Roller Derby

Roller derby: See cover girl Dr. Bang Bang in action on Saturday at the 1STBANK Center

By Melanie Asmar Fri., May 17 2013 at 10:25 AM
Categories: Follow That Story, Roller Derby

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This week's cover story, "Paging Doctor Bang Bang," recounts the medical adventures of Denver Roller Dolls skater Kimmy Kimmy Bang Bang, a foot-and-ankle surgeon known professionally as Dr. Kim Wilms. The 32-year-old is the league's unofficial in-house doctor, assisting skaters with the sprains and bruises that come with playing the fast-paced contact sport. Over the past two years, she's also operated on several skaters' broken ankles. (For gruesome photos of said injuries, check our Latest Word blog.)

To see Dr. Bang Bang in action, look no further than the 1STBANK Center on Saturday.

See also:
- Denver Roller Dolls' new Orange Crushers to sport Broncos colors
- Denver's eleven best roller derby nicknames
- Photos: Roller derby super-fans spotted at the WFTDA Championships


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Five things Prince Harry should do in Denver

By Jenn Wohletz Mon., Apr. 1 2013 at 8:59 AM
Categories: Follow That Story, Lists

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Prince Harry will get along just fine in Denver -- he has skills.
God save the Queen and her adorable, stilted royal wave; Prince Charles gets a few brownie points for sorta making an honest woman outta Camilla; poor Prince William got his mother's pretty face but his father's rapid receding hairline, and Princess Kate has a baby bump that the Brits are going batshit over. But his Royal Highness, Henry Charles Albert David, the Prince of Wales, best known as Prince Harry, has everything: looks, charm, a ribald sense of humor, an honorable military career and, judging by a few photos taken of him in Las Vegas last year, a royally nice bum.

Last week it was announced that Prince Harry will be visiting Colorado during his trip to the United States May 9-15, so to help his travels, we have a list of five things Harry should do while he's in Denver.

See also:
- Photos: Prince Harry memes offer naked truth about royal's upcoming Colorado visit?
- Photo: Denver Post caption error even cracks up Prince Charles!
- SAME Cafe's Brad Birky on Queen Elizabeth, Led Zeppelin and the woman who wanted one egg

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16th Street Mall, Buckingham Palace, Elway's, Meadowlark, Prince Harry, Prince Harry in Denver, Windsor, Yorktown
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Five reasons why Clerks III is a fan-tastic idea

By Jenn Wohletz Mon., Mar. 11 2013 at 8:59 AM
Categories: Film and TV, Follow That Story, Lists

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Jay and Silent Bob are coming back!
Kevin Smith fans are taking to the streets to celebrate the announcement that he is currently writing Clerks III -- or at least they would be, if they weren't too stoned to leave their houses. Even though Smith said he wasn't going to produce a sequel to Clerks II, now he is. About time for Clerks fans -- and a long, long wait for something Smithies can use to offset their extended disgust about Jersey Girl.

Here are five reasons why Clerks III is a fan-f*cking-tastic idea. Snootchie bootchies, mother*ckers!

See also:
- Jason Mewes would have been a roofer if not for Clerks
- Jersey Gurgle: Kevin Smith is Silent Bob? Dude, my butt he is.
- Go Big With Kevin Smith

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Trent Gillaspie, creator of the Judgmental Denver map: "I tried not to leave anyone out"

By Bree Davies Wed., Feb. 6 2013 at 8:09 AM
Categories: Breeality Bites, Follow That Story

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After staring at the Judgmental Denver map for a good twenty minutes late last Thursday night, I decided to write some thoughts on the neighborhood(s) I call home, and salute the map's then-unknown creator -- who then contacted me. And a few days ago, I called Trent Gillaspie, a technology and product manager who claims almost-native status, and asked why in the hell he made this map.

See also:
- Judgmental Denver map: choose your own gentrification adventure!
- O, Barnum! An ode to Denver's least desirable neighborhood
- Race and ethnicity map shows increasing gentrification of northwest Denver


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comedy, Denver, maps, native, transplant, Trent Gillaspie
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Ed Baierlein on Germinal Stage's next move

By Patricia Calhoun Tue., Jan. 15 2013 at 7:25 AM
Categories: Follow That Story

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Via Germinal's Facebook
The 1980 cast of Germinal's Spoon River Anthology.
Ed Baierlein has sold the Germinal Stage building, the space his company moved into 25 years ago...and where "no actor is every more than thirty feet from your nose!"

But while Germinal will be leaving that theater at the end of this season, Baierlein plans to continue putting on shows -- and memories of past productions play on, as Juliet Wittman writes in her piece on Germinal's move.

