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It’s summertime in Colorado and the motorcyclists are out, but it’s not just record setting temperatures that’s bringing the heat down on them this year…

I was in high school when the OJ Simpson verdict was read on TV. I was in public speaking class when it was read. The white kids in the class were close to tears, as the black kids jumped up and down and gave each other high fives. I really…

The title says it all, this is a Bollywood take on Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.” The effects are very special, the choreography is sublimely goofy and the sitar solo absolutely kicks ass. — Cory Casciato…

Rocky Mountain News editor John Temple (pictured) is typically calm and measured in public — but he put his combustible side on display during a riotous morning drive-time argument with KHOW yakker Peter Boyles on June 18. The spur to this confrontation was Temple’s June 16 column “Papers Still Drive…

As noted in this June 11 blog, Denver Post editor Greg Moore announced to his staff that sixteen people had decided to accept a buyout package offered to workers age fifty and older — but he also conceded that these individuals had the right to change their mind prior to…

Date: 06-15-07 Type of Offense: Second-degree Burglary Location of Offense: Sunnyside neighborhood…

6.13.07 Kafue River, Zambia Coordinates: S 15 degrees 07.870′ E 025 degrees 58.443′ Zulu Time 0945…

DOA is only opening tonight (June 15) on two local screens — Harkens Northfield and Century Aurora 16 — which doesn’t usually bode well for a movie. Particularly a movie that the studios didn’t offer advance press screenings for until just a few days before the release. But never fear,…

For this week’s on line movie review, I decided to do something a little different. I let my roommate Stoke 27 (his artist name, not his real one) give his thoughts on the latest installment of Fantastic Four, which opened today (June 15) in theaters everywhere. Not because he is…

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06.09.07 Zambia, Africa Chief, I made it into the chicken shack of an airport last night after a twenty-hour travel day. City very dark, just gaggles of young men squatting on the corners. Too hard to make anything of the place in the gloom and smell of burning tires. Too…

Now that the San Antonio Spurs have cakewalked to their fourth NBA championship in nine years, it’s time for Denver Post columnist and resident psychic Mark Kiszla to tuck into a big helping of crow. Way, way back in April, the Denver Nuggets shook up the smart money by snatching…

Rod Rushing has switched from using the Internet as a tool to find meth-fueled sex to using it as a tool to fight meth-fueled sex, the biggest epidemic facing the gay community since AIDS. Rushing is coordinating the Mile High Meth Project, a new support network being built up to…

After seeing this picture, we can conclude that if He didn’t, He damn well should have. This slice of awesome is the work of one divinely inspired artist named Derek Chatwood. You can see more of his incredible work at PopRelics, and order select prints from his Image Kind page…

It’s surreal to watch Tom Tancredo equate illegal immigration and the movie Terminator. Maybe Tancredo believes since illegal immigrants speak in thick accents like similar to Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Terminator character that they both are hi-tech-goal specific robotic killing machines. Regardless of his thought process it is obvious that Tancredo watches way too much TV. As […]

There has been a lot of interest in Westword’s World Naked Bike Ride coverage. And some of you out there might have the idea to recreate the magic that the protest brought to our city. But before you strip and run around the 16th Street Mall, you might want to…

On June 13, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., which owns Fox, announced its intention to sell nine of its owned-and-operated television stations, including KDVR/Channel 31 in Denver. A June 14 Denver Post piece on this development correctly points out that such moves are not exactly rare these days; the New York…

The Rwanda case is the most interesting case in the world,” says University of Denver adjunct law professor David Akerson. “It’s unbelievable: 800,000 killed in ninety days. Six times the rate of the German genocide. Still, you lose sight of the fact that they’re individual people being killed. That’s 800,000…

On Saturday night, they gathered at a secret meeting spot in Capitol Hill. A few people knew each other; others amiably introduced themselves. One man rode up and immediately announced: “Hi, everyone, I’m Gary. I’m going to wear my boxers — is that all right?” Usually this would seem an…

Lunchtime. Downtown Denver. The 16th Street Mall. Is there any better place in the world? Of course there is. There are probably 200 to 250 better places in this state alone, never mind the rest of the planet. I mean, have you been to Paris? It’s beautiful this time of…

For the most part, what happens in the boardroom stays in the boardroom. But attorney Frances Koncilja, who resigned from Colorado Public Radio’s board on June 6, is too troubled by behind-the-scenes events at CPR to keep silent about a range of issues, including what she sees as an ill-timed…

“Main Features,” Michael Roberts, June 7 Mercenary Taffy Eaters I am appalled that our local film critics have been replaced by a bunch of mercenaries from Corporate. Normally, I wouldn’t care — but you’ve replaced writers who could write with people who write (to quote Chuck Jones) “like a dog…