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Nathan Wilkins: Is Georgia teen who faked suicide after child-sex charge in Aurora?

The path that may have led Nathan Wilkins, nineteen, from his Georgia home to Aurora is an undeniably twisted one. The story thus far features a child-sex sting involving Craigslist and a "slushy," Facebook posts about eBay shopping and political commentary, an elaborately staged suicide and the fi ... More >>

Five McAwesome vintage Happy Meal toys

On a recent visit to McDonald's I spied a Hello Kitty toy in a Happy Meal, and I was almost inspired to order a kid's meal myself. The McDonald's Happy Meal was by far the most brilliant marketing idea to ever light up the golden arches -- luring kids, and their parents' disposable incomes, into the ... More >>

Danny Seim of Menomena on the contrast of making somber music while looking like idiots

Bob McMahon From the perspective of a casual observer, it would be all too easy to label the members of Menomena as miserablists. The group's mixture of reverb-laden piano, woodwinds, crashing drums and pretty much every keyboard voice and stringed instrument in existence has always cohered into a ... More >>

Menswear Mondays: Industrial dancer Jolt Holcomb on his Clockwork Orange style

While it's easy to be a film enthusiast, only a select few individuals live their lives by the aesthetics of their favorite one. This is the case with industrial dancer Jolt Holcomb and his No. 1 movie: A Clockwork Orange. (For proof, look no further than the photo above this paragraph.) Continue re ... More >>

Reader: Movie theater is no place to wear a "Joker" mask

Hint: If you're going to a movie in Boulder, do not wear a "Joker" mask in the theater. Officials with the Boulder Police Department reported Sunday night that they had arrested a seventeen-year-old male (he's a part-time University of Colorado student, whose name is not being released because he's ... More >>

Photos: James Holmes ultra-realistic Halloween mask listed on eBay for $500

No, it's not surprising that someone would create a mask of accused Aurora theater shooter James Holmes just in time for Halloween -- not given the continuing fascination with the man at the center of various James Holmes is Innocent Facebook pages. But the item itself, seen from two angles in a st ... More >>

Photos: Awesome skateboard art on deck for Saturday's 5th annual Bordo Bello

"There's something people just love about the skateboard as a free and expressive canvas," says American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) Colorado president Elysia Sryiac, surveying more than 300 decks submitted for Saturday's 5th annual Bordo Bello art show and auction at Redline Gallery. "This wil ... More >>

Bartender Shae Whitney stirs up Dram, a company that produces homemade bitters

"For so long, we've been able to go to the store and get whatever cheap things we want. And now people are becoming more interested in handcrafted, regional products," says Shae Whitney, the City, O' City bartender who founded her own company, Dram Apothecary, which creates organic, handcrafted bitt ... More >>

The Colorado Brewers Guild is whipping up special beer for #GABF award winners

Award-winning brewers at the Great American Beer Festival will bring home something in addition to their medals this year: a bottle of a special beer made collaboratively just for the occasion by members of the Colorado Brewers Guild. The 22-ounce bottle of Porter's Pride, an imperial porter brewed ... More >>

Great American Beer Festival scalpers drive us to drink

It's hard to know who to be angry at for what many people are calling #GABFail -- the ticketing fiasco that has marred the upcoming Great American Beer Festival. The Boulder-based Brewers Association put 49,000 tickets up for grabs beginning at 10 a.m. on August 2. But within two minutes, at least t ... More >>

In honor of Record Store Day this Saturday: Ten records we treasure. What's your favorite vinyl?

