Those readers who are offended each time a sports story dominates page one of a Denver daily were undoubtedly frosted by the sight of the July 13 Denver Post. The day’s main piece, by reporter Marc Spears, involved the signing of Denver Nuggets star Carmelo Anthony to a long-term contract…
The most contentious development proposal ever to hit the town of Vail was finally resolved on Tuesday, July 10. Voters overwhelmingly approved developer Peter Knobel’s plan to tear down the 37-year-old Crossroads building and replace it with Solaris, a 600,000-square-foot condo-and-retail complex complete with a bowling alley and arcade. The…
They rode north on I-25. Two dozen riders lined up in pairs, rolling side by side, bent low — very low — over engines hissing high-pitched whines. One of the riders was 27-year-old Rashad “Rumble” Mims. They were all headed for I-70, and when Rumble saw a fellow rider veer…
Samantha Peters kicks up dirt as she chases the boys around the track. She’s the only girl in this race of about a dozen seven-year-olds riding mini-dirt bikes. Neil Peters bought the $2,900 mini for his daughter’s third birthday, riding it right into her party. “You did?” Samantha asks her…
From a dingy stepstool, the auctioneer announced that he was starting with a bulk bid: one price for everything left in the pale-blue store at 46 Broadway formerly known as Crown Mercantile. He’d let people bid on individual items — vintage furniture, clothes, jewelry, toys and housewares, mostly picked out…
It turns out that 24-year-old Matt Buschbacher already had experience leading underground groups of men when he moved out to Colorado and started the Denver Pick Up Artists Lair earlier this year. He’d also been a leader of the hate movement. Buschbacher had dropped off the radar of the Southern…
A friend recently called me on a Wednesday evening and asked if I wanted to play Capture the Flag. His request was so flummoxing that I was forced to retreat to my regular domicile for such discomfiture: a bunker constructed almost entirely of panic, save for the support beams, which…
Across town last weekend — the first full weekend since smoking was banned in restaurants, saloons, and small family farms if the pigs object — Off Limits came across people throwing nicotine fits. But amid all this chaos, unexpected order: At Paris on the Platte, the coffeehouse that pioneered the…
As practically everyone with at least one functioning ear has noticed, most terrestrial radio stations that concentrate on music take chances less often than Rush Limbaugh fills prescriptions under his own name. Despite the growing popularity of satellite radio, with its enormous number of specialty shows, old-technology outlets (particularly the…
Jock and Jill A most valuable player: In the June 29 Off Limits, Jill Russell is pictured as another Colfax landmark. Her alleged crime is prostitution — providing a blow job to then-Rockies pitcher Denny Neagle for $40. Rather than being subject to a warrant for her arrest and public…
Props to the Fray, who performed last night on the Late Show with David Letterman, successfully finishing off the triumvirate of late-night talk shows. (We know, we know: The band has actually been on four post-prime-time gabfests, but honestly, can you really consider its appearance on the Late Late Show…
After a five-year legal battle, this morning the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office finally released diaries and other documents seized from the homes of Columbine killers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. The materials– a melange of the mundane, the thoroughly adolescent, and the sociopathic– will probably keep school-shooting researchers busy for…
When Bold landed at Denver International Airport six years ago, he felt as if he’d gotten off not a plane, but a time machine. Born into a relatively well-to-do Mongolian family — his father ran the country’s largest cement factory, and his mother worked in a hospital — Bold had…
Four years ago, Paul Lambert built one of the biggest luxury houses in Douglas County, a 9,100-square-foot tribute to Vegas excess that was the buzz of the 2002 Parade of Homes. Despite lawsuits and other setbacks, he’s even managed to live in his dream house, the Villa Bellagio, following a…
As the clock struck twelve last Friday, smokers in restaurants and bars across Colorado snuffed out their cigarettes and stogies. All in all, the atmosphere was very civilized — particularly compared with the puffed-up behavior exhibited a few days earlier by a rowdy crew on the patio at the Tavern…
At this point, I’ve got the weapons, I’ve got the rations, and I’ve got the brood of buxom sister-wives knitting away at various undisclosed locations on the eastern plains, just waiting for my call. Pretty much all I’m waiting on right now is for that shiftless sack agent from Re/Max…
Channel 7 has long boasted that its 10 p.m. newscasts start with ten minutes of “non-stop news” — a term that’s at least half accurate. The June 22 program certainly zipped along, moving from one example of mayhem to another. Shots of two homes under construction in Elbert County that…
“If anything, I’m the underdog in this fight,” Denver tattoo artist Mike Nickels said to the Spike TV cameras before his June 1 bout for The Ultimate Fighter. “If I topple the giant, then I’m the hero of the show.” The “giant” Nickels was referring to is Matt Hamill, a…
Swap Meet Come out swinging:We are a couple in the lifestyle, and we enjoyed Jared Jacang Maher’s “Swap Talk,” in the June 22 issue. It was very well-written and gave a great insight into the Denver swing scene. Great job! Names withheld on request The really wild West: “Swap Talk”…
It’s official: The nation’s (not to mention Denver’s) highly competitive live concert business just got a little less, well, competitive. Live Nation today announced that it will purchase House of Blues Entertainment for $350 million in cold, hard cash. As part of the deal, Live Nation will presumably gain control…
When was the last time you opened an ear to a classic-rock station on the standard radio dial and encountered a song you’d never heard before, or hadn’t stumbled upon for quite a while? Anyone listening on July 2 to the Fox, Denver’s highest-rated classic-rock broadcaster, experienced this unexpectedly pleasurable…
During the June 29 edition of Channel 2’s late newscast, anchor Asha Blake introduced a segment on the latest unimportant story to clog up more than its share of national TV airtime: the messy departure of the terrifying Star Jones Reynolds from The View, ABC’s long-running, self-satirizing daytime chat show…
