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Video: Watch Ghost live at the Ogden Theatre

Okay, so you know how fan-shot videos by all accounts generally suck? Beside the shaky, migraine-inducing footage, the audio is generally awful and sounds like it was literally recorded from the inside of the speaker cone. I think we can all agree that they're a monumental waste of time for everyone ... More >>

Ghost B.C. at Ogden Theatre, 4/18/13

Ghost @ OGDEN THEATRE | 4/18/12 As is customary at this point, before Ghost took the stage, Jocelyn Pook's haunting "Masked Ball" from Eyes Wide Shut came through the P.A. and perfectly set the mood for what was to follow. At first, the Nameless Ghouls took their places and started off with "Per As ... More >>

A Nameless Ghoul from Ghost B.C. on Papa Emeritus II being too evil for the Vatican

Founded in 2008, Ghost B.C. created a bit of mystique for itself right from the start. The sextet is essentially anonymous in its elaborate costumes, with singer Papa Emeritus II decked out like a satanic pope, and his cardinals, The Ghouls With No Name, performing in uniform brown robes whose cowls ... More >>

Reader: The Roman Catholic Church is wrong about when personhood begins

Fetuses-aren't-people lawsuit: Bishops to review Catholic hospital's argument

Colorado's Catholic bishops say they will "undertake a full review" of a lawsuit in which Catholic Health Initiatives, an Englewood-based operator of 78 Catholic hospitals in seventeen states, has argued that it can't be held liable for the deaths of two unborn babies because fetuses are not people. ... More >>

Freethought Film Festival brings disbelief to Denver

Andrea Steele, founder and director of the International Freethought Film Festival describes herself as: "an agnostic atheist with secular humanist tendencies." Like sexuality, comics and Occupy Wall Street, there are endless subgroups within the cultures that don't believe in god(s). And whether y ... More >>

Father Charles Robert Manning allegedly acted like jealous lover around fifteen year old

The arrest affidavit pertaining to Father Charles Robert Manning, an ex-Catholic priest in Colorado Springs who's been busted on suspicion of sexual assault on a child by a person in a position of trust, is currently sealed. But comments from a woman who says she reported Manning to authorities sugg ... More >>

Nanni Moretti takes on the Vatican in We Have a Pope

The ten best exorcism movies

With the release of The Devil Inside, out Friday, the cinema gods are taking a moment to remind all of us that religion is scary -- It's all higher powers and judgments and abductions by beings of light and women turning into salt and beings of pure good offset by beings of pure evil, and all of tha ... More >>

Jesus! Was the Shroud of Turin created by a supernatural "flash of light"?

​The image on the Shroud of Turin was not some medieval hoax, but was caused by a supernatural "flash of light," according to a team of Italian scientists. The recent news reports of their findings conveniently coincide with the History Channel's repeat showing of The Real Face of Jesus tonigh ... More >>

Thirteen hottest vegetarians, in honor of Hug a Vegetarian Day

Flickr photo​As if vegetarians don't get enough kudos for being greener and more animal-friendly than their meat-eating counterparts, now they get rewarded with hugs. And who doesn't love a hug? Today is Hug a Vegetarian Day, according to PETA2. And since we've been slaving away in our cubic ... More >>

Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests coordinate protests with filing against Vatican

Big pics below.​Yesterday, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests accused the Vatican, as well as four officials, including Pope Benedict XVI, of crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court in the Hague. To draw more attention to this action, members of SNAP's Denver ... More >>

What week is it? A breakdown of everything you could be celebrating, May 16 - 22

​Just in case Arbor Day like two weeks ago wasn't enough to tide you over in the commemorating trees department, this week starts off with Love a Tree Day, which, admittedly, sounds more like a sexual perversion than yet another attempt by godless hippies to shove their environmentalist propag ... More >>

Charlie Sheen show to be torpedoed by Denver cops?: Kenny Be's Worst-Case Scenario

​ Is this thing still on? The only way to save the My Violent Torpedo of Truth show would be to showcase Charlie Sheen's message with the talent of local acts...

It's a... miracle? Embattled painting of the Virgin Mary fellating Christ appears to weep blood

Rob Cancer's "Benedictrix/Coronation # 37."​The controversy surrounding the artist Rob Cancer's depiction of what many conservative Christians have protested as the Virgin Mary fellating Christ took a bizarre turn this week, when CONSTRUCT GalleryArtSpaceBlackBox, where the painting has been o ... More >>

Jersey Shore in Italy: Five disaster scenarios

Sorry about that priceless fountain, Italy. Eh, whaddaya?​The Jersey Shore's third season just wrapped up, and the crew is headed to Italy. In a statement last January, MTV announced that the show's fourth season will be shot in "the birthplace of the culture [the cast members] love and live b ... More >>

Charlie Sheen unleashes "winning recipes" on Funny or Die cooking show

​In his effort to win, well, everything, Charlie Sheen claims he's trying to be the first person to appear on every television network. Which, we guess, includes Funny or Die, because that's the website that's hosting his cooking show, Charlie Sheen's Winning Recipes.

Photos: Lions at DIA portend of the vast Illuminati conspiracy

Clever ruse, Bob Barker, but we know of your nefarious designs.​If there's one thing we've learned from Dan Brown, it's that, when the Illuminati get a vast conspiracy reaching to the very highest levels of the world's centers of power going on, they like to drop little hints about it. For exa ... More >>

Strange Powers on Armageddon and what he's been up to since returning to the Mile High City

​ Known to early local hip-hop heads as Shag One and, more recently, as Strange Powers, Josh Powers doesn't fit into the mold of a typical hip-hop cat. He embraces his individuality and honors his own unique global view of music and ideology through his creative endeavors - from more traditio ... More >>

What makes us laugh? Professor Peter McGraw thinks he's found the answer to one of humanity's greatest questions

Tireless satire: For Tomfoolery, don't leave your brain at home

Virgin twins are two of a kind (song lyrics): Kenny Be's Yard Arteology

Full-sized photo below.​The study of neighbors through yard decoration. Meet Mary who's blessed most everywhere, From Vietnam to Vatican Square. But Guadalupe is hard to know, she's just a local saint from Mexico. What a crazy pair! But they're virgins, identical virgins all the way. One pai ... More >>

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