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Reader: If Republicans had backed Amendment 64, young people still wouldn't have gone GOP

In an interview last week, former gubernatorial candidate Tom Tancredo argued that true conservatives should have supported Amendment 64 -- but he doubted that more Republican support would have driven many young voters to the GOP. One reader agrees in language that would likely please the ex-Congre ... More >>

Aurora theater shooting victims' families ask state officials to investigate donation fund

Update below: Families representing eleven of the twelve people who died in the Aurora theater shooting have asked Colorado's attorney general and secretary of state to investigate Community First Foundation and its website, GivingFirst.org, which collected more than $5 million in donations to the A ... More >>

Take that, Ticketmaster! String Cheese Incident buys its own tickets and resells without fees

Ethics be damned, I download music illegally. Why, just the other day, I downloaded Metallica's entire catalogue and then deleted it and downloaded it again just because fuck Metallica. Mostly, though, it's a convenience thing: I would consider buying tracks at a reasonable price on iTunes or some s ... More >>

Psst: Spy new paintings by William Betts at Plus Gallery

We all know that Big Brother's been watching us for some time, but that doesn't make the amazing recent paintings of William Betts any less intriguing or, well, creepy. Accurately replicating video imagery taken by surveillance cameras, the acrylic-on-canvas renderings are pointed in their message a ... More >>

How not to get picked for CBS Big Brother reality show

CBS descended on Denver on Saturday to hold an open casting call for anyone interested in possibly being picked as a contestant on the upcoming season of Big Brother. While I detest reality television in every way, I took it upon myself to go down and try out. What I discovered is how not to get a c ... More >>

Cody Charlton sentenced for improperly touching kids at his mom's home daycare

The Facebook page for Lakewood's Cody Charlton features a single like: Big Brother, a TV show in which bad things often happen to people confined in a house. Which is appropriate given that he's just been sentenced for improperly touching at least ten kids at the home where his mother ran a daycare ... More >>

Red-light-camera bill dies: Senator still doubts devices make intersections safer

Last month, we spoke with Senator Scott Renfroe, sponsor of Senate Bill 50, which would have banned red-light cameras at intersections, as well as the use of photos for issuing tickets. However, the measure failed to get out of the Senate's transportation committee, despite what Renfroe thought was ... More >>

Red-light cameras are about revenue, not safety, says senator pushing ban

36th & Quebec.​Red light photo tickets are a hot topic in Denver, with councilwomen Jeanne Faatz and Mary Beth Susman both questioning the program, especially as it applies to citations for crossing the white stop line -- an infraction whose fine was halved this week, but not eliminated. Now, ... More >>

A Colorado teen sentenced to forty years gets a second chance

Also read: Josh Beckius was sentenced to prison at sixteen -- but sixteen years later, he has a second chance

Broncos-Raiders: John Fox era looks like Josh McDaniels era, Kyle Orton revives QB debate

Kyle Orton.​Question for all those optimists expecting to see the Denver Broncos leave the Josh McDaniels debacle behind them: How are you feeling this morning? Depressed, probably -- because all the flaws that led to McD's ouster were still on view in their 23-20 home loss to the dreaded Raid ... More >>

Five dystopian futures that wouldn't be that bad

​Children of Men, Alfonso Cuaron's gritty and excellent film about a future where everyone has become sterile, plays tonight at the Denver FilmCenter as part of their recent sci-fi series. The film is a story about finding hope in an era of hopelessness. But gray skies and bombings aside, we d ... More >>

Gratuitous randomness: Big brother is watching you masturbate

​It's an unsettling thought that, at any given moment, Big Brother may be watching you -- and in this day and age of surveillance cameras every ten feet, it's probably true. But this is America, and like the good people of Oceana, when we have unsettling thoughts we prefer not to think them. T ... More >>

Death to the brown bags: school lunches vs. homemade, a fight to the finish

​Is the concept of students bringing lunch from home dying a hideous death -- just like live social interaction and Gilbert Gottfried's career? At Little Village Academy on Chicago's west side, students are not allowed to bring lunches from home unless they have a medical excuse, so they have ... More >>

Party-permit law for Boulder proposed by official after Todd Walker shooting

​Should the City of Boulder pass a law requiring "party permits" for the type of large, alcohol-fueled house parties thrown by CU students living in the University Hill neighborhood? This is one of the measures Boulder Councilwoman Lisa Morzel is calling for in response to the slaying of Todd ... More >>

Brave New World

The ten highest-grossing movies of 2010, and what that says about America

We'll take it.​The top grossing movie of 2009 was, of course, Avatar, and this year the title goes to Toy Story 3. We're calling that social progress, although there's something a little too futuristic about computer-animated movies taking the crown back-to-back -- we're pretty sure it means ... More >>

A man falling slowly up an escalator stars in your moment of lulz

​Technology can be confounding. I mean, it's like you've gotta be a rocket scientist just to program your VCR, amiright? In all seriousness, though, when it requires five remote controls with some twenty buttons apiece to operate the television, when half the things you own somehow serve the f ... More >>

Big Brother is everywhere: Theaters to introduce movie screens that watch you

Scene of the latest Two Minutes' Hate?​Ever read George Orwell's dystopian classic 1984, wherein the powers that be monitor your every move via video devices called telescreens? Super creepy, right? Well now a creepily similar technology is coming to a theater near you.

Douglas Bruce wins 60-61-101 case, but lawyer says order to testify "smacks of Big Brother"

Douglas Bruce.​The resolution of the latest case against tax-hater Douglas Bruce has been portrayed by the press as a mixed bag. True, Bruce wasn't held in contempt for not testifying in a lawsuit involving Amendments 60 and 61 and Proposition 101 -- but the judge ordered him to testify about ... More >>

Death Knell: Colorado wants reforms for its child-welfare system, but the biggest change is off the table

Have few hundred free audiobooks to make your morning commute/summer roadtrip easier

​Ah, audiobooks. That great modern invention that means even the busiest people can still enjoy a book here and there. Especially those of us that find ourselves stuck in cars for hours a day commuting. Too bad they're as expensive as real books -- even more so sometimes. If only there were so ... More >>

From the week of December 24, 2009

From the week of October 22, 2009

The Denver Boot: the Fluid at Westword Music Showcase, 6.13.09

It's been just nearly two weeks since the fifteenth annual Westword Music Showcase wrapped. By now, you've read all the coverage, checked out all the photos and downloaded all of the free MP3s. Right now, as we're gearing up for the awards ceremony, which will be taking place in the next few weeks ( ... More >>

Taking a gamble on drinking in Black Hawk

Hatchet Job

You can buy ICP shirts at Colorado Mills – just don’t wear one there.

Brickhouse Nightclub

Looking for love in all the wrong places.

A Howling Good Time

Allen Ginsberg's spirit lives on.

Life Without Father

The daughters of Dayton James are still dealing with their emotions toward Joshua Beckius.

Phone Lines

The debate regarding cell phones in restaurants rages on.