Afghanistan

Dilip Joseph: Springs doc saved in Afghanistan rescue that kills SEAL Team's Nicholas Checque

SEAL Team 6 didn't retire after leading the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. The elite squad continues to get the toughest assignments imaginable, and even when they're successful, there can be serious collateral damage. Case in point: A rescue operation in Afghanistan saved a Colorado Springs phys ... More >>

Video: Learn more about Shannon Galpin and Mountain2Mountain in new documentary

Our recent cover feature, "Peak Performance," tells the story of local humanitarian Shannon Galpin, who in 2006 founded Mountain2Mountain, an international outreach effort targeted toward working with women in crisis zones. That year, the rape survivor and single mother left her job as a Pilates ins ... More >>

From Colorado to Kabul and back, Shannon Galpin's wild ride

MoveShake: Shannon Galpin documentary premieres online tonight

Tonight at 7 p.m., filmmakers Allie Bombach and Sarah Menzies will show the first two films in their MoveShake series online at www.MoveShake.org.The MoveShake films profile people pushing for environmental and social change; Breckenridge-based Shannon Galpin, who founded Mountain2Mountain, an organ ... More >>

Remembering Our Fallen at Aurora Municipal Center

​In the cavernous central hall of the Aurora Municipal Center are portraits of the 85 men and women from Colorado who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan. In the corner of each of their service portraits is a photo that their family submitted to the project called Remembering Our Fallen, curated ... More >>

Maybe Make Some Change, a text adventure, is our browser game of the week

​Political games are hard to pull off: they're often heavy-handed and they nearly always miss the point. That said, Aaron Reed'sMaybe Make Some Change is an experience that's entirely different from any war game you've played in the last twenty years. It's a text adventure, it's a political st ... More >>

Reader: Westword makes stupid jokes while economy's collapsing, war rages on

​Yesterday's post about the top 10 things you shouldn't call the cops to help you find -- prompted by a Greeley woman who told police her misplaced TV remote had been stolen -- didn't strike some readers as a laugh riot. Indeed, one saw it and other recent attempts at humor as indefensible giv ... More >>

Sam Clark, Miles Owens of George Washington High are national debate champs

Champions!​ Two students from Denver's George Washington High School are the best policy debaters in the National Forensic League, a super-competitive league whose champs usually hail from wealthy private prep schools. Sam Clark and Miles Owens, who graduated from GW this spring, are the first ... More >>

Barack Obama Afghanistan speech drinking game: The revenge of Rush Limbaugh

The toastmaster.​I watched Barack Obama's speech about withdrawing troops from Afghanistan more closely than any presidential address ever -- but not for the expected reason. I was a (sober) judge in a speech-related drinking game suggested yesterday by none other than super-conservative Rush ... More >>

Q&A: MoveOn Board President Eli Pariser on his new book, The Filter Bubble

​When we search for things on the Internet, a number of variables determine what we end up finding. Whether it's the configuration of our computers, the location, or our past search history, the information we get is filtered and changed to match our record. When these same algorithms start de ... More >>

Today in Stoke: 2011 Copp-Dash Inspire Award climbing expedition grants announced

​The spirit of Boulder's Adventure Film Festival founder Jonny Copp lives on: The five winners of the Copp-Dash Inspire Award grants for 2011 were announced on Friday, receiving $20,000 and climbing expeditions to Alaska, Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan and Nepal. The grant program was estab ... More >>

Street Smarts

Greg Mortenson: Jon Krakauer calls out Three Cups of Tea author on 60 Minutes (VIDEO)

Jon Krakauer.​Greg Mortenson is the mega-selling author of Three Cups of Tea, and he's a big supporter of education for girls in Pakistan and Afghanistan. But are all the stories he tells about his experiences true? Maybe not, according to a 60 Minutesreport -- and among the main people quest ... More >>

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Today in Stoke: Shannon Galpin brings Mountain2Mountain Afghanistan project to REI

​When Breckenridge-based mountain biker Shannon Galpin talks about her recent adventures tonight at REI, 1416 Platte Street, know that her definition of "mountain biking" is a little bit bigger than some. Take her recent trip through Afghanistan's Panjshir Valley, for example: Galpin's non-pro ... More >>

Homebody/Kabul is a large and raggedly ambitious work

Terrence Lakin, birther Lt. Colonel, found guilty of failing to report, becomes movement martyr

Terrence Lakin.​KHOW's Peter Boyles partly credits his number-one ratings to taking risks -- such as giving plenty of airtime to the birther controversy, which even Glenn Beck regards as loonbaggery. And he's got plenty of fresh fodder now that Greeley Lieutenant Colonel Terrence Lakin has bee ... More >>

