Subject: NASA

• Throwing the Book at Parole

  November 8, 2007

• Mile High Makeout: Tasting the Cookie

  January 18, 2008

• Ray Loves Terrorists, Wants To Make Them Pie

  June 2, 2008

• A bad night in Boulder at Tahona

  September 30, 2008

• A political animal: Jason Sheehan sends season's eatings to election volunteers

  October 2, 2008

• Friday Rap-Up: ytCracker, DJ AM , Eminem and No Limit

  October 17, 2008

• Century Madness

  Have fun all night with Cirque De Siecle.

  October 26, 2000

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  August 26, 2004

• DIA conspiracy promoted to one of history’s greatest!

  The Daily Telegraph in the UK recently compiled a list of "History's Greatest Conspiracy Theories" – and the contributors have put the murals at Denver International Airport at number five! The DIA conspiracy is beaten out only by NASA moon landings, Roswell, JFK and 9/11. The paper notes how the "strange and disturbing" murals have been used as proof of a vast conspiracy by the Illuminati and the New World Order. For background on the murals – and interviews with the man who created the

  November 21, 2008

• Going for the Gourd

  October 26, 2000

• Best Place to Tell Your Significant Other It's Over

  April 4, 2002

• Drink of the Week

  May 15, 2003

• Best New Club

  March 25, 2004

• Morrissey top seller at Twist & Shout

  Morrissey's new album, Years of Refusal, released last week on Decca, grabbed the top spot on Twist & Shout's top seller list for the week ending February 22. Andrew Bird, M. Ward and Beirut also performed strong while the Fray's latest album dropped from its number one position for the last two weeks down to the sixth spot. See the full breakdown after the jump.

  February 23, 2009

• Chafing Dishes

  February 14, 2008

• Night & Day

  April 15-21, 1999

  April 15, 1999

• Balloon Bonanza

  August 23, 2007

• Idle Wild

  Grab a seat and a mojito, and watch the summer go by.

  June 7, 2007

• Space Case

  May 26, 2005

• The Astronaut Farmer

  The Polish brothers dream big with their latest flick.

  February 22, 2007

• Rocket Man

  David Grinspoon is popularizing science, one alien joke at a time.

  October 12, 2006

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  June 30, 2005

• The Atomic Bitchwax

  Monday, June 20, Larimer Lounge, 303-291-1007.

  June 16, 2005

• Scratching the Surface

  DB

  May 12, 2005

• Baroque and Roll

  Red Priest rocks the classical canon

  October 28, 2004

• Out There

  NASA astronomer makes sense of the cosmos

  February 5, 2004

• Contact!

  The Mars Rover, live from Denver

  January 1, 2004

• Flight Club

  Kites unite in One Sky

  October 9, 2003

• Mad About Mars

  Mars is close enough to pinch during Mars Marathon.

  August 28, 2003

• The Bleeding Edge

  A decade ago, Vertigo started a revolution by making comics for adults

  February 13, 2003

• A Spaced Odyssey

  As the Denver Museum of Nature & Science looks to the future, employees worry that its original mission has been lost.

  September 19, 2002

• Moon Child

  This Boulder ballerina took a whack at the Big Whack theory -- and one of science's biggest mysteries.

  April 25, 2002

• Talkin' Tolkien

  Who has the right to write about the lord of the Ring's fictional tongues?

  December 20, 2001

• The Final Frontier

  In the deadly race to circle the globe in a balloon, team Re/Max plans to rise above the crowd. But can a bold ego go where no man has gone before?

  July 30, 1998

• A True Disaster

  July 9, 1998

• Off Limits

  October 9, 1997

• Mars or Bust

  The sky's no limit for these Colorado scientists. They're heading straight for the Red Planet.

  September 18, 1997

• Filling the Void

  It had to happen: outer-space law and outer-space lawyers.

