The 40th Annual International Mutual UFO Network Symposium is more than an elaborate matrix of conspiracy theories. It’s also a great place to shop! Look for many of your favorite vendors……
Last week, Max Media replaced its well-regarded Indie 101.5 format (still audible online at Indie303.com) with The Pole, described as “Stripper Radio.” Jeff Norman, the general manager of 101.5 and its sister station, Hot 107.1, has thus far avoided publicly admitting that the current sound is a stunt designed to…
Remember the Personhood Amendment? Promoted as the brainchild of then-21-year-old Kristi Burton, the subject of a Westword profile, the measure would have established that a human’s life begins at the moment of fertilization — and despite a big effort on its behalf by abortion foes, it was easily defeated in…
Sonia Sotomayor, whose ruling about nunchucks is part of this week’s Jared Jacang Maher feature article about Thornton cop Kevin Orcutt’s police-oriented nunchaku design, hasn’t been officially confirmed as a Supreme Court justice at this writing; Senate president Harry Reid has called for a vote at 1 p.m. mountain time…
Last week, Bonnie Bergin’s body was found amid flames that destroyed a house she was renting on West 20th Avenue in Lakewood — and now, the Lakewood Police Department has formally determined that she was murdered. At this point, the LPD isn’t releasing her cause of death, which suggests Bergin,…
Want a horse? How about sixteen of them — plus a donkey? If so, representatives of the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office would like to bend your ear. The JCSO has been awarded ownership of the animals, which were formerly the property of John McCulley, who’s been charged with 38 counts…
The citizen-journalist project YourHub.com was initially championed by Rocky Mountain News editor, publisher and president John Temple, who touted it in an April 2005 Message column with some particularly high-flown rhetoric. “We can fulfill a role of helping to connect the community,” he declared at the time. “Readers will be…
The web offers TV reporters tremendous opportunities for self-promotion — but because they’re supposed to be objective, most of them steer clear of voicing their opinions on stories they’ve covered or expressing strongly held views that might suggest a bias about certain topics. So — what to blog and/or Twitter…
One of the best new television series of the summer season is Showtime’s Nurse Jackie, starring Edie Falco, of The Sopranos fame. At first blush, the title character seems like a fairly typical medical-TV creation: She’s a sassy wife and mother who’s so fiercely devoted to the well-being of her…
At noon today, supporters of Frontier Airlines, the subject of a potential bidding war between Republic Airways Holdings (which would probably preserve the company in some fashion) and Southwest Airlines (likely to swallow it whole), are rallying at Mayor John Hickenlooper’s office. The name given to the protest? “Save the…
The American Psychological Association’s rejection of therapy intended to turn gay people straight, announced yesterday, is unlikely to change the views of Focus on the Family, the Colorado Springs-based organization, founded by James Dobson, that’s made “reorientation” one of its most prominent missions. Indeed, the outfit has long been defensive…
Wednesday’s blog “Does Denver Media Care More When White People are Shot” focused on Randall Waggoner, who wound up shutting down Mineral Avenue in Littleton for hours after a murder/suicide attempt that failed on the former count (his estranged wife, Christina, remains alive, albeit in critical condition) but ultimately succeeded…
“Colorado Campground Confidential,” Kenny Be, July 23/p> In Tents Passions If you camp at a designated campground, you deserve whatever terrible things happen to you and I have no sympathy. Might as well set up a tent on the sidewalk somewhere. Posted at westword.com Kenny Be, I like most of…
For some reason, people who like to dress up as giant stuffed animals are often thought of as strange. And it doesn’t help that a subset of these “furries” like to have wild animal sex, sometimes even illegal wild animal sex. In May, Alan David Berlin, an aide to a…
Sergeant Kevin Orcutt stands over me: “Give me your arm, please.” He says it the way stereotypical cops talk, in a monotone demand with just enough polite formality to seem like a request. I know his goal is to handcuff me, so I’ve clenched my body into a ball. Face…
Who’s gonna clean up this mess? Today in Backbeat Online: • Q&A with Kyle Evans of Breathe Carolina. • Q&A with Krispy Kream of the Knux. • Tip sheet: Meet Shel, our new favorite band. • A first look at Pictureplane’s new video. • MP3 Freeloader: Joy Subtraction. Today in…
Three years ago, in a feature titled “Over and Over Again,” I looked at one of the primary reasons for the staggering failure rate of parolees in Colorado. That would be the fact that more and more prisoners are paroling homeless, with no job prospects and little preparation for what…
We’re in search of the perfect blog. Point us to any that come close. Three out of four Denver companies are allegedly going to offer raises this year. And my name is Cleopatra, Queen of Denial. (5280, with an assist from the Denver Business Journal) The founder of the Cesar…
If you’re thinking of hiking the Colorado Trail, a 500-mile hiking trail that stretches from Denver to Durango and covers almost every type of terrain our fair state has to offer, the first step you take should be online. Thanks to the efforts of Jerry Brown of Bear Creek Survey…
One thing we share unequivocally with our ancestors: the heavens above. And just like our prehistoric precursors, we continue to be fascinated and inspired by the moon and stars, even if, in this day and age, we’ve gone so far as to set foot on the former and have roundly…
Writing can be painful sometimes. This is particularly true while putting together a feature article about a little-known weapon used by police departments across the country called an Orcutt Police Nunchaku. Nearly thirty years ago, a Thornton police officer named Kevin Orcutt became inspired by the flailing martial arts weapon…
Allen Andrade, the 32-year-old convicted in April of murdering transgender Greeley teen Angie Zapata, has a MySpace page. A disturbing one that alternates Christian imagery, hate-speak and pleas not to judge him. It appears to have been set up by one of Andrade’s siblings. (He has at least two sisters,…
