You used to be able to count on TV serving all your lowest-common-denominator needs. Up for some good transgender slap-fighting? Jerry Springer has you covered. Hankering for some good cornpone jokes and T&A? Hee-Haw was on for more than twenty years. Want to see someone forced to eat something disgusting?…

You’d think that a person who ate two — sometimes three — bags of buttered popcorn a day would suffer from clogged arteries. But Centennial sofa salesman Wayne Watson became ill with “popcorn lung,” a rare disease that typically affects people working in popcorn factories. Watson lost half his lung…

The new fly-in community just east of Parker has drawn plenty of ire from neighbors worried about planes crashing into their homes — see last week’s “Up in the Air.” While much of the anger has been focused on the developer, Pete Vinton, the neighbors also petitioned county leaders to…

As my friend who told me about the event noted, were it not for the neatly manicured grass in Del Mar Park this past Saturday, you wouldn’t have been able to tell you weren’t in Ghana. Because, while everyone else in the city was busy greeting September with college football,…

On the twelfth day of Michael Tate’s murder trial, the final day of testimony, he told the judge that he would not be taking the stand in his not guilty by reason of insanity defense. “No ma’am” he said to the judge in a flat, monotone voice that sounded surprisingly…

Steve Fossett’s been missing in the Nevada desert since Labor Day. The Beaver Creek millionaire thrill-seeker who’s set records for circumnavigating the globe in a balloon, flying solo nonstop for almost 80 hours, and other feats of derring-whoohoo, was out scouting sites for a future run at the land-speed record…

Day eleven of Michael Tate’s murder trial consisted mostly of testimony from two psychologists, produced by the defense, telling the jury that everything is not alright in Tate’s 19-year-old brain and that relying on a sanity evaluation designed for adults and conducted by a doctor without much experience evaluating juveniles…

It was 50 years ago today, that the travel journal charting the 1951 bohemian oddysey of the not-yet-beloved-by-free-spirits-everywhere Jack Kerouac, hit book stands dorm-room shelves, changing America’s literary landscape and putting the Beat writers at the forefront of American consciousness. On The Road broke and subsequently changed the rules, it…

When I walked through the door of City, O’ City the first time, late in the evening on a Saturday when the joint was in full hipster-utopian swing, I thought only of how immediately comfortable I found its spare décor, widely-spaced tables, high-backed booths and long bar; how buzzing and…

Michael Tate was so excited on the day that Tammy Wachtl brought him home that he ran smack dab into a glass window that he didn’t realize was closed. Tate was only seven then and Wachtl knew that he was going to need a lot of attention, so she quit…

Many psychologists have evaluated Michael Tate, but none of them know for sure what’s wrong with him. He committed murder and all the doctors, depending on if the defense or prosecution calls them to the stand, want the jury to believe that he is insane or he is not. Testimony…

After a twisted two weeks, Denver’s City Council approved a ballot initiative to make pot the lowest law enforcement priority in the city. The citizen’s proposal, brought forward by Mason Tvert’s SAFER Denver campaign, stumped a few councilors, including Chris Nevitt, who defended the initiative’s message even as he derided…

Just when their current digs got decorated by an awesome new monster man mural[[1]] by Jesse Ledoux, Andenken gallery announces it is moving to a new location at 29th and Larimer. We like the present space, but it’s beginning to be clear that the contemporary urban art regularly featured at…