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In what has got to be described as shocking news, Michael De Marsche resigned as director of the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center on August 9, just seven days after the new David Owen Tryba-designed wing was unveiled. Even more shocking is why: He’s becoming the new director of the…

Thursday’s decision by U.S. District Judge Marcia Krieger that the Bureau of Prisons can’t stop even high-security prisoners from publishing under a byline may not mean much to the public at large. Is there anyone out there clamoring for dating advice from Ted “Unabomber” Kaczynski or a Forbes column on…

Things always seem to work out for Dean Singleton, whose MediaNews Group owns the Denver Post and well over a hundred daily newspapers across the country. Take the case of the Salt Lake Tribune, which he bought in 2001 and has been fighting to keep ever since. As noted in…

Here’s a brief rundown on what people are searching on Google today: Chris Ivery People magazine, in their oh-so-informative Caught in the Act column, writes this about Grey’s Anatomy star Ellen Pompeo and her new fiancé: Ellen Pompeo, meeting up with her fiancé Chris Ivery at L’Ermitage, a Beverly Hills…

I love public transportation. Sure, it’s slow and sometimes it smells, but where else can you get where you’re going and enjoy the splendor of unfiltered humanity for under two bucks? It’s like the Jerry Springer Show on wheels! For example, here’s what I saw just today on my trip…

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Can anyone get enough Leeroy Jenkins? Apparently not, since our story (“The Legend of Leeroy Jenkins,” March 8) is still the most viewed story on the site, almost six months after it was originally published. To sate the need for more Leeroy, here’s a link to a brief video interview…

Rita Bertolli has tangled with the Lakewood City Council and Mayor Steve Burkholder so many times that she’s decided that it’s better to beat ’em than join ’em. But can a twentysomething activist who rages against “corporate welfare” actually change the course of politics as usual in one of the…

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The students at the Starkey International Institute for Household Management knew something was wrong that day in February: Mary Louise Starkey, founder and president of the Denver-based school, the 57-year-old “First Lady of Service” who’d transformed the lowly world of butlers into the booming and respectable “household management” industry, was…

Couple in 50s seeking experienced household manager with high service standards to manage three homes, two homes in Texas and one in Colorado . . . Light culinary and extensive vendor management are must skills. Salary 100-120k. Male couple seeking household manager with an assertive service style to manage their…

The first stop on the Paul D. Lopez District 3 sightseeing tour is a dirt alley. It’s craggy and rutted, and I grip the armrest as his two-door Honda creeps down the residential corridor. Already his suspension is fucked from bringing observers here — and he’s only been a Denver…

Travel, like war, has a way of unveiling the truth about a man. For it is only when we choose to exist outside of our comfort zone, when we uproot ourselves from all that we know and place ourselves in situations that are completely foreign to our experience, that we…

ProgressNow, an outfit that specializes in promoting a politically progressive agenda and challenging “conservative propaganda,” was founded on the principle that local activists can be more effective if they choose their own battles as opposed to doing the bidding of puppet masters in big cities hundreds of miles away. The…

Nando Mandragon’s out of jail, back on the block — and making a big impression. On Everly Bustos, aka “DJ Shake,” to be precise. Last month, Bustos organized a moneymaking scheme posted on eBay, in which three local twentysomethings offered themselves as the ultimate billboard, willing to be tattooed with…

“Dirty Dancing,” Luke Turf, August 2 It Takes Two to Tango What were those women thinking? I cannot believe the people in Luke Turf’s “Dirty Dancing” waited so long to complain about Chas Gale. If a dance “teacher” exposed himself to me, I’d make sure the next step led directly…

A new study has shown pretty conclusively that marketing to kids works frighteningly well. Some of the scarier highlights include the fact that kids as young as 2 years old have beliefs about certain brands. Or the fact that when given identical items, one unpackaged, the other packaged in a…

Scottie Ewing is wondering why the city is taking so long to give final approval to a liquor license application he submitted for his new club, Sugar House, at 1395 West Alameda Avenue. Well, perhaps a list will help the former pro skier turned party promoter make sense of it…

“You’re dead wrong if ya think that pimpin’ gon’ die.” At least that’s what Snoop Dogg maintained in his 2003 “P.I.M.P.” duet with 50 Cent. But that won’t stop some from trying. This fall, Colorado Coalition Against Sexual Assault will unveil its ad campaign targeting pimp culture and the gold…

Like beer, like ice cream, like truffles, the pig is proof on the hoof — evidence that the food gods love us and want us to be happy. And the masa cake on the menu at Centro is proof (to me, anyway) that not only is Dave Query in league…

Almost two years after its release, Microsoft has finally lowered the price of the Xbox 360. Maybe now you can convince your wife, girlfriend or Mom to let you get one! Not coincidentally, I’m sure, the drop comes just in time for the next wave of killer titles, including the…