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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2013 Stories by Patricia Calhoun

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  FEATURED STORY

  Ed Baierlein on Germinal Stage's next move

  published Jan 15, 2013

  Ed Baierlein has sold the Germinal Stage building, the space his company moved into 25 years ago...and where "no actor is every more than thirty feet from your nose!" But while Germinal will be lea... More >>

• Reader: People born and raised in Denver deserve competence at restaurants, too

  published Jan 15, 2013

  The discussion over Gretchen Kurtz's review of Restaurant Fourteen Seventy-Two has demonstrated how passionately people care about Platt Park (however it's spelled), why you shouldn't eat Mexican food... More >>

• Get Ready to Ride

  published January 10, 2013

  The National Western Stock Show has not been rustled away from Denver, and that alone is reason for Mayor Michael Hancock to be the grand marshal... More >>

• Newtown discusses future of Sandy Hook, while Aurora Century 16 prepares to reopen

  published Jan 14, 2013

  What should happen to the site of a tragedyr It's been a month since the shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, and yesterday members of that community met to discuss what should become of Sandy Hook Elem... More >>

• Reader: Fourteen Seventy-Two shows Gretchen Kurtz writing for top 2 percent of population

  published Jan 14, 2013

  There's been a lot of action on South Pearl Street this season, with Restaurant Fourteen Seventy-Two joining the lineup, bringing low-country cuisine to the Mile High City. But when Gretchen Kurtz rev... More >>

• Reader: Birth control shaved off desire for "rugged" man

  published Jan 14, 2013

  Face it: Moustaches are in. That was clear at last night's celebratory 'Stache at Deer Pile, and in anticipation of that event, Sam Alviani and Bree Davies faced off with their own takes on moustaches... More >>

• An Artistic Bucket List

  published January 3, 2013

  The abandoned house in her New Orleans neighborhood was a wreck. But artist Candy Chang decided to give it new life, by turning it into a giant... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Judge grants restraining order; El Diablo and Sketch now open

  published Jan 11, 2013

  Update, 7:05 p.m., January 11: Attorneys for Morreale Hotels LLC filed a motion today in Denver District Court, asking a judge for a temporary restraining order against the City of Denver that would a... More >>

• Living the Sweet Life is leaving LoHi

  published Jan 11, 2013

  No sooner had the LoHi Merchants Group added up the bars, restaurants and coffee shops in the neighborhood to a whopping 55 than some of them started disappearing. Gramma Dor's is gone, as is 32nd T... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  United in Orange Friday: These Broncos ballerina costumes are tutu much!

  published Jan 11, 2013

  And we thought the Broncos orange cowboy hat that Mayor Michael Hancock sported yesterday as grand marshal of the Stock Show parade downtown represented the ultimate cultural collision in couture. But... More >>

• Reader: Is there a business selling righteous indignation in LoHir

  published Jan 11, 2013

  Restaurants and bars keep coming into LoHi -- but what does the neighborhood really needr Parking, for sure, says Philo99: "It's a great place to party but has become a terrible place to live." But d... More >>

• Denver Broncos and Stock Show on a cultural collision course: Hold onto your hat!

  published Jan 10, 2013

  Today is officially "Dress Western Day," with a parade through downtown Denver marking the kick-off of the 107th National Western Stock Show; tomorrow is "United in Orange Friday," pushing this town's... More >>

• Reader: With Germinal closing, culture is dying in Denver

  published Jan 10, 2013

  Ed Baierlein, the founder of Germinal Stage Denver, has sold the building the theater moved into back in 1986. Juliet Wittman took a look back at Germinal's impact on Denver performers, and Denver its... More >>

• Reader: 55 spots in LoHi, and not a fast-casual restaurant to be found

  published Jan 10, 2013

  Six years ago, shortly after Lola moved from Old South Pearl into a corner space at 1575 Boulder Street, the LoHi Merchants Group counted the bars, restaurants and coffee shops in the Lower Highland n... More >>

• LoHi goes from 22 bars and restaurants to 55 -- in just six years

  published Jan 09, 2013

  I live in the belly of the beast, Denver's hottest restaurant neighborhood last year: Lower Highland, or LoHi, as developer Paul Tamburello dubbed it when he started work on the Olinger project. (In r... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Rifle giveway: Rocky Mountain Gun Owners' Dudley Brown wants to arm you for a legal fight

  published Jan 09, 2013

  As lawmakers head to the State Capitol for opening day of the Colorado Legislature, critics are already taking aim at new gun-control proposals. Some will be rallying outside the building for a 1 p.m.... More >>

• Reader: I love beets, but give it a rest already

  published Jan 09, 2013

  Did you vow to eat more veggies in 2013r You can't beat the roasted beets and arugula salad that Lori Midson recently found. Unless you hate beets, of course. Or are just over them. See also: - Gue... More >>

• Erin Trapp to head Biennial of the Americas in artful move

  published Jan 08, 2013

  If at first you don't succeed, tri, tri again. The first Biennial of the Americas was a very ambitious, very confused celebration that brought international stars to Denver in July 2010. So confused, ... More >>

• Reader: Kachina reminds me more of Disney in the '90s than Epcot

  published Jan 08, 2013

  To the Hopi, Gretchen Kurtz writes, kachinas are spirit-beings associated with rain, corn, animals and other elements critical to life in the desert. Not that you'd grasp this from the splashy Southwe... More >>

• Old Spice Contest at Marczyk rubs salt in old wound

  published Jan 07, 2013

  Did you resolve to clean out your kitchen cabinets for the new yearr Your time spent sneezing your way through your messy spice shelves could pay off: Marcyzk Fine Foods is holding its annual Old Spic... More >>

• Jesse Capen and the Lost Dutchman mine: DNA test may solve one mystery

  published Jan 07, 2013

  At the downtown Sheraton, where he worked as a bellhop, they called Jesse Capen "the gentle giant." And he had a big dream -- to find the Lost Dutchman Mine in the Superstition Mountains. But after Ca... More >>

• Reader: Notice to vacate at El Diablo/Sketch puts 100 people out of work

  published Jan 07, 2013

  Six months after the city first slapped the First Avenue Hotel with notices to vacate because the structure was unsound, and five months after a Board of Appeals hearing determined that owner Jesse Mo... More >>

• Reader: Karaoke at the Rear Inn was highly disappointing

  published Jan 07, 2013

  Did you resolve to become more expressive in 2013r To indulge all of your artistic fantasies -- even if your wildest dream is to sing "Feelings" before a crowdr Inspired by our list of "Denver's ten b... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  El Diablo slapped with notice to vacate...again

  published Jan 04, 2013

  Yes, that's the entrance to El Diablo, the Mexican restaurant in the First Avenue Hotel, which has been slapped with a notice to vacate...again. The note went up early this morning, and although it sa... More >>

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  Jesse Morreale's First Avenue Hotel slapped with notices to vacate...again

  published Jan 04, 2013

  Yes, that's the entrance to El Diablo, the restaurant in the big corner space of the old First Avenue Hotel building -- which was tagged, again, this morning with "Danger" signs and a notice to vacate... More >>