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Video shows Evan Ebel shooting Texas deputy

Yesterday, in announcing a reprieve for quadruple murderer Nathan Dunlap noted that Lisa Clements remains against the death penalty even after what happened to her husband, the late Colorado prison chief Tom Clements. What happened to Clements is that Evan Ebel allegedly murdered him, then took off ... More >>

Video: John Hickenlooper's angry exchange with reporter latest example of his very hard year

For Governor John Hickenlooper, it was a very hard week at the end of a hard year, filled with disasters both natural and man-made -- disasters Colorado is still struggling to understand. The frustrations that consumed Hickenlooper over the past twelve months came bubbling out during an interview ab ... More >>

The Thorn, a Vegas-style passion play, takes Easter up a notch

For hundreds of years, Christians all over the world have been telling the story of Jesus Christ's life and death in the form of dramatic theater. From the devout actors in the Philippines using actual nails-through-the-hands, to Mel Gibson grossing $600 million portraying the bloodiest Jesus in Hol ... More >>

Gary Busey steals the show from Ted Haggard on Celebrity Wife Swap

Heading into the airing of tonight's episode of Celebrity Wife Swap on ABC, the talk around here focused almost exclusively on Pastor Ted Haggard, who had to leave his mega New Life Church in Colorado Springs five years ago after "the scandal." But when the show aired at 8 p.m. Colorado time, "The ... More >>

Strange but true news stories from the past year

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Ted Haggard in GQ: Masturbation by male escort isn't "sex sex," he'd be bisexual if younger

Ted Haggard.​The problem Ted Haggard is facing in his continuing effort to rehabilitate his image enough to become a national media star again is that the very thing he doesn't want to talk about -- his dalliance with male escort Mike Jones -- is pretty much the only thing that intrigues repor ... More >>

Ted Haggard: Is reality TV in his future?

Is Ted Haggard ready for his closeup?​Update, 11:25 a.m.: Ted Haggard has made his announcement. It involves a launch party for his new church and a possible documentary. Details below the original item, published at 8:36 a.m. Today at 10:30 a.m., embattled Colorado Springs evangelist Ted Hag ... More >>

Ted Haggard's new church unlikely to feature massages -- damn it!

"Let's start off with a lesson about forgiveness."​Every day, we pluck choice posts from Denver blogs. Here are three ripe ones. 5280's Michael de Yoanna hips us to disgraced Colorado Springs pastor Ted Haggard's new church, dubbed St. James -- presumably because the name New Life Church was ... More >>

Top 10 Colorado sex acts of the decade

A Flickr photo.​ Everybody loves a good, home-grown sex scandal. Especially scandals that involve Evangelical Christians, bestiality, horny moms and naughty schoolteachers. (Not all at once, sadly.) Colorado has played host to its fair share of salaciousness this past decade. Here, we look ba ... More >>

Top 10 Colorado shmucks of decade

​It ain't easy being a shmuck. Not as mean as an asshole, not as ignorant as a shithead, a shmuck takes idiocy to an epic level, a moron whose fall from grace has far-reaching repercussions. We've been celebrating weekly shmucks for a long, long time -- but to be named one of Colorado's top 10 ... More >>

Wake-Up Call: Ted Haggard and Norman Rockwell

​"It's a Norman Rockwell scene," Ted Haggard told the reporters gathered outside his Colorado Spring home last night, where the New Life Church founder and disgraced minister was about to start his first, off-the-record prayer meeting. "It's a 'Kumbaya' moment." A Norman Rockwell scene? Only ... More >>

Wake-Up Call: Revving up for the week ahead

You auto know better: In advance of the Denver Auto Show, which revs up in the Colorado Convention Center April 1 through April 5, the Metro Denver Automobile Dealers Association is hosting the second annual Rocky Mountain Auto Summit today, covering everything from technology to financing to gree ... More >>

Wake-Up Call: The dudes of Haggard

"This is part of Ted's journey," Gayle Haggard told a reporter. "It's made him a better man. I see what has happened as a divine rescue." Of the Haggards' bank account, if nothing else. Three years ago Ted Haggard, then pastor of the New Life Church and head of the National Association of Evange ... More >>

New York Times calls play about Colorado Springs "inquisitive"

