Harold Camping

Mayan myths: PeaceJam on the ten worst doomsday predictions , and one surprise

No one could have predicted that all the wacky doomsday predictions tied to the Mayan calendar and December 21, 2012 would mark a new beginning for PeaceJam, the homegrown effort that links Nobel Peace Prize winners with kids, teaching them how to make a difference in the world. But assuming the wor ... More >>

10 things to do for $10 in Denver this weekend (5 free!), December 21-23

Yeah, the world might end tonight. But just in case it doesn't, hold onto some of your cash, rather than ending up like one of Harold Camping's followers. Because there will be plenty of ways to spend it this weekend in Denver, where bargain activities include skating at a roller disco, dancing away ... More >>

PeaceJam's founders hope to dispel myths about the Mayans

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Reader: Sign spinners are pawns in the gold-accumulation conspiracy

Reader: The world ended the day The Real World started

The world didn't end last May 21, as Harold Camping had predicted. Nor did it end on October 21, which was his revised prediction. Finally earlier this month, the 90-year-old Camping, who was born in Boulder, admitted he was wrong, and said he was getting out of the predictions business.

End-of-days prophet Harold Camping issues a mea culpa

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Here are your 2011 Denver #WebAwards news winners

​Here are the winners of the 2011 Denver #WebAwards in the category we're loosely dubbing "news," which means Westword scribes report on the happenings in these beats, right here on Latest Word. These are the winners only; for a complete list of finalists go here: "Here are your 2011 Denver #W ... More >>

2011 Denver #WebAwards winners announced!

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Emergency Alert System test conspiracy theories cite Comet Elenin, 9/11 (VIDEOS)

​Another day, another doomsday scenario. Hot on the heels of theories that Comet Elenin would destroy life as we know it, followed by former Boulderite Harold Camping's latest failed end-of-the-world prediction come fears of catastrophe associated with today's nationwide test of the Emergency ... More >>

Westboro Baptist Church to take on the East High Angels?

Fred Phelps.​Sadly, it's too late to block the border. By now the professional picketers from Westboro Baptist Church, Fred Phelps's "god-hates-fags" group, have likely made their way from Kansas to Colorado, where they've announced plans to picket two Jewish General Assembly meetings downtown ... More >>

Ladies' night all right in this new book: Steve Horner, start reading!

Steve Horner.​Steve Horner, the anti-ladies night crusader, gave Denver bars fits a few years ago, then took his campaign back on the road -- most recently to Las Vegas. The slew of complaints he's filed in Sin City against resort/casinos over special deals for bikini-clad babes are about to ... More >>

DIA Art Master Plan calls for performances' return... and what about Blue Mustang's eyes?

​Although the fancy architect is gone and the ownership of Santiago Calatrava's DIA expansion design is still up in the air, plans for construction of the South Terminal, including a light-rail station and a public plaza, are moving forward. That means Denver could soon commission another $3 m ... More >>

Harold Camping to end end-of-the-world predictions?

Harold Camping.​Harold Camping has predicted the end of the world three times -- and each time, the ninetysomething Boulder native has struck out. Most recently, Doomsday did not arrive on October 21. Five months earlier, the Rapture did not occur on May 21. And there were earlier botched Cam ... More >>

Reader: May all of these Christian leaders fall into Avichi (look it up)

​This is it. Today is the end of the world, according to Harold Camping, the biblical prognosticator who was born in Boulder more than ninety years ago. But with age does not necessarily come wisdom: He did miss with his prediction of the Rapture -- which he'd said would hit on May 21. So perh ... More >>

Top 5 Extreme Makeover: Home Edition must-see stops in Colorado Springs

​Extreme Makeover: Home Edition moves to Fridays tonight, and makes a stop in Colorado. No, this isn't where the crew builds a house for a family enduring hardship -- that happens in Pennsylvania. Instead, while the crew is building their home, the family waits in Colorado.

