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After Aurora theater shooting, Ken Gordon takes aim at political contributions from gun lobby

Ken Gordon is a crusader. Term-limited out of the Colorado Senate, the one-time candidate for Secretary of State, a position that oversees elections, has now decided to fix the system from the outside. Last year, he founded CleanSlateNow.org, a non-partisan organization working to get money out of p ... More >>

James Holmes rumor mill after Aurora shootings: More viral than Columbine

In the aftershocks of the shootings at an Aurora theater that left twelve dead and dozens wounded, it's inevitable that the tragedy would evoke comparisons to the 1999 attack on Columbine High School. Certainly, the instant online speculation about the shooter and his motives is eerily reminiscent o ... More >>

Basalt High schoolers' plan to beat, kidnap, starve teen breaks on Columbine anniversary

Each anniversary of the April 20, 1999 Columbine High massacre seems to bring disturbing new events -- like Earl Moore's attempted bombing of a nearby mall. This year's shocking tie-in: An announcement that a Basalt High student had been busted for an alleged plan to kidnap, beat and starve another ... More >>

Reader: The Lifetime Network might as well hire Quentin Tarantino for its Columbine movie, too

Columbine on TV: The five most convoluted school shooting episodes

This week's feature, "The Columbine Effect," reports on the controversy over a proposed miniseries about the shootings at Columbine -- and the way filmmakers have made use of the tragedy to advance various agendas of their own. But references to Columbine in indie films and documentaries, however up ... More >>

Columbine High School hammer attack: Freshman's bust gets big media attention

This morning, a freshman girl at Columbine High School allegedly attacked two fellow students with a hammer. It's a story that would likely have remained local had it happened elsewhere. But because the incident took place at Columbine, outlets from ABC to the Sydney Morning Herald are covering it. ... More >>

Zero tolerance policies enacted after Columbine massacre need to go away, panelist says

Columbine, 1999.​Inspired by the 1999 assault on Columbine High School and the horrific roster of school shootings since then, officials developed a "zero tolerance" approach to disciplining students whose actions touch on violence, no matter how tangentially. Now, a panel appointed by the sta ... More >>

Earl Moore charged with arson, not terrorism, in Southwest Plaza bomb try near Columbine

Big pics below.​Update: At 2 p.m. this afternoon, Earl Albert Moore is scheduled to appear in U.S. District Court in Denver to be advised of the charges against him in relation to an attempted bombing at Southwest Plaza mall on the twelfth anniversary of the shootings at nearby Columbine High ... More >>

Tonight: 13 Families brings the impact of Columbine a little closer to our hearts

​When 13 Families, a new documentary about how the families of the thirteen victims of the Columbine shootings cope with their loss, premieres tonight at the Denver FilmCenter, it will be a new experience for the public. After so much media focus on the more sensational and political aspects o ... More >>

Tears For Fears

Columbine: Thirteen Families documentary focuses on long road to healing (VIDEO)

​After twelve years of investigations, exposés, books, videos and Michael-Moore-sized pontifications, what more is there to say about the 1999 Columbine shootings? Plenty, according to the makers of Thirteen Families, a new documentary set to premiere in Denver on April 18, which focuses on t ... More >>

Kristin & Candice Hermeler: Suicide-pact twins' Columbine fascination deeper than admitted

Kristin Hermeler​It didn't make much sense that Candice and Kristin Hermeler would travel halfway across the world to enact a suicide pact at a local gun range -- until reports began to surface about the Australian twins' obsession with the Columbine shootings. While police have tried to downp ... More >>

Candice & Kristin Hermeler: Judy Brown on Columbine tie to Australian twins' suicide pact

Kristin Hermeler.​Last week, we learned that Australian twins Kristin and Candice Hermeler, whose suicide pact left the former dead and the latter seriously wounded, had an interest in the 1999 Columbine massacre, but we didn't know the roots of the connection. Now, however, Judy Brown, whose ... More >>

The Fort Hood tragedy and echoes of Columbine

Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the alleged Fort Hood shooter.​Whenever there's a mass shooting of the sort that burst out at the Fort Hood military base in Texas yesterday, the vast majority of people who lived in the Denver area in 1999 immediately flash back to what happened at Columbine High Scho ... More >>

Sky News on the Columbine connection to British teens' trial

Another month, another high-profile reference to the 1999 Columbine High School massacre. Yesterday marked the start of a trial in London focusing on Matthew Swift, 18, and Ross McKnight, 16, who are accused of planning to blow up their school. This scheme would have triggered memories of Columbine ... More >>

