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 - 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"

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

  "Double Trouble"

• 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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2005 Stories by Patricia Calhoun

• Canine Pride

  published June 23, 2005

  SAT, 6/25 How exactly do you outfit a dog in drag? Do you dress him up like a cat? Do you put Fifi in a muscle tee, squeeze Buster the... More >>

• Rock the Mike

  published June 9, 2005

  WED, 6/15 In one of his bits, comedian Tony Rock discusses the need for a black president. Not a Colin Powell-type black... More >>

• Out of Iraq

  published June 9, 2005

  SAT, 6/11 Iraqi intellectual and artistic life essentially ceased to exist under the relentless grip of Saddam Hussein's Baathist... More >>

• Aging Well

  published June 2, 2005

  SAT, 6/4 Helen Hand knows all about life transitions. Navigating her fifties at a time when younger people of a different... More >>

• Tour de Farce

  published June 2, 2005

  I lost a bet. That's why I'm playing booster for a morning meeting with the marketing advisory committee of the Denver Metro Convention & Visitors... More >>

• Mass Appeal

  published May 26, 2005

  FRI, 5/27 Connoisseurs and dilettantes alike will be treated as gallery critics this weekend at the seventh annual Colorado Arts... More >>

• Names and Faces

  published May 26, 2005

  Before Donald Young was shot, before suspect Raul Garcia-Gomez got his job at the Cherry Cricket, before John Hickenlooper was elected mayor, even... More >>

• A Class Act

  published May 19, 2005

  In June 2003, Richard Florida, author of the hot-hot-hot Rise of the Creative Class, was speaking to a group of despairing... More >>

• Ready, Set, Action!

  published May 19, 2005

  Nineteen-year-old Quincy Shannon has a knack for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. But if you're a budding broadcast journalist, as... More >>

• Triumph of the Swill

  published May 12, 2005

  When a prestigious convention comes to Denver, public officials usually fall all over themselves to welcome the group -- particularly when media... More >>

• A Piece of the Action

  published May 12, 2005

  Quincy Shannon's journalism professor wanted him to capture some "action" on videotape. Give the kid an A for effort: His video sparked the... More >>

• Steel Magnolias

  published May 5, 2005

  FRI, 5/6 Boulder Arts and Crafts Cooperative exhibit coordinator Ellen Spiller didn't have a feminine theme in mind when she asked... More >>

• Mercury Rising

  published April 28, 2005

  The next time the old-boy network starts casting about for a female entrepreneur to elevate to Colorado's Business Hall of Fame, they should take... More >>

• Beating the Drum

  published April 28, 2005

  Free speech doesn't come cheap. On Tuesday evening, protesters wearing yellow, white, black and red converged on the University of Colorado... More >>

• Quantum Leap

  published April 14, 2005

  THURS, 4/14 Adventurous gallery curator Simon Zalkind of the Mizel Center for Arts and Culture will throw Denver an aesthetic... More >>

• Going to Pot

  published April 14, 2005

  The University of Colorado Alumni Association was finally fed up with the beating its alma mater had taken in the press. "CU is still about 25,000... More >>

• Talking Shop

  published April 7, 2005

  SAT, 4/9 What's worse than a cheap cigar? A cheap dildo. Thankfully, you won't find any of those at Hysteria, a new... More >>

• Privacy, Please

  published April 7, 2005

  The Kobe Bryant case. The University of Colorado football-recruiting mess. The Air Force Academy sex-assault scandal. "If you asked me what state... More >>

• Read Alert!

  published March 31, 2005

  Could any pleasure be more guilty than sitting around a saloon with good company, drinking up the news -- and booze -- of the day? That's what a... More >>

• War Is Heck

  published March 3, 2005

  My grandfather was a surgeon in the first field hospital that followed the American troops into Normandy after D-Day. He sent letters home from... More >>

• Collision Course

  published March 3, 2005

  "If you are searching for the right place to go to college, look at the University of Colorado at Boulder," urges CU's website. "It's a place of... More >>

• Return of the Native

  published February 24, 2005

  A year ago next week, Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell threw a big, wet blanket on the Colorado Republican Party -- almost as big, and wet, a... More >>

• Hip-Hop Hype

  published February 17, 2005

  Back in May 2003, Denver believed it had made the bling-bling bigtime when Russell Simmons, founder of Def Jam Records, stood beside then-mayor... More >>

• Give our regards to Broadway

  published February 17, 2005

  5:55 a.m.: 7600 Broadway They say the neon lights are bright on Broadway...but right before dawn, on the hillside where Broadway... More >>

• Separation of Churchill and State

  published February 10, 2005

  On the first day of school I awoke with a sick feeling in my stomach. It did not hurt, it just made me feel weak. The sun did not sing as it... More >>