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

• Reader: Occupy Denver needs to come up with a real action plan...or hibernate until spring

  published Dec 22, 2011

  Has Occupy Denver finally worn out its welcomer If twelve inches of snow aren't enough to discourage the last of the protesters in Civic Center Park, the backlash over the trash in the park, the fires... More >>

• Reader: Does the opening of Ikea constitute culturer Do pigeons flyr

  published Dec 22, 2011

  Yes, it's getting deep around here -- and we're not just talking about the snow. If you've missed the discussion of Jef Otte's "The ten best moments in Denver arts: 2011," it's just the thing to heat ... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Union Station developers bite into a delicious project

  published Dec 21, 2011

  Union Station was once a bustling spot, but as fewer people decided to "travel by train," as its neon sign advises, more and more businesses pulled out of the station. By the early '80s, the only refr... More >>

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  LoDo Aglow demonstrates the light stuff

  published Dec 21, 2011

  Entries in the third annual LoDo Aglow contest -- for which 22 businesses in lower downtown decorated their windows -- ranged from the sublime to the ridiculous. The really ridiculous. Who knew that ... More >>

• Reader: Civic Center Park is no monument to Constitutional rights

  published Dec 21, 2011

  Civic Center Park is one of Denver's most lovely public places...but it's become ground zero for increasingly ugly encounters between the city and Occupy Denver. Eighteen hours after the police had pu... More >>

• Sawadee! Phat Thai is opening in Cherry Creek

  published Dec 21, 2011

  It's been a long time coming, but we hear that Phat Thai -- the Denver offshoot of Mark Fischer's famed Carbondale restaurant -- is opening at 11 a.m. today at 2900 East Second Avenue. Here's the wo... More >>

• Reader: Fifty Fifty beer isn't worth thirty bucks

  published Dec 21, 2011

  California or bust! This week Fifty Fifty Brewing, which is based in Truckee, California, will send Colorado some of its most sought-after, most expensive product: Eclipse, an oak-aged imperial stout.... More >>

• The luckiest political campaign office in Colorado is becoming a fitness center

  published Dec 21, 2011

  Campaigners are getting serious about the next election, but would-be candidates missed a golden opportunity in the Golden Triangle when they failed to lease the space at 1100 Bannock Street most rece... More >>

• Reader: Your list of the best moments in Denver arts was the worst

  published Dec 21, 2011

  It's the end of the year, which means that Westword scribes are busy compiling lists of the good, the bad and the ugly of 2011...sometimes the very ugly. If we were working on a list of the worst art ... More >>

• Plans for the Jefferson County Parkway are kicking up lots of dust

  published December 22, 2011

  On December 14, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that it had completed planning for a western expansion of the Rocky Flats National... More >>

• Reader: Occupy Denver could find better places to house the homeless

  published Dec 20, 2011

  Even before Occupy Denver protesters started setting fires in Civic Center Park last night, they were wearing out their welcome with some people, who tired of seeing Civic Center Park, which Mayor Rob... More >>

• Reader: Bartender profiles pour out deserved praise -- another round!

  published Dec 20, 2011

  For the past two weeks, Laura Shunk has been going behind the bar every Friday to interview a local mixologist. First up was Brian Smith (above) at Pinche Taqueria; Joshua Smith of TAG and Williams & ... More >>

• Union Station vote is tonight, but LoDo is already aglow

  published Dec 20, 2011

  The Regional Transportation District Board is scheduled to make a final decision on the redevelopment of Union Station tonight -- choosing between the proposal of the Union Station Neighborhood Co., w... More >>

• Reader: Broadway moves come as good news to hipsters...and who elser

  published Dec 20, 2011

  There's big news on Broadway, where Fancy Tiger and the Buffalo Exchange will be sharing a building at 55-59 Broadway, with the clothing resale shop opening post-Christmas after a quick move from Capi... More >>

• Is Club 404 going to the dogsr

  published Dec 19, 2011

  The renovation of Club 404, the classic dive at 404 Broadway that Jerry Feld had owned for over sixty years, has already begun -- as evidenced by the amazing mural "Hep Hounds," by Constance Depler Co... More >>

• Mayor Michael Hancock's Denver bucket list for 2012

  published Dec 19, 2011

  Denver has been threatened with doom many times -- when the transcontinental railroad threatened to skip the infant city, when numerous booms went bust, when the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons plant caug... More >>

• John Hickenlooper's bucket list for experiencing Colorado in 2012

  published Dec 19, 2011

  In recent decades, this state has been the focus of numerous doomsday predictions that Colorado -- if not the world itself -- was in imminent danger of disappearing. The most recent furor involves the... More >>

• Raise a glass to Christopher Hitchens...and make it a gin and tonic

  published Dec 19, 2011

  The late Christopher Hitchens was not only a great writer, he had a great appreciation for alcohol. And he got a lot of mileage from an incident that occurred in Aspen back in 1990. Here's his accoun... More >>

• Reader: Honk if you support Ron Paul

  published Dec 19, 2011

  Last Friday morning, metro area highways were almost as crowded as a Republican presidential debate when supporters of Ron Paul unfurled banners, slowing traffic along the routes. And although the Col... More >>

• Reader: Across the country, people see Colorado as a beer mecca. Take that, Portland!

  published Dec 19, 2011

  Is Denver just a pathetic, Midwestern version of Portlandr That debate is raging across westword.com, particularly in the comments section after "Fifteen reasons why young people move to Colorado," b... More >>

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  Denver County Fair announces dates, changes for 2012

  published Dec 19, 2011

  It's not too early to make plans for the second annual Denver County Fair -- which has been moved to the second weekend in August, starting on Friday, August 10 and running through Sunday, August 12, ... More >>

• Jesus visits Tim Tebow on Saturday Night Live, reveals that Tom Brady is God's nephew

  published Dec 19, 2011

  Jesus and Saturday Night Live got it right: Despite the ardent orange-and-blue Tim Tebow fans who filled Sports Authority at Mile High yesterday, the Patriots clobbered the Denver Broncos -- as an SNL... More >>

• Reader: Flush those customers who only want directions to the bathroom

  published Dec 19, 2011

  'Tis the season to torture sales clerks, as Bree Davies revealed in "I'm an idiot, and other misconceptions about retail employees." At Shirt Folding Store, where she's worked off and on for five year... More >>

• Trucks return to Civic Center Park for Mayor Speer's birthday party today

  published Dec 16, 2011

  A century ago, Mayor Robert Speer saw big things ahead for Civic Center Park, which he predicted "will do more than anything else to advertise Denver -- attract the tourist, health and home seekers, s... More >>

• Reader: Rob Lawler separates the wheat from the chaff at the Truffle

  published Dec 16, 2011

  Rob Lawler worked in a lot of restaurants before he and his wife bought the Truffle, the specialty cheese shop on East Sixth Avenue. He talked about that career switch in this week's Chef and Tell int... More >>