Subject: Suicide

• More Messages: Ghoulish Calculus

  October 3, 2006

• Breaking News: Quiznos Franchisees Win Injunction

  May 3, 2007

• In for Life: Day Five of the Michael Tate Trial

  August 24, 2007

• Peter Boyles keeps cyanide story alive

  August 21, 2008

• Suicide Mission

  August 20, 1998

• Follow That Story

  A pot dealer goes down in flames.

  August 17, 2000

• Al Green

  Saturday, June 11, Paramount Theatre, 303-830-8497.

  June 9, 2005

• Rap-Up: Whygee and Sunken State unite for free EP

  There's always an interest when like-minded solo artists come together to collaborate on a project. So when Colorado emcees Whygee and Sunken State announced they were releasing a seven-song EP called Suicide Watch, those who follow the local scene were excited to hear the results. To add to the excitement, the EP would be entirely produced by Colorado producer Kid Hum, known for his throwback, bass-heavy tracks.The result is a head-nodding, lyrical boot camp that anyone remotely interested in h

  December 10, 2008

• CU study says decline in depression diagnoses is depressing

  Robert J. Valuck. Picked up the Archives of General Psychiatry issue for June yet? I haven't, because I had no idea the publication existed until a few minutes ago. But WebMD reports that the edition includes an interesting study by University of Colorado academics like Robert J. Valuck and Anne Libby. The report suggests that FDA warnings circa 2003 about the possible side effects of antidepressants (including elevated risk of suicide) has led to a notable decline in depression diagnoses in g

  June 2, 2009

• Fallout from Aspen's New Year's Eve bomb

  New Year's Eve bombed in Aspen, thanks to James Chester Blanning, the 72-year-old who thought it would be a blast to threaten city officials with "mass death" and planted four bombs around town. Even as authorities were clearing out sixteen square blocks on one of downtown Aspen's biggest nights of the year, Blanning was writing out a will and preparing to commit suicide. Now, according to the Aspen Daily News, ten restaurants that suffered big losses on New Year's Eve -- Kenichi, Bad Billy's, D

  January 13, 2009

• Best Theater Company Season

  March 29, 2001

• Best Supporting Actor in a Musical

  March 27, 2003

• XO, Elliott

  October 30, 2003

• Best Sculpture Show -- Solo

  March 24, 2005

• Former gay-porn star-turned-accused murderer Timothy Boham tries the Phil Spector defense

  Timothy Boham during his gay-porn days. Timothy Boham, the former gay-porn star currently on trial for the 2006 murder of a Denver businessman, took the stand in his own defense yesterday. This move is often a sign of desperation -- and his testimony reflected the quality, too. He'd previously confessed his complicity to plenty of folks, including his mom, who testified against him -- but he told the jury that the victim, J.P. Kelso, actually killed himself. This same approach was famously use

  June 5, 2009

• The Colorado Rap Report offers free hip-hop comp download

  For those skeptical about Colorado's hip-hop scene, the folks at the Colorado Rap Report blog have assembled some of the finest local acts on one compilation -- including the Pirate Signal, ManeLine, Ichiban, Whygee, Distrakt, Dent, Deca and 3 the Hardway, among others -- in an effort to showcase how much talent we have here. And while most of the songs have been previously released through the artists' own projects, there are a handful of exclusives from Illacide and 1865. Get the download link

  March 6, 2009

• Sinking Sub

  August 23, 2007

• Beat the Crowd

  June 14, 2007

• Mike Colin, RIP

  A Denver scene icon has passed, but his music lives on.

  June 7, 2007

• You're Toast!

  May 3, 2007

• A Real Ghost Story

  Did an urban legend inspire a true tragedy?

  October 26, 2006

• Kill the Messenger

  The tragic death of one of America's most important investigative journalists

  October 5, 2006

• Stand Up Girl

  Angie Stevens has finally put the past behind her.

  August 3, 2006

• Exit This Way

  Denver lies dead center in the right-to-die debate.

  June 8, 2006

• Checking Out of Lockdown

  Inmate suicides put the spotlight on medical care at Colorado's supermax.

  November 24, 2005

• Jamie Lidell

  Multiply (Warp Records)

  July 21, 2005

• The Message

  Death Wish

  March 31, 2005

• Steal This Movie

  Studios don't get the Upright Citizens, which isn't funny at all

  February 27, 2003

• Keeping Secrets

  A well-liked former CIA agent was living another kind of double life in the years before his suicide.

  August 2, 2001

• The Final Act

  A Question of Mercy deals with the touchy subject of assisted suicide.

  February 22, 2001

• Suicide Watch

  Can a 24-hour crisis hotline put callers on hold? The state will get back to you on that.

  October 5, 2000

• Falling From Grace

  Richard Rother lived by his good name. When the cops took that away from him, he walked off a ten-story building.

