Derailing the Ski Train that pulled skiers from Denver to Winter Park and back for 69 years is a big F-U from the rail transportation industry in general. The rich and powerful monopolies that own and dictate the use of steel rails around the country, as well as here in Denver, do so thanks to our public dollars and subsidies.
(more...)February 2010 Issue
A look at Shavonne Blades, the woman behind Yellow Scene Magazine
They call her the Red Tornado.
She’s a fierce gust that never enters a room unnoticed, raising heart rates and blood pressure and leaving windblown those in her way. Her flash of red hair is more extension of personality than physical attribute. She’s unpredictable and unstoppable.
And I say that all with love.
(more...)February 2010 Issue
Mom got me hooked on the white stuff
Mom knew it was good stuff—she’s a CU (Ski-U) grad, after all. So every year following my first high at age 6, a jones for the white stuff would start around Thanksgiving and peak about the time hockey games broke out on the pond down the street in January.
(more...)January 2010 Issue
Yellow Scene adds a new feature: A review from a unique cast of characters
Stephanie, the one female student in the small class, was reading aloud when I walked in and took a seat at a large table along with six students. Despite the interruption, she plugged away, scooping words off the page like a persistent snow-shoveler.
(more...)January 2010 Issue
BETC’s SantaLand Diaries will shove holiday spirit up your yule log
The holidays are about tradition. And they are about doing things for the good of tradition—because your mom wants to see the Nutcracker for the 64th time, because your dad adores fruit cake, because your wife wants to take the kids to see the “good” Santa at Cherry Creek. Blah, blah, blah.
(more...)1:52 pm December 14, 2009
Cutting your own Christmas tree is still possible, and it can help reduce wildfire risk
When I was a kid, I knew it was Christmas when after going to church on the Sunday after Thanksgiving, my parents loaded up my brother, Danny, and I (and later David) into the blue, ’60s vintage Buick Skylark station wagon and drove out to Santa’s Christmas Tree Farm. It seemed like it was in the boonies of Jackson County, Mo., and to a little kid, the acreage seemed huge.
(more...)December 2009 Issue
Gifts for your favorite entertainment editor. Cash also accepted.
There are a lot of things I’d like for my >INSERT APPROPRIATE SECULAR HOLIDAY HERE< gift this year. So, I decided the fair thing to do would be to list them all here, so my legions of readers and fans (ahem, um, talking to you, Mom) don’t have to rack their brains only to come up with the ugliest sweater known to man as a gift FOR YET ANOTHER YEAR (really, who even makes reindeer sweaters for grown men?).
Not that I’m complaining or anything.
Thanks in advance.
(more...)December 2009 Issue
What do Paris Hilton and our gift guide have in common? Absolutely nothing.
I thought the Paris Hilton fad was done. I thought we were over her, and by “we,” I mean whoever found her worthy of attention in the first place.
I thought it was now uncool to dislike her, passé even. Abhorring Paris Hilton is soooo 2002. Shouldn’t we be making fun of Miley Cyrus instead?
But then the FedEx man walked into our office with a box—a Pandora’s box of synthetic, Chinese-made baubles ready for release.
(more...)December 2009 Issue
Alternative transportation that makes my mother cringe
Hitchhiking has always been good to me, but I can’t say the same for a certain drunk who once rolled in an early ‘70s Opel GT. His car was on the verge of a coronary; it was merely fate that put me behind the wheel when it had The Big One.
(more...)November 2009 Issue
When the federal government buoyed GM and Chrysler, in newsrooms across the country, reporters and editors thought to themselves, “What about us?”
(more...)November 2009 Issue
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