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Kingdom of Magic’s Luke Fairchild, who’s a member of the Bushy family. Do you think Diablo Cody made up the phrase “Honest to blog”? Me neither… Backbeat Online reviews an appearance by Witchcraft, Dead Child and Kingdom of Magic at the Marquis Theater, listens in to Abracastabya at Black Sheep…

That crust is pretty chewy… Jared Jacang Maher’s August 2007 feature story about Denver International Airport conspiracy theories revolved around a lot of freeaakky phenomena. But even the looniest loons — make that “most knowing analysts” — alluded to in the article didn’t predict the appearance in Commerce City of…

“Take me to your leader… David Duchovny.” For those of you who missed the memo (or last week’s Night & Day story or Kenny Be’s awesome cartoon), let me remind you once again that should you see a Klingon wandering 14th Street or someone on Stout singing songs about Dungeons…

Schmucky Schaffer the younger. “Slavery gets shit done,” according to the Facebook page for Justin Schaffer, son of U.S. Senate candidate Bob Schaffer, but shmuckiness gets it undone. Earlier this week, a story broke about the younger Schaffer, whose page on the Facebook website included content that some people deemed…

Cindy McCain in a photo that begs for a cougar joke I’m way too classy to make. The August 6 Denver Post brings us “Cindy McCain is Perfect for First Lady,” in which Frances Owens, Colorado’s former first lady, and her daughter Monica spend 337 words to say, in essence,…

James Morgese James Morgese is leaving Channel 6, a.k.a. Rocky Mountain PBS, after fifteen years as the outlet’s president and general manager — and he doesn’t want anyone to think he was forced out. “The station is fiscally sound and my relationship with the board [of directors] is sound,” he…

Did we take that before you were ready, Mr. Marshall? Yessir, Brandon Marshall sounded like Mr. Responsibility at an August 6 press conference following the announcement of his three-game suspension for violating the NFL’s personal conduct policy — punishment meted out due in part to a domestic-violence warrant signed out…

Reggie McDaniel Movie and restaurant reviewer Reggie McDaniel is a longtime presence on KOA/850 AM, having hosted weekend shows and popped up Fridays during Mike Rosen’s chatfest and The Ride Home, the afternoon-drive program co-hosted by Dave Logan and Lois Melkonian. But he’s been absent from the air for several…

In the 1990s, Ron Judish ran one of the best galleries Denver has ever known, Ron Judish Fine Arts. He first opened his eponymous operation in LoDo and then founded a successor in Highland, before economic conditions forced him into an early retirement. During the last few years, he’s had…

Here kitty, kitty. It’s like living in an episode of When Animals Attack. On August 5 in New Castle, a man shot and killed a mountain lion he said was on his trail just a day after another of the critters got into a home in Idledale and snacked on…

Guess who. Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre’s trade to the New York Jets late on August 6, about which you may have heard, has negative repercussions on the preseason schedule of your Denver Broncos. The Pack is slated to face off against the Broncos on August 22, and had…

“Pain Management,” Alan Prendergast, July 31 What a Pain! Mr. Editor, do you really think that I will believe the words of the guy who has had multiple run-ins with law enforcement, a few warrants, etc.? In addition to that, I find it hard to believe that a cop went…

It’s getting close to the DNC donkey hour in Denver. And to celebrate the national spotlight and promote the Denver art community, marketing expert Julie Byerlein has enlisted a group of artists to make a series of cool, artsy buttons, each depicting a donkey doing something different in Denver. The…

Need more port-a-potty politics? Read about protesters’ vaunted House of Urine here. For months now, a cloud has hovered over Denver — a brown cloud. But this one is different than the one that draped the city in the ’80s; it’s darker, more musky and primal, generated not by car…

Need more port-a-potty politics? Read about Westword’s Denver Doo Doo Accord here. Denver City Councilman Doug Linkhart got more than he bargained for when he mentioned to reporters last month that the Denver Fire Department was aware of a residence in town where protesters are supposedly storing up urine to…

(Read more tales of soccer fanaticism — including a breakdown of some of the game’s greatest disasters and the story of Spain’s biggest rivalry — at the Latest Word blog.) As part of this year’s season-ticket holder package for the Colorado Rapids, fans were offered the choice of attending a…

Geez — this blogging seems to be catching on… The Cat’s Pajamas shows off trendy fashions for the well-heeled as well as tips about how to express-shop for less. Sort of a retail yin and yang, if you will. Backbeat Online presents extended Q&As with the men of Git Some…

Federico Peña, Leah Daughtry and Bill Ritter talk tickets at Invesco Field. Despite the term typically used to describe them, the bowels of Invesco Field at Mile High looked pretty spic-and-span at around 2:30 p.m. on August 6, and that made sense. After all, a press conference was scheduled then…