Good Neighbor Sam Ward Harkavy’s gem of an article, “Pipeline to Palestine” in the August 14 issue, about the group of Jewish men who decided they had to act instead of cowering in fear, hit a personal note with me. My father was a Slovak mountain Jew who fully realized…
Sam Sterling’s brief transformation from mild-mannered Denver lawyer to international arms smuggler started with a wisecrack that was meant to be taken seriously. It was the spring of 1947. Screams from the Holocaust were still echoing in the hearts of American Jews, and hundreds of thousands of European Jews were…
In the alley between Josephine and York streets near Cheesman Park, hipsters are assembling, engines are being goosed, and blue smoke is rising into the overcast air. Denver’s scooter chicks are ready to rumble. Behind a dowdy gray Victorian, a dozen self-consciously cool women in their twenties are gathering around…
After more than seventeen years of litigation, Lawrence Wollersheim knows that talk isn’t cheap–not when you’re talking to lawyers and your life’s work happens to involve badmouthing the Church of Scientology. But the price of silence is even higher. Too high, in Wollersheim’s estimation, which is why he says he…
A maverick Denver labor leader has launched a campaign to topple the president of the state AFL-CIO, calling for dramatic change to turn around Colorado’s sleepy labor movement. The dispute over leadership of the state labor federation has also become an issue in Colorado politics, and the chairman of the…
For years, the City of Denver’s seven golf courses have watched newer, more challenging venues in the suburbs hook players and put a divot in Denver’s bottom line. But now it looks as though the city’s courses might finally break par. At the end of last year, former South Suburban…
From his hilltop headquarters above Colorado Springs, James Dobson has issued numerous edicts about how people should live their lives. Now the most powerful religious broadcaster on the planet, warning of the perils of “militant, radical feminism,” is trying to control how Christians throughout the world read the Bible. And…
Making book: Staring out from newstands across the country is the face of JonBenet Ramsey, which graces the cover of a new St. Martin’s paperback named Death of a Little Princess. All told, over 100,000 JonBenet faces were rushed to print–which, coincidentally enough, is close to the number of dollars…
Okay, dyed-in-the-wool sports fans. Here’s one for you. Bohdan Ulihrach. Tell us about Bohdan Ulihrach. Never heard of him? Fine. How about Filip DeWulf? Put together, if you will, a couple of cogent facts concerning his life and career. No? All right, then. Jan Siemerink. That’s S-I-E-M…Still coming up empty?…
Crossing the Line I couldn’t believe my eyes as I was reading the first installment of the arrest saga of Kenny Be (Worst-Case Scenario, June 5). The same thing happened to me on Wednesday, June 4. I was walking to the evening Rockies game from my usual free parking spot…
The passengers have to wait for the driver to stop flirting with the female ticket agent so he can start loading the Tuesday morning bus to El Paso. Mothers keep one eye on their children dressed in their Sunday best while rearranging the luggage around their feet–old Samsonites fortified with…
For Kay Howe, the remote Lisbon Valley in southeast Utah is a place to escape to. Just across the state line from Colorado, the uninhabited valley offers sweeping views of two states. “When you’re up on top of Three Step Mesa, you have a knockout view of the La Sal…
At first glance, or even second, it would seem that Vickie Corder doesn’t have a good feel for bingo. The thirty-year-old Arvada resident recently reported she was down $30,000 from playing Pickles, a lottery-like pull-tab game popular in bingo halls. (An acquaintance says the figure is actually closer to $60,000.)…
A state senator who stands barely 5-6 in his wingtips could be more damaging to Pat Bowlen’s hopes for a new football stadium than the defensive line of the Jacksonville Jaguars was to John Elway last December. Last week Bowlen and the Metropolitan Football Stadium Authority finally admitted that there’s…
Ramsey tough: Peter Boyles’s full-page ad in Sunday’s Boulder Camera and “open letter to John and Patsy Ramsey” earned the radio talk-show host another splash of national publicity–and was a bargain promo deal for his station. That last line about the couple having “led Colorado and the nation on a…
Mack Marsh is one good-looking prospect. He’s a big kid with good hands, decent speed and plenty of power. He rarely loses his concentration up there at the plate. He plays with lots of desire and only occasionally swings at pitches three feet over his head. A real gamer. If…
Feelings, Nothing More Than Feelings Out-of-town visitors brought a copy of your sludge, the July 24 issue, to my shop. On the occasions I’ve read Westword, you’ve never failed to espouse the antiquated, liberal horseshit that thrives in Denver proper. You guys take yourselves soooo seriously; conservatives are soooo mean,…
The defining moment in the history of Denver’s Greek Town passed unnoticed a few months ago, when Takis Dadiotis went to city officials to complain about the sidewalk. The sidewalk was all wrong. Dadiotis, proprietor of a Greek restaurant on East Colfax Avenue, had already managed to coax one block…
Danny Stewart was no choirboy. “He had so many problems,” says his mother, Nancy Stewart. The eighteen-year-old Littleton boy was addicted to drugs and had a long list of petty crimes. Danny was polite and quiet. But he was a crook–and not very good at it. “It seems like he…
Once upon a time a great big angel made its way from Pueblo to Loveland. But everybody didn’t live happily ever after. In fact, the 1,000-pound, white terra-cotta angel was strapped to a thick mattress on a flatbed trailer and hauled back to Pueblo, and Polly and Dallas Hansen are…
Rubbed the wrong way: The Denver City & County Building is lousy with bureaucrats who are experts at massaging just the right people with just the right amount of grease. Last week, though, it was the site of a more enlightened, new-age demonstration, when a practitioner of the Feldenkrais method–through…
Four Westword staffers have been honored in regional and national journalism contests. Music editor Michael Roberts took home a first-place prize in the national Music Journalism Awards, which were handed out last week in San Francisco. Roberts won for criticism in weekly and bi-weekly newspapers with his story “Viva Las…
