Apple debuted its app store for computers today. And it’s way cooler than you thought it would be. Yes, right now it’s mostly carryover from the iPad and iPhone app store, which is somewhat uninteresting because those apps were designed for a mobile touch screen. But there are some regular…
Roy Wood Jr. has appeared on everything from Late Show With David Letterman to Russell Simmons’s Def Comedy Jam, but he’s never done anything like Last Comic Standing. For one, he considers it the most important line on his resumé as a comedian. In fact, he calls the show one…
Starting tonight, ninety of the world’s best bull riders will attempt to tame a particularly ornery collection of animals for a shot at over $80,000 in prize money. Part of the National Western Stock Show, it’s the biggest event of the year for the Professional Bull Riders Touring Pro Division…
Mark Twain’s classic Huckleberry Finn will be scrubbed of its 219 uses of the word “nigger” in a new edition to be published by NewSouth. They say the edit is an attempt to return the book to classroom literature requirements, where its use of the slur (as well as the…
When you call your local government office and ask whether they are covering up a dragon population in the sewers, the usual response is an auto-reply. Greeley, faced with only slightly less outlandish accusations, has taken a more proactive route by fielding citizen concerns in a View-style talk show on…
Billboard magazine published its first music chart ever on January 4, 1936 — 75 years ago today. It was called The Hit Parade, and it was one of the first music charts of any kind. The first number-one in Billboard history? Joe Venuti, father of the jazz violin, performing “Stop,…
While everyone else in the pop-punk scene was getting old and singing faux R&B, History Of… was just getting better. With six years and plenty of rough demos under its belt, the band emerged in 2010 with a clear vision and a clearer sound, thanks in no small part to…
More than a thousand blackbirds, grackles and starlings fell from the sky on New Year’s Eve in Beebe, Arkansas. So far, there has been no official explanation for the avian precipitation, but we thought we’d look to other unexpected things falling from the sky for some context…
Latest Word will be dark until Monday, what with New Year’s Eve 2010 upon us. If you’re still looking for something to do, or something else to do, on Friday night, check out our top 10 lists below…
Teen dream Justin Bieber is arguably the biggest pop star in the country and Simon Cowell isn’t doing American Idol. A lot’s changed since last year in the world of pop. Institutions fell, ideas were challenged, and the Black Eyed Peas didn’t have the number one song in the country…
Ring in the New Year with everyone’s favorite handicapped-molestation-victim-turned world-beater. That would be the Who’s Tommy, and the entire rock opera will be performed by Captain Quirk & Friends tonight at Miners Alley Playhouse. “I used to play in bands in college, and we’d do pieces of Tommy,” explains producer…
A 47-year-old man shot his wife during an argument in Aurora on Monday. He turned himself into police and is now in custody. The couple had no relatives in the area, and the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s office is working with out-of-state police to locate next of kin. Until they do,…
We begin with the drama in Greeley… An Arizona truck driver lost his mind in Greeley and hijacked a Comcast TV truck, which he then drove through the locked gate of a Mormon Bishop’s mansion and told the man he was ready to see Jesus. When the cops showed up,…
Two days before Christmas, Christopher Blackstone of Colorado Springs got into an argument with his girlfriend, Talitha Peterson-Hooks. She ignored his subsequent calls and texts, and, according to the police report, that’s when Blackstone turned to Peterson-Hooks’s three-to-five-month-old puppy and stomped on its head repeatedly…
Police have declared that a thirty-year-old man was specifically targeted for murder, despite no obvious external trauma. The man was found inside the house. “In this case, we’re looking to the coroner’s office to tell us the cause of death,” says Detective John White…
For the fourth year running, The Sawaya Law Firm will pick up the New Year’s Eve tab on your cab ride home. They’ll actually pay your fare tonight, as well — the program started on December 23rd and goes until January 1…
One is the loneliest number. The Pro Bowl rosters were released last night, and, assuming there are no Broncos added as replacements, the team will have its fewest representatives since 1988, when punter Mike Horan was the lone Bronco. That team was much better than this one, too: They went…
Boss-rating website eBossWatch has published its list of the worst 100 bosses in America for 2010, and guess who made the cut at number 54? That’s right, our old pal Myrl Serra, the Mountain Slope 7th District Attorney who made touching his penis a mandatory part of office life…
We’re renaming this feature The Daily Tebow. And Stuff. Mile High Report urges you to vote Tim Tebow for GMC Never Say Never Moment of the Week. Tim Tebow does not understand the word “never.”…
The Denver Police Department is releasing a series of action-filled videos demonstrating the work of a police officer. The first one came out today and features a foot chase after a would-be bank robber near Curtis Park. It’s got it all: voiceover, dramatic orchestration, slo-mo and, of course, a perp…
An atheist will give the invocation at Grand Junction City Council’s first meeting of 2011. It will be the crowning achievement of a two-and-a-half-year effort by the Western Colorado Atheists & Freethinkers to get their voice heard at City Hall. And it will be the first atheist invocation in Colorado,…
Before the Independence Bowl last week in Shreveport, the Air Force falcon was released for a bit of pre-game wing stretching. But the mascot had bigger things than a stadium circuit in mind — namely, a tour of downtown, where he was found hours later thanks to a tracking device…
