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PENNY: Pang relives Caribou times

Sat, 10/11/2008 - 01:05
Thirty-four years after May Pang accompanied John Lennon to record with Elton John at Caribou Ranch, she finally made it back for a visit.

TEMPLE: Blue, gray memories of home

Sat, 10/11/2008 - 01:05
I see a city nobody else sees. I see the ghosts of my own past, feel the feelings I used to feel when I walked its streets years ago. The colors - grays and blues - tell me I'm home.

MASSARO: Pete Palmer knew value of kind word, gave all a chance

Sat, 10/11/2008 - 01:05
Pete Palmer believed in believing in people.

PARKER: Hyatt exec gets red-carpet send-off

Fri, 10/10/2008 - 01:05
Metro-area hoteliers, boosters and civic leaders came out in force Wednesday night to raise a glass to outgoing Hyatt Regency Denver GM John Schafer and send him off to the cold climes of Chicago.

MASSARO: Today's special at Valente's: people

Fri, 10/10/2008 - 01:05
In his younger years, Ray Valente bolted out of the starting box when he opened his restaurant. Now, he is shuffling down the home stretch.

GRIEGO: The line for finding a job grows longer

Fri, 10/10/2008 - 01:05
Michael Daviss showed up to work on a Friday just before 8 a.m. He went out to his truck, lit a cigarette and waited to clock in. He was looking at a typical day. Pick up a load of tires, deliver them to four or five stores, on the road most of the day between Brighton to Elizabeth.

PARKER: Restaurant's name sticks in the craw of 5280 magazine

Thu, 10/09/2008 - 01:05
On Tuesday, it was Gallagher's Steak House, on Wednesday it morphed into 5280 Steak House, but how long that name lasts may depend on 5280 magazine's lawyers.

LITTWIN: Still waiting to hear real answers

Thu, 10/09/2008 - 01:05
If you watched the debate Tuesday night, you got an important primer on everything that's wrong with politics in America.

LITTWIN: No winks, but plenty of nodding off

Wed, 10/08/2008 - 01:05
John McCain has a serious problem.

MASSARO: Upbringing leads wounded GI to heroism

Wed, 10/08/2008 - 01:05
Don't call Sgt. Gregory S. Ruske a hero, even though the Army gave him a medal for being one.

PARKER: Eatery's new spin: reduced prices, family-friendly

Tue, 10/07/2008 - 22:29
We barely had time to miss it. Jet Entertainment Group, operators of the Jet Hotel in LoDo, has taken over the recently shuttered nine75 restaurant at 975 Lincoln and will reopen the eatery Friday.

LITTWIN: In South, the past still looms over race

Tue, 10/07/2008 - 01:05
It is mere coincidence, I guess, that the first two presidential debates were scheduled to be held in the South - the first 11 days ago at Ole Miss and the second here tonight at Belmont University.

PARKER: Obama fundraiser: Girl power unleashed

Tue, 10/07/2008 - 01:05
It was a Barack Obama for President fundraiser at The Corner Office on Saturday that banned the press, but my spies came through with tasty tidbits.

PARKER: 'Kid from Colorado' humbled by Hall

Sat, 10/04/2008 - 01:05
National Baseball Hall-of-Famer and Colorado Springs native Goose Gossage peppered his speech with heaping helpings of the word "humbled" on Thursday during the Ninth Annual Gentlemen's Dinner Benefitting Men For the Cure Foundation at XJet World in Centennial.

LITTWIN: McCain needs more than Palin, wink, wink

Sat, 10/04/2008 - 01:05
The whole world - according to the Nielsen ratings, anyway - was watching.

JOHNSON: For Mesa State player, taking one for the team means losing a pinkie

Sat, 10/04/2008 - 01:05
It is not quite 72 hours since it happened, and Trevor Wikre is still as calm and collected about it as if someone had simply plucked a piece of lint off his jacket.

Charles Ferguson, banker with insight into budding talents

Sat, 10/04/2008 - 01:05
Charles Ferguson was this kind of boss during his long career as a banker: If you told him you gave it your best, it was good enough for him.

PARKER: Boulder duo cook up 'Top Chef' suspense

Fri, 10/03/2008 - 01:05
Restaurateur Dave Query has never seen an episode of Top Chef, the Bravo kitchen-competition series that opens its fifth season at 7 p.m. Nov. 12, but now it will be required watching. Not one but two of Query's employees are among the 17 chefs competing for top toque in season five Top Chef: New York.

MASSARO: 30 years on air, Boogieman loses his KOOL

Fri, 10/03/2008 - 01:05
Da Boogieman has been booted. The longtime DJ is no longer part of KOOL 105.1-FM.

JOHNSON: More security cameras add to scare factor

Fri, 10/03/2008 - 01:05
The scariest part of Denver Police Lt. Ernest Martinez's presentation on the department's 50 new HALO surveillance cameras to City Council the other day wasn't so much that the cameras exist.