From the Associated Press story this morning about Scott D. Clark, a 26-year old Denver man accused of ripping the head off a duck at an Embassy Suites Hotel in St. Paul, Minnesota: “Clark then turned to onlookers and said, ‘I’m hungry. I’m gonna eat it,’ said St. Paul police…
This week, Broncos fans will be subdued and dour as the team suffered its first loss. That means if you’re trying to fake it this week, you’ve got to be properly disgruntled. Here’s this week’s guide to the right things to say to convince your coworkers, bar friends and others…
Say good-bye to the classic motel signs that line the now infamous strip of East Colfax (profiled in the May 17 feature “East Colfax Motel Hell”, which once signified a wealthy gateway to the west but now stand like billboards for homelessness, drugs and prostitution. Come September 30, the East…
View larger image. Democrats Abroad Total Number of Delegates: 11 Pledged: 7 Unpledged: 4 How to Recognize a Democrats Abroad Delegate: Dems Abroad are the luckiest of all the delegates. They draw their ranks from Peace Corps volunteers, embassy personnel, artists and glamorous Hollywood movie stars. They are the American…
Denver’s John Scherer, a.k.a. the Video Professor, comes across as a kindly sort on the infomercials that his company airs on TV stations and cable systems across the country. But as was made clear in Westword’s 2006 cover story about the Prof and his empire, which is based on mail-order…
Denver parking scofflaws are about to get a little poorer; city parking ticket fines will rise from $20 to $25 on October 1. Kind of makes you wistful for those heady days of yesteryear, when a fresh-faced kid with a beer-making degree was swept into the mayor’s office thanks to…
Day One: New Socks Day Two: White Elephants Day Three: Burger King on Colfax and Kalamath “When is dinner going to be ready?” “When you cook it.” In the dorms at The Campus Village at Auraria, on the forth floor of the east wing, there is a common area that…
The One Book, One Denver reading program may have overlooked the 50th anniversary of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road – even though the work has numerous Denver references – and chosen local author Nick Arvin’s Articles of War for this year’s selection, but Book Forum magazine didn’t forget the big…
It’ll be at least another year before Fredrick Abram sees freedom. The 31-year-old Denver native grew up gangsta. He was one of the first Tre Tre Crips back in the 1990s and is now serving his second stint in prison for putting in work. Abram’s older brother was Crips (before…
The ever-thinning Rocky Mountain News and CBS 4 News are going into hype overdrive over “What If? Colorado,” the ghastly, state-funded reality show being staged here (http://www.whatifcolorado.com) in an effort to boost our general awareness of disaster preparedness issues. The campaign, launched by the Colorado Office of Emergency Preparedness, also…
Tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the Tattered Cover at 2526 East Colfax Avenue, Wall Street Journal reporter Robert Frank will read from Richistan: A Journey Through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich, a economic deconstruction, travelogue and tell-all on the wealth boom currently hitting the…
Day One: New Socks Day Two: White Elephants A woman with brown stains on her teeth stands behind an electronic cash register in her navy blue regalia, a “have it your way” pin buttoned on her left breast. I tell her that there are nine of us together and I…
For the past several months, Archie comics, which can be traced all the way back to 1941, have been undergoing a new millennium remodel that makes their late ’60s incarnation as “Sugar Sugar” warbling bubble-gummers seem minor in comparison. As demonstrated by Bad Boy Trouble! Part 4, the concluding chapter…
Imagine it’s the year 2020, and the city of Denver is beginning to rebuild from a cataclysm that all but leveled it. Eight years earlier, as the story goes, one woman emerged from the wreckage and guided twenty survivors to the abandoned Denver Art Museum, where they settled, living on…
I’ve heard one former press secretary at another agency say they’d rather die than have this job,” says Dana Perino, the new White House press secretary. “And I know there’s not a lot of people lining up to take the position, because they see what it’s like on TV every…
In this town, everyone seems to know Mary Louise Starkey, head of the Starkey International Institute of Household Management. She often invites local luminaries to her Logan Street mansion, one of the preeminent butler schools in the country, for formal dinners served in grand style by her Jeeveses-in-training. These social…
Off Limits, September 13 The Light Stuff It appears that you neglected to Ask a Mexican about the word güera for your little commentary on the Budweiser billboard. Güero and güera don’t necessarily refer to gringos. They actually mean “light-skinned,” or having light hair and eyes. For example, there are Mexican…
Lauri Lynnxe Murphy, a ringleader for Denver’s underground art scene, knows real-estate upheaval almost as well as she knows mixed-media installations. “I’ve had to move my home or studio every two years,” says Murphy, who found out this summer that the building housing her current space along artsy Santa Fe…
After every Broncos game, my roommate and bitter, bitter enemy Monty and I sit in the living room and discuss what transpired with our beloved Denver Broncos in that day’s gridiron competition. It’s a ritual as predictable as the turning of the leaves, with Monty generally becoming so frustrated by…
The day that Michael Tate was found guilty, sentenced to life in prison for a murder committed before his eighteenth birthday, 45 inmates were already serving life sentences in Colorado for crimes they’d done as juveniles (“Headed for Trouble,” July 7, 2005). But after Tate, only two more defendants could…
By the third week, the flower arrangements spread throughout the Jefferson County courtroom were in varying states of decay. It had been a long trial, and a long time coming. Almost three years had passed since the body of Steve Fitzgerald was found in his Westminster garage. In that time,…
Before 2006, juveniles charged as adults and convicted of first degree murder in Colorado faced one sentence: Mandatory life without parole. Last summer, the state legislature showed some mercy by changing the law to allow “juvie lifers” to at least be eligible for parole after forty years. But the law…