  April 8, 1999

• Night of the Living Dead

  October 15, 1998

• Juvenile Behavior

  What's the real reason the state pulled forty boys from a controversial private prison?

  April 16, 1998

• Older and Wiser

  The members of Pennywise carry on in the wake of tragedy.

  July 10, 1997

• Wanted: Dead or Alive

  Arapahoe County sends deputies to arrest a man who had died in their jail.

  March 27, 1997

• Blonde Ambition

  The criminal portion of the Greg Lopez case is over, but the fight for Spicer Breeden's estate is just getting started. Ask Sydney Stone.

  March 27, 1997

• Schmitz Happens

  Now that he's indicted, will the real Peter Schmitz please stand up?

  June 13, 1996

• Life in the Fast Lane

  April 4, 1996

• LETTERS

  November 9, 1994

• A CRY FOR HELP

  THE MAYOR TRIES TO HAVE ONE OF HIS SONS COMMITTED FOR DRUG AND ALCOHOL PROBLEMS.

  September 21, 1994

• SUICIDE IS BRAINLESS

  DON'T LOOK FOR MEANING IN THE DEATH OF NIRVANA'S KURT COBAIN.

  April 13, 1994

• The Columbine effect: A horrific roster of school shootings since 1999

  The most resonant information that's come my way thus far today in relation to the anniversary of the April 20, 1999 shootings at Columbine High School was contained in an e-mail sent to Westword by Vicki Newell, a public-policy director with the Colorado PTA. It's a list of school shootings since 1999, as compiled by The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. The roster gathers 108 incidents since Columbine, synopsized with chilling banality. Many of them received relatively little publicity

  April 20, 2009

• Where would you take a $100,000 check that is also a suicide note - to the cops or to the bank?

  May 14, 2009

• Suicide prevention and the John Beech dilemma

  The photo at right was taken by Lakewood police when they entered John Beech's home last August 1. It shows the 53-year-old retired Coors manager's will, keys, car titles and other important documents all neatly arranged on a kitchen table and waiting for someone to process after his body is discovered in the back yard. Beech gave almost no clues about his suicide plan to his family, but he left an odd package with strangers, including a $100,000 check, two weeks before he killed himself -- th

  May 15, 2009

• Whygee, Naeem Oba offer taste of upcoming mixtape

  Whygee is on a pretty good streak as far as projects are concerned. He's still getting props from the Suicide Watch project with Sunken State and Kid Hum, his collection of rare and unreleased material in the Saga of Mr. Bitches with RocktheDub, and his appearances on a variety of other projects for other artists. It looks like that trend will continue with his new project, You're Not One of Us, with Naeem Oba. Due out sometime this summer, Whygee and Naeem give us a taste of what's to come and

  June 5, 2009

• Judge to suicide's family: Will must be honored

  John Beech left his will, car titles and other papers for police on his kitchen table. A Jefferson County judge threw out objections Friday afternoon to a suicide's controversial will, ruling that the man's estate must go to a prominent Denver charity -- even though his family contends that the charity had prior notice of his suicide plans and failed to take action. Laradon Hall, which provides services to the developmentally disabled, is the sole beneficiary of the estate of John Francis Be

  June 19, 2009

• Possible helium death not exactly a gas

  What the hell's going on with Boulder and bizarre suicides? Last month, the Boulder Outlook Hotel was evacuated due to the possibility of strange chemicals in the room of a man who killed himself; turns out the fumes in question were traced to charcoal in a small grill. Then, yesterday, residents of a Boulder neighborhood were asked to skedaddle after a dead man was found near what were originally thought to be propane tanks. In truth, the receptacles contained helium, which may or may not hav

  July 15, 2009

• Get a taste of Suicide Watch 2: Sambodextrust

  Four-fifths of the Starting FiveBack in December, Colorado MCs Whygee and Sunkenstate connected with Colorado producer Kid Hum to create Suicide Watch, one of the better Colorado hip-hop releases of 2008. And it was free! Now Whygee and Sunk have reconnected for Suicide Watch 2: Sambodextrust, a seven-song collection that features production from Nigel One, Goodknight, Gyp Da Hipp and Kid Hum. The project also introduces a new super group called the Starting 5, which consists of Whygee, Sunk, Na

  July 22, 2009

• Mile High Murder, No. 39: Filadelfo Mazariego and Alba Rodriguez-Ruiz dead in likely murder-suicide on 4700 block of Peoria Street

  View Larger Map Let's hope murder-suicides don't come in threes. Just yesterday, we told you about a likely murder-suicide in Broomfield involving Darryl Stricklin, 45, and Jodi Samuels, 36. Shortly thereafter, the Denver Coroner's Office identified Filadelfo Mazariego and Alba Rodriguez-Ruiz as a couple found dead on the 4700 block of Peoria Street, an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click "View Larger Map"). Thus far, police are saying little other th

  September 16, 2009