When five slow-growth advocates decided to take on town hall in Erie’s April 4 election, they had grand plans for establishing a new order in this old mining community, where particle-board homes have been popping up as quickly as prairie dogs in an open field. But the result is not…
It’s not offered at any of your finer acting schools, and it certainly won’t be found in the theater section of the New York Times, but performing along with the Rocky Horror Picture Show — a tradition carried out at movie houses nationwide by cultish followers of the 1975 flick…
At 8 p.m. one Friday every month, it is Officer Dean Abeyta’s solemn duty to administer a form of juvenile justice that has been called everything from “groundbreaking” to “cruel and unusual.” Entering the single courtroom of the Fort Lupton municipal building, he sets up rows of chairs, drags a…
It’s 12:45 a.m., and the spacious new Clear Channel headquarters, located in the vicinity of the Denver Tech Center, isn’t exactly hopping. Aside from a mysterious-looking man who’s sitting behind the wheel of an older model car in the building’s parking lot as if he’s waiting for Alan Berg to…
If you look hard enough, there are plenty of similarities between a car dealership and a strip club. For starters, both rely heavily on sex to sell. (If you’ve ever been to an auto show, the comparison becomes even clearer.) You’ll probably find more pinkie rings per person in either…
They Sought the SheriffRegarding Alan Prendergast’s “Stonewalled,” in the April 13 issue: Kudos to Westword for a story that finally puts Columbine in perspective. While the rest of the media continues to tell us everything we do not want to know, Westword and Alan Prendergast ask some hard questions about…
Away to Go Regarding Michael Roberts’s “The Making of a Media Event,” his April 6 Message: Even if the Columbine anniversary “event” attracts “only” 10,000, that’s still insane. The only people who should be anywhere near the school and park on April 20 are Columbine students and staff, their families,…
In 2000, life among the Colorado Rockies remains a pennant or so short of bliss. National League batting champ Larry Walker recently went to Las Vegas, he reports, where he lost not only his money but his swing. Six games into the season he was hitting an un-Walkerlike .133. “Oh,…
The Story They Don’t Want to Tell On the morning of Judgment Day, minutes before they launch their deadly assault on Columbine High School, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold complete their last video project together. Guns loaded, bombs and extra ammo packed in duffel bags and trench coats, they take…
Troy Lowrie’s work clothes confuse his staff. Sometimes he’s spiffed-out in a courtly suit, fine leather shoes and a shiny watch. Some days he comes dressed in Dockers and a smart polo. On the occasions he wears blue jeans and a T-shirt, it’s not uncommon for one his female employees…
More than a year ago, just before he was elected to a third term, Mayor Wellington Webb pledged that within six months, he would appoint a “drug czar” who would oversee the city’s battle against illegal substance abuse. The March 31, 1999, promise was part of a sweeping plan suggested…
Fans of John Travolta are causing a run on pre-registrations for Starfest 2000, a massive science-fiction convention to be held this weekend at the Holiday Inn DIA. Along with Kate Mulgrew (aka Star Trek Voyager’s Captain Kathryn Janeway), Travolta is the featured star power at this year’s big bang. And…
The style is instantly identifiable: hyperactive language, frequent pop-culture references mingled with absurdly trivial arcana, plenty of ludicrous catch phrases and a winking acknowledgement that caring about muscle-headed athletes who spout cliches like Linda Blair spews pea soup in The Exorcist is kinda silly, but what the hell? That’s the…
There are many secrets, but you can never underestimate the importance of good blush. As any drag queen worth her mascara will tell you, everything starts with foundation. Then it’s contouring, highlighting, accentuating and blending. Blending, blending, blending, with special attention to the area under the chin to smooth the…
Marcus sure loved spending time outside that house of his on Lookout Mountain. He was a software engineer, a profession known for attracting pasty-faced dudes who prefer dark rooms to sunlit skies. But Marcus didn’t fit the mold. Like his wife Robin, he was a fitness freak — a nonsmoker…
When it comes to radio frequencies (RF), safety can be mighty tough to define. Many people who warn about the risks of nonionizing radiation below thermal levels, including B. Blake Levitt, the Connecticut-based author of the award-winning 1995 book Electromagnetic Fields: A Consumer’s Guide to the Issues and How to…
The clash between Lookout Mountain residents and broadcasters is a minor scuffle compared to an incident in Usfiya, a village in Israel near Haifa. On March 15, the Jerusalem Post reported that eighteen people, ten of them police officers, were hurt there during a riot provoked by anger over cell-phone…
On December 13, 1999, Scott LeRoy’s seven-year-olddaughter came home from Majestic Heights Elementary with a letter explaining that her school might close. The letter said that in order to save money, the Boulder Valley Board of Education planned to consolidate several schools within the city. The note came as quite…
A vasectomy performed with a scalpel goes something like this: The doctor reaches for a scalpel, makes an incision on both sides of the patient’s scrotum, fingers around for the vas, cauterizes each side of the spermicidal conduit, and stitches ’em up. If the patient is lucky, he can expect…
The most pressing things on the minds of most eleven-year-old girls is whether Mom is going to let them wear makeup before they’re sixteen, or if the boys in English class are ever going to stop pulling their braids. The eleven-year-old boys, in the meantime, are busy playing Little League…
Parents in northeast Denver have had enough. They’re sick of learning every year that their schools are failing, they’re tired of hearing that their kids aren’t doing well because they’re from poor neighborhoods, and they’re fed up with bringing their demands for better teachers and more schools before the Denver…
Last week’s news that the state legislature wants to cut the lieutenant governor’s budget by 25 percent — meaning the elimination of two positions from a six-person staff — came as a blow to Joe Rogers, the man who currently holds the job. But since there are only four people…
