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Brooke Mueller, Charlie Sheen's ex, gets deferred sentence for coke possession, tantrum

When we named Charlie Sheen's ex-wife Brooke Mueller Shmuck of the Week this past December, we only knew the barest details about her arrest in Aspen on cocaine-and-assault-related charges. Does her deferred sentence in the case call this award into question? Not really judging by info from a just-r ... More >>

Ten most memorable celebrity and notables mug shots of 2011

Photos below.​Our 2011 mug shot showcase rolls on. Yesterday, we shared our picks for the year's ten most intimidating images. Now, cast your eyes on celebrities and notables who earned booking photos of their own, featuring several past and present Denver Broncos (what would Timmy say?), a Ho ... More >>

Brooke Mueller, Shmuck: Will she out-Charlie Sheen her ex in Aspen?

Brooke Mueller.​It can't have been easy to be married to Charlie Sheen: Tiger Blood just isn't the basis for a happy union. But that doesn't excuse Brooke Mueller for her #winning cocaine arrest last weekend near the Belly Up in Aspen -- the scene of another Shmucky episode just two week ago - ... More >>

Denver Post editor Greg Moore tweets Charlie Sheen roast & other Post adventures in Twitter

Greg Moore.​Earlier this month, John Paton was named CEO of MediaNews Group, and his arrival is already having an impact on staffers at the Denver Post, the firm's flagship paper. Paton is a big believer in social media, and we hear his presence has accelerated the Post's use of Twitter by eve ... More >>

Twelve and a half elaborate death scenarios Charlie Sheen

​Though Two and a Half Men creator Chuck Lorre remains mum on the subject, it's basically Internet fact at this point that Charlie Harper, Charlie Sheen's character on the popular series he helped create, will be killed off in the show's premier on September 19 -- he'll be replaced by Ashton K ... More >>

Giant baby head masks? Yeah, we talk about that and more with artist Landon Meier

​Last week, the Internetz finally caught wind of Denver-based artist Landon Meier's exceptionally creepy Hyperflesh masks, most notably with a 2009 video of a creepy family walking down the 16th Street Mall with baby heads on. Meier's masks have got a bit more traction recently with a perfect ... More >>

Charlie Sheen: Does hitting a homer with DU club team prove he's duh, winning? (VIDEO)

Winner? ​Charlie Sheen's recent visits to Colorado have involved more errors than hits. There was all that domestic drama in Aspen, and some critics view his Violent Torpedo of Truth tour as a crime in itself. But last week, Sheen showed he still has some of that Major League stuff left -- tak ... More >>

Charlie Sheen brings Violent Torpedo of Truth Tour to Denver, Wells Fargo, 4/28/11

​To begin, we had purchased our $50 tickets expecting to be entertained by the Violent Torpedo of Truth, and as we entered, before the show even began...they gave us even better tickets. Apparently, since people bailed on the show last night at the Wells Fargo Theatre, over half the place was ... More >>

Shameless self-promotion: Jef Otte makes it on the local news

Feel free to admire my practiced nonchalance.​Just in case you doubted that Westword was the foremost authority on dumb shit that happens in the media, know this: We're such an authority even other media outlets seek our expertise. And when I say "our expertise," I mean "my expertise." Yesterd ... More >>

Charlie Sheen show to be torpedoed by Denver cops?: Kenny Be's Worst-Case Scenario

​ Is this thing still on? The only way to save the My Violent Torpedo of Truth show would be to showcase Charlie Sheen's message with the talent of local acts...

Top 10 Charlie Sheen tweets from the last 10 minutes

A winner.​With Charlie Sheen's My Violent Torpedo of Truth in town tonight, I decided to check the latest thoughts on Chuckles from members of the Twitterverse -- and I was instantly overwhelmed by the number of people using him as a punchline.. and pretty well, too. Here are the ten funniest ... More >>

The Tiger Blood Barometer: Will Charlie Sheen score or suck in Denver on Thursday?

