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 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"

• 2010 - Education Reporting Awards/National Education Writers Association, published May 14, 2009

  "School Daze"

• 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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2012 Stories by Patricia Calhoun

• Reader: We pros stay at home on New Year's Eve

  published Dec 31, 2012

  What are you doing New Year's Ever When we quizzed a baker's dozen of the town's cultural tastemakers for our Lucky '13, we asked them what they were planning to do tonight. As revealed in this Latest... More >>

• Year in review: Lawsuit could make "natural" baked cheddar Goldfish an endangered species

  published Dec 31, 2012

  On November 6, Coloradans overwhelmingly approved Amendment 64, prompting Governor John Hickenlooper to note that the feds still consider pot illegal, so the state's residents shouldn't "break out the... More >>

• Reader: Prohibition doesn't work -- not for liquor, not for pot

  published Dec 31, 2012

  Pot was definitely a hot topic in Colorado in 2012 -- even before voters decided to legalize the recreational use of marijuana, and that includes growing your own (six plants per person, please). And... More >>

• Reader: Denver needs to toss some pizza joints in the new year

  published Dec 31, 2012

  Later this morning we'll post our Restaurant Roll Call for December on Cafe Society -- a compendium of all the openings and closings on the Denver dining scene over the last thirty days. One of the mo... More >>

• Reader: Journalists are reporting on important things in dangerous environments -- you're whining about skateboarding

  published Dec 28, 2012

  Britt Chester admits that he knew it was against the law to skateboard on the 16th Street Mall, so he wasn't surprised when officers told him to stop. What did surprise him was what came after that --... More >>

• Simply Sloppy Joes will close tomorrow in Lakewood

  published Dec 28, 2012

  For nine years, Simply Sloppy Joes has been dishing up sloppy goodness in Lakewood. But when the last sandwich has been served up tomorrow, the business will close its doors for good. See also: - Gar... More >>

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  School shooter Laurie Dann only killed one, but her crime was memorable for other reasons, too

  published Dec 28, 2012

  In the wake of the shootings in Newton, Connecticut two weeks ago today, experts have tried to find clues in the dozens of school shootings over the last three decades. They've found that 60 percent o... More >>

• Reader: Saga of 1434 Blake proves Denver really is a small town

  published Dec 28, 2012

  In preparation for our own Restaurant Roll Call, a compendium of all the openings and closings on the Denver dining scene over the past year, we listed five restaurants that had both opened and closed... More >>

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  Five restaurants that both opened and closed in 2012...and a bonus revival

  published Dec 27, 2012

  As the year draws to an end, Cafe Society is compiling our annual Restaurant Roll Call -- a compendium of all the restaurants that opened and closed in 2012. That very long list includes plenty of foo... More >>

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  Blinky the Clown made history...does he belong in History Colorador

  published Dec 27, 2012

  Blinky the Clown was an icon for generations of Colorado kids who grew up watching his Blinky's Fun Club on local television. Blinky -- aka Russell Scott -- passed away on August 27 at the age of 91, ... More >>

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  Denver's Gluten Free Gladiator is Mr. May

  published Dec 27, 2012

  According to some of our prognosticators in "Trends Without End," this town's gluten-free obsession will only grow next year -- and that's just one reason to pick up the 2013 Gluten Free Calendar. A m... More >>

• Jezebel's opens today in LoHi

  published Dec 27, 2012

  Over a year after Wanda James and Scott Durrah closed 8 Rivers in LoDo and returned to Highland, home of Denver's original 8 Rivers and also the couple's own home, they're finally ready to open Jezebe... More >>

• Toyota settles with owners taken for a ride by stuck accelerators

  published Dec 27, 2012

  The Prius was one of the great automobile success stories of the last decade. Toyota's hybrid took off very fast -- too fast, it turned out, when owners found their accelerators sticking. And yesterda... More >>

• Oliver Stone's The Untold History of the United States at the Merc tonight

  published Dec 27, 2012

  Jason Bosch won a MasterMind for his work with ArgusFest, showing important movies for trivial prices. And tonight, ArgusFest will be screening two more segments of Oliver Stone's The Untold History o... More >>

• Reader: I would like to see some creative uses of pot by local chefs

  published Dec 27, 2012

  For our year-end issue, Lori Midson reached out to dozens of people in the local food scene -- chefs, restaurateurs, restaurant brokers, wine merchants, farmers -- to ask for their views on Denver din... More >>

• Reader: It's not easy to remove the stain of racial and ethnic hatred

  published Dec 27, 2012

  The holidays have not been so happy in Colorado Springs, where recent acts of vandalism included a car on the south end of town covered with the large, spraypainted message message "I hate black peopl... More >>

• Lil' Devils is taking a bite out of the former Barker Lounge

  published Dec 26, 2012

  Broadway continues to be one of the town's fastest-evolving areas, with the three blocks south of First Avenue seeing incredible changes in 2012. After numerous delays, Gary Lee's Motor Club & Grub fi... More >>

• Guess where I'm eating polenta cakes...for breakfastr

  published Dec 26, 2012

  Does this look like the breakfast of championsr It could be if you're a fan of syrup and golden corn cakes -- and old-fashioned Italian cooking that's become a rarity in these parts. Can you guess wh... More >>

• Fat Sully's to take a slice of South Broadway

  published Dec 26, 2012

  The website for Fat Sully's asks you to "stay tuned" for a "sexy new website coming soon." But that's not all that's coming soon. Fat Sully's, which started as an offshoot of Atomic Cowboy, working ... More >>

• Reader: Something stinks when RiNo tweeters covet scentometers

  published Dec 26, 2012

  Neighbors are raising a stink over smells that they say emanate from a dog-snack factory that moved into the River North neighborhood -- now the hot-hot RiNo -- long before most of them did. This past... More >>

• Reader: So little time, so many choices on Federal

  published Dec 26, 2012

  Mark Antonation has an ambitious resolution for 2013: He's eating his way through Denver city limits along Federal Boulevard, from the southern border to the northern, and blogging about it for Cafe S... More >>

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  Tom Tancredo is talking, again, about Tebow and Obama on KHOW right now

  published Dec 26, 2012

  Running for governor "was the most fun I've ever had," Tom Tancredo said last week, in a conversation that ranged from his rogue 2010 candidacy against John Hickenlooper and Dan Maes to Amendment 64 t... More >>

• 2012 food trendsr Cafe Society will be cooking up plenty during a two-day break

  published Dec 24, 2012

  Westword ho, ho, ho. Cafe Society will be busy in the kitchen through December 25, but we'll be cooking up plenty of tasty stories for when we return early on December 26. And in the meantime, we're ... More >>

• Reader: I put the blame squarely on the media

  published Dec 24, 2012

  Latest Word -- and all of Westword, in fact -- is taking off today and tomorrow (and again January 1). But the web never sleeps, and so during breaks in your holiday activities you can still log in an... More >>

• El Rancho rides off into the sunset

  published Dec 21, 2012

  Metro Denver lost some longtime institutions this year. Pagliacci's.The Burnsley. Gabor's. And now El Rancho, once a dining destination for tourists and Denver residents alike, a place so popular it h... More >>