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Cannes: Benicio Del Toro acts again!

The punk lovers of Straight Outta Luck share the stories behind their disastrous first tour

Meet the winners of Great American Beer Festival 2012

This year's Great American Beer Festival played temporary home to 580 breweries -- and with more than 2,700 beers poured, the fest's professional judge panel had its hands (and mouths) full when making decisions on the winners of all 84 categories. Continue reading for the full list of the weekend's ... More >>

Ten more unsolved Denver murders: Read victims' personal stories

In May, we shared a post featuring personal stories of victims in ten unsolved Denver murders, with the information provided by Families of Homicide Victims and Missing Persons, an organization devoted to making sure no case or loved one is forgotten. Unfortunately, there are many more tragic event ... More >>

Virgin driver's cross-country trip, Days Three and Four: I think we're still in Kansas after all

Editor's note: New York City's Sam Levin, a beginner driver, is kicking off his fellowship with Westword by documenting his cross-country trip. This is his third dispatch from the road. The open road makes me dizzy. Very dizzy.

What's in a name? For craft brewers at #GABF, anything goes

There are the cute ("Smokey the Beer," Blind Tiger Brewing in Topeka, Kansas), the mysterious ("Hoodoo Voodoo IPA," Three Creeks Brewing in Sisters, Oregon), the sexy ("Sexual Chocolate," Foothills Brewing in Winston-Salem, North Carolina) and everything in between when it comes to beer names spotte ... More >>

Roderick Elias belatedly convicted of felony murder in 1980 stabbing of Kristen Swanson

Big pic below.​In March 2010, we told you about a cold case that heated up with the arrest of Roderick Elias for the slaying of Kristen Swanson, age 22. She died way back in 1980 -- so long ago that her job had been at a disco. More than a year later, the case finally reached a jury, whose me ... More >>

Ryan Wheeler, Westboro Baptist Church target, glad picketers didn't ruin Ponderosa graduation

Ponderosa High.​The members of Topeka, Kansas' Westboro Baptist Church are notorious for many things, including signs that read "God Hates Fags" and protests of military funerals. But for them to plan a protest at his graduation was a shocker Ponderosa High senior Ryan Wheeler wasn't ready to ... More >>

Westboro Baptist Church protest in Fort Collins to be met with silence

WBC's evil Fred Phelps.​Earlier this month, we told you about threats by the haters from Westboro Baptist Church to befoul a number of area locations, with several opportunities for bigotry against gays and Jewish residents of Fort Collins planned. If WBC does show up, the Lambda Community Ce ... More >>

Seven-year-old boy pretty sure God hates Jews

​See more photos at westword.com/slideshow. The traveling hate circus of Westboro Baptist Church swung through Capitol Hill on its current Denver-Boulder Tour of Brightly Covered Disparagement, unloading its Kia full of signs outside the offices of the Intermountain Jewish News. It was prett ... More >>

Westboro Baptist Church targets Denver-area schools and more: Students, parents plan counter-protest

Westboro Baptist Church Pastor Fred Phelps and his gang are coming to spread the message that God hates school?​The infamous anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church -- which is currently making headlines for its claim that God was responsible for a mine explosion this week in West Virginia that kille ... More >>

Nine best April Fools' Day food pranks culled from around the World Wide Web

starbucks.comHappy now?​In case you're surfing the Internet today and are flummoxed by reports of Guy Fieri winning a Peabody award or a controversy surrounding a dessert app replacing real sweets (not to mention Google officially changing its name to "Topeka")...don't forget to check the date ... More >>

Roderick Elias charged with 1980 murder of Kristen Kay Swanson: Another cold case heats up

Roderick Elias and the DNA on Kristen Kay Swanson were a match.​Another day, another cold case belatedly moved forward by DNA. Yesterday, we told you about Kevin LeWayne McKinney, who's been charged in the 1998 murder of Diane Caldwell. Today, it's Roderick Elias, formally accused of murderin ... More >>

Vile prejudice and hatred to accompany same-sex marriage debate at CU

Westboro Baptist Church's Fred Phelps: one evil bastard.​No doubt some supporters of same-sex marriage already had their doubts about the evenhandedness of tonight's debate on the topic at CU. After all, it's sponsored by the St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Center -- and the Catholic church as an ... More >>

Dialed In: This week's local music radio playlists

​​Here what the area's local-centric specialty radio shows were spinning this week. We're currently tracking the playlists a number of different shows, including Radio 1190's long-running Local Shakedown, KTCL's Locals Only, the Colorado Sound, which originates at KRFC and is re-broadcast all ov ... More >>

Blood, Sweat and Jeers

Don Johnson, the early years.

Was Jimi Hendrix a Mexican?

Jeff Finlin

Lannie's Clocktower Cabaret

Hate in Uniform

X Marks the Spat

Puttling Colorado on the map.

Truman Tale

Inside a courtroom drama playing at a theater near you.

Paint the Town

A Bruce Price solo at +, with paintings and more at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House.

Westword Music Showcase 2005

Seeing Thinks

Smart conceptual solos are on view at + Gallery and Capsule@Pod.

What's So Funny

Plaids and Solids

Post-minimalism is all the rage at + Zeile/Judish.

Rosy Dreams

Derby fantasies stand on the spindly legs of a colt at CSU.

Western Culture

The CSFAC examines the Old West while its new director shakes up the place.

Off Limits

Bitch, bitch, bitch

Thin Air, Thin Hope

The secret Rockies formula: Prepare to meet thy doom.

Homies

Home Movie looks inside some eccentric domiciles.

Business Class

Trinity Grille still has the feel -- and the food -- of a men's club.

Forward Into the Past

At Camp Amache, a school project reopens an ugly chapter of Colorado history.

Best Chicken-Fried Steak Omelette

Rip Griffin's Truck Stop

True Romance

How a snap decision led to a long love affair with the West.

The RH Factor

Death comes calling jazz's legendary players.

G.I. Janes

Credit an energetic cast and a savvy director for putting some boogie-woogie in Swingtime Canteen.

Wise Gal

Anne Slemmons took Michael Wise's money and ran for the border.

All Aboard

Uneasy Street

Is the crackdown on East Colfax's sex trade working? Ask the johns.

Eye of the Storm

In a cynical world, Iris DeMent struggles to maintain her virtue.

Blake Like Me

The hills are alive... with generations of this fractious family.

A Stitch in Time

At the Blue Jay Inn in Buffalo Creek, life sews on.

Winging It

Hype makes right at the center for the new west.

DOUBLE TROUBLEWILL THE REAL DOUGLAS PICHON PLEASE SHOW UP?

THRILLS

POLITICAL SEANCE

A CITY AGENCY CALMS INDIAN SPIRITS AT DIA, BUYS T-SHIRTS FOR SENIORS AND BONES UP ON ITS FRENCH--ALL IN THE NAME OF "COMMUNITY RELATIONS."

THRILLS

ON THE GRIFT