Stephen King

DIA Conspiracy Makes List of World's Weirdest

Delegating Denver #23 of 56: Maine

Best Personal Book Shoppers

Highlands Ranch Library

Best TV Anchor

Bertha Lynn, Channel 7

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The Mist

The Latest Stephen King adaptation is all fogged up.

Welcome to Collywood

The Latest Stephen King adaptation is all fogged up.

Welcome to Collywood

The Latest Stephen King adaptation is all fogged up.

The Shining

Film on the Rocks for Monday, July 23.

Bad Blood

Horror films failed to scare up the big bucks in 2007.

Fist Things First

Horror films failed to scare up the big bucks in 2007.

Excitable Book

Crystal Zevon tells the story of her late ex-husband with a little help from his friends.

1408

Who woulda thunk it? 1408 is a terrifying, touching Stephen King adaptation.

On the Download

Linking you to the best in legitimate, artist-approved exclusives.

Our top DVD picks for the week of September 28, 2006.

Linking you to the best in legitimate, artist-approved exclusives.

All Wet

M. Night Shyamalan steps up the lunacy with Lady in the Water.

Writer's Blockade

Paragon Theatre's Misery is worth the pain.

Baroque and Roll

Red Priest rocks the classical canon

Club Scout

Whiskey Bill's

An Open Book

Will everyone in Boulder please get on the same page?

Price on His Head

Richard Price has made writing pay.

Read On

One Book, One Denver gets stoked

Lots of Plots

A murky screen adaptation shortchanges Stephen King's Dreamcatcher.

Music by the Book

Life imitates art for Kathi Kamen Goldmark, who mined a novel from the rock of famous authors.

Reading Frenzy

Book on down to the Denver Public Library for bargain reads.

Asking for It

Storytelling blusters with sex, rage and insanity.

Critic's Choice

Rock Bottom Remainders

Stand by Them

Mystery and memory shine upon those with their Hearts in the right places.

Reeling in the Year

From South Park to Pokémon, 1999 was almost an American beauty.

Instant Karma

Tom Hanks looks for redemption on The Green Mile.

Hearts of Darkness

Tom Hanks looks for redemption on The Green Mile.

Off Limits

Tom Hanks looks for redemption on The Green Mile.

You Pitchin' to Me?

Tom Hanks looks for redemption on The Green Mile.

The Shooting Never Stopped

One day, a crew from The Shining showed up on Milwaukee Street. The block still hasn't recovered.

KING AND HIS QUEEN

One day, a crew from The Shining showed up on Milwaukee Street. The block still hasn't recovered.

THROWING AWAY THE KEY

One day, a crew from The Shining showed up on Milwaukee Street. The block still hasn't recovered.

THRILLS

One day, a crew from The Shining showed up on Milwaukee Street. The block still hasn't recovered.

Verse comes to worse at Mile Haiku

One day, a crew from The Shining showed up on Milwaukee Street. The block still hasn't recovered.

Wake-Up Call: When pigs fly, the good go to Boulder

With two cases of swine flu (the "other white flu") confirmed in Colorado and bumbling Vice President Joe Biden calling for quasi-quarantine, it could be time to go to your bookshelves and dust off that copy of The Stand, Stephen King's 1978 novel. In this epic (it was re-released, uncut, in 1990) ... More >>

Freeloader: Win tickets to see Liam Finn tonight at the Larimer Lounge

​Update: Charles Hughes and Cherie C will be our guests at the show tonight. Thanks to them and to everyone else who responded with the correct answer ("Don't Dream It's Over" and The Stand). We'll have more tix up for grabs later this week.Yes, we know it's a Monday. And yes, we know the Broncos ... 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 >>

Westword devotion causes weirdest car accident ever

(Click to enlarge)​Every week we chronicle the shmuckiest of the shmucky. This week: A way-too-loyal Westword reader. Let's play a little game: Take a long look at the photo above, and try to determine how this fine automobile wound up nestled against this tree outside of Westword's offices o ... More >>

Fact or science fiction? Colorado's importance in the sci-fi world is no fantasy

(Click to enlarge)​Every week we chronicle the shmuckiest of the shmucky. This week: A way-too-loyal Westword reader. Let's play a little game: Take a long look at the photo above, and try to determine how this fine automobile wound up nestled against this tree outside of Westword's offices o ... More >>

Ghost hunt! A weekend at the Stanley Hotel passes without haunting

Well, it looks pretty ominous.​It was partially by coincidence and partly by design that the opening credits of Stanley Kubrick's The Shining had just started rolling when we flipped on the TV Saturday night in our room at the Stanley Hotel; the movie, of course, is based on Stephen King's nov ... More >>

Comment of the day: "Too creeped out to get out of the car"

At this distance, a theremin constantly plays.​Call me a sad shell of a human being with a withered capacity for imagination, and you would probably be right, but I don't believe in no ghosts. It just doesn't make any sense. But before I crap all over your good time with my "logic," suffice it ... More >>

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

At this distance, a theremin constantly plays.​Call me a sad shell of a human being with a withered capacity for imagination, and you would probably be right, but I don't believe in no ghosts. It just doesn't make any sense. But before I crap all over your good time with my "logic," suffice it ... More >>

This Weekend in Stoke: Make the '80s Ski Party last all weekend

​Come out of the closet, gapers! Hot pink and electric blue ski and snowboard gear from the 1980s lives forever thanks to events like tonight's 8th annual 80s Ski Party at Mile High Station, 2027 West Lower Colfax Avenue, where they won't even let you through the door unless the bouncer needs ... More >>

It's Halloween! Take a shining to the Stanley Hotel.

​The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park is a lovely old place. Built in the early 1900s at the mouth of what is now Rocky Mountain National Park from wood salvaged from the Bear Lake burn of 1900, it was best-known then for the Stanley Steamer, a steam-powered automobile invented by hotel owner Freel ... More >>

Skyrim, Stephen King and Harry Potter highlight our new releases heading into 11-11-11

​This is an unusual week for new releases because many companies have decided to forgo the usual Tuesday or Wednesday timeframe in order to take advantage of the far more eponymous sounding 11-11-11. Still, we've tallied up everything worth a mention, which includes novels from two heavyweight ... More >>