This stop-the-presses story from Monday’s Denver Post has the kind of cheery headline and deck you just have to admire: “METH COOKING 101/DEA holds awareness class to show how easy it is to make the drug, which is increasingly imported.” Aside from the fact that homemade meth is the definition…

The Colorado History Museum’s current exhibition, The Italians of Denver, celebrates the numerous contributions to local culture made by the proud immigrant families who came here from Italy and settled primarily in the northwest part of town. Yet for one painting in the exhibition — “The Agony in the Garden”,…

Slideshow Some people just don’t listen. A few weeks ago, I wrote about a combustible little energy drink that goes by the name of SPIKE. In that column, I pointed out how kids have been going to the hospital for drinking too much SPIKE, and I then proceeded to drink…

I don’t know if I’m the last one to know about these automatic pot hole-filling trucks, but I was thoroughly wowed when I saw one in action today near downtown. The driver simply pulled up to the 2-foot-wide gouge in the street and started spitting asphalt through a long robotic…

Offense Report No: 07-330054 Date: 05-18-07 Type of Offense: Burglary Location of Offense: Prospect Place neighborhood Property Stolen: Fried Chicken ($5) Officer E. Quintana reports: “On the listed date and time, the unknown suspects(s) gained entry into the listed location by kicking in the front door. Once inside, the unknown…

Driving to work today I saw a bumper sticker that said “Keep the Field in Broomfield,” obviously some sort of open space plea. But it was stuck to an old Chevrolet Suburban cruising down a tiny Capitol Hill street, which inspired me to come up with a new bumper sticker…

Killfix The Walnut Room…

Being a native of Littleton, I felt an immediate affinity for Januar while researching their Myspace Music page. Their profile was incredibly straightforward. From: Littleton (who owns up to that?); influences: Jeff Buckley, Mojave 3, Sigur Ros; band name is Icelandic for “January,” and they’re wearing woolly beanies in their…

The spotlight’s on the Senate’s debate over immigration reform but most of the men in Washington don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to the crux of the issue. None of them have to fill low paying jobs like the farmers and hotel owners in Colorado do. None…

The title says it all. If Denver’s had anything like Atlanta Public Access’s Alexyss Tylor, I would cancel Comcast in a second. Not like they haven’t already canceled it for nonpayment. Not Safe For Work—Don’t gamble with your finances. [As seen on Crunk + Disorderly] –Crystal Preston-Watson…

Old newspapers line the windows of what used to be the Clara Market on East Colfax, the shop sits empty, still for rent. The shops former owners, Mohamad Aboub and family are officially out of the convenience-store biz, Aboub says, after pleading guilty to unauthorized use of a transaction device…

Notes like this one are the backbone of nearly every shitty, irritating relationship forced upon us by the horrors of modern life. If it isn’t the roommate, it’s the neighbor, or the jackoff that works two cubicles down. Some of us leave them, some of us are the target of…

In what could very well be foreshadowing of the next global war, this year’s Cannes festival was dominated by the current superpower (that’d be the good ol’ U.S. of A.) and the superpower on the rise (China, of course). Unlike the coming conflict, this fight features lots of arty close-ups…

Call her, just don’t call her bitch. Becky Due is a Colorado-based feminist author who’s been through the shelters and skid row. Men have walked all over her, beat her, and for a long time Due allowed herself to be a victim. Then she picked up a pen and started…

“I’ve been thrown out of some of these bars. Chased out. Ignored. I don’t do karaoke, but I know a place where one might indulge their proclivities for singing half-drunk versions of Mandy or Forever in Blue Jeans until late in the night or early in the morning. I know…

Skitching: all the kids are doin’ it – at least according to the Denver Post. Last Thursday, a Littleton teenager died after being run over by his buddy’s Jeep while “skitching,” meaning he was riding his skateboard while holding onto a moving vehicle. But those who assume that the death…

I know when I eat any kind of fried food, thoughts of evil float around in my head. The Devil uses trans-fat to tempt humankind and I can say I am tempted many times a day. While I’m stuffing that fried Twinkie in my mouth, I say a prayer, hoping…