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 May 14, 2009

  "School Daze"

• 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"

• 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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2010 Stories by Patricia Calhoun

• Opas Sinprasong, Siamese Plate owner, pleads guilty to treating workers like slave labor

  published Oct 29, 2010

  I was at Lotus of Siam, one of Lori Midson's favorite restaurants in the world (and she's right -- too bad it's in Las Vegas), eating and catching up on my Westword reading, when I found this report ... More >>

• Rosa Linda's reopens today in time for breakfast

  published Oct 29, 2010

  The Aguirre family was not having a good month. They'd temporarily closed the 25-year-old Rosa Linda's Mexican Cafe -- once the only restaurant in what's now a hot-hot area of Highland -- on September... More >>

• Jeff Peckman's UFO-friendly Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission could be ready for blast off

  published Oct 29, 2010

  Jeff Peckman, who spoke to Westword last week about a rash of recent UFO sightings, waited a long time to get his proposal for Denver to create an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission on the ballot -- ... More >>

• My Brother's Bar makes a deal with Brothers Bar

  published Oct 28, 2010

  Oh, brother! The battle between My Brother's Bar and Brothers Bar & Grill is over. Attorneys for the two restaurants -- one of which is the oldest continually operating saloon in the city, at 2376 1... More >>

• Chick-fil-A celebrates another new restaurant with free food for a year

  published Oct 28, 2010

  A new Chick-fil-A restaurant opens this morning at 5260 South Wadsworth Boulevard in Lakewood (the building was previously a Black-Eyed Pea), but the line started forming yesterday. That's because for... More >>

• John Hickenlooper won't go negative on Tom Tancredo -- but Tancredo does it himself

  published Oct 28, 2010

  Democratic gubernatorial nominee John Hickenlooper has kept to his vow to keep his campaign positive. Had he decided to go negative on Tom Tancredo, though, he would have found no shortage of material... More >>

• Alley oops! Little Orange Rocket dispute takes off on Channel 7

  published Oct 27, 2010

  Channel 7 recently stopped by the 5300 block of East Colfax Avenue, to talk to Jill Warner and Erick Roorda, the owners of Mod Livin', about the neighborhood dispute that's gone "ballistic," as Roorda... More >>

• Land sakes: Politics make strange truck-bed fellows

  published October 28, 2010

  Politics makes strange truck-bed fellows. Four years ago, Helen Thorpe, a veteran Texas political reporter who'd married John... More >>

• Alien nation: Colorado's election is out of this world

  published October 28, 2010

  The scene last Friday was off-the-planet crazy — appropriate enough for a city considering a proposal to create an Extraterrestrial... More >>

• Get plucked! Denver beats PETA in game of chicken over McCruelty

  published Oct 27, 2010

  After a six-month battle to place its McCruelty statue -- a giant maimed chicken -- near the McDonald's on the 16th Street Mall, a fight that involved plenty of legal squawking, People for the Ethical... More >>

• My Brother's Bar makes a deal with Brothers Bar: Oh, brother!

  published Oct 27, 2010

  The battle between My Brother's Bar and Brothers Bar & Grill is over. Attorneys for the two restaurants -- one the oldest continually operating saloon in the city, the other a link in a Wisconsin-base... More >>

• Yard House interviewing potential employees at Sheraton today

  published Oct 26, 2010

  Steele Platt is back in the Denver restaurant business. The 1982 graduate of the University of Denver opened several restaurants/clubs in the Tivoli -- including Kahlua, EFEX and the Boiler Room -- ba... More >>

• The truck stops here: Burger battle continues outside Mod Livin'

  published Oct 26, 2010

  Judging from the comments posted after Friday's update on the neighborhood campaign against Mod Livin', the mediation session Thursday night only heightened hostilities. Erick Roorda and Jill Warner... More >>

• PETA's anti-McDonald's McCruelty campaign flies the coop, and Denver should be lovin' it

  published Oct 26, 2010

  After a six-month battle to place its McCruelty statue -- a giant maimed chicken -- near the McDonald's on the 16th Street Mall, a fight that involved plenty of legal squawking and wing-flapping, Peop... More >>

• Guess where you're eatingr At an EatDenver restaurant, if you're EJ

  published Oct 25, 2010

  Cafe Society served up five Guess Where contests last week, featuring everything from a still unidentified duck dish to green chile at Little Anita's to this Italian grinder found at a surprising spo... More >>

• Gourmet food truck spat: If Little Orange Rocket blasts off of East Colfax, will MMJ take its placer

  published Oct 25, 2010

  The truck stops here: The mediation session last Thursday was supposed to calm tensions around the 5300 block of East Colfax Avenue, a stretch of asphalt that's only improved since Erich Roorda and J... More >>

• Deluxe Burger neighbors would like the Little Orange Rocket to blast off

  published Oct 22, 2010

  Last night, the owners of Mod Livin', the hip retail store that has slowly transformed a grimy stretch of Colfax since it opened nine years ago, met with cranky neighbors at a city-sponsored mediation... More >>

• Ritz-Carlton, Denver celebrates a sparkly AAA five-diamond win

  published Oct 22, 2010

  The Ritz-Carlton, Denver, at 1881 Curtis Street, hosted a gathering in the lounge of Elway's Downtown last night to celebrate the hotel's AAA five-diamond rating -- the first Denver hotel to achieve ... More >>

• Kristen Stillman: Denver cancels foster-care bill for woman whose kids were fathered by rapist

  published Oct 22, 2010

  The horrors that Kristen Stillman has endured in her short life are beyond imagining: abandoned at the age of eight by her mother, raped repeatedly by the man she was left with, bearing four children ... More >>

• Tom Tancredo stars in Bill O'Reilly/Fox News love fest, but should Dan Maes be at the wheelr

  published Oct 21, 2010

  Another day, another appearance by Tom Tancredo on Fox News -- which now has a page devoted to the American Constitution Party's candidate for Colorado governor. Last night, Tancredo explained his el... More >>

• My Brother's has a legal date with Brothers Bar & Grill

  published Oct 20, 2010

  Brothers, where art thour When Jim Karagas, owner of My Brother's Bar, Denver's oldest continually operating saloon and a joint he's run for forty of its 120-odd years, heard that Brothers Bar & Gri... More >>

• Dan Maes needs a job! Here's our list of the top five possible professions (other than governor)

  published Oct 20, 2010

  Was Dan Maes offered a deal, maybe even a govement job, to drop out of the governor's racer The blogosphere was abuzz after the Post's Lynn Bartels broke the Maes story, wondering who might have made ... More >>

• Sunflower Farmers Market opens two more Colorado stores tomorrow

  published Oct 19, 2010

  Sunflower Farmers Market, the homegrown, all-natural and organic grocer started by Mike Gilliland in 2003, will open new stores in Lafayette and Thornton tomorrow. The new stores, which make it an e... More >>

• Oh, Brother. Who should own the right to Brothers in a bar name?

  published October 21, 2010

  When Jim Karagas, owner of My Brother's Bar, Denver's oldest continually operating saloon and a joint he's run for forty of its 130-odd years,... More >>

• Alley oops: Mod Livin' cleaned up a grim block of Colfax, but the neighbors hate its food truck

  published October 21, 2010

  This summer, the complaint calls started coming with irritating regularity to the Denver Police Department District 2 substation, to the Denver... More >>