The very first historic evidence of libraries comes from Mesopotamia around 3000 B.C. After that, Greeks, Persians and Europeans continued to build and develop more sophisticated versions. All of this information is likely contained in books at your own local public library – unless, of course, they were stolen by…
The Denver Post recently noted that Marcus Brauchli, the just-named executive editor of the Washington Post — easily one of the highest-profile journalism jobs in the country — is a Boulder boy. He freelanced for the Boulder Daily Camera while attending Boulder High School and briefly worked for the Post…
Members of the local and national media alike have gone predictably ga-ga over Boulder district attorney Mary Lacy’s July 9 announcement that DNA evidence has cleared all Ramsey family members of suspicion regarding the 1996 murder of six-year-old JonBenét Ramsey. But KHOW’s Peter Boyles, the most indefatigable pundit on the…
“Teen Angle,” Jessica Centers, July 3 Separation of Church and Straight The word “evangelical” has some pretty nasty connotations in many corners: greedy, judgmental and, most of all, arrogant. In my experience, this is oftentimes well-deserved. But having lived with Greg Stier for a year in college, and having attended…
Ten years ago this month, when Denver hosted the All-Star Game at Coors Field, Westword mocked the Beanie Baby craze by burning, dismembering, torturing and otherwise going all Dick Cheney on one of the 51,000 Glory Bear Beanie Babies given out to ticket holders at the game — and sharing…
Every once in a while, you meet a guy who’s so annoyingly Colorado that you might as well call him ‘Rado. To merely say that this man possesses qualities characteristic of the Centennial State does not do him justice. Because that could also cover the ranchhand who screwed around a…
Tony Shawcross, the driving force behind a non-profit film and video concern called Deproduction, is an idealist, which explains why, back in 2005, he eagerly sought a job hardly anyone else wanted: overseeing Denver’s public-access television channels. At the time, public access was in decline nationwide due in large part…
There’s always room for one more at the Tillemann-Dicks’ dinner table. Armed with fine silver and blue china, Shiloh Benson Tillemann-Dick, eighteen, carefully sets the lace-draped table, which is large enough for a corporate boardroom. His eleven-year-old brother, Zenith Wisdom, meanwhile, wrestles Nordik, the family’s Great Pyrenees, into a side…
With so many Tillemann-Dick children going in so many different directions, it’s easy to get them confused. But really, say the kids, it’s easy to keep family members straight, since everyone is unique. Dulcia, the oldest at 38 or 39, is the Honduran orphan whom Annette and Timber adopted in…
Today, Westword’s blogs are like Mr. Creosote — overstuffed and ready to erupt. Stand back, because you might get some on you. Scads of content about the astonishing Tillemann-Dick family, the subject of a feature article by Joel Warner, can be found in nearly every nook and cranny of the…
According to this 9News report, Boulder District Attorney Mary Lacy has officially cleared John Ramsey, his late wife Patsy and any other member of the family of the 1996 murder of their 6-year-old daughter, JonBenét, based on new tests that found unidentified male DNA on JonBenét’s clothing. The report includes…
As our July 10 cover story makes clear, there’s a lot of stuff going on in the Tillemann-Dick household – more than could be fit into a single Westword article. Here’s the best of the rest. To help keep Timber and Annette’s eleven children straight, here’s a slide show of…
Family man and inventor Timber Dick, who’s at the center of a July 10 Westword article, was obsessed with cars — specifically how to make them more efficient. Several years ago, he and his son Corban began studying one of the least efficient parts of an automobile: the internal combustion…
Shiloh Benson Tillemann Dick has a head – a very large head – for politics, one that stands out even among the feisty politicos of the colorful family profiled in the July 10 Westword. The 18-year-old correctly predicted Obama’s church affiliations would prove problematic – last August. Shiloh took time…
View larger image The Tillemann-Dick family’s magnificent endeavors, traced in a July 10 Westword profile, have inspired one of its members, 14-year-old Gloriana Willow, to embark on artistic flights of fancy. “It is awfully hard to get all of the Tillemann-Dicks together at one time,” she explains. “So, with the…
Like all eleven of the children in the Tillemann-Dick household featured in a July 10 Westword cover story, 24-year-old Charity Sunshine followed her bliss – right into opera, in her case. A graduate of the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, she’s recently been studying the work of…
The Denver dailies take pride in being known as family newspapers, which helps explain why the Rocky Mountain News recently printed “p —” and “t—” in an item about the words “piss” and “tits.” But in an Internet-driven media environment that values clicks above pretty much everything else, even the…
It was just ten short years ago that Beanie Babies were all the rage, Coors Field was only three years old, torture was something that other countries did, and the Internets, well they were still just the World Wide Web. All four of these things came together in perfect harmony,…
People who honk their horns to get attention are annoying. Picking someone up for a) a date; b) to hang out; c) on the way to work? Get out of your car and ring the bell. Not only is honking generally obnoxious to the honkee, but it annoys the neighbors…
At this writing, Colorado Public Radio is just over half an hour away from finishing its latest game of signal-go-round: At 10 a.m. on July 9, KCFR, the news-and-information branch in Denver, is slated to switch from 1340 AM to 90.1 FM, where KVOD, the classical-music wing, has been heard…
George Brauchler knew he was taking a possible career-ending risk by entering the GOP primary race for district attorney in the 18th Judicial District, which includes Arapahoe, Douglas, Elbert and Lincoln counties. Not only is his opponent, Carol Chambers, the incumbent (right); she also happens to be about as politically…
It’s been months since the Colorado Rockies appeared near the top of sports sections anywhere other than in Denver — and oftentimes not here, either, given the team’s season-long woes. That changed on July 9, but not because of anything the Rockies did — other than losing 7-3 to the…
