The first triple play ever at Coors Field happened during the bottom of the fifth inning of a night game on June 14. With runners at first and second base, Colorado Rockies batter Edgard Clemente hit a sharp ground ball to San Francisco Giants third baseman Bill Mueller. Mueller quickly…
Separation anxiety: Now that Ocean Journey is open, it looks like the Denver Zoo recognizes it has some competition for cute and cuddly animal stories, an area it used to have all to itself. A billboard at 15th and Platte streets–a corner that is conspicuously close to Ocean Journey, with…
An urban anthropologist looking for the perfect example of the place where Denver’s past and future come together couldn’t do better than the neighborhood around 20th and Park avenues. On one side of the street, Post Properties is spending millions of dollars to transform the old St. Luke’s hospital site…
The doughy smell of pig in a blanket hangs heavy in the air. Grapes that either rolled out of their cold white fruit cups or were thrown during a food fight are squashed by a parade of feet. Puddles of milk gather in the corners of yellow lunch trays. Above…
Tom Broemmel and his wife, Lani Lee, received a prompt welcome-to-the-neighborhood gesture when they moved from North Carolina and opened the LoDo Inn at 16th and Wazee Streets last October. The couple got a letter from nearby LoDo’s Bar & Grill that read, in short: Stop using the name “LoDo”…
In the summer of 1991, the best-kept state secret in China had to be the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team’s 2-1 World Cup win over Norway. The tournament’s high scorer, Michelle Akers, booted the winning goal with just two minutes left in the final game at Guanzhou, and when time ran…
Sam Riddle is Colorado’s man of the hour. The $250 hour. Next Monday, members of the Legislative Audit Committee (who, as lawmakers, collect considerably less for their labors than Riddle does for consulting) will dissect the state auditor’s report on Riddle’s deal, a personal-services contract with Secretary of State Victoria…
Ron Domenick, dealer of model trains and antique china, gulps the dregs of his morning coffee and slams a meaty fist on the counter. “You want to know what’s really going on?” he asks. “Come on, I’ll show you. No bullshit.” Domenick, a burly guy with a beard, ponytail and…
When Cartoons Are Outlawed … Regarding the July 1 Off Limits: M. Wartella’s “Sell Your Soul to Evil” cartoon clearly expresses satire and was not meant to be taken seriously–it was in part to amuse, and also to make us think. The other responses reinforce the age-old observation that people…
Swap Shop Hey, Dan: On our way home from dinner with friends, my wife and I enjoy talking about who among our friends we could imagine having sex with. These conversations get especially interesting when the woman I could imagine having sex with is married to the man my wife…
The Reverend Joel Miller stood solemnly before his congregation. The normally jubilant Miller had moved to Colorado only a few months earlier and was already known for injecting his sermons with lively anecdotes–but this Sunday, the usual spark was missing. The congregation could tell something was wrong, and later, Miller…
Tom McCroskey’s teammates call him The Retriever. During a late spring match–May is still considered early season for competitive tennis in Colorado–McCroskey, who plays for the Denver Tennis Club, is ahead in the score. But that is far from the worst of it. McCroskey is so frustrating to play against…
All Joel Levitt wants is a few answers. But when the questions have to do with religion and money, straight answers don’t come cheaply. Levitt’s inquiry into the financial and moral dealings of his church has cost him nearly two years of rummaging through court records and check ledgers, growing…
Missing in action: During Off Limits’ annual Best of Denver hiatus, the usual suspects were up to their worst. The biggest news that wasn’t fit to print: this photo of Denver Post columnist Chuck Green, scheduled to run alongside tales of his macho motorcycle alternative to Ride the Rockies. But…
This past March, Denver Voice reporter Harold Chapman went undercover. The newspaper by and for Denver’s homeless community sent him to a house at 535 Colorado Boulevard that’s rented by a California-based homeless shelter called United States Mission. Like its branches in other cities, the mission is not located near…
When a major bargain becomes available, it doesn’t take long for the sharpies to gather like vultures around carrion. Case in point: Now that disgruntled stockholders of the Ascent Entertainment Group have rejected a piddling $400 million offer for the Colorado Avalanche, the Denver Nuggets and the Can, their brand-new…
Russell Berry is here, leaning back in a rocker with his cup of coffee and can of chew, so it must be morning in Hillside. Time to get mail. Six days a week, as regular as the sunrise, Berry putters from his 400-acre cattle ranch two miles away to this…
Best Wishes I couldn’t believe that Westword readers actually chose Taco Bell for Best Taco and smelly old McDonald’s for Best French Fries. I’m sure there were similar insults in other categories, but I don’t want to know. That is last-resort food! It’s cheap, convenient and disgusting. Maybe I can…
Jammed with a collection of rides that promise to make the traditional terrors of the old-fashioned roller coaster seem positively quaint, Six Flags Elitch Gardens, like many amusement parks these days, is on the cutting edge of engineering technology. Since it was moved downtown and bought out by Premier Parks…
While Donald got out after only three months, Anne Schweikert was involved in the International Church of Christ for almost seven years. More than twelve years after she left the church, she’s still deeply bothered by what she experienced. Schweikert, who became a member after she graduated from college in…
Every night before Donald goes to sleep, he says a prayer for his family. He asks God to protect his parents, his six siblings and his grandparents. And he tries to block out all the things he was told would happen to his family, all the images of hell with…
A steaming Blackjack pizza with mushrooms and pepperoni will not be delivered to the Pink Palace, aka cell block 22C, inside Denver County Jail. The cell block’s basketball team had been the heavy favorite to win the jail’s tenth annual basketball tournament, but after team captain Mark Skipper was transferred…