In honor of Record Store Day this Saturday, we dug deep into our collection to unearth our favorite pieces of vinyl. These are the records we treasure above all else. Don't even think about asking to borrow them. If there were a fire, these are the first platters we'd make sure to grab. You get the ... More >>

Skiers may scoff, but snowboarders are finally being accepted by the slopes' old guard

Linger and Root Down hosting a yard sale this weekend for a good cause

​ There are few restaurants in Denver that stack up to Root Down and Linger, at least in terms of style and design, and we imagine that the staff of both restaurants have scads of pretty cool stuff lying around their abodes, too, some of which they're selling for a good cause this weekend at ... More >>

An interview with Ideal Fathers in advance of their farewell show tonight at the Larimer

​Over the course of a line-up change or two, Ideal Fathers Ideal Fathers, playing its final show tonight at the Larimer Lounge, developed a sound and a stage presence that probably would have been lumped in with "dance punk." But there was always an agenda in the band to inspire people to wake ... More >>

Frasca Food and Wine's Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson on eating fox tartare and the get in -- and get out rule at Frasca

Lori Midson​ Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson Frasca Food and Wine 1738 Pearl Street, Boulder 303-442-6966 www.frascafoodandwine.com This is part one of my interview with Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson, co-owner and executive chef of Frasca Food and Wine. Part two of my chat with Mackinnon-Patterso ... More >>

Bizarre Casey Anthony mask sells for almost a million bucks, all faith in humanity lost

Bummer.​In this morning's "yes, people really are that fucked up" news, a mask version of the recently acquitted Casey Anthony sold on eBay for close to one million dollars. The anonymous buyer won out over more than one hundred bids on the scary piece of latex. While mask itself is immediate ... More >>

Seth "Hunx" Bogart on Hunx and His Punx being liked for being good and interesting rather than getting acclaim as a gay novelty group

Kristin CoferHunx and His Punx Hunx and His Punx (due at the hi-dive this Saturday, May 7, with Shannon & the Clams, Thee Goochi Boiz and Lust-Cats of the Gutters) started in the Bay Area in 2008 when Seth "Hunx" Bogart of Gravy Train!!!! decided to do something very different from the band he had ... More >>

John Vanderslice on White Wilderness, photography and how he receives criticism

Autumn De Wilde​In the middle to later half of the 1990s, John Vanderslice (due tonight at the hi-dive with Damien Jurado) was a member of the respected Bay Area alternative rock band, MK Ultra. When the band split in 1999, Vanderslice took the delicate intensity and experimental edge he had b ... More >>

10 things to do for $10 this weekend, January 21-23, 2011

​Ah, mid-January, the time when random miniature snowstorms or below-freezing days can make or break your weekend plans. It's a trying time of year for people, with cabin fever causing even the most hermit-like among us to try and make it out into the real world. Thankfully, there is plenty to ... More >>

Let your freak flag fly: Bid on a chance to see your favorite oldie choreographed by Frequent Flyers

​Come April, Boulder's renowned Frequent Flyers Productions aerial dance troupe will stage The Fabulous Freaky Flyers and their Flying Machines, an up-in-the-air homage to the '60s, at the Lakewood Cultural Center. But while you're waiting, rabid baby boomers and retro-fanatics, the company is ... More >>

William Breathes' ten favorite products at KushCon II

Instead of cookies, I leave Sour Diesel​Last week I talked about how much I hated holiday shopping. After going to KushCon II over the weekend, I've changed my mind. Below is my top ten pot-toy wish list for Santa this year. All photos by Aaron Thackeray.

Not so happy: Life During Wartime is full of apologies, sincere and otherwise

Tom Cat Condoms: Don't try putting them on your pussy

Full-sized photos below.​Putting on a condom can be tricky, what with all the strategic placement and careful unrolling at a time when your mind is on other things. So imagine how difficult it would be to put one on your cat. He can't do it himself, since the love glove could get punctured by ... More >>

Oscar Mayer's auctioning off a chance to ride "shotbun" in one of its Wienermobiles

A Flickr photo​Last we checked, thirteen bids had been placed on an eBay auction for a chance to have an Oscar Mayer Wienermobile haul your ass around for a day and host a cookout for you and fifty of your tube steak-loving friends. There's a week left to get in on the action, bidders. The cu ... More >>

Tiger Woods "Unfaithful" stunt "good for Gatorade and good for art" -- but Jason Kay earns criminal charges for it anyway

