Weed Roundup!
As pot-related arrests keep stoners in other states on their toes, Colorado seems to have done a great job of keeping its shit together in the admittedly short time since legalization went into effect. With …
2014
Courtney Love: Map Genius
Courtney Love made quite the discovery, if you’re to believe her Twitter feed. Referencing Tomnod–the mapping tool used to crowdsource the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370–grunge’s favorite crazy aunt asserts, “I’m no expert …
Saturday Morning Soapbox
I’m sitting at the bar in Salt Lake City International Airport listening to Kid Cudi while enjoying a Bloody Mary accompanied by a side of toast (it is 9AM). My bartender’s name is Andy and …
#ignorance is bliss
there is a jimmy johns downtown and frankly i really enjoy their sandwiches. the service is impeccable; the guy would see me come in, holler my order (because I always get the same thing) and …
Denver Police To Be Issued Body Cameras
A little more than two weeks ago, Oklahoma police killed an innocent man in a movie theater parking lot, and his wife caught it on tape. The exact cause of death is in dispute, but …
#illuminatetheproject
mmm that makes sense. it doesn’t come out negative from him and I hope I don’t sound negative not really, but not warm fuzzies either – i know what you’re meaning, but I’ve realized recently …
Alabama Police Chief Believes “Molly” Is “a Combination of Meth and Ecstasy”
Adding to the recent hysteria surrounding the prevalence of everybody’s favorite stimulant called “molly,” backwoods Alabama Police Chief Sonny Bedsole tells his local newspaper, The Andalusia Star-News, that the drug is “basically like a souped-up …
Ignore The Haters: The True Detective Finale Was Fantastic
Editor’s note: The following article discusses the series finale of True Detective and contains many spoilers. It is written under the assumption that the reader has watched the entire season. Proceed with caution. I’ve been …
The Sad State of Sagging Skinny Jeans
I’ve been rocking skinny jeans for a long time. Not to say that I see myself as some sort of fashion trailblazer; I definitely don’t. I’m just a trendy dude. I was rocking overalls and …
Cosmopolitan Sex Workers: An Interview with Christine Chin
Professor Christine Chin came to write her ground-breaking book, Cosmopolitan Sex Workers: Women and Migration in a Global City, somewhat reluctantly as sex work is a subject she was not initially interested in and one …
The 1% Conspiracy
I’m prone to believing in conspiracies. It’s not something I talk about often–much less admit to in every day conversation–but I can’t deny that it’s true. It probably has something to do with my evangelical …
Saturday Morning Soapbox
Ok, I promised Alibi a weekly post after my recent birthday. I guess at 34 one should be more responsible and prone to keeping their promises. (Side note: I’m writing this with a glass of …
The Sectarian Myth: Iraq Ambassador Lukman Faily at American University
“The reality in Iraq is very different from that portrayed in the international media,” affirmed the Iraq Ambassador to the United States Lukman Faily in a talk at American University on February 18th. The focus …
Nestlé Recalls Hot Pockets Made With Diseased Meat
When Hot Pockets announced their “new and improved” line of what they call “sandwiches” last year, they did it with all of the gusto and new-media firepower their corporate conglomerate parent Nestlé could muster. An …
Stuff Your Face: Cheap Twinkies
Maybe you’re one of those stoners who hits the pipe and immediately thinks “TWINKIES!” Or maybe “DING DONGS!” That’s perfectly acceptable. While I’m not one of those stoners, I am the stoner that will eat …
Review: Digitalism at Club Vinyl
When we reviewed Option4’s remix of Elizabeth Rose’s The Good Life, we mentioned that Option4–aka–Brennen Bryarly’s Denver collective, The Hundred, was about to launch a new Saturday night house party at Denver’s renowned and neglected …
The Day We Fight Back
You may have noticed the big black banner we incorporated into our main page today. Please take a moment to check it out. Ever since The Guardian and Washington Post reported the initial Edward Snowden …
CVS To Stop Selling Cigarettes. So What?
The way that CVS was praised today you would think they had announced a company-funded initiative guaranteeing the end of homelessness, or maybe something slightly smaller and more achievable like paying their employees a living …
Carrying Capacity: The Pathetic Wisp of Our Collective Attention Span
Best Albums of 2013. Best Books You Never Read in 2013. Best movies, best video games, best sasquatch erotica. Surely the annual “best” lists that websites, magazines and newspapers publish New Year’s Day intend to …