and an offer…
Business owner Ron Partridge is feeling pretty good these days, which is a bit surprising. His Internet startup company, Pear Tree Communications, and its showpiece Web site, Gay Colorado Online, are currently sailing the rough waters common to many new online businesses: cash-flow problems, internal conflicts, and a lack of…
Paul Russo is feeling like his old self again. Sure, it took a year’s worth of pulling, yanking, stretching, a few rolls of surgical tape and the help of assorted homemade contraptions, but he finally did it. The once-circumcised Russo has regrown his foreskin. Don’t believe it? Just look at…
Call Rick Trotter the poster boy for brand loyalty. The owner of Horizon Computers, the last remaining exclusive Atari dealer in Colorado, Trotter has stuck by his beloved computer no matter what. In the mid-Eighties, when fourteen-year-olds dumped their Atari 2600 consoles in favor of Nintendo, Trotter didn’t flinch. By…
Let’s face it. When Denver’s suppertime TV news junkies think of Channel 4’s Aimee Sporer, the station’s hard-hitting “Mall Watch” segment probably doesn’t leap to mind. Instead, viewers are reminded of the regional Emmy award-winner’s less journalistic attributes: her flaxen hair, her milky skin and, of course, those luminescent baby…