Doomsday countdown, day five: Harold Camping's third try

Harold Camping, living it up.​If there's any lesson we can take from our look back this week at a number of apocalyptic prophesies (apophesies, as I like to call them) in advance of what Harold Camping is predicting to be the end of the world today, it's that they all have one key component in ... More >>

Harold Camping wouldn't know Doomsday if the world ended right in front of him

Harold Camping.​Denver blog posts bring it. Show and Tell's Jef Otte on Boulder-born Harold Camping's third failed attempt at predicting the world's end. Good effort, Hal! The Grazing Mind's Jarod Ballentine wishes a happy b-day to Horizon Organic. Free Colorado's Ari Armstrong on how the M ... More >>

Former GOP-er Ali Hasan is pushing his movie

George W. Bush to get smart on his Get Smart visit to Denver

W.​President Barack Obama was in town last month, and will be back next week. But today, it's George W. Bush's turn to visit Denver, where he'll be meeting this morning with Mayor Michael Hancock and Denver school superintendent Tom Boasberg to talk about Get Smart Schools, a charter school i ... More >>

Reader: The world will end in 2012 -- so get your Doomsday clock fixed, Harold Camping!

​Patricia Calhoun's post about Harold Camping's fast-approaching deadline for the next Doomsday drew the sort of posts will miss if the Rapture begins according to his schedule. Here's an example, apparently from a historical personage with a track record of memorable predictions.

Doomsday countdown, day four: Project Icarus and the asteroid that didn't destroy earth -- yet

Jerry Bruckheimer's prophesy was by far the most entertaining.​Every sensible person knows that when Earth is eventually destroyed, it will be by a huge asteroid like the one that killed all the dinosaurs. We learned this mostly from Jerry Bruckheimer, but Jerry Bruckheimer probably learned it ... More >>

Reader: Harold Camping is pushing his luck with Doomsday predictions

​If the Rapture came this past May 21 -- as Harold Camping had predicted -- no one noticed. But not to worry: Camping, who was born in Boulder more than nine decades ago and went on to found a biblical empire, now says that the real date to focus on is October 21, when the world will definitel ... More >>

Harold Camping missed the Rapture, but could he get a hit with Doomsday?

​The world will end on Friday, according to Harold Camping, the biblical clock-watcher who was born in the apocalyptic town of Boulder more than nine decades ago. Of course, Camping has been wrong before: He'd predicted that the Rapture would hit on May 21, 2011 -- and if it did, no one notice ... More >>

Doomsday countdown, day three: The Amazing Criswell and the Denver goo

The Amazing Criswell: As much credibility as anyone else, really.​Call it an unlucky guess: In March 1963, the Amazing Criswell, born Jeron Criswell Konig and otherwise known as Jeron Criswell King, predicted that John F. Kennedy would not run for re-election because something would happen to ... More >>

Doomsday countdown, day two: Kim Miller jumps off the deep end and never comes back

When Christ returns, it's going to be weird.​In late December 1999, while the artist then known as the artist formerly known as Prince was preparing to party, and while the rest of the world was shoveling canned goods into their bunkers in preparation for the would-be-apocalypse of Y2K, Kim Mi ... More >>

Doomsday countdown, day one: The many apocalyptic predictions of Harold Camping

This dude just looks like a charlatan, doesn't he?​If the world had a nickel for every time the world was supposed to end, let's just say the world would have a whole boatload of nickels -- but as not-at-all-unusual as it may be for the various pseudo-prophets and charlatans of history to pred ... More >>

Jesus, Bono and the Apocalypse examined in a new film

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Jesus vs. Bono documentary looks at last non-pocalypse in time for next apocalypse

When Christ failed to make a second earthly appearance on May 21, 2011, it probably came as a surprise to few -- would-be prophet Harold Camping, the Biblical number-cruncher who predicted that date as the day of the Rapture, had been wrong about the world ending before, after all. But while nobody ... More >>

Comet Elenin fails to disrupt Barack Obama's Denver trip, devastate planet -- so far! (VIDEOS)

Videos below.​We were shocked -- shocked! -- when President Barack Obama gave a speech at Lincoln High School yesterday, as scheduled, rather than taking refuge from Comet Elenin in DIA's secret underground tunnels. But while some conspiracy theorists are conceding they were wrong, others stil ... More >>

Bizarre classroom posters from the '70s: Here's why your parents are so f*cked up (PHOTOS)

Big pics below.​Ever wonder why your mom and dad (or maybe you) are such a mess? These "discussion posters" from 1973 offer clues. Some are icky ("I'm O.K., and You're O.K."). Some are depressing ("What is the purpose?"). And some are borderline obscene, like this shot of a curious boy with a ... More >>

The Qwest sign: Denver has plenty of homegrown options that could replace it

Canada Day: Top 5 reasons to blame Canada -- and thank Canada

​Until 1 p.m. today, the Canadian consulate is hosting Canada Day festivities on the 16th Street Mall between Cleveland and Court streets. Which got us to thinking: What is most worth celebrating about Canada? And what deserves a special musical attack from the South Park boys? These probing q ... More >>

