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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2011 Stories by Patricia Calhoun

• All Aboard!

  published November 24, 2011

  No trains are pulling up to Union Station these days, but there are still trains chugging along inside the station -- in the basement, where two... More >>

• Have Art!

  published December 22, 2011

  "Let your servants have Boxing Day off," advises Joshua Hassel. That way, they can enjoy the back-to-back-to-back presentations of three of... More >>

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  John Hickenlooper hangs with Barack Obama, Neil Diamond at the Kennedy Center Honors

  published Dec 30, 2011

  During Tuesday night's broadcast of the 34th annual Kennedy Center Honors, the cameras frequently swept over the President's box occupied by Barack and Michelle Obama, as well as honorees Sonny Rollin... More >>

• Bye-bye, pie: Last Marie Callender's in Colorado closes its doors

  published Dec 30, 2011

  While a few new restaurants and bars are still scrambling to open before 2012 -- and get some business on New Year's Eve -- other longtimers are calling it a night. The last Marie Callender's restaura... More >>

• Reader: While cops clean up Occupy Denver, city does another snow job

  published Dec 30, 2011

  What constitutes an "encumbrance" in this townr The signs at Civic Center Parkr Or the piles of snow on streets all over townr Several readers pointed out that while the city seems obsessed with doing... More >>

• Reader: I'd like to see fewer chefs who are pricks in 2012

  published Dec 30, 2011

  For our Year in Review issue, we rounded up all the answers that Chef and Tell subjects had given when asked what they'd like to see less of in Denver/Boulder from a culinary standpoint:r The recap i... More >>

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  Why Golden put the brakes on the Jefferson Parkway land swap

  published Dec 30, 2011

  Despite the efforts of Governor John Hickenlooper and Don Hunt, the head of the Colorado Department of Transportation, the negotiations with Golden, Jefferson County and the group that would build the... More >>

• Reader: Thanks to the Kloewers for brightening the holidays

  published Dec 30, 2011

  For almost three decades, the modest Kloewer house at 4990 South Elati Street has featured an outsized holiday light show -- a favorite annual sight, as Susan Froyd describes here. But after this year... More >>

• Readers: Pre-Occupied with Kelsey Whipple's coverage

  published Dec 29, 2011

  Westword staffer Kelsey Whipple had been on the job just a few days when she started covering Occupy Denver -- and the beat has had its hazards, including getting shot in the ass, as she revealed in ... More >>

• Reader: I dread more discussion of dreadlocks

  published Dec 29, 2011

  We've discussed many weighty subjects on Show and Tell over the past year, but the all-time comment-getter remains Jeff Otte's "White people with dreads." Just yesterday, Bongzilla weighed in with thi... More >>

• Reader: The gang's all beer in Colorado

  published Dec 29, 2011

  A river of alcohol was running through Cafe Society yesterday, with Laura Shunk offering her list of neighborhood liquor stores, Swirl Girl suggesting five bottles of bubbly for New Year's Eve, and Co... More >>

• Fracking is booming, but a friendlier name couldn't hurt. Drill, baby, drill!

  published Dec 29, 2011

  The word of the yearr Our money (and yours) is on "fracking," the shortened term for "hydraulic fracturing," a practice that shook neighborhoods (in some cases literally) around the country this year,... More >>

• Golden mayor Jacob Smith reveals how the Jefferson Parkway deal took a wrong turn

  published Dec 28, 2011

  After months of negotiations put in gear by Governor John Hickenlooper and Don Hunt, his head of the Colorado Department of Transportation, Golden has definitely put the brakes on a deal that would ha... More >>

• Reader: Proposal for a "high rise" in Highland has temperatures rising

  published Dec 27, 2011

  Whether the neighborhood is Highlands Ranch or Highland, nothing causes more talk among the neighbors than a proposal for a big new building -- and the plan for a major complex in northwest Denver tha... More >>

• Reader: Dana Rodriguez is full of insights...but isn't full of herself

  published Dec 27, 2011

  For the last Chef and Tell interview of 2011, Lori Midson talked with Dana Rodriguez, the executive chef of Bistro Vendome, about everything from a Mexican girl making French food to her inspirational... More >>

• Jefferson Parkway plans hit a major roadblock in Golden: Pardon our dust!

  published Dec 27, 2011

  Golden came out strong against the proposed Jefferson Parkway -- including a plan for the toll road to go through a right-of-way on the eastern edge of Rocky Flats. For the past year, though, state an... More >>

• Reader: I came, I saw, Ikea -- art is in the eye of the beholder

  published Dec 27, 2011

  Last week, Susan Froyd offered the "Fifteen best Denver ART moments in 2011" -- a compendium of seriously praiseworthy events over the past year that elicited precisely one comment. Meanwhile, the com... More >>

• Backbeat is ho-ho-home for the holidays

  published Dec 23, 2011

  The Westword office is closed until Tuesday, December 27, and the blogs will be taking a break until then (although we'll post some party/concert slide shows over the weekend). If you're looking for f... More >>

• Latest Word is ho-ho-home for the holidays

  published Dec 23, 2011

  The Westword office is closed for the holidays until Tuesday, December 27, and Latest Word is taking a break until then. In the meantime, enjoy these Colorado Christmas cards from Kenny Be -- and if y... More >>

• Cafe Society is ho-ho-home for the holidays.

  published Dec 23, 2011

  Cafe Society is ho-ho-home for the holidays. The Westword office is closed until 8 a.m. Tuesday, December 27, and Cafe Society scribes will be off-duty -- but still eating and drinking -- until then. ... More >>

• Show and Tell is ho-ho-home for the holidays

  published Dec 23, 2011

  The Westword office is closed until Tuesday, December 27, and this blog will be taking a break until then -- although Show and Tell writers are definitely out and about, experiencing everything this c... More >>

• Guess where I'm eatingr

  published Dec 22, 2011

  Forget chestnuts roasting on an open fire -- get a load of this dish of Rocky Mountain oysters, a deep-fried Colorado delicacy. Nuts! Can you guess where I'm eatingr And where are the best spots in t... More >>

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  Ignite! will open on December 26, with a post-Christmas gift of free lunch

  published Dec 22, 2011

  As the end of the year approaches, owners are scrambling to finish restaurant projects. Last year, Lou's Food Bar, Bittersweet and Aria all managed to get their doors open right before the start of 20... More >>

• Reader: Union Station plans need to include some plumbing work

  published Dec 22, 2011

  People are excited to see something, anything go in to Union Station, which has long been filled with nothing but potential. Union Station Alliance, which won the nod from RTD to redevelop the histori... More >>

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  Jesus! Was the Shroud of Turin created by a supernatural "flash of light"r

  published Dec 22, 2011

  The image on the Shroud of Turin was not some medieval hoax, but was caused by a supernatural "flash of light," according to a team of Italian scientists. The recent news reports of their findings con... More >>