AltWeeklies Wire
The Fame Gamenew

The virtual infamy of Wikipedia.
Westword |
Adam Cayton-Holland |
05-07-2007 |
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Textiquettenew
Don't be a masshole -- keep your messages personal.
Westword |
Adam Cayton-Holland |
01-16-2007 |
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Head in the Cloudsnew
FEMA's Michael Brown fumbles his fifteen minutes of fame.
Westword |
Adam Cayton-Holland |
04-17-2006 |
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Strange but Truenew
Recapping Colorado's year of dysfunctional family values -- and missing panties.
Westword |
Laura Bond |
01-04-2006 |
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Tags: yearinreview2005
Hall of Shamenew
From Michael Brown to Ward Churchill, 2005 marked the year that Colorado's scandals got national attention.
Westword |
Patricia Calhoun |
01-04-2006 |
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The Butt of the Jokenew
At least Home Depot didn't accuse Bob Dougherty of shoplifting after he had to leave the store with a toilet seat stuck to his backside.
Westword |
Patricia Calhoun |
12-21-2005 |
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Tags: Larry Borovay, www.gotglued.com
Animal Rights and Wrongs at the Greatest Show on Earthnew
The circus is an outdated, primitive, hostile and indefensibly lame custom that our society should have abandoned long ago.
Westword |
Adam Cayton-Holland |
10-12-2005 |
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Memo: Sidestepping HST's Sendoffnew

The depraved cult of press jackanapery is what took the punch out of gonzo a long time ago. We should be celebrating the seat-of-the-pants outlaw who savaged despots and wrote like Fitzgerald on liquid nitrogen, not theh tragic clown guzzling Cristal with the rest of the press corps in Aspen
Westword |
Gig LeCarp |
08-22-2005 |
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Talkin' 'Bout My Generationnew
Symptoms of quarter-life crisis can include career indecision, student-loan remorse, spare-bedroom recidivism, a disintegrating social network and reoccurring delusions of graduate school.
Westword |
Jared Jacang Maher |
05-04-2005 |
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The Air Force's Bad Case of Subpoena Envynew
A therapist is fighting a subpoena demanding confidential treatment records of an Air Force Academy cadet who says she was raped.
Westword |
Patricia Calhoun |
04-12-2005 |
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2004's High and Low Momentsnew
In 2004, the University of Colorado at Boulder knocked the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs from its perch as the most sexually hostile campus in the nation. Denver was honored as the "Drunkest Big City in America." The year had some high points, too.
Westword |
Laura Bond |
01-04-2005 |
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