Subject: Ted Haggard

• What the Butt?

  February 23, 2007

• The Devil's in the Details

  November 28, 2006

• Watch Your Step

  November 13, 2006

• More Messages: Hey, Hey, Paula

  November 9, 2006

• Suspicions Confirmed

  November 6, 2006

• Taking the Fifth

  November 2, 2006

• Relax, Tinky Winky -- Jerry Falwell is Dead

  May 15, 2007

• A Nexus of Excess

  August 30, 2007

• Matthew Murray’s Nightmare of Christianity

  December 11, 2007

• Matthew Murray, Ted Haggard and Double Lives

  December 12, 2007

• Me and Mr. Jones

  March 12, 2008

• Jesus Loves Irony

  March 17, 2008

• The Top Ten Welcome Home Gifts for Ted Haggard

  June 23, 2008

• The "Welcome Back Haggard" Theme Song

  June 24, 2008

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

  June 26, 2008

• Ted Haggard's molestation sermon: watch it here

  November 13, 2008

• 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 Matthew, who killed four young people on December 9, 2007, before taking his own life. That's understandable. The Murrays were clearly blindsided by their son's shooting spree and were said to be "

  December 8, 2008

• 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 with bacon. • The year of the ox -- and a second Star. Today in Backbeat Online: • Live review: Umphrey's McGee at the Fillmore Auditorium. • Also caught live: The Meat Puppets at the Bluebird The

  January 26, 2009

• 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 and featured on cable-news channels such as CNN after word leaked that another young man had come forward with an eyebrow-raising story. That tale debuted last night on KRDO-TV, Colorado Springs' ABC a

  January 27, 2009

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  Look busy! The Boss is coming! Today in Backbeat Online: • Bruce Springsteen due at the Pepsi Center. • Spools of Dark Thread not dead yet. • Mighty 4 Colorado hip-hop event set for May 16. • ManeLine featured on Rebel Radio mixtape. • Trace Bundy gets nod from Acoustic Magazine. Today in Cafe Society: • Manischewitz! Local contestant in local cook-off. • Tiki Torch extinguished. • How to survive Case Bonita, the world's weirdest Mexican restaurant. • A hot-pot start to the

  January 27, 2009

• Kenny Be's Worst-Case Scenario: Ted Haggard's insurance policies

  Like a good Neighbor, Ted Haggard is there... and this time, he's back as a "traveling insurance salesman," pitching his policies from motel rooms with these slick brochures... -- Kenny Be

  January 28, 2009

• 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 bit of deception and denial at New Life Church has been largely overooked -- the conflicting stories about killer Matthew Murray's 2007 attack on the church and its aftermath. So kudos to KHOW's Pete

  January 28, 2009

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, January 28 edition

  Hungry yet? Today in Cafe Society: • Fox restaurants offering crafty deals for winter meals. • Mozart Bar gets ready for Mozart -- or some piano player. • Snarf's sub shop opening on Capitol Hill. • More proof that Democrats will buy anything Obama-related. • Macaroni Grill closing in Cherry Creek. • Good news for GoodBelly, if you can stomach it. Today in Backbeat Online: • The Heyday: cheap just got cheaper! • Talking during show: the musicians' perspective. • Holy crap!

  January 28, 2009

• Kenny Be's Worst-Case Scenario: Ted Haggard's insurance policies, part two

  Like a good neighbor, Ted Haggard is there... and this time he's back as a "traveling insurance salesman," pitching his policies from motel rooms with these slick brochures... -- Kenny Be

  January 29, 2009

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, January 29 edition

  Scared yet? Today in Backbeat Online: • Flier of the week: Minor Authority at the Gothic. • Talking during shows: the musicians' perspective -- Eric Shiveley. • Talking during shows: the musicians' perspective -- Kurt Ottaway. • Talking during shows: the musicians' perspective -- John Common. • Talking during shows: the musicians' perspective -- Gene Davis. • Mama's debut set to drop in March. • Mile-Hi Fidelity playlist -- 01-28-09. • Workhorse on the radio tonight. • DJ Va

  January 29, 2009

• Kenny Be's Worst-Case Scenario: Ted Haggard's insurance policies, part three

  Like a good neighbor, Ted Haggard is there... and this time he's back as a "traveling insurance salesman," pitching his policies from motel rooms with these slick brochures... -- Kenny Be  

