Five American men now have Thai branches on their family trees thanks to a Denver-based agency that helped them find the love of their lives overseas (“From Denver, With Love,” March 2, 2006)…

Just let this sink in for a moment –Crystal Preston-Watson [image via US Magazine]…

For more on the Boulder High sex scandal go here and here. [YouTube via Best Week Ever]…

Teresa Ramirez hasn’t yet mustered up the muscle to tell her 21-year-old daughter Terra that any hope of getting out of prison early is as gone as her freedom…

Here is the podcast of the in-studio radio interview I did Saturday with Greg Hollenback of 850 KOA. The topic was this week’s Westword cover story on graffiti. I talked briefly about the culture, history and lingo of the scene, while callers predictably accused me and Hollenback of glorifying vandalism…

Elitch Gardens shut down its Tower of Doom ride Friday after an accident on a similar “freefall tower” at a Kentucky amusement park resulted in a 13-year-old girl having both of her feet lopped off by a loose cable…

For many months after the 1999 killings at Columbine High School, Randy and Judy Brown were steeped in a special kind of misery. They had tried to warn the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office about Eric Harris and his penchant for bombs and threats a year before the attack, only to…

Afroblu, a monthly after-hours dance party (also a Westword Best of Denver winner), is celebrating PrideFest with Soulful Pride. DJs Musa Baily, Segue, RJ Duran and Mathew Bandy will be spinning AfroBeat, Deep-House and NuSoul from 10 p.m. until 5 a.m. at the Flying Dog Brewery. After spending all day…

I love PrideFest weekend. Anytime I get to party with a crowd of six-foot Drag Queens is a damn good time. And in honor of PrideFest weekend I want to share three of the best videos on the web. Planet Unicorn is a show on Channel 101 (The creators of…

Since we’ve been hitting the graffiti tip so hard this week, I thought it important to point out that not all illegal street art is done by and for young folks – why it can include the middle-aged talk radio audience!…

Just in case you’re all dressed up with nowhere to go, here are a few late-breaking events we heard about too late to include in this week’s Night and Day calendar:…

[jump] Last night, I chose like many others to come out for air in the dusk of a torrid solstice eve; in my case, I chose to stroll through Frances Wisebart Jacobs Park, a little patch of green amid a myriad of apartment and condo complexes south of Leetsdale Drive…

A couple in New Zealand has been banned from naming their kid “4real”. I don’t see anything wrong with it. I knew a kid named Skillet. How he got that name I will not say, because I would be fired faster than Imus. –Crystal Preston-Watson New Zealand: ‘4real’ not a…

Thankfully, newspaper reporters aren’t paid by the word. But if you calculate their salaries based on their annual output, then a hack general assignment writer at a mid-sized daily makes around thirty to fifty cents a word. A slightly more highbrow writer, one who cranks out stuff for slick newsweeklies…

Here’s one to get the ball rolling: “In anticipation of the 2008 Democratic National Convention, Denver police today began experimenting with various methods of controlling protesters.” –Jared Jacang Maher…

Images of graffiti from around Denver…

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Carpaccio di bue dressed in lemon and oil, whole peppers stuffed with cheese and prosciutto, buffalo mozzarella with fresh tomatoes and roasted peppers draped with marinated Italian anchovies, grilled salmon with roasted potatoes and garretto d’agnello—spring lamb braised in red wine, served with grilled eggplant and potato puree. Laura touched…