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There are two things I will remember Mr. Wizard (a.k.a. Don Herbert) for: 1. He was responsible for my mother beating my ass when I tried one of his experiments (It was the one where you suspend a glass of water upside down from a plate. It didn’t work and…

When I stepped back outside, the wind had picked up. The fuzz from the cottonwood trees was blowing so thick down the street it looked like a freak summer snow storm, but the rain wasn’t far behind. I walked back down the boardwalk and crossed towards the water, looking for…

Comedian and writer for The Simpsons Dana Gould will be appearing at the Comedy Works this weekend. Westword’s Adam Cayton-Holland recently interviewed the prolific comedian about everything from his start in stand-up, to the upcoming Simpsons movie to the brilliance to the second-to-last episode of The Sopranos (Not the last…

The Greenwood Village cop that tasered Denver Nugget DerMarr Johnson at the Purple Martini in the Denver Tech Center early Saturday morning should’ve known it would take a lot more than a little shock to bring the big man down…

This intriguing map from Strange Maps correlates the GDPs of various U.S. states with those of similarly productive foreign countries. Our home state matches up with Finland, which leads to some interesting comparisons. We here in Colorado are used to hearing about our inability to fund higher ed, health care…

Governor Bill Ritter’s colossal snit over long-brewing federal plans to drill the hell out of the Roan Plateau is just what Colorado needs right now: a Sagebrush Rebellion in reverse…

Chief, Sorry, had to get that last one off hasty as there were a bunch of Moroccans behind me, tapping their feet for me to hurry up and get off this greasy computer. At any rate, I hope it’s easier to get into Lusaka than it was here. Plane arrived…

6.7.07 Johannesburg South Africa Airport Chief, I think we might need to set up a permanent bureau on that island to keep a lid on that rascal lawyer Werner. Those biz class upgrade chits he sold me were totally bogus and all I could use them for was to get…

The buyout packages accepted by sixteen Denver Post staffers don’t become official until June 15 — but the broadsheet is already taking steps to reduce its staff by the equivalent of 21 more positions. As noted in an e-mail sent out under the signature of Post editor Greg Moore on…

Everyone was standing around the front patio at the secret meeting spot on Pearl and Ninth Avenue. A few people knew each other, others introduced themselves amiably. A man rides up and immediately says, “Hi everyone, I’m Gary. I’m going to wear my boxers, is that alright?” Usually an odd…

For weeks, insiders at the Denver Post have predicted that the broadsheet wouldn’t be able to convince 37 employees to take its latest buyout offer — and judging by a June 9 e-mail from Post editor Greg Moore (pictured), they were right. Moore’s tone may be optimistic, but the bottom…

The last episode of the landmark HBO series The Sopranos wrapped on June 10 in a manner calculated to piss off longtime boosters and latecomers alike. The final scene took place in the sort of small restaurant established as a prime whacking locale by The Godfather and uncounted imitators that…

06.06.07 London Heathrow Airport Chief, A damn good thing you didn’t send along that wire-transfer, because the German attorney turned out to be a total fraud. I would also say that The Professor is a long, long way from the friendly confines of academia. I should have known he was…

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Here’s a peek at the new public art sculpture being unveiled today at 3pm at the Denver Skatepark…

It’s hard to know who deserves the most blame: Bill O’Reilly’s staffers, whose apparent lack of research really hung their boss out to dry, or O’Reilly himself, for blustering on ignorantly in a manner that confirmed just about every negative thing his critics say about him. Then again, the segment…

During the ’80s, I was doing what pretty much every other kid in the country was doing. I spent my days pumping every quarter I could lay hands on into the arcade machines that profilerated across America. My nights were spent cowering in fear of imminent nuclear annihilation at the…

More bad news for terrestrial radio: According to industry analyst Jonathan Jacoby, the focus of this report for Radio Ink magazine, audiences for the venerable broadcasting medium continue to decrease. Although some of Jacoby’s observations about the winter 2007 ratings book are obscured by jargon, his conclusions are as straight-forward…

For those of you who just can’t get your fill of talking shit right here in town, there’s quite a lively discussion on the Food Media and News forum here at chowhound.com . The focus appears to be primarily about how much I suck, how crooked / deluded / psychotic…

When Jose was three, he watched his father tie a rope around his mother’s neck and attach it to the back of a Ford F-150. His father then drove off, dragging his mother behind and leaving Jose alone on the sidewalk in front of the family’s house. Jose’s mother spent…

It takes all kinds, this argument over guns in America. Patriots and paranoids, cranks and constitutionalists, handwringers and Huns, they all step up to the plate sooner or later. The debate is rarely polite, often incoherent and generally clouded by suspicion, fear and rancor. But it takes something special to…