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A rundown of the rap world's favorite drugs

Drug culture isn't relegated exclusively to rock, obviously. For its part, the rap game is equally loaded with drug references of all kinds, from Promethazine and DMT to LSD and PCP, and likewise addled with its own cautionary tales and fatalities. While there's nothing as concrete to suggest that d ... More >>

Obama talks getting stoned and Conan rips GOP at D.C. Correspondents Dinner

On Saturday night Conan O'Brien took on hosting duties for the second time since 1995 at the annual White House Correspondents Dinner, and apparently his years on network television have not affected his ability to skewer politicians and pundits with some unrelenting jabs at the most sensitive news ... More >>

Anthony Jeselnik celebrates baby-death, bulimia and domestic violence at DU

The appearance of sociopathic dreamboat Anthony Jeselnik at the University of Denver's Newman Center Saturday was filled with unthinkable rape jokes and reverse-pandering to the backward-hat bros and "Woo!" women who populate the college campus. Despite the fact that nearly half his set was recycled ... More >>

Health-care fraud is big business. What are the feds doing about it?

The 50 best rap lyrics of all time: Complete list

Last week, we took a look at the fifty worst rap lyrics of all time. Going through all the dreck and drivel to get to the crème de la crème of crappiness was tedious and rather exhausting. This week, we even things out by taking a look at the other end of the spectrum and examining rap lyrics to f ... More >>

Even sobriety can't tame comedian Ben Roy's savage humor

See also: Everybody Loves Ben Roy: Denver comics weigh in on their longtime colleague

Boulder writer Matt Samet chronicles his benzo hell in Death Grip

Benzodiazepines like Valium and Xanax are one of the most widely prescribed drugs in America -- and one of the most addictive. In Death Grip, which came our yesterday, Boulder-based author, expert climber and former editor-in-chief of Climbing magazine Matt Samet chronicles his five-plus-year strugg ... More >>

Marijuana: Vets group supporting Amendment 64 after health department's PTSD non-ruling

Way back in May, Sensible Colorado's Brian Vicente made a second request to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment to add post-traumatic stress disorder to the allowable conditions for a medical marijuana card in Colorado. Vicente got his answer in the form of a no-answer.

Lynne Fenton, James Holmes's doctor: Her ex-husband on minor discipline made to look major

Update: Shortly after publishing the following item about Dr. Lynne Fenton, a CU psychiatrist who treated accused Aurora theater shooter James Holmes, we heard from Steffan Andrews, Fenton's ex-husband, and one of the people to whom she was censured by the state medical board for providing Claritin ... More >>

Drug enforcement checkpoint on I-25: Five tickets, two arrests out of 32 stops

​Update:On August 9, the Westminster Police Department manned a "DRUG ENFORCEMENT CHECKPOINT" on I-25. Last week, WPD Investigator Trevor Materasso confirmed the operation, but didn't have many details. Now, however, he's able to provide the specifics. Officers issued tickets or made arrests i ... More >>

Joshua Wittig sentenced to 10 years for heavily drugged crash that killed John Page Hines

Joshua Wittig.​Opponents of a Westminster Police drug-enforcement checkpoint note correctly that alcohol-related crashes like Department of Corrections officer Jason Ulrich's are far more prevalent those those involving narcotics. But the latter do happen, as shown by the case of Joshua Witti ... More >>

Top five creepy mini-things at the Denver Museum of Miniatures, Dolls and Toys

J. WohletzIt is way too soon for this crap to be vintage.​ The only things more creepy than miniatures, dolls and toys that are supposed to be creepy are ones that are unintentionally disturbing. And the kindly volunteers who worked this weekend were blissfully unaware of the darkly bizarre ... More >>

Marijuana: Chaz Moore, student not allowed to medicate at school, could lead class-action suit

Chaz Moore.​Chaz Moore, sixteen, is a Colorado Springs student with a rare medical condition whose flareups are radically improved by medical marijuana. However, his high school won't allow Chaz (originally known by the pseudonym "Bill Smith") to medicate on campus. So now, after months of fig ... More >>

Joshua Wittig convicted of vehicular homicide in death of John Hines, was on pot and much more

