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

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

  published Feb 07, 2011

  Last week Cafe Society served up four Guess where contests, featuring everything from fries at Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers to this still-unidentified hangar steak to rare sighting of clam s... More >>

• Roseanne remembered the words to "The National Anthem," unlike Christina Aguilara

  published Feb 07, 2011

  Well, at least when Roseanne sang "The National Anthem" and then grabbed her crotch, she got the words right -- unlike Christina Aguilera at the Super Bowl yesterday. Still, Roseanne's misguided homag... More >>

• Reader: After trying the job, I do not envy servers

  published Feb 07, 2011

  Readers may not agree with Kyle Garratt's In the Weeds (even last week's positive round), but just about everyone agrees that a server's job is one of the toughest in town.Catlover101st, for example, ... More >>

• Colorado Cocktail Contest kickoff: Join the party!

  published Feb 04, 2011

  Although plans for the Colorado Cocktail Contest, which will culminate in a two-day event in June at Denver's Museum of Contemporary Art, are fairly fluid right now, one event is solid: On Monday even... More >>

• Readers: Tiny buns, greasy burgers, and repeating lists

  published Feb 04, 2011

  While comments about the ubiquitous butternut squash soup keep appearing, like the dish itself, at the end of Laura Shunk's Groundhog Day list of The Five Most Overdone Menu Items , a few notes about ... More >>

• John Hickenlooper hosts economic development meeting in Denver: Bottoms up!

  published Feb 04, 2011

  Governor John Hickenlooper is revving up his eco-devo engine. Last month, he toured Colorado for four days, holding confabs in eight towns; Denver gets its turn today, at a Bottom-Up Economic Developm... More >>

• Reader: With Brian Laird going to Russo's, things are looking up in the southern suburbs

  published Feb 03, 2011

  Yesterday, a reader wondered if the restaurant-packed Berkeley neighborhood in northwest Denver was suffering from too much of a good thing. But the revelation that Brian Laird was heading south to Ru... More >>

• Gerald Styron, Denver mayoral candidate, once threatened to bring a gun to Westword

  published Feb 03, 2011

  A fourteenth hopeful has entered the Denver mayor's race, and we're disappointed we had to read about Gerald Styron's candidacy somewhere else first. As Facethestate.comreports, when Styron was a writ... More >>

• Reader: Does the Berkeley neighborhood have too much of a good thingr

  published Feb 02, 2011

  The news that Brickyard BBQ has closed made more than one reader wonder if the Berkeley neighborhood now has more restaurants than it can support. Writes Claudia: Two BBQ restaurants was probably to ... More >>

• Civic Center Eats will expand next summer: Keep on (gourmet food) truckin'

  published Feb 02, 2011

  The town's biggest business trend last year -- the fleet of gourmet food trucks rolling into Denver -- also gave rise to some of the biggest rumors: The city was trying to keep trucks out of downtown ... More >>

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  Cold-weather deals to warm the heart...and stomach

  published Feb 01, 2011

  Two nearby spots in northwest Denver are offering diametrically opposed cold-weather deals. At Rosa Linda's Mexican Cafe, 2005 West 33rd Avenue, Rosa Linda Aguirre has decided to fight the cold by ma... More >>

• White Fence Farm delays reopening, but other restaurants are back from breaks

  published Feb 01, 2011

  We just published the Restaurant roll call for January, a compendium of new places that opened last month, as well as old places that closed. A few familiar names both closed and opened, after taking... More >>

• Union Station redevelopment will close off the tunnel, but not the memories

  published Feb 01, 2011

  We got off the train, ran down the steps by the tracks, then through the pedestrian tunnel of the old train station and out into Denver. Even at that time, in the mid-'60s, the area was decidedly grit... More >>

• Reader: Don't hate PBR because of hipsters

  published Feb 01, 2011

  Our "Ten beers to stop drinking by 30" project flowed from a thirsty, beer-thirty, Friday afternoon discussion in the office. The post has inspired numerous recommendations and comments, including se... More >>

• Reader: Kevin Taylor steakhouse is a fake house

  published Jan 31, 2011

  Tomorrow we'll post our monthly Restaurant Roll Call, chronicling the spots that opened and closed in January. Eleven months from now, we'll compile all those Roll Calls into a comprehensive look at t... More >>

• Guess where you're eatingr At an EatDenver restaurant, if you're AM2011

  published Jan 31, 2011

  Cafe Society served up four Guess Where contests last week, ranging from a pair of milk shakesat Park Burger to a pan of sizzling shrimp at Farro to this suburban meat and cheese platter. For correc... More >>

• Marijuana grow houses are a growing controversy at Denver City Council

  published Jan 31, 2011

  In the fall of 2009, Denver City Council rep Charlie Brown realized that the city had to get a handle on the booming medical marijuana dispensary industry -- and even as the Colorado Legislature was j... More >>

• Reader: What's your beefr Taco Bell bean burritos are great for vegans

  published Jan 28, 2011

  An Alabama law firm has a beef with the amount of meat in Taco Bell's tacos, which has set off a stampede of claims, counterclaims and an opportunistic campaign by Mercy for Animals,, which is suggest... More >>

• John Hickenlooper has another clothes call at SIA: Will he don PJs for Denver's Road Homer

  published Jan 28, 2011

  We were a little disappointed not to see John Hickenlooper in his '80s-era red ski outfit when he welcomed the Snowsports Industries America show to town with cowbells yesterday. "What do you think of... More >>

• The trucks stopped here: City council committee tries to bring clarity to the rules

  published Jan 27, 2011

  "Let's make sure we all understand what the rules are before we change them," said Denver City Council president Chris Nevitt, after a council committee had been discussing the rules now regulating th... More >>

• Gourmet food trucks collide with confusing Denver regulations

  published Jan 27, 2011

  Gourmet food trucks were the surprise hit of 2010 -- by December, over 150 mobile food vendors had been licensed in Denver, which almost put the movement on par with the medical-marijuana dispensary b... More >>

• Reader (and owner): Veggie green chile back at Little Anita's

  published Jan 27, 2011

  For over a decade, Little Anita's -- the Colorado outpost of a New Mexico group -- was a go-to spot for vegetarians hungering for meat-free green chile. But sometime last year, the five Little Anita's... More >>

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  The trucks stop here: Read the draft of Denver's new food-truck policy

  published Jan 26, 2011

  Gourmet food trucks were the biggest trend of 2010. But by the end of last year, a few of these enterprises had run into roadblocks set up by the city's confusing rules and regulations; a couple of th... More >>

• Even through a long prison stay, this mentoring relationship stayed strong

  published January 27, 2011

  On January 15, in the middle of National Mentoring Month, my 85-year-old father was looking for his mentee – a hunt that took him into... More >>

• Reader: Keep the food trucks rolling!

  published Jan 26, 2011

  Numerous food trucks report running into roadblocks set up by confusing and sometimes contradictory rules; a Denver City Council committee will discuss those rules at a meeting at 1:30 p.m. today. In ... More >>