  August 21, 1997

• E.T., Go Home

  June 6, 1996

• 5...4...3...2...1...HEADS UP

  September 7, 1994

• Urbavore's Dilemma: Growing weird with Russ Dale's mystic space garden

  Joel WarnerThe Great Experimenters (from left): James Quirk, Barnabas Von Scarecrow, Russ Dale and Matt Twardy Urbavore's Dilemma is an ongoing web series detailing city dwellers' commitment to urban homesteading. From May through September, Westword writer Joel Warner will get his hands dirty, covering everything from backyard chickens to front-lawn gardens, from greenhouses to co-ops and food-sharing. Check out the full series here. Russ Dale's been sending me cryptic e-mails for a while,

  June 17, 2009

• Centennial's United Launch Alliance taking off with smaller crew

  Photo by Pat Corkery, United Launch AllianceA United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket set to launch in Florida this afternoon. United Launch Alliance, based in Centennial, is earning some nice ink today in relation to its Atlas V rocket, which is scheduled to boost the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) into space from a Florida launchpad at between 3:12 p.m. and 3:32 p.m. our time this afternoon. The mission is billed as the first step to

  June 18, 2009

• UFO booster Jeff Peckman's anti-NASA screed

  Jeff Peckman as he appeared on 9News' "Your Show." Examiner.com, another enterprise bankrolled by Denver-based billionaire Phil Anschutz (currently in danger of losing a a button or two on his shirt related to an aborted Michael Jackson tour he bankrolled), attempts to rack up web hits with help from thousands of "examiners" -- journalists with varying degrees of professional experience and self-proclaimed experts in various fields, who are paid for blogging based on the popularity of their sub

  June 29, 2009

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, June 29 edition

  Zoning out.... Changing channels? Today in Cafe Society: • ESPN ZONE turns off the scoreboard, blames economy. • Tonight: A symphony of food and wine at Opus. • Milking It: All-Bran Yogurt Bites. • Bad weekend for barbecue at Big Hoss, Q Worldly Barbecue. • Bye-bye, Brandon's. • Arrivederci, Alto. • Ask the Critic: Where to get a good cart lunch. Today in Backbeat Online: • Over the Weekend: White Rabbits at Bluebird Theater. • Are you indie or independent? • Over the Wee

  June 29, 2009

• Q&A with Moon director Duncan Jones

  Courtesy of Sony PicturesSam Rockwell in "Moon." Moon, which opens on Friday, July 3, at the Mayan Theatre, is a low-budget science-fiction film that shoots for the stratosphere using ideas, not computer graphics and flashy effects. That it does so well with so little is a testament to the performance of Sam Rockwell, as an astronaut (or two) trying not to lose his marbles while working on an isolated mining station with no one to keep him company but GERTY, a robot programmed with the voice of

  July 2, 2009

• Back to the Future

  July 16, 2009

• Get your fake moon rocks here

  An image from the Zybek website. Been looking everywhere for realistic representations of the lunar surface? Look no more. Zybek Advanced Products, a Boulder-based firm just chosen for assistance by a University of Colorado-affiliated nonprofit dedicated to promoting space-industry entrepreneurship, has built "a full-scale plasma processing facility... used for manufacturing high-volume glass and mineral materials," including "lunar simulant materials." The idea, presumably, is that if NASA rea

  July 15, 2009

• George H.W. Bush's speech to schoolchildren: There's no room for drugs in space

  George H.W. Bush.​As noted in our blog about a Douglas County school allowing parents to opt out of letting their kids watch President Barack Obama's speech to children on Tuesday, we pointed out that other Commanders-in-Chief have directly addressed younglings -- among them President George W. Bush, who asked America's kids to each donate a dollar to the plight of children in Afghanistan back in 2001. But a closer comparison can be made to a September 1991 teleconference conducted by Duby

  September 3, 2009

• The Obama administration: a Colorado College cabal?

  ​Every presidency has its own biases about the kind of education that makes for good leaders. JFK stacked the deck with Harvard grads; Bush I and Bush II leaned toward Yalies, of course. Snobbery, Eastern elitism, Ivy Leaguism--it's been expected of the White House since the days of Woodrow Wilson, a Princeton man himself (and later the university's president, before his descent into politics) who didn't mind tapping the old school for his brain trust. So what's with all the Colorado Col

  October 5, 2009

• This is what silver balloon boy Falcon Heene was imagining: Flight of the Navigator!

  Okay, now that the kid-in-a-runaway-ballon-saga has ended safely with 6-year-old Falcon Heene being discovered in hiding in his family's attic, I can finally say out loud what every male who came of age in the 80's was thinking while viewing the fantasical footage of the silver, billowing aircraft shooting through the sky -- Fight of the Navigator!

  October 15, 2009