The Book of Mormon (and Harold Camping?) make for big Colorado night at Tony Awards

Trey Parker.​We've been following The Book of Mormon's march to theatrical dominance for months, from first raves to Drama Desk nominations and Tony nods -- fourteen of them, leading to nine victories at the awards ceremony last night, including Best Musical for hometown boys made good Trey Pa ... More >>

Judgment Day: Top 10 tweets about the world not ending on Harold Camping's schedule

​The prediction by Boulder-born Harold Camping's Family Radio that Judgment Day would begin at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday proved to be a little premature -- and thank goodness, since it allowed Twitter Nation to respond to the fact that the world didn't end on schedule. Look below to see our ten fa ... More >>

The rapture didn't happen on Saturday, but a documentary about it got filmed

There was none of this.​Despite the predictions of doomsayer Harold Camping, the Lord apparently did not see fit to visit destruction upon the earth Saturday, which passed somewhat unremarkably except that it was a particularly beautiful day. (Personally, I went to an apocalypse barbecue and a ... More >>

U2 Denver, 360° Tour at Invesco Field, 5/21/11

Photos by Aaron Thackeray U2 360° TOUR With The Fray 05.21.11 | Invesco Field View U2 at Invesco Field slideshow Say what you will about U2. Name another band that can fill a stadium these days... Time's up. Drawing a blank? That's because there aren't any -- certainly not any from this era. That ... More >>

Judgment Day is coming, but what does it mean? You be the judge

​Less than 24 hours from judgment day, there's apparently still plenty of time to quibble over just what, exactly, Boulder-born Harold Camping has predicted will happen to the world on May 21, as advertised on an end-of-the-world billboard that popped up in town last month.

10 things to do for $10 this weekend, May 20-22, 2011

​This weekend includes an incredibly diverse set of activities. From hanging out and waiting for the rapture to dancing and car shows, you'll be able to spend your last waking hours on earth getting some serious party on. If the shit doesn't totally hit the fan come Saturday, you'll even be ab ... More >>

Calling all sinners: Five Denver restaurants where you must eat before the world ends tomorrow

​Even if you haven't come up for air this week, we assume you've still heard the farcical prediction by crazy Christian radio host Harold Camping -- namely that tomorrow is doomsday (some call if heaven) for at least 200 million of us. God forbid, it could be you! Or worse, me (although I'm in ... More >>

The apocalypse will kick off in Boulder, and here's why

Judgment Day is coming on May 21, says The Daily Show -- for 89-year-old Harold Camping

Camping and Stewart.​Billboards in Colorado and beyond warn that Judgment Day is coming May 21 -- at least according to the California-based Family Radio network, led by 89-year-old Boulder native Harold Camping. And according to a clip from last night's episode of The Daily Show on view below ... More >>

Comment of the day: Harold Camping is a horrible Bible teacher

​It seems kind of self-evident that Harold Camping is a nut job. For the second time in an otherwise unremarkable career, Camping is currently garnering attention for yet another end-of-days prediction; using a formula of his own design, he claims to have mathematically calculated the date of ... More >>

Jesus vs. Bono: Who would win? The founder of PeaceJam intends to find out

Pictured here without cross.​Come Saturday, Colorado's poised to have more incoming messiahs than anybody ever asked for, including the evangelicals; besides being the scheduled day of Jesus' second coming according to Biblical number-cruncher Harold Camping, it's also the day Bono comes to De ... More >>

Comment of the day: The end times

​The end of the world is coming. It's hard to say when, unless you're evangelist Harold Camping, in which case you can feel pretty confident in saying that it's coming... oh, around Saturday. For a few months now, Camping's been touting his theory that the end times will arrive May 21 of this ... More >>

Judgment Day is coming May 21: Downtown billboard guarantees it

Big pic below.​That gutter-cleaning job you've been putting off? Forget about it. That iPad you've been cautiously eying? Time to splurge, my friend. Why? Because we only have a mere seven weeks, just 47 more days, until Judgment Day. Swear to God. After all, a downtown billboard proclaims -- ... More >>

Will the world end in 2011? Well, it hasn't yet

When Christ returns, he will bring the fucking lasers.​There's been a lot of John Cusak-related hubbub about the end of the Mayan calendar meaning the end of the world, but Harold Camping isn't buying that crap. "It's like a fairy tale," he chuckles. Because by the time 2012 comes around, ac ... More >>