Joshua Wittig.​The October arrest of then-eighteen-year-old Joshua Wittig in a fatal accident that killed John Page Hines, 33, was accompanied by allegations that Wittig was high on marijuana that he may have obtained by improperly claiming to be a licensed medical marijuana patient. But evide ... More >>

Berkeley Park graffiti requires Urban Dictionary translation: Kenny Be's Sign Language

Recreation critic gives Wheel Fun Rentals an instant, on-shed review.​ Wheel Fun Rentals is the national company with the contract to provide pedal boats at Denver park lakes. In the picture above, the Berkeley Park pedal boat shed gets tagged with an alarming consumer complaint. But it takes ... More >>

Jay Marvin, longtime AM 760 host, recovering after suicide attempt

Jay in 2009.​Update below: In 2009, AM 760 host Jay Marvin suffered a health crisis involving a potentially lethal infection and epic back surgery that laid him up for the better part of a year. As a result, David Sirota took over Marvin's slot that December, with Jay formally retiring from ra ... More >>

Top five gift boxes Pat Boone's All-American Meats should start offering

Pat Boone appreciates his meat.​Pat Boone, beloved oldies crooner and now carnally inclined entrepreneur, recently made his own offering to the religious community: discounted "Pastor Appreciation Steak Gift Boxes" from his Colorado Springs-based Pat Boone's All American's Meats. Parishioners ... More >>

Top five foods the cast of Jersey Shore should be eating

There's more coming out of their mouths than going in.​I had never seen an episode of Jersey Shore until last week, and now that I've watched both the season-three opener and the second episode, I have come to a few conclusions. (Read Jersey Shore episode recaps in Show and Tell.) First, I a ... More >>

Marijuana cultivation leads to child abuse charges: New way to target home grows?

Joseph Lightfoot.​The arrests of Joseph Lightfoot and Amber Wildenstein, both 29, on one count apiece of child abuse raised eyebrows in the medical marijuana community. After all, the charges against Lightfoot and Wildenstein are based solely on them growing marijuana in their home -- somethin ... More >>

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Wanna get away, Denver? Southwest makes bid to buy Frontier Airlines

​ Several outlets are reporting that Southwest Airlines is trying to outbid Republic Airways and swoop up Denver's bankrupt hometown airline, Frontier. From the Associated Press: A court had already approved the sale of Frontier Airlines Holdings Inc. to the parent of Republic Airways for $ ... More >>

Exchanging Phish stories before the big gigs this weekend

​For fans of America's biggest cult band, the term "boys of summer" doesn't refer to guys who get paid millions to play baseball but rather four Vermont men in their forties who earn millions by playing goofy, unpredictable music while jumping on trampolines, having glowsticks thrown at and around ... More >>

The way the Adams County Coroner is running his office could be dead wrong

Troubled teens were banished to the Monarch Center wilderness program. Then their troubles really started

Shmucks of the Week: dog abusers

Pain Management

Cancer patient Tim Thomason didn't think he could feel any worse. His Denver jailers showed that he could.

Silver Jews

Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea
Drag City

From Russia, Without Love

Hackers are selling rape porn through university websites -- including student pages at UCD.

Nine Lives

Chan Marshall finds her way back to touring following a bout with exhaustion.

GWARlords

GWAR marks its platinum year of gore.

Breast Friend

When a stripper decided to get something off her chest, it landed on this doctor.

The Beatdown

A punk-rock burlesquecapade puts the suicide squeeze on one local venue.

Letters to the Editor

From the week of May 22, 2003

Justin Got His Gat

Drunk, high and pissed off, college honors student Justin Green asked himself one simple question: What would Tupac do?

Small Bites

Pico de Gallo

Letters to the Editor

From the week of January 31, 2002

A Hard Hit

Whoever murdered Eric Scott deprived some troubled teens of a reason to make a better life.

The Beats Go On

How a kid from Boulder became an eyewitness to the passing of an era.

Best impromptu karaoke in a Mexican dive bar

Satire Restaurant & Lounge

Run, Barry, Run

The Killer Inside Him

The twisted life--and lethal secrets--of Gary Davis.