Tag: your space
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YOUR SPACE: He’s a 35-year-old virgin filmmaker
He sleeps in a bedroom set won on a game show and lives with a woman who’s funnier than he is. Such is the life of comedian Rich Praytor. But wait, there’s more. He’s in dire need of $100,000. Praytor, 35, is trying to finance his film, “The Waiting Game,” a faith-based comedy he wrote…
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YOUR SPACE: Giving is in his blood
CAÑON CITY • People have all kinds of weird hobbies. Art Hagerman might have one of the weirdest. He donates blood. He’d do it every day if he could, but the rule is that he must wait eight weeks between gigs. He has been at for 58 years. His trail of blood spans eight states,…
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YOUR SPACE: Big Dan takes big gulps of life
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Meet Big Dan. He’s a burly, balding 41-year-old with a smiley face and squinting bright-blue eyes. He lives alone with 5,000 pens, 300 carpenter pencils, 37 tape measurers, 591 jumbo plastic soda mugs and thousands…
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YOUR SPACE: Big Dan takes big gulps of life
Meet Big Dan. He’s a burly, balding 41-year-old with a smiley face and squinting bright-blue eyes. He lives alone with 5,000 pens, 300 carpenter pencils, 37 tape measurers, 591 jumbo plastic soda mugs and thousands of Slurpee straws. The colorful 64-ounce mugs line the walls of his apartment. “This is how I decorate the house,”…
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YOUR SPACE: He preaches the gospel of marital bliss
David Letterman had sex with female staffers. Kate Gosselin gave cheating husband Jon the boot. Want more details? Of course you do. Marital problems are fascinating … unless their yours. Clarence Shuler is at ground zero of marital mayhem. He tries to save marriages — one or tens or hundreds at a time. “Almost every…
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YOUR SPACE: 87-year-old pilot is back in the cockpit
After decades of flying, the 87-year-old World War II pilot finally got recognition. It came two months ago, when he crashed a 1940s vintage plane in a field seconds after takeoff from Meadow Lake Airport in eastern El Paso County. Grim images of the shattered wing-clipped, flipped-over, blue-and-yellow wooden plane made breaking news that…
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Pooches and pals celebrate a sunny Saturday
Drinking beer with your best friend. It doesn’t get much better than that — but it can be a problem if your best friend is banned from most bars. Big dogs. Little dogs. Red dogs. Blue dogs. All are welcome at the dog-friendly beer garden at today’s PawtoberFest hosted by the Humane Society of the…
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YOUR SPACE: Her tamales bring people together
“Six for $8. Chicken and pork. Mild or spicy.” If Silvia Gonzales had a nickel for every time she says that, she’d be rolling in dough that wasn’t made of masa. There are many tamale vendors around town. Some stand by the road with handmade signs and picnic coolers. Some have big honking tamale trucks.…
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YOUR SPACE: He knows the headlines before we do
It’s tough enough to call yourself a mind reader. And if you do and your wallet gets ripped off from your gym locker, then what? If you’re Benji Bruce, you send out a press release: “Mind reader doesn’t predict his stolen wallet … But he will predict the headlines.” Three weeks ago, he put three…
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YOUR SPACE: Local broadcasters wrap up big win in burrito video contest
The video took the two local TV broadcast guys a few minutes to write, maybe an hour to shoot. The title, that was easy: “Toledo Burrito.” Because Toledo rhymes with burrito. For their brilliance, Michael Ring, 23, and Nolan Campbell, 25, tied for 6th place in an “My Chipotle” online video contest. In the 30-second…