Reader: If Zak Bagans were a douche, would he adopt a deaf dog?

Fans of Zak Bagans jumped to his defense after Tiffany Fitzgerald suggested that the Ghost Adventures host didn’t act very professional in last Friday night’s segment, which featured several Denver landmarks — including the Peabody Mansion, the Tivoli and Phil Goodstein. “Phil Goodstein is a goddamn national treasure,” she wrote,…

PHAMALY announces its next season

PHAMALY is an amazing asset to the Colorado arts scene, a theater company composed entirely of performers facing a wide variety of physical challenges. The group’s goal is to provide professional theater opportunities and artistic development for performers with disabilities and to promote the inclusion of people with disabilities in…

Reader: Beer made human civilization possible!

Did beer save the world? According to this infographic, beer has been a boon to mankind since the time of the Egyptians (who used it as medicine), an economic driver behind railroad development, commercial refrigeration and, yes, the automatic (and hypnotic) bottling process…

Cory Gardner talks energy prices, takes lobbyist cash

This past Saturday, Colorado Representative Cory Gardner, a member of the House Energy & Commerce Committee, was tapped to offer the Weekly Republican Address on skyrocketing energy costs. But at the same time, a CBS report showed that he’s been expending lots of gas on another topic…

Reader: The world ended the day The Real World started

The world didn’t end last May 21, as Harold Camping had predicted. Nor did it end on October 21, which was his revised prediction. Finally earlier this month, the 90-year-old Camping, who was born in Boulder, admitted he was wrong, and said he was getting out of the predictions business…

Blago stops by Freddy’s for a pre-prison patty melt

It’s been a big week for Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburgers. The Wichita-based chain opened its fourth metro location this week — just in time for former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich to drop in yesterday for a final meal on his way to the Federal Correctional Institution in Englewood. Freddy’s…

Readers: Quit clowning around! Zombies are coming!

Run for your life! The zombies are coming to Colorado this summer, and the “Run for Your Lives” 5K obstacle course will have fitness freaks fighting to avoid zombies while they also fight to stay on course. It’s like The Walking Dead, but at a faster pace, Nick Lucchesi points…

Reader: Two explanations for Caldonia’s closing

For more than three decades, Caldonia’s was an Aurora oasis, a beachhead of beer and barbecue. Why did Caldonia’s close after 34 years in business? Our calls haven’t been returned, and the website says only this: “We are proud to have shared our passion and services with our community for…

Ebert Interruptus film will be Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Although Roger Ebert’s health problems prevent him from participating in the World Affairs Conference, the annual intellectual orgy that’s coming to Boulder from April 9 through April 13, the film critic’s interruptus program is still a featured attraction — and is now named after him. This year’s film? Tinker Tailor…

Reader: Hipster neighborhoods will win Street 16 every time

For Street 16, our culinary homage to March Madness, we called in the cartologists and pulled out our history books. The LoDo Historic District, for example, was created before Denver had a major league baseball team, much less Coors Field; technically, LoDo ends at the alley between Market and Larimer…