Criminal justice prof loses bias allegation; Metro weighing appeal
Metro Criminal Justice Professor Richard Jackson was awarded $300,000 plus back pay by a U.S. District Court jury last Friday in his discrimination suit against Metro.
Jackson's suit claimed that the school subjected him to a hostile working environment and that he was treated disparately because he is black.
OA Coordinator uses new energy to push leadership programs forward
By Tim Esterdahl testerda@mscd.edu
Last fall, Metropolitan reporter Tim Esterdahl sat down with Bryan Ferguson, coordinator of Outdoor Adventure, OA, to discuss what he has learned over the past 13 years in the program, what they are working toward now and what the future looks like for Ferguson.
Eric Matelski is an artist who has been working in and around Denver for nearly 10 years. His artwork hangs in the Wynkoop Brewing Company, Artique, and Dazzle Restaurant and Lounge. Matelski has tested himself through all forms of art, but is currently focusing on a medium branded live art.
A couple of weeks ago, I turned 45. I'm not ancient, but it's starting to dawn on me that I'm not that young anymore, either. For one thing, my body is beginning to remind me of my age; it's starting to make noises I'm just not used to-crackling noises, hideous popping sounds like firecrackers going off in my joints, noises that wake me up in the middle of the night. I'm also growing hair in the most bizarre places. Why on earth do men my age-or any age, for that matter-grow hair in their ears? What purpose could ear hair possibly serve? If I don't trim it often enough it looks like corn silk, a definite turn-off as far as dates are concerned-not that I actually go on any.
Why is it hard for us to admit that human activity is heating up the planet a bit more than is good for it? What's that? Can't hear me? Try turning off your engine and stepping out of the vehicle, ma'am. Hands off the pump, sir, there's a crisis afoot. Though it is the American thing to do-ignore societal peril in the name of ambiguous and unquestioned patriotism disguised as fuel consumption-it is time to look at the larger issues at work, and perhaps begin to mention the s-word a lot more. That's right: sacrifice.
Oh no he didn't!
For the record, I've tried very hard not to pick on Georgette. But he picked the wrong day to say something stupid.
Sans makeup and a decent cup of coffee at 9:30 a.m. (Yeah, I have a class at 10 a.m., how God-awful, I know), I saw the headline in Tuesday's Denver Post: "Bush: Keep MLK's equality push alive."
Q: I have a criminal record that is hampering my job search. Can you offer any advice to help me?
Sometime around 1945, the Democrats decided to ditch the idea of standing up for American values. The very thought of the United States having any sort of moral authority over other countries made these people shudder. Whether it has been by defending Soviet spies working in the U.S. Government and terrorist suspects being monitored by the FBI, or by demonizing people like Joe McCarthy and Ronald Reagan, liberals have managed to pick the side of America's enemy for 60 years. But don't dare call them unpatriotic.
FILM REVIEWS  A country legend and a moral quandary
A country legend and a moral quandary
director: James Mangold
starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, Robert Patrick
Now showing at Starz FilmCenter
director: Steven Spielberg
starring: Eric Bana, Matthew Kassovitz
January 16, 2006 A day of memorial told in images
"If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well."
Metro movie reviewer makes early forecast for Oscar favorites and underdogs
What has a singer, a boxing manager, cowboys and a couple of journalists? No, it's not the latest edition of "Dancing with the Stars," it's the most recent Oscar buzz. With the Golden Globe Awards now in the past, the Academy Awards are just around the corner. Here are my predictions:
Road trips prove to be difficult without a map or an atlas, but for Alan Andrews, Bill Threlkeld, Mark Hawkins and Devon Shirley of The Photo Atlas, directions are unnecessary. They know where they are headed, and they are trying to get there fast.
Mogwai - Mr. Beast
The Fiery Furnaces - Bitter Tea
The Arcade Fire - As of yet untitled album
Primus - As of yet untitled album
Islands - Return to the Sea
Big, catchy choruses that come on waves of fuzzy, overdriven guitar and inscrutable lyrics delivered by an untrained, world-weary voice are the basis of Dog Traders' sound on A Panic in a Pagoda. It's very reminiscent of early Guided By Voices, an obvious, major influence. It could also be compared to early REM with a harder edge.
The Strokes
First Impressions of Earth
(RCA, 2006)
The retro-rock boys of The Strokes have returned with the same tight pants and carefree attitude as before, but this time with more edge and more chords. They have introduced a new side to themselves, with fierceness, some versatility and new beats. Their new record First Impressions of Earth might possibly be better than their most popular album Is This It.
In the early '80s Bad Brains defined thrash and hardcore in the Washington D.C. area. Led by singer H.R. (Ras Hailu Gabriel Joseph I), they invented the genre D.C.-hardcore and influenced countless bands from Rage Against the Machine to The Red Hot Chili Peppers. Twenty years later, H.R. brings his solo act to Denver.
A shoestring budget for a label like Arista might mean that only $250k will be invested into an artist for the first six months. A shoestring budget for that guy you always see on the 16th Street Mall selling the same CD he recorded three years ago is more like $25, which he will unavoidably spend on more blank CDs and printing the one-sided, self-cut inserts (2 to a page, of course) at the local copy shop. Then, after spending the entire budget he has set aside for the last 3 days, he will emerge back onto the 16th Street Mall, simultaneously dodging police and convincing passers-by that for only $5 they can support the next up-and-coming 50 Cent.
'Runners build home win streak, beat Mesa State, Western State
Last weekend's victories over Mesa State College and Western State College proved the Roadrunner men's basketball team is prepared to play the tough, physical basketball that is a trademark of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference.
The Metro women's basketball team continued their dominance in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference last weekend by winning two games against Mesa State College and Western State College at the Auraria Event Center.
By Cory Casciato and Jeremy Johnson
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