​Charlie Sheen's "My Violent Torpedo of Truth/Defeat is Not an Option" tour hits Denver Thursday, April 28 at the Wells Fargo Theatre, but is Denver ready for Charlie? More importantly, is Charlie ready for Denver? Using highly scientific research methods, we've developed the Tiger Blood Baro ... More >>

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This just in: People in Hollywood do cocaine

Yup. This poster looks pretty coked up.​Okay, so more like a shitload of people in Hollywood do cocaine -- at least that's what Dennis Quaid shares in a recent Newsweek piece (that we, of course, got wind of via TMZ.com, where all good, abbreviated versions of real news stories come from). Anyway, ... More >>

Top five reasons why bacon will never be over

​As long as there are pigs and people alive on the earth, bacon will never be over. Food trends have come, gone, lingered past their usefulness and then been recycled every week on the Food Network, but bacon remains an emotive staple, and a timeless culinary reality. Bacon has been battered ... More >>

Glenn Beck and Charlie Sheen: Too weird to live, too rare to die

Dying is for fools, amateurs.​Somewhere in the last couple of years, so gradually it was hard to notice at first, Glenn Beck went from annoying and somewhat menacing to hilarious. While watching Bill O'Reilly remains basically like watching a talk show with the evil trees from The Wizard of Oz ... More >>

TIME magazine unveils its world's most influential people poll -- and plenty of food warriors are on the list

Is Jamie Oliver one of world's most influential people? ​Every year, TIME magazine (which seems to get smaller each month) holds a little poll full of big names -- names that, according to those at TIME, are the most influential people in the whole wide world. And from now until April 14, yo ... More >>

Prepare for defeat at the at the Denver Nationals Championship Arm-Wrestling, courtesy of me

Besides doing this for training, I also ate a shitload of steaks.​It's already well established that I am a winner. Recall, if you will, my awe-inspiring victory in September, when I definitively established my dominance as the strongest, fastest and most virile man in a skirt at the Running o ... More >>

Comment of the day: "I think Charlie Sheen is a nice actor"

​Like every other blog in existence, we've been getting endless mileage out of Charlie Sheen's recent series of bizarre rants, so when we found out he was looking for a social media intern and asking prospects to apply in 75 characters or less yesterday, Kyle Garratt couldn't help but throw hi ... More >>

Charlie Sheen unleashes "winning recipes" on Funny or Die cooking show

​In his effort to win, well, everything, Charlie Sheen claims he's trying to be the first person to appear on every television network. Which, we guess, includes Funny or Die, because that's the website that's hosting his cooking show, Charlie Sheen's Winning Recipes.

Charlie Sheen is hiring a social media intern, and we're throwing our hat in the ring

Winning.​Charlie Sheen has a lot going on right now; giving interviews to anyone with a camera and microphone, getting fired, battling for custody of his kids, going bat-shit crazy and winning, duh. But he's not too busy to capitalize on his social media prowess. Sheen recently set the Guinne ... More >>

Four all-too-common restaurant wine service mistakes

​What the hell is up with the wine service at certain Denver restaurants lately? A slew of recent visits to a number of reputable spots around town resulted in being treated to some pretty egregious wine service faux pas. None of these restaurants were places where you'd know better than to ex ... More >>

Top five things Charlie Sheen needs to ingest in order to sober up and get his butt back to work

He may be getting the fat boot two and a half times.​ Charlie Sheen, our favorite "total friggin' rock star from Mars," has done lost his mind and is hitting the talk-show circuit harder than a bottle and a line of coke right now. His tirades are amusing, to be sure, because when was the las ... More >>

Dear Charlie Sheen: An open letter

A collaboration with Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All, you say?​Dear Carlos Estevez, aka Charlie Sheen, How goes it, man? I saw you on Good Morning America and beyond the sweats, the wide red eyes, excessive talking, cigarette-smoking and orange liquid-consuming antics, you looked fucking ... More >>

