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Must see TV: By the end of this summer, there will be no more boring waits wondering where your bus is. Instead there will be boring waits knowing where your bus is. That’s because, like transit authorities in several other cities around the country, including New York, RTD is getting…

Ann Mygatt and other owners of mountain property in Boulder County are literally fighting an uphill battle. After a harrowing drive up a one-mile stretch of the steep and narrow Nancy Mine Road, Mygatt and her son arrive at a clearing where she hopes her future home will stand. Mygatt’s…

Is Currigan Exhibition Hall destined to become a part of the Denver Art Museum’s permanent collection? If Denver voters approve the $200 million proposed expansion of the nine-year-old Colorado Convention Center next fall, Currigan’s thirty-year role as part of the city’s convention complex will come to an abrupt halt. Current…

The Gang’s All Here Regarding Steve Jackson’s current series, “Dealing with the Devil”: Each time I read about Brandy DuVall, the savagery sickens me. If I could make a deal with the devil, it would be to purge that whole family, as well as eternal damnation and excruciating pain for…

Way back when, a cantankerous old guy named E.H. “Brownie” Brown climbed atop his taxidermy shop south of U.S. 85 near what would become Highlands Ranch and posted a sign painted in big red letters: “Hellsville, USA.” Brownie wanted the world to know exactly what he thought of the DuPont…

Sir Alec Guinness has won two Oscars, one for best actor and the other honorary, and has been nominated for four more. Queen Elizabeth knighted him in 1959. A remarkable career; a distinguished actor. And, now, for just $275, you can have a sixteen-inch ceramic cookie jar in the shape…

Theresa Swinton looks at the simple two-story house at 2727 California without much affection. An uncle she never knew purchased it for his parents, her grandparents, shortly before he died in action during World War II. It was the childhood home of her mother, aunts and uncles. The address is…

Fat chance: Hmmm…if rumors were running rampant that Scripps Howard had a March 15 deadline for purchasing your newspaper, would you call a March 12 staff meeting–without telling staffers why? Denver Post editor Dennis Britton would, and when he announced the mandatory meeting this past Monday, he threw Nervous Nellie…

Plans recently unveiled by Westminster and Arvada to build a major link in a new beltway along metro Denver’s west side have alarmed Golden officials, who fear thousands of cars will be funneled into their city on Highway 93. But the din of oncoming traffic is nothing compared to the…

Shea Davis and two friends, Katie Koshka and Allie Grenier, were headed home after shooting pool last August 24 when they stopped at the King Soopers store at 88th Avenue and Wadsworth Boulevard to return a page from Davis’s mother. That 35-cent phone call wound up costing the family over…

Is there such a thing as a pornography recycling center? I just got a new girlfriend and she wants me to get rid of my collection of porno videos (about thirty). I also have some hardcore het print magazines I want to get rid of (they remind me of a…

The Master Builder Regarding Stuart Steers’s “Building for the Future,” in the February 18 issue: David Tryba’s dream of a walkable city means the recovery of something wonderful and tangible. Americans are so inured to the convenience of driving that we’ve lost the very thing that makes life really wonderful:…

At 81, Ted Alexander has every right to be picky about what sort of piano student he accepts. He is down to five now, and most will stay with him for the foreseeable future. Over the years, though, nearly 800 musical hopefuls have taken instruction from him in the room…

It’s the workplace, stupid. I do not care if Bill Clinton wants to cavort with Hollywood cuties, light fires with torch singers or be a close personal buddy to Buddy. That’s between Hillary and Bill and whoever he might be lavishing his attentions on in what had better be a…

It’s swing night at a Denver dance club. Sweating couples are whirling around a crowded dance floor. Decked out in glorious fashions from days gone by, the revelers juke and jive through a dizzying array of footwork as a combo blazes through a set of vintage jazz. The frenetic gathering…

Three days after Christmas 1998, there are few reminders of the holidays in Theresa Swinton’s Denver apartment. Although her faith remains strong, she doesn’t feel like celebrating. Her son Danny is sitting in a Jefferson County jail cell, awaiting trial for the gang rape and murder of a fourteen-year-old girl…

Beat the press: When the Colorado Press Association announces its contest winners at the close of the annual CPA confab Saturday, the Denver Post’s name will be among the missing. That’s because the paper resigned from the group in a snit fit two years ago, leaving the Rocky Mountain News…

In the peculiar economics of farming, this year’s Colorado apple crop was the best of times–right up until it became the worst of times. Last fall, the size and quality of the state’s harvest was the healthiest in nearly a decade. Unfortunately, growers across the country enjoyed the same luck…

Stan Bracclon’s office, on the third floor of a well-worn brick-and-concrete building at 1245 East Colfax, smells only faintly of cigarette smoke and homelessness. Bracclon is executive director of the Emergency Assistance Grant & Referral Project Inc. , an agency that provides homeless gays and lesbians with general assistance–a hundred…

After building more than 120 houses for low-income area families, Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver is suddenly facing a tough lot: No lots. The group is being out-run, out-bid and out-maneuvered by private developers whooping it up in one of the biggest residential booms ever seen on the Front…