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Year in Review: The strangest people and events of 2012

See also: Year in Review: The 2012 Hall of Shame

Debate 2012: Ten things you don't know about the University of Denver

On Wednesday, the University of Denver will host this election's first presidential debate -- and the first of its kind in Denver. DU has been getting ready for its close-up for months, and the stakes are high for both the school and the candidates. If the night is a success, no matter which candida ... More >>

Comedian Christopher Titus on Dana Carvey, Sarah Palin and Killer Klowns

Christopher Titus cut his teeth in comedy clubs in the '80s after having an epiphany as a teenager when he fell into a bonfire. But it wasn't until the late '90s when Titus -- whose comedy focuses on his upbringing in a highly dysfunctional family -- that Titus began to get more widespread traction. ... More >>

Ten infamous 2011 crimes with Colorado connections

And you thought you had a crazy year. Getting jiggy with a student at a Baptist school, driving a scooter without a license in Miami, possessing four grams of cocaine in Aspen, threatening to shoot out a Best Buy in Aurora over a video game and literally getting shit on in Boulder -- these are all s ... More >>

Strange but true news stories from the past year

Also read: 2011 Hall of Shame

Zeds Dead, but the band's biggest fan, Asa Robinson, is a shmuck

Asa Robinson really really, REALLY, REALLY wanted to go to the Zeds Dead concert in Aspen last Tuesday, so badly, in fact, that police say he called in a bomb threat to the concert venue after he couldn't buy tickets to a sold-out show. The goal of the bomb threat, it appears, wasn't to exact retrib ... More >>

Call of Duty 3: Lomon Sar racks up shmuck points after threatening to blow up Best Buy

​If Lomon Sar is a, uh, veteran of the Call of Duty video games, then he's used to blowing things up -- at least in his digital fantasy land. But police say Somon, 31, forgot to leave his fantasy world behind on Tuesday when he threatened to blow up a Best Buy in Aurora because the store would ... More >>

Lomorin Sar allegedly threatens to blow up store that doesn't have Call of Duty video game

​Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is the latest iteration of the ultra-popular first-person shooter challenge in which a player must gun down opponents before they can splatter him with his own blood. Fortunately, most fans are able to separate fantasy from reality -- but the jury's still out on ... More >>

YouTube University: How to get a girl to kiss you

Sexperts.​Remember when your parents had "the sex talk" with you? Maybe you were lucky and skipped that awkwardness altogether, and learned about doing it from pros like Brenda and Dylan on Beverly Hills 90210 like we did. But what about before the before-the-sex part? When and how did you lea ... More >>

The 27 Club? More like the posthumous platinum club: Albums sales spurred by death

​You can go on for days debating the musical mysteries of the so called 27 Club -- which includes Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison and now Amy Winehouse -- but one thing is certain: The death of these artists had a profound impact on their subsequent sales. Pearl, for example, was rele ... More >>

David Lawless, charged as Colorado Mills mall bomber, is in the Earl Moore tradition

Big pic below.​David Lawless stands accused of planting anemic explosive devices at Colorado Mills on Saturday, around the same time a bunch of windows were broken at a nearby Best Buy -- and Lawless is the suspect in that incident, too. As for his reasons, they're not clear yet, as remains th ... More >>

Reader: If Judgment Day is May 21, I'm going to break the bank on May 20!

​Joel Warner's post about billboards announcing that Judgment Day is May 21 was originally published early last month. But with J-Day predicted for this Saturday, it's timelier than ever. And thanks to one of our readers, we know what we'll be doing on May 20...

Tonight: Asking Alexandria at Summit

​For a genre that seems born (and still very much centered) in the suburbs of America, Asking Alexandria (due tonight at Summit Music Hall) is like the British anomaly of metalcore. Born in 2008, these dudes have spent a good amount of time touring and recording stateside, while steadily build ... More >>

Guitar Hero franchise overdoses and dies

​In a statement alongside it's quarterly and annual fiscal report, Activision, the company behind the Guitar Hero series, effectively put the axe on the series. Over the course of the last two years, the series has seen dropping sales due to a market that's completely saturated and an expensiv ... More >>

