What’s wrong with this picture? A good guess would be that two adults are climbing on a piece of art as a Denver police officer drives past without arresting them, or at the very least stopping to club them severely. Had the sculpture climbers been unsupervised teenagers, their art discovery…

Sleep Deprived and Addled — Tuesday, April 3, 5:06 a.m. This is why I love Matt Conty: I ask him to tell me a new joke, since we’re waiting in line together at the Last Comic Standing auditions, I haven’t seen him in a few months and I always loved…

Reality Sets In — Tuesday, April 3, 12:30 a.m. On the corner of Rural Road and University Drive in Tempe, Arizona, hundreds of potential candidates for the Last Comic Standing auditions are bivouacked around the corner of the Tempe Improv, some sleeping, some chatting, some playing cards, all leaving a…

Onwards and Upwards — Monday, April 2, 8:30 a.m. “You’re a writer?” some guy asks me, noticing that I’m busily writing into my laptop, cracked out though I am from lack of sleep. “Yeah,” I say. “Well then you and I need to talk,” he says with a slow, creepy…

U.S. District Judge Lewis Babcock has spoken. The privacy rights of the parents of two mass murderers outweigh any public interest in learning about the home life of the killers — not to mention the families’ dealings with school officials and law enforcement over the escalating bad behavior of the…

With this unexpected late-season snow, are you dreaming of a stint under the Tuscan sun–but don’t know how on earth you’ll afford the inter-continental journey? The all-seeing, all-knowing Google has the answer. Just go to Google Maps and get directions from “Denver, CO” to “Florence, Italy.” The program’s solution is…

This week’s feature story, “Love the Sinner,” about anti-gay hate crimes at Regis University, has prompted plenty of discussion on the northwest Denver campus about how the issue of homosexuality should be approached at the Jesuit school. Online comments posted by readers here (scroll to the bottom) reveal that some…

Offense Report No: 07-129765 Date: 02-27-07 Type of Offense: Criminal Mischief/Assault Location of Offense: Hale Neighborhood (East Denver) Weapon Used: brick, street sign post Officer R. Jensen reports: “Investigation disclosed that between 3:15 and 3:30 pm, the suspect [a 55-year-old woman] was observed by victim throwing a large landscaping brick…

On a warm spring afternoon, Alexandros Economou stands in the parking lot of Baby Doe’s Matchless Mine, the restaurant that’s been perched on this bluff overlooking Interstate 25 since 1978. Broken bottles crunch underfoot and police tape flaps in the wind; Baby Doe’s and the adjoining Chili Pepper restaurant closed…

Spotted during an excursion to the wild and woolly northern regions, prompting the following verse: Best busker on Pearl Got no tips, merely handcuffs Only in Boulder. — Joel Warner…

“People like to see death, people like to see people biting it,” explains Eric Medved, waving his steel sword for emphasis. “We need to show good biting!” Medved’s half-dozen tunic-clad pupils nod thoughtfully. This cramped Denver back yard, where dented shields rest against the composter, functions as a training ground…

At least he had chicken. Leroy Jenkins is dead. No, not Leeroy Jenkins with a double “ee,” the World of Warcraft video game character who’s achieved global celebrity as described in the story “The Legend of Leeroy Jenkins.” This is the real, flesh-and-blood Leroy Jenkins, an individual famous in his…

As reported in the Westword story Pot of Gold and in follow-up blogs, some folks in the coffee business are casting a critical eye on fair trade coffee, a certification system that guarantees coffee farmers get paid a minimum $1.26 per pound of beans. Some argue that not only is…

A Fox 31 reporter and her cameraman were getting into an elevator at the Denver City and County Building this morning when they were approached by a man in a red, zoot-ish suit, who handed them a business card for a tanning spot. The man with the card, who had…

“I am not a video-game player,” George Robison admits, but he’s suspiciously good at Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, the video game whose ads he’s attempting to have banned from the Regional Transportation District system. Robison expertly weaves his stolen Jeep through traffic, ripping light poles out of the…

Scott Brown, president of NetDevil, wanders happily through the online-game development company’s Louisville headquarters, very much like an oversized kid given the keys to the toy store. “For me, this is a dream job,” he gushes. And NetDevil’s office looks like the stuff of every techno geek’s dreams. The kitchen…

I’m a stranger in a strange land. Chirping birds and stands of medieval forest surround me. Though I’m a fresh-faced, Level One warrior, I’m already attracting attention. An armor-clad soldier asks me to take out a nearby pack of wolves. A blue-hatted gnome a third my size challenges me to…

The news business is about to get shaken up in a major way. There’s an exciting new-fangled media technology hitting the streets, and it looks like it’s all going down right here in Denver. Boulder media consultant Amy Gahran has the scoop on the Poynter blog she edits, E-Media Tidbits…

Offense Report No: 07-100558 Date: 2-15-07 Type of Offense: Attempted Robbery/Unlawful Sexual Assault/Aggravated Assault Location of Offense: Near City Park Weapon/Tool Used: Penis Getting robbed would really piss most people off, and although they say it’s better to be pissed off than pissed on, one urinating bandit left his victim…

Last we heard from Denver coffee entrepreneur and explorer Joseph Brodsky, he was planning to stay in Ethiopia indefinitely to seek out the best undiscovered coffee beans—such as the legendary Geisha—the birthplace of java had to offer. He’s still there, looking for his beans in wild forests and hillside coffee…

What? A powerful anti-gay pastor in Colorado Springs is getting his gay on? What? He smoked meth? What? What? After three weeks he’s a reformed hetero? Today’s video by brilliant lyricist Samwell is dedicated to the Rev. Ted Haggard. May he live long and well — because repressing the “big…