See also:
-- Germinal Stage is leaving its theater building, but the memories play on
- Germinal's Heartbreak House is a worthy look at English society
-- Best Comedy 2006: Germinal Stage Denver's Heartbreak House


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Five toys for girls that need a gender makeover

By Jenn Wohletz Wed., Dec. 19 2012 at 9:00 AM
Categories: Follow That Story, Lists, Our Commercial Culture

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Hasbro's Easy-Bake Ovens are getting a masculine makeover fifty years after the toy was introduced, thanks to a market-savvy thirteen-year-old girl in New Jersey who wanted to buy her little brother one as a gift -- and found only purple and pink ovens. Her campaign got a media-smooch after a handful of celeb chefs, including Bobby Flay, spoke up in favor of a more male-friendly model.

There are two significant lessons we can learn from the Easy-Bake situation: First, it's proof that Bobby Flay is capable of being useful/relevant even though it's not 2008 any more, and second, that it's time to update other traditionally girl-centric toys to reflect American society's changing views on stereotypical gender roles.

Here's our list of five little girl toys that need a gender makeover. It's shake & bake, and I helped!

See also:
-Strange Fruit: Peaches thinks stereotypes are the pits.
-Dolls in thigh-highs and ponies with purses: MSNBC says toys are getting too sexy. And?
-Tomboy sensitively explores a freedom from gender codes

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Mile High Mountaineering selected as ISPO BrandNew Awards finalist

By Colin Bane Tue., Dec. 11 2012 at 11:25 AM
Categories: Follow That Story, Outdoors, Today in Stoke

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Photo: Shaun Boyte, Boyte Creative, courtesy MHM
Denver-based backpack company Mile High Mountaineering (MHM Gear) won the top prize at the local Something Independent Awards in October; in July, MHM's "Snake-Loader" Salute 34 pack made the cover of the 2013 Backpacker Magazine Gear Guide and also won an Editor's Choice Award. And this week the local brand got its first major international recognition: MHM is among the finalists for the ISPO BrandNew Awards at ISPO Munich, an international sporting goods trade fair scheduled for February 3 through February 6 in Germany. The BrandNew Awards are billed as the world's largest start-up competition in the sporting-goods industry, with a focus on innovative products from brands younger than four years old.

See Also:
- MHM Gear wins second annual Something Independent Entrepreneur Award
- Experts agree: Made-in-Colorado snowboards are the best
- Folsom Custom Skis, RMU, Icelantic dominate Freeskier Top 10 "Microbrew" list


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Unit E survives liquor bust and will be open, but dry, on Denver's First Friday

By Patricia Calhoun Thu., Dec. 6 2012 at 11:59 AM
Categories: Follow That Story

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Arts promoters Gregg Ziemba (left) and Thadeaous Mighell before the bust.
The folks behind Unit E, the art space at 1201 Santa Fe Drive that won our Best DIY Gallery in the Best of Denver 2012, are used to big parties on First Friday. But on November 2, they got more action than they'd bargained for: Co-founder Gregg Ziemba was busted for the "unlawful sale of alcohol." Specifically, for giving out free beer and booze -- with a donation jar by the makeshift bar.

Ziemba, a member of the band Rubedo, was in court this morning on that charge, and wound up with a deferred judgment. "I have to behave for a year," he says, "and then it's wiped off my record."

See also:
- At Unit E, Denver Arts Week was almost over before it started
- Best New DIY Venue 2012: Unit E
- Photos: Rubido at Unit E


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Photos: Danny Cisneros sets unofficial world records for skateboarding...on his hands

By Kalen Deremo Wed., Nov. 28 2012 at 1:36 PM
Categories: Follow That Story, Skateboarding

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Danny Cisneros prior to his record-setting skateboarding attempt.
On November 25, Danny Cisneros set two (unofficial) world records for doing a handstand on his skateboard. He traveled .8 miles, nearly doubling the previous distance record, and was clocked going 35 miles per hour -- establishing a speed record that had not yet been set.

See also:
- The latest skate videos from Royal Stain, Meta Skateboards, Crisis, FOZine
- Julian Christianson is top-three finalist in TransWorld Skateboarding video contest
- Yoga in the City shoots to break a record tomorrow


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Joe Francis created Girls Gone Wild -- but he thinks he's much milder than this mug shot

By Patricia Calhoun Wed., Nov. 14 2012 at 12:50 PM
Categories: Follow That Story

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Joe Francis, circa 2003.
Girls Gone Wild will land in Denver on Sunday, when the Back to School Tour 2012 stops at PT's Showclub at 1601 West Evans Avenue at 9 p.m. But Joe Francis, the founder of Girls Gone Wild, isn't that wild himself these days -- or so his company would like to have people believe.

Show and Tell just got this e-mail letter from one of Francis's reps, apparently inspired by Jef Otte's 2011 story on the Girls Gone Wild Founder's most recent run-in with the cops....

See also:
- Girls Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis: Sleazeball or victim? Probably both
- Photos: Girls gone wild on the streets of Denver

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