Jason Sheehan keeps the home fires burning in Best Food Writing

The Columbine Steak House, home of the last $10 steak.​Da Capo's Best Food Writing 2009, is out, and once again it includes a piece from Jason Sheehan: "The Last of the Great $10 Steaks," his wonderful Westword review of the Columbine Steak House. Here's a taste: The smell of cheap steaks b ... More >>

Alex Youshock bombing and the legacy of Columbine

Alex Youshock.​Alex Youshock, an appropriately named 17-year old, has been identified as the person arrested yesterday for bombing his old school, San Mateo's Hillsdale High; no one was injured in the attacks. And predictably, the word "Columbine" figures in much of the coverage, even though n ... More >>

Ask the Critic: Vegetarian death march

Okay, so say you've got a friend. And this friend, for whatever reason (religious aversion, misguided sense of moral outrage, PETA brainwashing), has chosen not to eat meat. Still, you, as a proud carnivore, want to go out somewhere where both of you can have a decent feed. This week's question? Wh ... More >>

Cowbobas is still mixing it up

Columbine Steak House keeps the home fires burning

Columbine tenth anniversary coverage: massive, well-intentioned, mostly unenlightening

A word that applies to the vast majority of the stories I've seen, heard or read about today's tenth anniversary of the killings at Columbine High School is "obligatory." Although fewer commemorative efforts have appeared on April 20 in recent years than in the immediate aftermath of the bloodshed ... More >>

Why Germans care so much about Columbine

One of Dylan Klebold's pipe bombs. A film crew from Munich-based FOCUS TV Produktions was in our southwest suburbs during the past few days, interviewing people whose lives have been altered by the Columbine shootings ten years ago -- school and police officials, parents and survivors of the massac ... More >>

Shmucks of the Week: Brophy and King

It's coming up on the ten-year anniversary of the Columbine High School murders -- so what better time to introduce a bill in the state legislature that would ease a restriction on certain people who want to buy firearms? The bill, pushed by Republican senator Greg Brophy of Wray (pictured) and R ... More >>

Wake-Up Call: Columbine, redux

There have been other school shootings in the ten years since Columbine, horror scenes with even bigger body counts. But for some reason, Columbine is the crime that resonates; "Columbine" is the word that keeps getting repeated in the tales of similar plots -- some carried out, some foiled. It w ... More >>

The connection between the Columbine massacre and terror attacks in Mumbai

A report that suggests an aroma for CSU perfume -- the topic of today's blog "Colorado State University Smells Like... Deer and Locker Rooms?" -- wasn't only the unusual mention of this state we're in on National Public Radio yesterday. An unexpected local reference popped up in "Mumbai Attacks Of ... More >>

Ninth Anniversary of Columbine Shootings Covered By the Numbers

In Praise of the Columbine Killers

The Hard Lessons About Safe Schools

Now it really is Safe2Tell

More Insanity

The Twenty-Year Itch

Columbine Study Questions

The Good Part

A Columbine survivor’s journey to a new life takes a few detours through film, Michael Moore, God and book deals.

More Messages: Game On

Letters to the Editor

From the week of October 7, 2004

Anatomy of a Cover-up

Days after the Columbine shootings, Jeffco officials were already lying about what they knew. What about now?

You Must Remember This

The horrors of Columbine, reduced to a single page.

Shooting Blanks

Columbine-based Bingo Boyz targets the obvious.

Quagmire Without End, Amen

Truth is the first casualty of war -- and Columbine.

Coloradans Take Aim

The Second Amendment triggers dialogue.

Reel Violence

The Denver Film Festival looks at the effects of screen violence.

Letters to the Editor

From the week of April 11, 2002

Secret Agents

Jeffco is a public-records embarrassment.

The Paper Chase

Elvis is dead -- but Columbine lives on.

Between a Rock and a Hard Place

The truth will out -- just not in Jefferson County.

Shocking the Conscience

Dismissed lawsuits leave victims' families frustrated.

Give Thanks

Are we having funds yet?

Chronology of a Big Fat Lie

Tracking the official story of the secret Columbine affidavit.

Best Cheap Steak

Columbine Steak House & Lounge

So Many Sex Offenders, So Little Time

Jeffco's search for a place to put its juvenile sex offenders is going nowhere fast.