Scott McInnis: Keep Medal of Honor video game off the shelves

Scott McInnis.​Scott McInnis may have lost his bid to be the next Governor of Colorado, but that won't stop him from leveraging his political weight. Today he sent a letter to the President of the Colorado Retailers Association, Christopher Howes, in an attempt to keep a new Medal of Honor vid ... More >>

Wounded warriors: Help yourself to big-game hunting, but don't expect a purple heart

A Flickr photo​America loves its wounded soldiers. So much so that the Colorado Wildlife Commission will offer free big-game hunting licenses this fall to Colorado veterans severely wounded in action overseas over the past nine years. Still, that might not be much consolation for possibly tho ... More >>

Corporal Larry D. Harris to be honored by Bill Ritter, dishonored by Westboro Baptist Church

Corporal Larry D. Harris and wife Stacia.​The extraordinary life and tragic death of Corporal Larry D. Harris, a Colorado Marine killed in Afghanistan, will be marked across the state tomorrow: Governor Bill Ritter has ordered flags to be flown at half-staff to mark his passing. Meanwhile, the ... More >>

Michael Steele: RNC chair welcome in Colorado, despite his Afghanistan comments

Michael Steele.​Republican Party national chair Michael Steele, who's taken a pounding for referring to Afghanistan as a "war of Obama's choosing," has canceled an Aspen appearance this week. But as far as Colorado Republican boss Dick Wadhams knows, Steele's still planning to appear at the o ... More >>

Fighting for the American way -- but not fueled by American fast food

​There's a saying that war is not won on an empty stomach, but American officers on the battlefields of Afghanistan seem to have forgotten that adage, since Reuters reports that some American eateries have been stricken from the menu there. Kandahar, the location of our biggest base in that ... More >>

Terrence Lakin, birther Lieutenant Colonel refusing to honor Obama's "illegal" orders to serve in Afghanistan, is a Colorado native -- naturally

Lieutenant Colonel Terrence Lakin, who's refusing to return to Afghanistan for a second tour until President Barack Obama produces proof that he was born in the U.S., is a Colorado native. Which makes perfect sense given the case of birther fever that continues to run through the state more than a ... More >>

Playing the name game with Denver's War on Terrorism Memorial

Denver Blogs: ICE, ICE baby

Photo courtesy of the White House"Enough about Afghanistan. What's happening in Aurora?"​Other people in Colorado write blogs, too. Here are three of them. The Colorado Independent's Kate Redding covers protests about the Obama administration's expansion plans for the GEO Group's Aurora Immig ... More >>

Re-create 68 plans anti-war march and rally to recreate the "massive" 68 protesters that converged during the DNC

Glenn and Mark: together again. ​Glenn Spagnuolo and Mark Cohen -- they're baaaaaack. Yes, the two local lefties behind Re-create 68 -- whose Weather Underground rhetoric and overblown protest predictions before the Democratic National Convention allowed the Denver Police Department to work ... More >>

Star Power

Learn about Afghanistan’s version of American Idol in a documentary.

Denver Blogs: The start of a very long season is almost here

Our cruise through the blogosphere. Send links. Broncos release training camp schedule. Watch them when they can't lose! (Mile High Report) The Denver Post, 1926, under the hardwood floors. (Buck Fifty) Afghanistan: a forgotten war in pictures. (Captured)

The Whole World's Watching

Get some perspective in Boulder this week.

Another reason why death in fight over Kanye West and Jimmy Buffett was senseless

The case of Richard Lopez, a sergeant in the Army who died outside a Steamboat Springs bar shortly after returning from a tour in Afghanistan, would have been terrible under any circumstances. But the ultra-trivial dispute that led to the tragedy -- a jukebox spat that pitted Jimmy Buffett-loving ... More >>

The Big Three-Oh

Spark Gallery celebrates a milestone anniversary.

Dean Singleton to the Newspaper Industry: Stop Your Whining

Feel-Good Fun

Doc Block

Non-fiction continues its ascent on the screen.

The Kite Runner

Controversy aside, The Kite Runner just won’t fly.

Afghan Sound

From a war-torn country comes music of hope.

The Chiva Game

American hunger for black-tar heroin has made downtown Denver the land of opportunity for immigrant dealers.

Best Middle Eastern Restaurant

Kabul Kabob

Best New Unexpected Restaurant

Kabul Kabob

Have Faith

Kabul Kabob serves up a spiritual experience.

Flick Pick

Human Rights Watch International Film Festival

Trial and Tribulations

Naim Amini fled Afghanistan to build a new life, a life now lost in the translation.

Arabian Nightmare

A road through hell points the way to Kandahar.

Rescue 9/11

This year, a handful of shows provided the healing power of laughter.

Life in Focus

For Deborah Copaken Kogen, every picture tells a story.