C'mon, feds. It's funny!​Confirmation that the federal government has no sense of humor: The book is being thrown at Longmont's Jason Kay, whose sin was to relabel Gatorade bottles with a photo of Tiger Woods and his wife Elin and the word "Unfaithful." As is obvious from an affidavit by spec ... More >>

The Fort closes Monday for kitchen renovation

Sam and Holly Arnold outside the Fort.​The Fort will be closed from January 11 through January 21 for a kitchen renovation -- the first since the Morrison restaurant, a recreation of Bent's Old Fort, was built out of 80,000 handmade adobe bricks back in 1962. Some of those bricks are right beh ... More >>

Top 10 Reissues of the Decade

This Heat finally makes it Out of Cold Storage​Reissues are a difficult breed, on one hand they seek to garner a new audience, on another they have to pay heed to what fans are looking for. The best reissues not only remind you why you liked the band in the first place, but help in keeping tha ... More >>

Wake-Up Call: Pull some strings for Peacejam

​It's been a tough year for Peacejam, the homegrown nonprofit that over the past fifteen years has reached out to hundreds of thousands of kids around the globe, showing them that in the toughest circumstances, it's still possible to push for peace -- and then proving it by bringing ten Nobel ... More >>

Monolith Q&A: the Bad Veins

​The indie rock world has more than its share of rags-to-riches, flannel-to-Fendi stories - glimmering groups who seem to go from the basement to the buzz bin overnight. Bad Veins - the Cincinnati-based duo of multi-instrumentalist/songwriter Benjamin Davis and drummer Sebastien Schultz - fits the ... More >>

Comic books like these great for meth-profits laundering

The cover of Superman No. 3, published in 1940.​One of the more unusual aspects of the enormous meth ring authorities announced they busted yesterday was the alleged conspirators' chosen instrument for cleaning their dirty money: classic comic books. Investigators seized approximately 100 boxe ... More >>

Where Brian Dawkins can get a Super Bowl ring: eBay

That bling is super! At a press availability yesterday, newly minted Denver Bronco Brian Dawkins, a veteran safety who's a legend among Philadelphia Eagles faithful, declared, "I would love to have a ring. I would love to finish it all with a ring." And from what I understand, the gathered reporter ... More >>

Milking It: Cap'n Crunch's Christmas Crunch

Christmas Crunch Quaker Oats Rating: Three and a half spoons out of four Cereal description: Corn and oat cereal that delivers a surprise package of shapes. There's the standard Cap'n Crunch serrated yellow bundles, plus green quasi-trees and kinda snowmen, red faux-hats and bogus stars, plus th ... More >>

Artist hopes to deliver Sarah Palin hockey mask to VP candidate in Denver

Last Night...Tom Waits @ Orpheum Theatre, Phoenix

Ray Loves Terrorists, Wants To Make Them Pie

Q&A With Julian Dorio of the Whigs

Transformers

There's nothing more than what reaches your eye in this crash-and-bang flick.

Alert the Media

Waking Rothko knows how to get a critic's attention.

The Reel Truth

Hollywood claims the sky is falling. To which we say Puh-lease.

Off Limits

Building for the Future

Aurora Goes Retro

A new exhibit captures the 1950s lifestyle

Uplifting Charity

Bras for the Cause raises money for breast cancer

Party Patrol

How low can you go? All the way, with these fabulously tacky theme parties.

Just Can't Get Enough

Collectors' Extravaganza goes from the sophomoric to the sublime

Fly Spy

Murphy and Wilson fool around with formulaic fun.

We Have Liftoff

Rocket Ajax prepares to blast out.

Pink-ronicity

Every second counts in the merry old land of Dark Oz.

Pieced on Earth

A new exhibit showcases Wyoming quilter Anne Olsen's work.

Seller's Market

Jimmy Eat World doesn't have a record label, a distributor or a care in the world.

Brothers Keeper

The demonic duo of Dean and Gene Ween returns with a new studio album -- and a refined take on a twisted past.