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Top five food predictions -- Indian spice! meatless Mondays! --that I'll be pushing in 2013

It's a new year, and so a clean plate for all food nerds is in order. We can forget the memories of past food flubs and start this year fresher than a bowl of baby spinach (triple washed, of course.) I've been studying other food forecasts for 2013 -- including those that stretched through Cafe Soci ... More >>

High Flying Fun

Flags are at half-mast in Colorado today...as they have been so often this year

Flags in Colorado will fly at half staff today, as they have been since December 14, to honor the children and adults who were killed in Newtown, Connecticut. They'll be raised again to their full height on Wednesday -- unless of course there is another tragedy, another senseless death in Colorado o ... More >>

William Breathes looks back on three years as the country's first pot critic

Reader: Barack Obama is a war president, whether supporters want to admit it or not

Yesterday, while Barack Obama's Denver appearance, Sam Levin asked ten supporters of the presidents explaining why they attended the speech. One person who spoke with him said she feared presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney would lead the nation into war -- which prompted this fie ... More >>

Five biggest fakers in recent Colorado history

Former stolen valor arrestee Rick Strandlof has been many people in his life...two of whom were completely fabricated. But he has never been formally charged with profiting from his personalities -- nor is he the only person to have spun tall tales to change his life. Click through for stories from ... More >>

Medical marijuana should be okayed for vets' PTSD treatment, activists say

In 2010, Sensible Colorado's Brian Vicente petitioned the Colorado Department of Public Health to add post-traumatic-stress disorder to the list of conditions that can be treated by medical marijuana. This effort not only failed, but it led to a public-relations disaster over untruths spoken by its ... More >>

Growing numbers of veterans are becoming addicted to gambling

Where's the military when the chips are down?

John Burrell second soldier busted in Virgil Means killing near motorcycle club

Update: In recent days, Fort Carson-based Sergeant Christopher Mountjoy was arrested in the death of Virgil Means outside the Sin City Disciples motorcycle club. Now, a second soldier, John Burrell, has been arrested in the incident. He's being held on the charge of murder in the first degree.

Mountain2Mountain's Combat Apathy links U.S. and international conflict zones

In the nearly six years since Shannon Galpin founded Mountain2Mountain, the Colorado-based nonprofit has created several projects in Afghanistan: Volunteers taught street art, worked with women's prisons, partnered on a school for the deaf. But in 2012, Combat Apathy, its new educational program, wi ... More >>

State of the Union: Five drinking games to get you through it

With Denver Mayor Michael Hancock in Washington last week and with the president scheduled to be in Denver this Thursday, we're in a political mindset. And as anyone who's seen the recent GOP debates can attest, political spectating often drives one to drink. In that spirit, here are five drinking g ... More >>

Eyes on the prize: Pray the Devil Back to Hell focuses on Leymah Gbowee

Leymah Gbowee, Nobel Peace Prize winner.​The five-part "Women, War & Peace" spotlights the stories of women in conflict zones. Part two of this series, Pray the Devil Back to Hell, features 2011 Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee and her work in organizing the women of Liberia to unite, ul ... More >>

New park, community garden to grow -- with neighbors' input -- in vacant lot in East Colfax

​ It started with a vacant lot. But where others saw a scrubby, rectangular piece of land strewn with rocks and broken glass, the refugees living in the adjacent apartments saw a soccer field and a gathering place and spot to grow vegetables. On Monday, the city Parks and Recreation Department ... More >>

Today in Stoke: Must-see action-sports porn at Mountainfilm in Telluride

Sometimes a stump is just a stump. "Life Cycles" is among the action sports porn featured this year at Mountainfilm​The 32nd annual Mountainfilm in Telluride festival kicks off tomorrow night with free outdoor screenings at the Base Camp Outdoor Theater in Telluride Town Park; the full festiva ... More >>

March against "police terror" tonight in honor of Marvin Booker, Oleg Gidenko and other victims

​Against the backdrop of Independent Monitor Richard Rosenthal's conclusion that Officer Eric Sellers should have been fired, not suspended, for brutalizing volunteer firefighter Jared Lunn comes the latest protest against "police terror." According to an item on West Denver Copwatch featuring ... More >>

Middle East Side Story

Shawn Lynch's Fort Carson controversy: KUNC tracks soldier's brain-injury-diagnosis struggles

​The signature battle wounds for Iraq and Afghanistan vets are post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) -- ailments that are difficult to diagnose and easy for officials to ignore. While vet advocates like Andrew Pogany and innovative treatment programs like El ... More >>

Today In Stoke: Adventure Film Festival opens at Boulder Theater

​The Adventure Film Festival opens tonight at the Boulder Theater with two shorts and two feature-length films to kick off the four-day festival. Here's what's in store for adventurous film fans tonight:

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The Container reminds us that immigrants are people, too

Michael Bennet welcoming Bill Clinton, Michelle Obama -- and President Barack Obama, too?

