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Here's to American Craft Beer Week, and something wet in every cup

Here's to American Craft Beer Week (which began Monday), the annual salute to small independent brewers that the Boulder-based Brewers Association (with help from Congress!) created seven years ago to increase awareness of craft beer. Of course, in Colorado, as some people say, every week is craft b ... More >>

Beer calendar: Renegades, superheroes and American Craft Beer Week

Did you know that Italy has a thriving craft-beer scene? Neither did I. But Brian Jansing and Paul Vismara, two longtime suds slingers at the Falling Rock Taphouse, did, and they've traveled all over Italy, researching the movement as it grew from fewer than twenty craft breweries in 1996 to nearly ... More >>

Come to papas -- a perfect Peruvian party food

Bob and Rosario Van Diest take pride in serving a little-known but authentic Peruvian dish, pollo a la brasa, at La Polleria, which I review this week. Here's another dish they are eager to tell people about: papas a la huancaina (potatoes huancaina style). Often served at parties with baby potatoe ... More >>

Sam Tallent talks about his comedy mixtape Joke Life, and his Fine Gentleman's Club

Sam Tallent gave up the daily grind four years ago to focus on comedy. A full-time comedian since that jump-off, Tallent co-founded the Fine Gentleman's Club comedy troupe, a group that offers its Too Much Fun show every Wednesday night at the Deer Pile community space above City, O' City. In additi ... More >>

Beer calendar: Upslope Foreign Stout at Euclid Hall; Leopold Bros rye-aged porter at Yak & Yeti

Breckenridge Brewing has joined fellow Colorado breweries Odell, Great Divide and Oskar Blues in offering four-packs of some of its limited-release beers. The brewery will start with 471 IPA and 72 Imperial, a double chocolate cream stout made with chocolate from Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory; it ... More >>

Beer calendar: One-barrel Wednesday at Strange and firkins at Great Divide and Dry Dock

Great Divide​Great Divide Brewing puts on some great throw-downs, especially during the quarterly release parties it typically holds to fete its seasonal beers, three at a time. But the brewery will take a time-out this month even as it puts its first quarter seasonals -- the new Nomad pilsner ... More >>

The Wynkoop made Collective Hoppiness with the help of 210 homebrewers (video)

Back in November, the Wynkoop Brewing Company hosted a membership rally for the Boulder-based National Homebrewers Association -- a rally that turned into a giant brewing session: each of the 210 AHA members in attendance pitched a cupful of hops into a boiling brew kettle, making a beer that will b ... More >>

Colorado beer calendar: Great American Beer Festival edition

Water, water everywhere, and not a drop to drink. Well, not when there's this much beer around. Welcome to Great American Beer Festival week in Denver -- which is, for some, the most wonderful time of the year. And the presents have already started arriving. But whether you have tickets to the main ... More >>

Colorado beer calendar: Copper Kettle, Star Bar, Hops & Pie have cool times for the summer heat

FacebookCopper Kettle brews.​I'm hitting the highway soon for a little Colorado summer road trip. But before I pack the tent, the beef jerky, the CDs or even the cooler, I'm stashing my copy of The Beer Drinker's Guide to Colorado map (fifth edition!) above the sun visor. This awesome fold-ou ... More >>

Colorado beer calendar: Beer Culture the Movie screens; Breckenridge Brewing turns 21

​Every time I think that there can't possibly be enough room in the market for another brewery in Denver, I step into a packed tap room and I change my mind. In fact, it's so difficult to get a seat sometimes at places like Great Divide and Dry Dock, that both places could probably double in s ... More >>

Colorado beer calendar: Get funky at Freshcraft and get patriotic at Great Divide

Aaron ThackerayGreat Divide's parties always rock.​Tickets for the Great American Beer Festival's thirtieth edition go on sale to the general public tomorrow, and even at $60 a pop, the biggest beer fest in the world is still worth the price of admission. Although most things will be the same ... More >>

Hop Vivant, Vine Street's championship beer, will put you in a hoppy daze

​There is no shortage of hop bombs when it comes to Colorado beers. Whether it's Oskar Blues G'Knight, Dry Dock Double IPA, Odell Myrcenary, Great Divide Hercules, Avery Maharaja, or Ska Modus Hoperendi, hop heads can get their fill of beers brewed with huge quantites of that magical, sweetly ... More >>