  January 30, 2009

• Last Night: Joe Rogan at Comedy Works South

  Near the end of his hour-long set at Comedy Works South last night, Joe Rogan's previously polished routine devolved into a call-and-response act, with audience members yelling out keywords off of which Rogan could riff. They yelled DPT, he did five minutes on Dipropyltryptamine, a gnarly psychedelic and dear friend of his. They shouted Fear Factor, he did three minutes on the life-sucking qualities of reality TV. They yelled Carlos Mencia, and there went Joe, on another rant about his joke-s

  February 27, 2009

• 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 Evangelicals, had a weekly phone call with President George W. Bush. Now he's taking casting calls for reality shows -- specifically, Divorce Court. According to the Associated Press, Haggard and and his st

  March 19, 2009

• 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 green developments. The seminars run from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Colorado Convention Center, room 301 -- and they're all free. You can find more details at www.denverautoshow.com -- but we're willing

  March 30, 2009

• Wake-Up Call: Stand by your man -- even if he's Ted Haggard

  Don't forget: Today, Ted Haggard and his wife, Gayle, appear on Divorce Court, to discuss how revelations of Haggard's extra-curricular (and intra-sex) activities affected the marriage. On the show, the disgraced former New Life pastor says he wanted his wife to divorce him, but she refused, even though he said he'd become "toxic." According to Haggard, his wife told him, "No way. I'm not going to do that." Not when going on Divorce Court is a much more civilized way to work things out.

  April 1, 2009

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, April 1 edition

  Scary... No foolin'. Today in Backbeat Online: • Former Sleeper Horse/Blackout Pact frontman has new band. • Flier of the Week: Night of the Living Shred at Tooey's. • Record Store Day preview: Bob Dylan gets obscure on vinyl. • Getting started with local music, part one. • Singer charleyBRAND leaks "emo(tional)" track. • Sold out Blue October/Ours show postponed. • Q&A with Tom Campesinos! of Los Campesinos! Today in Cafe Society: • These April Fool's Day events are no joke.

  April 1, 2009

• Wake-Up Call: Paula Woodward makes some news

  Paula Woodward's departure from Channel 9 is not good news -- except for loafing workers and, probably, Woodward herself. She deserves a break after 32 years at the station, 32 years that have seen some major changes in the television business. Woodward popped up in one of the first issues of Westword, in a story that long predates our online archives, when she went after an unethical apartment-rental company. And through the years, her name kept cropping up when one of her news investigation

  April 14, 2009

• Letters to the Editor

  Letters from the week of 7/10/2008

  July 10, 2008

• Jonesin'

  March 13, 2008

• 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.

  March 20, 2008

• Larry Craig Shlepped Here!

  Sex marks the spot at these DIA bathrooms.

  December 6, 2007

• Revenge of the Nerds

  More know-it-alls are taking to the bars to show off their big brains and pickle them at the same time.

  August 23, 2007

• Jonesing

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

  July 12, 2007

• Go South

  Make a break to Colorado Springs. No, you don't have to be religious.

  June 7, 2007

• Me and Mr. Jones

  Blow jobs are short. Scandals are not.

  June 14, 2007

• Life Swap

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

  March 1, 2007

• Lots of Yuk

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

  February 15, 2007

• Year in Review: The Great Pretenders

  Welcome to the 2006 Hall of Shame.

  December 28, 2006

• Letters to the Editor

  "Though there were times when your paper annoyed me and even grated on my nerves, the positive outweighed the negative."

  November 16, 2006

• Sin City

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

  November 16, 2006

• On Call

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

  November 9, 2006

• By Hart

  Gary Hart on blogging, the media and his life's third act.

  March 9, 2006

• The Message

  Prophetable

  May 26, 2005

• A new book puts Colorado's political sex scandals on the spot

  July 2, 2009

• Fast-track this: Five untapped Colorado energy sources

  Thar she blows: The Penry-Huttner Geothermal Project.​The Department of the Interior just designated six renewable energy projects, including a 400-megawatt solar tower, as "fast-track" developments deserving of the highest priority. All six of the projects happen to be in California. Hard to believe that Interior Secretary Ken Salazar would ignore all the potential energy sources in his home state. We've got tons of excess energy around here, begging to be harnessed for productive use.

  November 6, 2009