In the end, the plan for gas drilling on the Roan Plateau, one of the most ecologically diverse areas on the Western Slope, displeased just about everyone. Environmentalists, Senator Ken Salazar and an unusual coalition of local recreation and business interests wanted to leave the top of the plateau unscathed…
During my formative years in Grand Junction, my young, snotty buddies and I referred to the local newspaper, the Daily Sentinel, as the Daily Senile. Well, the broadsheet’s having the last laugh now. During a recent visit to the Western Slope, I picked up a copy of the Sentinel and…
The doctor is out — to lunch. Philip Mallory, a physician once featured on Oprah and hailed for saving a Columbine teen, did not renew his medical license when it expired at the end of May 2005. But that didn’t stop him from withdrawing a guilty plea so that he’d…
In late August, hundreds of coffee drinkers showed up at various Starbucks locations in Denver with a coupon for free, and unlimited, grande iced coffees through September 30. But they soon discovered that the too-good-to-be-true voucher, which had been distributed across the Internet, was a hoax. But for anyone who…
Covering — or should I say overcovering — anniversaries of big events is the journalistic equivalent of a no-brainer. It’s much simpler for reporters and editors to figuratively — and often literally — return to the scene of past crimes than to tax their minds finding fresh material. Granted, some…
Federal Boulevard stretches almost thirty miles down the spine of the metro area, from Bowles Boulevard in Littleton, where the Southglenn Luncheon Optimist Club keeps the last mile litter-free, to north of 120th in Westminster, where the Belger family handles clean-up duties as the road loses its U.S. Highway 287…
I was raised in the shadow of the Savery Savory Mushroom tower at 110th and Federal. My cutest back-to-school outfits were purchased at the Westminster Plaza JC Penney store at 72nd and Federal. My favorite Denver landmark is the giant cowboy who guards the Rustic Ranch Trailer Park at 5565…
Man, it’s been a tough couple of weeks for the People’s Republic of Boulder. As if morale wasn’t already at an all-time low — what with that embarrassing JonBenét/John Mark Karr debacle just barely in the rearview — the Colorado Buffaloes, the last bastion of hope in a town marred…
The last time I eagerly waited in line for something, it was a Dave Matthews concert. Yes, I know that’s gay. But there was a time when the Dave Matthews Band severely rocked my world. Severely. That time was 1997. And while the rest of my high school firmly embraced…
Newspaper wars are so passé. Once upon a time, dailies generated windfall profits that were large enough to fight over. But now, with circulation shrinking, readership demographics aging, and more and more advertisers looking for other ways to spend their cash, papers are focused on survival, not siphoning off the…
Brown Cloud Town without pity: Are you kidding me? Reading Patricia Calhoun’s most recent column (“The Eye of the Storm,” August 31), I find out that Michael Brown lives in Boulder? Sounds like a heckuva town for that has-been. They deserve each other. Thanks for the alert, Ms. Calhoun. Joe…
In an absolutely brilliant act of subversion (headslap! — why the hell didn’t someone think of this before?), Banksy, one of the world’s most infamous and prolific grafitti artists, has directed his aim towards the most vapid and inexplicable of American celebrities, the would-be-pop princess who is Paris Hilton. A…
Last night, all TV eyes were on Katie Couric’s debut as anchor for the CBS Evening News. Reviews of the broadcast’s predictably glossy makeover appeared in newspapers across the country, and in local rags, too. Rocky Mountain News scribe Dusty Saunders called Couric “buoyant” in his overview, raising the question…
Props to whoever was responsible for putting together the Subversiv* Records Tour flier that we snagged from a lamppost at 11th and Broadway this morning. Although the handbill hyping a July 14 date at Old Curtis St. featuring Epic, Brzowski, Matre, DJ Chaps, K the I and Ancient Mith was…
When does a regular-season high-school football matchup receive as much coverage in these parts as a Denver Broncos game? When the prep contest features the debut as starting quarterback of Jack Elway, son of Broncos Hall of Famer John Elway. Too bad the media’s coverage of Cherry Creek’s August 31…
It was near midnight on Friday, July 14, and the blue and red lights chased each other across the intersection in a delirious rotation. The cause of the hustle was a blue SUV that lay on its side like a tin mailbox that had been kicked down the street and…
It’s all over but the blaming — and while the blaming could drag out for a long, long time, we should all be grateful that John Mark Karr’s role in the seemingly endless JonBenét Ramsey saga was mercifully brief. Already, many of the cable-news programs delving into Karr’s background were…
See if you can figure out this dream. I’m in the swank penthouse of a mammoth New York City hotel, and my whole family is there: mom, dad, both sisters. They’re occupying themselves the way peripheral characters in dreams tend to, and I’ve got my eyes glued to the horizon,…
Kersten Hostetter commands attention with words so soft and slow they’re almost a whisper. It’s as if she’s always about to share a secret. Today her secret is Micro Business Development’s new Center for Economic Independence. She knows this building is not what a non-profit organization’s home typically looks like,…
The girl was twelve on August 7, 2004, when she told Aurora police how four men, all immigrants from Honduras, had overpowered her at the Heatherwood Apartments, pulling off her clothes, fondling her, penetrating her body with their fingers, then raping her. The cops found the girl’s shoes, socks and…
Maxim magazine wants to tighten the straps on its scantily clad brand, and the lad rag recently filed a trademark-infringement lawsuit in Florida District Court against Maxxim Men’s Club and Steakhouse, a Tampa strip joint. But while this might seem to bode bad news for the Maxim, a “show club…
The Mouth That Roared Talk is cheap: Regarding Adam Cayton-Holland’s “Lord of Discipline,” in the August 24 issue: The article about Rory Vaden was fascinating. I wish him well, but I also worry about him. An obsession with any one concept, including discipline, is sure to have a shadow side…