Charlie Sheen? More like Charlie Meme

​The interview with Charlie Sheen on ABC's Good Morning America is one of the finest pieces of television I've seen in a long time, in no small part to Charlie Sheen's off-the-wall replies to a straight line of questioning. Here are some of our favorites, in a new meme we're calling Charlie Me ... More >>

5 things the Qaddafi family could've spent $1 million dollars on

​Mariah, Usher, Beyonce and 50 Cent? Not the MTV video music awards. Definitely not the Grammy's. No, these are all artists that were paid approximately one million dollars to perform for Muammar Qaddafi family functions. The Libyan ruler has been the leader of Libya since 1969, and judging by ... More >>

Ten people who should host the 2012 Oscars

At least they make decent movies.​Is it time to already begin thinking about next year's Academy Awards show? Well, if you're like most Americans -- and critics, the venerable Roger Ebert among them -- who watched last night's show, then the answer is "yes." The hipster hosts, 28-year-old An ... More >>

Your antidote to the Charlie Sheen rant

​Charlie Sheen went on the radio and said some absurd things yesterday. Maybe you've heard. He really sailed off into crazy land this time, calling Thomas Jefferson a pussy and making some incoherent analogies involving him in his underwear strafing all his haters early in the morning. And fr ... More >>

Top 10 mug shots from 2010 of celebrities and notables

Photos below.​We're almost ready to unveil our top mug shots of 2010, after sharing galleries of women, tattoos, bad hair and accused teachers and caretakers. But as one last tease, check out booking photos of the famous and infamous that appeared here this year. Some you'll immediately recogn ... More >>

Charlie Sheen: Will porn star Capri Anderson fly to Aspen, ask Pitkin DA to revoke his probation?

Charlie Sheen.​Update: The Pitkin County District Attorney's Office reportedly has no interest in hauling Two and a Half Men star Charlie Sheen back to Aspen on a charge of violating his probation, even though there are plenty of indications he did so during a hotel-room-trashing NYC bender. B ... More >>

Charlie Sheen sentenced to Malibu?: Photo tour of spectacular "jail" where he'll serve Aspen time

Charlie Sheen.​Yesterday, actor Charlie Sheen came to Aspen to learn his punishment for pleading guilty to misdemeanor third-degree assault against wife Brooke Mueller on Christmas Day -- and it's pretty damn sweet. He's being allowed to serve his sentence at Promises of Malibu, a rehab center ... More >>

Charlie Sheen: Will he finalize his plea deal... and get into a slap-fight with Gloria Allred?

Charlie Sheen.​Expect another boost to the Aspen economy, as the celebrity press parachutes into town to see Two and a Half Men star Charlie Sheen's court appearance there this afternoon. At this writing, rumor has it that a plea deal is near, as is a possible run-in with spotlight-loving att ... More >>

Covering Charlie Sheen: Scrappy Aspen reporters key to the story, but often overlooked

Smile, you're in The Aspen Times.​As aggregated news and poorly sourced blogs permeate an industry once driven by a dying breed of scrappy local journalists, the little guys at the heart of the big story are often forgotten -- or worse, just plain robbed. But Rick Carroll, managing editor at ... More >>

Charlie Sheen can serve Aspen's community one of these five ways

​Charlie Sheen was supposed to sign off on a sweet plea bargain last week. Rumor has it that the Pitkin County Sheriff is recommending a work-release program for the actor in exchange for his pleading no contest to felony menacing and 3rd-degree assault and criminal mischief in connection with ... More >>

Charlie Sheen's Aspen jail demands: Can't we all just get along?