The poster for "This Beautiful City." The New York Times yesterday published a review of This Beautiful City, a play about Colorado Springs that, in the words of the New York-based theater troupe that performs it, "explores the Evangelical movement and its unofficial U.S capital." The Times praised ... More >>

New Life Church shooting victim speaks out prior to Ted Haggard media tour

Amid all the revelations connected with Ted Haggard's attempted resurrection on HBO and Oprah, the accusations of payoffs involving yet another young man lusted after by the former pastor ("Watch the KRDO report featuring Ted Haggard's latest accuser"), and assorted other sordidness, a greater ... More >>

Watch the KRDO report featuring Ted Haggard's latest accuser

Suddenly, Ted Haggard is everywhere again. Yesterday, the disgraced former pastor of Colorado Springs' New Life Church, who left that post following revelations of homosexual conduct unveiled by onetime male escort Mike Jones (who's made a new video lambasting the church), was named in headlines a ... More >>

Wake-Up Call: The week ahead, from calf-ropin' to budget-bustin'

Governor Bill Ritter was at the last day of the National Western Stock Show, taking in the rodeo with his family (Ritter was one of twelve kids, all raised on a farm in eastern Aurora) -- and enjoying a few light moments before the hard work of the week ahead. When a steer broke free of his handle ... More >>

Mike Jones demands apology from New Life Church in latest Ted Haggard scandal

This morning on Peter Boyles' KHOW talk show, Mike Jones, the onetime male escort who went public about his relationship with nationally known New Life Church pastor Ted Haggard, blasted New Life Church for covering up information that Haggard had been involved in a sexual relationship with anothe ... More >>

The Westword.com blog shortcut, January 26 edition

Look out below! Falling blogs! Today in Cafe Society: • Rock, paper, scissors, booze at Nine75. • Mark & Isabella now open in Belmar. • Just in time for the Super Bowl, a Milking It review of Cap'n Crunch's Touchdown Crunch. • Buenos Aires Grill to close. • Thanasi Foods thinks Bigs wit ... More >>

The long silence of Matthew Murray's parents

Maybe I missed it, but I didn't see any comments from Ronald or Loretta Murray in the one-year anniversary stories about the church shootings in Arvada and Colorado Springs. But then, the Murrays haven't been eager to talk publicly about the multiple tragedies spawned by their deeply disturbed son ... More >>

Report: Ted Haggard Finally Admits to Sexual Contact With Mike Jones

The "Welcome Back Haggard" Theme Song

The Top Ten Welcome Home Gifts for Ted Haggard

Stage Fright

Mike Jones looked buff in the buff, but when the naked truth about a Denver ordinance was exposed, the nudity had to exit stage left.

Jesus Loves Irony

More Pieces of the Matthew Murray Puzzle

Jonesin'

Me and Mr. Jones

Mathew Murray Shooting God’s Plan?

Does This Photograph Glorify Matthew Murray?

Matthew Murray, Ted Haggard and Double Lives

Matthew Murray’s Nightmare of Christianity

The Broncos, the New Life Church and Arvada Shootings, and Local TV Priorities

Larry Craig Shlepped Here!

Sex marks the spot at these DIA bathrooms.

Jonesing

New Life Church has gotten a makeover since Ted Haggard left — as Mike Jones reports from the inside.

Me and Mr. Jones

Blow jobs are short. Scandals are not.

Panhandle With Care

We're all just a home away from homeless.

Life Swap

More newspaper reporters are taking the leap to TV -- a move some print pros still see as consorting with the enemy.

Lots of Yuk

If counseling didn’t do it, these late-night gabfests should set Ted Haggard straight.

Year in Review: The Great Pretenders

Welcome to the 2006 Hall of Shame.

Sin City

Colorado Springs has a message for James Dobson: Let Ted moo!

Tape Heads

Channel 4 plans to phase out videotape in the coming year. Could the jobs of people who work with it be next?

Watch Your Step

Brave New World

Meet The Real World: Denver" cast before they join the collective.

On Call

Mike Jones wasn't the only one to get regular visits from "Art."

Taking the Fifth

The Message

Waste Not

The Message

Prophetable

One for All

Charter schools are perfect for special-education kids. That's the problem.

COLORADO SPRINGS TAKES A HIT