11:17 am, Mar 21, 2012
If someone asked me how I could earn $96 million in five years, the only picture that would pop into my head would be five winning numbers on a little white slip of paper. But I'm not a pro quarterback.As the Denver Broncos welcome Peyton Manning to the Mile High City, the four-time National Football League MVP's $96 million pricetag is securely fastened to his signature pointer finger. If...
4:10 pm, Mar 20, 2012
Two years ago, when Denverite Dimity McDowell (above, left) and co-author Sarah Bowen Shea’s book, Run Like a Mother, was published, the two had no idea what they’d begun. On the eve of the release of the duo’s second book, Train Like a Mother: How to Get Across Any Finish Line—and Not Lose Your Family, Job or Sanity (Andrews McMeel Publishing), it’s become clear: From their blog,...
12:06 pm, Mar 20, 2012
It’s official: Peyton Manning is a Denver Bronco. He is expected to be introduced as the team’s newest quarterback at a 1 p.m. press conference today. That’s the formal news; however, a somewhat less ceremonial stream of information has been blowing up in the Twittersphere since the first reports of Manning’s final destination were released yesterday. The chatter has been mixed—after all, there...
4:00 pm, Mar 19, 2012
In a twist of irony, [you have a] distaste for police and now you’re captain in this movie—what did it feel like to be in a role you despised? I felt like I had finally succumbed to the conspiracy of Hollywood trying to put me and Ice-T in cop movies. It was cool. It was fun. It’s acting at the end of the day. I definitely support cop acting more than cops. But, you know, all of ‘em ain’t bad,...
4:00 pm, Mar 19, 2012
[In] this movie you’re playing a teacher, but how were you in high school? I was a late bloomer, a very late bloomer. Everybody else went through puberty, you know, in eighth grade. And I didn’t go through [it] until like the summer right before my sophomore year, and so everybody was just bigger, and stronger, and faster—and even the girls were bigger. Everybody was just an adult for the...
4:00 pm, Mar 19, 2012
Remember the fresh-faced cops featured in the late ’80s-early ’90s television police drama, 21 Jump Street? The show's stars, played by Johnny Depp and Holly Robinson Peete, were placed in an undercover unit to stop crime in high schools and colleges.Fast forward almost 25 years, inject a hefty dose of comedy, and 21 Jump Street is reborn on the big screen. This time starring Channing Tatum...
4:00 pm, Mar 19, 2012
You two got to play high school students in this movie. Was it in any way reflective of your own high school careers or were you different people in high school? Channing Tatum: I think it was pretty close to mine. (Laughter) I was a jock. I didn’t like school. I slept mostly through it. So that was my fault. Thank God…thank God this worked out. What about you Jonah? Was it...
11:54 am, Mar 19, 2012
It’s not a done deal, but the Denver Broncos may have just hit the quarterback jackpot. ESPN’s Chris Mortensen and Adam Schefter are reporting that four-time MVP Peyton Manning has chosen the Mile High City as the setting for the second phase of a career rivaled by few others. Manning has reportedly chosen Denver over a roster of programs—the San Francisco 49ers, the Miami Dolphins, the Tennessee...
2:08 pm, Mar 16, 2012
To prepare for St. Patrick's Day, we stopped by Patrick Carroll's this week to learn how to pour the perfect pint of Guinness.
3:49 pm, Mar 15, 2012
This week, it seems like everyone has an opinion about juvenile justice. The Denver Post editorial board does. Attorney General John Suthers does. Here’s my opinion. Colorado’s policy of sending some juvenile to adult prisons (called "direct file") must be reformed. I spent nearly five years researching the topic for “Direct Fail," published in our December 2011 issue, and here’s some of what I...