"Mr. Sheen does not do windows."​Reports that Charlie Sheen's plea deal on domestic violence charges in Aspen is faltering because he won't be allowed to smoke while on work release have left some of us court-watchers flummoxed. After all, Aspen is a celebrity-prone place. You'd think all tha ... More >>

A half dozen prison songs for Charlie Sheen's "Aspen vacation"

​With Charlie Sheen's upcoming jail sentence for domestic abuse getting whittled down by the minute, the Two and a Half Men star may wind up with a slap on the wrist for slapping his wife. The latest report says that Sheen could possibly serve his 30-day sentence for felony menacing, misdemean ... More >>

Charlie Sheen will serve thirty days in Aspen jail, says TMZ.com

"I'm not too impressed with these accomodations."​It took quite a while for Aspen authorities to formally accuse actor Charlie Sheen of wrongdoing following his December arrest for allegedly assaulting and threatening wife Brooke Mueller. But if TMZ.com is right, locals managed to make a char ... More >>

Charlie Sheen just the latest example of Colorado's domestic-violence laws

​Charlie Sheen didn't study his Colorado legal history before he headed to Aspen for a vacation last Christmas. Three decades ago, Colorado was at the cutting edge of recognizing the dangers of domestic violence. The first battered women's shelters in the country were established here, and Co ... More >>

Charlie Sheen's greeting from paparazzi during court appearance in Aspen: "You're awesome, Charlie!"

Charlie Sheen, whose Christmas present was an arrest for allegedly threatening and assaulting wife Brooke Mueller, wanted to avoid cameras inside an Aspen courthouse during his appearance there yesterday -- and his lawyers prevailed on that matter. But there was nothing he could do to prev ... More >>

Toyotas speeding out of control like something out of a bad Stephen King movie

The impending Prius recall we told you about yesterday is now a reality -- but only 2010 models are targeted, despite serious problems with earlier versions of the hybrid documented in a 2009 Westword feature. Clearly, Toyota's bad batch of cars -- you know, the ones that accelerate beyond the dri ... More >>

What would you prefer, Charlie Sheen -- a court hearing or a colonoscopy?

Charlie Sheen's got responsibilities he'd rather avoid in both the non-fiction and fiction universes. On Wednesday, he's scheduled to appear in an Aspen courtroom in relation to a Christmas day incident when he allegedly threatened and assaulted his wife, Brooke. His lawyers are doing their damned ... More >>

Only lottery winners can cover Charlie Sheen hearing

Want to see this face? The odds are against you.​If you're a reporter who thinks covering Charlie Sheen's court appearance in Aspen on January 20 will be like winning the lottery, you're right. It'll be exactly like winning the lottery. The Aspen Police Department has determined that the memb ... More >>

Charlie Sheen suddenly camera-shy, doesn't want Channel 9 in Aspen courtroom

"Who wrote this script? It isn't funny."​Charlie Sheen has made some nice coin over the years working in front of cameras. But apparently he doesn't want to do so for free -- especially when it pertains to his December 25 arrest in Aspen for allegedly threatening and assaulting his wife, Brook ... More >>

Denver Blogs: Charlie Sheen case more fun than running for Congress

"Hey! I'm not ready for my closeup!"​We're back with our week-daily roundup of Denver bloggery. Did you miss us? The Colorado Independent's David O. Williams speculates that 9th Judicial District Attorney Martin Beeson was too busy with high-profile cases involving the likes of actor Charlie ... More >>

Charlie Sheen's lack of charges: Only in Aspen?

A mug mugs for his mug shot. ​Last time I checked, Aspen was still nominally associated with the rest of Colorado. But its legal system sometimes has about as much to do with what happens elsewhere in the state as, well, the microstate of Liechtenstein has to do with Madagascar--not much. An ... More >>

The Westword.com blog shortcut, August 10 edition

Breathe, Carolina, breathe!​Prepare for the jump to Warped speed. Today in Backbeat Online: • Over the Weekend: Warped Tour at Invesco Field at Mile High. • Over the Weekend: Kings of Leon at Red Rocks. • Over the Weekend: Houses at the Meadowlark. • Dialed In: This week's local music ... More >>

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