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Health-care fraud is big business. What are the feds doing about it?

Columbine to Newtown: A tragic list of school shootings since 1999

The senseless massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, which took the lives of twenty children, including Olivia Engel, seen here, plus seven adults, instantly stirs terrible memories of the 1999 attack on Columbine High School. On the tenth anniversary of that tragedy, we assembled a horrific roster of sc ... More >>

Bentley Folse, exec chef of Finley's Pub, gives good cluck

Bentley Folse Finley's Pub 375 South Pearl Street 303-282-4790 www.finleysdenver.com This is part one of my interview with Bentley Folse, exec chef of Finley's Pub. Part two of our chat will run tomorrow. I suppose my parents liked the car," muses Bentley Folse, whose first name conjures images ... More >>

Dog attacks: Which two Denver neighborhoods do mail carriers fear most?

It's the stuff of Saturday-morning cartoons and "The Far Side:" a hapless postal carrier being chased around the neighborhood by the family dog. But the vicious attack on a Denver postal carrier on Monday demonstrated that mail carriers face real danger even on their regular routes. In fact, Denver ... More >>

Cobraconda goes on Spring Break

Jeff, who lives at home, is a slacker who wants to stand tall

Reader: Why was there no mention of 3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain?

Bret Lee Thompson: Alleged child sex assaulter found sleeping in van behind NJ Walmart

Big pics below.​Update: The nationwide manhunt for Bret Lee Thompson, accused of kidnapping an eight-year-old girl from a southwest Denver alley and sexually assaulting her, didn't end in dramatic fashion. According to the FBI, authorities in Brunswick, New Jersey found him sleeping in his va ... More >>

Social networking: Denver ranked 3rd in U.S. by Men's Health (eat our hashtags, Portland!)

​Congratulations, Denver: You have officially been swallowed up whole by the Matrix. Men's Health recently came out with its list of the country's most socially networked cities, and Denver, of all places, came in third. Do we get a prize for this? Like a new FarmVille animal or something?

Jayhawks founder Mark Olson on walking the line between folk and rock

​A decade after starting the Jayhawks with Gary Louris, Mark Olson left the band in 1995, the same year Tomorrow the Green Grass was released, to look after his then-wife Victoria Williams, after she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. While the Jayhawks continued to tour without him until ... More >>

Generationals

Wednesday, November 10, Larimer Lounge, 303-291-1007.

Faith no more: The Last Exorcism puts a welcome twist on the demonic-possession movie

Michael Brown: Ex-FEMA boss on return to New Orleans for 5th anniversary of Katrina

Bush & Brownie.​On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina began wreaking havoc on the Gulf Coast that's still reverberating today -- and many members of the public continue to see Michael Brown, head of FEMA at the time, as one of the story's chief villains. Still, Brown, a KOA talk-show host who ... More >>

The Wire's David Simon has a new HBO series that uses fiction to honor New Orleans' surreal, heart-breaking fact

​Editor's Note: Treme writer/producer David Mills died of a brain aneurysm Tuesday in New Orleans. He'd written extensively about theTreme process and his burgeoning love for New Orleans music on his blog, undercoverblackman.blogspot.com. His Times-Picayune obit is here. By Larry Blumenfeld ... More >>

Freeloader: Download a new track from Pretty Light's forthcoming EP in advance of shows this week in Boulder and Denver

​ Derek Vincent Smith, who performs under the Pretty Lights moniker (due tonight at the Boulder Theater), has announced plans to release three new EPs, the first of which, Making Up a Changing Mind, was just posted to his site last week. With three albums already under his belt that have rec ... More >>

Freeloader: Vaux opens the vaults

​Storied Denver band Vaux is no more, which means no more Vaux shows, which means the last time you saw them is literally the last time you saw them. That makes us sad, since Vaux were always one of the best, most visceral live bands going. But if we're not going to get any new memories of Vau ... More >>

The Columbine effect: A horrific roster of school shootings since 1999

The most resonant information that's come my way thus far today in relation to the anniversary of the April 20, 1999 shootings at Columbine High School was contained in an e-mail sent to Westword by Vicki Newell, a public-policy director with the Colorado PTA. It's a list of school shootings since ... More >>

Pictureplane picked up by Lovepump United, hits road with HEALTH

Photo: Sarah CassThis news will probably come as no surprise to those who were paying attention last summer when HEALTH sang the praises of Pictureplane in Pitchfork: Travis Egedy, who makes music under the Pictureplane moniker, has been picked up by Lovepump United. The New York-based imprint, whi ... More >>

Friday Rap-Up: ytCracker, DJ AM , Eminem and No Limit

Letters to the Editor

Letters from the week of 8/28/2008

Michael “Heckuva Job” Brown Knows Disaster

The former FEMA head revisits his worst mistake and talks about the disaster that is the What If? Colorado campaign.

Emily Francis Prepares for Takeoff

This lady has helped keep Planes Mistaken for Stars airborne.

Hapi Days

The heart of rock and roll is still beating — in Loveland.

Henry Butler

Katrina swamped his life, but music keeps this jazzman afloat.

The Eye of the Storm

From the bayou to Boulder, Michael Brown's had a heckuva year.

Queen City of the Plains

Nathanial Trotter has a plan to crown Oprah.

Letters to the Editor

From the week of April 6, 2006

Confessions of a Bar Girl

She's hot. She's coming over. Wanna buy some Scotch?

The Big Easy

Lucile's bring food, glorious food to the heart of Denver.

Day-by-Day Picks

From the week of September 29, 2005

Americana Pie

Grab a slice of 2004's best roots music while it's still hot.

The Creole Thing

Cajun food is addictive. Broussard's dining room is not.

Just the 'Fax, man

Thirty miles of developments, drunks and dreams -- the ultimate road trip.

Poem on the Range

Verse comes to worse at the National Poetry Slam.

The Eye of the Beholder

Defining the limits of obscenity.

Hocus Focus

Photo magic is in the air this fall.

Lucinda Williams

Essence (Lost Highway)

What's Cooking?

Denver's Junior League has the recipe for lasting success.

Lou Reed

Ecstasy
(Warner/Reprise)

Sweet Emotion

Hip-hop rock-fusionist band Rainbow Sugar believes it's a Wonderful life.

Cajun Queen

The Major and the Minor

A roundup of big-name recordings that live up (or down) to expectations.

Burning Bush

Why Nineties hippies are discovering mandolinist Sam Bush.

Feedback

A Different Shade of Blue

Corey Harris got to the Delta by way of Denver.

Last Hand

For forty years, the La Paz 12 has called this card table home.

Robinson U.

No Regular Guy

The rise, fall and rise of blues guitarist Buddy Guy.

Thrills for the week

THRILLS