Alfred Packer

The Rockies, The Red Sox, And The Battle For The Title Of Sportstown, USA

Trey Cool

Kobe or Not Kobe?

Before there was Kobe Bryant, there was Kobe, Colorado. Guess which one disappeared.

Off Limits

Put Up Your Dukes

Best Defender of Alfred Packer

David Bailey

Off Limits

Hot serial killers

Letters to the Editor

From the week of August 21, 2003

Pop Quiz

It's the Economy, Einstein!
October 2, 2003

Best Slogan for a Colorado City That Isn't Denver

"Alferd Packer: Eat Your Heart Out", Lake City

The Cave Singers

Saturday September 29, hi-dive, 720-570-4500.

The Broncos use stealth technology to land a B-2 flyover

Saturday September 29, hi-dive, 720-570-4500.

For the record

Since 2005 has hit the bricks, here's the final word on last year's finest discs.

Apocalypse Now

The end is coming. Are you ready?

Strange but True

Rampaging bears! Rampaging Buffs! Criminals in the buff! It happened here... unfortunately.

Semi-Tough

Urban Eco-Adventure puts racers through heck

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Urban Eco-Adventure puts racers through heck

Love Crazy

The nurse, the cop, the yegg: Fate brought them together and claimed four lives. Then the newspapers stepped in, and things really got insane.

The 2002 Hall of Shame

Let the blame game begin!

Hollywood Squares

After taking a tour of both L.A. and South Park, Toddy Walters rediscovers her musical muse.

The Doctor Is Out

The unfiltered truth.

Off Limits

The unfiltered truth.

Off Limits

The unfiltered truth.

Artsbeat

The unfiltered truth.

Edge

Westword's Guide to teh '96-'97 ski and snowboard season

See Dick Run. Run, Dick, Run!

The looniness of Colorado's long-distance runner.

Letters

The looniness of Colorado's long-distance runner.

THRILLS

The looniness of Colorado's long-distance runner.

The Denver Wax Museum lives on (sort of)

Alfred Packer, enjoying a finger-lickin' good meal Good news for all those people hankering for unrealistic facsimiles of dead people: The Denver Wax Museum, which officially closed its doors circa 1981, lives on in an even stranger manner than the one displayed the grotesque operation's original 9 ... More >>

Best snowy movies to watch on a snow day

If you're lucky (as Jefferson County Public School students are) and have a snow day today, you'll get the chance to watch some movies. But what are the best films for the occasion? We suggest flicks that make you glad to be warm inside instead of outside grappling with the elements -- like, for in ... More >>

Top ten events of the decade, as covered by Westword

Photo by John JohnstonJessica Brakey, who was at the center of Julie Jargon's award-winning Air Force Academy feature.​It's the time of the decade when we look back at the events that stood out from the more typical sound and fury of life in general. But a simple list of incidents doesn't rev ... More >>

Summer Guide 2010

Photo by John JohnstonJessica Brakey, who was at the center of Julie Jargon's award-winning Air Force Academy feature.​It's the time of the decade when we look back at the events that stood out from the more typical sound and fury of life in general. But a simple list of incidents doesn't rev ... More >>

Campfire cooking: Fishing for compliments

​To borrow a line from Snoopy, it was a dark and stormy night and without any dinner, it was gonna be a hungry night, too. Ted and I were camping last weekend in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains just south of Canon City, in the middle of bear country, and all we had for sustenance was a mixed ... More >>

Top 4 classic Colorado hoaxes -- including a prehistoric body and man-eating rats!

It's gonna blow!​Last weekend, the Denver Center Theatre Company's New Play Summit featured Great Wall Story, a play by Lloyd Suh based on the true story of how, in 1899, three Denver reporters came up with a hoax that the Great Wall of China was being torn down. It was quite a ruse, and it ca ... More >>

The Book of Mormon opens on Broadway to glowing reviews. Here's a look back.

Bring it back home!​Type "The Book of Mormon" into Google right now, and the first thing to come is the eponymous play by Matt Stone and Trey Parker, two Colorado boys who went on to become, we think it's fair to say at this point, the greatest satirists of a generation. From South Park to Tea ... More >>

You'll Eat It Up!

Bring it back home!​Type "The Book of Mormon" into Google right now, and the first thing to come is the eponymous play by Matt Stone and Trey Parker, two Colorado boys who went on to become, we think it's fair to say at this point, the greatest satirists of a generation. From South Park to Tea ... More >>