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“Revenge of the Nerds,” Adam Cayton-Holland, August 23 Next Question I looked forward to reading about bar trivia, as a large group of us frequently attack the TFO and Buzzwordz locations here in Denver. We hadn’t heard of Geeks Who Drink and were excited to give them a try. After…

Here’s a brief look at some of the items America is desperate to learn about today: Beth Mattek Tennis star Beth Mattek is churning up the Internet today for her choice in, uh, “fashion” on the court. All I can say is if her sense of style sets a trend,…

Ever wonder what the world would look like if people disappeared tomorrow (or in 2012, if some of those conspiracy-theorist nuts are right)? Author Alan Weisman wrote a book about it, but for those too busy to read, he’s also created a handy interactive chart that hits the highlights. Some…

Terrorism, street crime, liberals wanting to take our guns. What’s a parent to do? Raising kids is hard enough without having to worry about the horrors that modern life is waiting to inflict on them at every turn. For parents that really care, there’s Bulletproof Baby, a company that produces…

Leo Tanguma’s murals at Denver International Airport are rich with symbolism. The artist maintains the works have nothing to do with Illuminati’s plans for one world government, but the internet, in all it’s glory, is rife with people who won’t be convinced. For the most in-depth discussion out there on…

Day seven of Michael Tate’s murder trial got off to a slow start on Tuesday because of the stabbing of a CU student by a man who, when previously charged with another stabbing, had been found not guilty by reason of insanity, the same plea Tate is using for his…

The August 28 announcement that the E.W. Scripps Company wants to sell the Albuquerque Tribune set stomachs rumbling at the Scripps-owned Rocky Mountain News for entirely understandable reasons. Like the Rocky, the Tribune has been part of a joint-operating agreement intended to preserve the existence of editorially competing newspapers. Moreover,…

Open since 1974, the Wazee Supper Club predates all the hipness, all the gentrification, all the retro this-and-that of LoDo. Founders Angelo and Jim Karagas actually opened their first spot, My Brother’s Bar, in 1969, nine blocks further down 15th, in a neighborhood known more for the rattle in the…

The U.S. Penitentiary Administrative Maximum outside of Florence is so thinly staffed that the unit housing some of the nation’s deadliest terrorists has gone as long as 24 hours without any guards supervising the unit. That’s one of the charges hurled this morning by representatives of the guards’ union. With…

For reasons not made public, Jefferson County Sheriff’s deputies decided to shackle Michael Tate’s feet on day six of his first-degree murder trial. The shackles weren’t visible to the jury, and the jurors weren’t in the courtroom when Tate’s defense team objected to the chaining of their client, who’d seemed…

Audrey Hepburn has been called a timeless beauty and I think this gorgeous tat speaks to that. I snapped this pic at Sputnik Saturday night, just before closing. In my drunken state, I didn’t get the name of the lovely hipster sporting this ink, or the name of the artist…

Here’s a brief look at some of the items America is desperate to learn about today: Carpet skates A fun new way to suffer traumatic head injuries! Carpet skates apparently let you slide across carpeted floors like you do in socks over hardwood. Thank god they didn’t have these when…

Didja think the flow of editorial employees leaving the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News would slow after the end of the most recent buyout cycle? Think again. Scribes have been splitting at a rapid clip, with three new names joining the roster of those exiting: Post basketball writer…

Slide Show First things first. To be honest, I was barely familiar with the 50-plus names of the adult film stars who were at the Fourth Annual Adult Film Star Ball at La Boheme on August 25. But after my seven or so hours of walking between the downtown strip…

Resurrecting the Champ, a Josh Hartnett-Samuel L. Jackson film set in Denver, opened on August 24, and local reviewers gave the movie the hometown discount: Robert Denerstein, writing his first critique for the Rocky Mountain News since accepting a buyout from the tabloid, pinned the piece with a B- (a…

Day five of Michael Tate’s murder trial began with Tate’s defense team trying to discredit his partner in crime, Michael Fitzgerald, who was testifying against Tate as a part of his plea agreement to a second degree murder charge, which landed Fitzgerald 62 years in prison for his role in…

8.24.07 Le Meridien Hotel Resort Bora Bora, French Polynesia South Pacific Subject: Death on the Zero Horizon PBC, A fatality introduced me to Niko and Chad a few days ago in Papeete, Tahiti. I had just arrived from Auckland and was settled in by the pool at my hotel, sneaking…

Here’s a brief look at some of the items America is desperate to learn about today: Fidel Castro dead The Internet is erupting over the rumor that Fidel Castro is dead. It has yet to be announced by any major news service, but it’s dominating Internet searches. If it’s true,…

Planned Parenthood’s “secret” property buy in the Stapleton area spurred plenty of angst this week when the women’s reproductive health organization divulged its purchase in the Denver Post. Planned Parenthood apparently kept the plan for a new clinic under wraps to avoid protesting, the likes of which stalled construction at…

The little gremlins are back on the yellow buses, which means it’s time for the 2007 “revised” edition of the School Violence Prevention and Student Discipline Manual, issued by Colorado Attorney General John W. Suthers to schools throughout the state. You can find the complete manual here on the AG’s…

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