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So there I was, being led into a roomy townhouse mere blocks from the Denver Dumb Friends League by the Denver Post’s Chuck Green while one of his pooches, eighteen-month-old Auggie, yapped and yowled like Jim Carrey on amphetamines. As Green looked at his furry buddy and said (jokingly…I think),…

This might be a serious game and all, but there’s no getting around it — some big bellies are on the floor. “Skins got too many fat guys,” says one courtside critic, slumped on a bench at the downtown YMCA. “You’ve got big fat Jim and big fat Dave trying…

The Rest of the Best Landmark decisions: Bravo! The Best of Denver 2000 was informative, irreverent and funny! I take exception to a couple of your choices, however. Best Public Golf Course: Arrowhead is a beautiful course, but it’s a private course, open to the public. If you’re looking for…

Part 1 of a seasonal series Spring, Longs Peak to Lyons In the waning days of March, two storm systems approach Colorado from opposite directions. One, carrying evaporated water from the Gulf of Mexico, has been held at bay by a high-pressure system in Texas that has acted as a…

Two months ago, Karen Romeo wandered the aisles of New York City’s famed Carnegie Hall. It was a big event, but she didn’t expect to get emotional. She’d been a professional violinist and had seen her share of world-class stages. The day, she figured, would be more for the kids…

Four years ago, the Cherry Creek North neighborhood was the site of a confrontation between people who wanted to save a hundred-year-old American elm on a Madison Street lot and a developer who wanted to cut it down so he could put up two 5,000-square-foot condominiums. A group called Eye…

Give the city of Denver credit for trying. After failing for ten years to build a golf course at Green Valley Ranch, it’s pondering a new course on a rugged but bare stretch of land off of Peña Boulevard near Denver International Airport. The only catch is that the Green…

The Greens are coming, the greens are coming! Between 600 and 1,000 Green Party members from across the United States — and at least fourteen other countries — have been revving up their VW buses and Volvos (no Corvairs, please) and are, at this very moment, on their way to…

The night Historic Denver visited Lakeside Amusement Park, Denver’s most historic amusement park, you could cut the nostalgia with a knife — or perhaps a pearl-handled dagger. Some fifty people had gathered in a pavilion almost unchanged since it was built in 1937, and none of them were there for…

In the Denver radio market, the morning show personalities who get the most attention are the naughtiest ones: the Peak’s Howard Stern (last week he had an extended conversation with Sandra Bernhard about her fondness for anal sex), Alice’s Jamie White and Danny Bonaduce (Jamie once told Sigourney Weaver that…

There’s No Place Like Homeless There goes the neighborhood: In his excellent June 8 story on Lowry, “How to Build a Ghetto,” Justin Berton failed to point out one important fact. No matter what the developers say about new urbanism at Lowry, it is obvious that their goal is to…

Spittle slid down her face as Juliana Ibarra stood, frozen, in the aisle of the Blockbuster store. She’d run in for a video, looking for an evening’s entertainment for herself and her foster kids. Just another Northglenn mom in a hurry. But Juliana’s entrance quickly attracted attention. There were whispers…

The sweeping green lawns of the Columbine Knolls neighborhood are punctuated by ranch-style brick houses and a smattering of split-levels and two-story homes. The 1,100 or so households in the vicinity are governed by a homeowners’ association that enforces covenants designed to keep the area clean, tidy and wholesome. So…

When the Colorado Legislature passed laws requiring sex offenders to register with the police and to make that information available to the public, it lifted a veil of secrecy surrounding sexual abuse and sex crimes. But some professionals argue that those laws — which were designed to reduce risk to…

The Glenwood Springs headquarters of the White River National Forest looks like it was furnished during Teddy Roosevelt’s administration. Banged-up wooden doors inside the two-story former post office building creak open to reveal antique desks that could have been used by the former president during one of his swaggering, turn-of-the…

Cliff Fleetwood speaks a lot about “we,” as in, “Getting people to volunteer, getting people to hold office, that’s what we want.” He talks at length about consolidating black voter turnout and moving the black community “to the center of American politics.” And he plans to raise money this summer…

In what may be the largest settlement of its kind, the State of Colorado has agreed to pay $70,000 to a prison inmate who was raped by a former cellmate. And although the state doesn’t have to admit liability in the case, the payment is based on claims by the…

When Roy Romer was hired last week as superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District — or what L.A. Mayor Richard Riordan refers to as “the most dysfunctional bureaucracy in the history of the world” — a few school-board members questioned whether he had enough experience. Romer may have…

It’s hot out, damn hot. The lunch crowd is surly, the mall cops are cruising, and Denver City Council just banned “aggressive” panhandling. But none of that changes the fact that Mike the Hippie Bum needs your money. “Whatever I make today will finance my next adventure,” he says. “I’ll…

You’ve been hearing it for weeks: The joint operating agreement that’s set to link the Rocky Mountain News and the Denver Post will pour cold water on the competitive fires the papers have stoked for over a century. There’s even fresh evidence to support this theory: On June 11, News…