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In celebrity-starved Denver, it’s no surprise that the PleasuresDudes have parlayed their late-night TV ads for a local adult-store chain into a certain star status peopled with parties and porn stars. But thanks to the web, the Dudes have gone global – and their fame earned them an invitation to…

The ad on page 3B of the June 8 Boulder Daily Camera sported the terse diction and inconsistent capitalization of a ransom note — but its text focused upon cracking cases, not commiting crimes. Beneath a heading that read, “The JonBenét Ramsey Murder Has Been Solved,” the copy began: “Download…

“Untwisters,” Kenny Be, May 29 Breaking Wind Kenny Be, your “Untwisters” made me laugh. You made me laugh out loud. You made me laugh for some time after that. I haven’t laughed out loud so hard since that YouTube video with the monkey that sticks his finger up his butt,…

In celebrity-starved Denver, it’s no surprise that the PleasuresDudes — the alter egos of Mike Wheeler and Fred Gates — have parlayed their late-night TV ads for a local adult-store chain into a certain star status peopled with parties and porn stars, as Jared Jacang Maher described in his January…

Everyone knows that 27 is the rock-star death year. Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison — they all died at that very young age. Naturally, it made sense to assume that I would pass then, too. What’s So Funny is to humor columns what Hendrix was to guitar: on drugs…

For 45 months, and as recently as last week, Denver Health and Hospital Authority administrators told anyone who asked — paramedics, union representatives, Channel 7, Westword — that they were correctly calculating the ambulance response times that they provide yearly to the city. Then, on Tuesday evening, as our story…

Ever since KHOW talk-show host Dan Caplis began attacking the presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee, Senator Barack Obama, he’s received a steadily accelerating barrage of hate e-mail. That’s nothing new for Caplis, who’s grown accustomed to criticism during his sixteen years on the radio, nearly four of which he’s spent…

My quest for eternal life begins at 8 a.m. in a place called the Grossman Wellness Center, with ten vials of blood and a bottle of what tastes like Sunny Delight. From the outside, the sleek building in Lakewood looks nothing like a medical office. But the high-tech location makes…

The subject of this week’s cover story, Dr. Terry Grossman, believes the human race is fast approaching the singularity, the point at which technology becomes so powerful it allows us to live forever and changes the fabric of existence to such an extent that it’s hard for people today to…

Much fanfare was made today of the fact that Sage Hospitality Resources LLC, a prominent hotel management and development firm, will be moving into the top three floors of the long-decrepit Fontius Building on the 16th Street Mall. Mayor John Hickenlooper was reportedly on hand at the building today for…

Once again, allow Westword to clarify: Jeff Peckman and Stan Romanek have not released the full video of their peeping tom alien. Peckman merely showed it to the media at a Denver press conference in late May, but would only allow still photos. So if you’ve seen a two minute…

Alan Prendergast just continues his winning ways. His February 8, 2007, package on how District Attorney Carol Chambers runs her office – “The Punisher” and “A Thumb on the Scales” – was just named the best news story of the year by the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies. (Last month, Prendergast’s…

The following are five reasons why Dr. Terry Grossman and Ray Kurzweil – subjects of this week’s cover story — want to live forever (as taken from Kurzweil’s Wikipedia entry). A little creepy? Well, then read on for Westword’s preview of the WORLD OF TOMORROW and ten of our own…

In celebrity-starved Denver, it’s no surprise that the PleasuresDudes have parlayed their late-night TV ads for a local adult-store chain into a certain star status peopled with parties and porn stars. But thanks to the web, the Dudes have gone global – and their fame earned them an invitation to…

Robin Carole Gall, 38, was in jail in Canon City Monday night after Fremont County sheriff’s deputies found her husband, Brent Thomas Gall, 40, dead of a gunshot wound to the chest. Brent Gall was a federal correctional officer. He was also a defendant in the infamous “Cowboys” case, in…

Metalocalypse, which is in its second season as part of Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim program slate, chronicles the misadventures of Dethklok, a death-metal band that sprang from the imagination of Brendon Small and cohort Tommy Blacha. However, the group comes to life, sort of, during a Thursday, June 12 gig…

When Dean Singleton speaks, people listen — and they’re often agog at what they hear. Back in April, as documented in a More Messages blog, the man in charge at the Denver Post, the flagship paper of his MediaNews Group firm, made headlines at the Associated Press’ annual luncheon after…

Arizona-born Native American artist Brad Kahlhamer has been making a big name for himself in the art world over the last decade with solos in prestigious galleries in high-status art towns like London, Milan and New York. But before that, he had built a quirky resume that began when he…

It’s official. The Bureau of Land Management announced Monday that it will auction gas leases on 55,000 acres on top of the Roan Plateau on August 14. And Governor Bill Ritter and Senator Ken Salazar, who’ve been battling the BLM plan for years, are more than a little exercised over…