Focus on the Family's Broncos game ad campaign -- minus Tim Tebow

Tim Tebow and his mom for FOTF.​Colorado Springs' Focus on the Family made a big splash earlier this year with a pro-life Super Bowl ad starring Tim Tebow and his mom. And while the publicity generated by the spot couldn't prevent 110 layoffs announced earlier this month, Focus learned that th ... More >>

Dan Maes: Five more terrifying ways Denver is turning into the United Nations

Dan Maes.​There's been lotsa entertainment value in Colorado's primary races, from Tom Tancredo's guv run to Scott McInnis's plagiarism problems -- and now, Dan Maes's declaration that Denver's B-Cycle program might turn the city into "the United Nations" via wrongheaded environmental do-goodi ... More >>

4/20's top ten trademark violations

For Denver's ganjapreneurs, this is what 4/20 is all about.​If there's one thing Denver's marijuana movement has embraced, it's a wanton disregard for federal laws. And no day illustrates this sentiment more than 4/20, when marijuana patients and exuberant scofflaws alike ascend on the Capitol ... More >>

Making the Band: The first step takes practice.

​With South by Southwest in full swing and our spotlight yesterday on Suburban Home's new label offerings, we figured it was high time to start offering a bit of help to local bands trying to get a head start on next years festivities. Being in a band isn't as simple as it sounds, and doing it ... More >>

KTCL crowns Hometown for the Holidays winner

​Update: By now, you've probably heard but just in case you haven't, Epilogues took home this year's Hometown for the Holidays crown at Andrew's On Lincoln this past Friday night. Beyond bragging rights for the next year, the act won three days of recording time at the Blasting Room in Fort Collin ... More >>

Black Friday means something else for reporters

​When the sun rose this morning at 6:58 a.m., it shed its light on one of the weirdest American traditions around: millions of people scrambling for discount deals at big box stores. In Denver, this eerie sight was visible from Target and Best Buy to Bass Pro, Kohl's and Kmart. And while Blac ... More >>

Advertising that doesn't suck? That's Loyal2.me's idea

​It would take some sort of rocket scientist to create a model of advertising that doesn't suck. No coincidence, then, that Roger Toennis used to work on projects such as the autonomous lunar rover, Titan 4 rockets and air-to-air missiles before creating Loyal2.me, a product that promises to a ... More >>

13 Things That Took Less Time Than Chinese Democracy

It took Guns 'N' Roses fifteen years to finally release Chinese Democracy, which was released November 23 and available exclusively at Best Buy. That's a mighty long time. Heck, Jesus Christ died and returned from the grave in just three days. Our sister paper in Houston compiled a slide show of a d ... More >>

Focus on the Family doesn't blame Obama for layoffs -- yet

Lord save us. News that Colorado Springs' Focus on the Familiy is eliminating 202 jobs -- the biggest single cut in the ministry's history -- naturally raised the question of whether Focus reps would lay the blame at Barack Obama's door. After all, prior to the November 4 vote, Focus published ... More >>

45 Second Video Game Reviews

The Geek Shall Inherit the Earth: NBC's Chuck Gets a Full Season Order

Q&A with Zach Galifianakis

Soldiering Through the WGA Writer's Strike

The Best of Denver Winners: 1984

Home Alone

Suburban Home Records gets pilfered. Again.

Anime Attraction

Local businesses want to give animation bootleggers the boot.

Malled!

For revenue-hungry cities in the northern metro area, it's shop 'til you're dropped

Cherry on Top

The 40-Year-Old Virgin gets a heart-on while telling wonderfully dirty jokes.

Letters to the Editor

From the week of June 23, 2005

The Beatdown

Elevators, Frappuccinos, and things that go bump in the night.

The Beatdown

Usually, the Morning After is all about regret. This one is filled with optimism.

The Message

Rolling on the Rocks

Drunk of the Week

Irish Hound

The Mars Volta

De-loused in the Comatorium (Universal)

Backwash

Backwash

Red Rocks gets rolling with a new visitor’s center and CD compilation.

Branching Out

A bold plan to bring downtown to the suburbs takes root in Lone Tree. Just add water.

Paying the Price

Unlike their more commercial pop-punk counterparts, the Gamits are most interested in good old-fashioned rocking.

Apocalypse Yesterday

Marilyn Manson resurrects the same ol' shtick.

Backwash

Borders decides to dabble in the local music trade.

Anthony B / Bob Marley

Seven Seals
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Chant Down Babylon
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