The Rocky Mountain News is reporting that the Carioca Cafe — better known as Bar Bar — finally quit allowing smoking inside the establishment, a year after the ban went into effect. But while that great institution has fallen, Paris on the Platte is still flauting the nanny rules by…
EVERYONE PANIC: Bill O’Reilly informs the public about gangs of “lower socioeconomic ” lesbians speading around the country. With Denver’s current gang situation, who knows what will happen if they find there way here and start shooting their pink guns and making out. — Crystal Preston-Watson [Via AOL]
Just in time for the holiday, two blockbusters are hitting screens today: Transformers and License to Wed. Here’s a cheat sheet on which one to choose when beating the Fourth of July heat…
Larry Manzanares. Did you have trouble digesting the Jefferson County DA’s highly defensive, just-doing-my-job rebuttal in the Rocky Mountain News this weekend concerning his office’s handling of the Larry Manzanares case? Join the club…
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Denver Post sports columnist Woody Paige (pictured) loves the spotlight — but he was undoubtedly less than jazzed by the attention he received on June 29, when articles appeared about him being named in a sexual-harassment suit filed by Rita Ragone, a onetime makeup artist for Cold Pizza, an ESPN…
Over the past few months, Rocky Mountain News and Denver Post memos about departing employees have excluded information about replacement hires for a very simple reason: Both papers have been trying to shrink their staffs via attrition and buyouts. But a June 26 note sent to Rocky employees by managing…
Early Friday morning, London police discovered a Mercedes wired to explode outside the Tiger Tiger nightclub – where “Sugar ‘N’ Spice,” a popular ladies’ night, was in full swing. Is nothing sacred?…
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Development in Denver may be booming, but the downtown core still suffers from a nasty blight holding up potential development and fragmenting the urban environment: surface parking lots. These desolate stretches of asphalt and pay stations are a remnant of the1980 Denver real-estate bust in which properties earmarked for skyscrapers…
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From the Himalayas to the Rockies, Tibet’s chief oracle is bringing his positive energy to help overcome negative forces and obstacles facing the Mile High today. He’s the Dalai Lama’s advisor, protector of Tibet, all Tibetan people and Tibet’s government. So the organizers of Denver’s Summer of Peace movement are…
It’ll be comforting to many of the bikers in tomorrow’s Ride for Recovery that they need not fear the police, DUI, getting busted for drugs or drug paraphernalia…
This weekend Naropa is throwing a giant Kerouac Festival, celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Beat poet’s seminal novel, On the Road. There will be a marathon reading of the book, panel discussions, films, music and more. For the complete schedule, click here. This is the second blowout for On…
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Along with biking season comes bike thieving season, but the bandits are particularly brazen this summer. Bikes are still getting jacked from the usual places like backyards and garages. The scumbag robbers are still breaking bikes free from their master’s locks all over town. But some stolen bikes are coming…
The June 28 Message column features excerpts from an anti-ESPN screed Denver Post sports writer Adrian Dater put on the newspaper’s blog, and his superiors quickly removed. Fortunately, a keen-eyed reader saved the text before it disappeared entirely. Below, feast on Dater’s entire piece, which kicks ass and names names…
Someone was at the front door. Miranda’s two-year-old daughter rushed toward it, figuring that her father was home. But then the door burst open, narrowly missing her, and the toddler saw that it wasn’t Daddy after all. It was a SWAT team. Armor-clad police officers stormed inside, weapons drawn. They…
Online blogs supposedly give newspaper writers a greater opportunity to express themselves personally and creatively — but as Denver Post sports writer Adrian Dater recently learned, freedom has its limits. Dater recently penned “Here’s a Shout-Out to ESPN Sports Reporters, Another Name for Leach or Lamprey or Something Much Worse…
I never really cared much for Friends. Sure, I harbored a quasi-psychotic obsession with Jennifer Aniston in the early days of the program, but so did every other adolescent male in America. I vividly recall the day that Rolling Stone came out with her on the cover all kinds of…