Slim Cessna, A. Tom Collins, Serious Moonlight and DJ MU$A top our weekly playlists

​As people who think about, talk about, listen to and make music, the most common question we encounter is, "What are you listening to right now?" Whether you're looking for recommendations, trying to get a feel for our individual sensibilities, or are just curious, we've compiled a list of al ... More >>

SXSW Travelogue: A. Tom Collins discovers that Texans evidently have a thing for the eyes of Coloradans

​ Friday, March 18 Morning: 1000 miles and over eighteen hours in a van with five man children. Our trip from Denver began at 5 a.m. yesterday with packing, grumpiness, excitement. Aaron puked at 7:10, and at 7:20, Aaron and Andy had a tickle fight in the back seat of the van, followed by ot ... More >>

Why do Mexicans use ALL CAPS?

Reader: Suzanne Williams, CO state senator, should have been busted on spot of Texas crash

Williams.​Senator Suzanne Williams's involvement in a Texas crash that killed a woman who was seven-months pregnant continues to be a contentious topic among readers. One commenter speculated that Williams may have received special treatment from the Amarillo police because of her position.

Light Travels Faster calls it a day

Hayley Spain​ Sad news: We've received word that Light Travels Faster has reached its natural conclusion, a lot sooner than many around here would have liked. Those who caught the band at last month's Gathering of the Clouds should count themselves lucky, as that gig unfortunately appears to ... More >>

Alex Maldonado: Dad sues Crist Mortuary for dumping son's body onto ground after funeral

Alex Maldonado.​The death of a child is a parent's worst nightmare under any circumstance -- but a lawsuit by Philip Maldonado, whose son Alex died this summer, accuses Boulder's Crist Mortuary of compounding the family's agony. The complaint states that mortuary employees dropped Alex's cask ... More >>

Flying Dog Brewery taps back into Denver

Jim Caruso and George Stranahan.​ It took a few laps around the block and a sprint through the rain to find the Flying Dog Brewing Company's new Denver tap room, at 2330 Broadway, but it was worth the hunt. The tiny but brightly-painted space (it's on the east side of an apartment/office bui ... More >>

Light Travels Faster began thriving the minute the band moved to Denver

Soul Men

The music at Sarah Palin's Jefferson County Fairgrounds speech

Q&A with David Marion from Fear Before the March of Flames

In Stitches

Criticizing the Critic

Criticizing the Critic

Q&A With Cody Canada of Cross Canadian Ragweed

Light Travels Faster

Larimer Lounge

Ex-Rocky Mountain News Reporter Runs For Office

Light Travels Faster

After the Black of Baca County

Sandwich Time

Adam Mali’s peachy-keen idea.

Big Trouble

Gary Haney was living the high life until meth took him down.

Ones, Twos and Threes

Sliding Door Gallery

Bling Twango

Big & Rich deliver country music without prejudice.

Horse Play

Funny Cide, the people's choice, embodies every railbird's dream.

Power Outage

Xcel's Denver call center might close. Are labor relations to blame?

Oil Wells

Jeffrey Keith unveils his latest abstracts at the Rule Gallery.

Zine but Not Heard

Few publications are growing in the Denver underground.

The Hot Zone

Kaiser-Hill says it can do the job by 2006. But will Rocky Flats ever come clean?

Bombs Away!

The government built a nuclear-weapons plant sixteen miles upwind of Denver. But decades passed before the public got wind of what was happening there.

Give Him the Bird

What do Bill Owens and Bert from Sesame Street have in common? Pigeons.

Breast Reduction

Gary Haney's conscience told him to take the boobs out of his magazine.

The Final Exam

Rape is the most personal of crimes—and so Boulder’s sexual-assault nurses took criticism of their program very personally.

Blowing Smoke

Is Public Service coming clean about its clean-air campaign?

Socket to Me

If Colorado deregulates electricity, Californians will be first in line for the state's cheap power--and Coloradans may get fried.

Power Play

While Public Service execs enjoy a soft landing, employees face a hard future.

The Deal's Disputed Line Item

Winging It

Hype makes right at the center for the new west.

CELLS PITCH

FARMERS IN SPRINGFIELD REVOLT AGAINST A PRIVATE-PRISON PLAN.