Michael Bennet and Ken Buck at 9News debate.​Last night, Senator Michael Bennet and Republican challenger Ken Buck engaged in their most high-profile debate yet -- and shockingly enough, Bennet spokesman Trevor Kincaid believes his guy handily won the 9News-sponsored event on view below. Kinc ... More >>

The Tillman Story relentlessly exposes government arrogance

Soldiers in a barrel: Restrepo belongs to the soldiers in Afghanistan

M.I.A. on video game violence

​We know when you're busy re-fighting World War II or killing alien invaders on your Xbox, you're probably saying to yourself, "Gee, this is fun, but what does pop-star/provocateur M.I.A. think of this activity?" Well, wonder no longer -- she's weighed in with her opinion at last.

Killing Osama Bin Laden: Gary Brooks Faulkner makes Colorado's (anti) terrorist beat

Larimer CountyWhere's the latex mask?​Colorado's reputation as a breeding ground for gun-toting xenophobes and religious fanatics got a nice boost today when a Greeley man -- armed with a pistol, a forty-inch sword and some hashish -- was detained in northern Pakistan after he tried to cross o ... More >>

War Is Hell

Focus in on Mountain Films

Warrior Games: Colorado Springs to host U.S. military's first-ever wounded soldiers Paralympics

Multi-event competitor Sergeant Israel Del Toro suffered burns on 80 percent of his body after he was hit by an IED in 2005.​ The U.S. military's first-ever Warrior Games -- three days of Paralympic-style competition in nine sports -- will kick off in Colorado Springs with an opening ceremony ... More >>

Wake-Up Call: Jared Polis, poet

​Are there no limits to the talents of Jared Polis? During his first year in Congress, the Boulder Democrat starred in a wonky reality show, demonstrated a beer bong on Comedy Central, and came out swinging on several controversial proposals. But as 2009 draws to a close, it's time to be a ... More >>

Democratic HQ window-smashing: Health care, gay rights and Maurice Schwenkler's other identity -- Ariel Attack

Maurice Schwenkler, aka Ariel Attack.​When news first broke yesterday that eleven windows had been smashed at Colorado Democratic Party headquarters in Denver, initial speculation pinned the blame on conservative anger over Democratic heathcare reform efforts. When it emerged that one of the ... More >>

Rollin’ Rockies takes on the Air Force

Lions for Lambs

The odd upside of Robert Redford’s terribly earnest, quite terrible war drama.

The Sounds of Summer

Tunes that take us back to those lazy, hazy days.

A Good-Bye in Vegas

Dissent for Sale

Opposition is a commodity in Sundance documentaries.

Buffalo Rose

A tragic shortage of hops.

To Hell and Back

Michael Winterbottom puts a face -- and a hood -- on the suffering at Guantanamo.

Wanted

After a local scandal made them stand down, Army recruiters work to put more boots on the ground.

Home Fires Burning

A soldier returns a changed man in the Danish drama Brothers.

Locked and Loaded

The Army's Special Forces game moves in for the kill.

Red, White, Orange and Blue

The Broncos call in a $20,000 air strike for patriotism.

72-Hour Party People

Meth: It's not just for the white-trash crowd.

That's a Wrap-Up

Backbeat writers sound off on a few of their favorite musical things from 2002.

A Christmas Carol Glows

The Denver Center's supple staging is designed to delight.

Game's Up

Another major-league strike, and baseball could be out -- for good.

Best Osama bin Laden Game and Puzzle Book

Where's Osama?

Top Ten

The Sunday Denver Post is one of America's most widely circulated newspapers. Does it deserve to be?

Letters to the Editor

From the week of October 25, 2001

Mall in the Family

While other downtown malls died, Boulder’s was a real success story. But then came the chains and other Block-busters.

Down the Tubes