Bruce Chopnik drinks Coors beer. Under normal circumstances, that’s not a big deal — hell, lots of men drink Coors — but Bruce Chopnik is also International Mr. Leather. He earned his title fair and square at a pageant in Chicago earlier this year by scoring high on the question-and-answer…
Pam Adair knows how to record the moment. When she felt queasy on July 21 last year, she took a two-minute home pregnancy test and videotaped the stick as it turned blue. “I wanted this child for fourteen months,” she says. “I wanted him to be there every step of…
Buying crack on East Colfax Avenue is easy. All a person has to do is walk the littered street, preferably at night, and pace the sidewalk between Logan and York streets. The thick of the strip is at Ogden Street in front of the 7-Eleven store and beneath the shadows…
No lawyers, jurors or judges are in this small room in southwest Denver, but a seventeen-year-old boy is about to be sentenced for spray-painting four buildings along Federal Boulevard. Minutes before he is led into the room by his father, five community members–including the store manager of one of the…
At last year’s party, the strap-on dildo Mary Uzi was wearing snuck out, pushing up her skirt to reveal a pinch too much. Uzi, a local adult-business owner and performer, was feigning a cowgirl-gone-naughty on an elevated stage. Her outfit came complete with boots, a hat, a tiny vest and…
Tom Broemmel and his wife, Lani Lee, received a prompt welcome-to-the-neighborhood gesture when they moved from North Carolina and opened the LoDo Inn at 16th and Wazee Streets last October. The couple got a letter from nearby LoDo’s Bar & Grill that read, in short: Stop using the name “LoDo”…
The first triple play ever at Coors Field happened during the bottom of the fifth inning of a night game on June 14. With runners at first and second base, Colorado Rockies batter Edgard Clemente hit a sharp ground ball to San Francisco Giants third baseman Bill Mueller. Mueller quickly…
A steaming Blackjack pizza with mushrooms and pepperoni will not be delivered to the Pink Palace, aka cell block 22C, inside Denver County Jail. The cell block’s basketball team had been the heavy favorite to win the jail’s tenth annual basketball tournament, but after team captain Mark Skipper was transferred…
Erotic dancers in Lakewood must now apply for and purchase a $25 entertainer license. They may not dance within six feet of their customers; they may not perform on a stage that moves, rolls, raises or shakes, and the stage itself must be at least eighteen inches off the ground,…
In the only game Mark Skipper plays at Madison Square Garden, the cathedral of basketball, the seventeen-year-old sees an apparition of sorts. The godlike images of Walt Frazier, Earl “the Pearl” Monroe and Bill Bradley dribble through his mind. “Here I am,” Skipper says to himself, “playing on the same…
Each time a neighborhood dispute breaks out in Denver and city officials throw up their hands in despair, they call one man to solve the problem: Steve Charbonneau. Perhaps it’s because Charbonneau’s nonprofit agency, Community Mediation Concepts, is easy to reach. One of its two offices is located inside city…
By far, attorney Kenneth S. Kramer was the best-dressed man inside Denver’s small-claims court on May 12. Wearing a finely tailored brown suit with crisp lines and sharp corners, the bespectacled Kramer sat high in his chair and waited patiently. Behind him sat a lanky cowboy in faded blue jeans…
To live in Denver in the spring is to enjoy the songs of birds, the warmth of sunshine, the scent of blossoming flowers. Other pleasures include the sight of abandoned cars at the curb and the stench of slow-dripping oil and gasoline puddling beneath metallic heaps of junk. Each day,…
Jeff Conn is an urban hunter. Each weekday morning at 7:15, Conn bounces down the seven steps from his home in Alamo Placita Park and starts walking to his job in downtown Denver. The walk–the hunt–will take precisely 25 minutes. “I bet we don’t see anything today” Conn says. “Wouldn’t…
After more than 25 years of showing full nudity at their downtown strip joint, Rusty and Ted Bullard want to give their customers a little bit more. But the city keeps playing fresh with them, so they’ll have to take what they can get. The Bullards own Kimberly’s, once known…
Leta McKenzie likes to go the movies, but only if she can read the film. McKenzie, who is profoundly deaf and unable to understand movie-screen conversation, relies on open-caption films to enjoy the big-screen experience. Open-caption films insert text across the bottom of the screen to convey dialogue as well…
A sexy little secret was unraveling inside the cockpit of United Airlines flight 585 when it crashed eight years ago in Colorado Springs, killing all 25 passengers and crew members aboard. The cause of the March 1991 crash remained “undetermined” by the National Transportation Safety Board until last week, when…
As far as Tracey Bolton is concerned, the argument simply comes down to this: “I deserve the right not to have anyone looking at my cooch if I don’t want anyone looking at my cooch.” It’s an argument she believes a jury of her peers will agree with come July,…
