Email Author Patricia Calhoun

Awards

• 2012 - National Council on Crime and Delinquency/Prevention for a Safer Society Award, published January 27, 2011

  "Pen Pals"

• 2011 - Golden Quill Award/International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors, published September 23, 2010

  "Crying Shame"

• 2011 - Sigma Delta Chi Awards/Society of Professional Journalists, published September 9, 2010

  "Spreading Her Wings"

• 2011 - Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalism, published September 9, 2010

  "Spreading Her Wings"

• 2011 - Society of Professional Journalists/Colorado Chapter, published September 9, 2010

  "Spreading Her Wings"

• 2010 - National Society of Newspaper Columnists, published March 5, 2009

  "Double Trouble"

• 2010 - Education Reporting Awards/National Education Writers Association, published May 14, 2009

  "School Daze"

• 2010 - National Society of Newspaper Columnists, published August 13, 2009

  "Boxed In"

• 2010 - National Society of Newspaper Columnists, published May 14, 2009

  "School Daze"

• 2009 - Clarion Awards/Association of Women in Communications, published December 11, 2008

  "Join the Club"

• 2009 - Clarion Awards/Association of Women in Communications, published August 21, 2008

  "True West"

• 2009 - Clarion Awards/Association of Women in Communications, published January 3, 2008

  "Reminders"

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published May 31, 2007

  "The Nigerian Scam Strikes Again"

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published May 3, 2007

  "Exhibitionists"

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published February 15, 2007

  "Ladies Plight"

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published May 12, 2005

  "A Piece of the Action"

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published August 18, 2005

  "Screwed for Life"

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published November 10, 2005

  "A Peace of the Action"

• 2006 - Clarion Awards/Association of Women in Communications

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2003 Stories by Patricia Calhoun

• A Class Act

  published June 19, 2003

  The last time Richard Florida came to town, to speak to a ballroom full of business types about his book, The Rise of the Creative Class,... More >>

• A Real Soap

  published June 12, 2003

  Clara Brown is not your typical operatic heroine. She's no done-wrong courtesan, dying of consumption. She's no callow teen, dying of a... More >>

• Carry On!

  published June 12, 2003

  This is not the story I intended to write. The notes for that story have been lost in luggage limbo for 45 hours and counting. Then again, I never... More >>

• Suit Yourself -- or Someone Else

  published June 5, 2003

  Hanging in my office is a black-and-white-plaid suit jacket with big pearl buttons. It's the sort of jacket a suburban matron might wear to an... More >>

• Dollars and Nonsense

  published June 5, 2003

  In New York City, they're throwing chump change at a $4 billion budget gap by fining 86-year-old men for illegally feeding pigeons, and teenagers... More >>

• Edifice Complex

  published May 29, 2003

  Mayor Wellington Webb will soon be gone, but he won't be forgotten. Not when he's left his size-thirteen footprints all over this city.... More >>

• Art and Politics

  published May 15, 2003

  SUN, 5/18 As part of the third annual City Park Festival of the Arts today, Denver mayoral hopefuls John Hickenlooper and Don... More >>

• Joy in Mudville

  published May 15, 2003

  My next-door neighbor, a caring, creative and very patient man, ran for Denver City Council. On garbage day last week, his recycling bin held a... More >>

• Gunning for Love

  published May 8, 2003

  TUES, 5/13 If you're dating, you're obviously mentally deranged or soon will be, but still, we date as much as possible. Why? Guys date... More >>

• Go Figure

  published May 8, 2003

  Lying flat and helpless -- as flat and helpless as Denver's economy -- alongside Speer Boulevard is a giant steel-and-fiberglass sculpture created... More >>

• Anglo File

  published May 1, 2003

  THURS 5/1 This week, Denver debuts the first festival ever held in this country devoted to British movies -- or so say the organizers... More >>

• Satan Sheets

  published May 1, 2003

  The devil got down at the Regency one Saturday night. By Monday morning, Maruca Salazar's entire eighth-grade class was talking about it. "I... More >>

• What a Knockout!

  published April 24, 2003

  SAT 4/26 Punching, kicking, knockouts and more! Today, top karate practitioners from near and far will gather in Denver for the annual... More >>

• War of the Words

  published April 24, 2003

  I just want to say this is a fucked-up life In this crazy world it's so hard to do right I wonder why it's not hard to... More >>

• It Takes a Pillage

  published April 24, 2003

  It's so nice to see the government getting cozy with the media -- embed together, as it were. "The side benefit, it seems to me, is there's... More >>

• Deadly Diet

  published April 17, 2003

  \WED 4/23 Jennifer Hendricks, a 25-year-old Denver woman who lost her battle with anorexia in 1998, weighed only 45 pounds when she... More >>

• Fantasy Rules

  published April 17, 2003

  FRI 4/18 Harry Potter, meet Frodo Baggins. And while you two are getting chummy, make room for R2D2 and a Renaissance juggler. Oh,... More >>

• The 7 Percent Solution

  published April 17, 2003

  Denver's in a world of hurt. The bad news came at Tuesday's Mayor/ Council meeting. With the economy still scraping bottom, the city is now... More >>

• My Dinner With Rummy

  published April 3, 2003

  "We have seen mood swings in the media from highs to lows to highs and back again, sometimes in a single 24-hour period," said Secretary of... More >>

• Mayberry, BFD

  published March 6, 2003

  In Denver, no one's separated by six degrees. Two, maybe. The connections are so close that back East, pollsters and political consultants marvel... More >>

• Shrine On

  published February 27, 2003

  Not long after Brandy Duvall was murdered by a gang of Bloods in May 1997, a wooden cross appeared by U.S. Highway 6 mile marker 269.5, just above... More >>

• The Smile High City

  published February 20, 2003

  Will the last one to leave City Hall please turn out the lights? In these fiscally strapped times, there's no reason to waste pennies on... More >>

• The Meter's Running

  published February 6, 2003

  No one lit a candle to mark the one-year anniversary of Denver's world-class fiasco -- but plenty of people are still feeling burned. On January... More >>

• House Calls

  published January 30, 2003

  The sad parade keeps passing through the Colorado Legislature. College administrators losing departments, towns losing road projects, cancer... More >>

• It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

  published January 16, 2003

  As the only newspaper in town dedicated to printing the uncensored truth -- every juicy, titillating, squirm-inducing, profane word of it -- we... More >>