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Video: How to understand what prairie dogs are saying -- and if they think you're fat

This week's cover story, "The Dogs of War," examines increased efforts to eradicate prairie dogs around the metro Denver area -- particularly in Stapleton, where developers and park managers have found it easier to poison the pesky rodents than relocate them. That's stirred up outrage from advocacy ... More >>

Film incentives could bring Hallmark Channel show set in rural town to Colorado

A Hallmark Channel television series about a young woman in 1910 who takes a teaching job in a rural coal-mining town could be shot in Colorado if the state legislature sets aside more money during the next fiscal year for the state's popular film incentives program. Last week, the Colorado Economi ... More >>

Hollywood, Colorado! Three feature films to be made here thanks to new incentives

Last year, lawmakers approved new film incentives to lure Hollywood back to Colorado after movie-makers had largely abandoned the state for cheaper locales. Seven months into the program, nearly $4 million in rebates and other perks have been approved. The lineup of movies that will say "Action!" in ... More >>

A new bill would put craft beers in grocery stores

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GZA and Killer Mike at Summit, 9/22/12

GZA @ SUMMIT MUSIC HALL | 9/22/12 "I don't have a hypeman, so you're my hype man," Killer Mike tells the crowd two songs into his set. "So get hype, motherfuckers." The crowd is more than happy to comply. Opening with the first three songs from his new album, the emcee emits a raw energy on stage t ... More >>

Galaxy's Universe

Ed Edmunds on electric chairs, haunted houses and the Travel Channel's Making Monsters

​Chances are you've seen -- and screamed at -- some of Ed Edmunds' work, whether you realize it or not. The artist is responsible for creating the creepy animatronics in haunted houses all over Colorado, as well as for making custom projects like set pieces for Alice Cooper. Edmunds' Greeley c ... More >>

How to get my job: Reptile Caretaker

​It takes a certain type of person to step into an alligator pen or to play with a giant snake, but Jay Young of Colorado Gators Reptile Park in Mosca does just that, every single day. We caught up with him to see if our fantasies of living in reptile utopia -- riding giant tortoises and wrest ... More >>

Prairie dogs: Top 5 relocation destinations for critters living on future path of RTD's DIA train

Flickr​ The prairie dogs of Peña Boulevard are getting evicted. As the Denver Post reports today, RTD is attempting to relocate hundreds of critters living along the route of the future train to Denver International Airport. If they can't find new homes, another option is to kill them and ma ... More >>

Can't make Mr. Bo Mangles' birthday? Catch Rocky Mountain Gators on Animal Planet

It's impossible to say what the weirdest part about this photo is. ​The only albino alligator in Colorado -- and it's pretty weird that there is even one -- celebrates his birthday tomorrow. Well, it's not really his birthday, but it is the first anniversary of his arrival at the Colorado Gato ... More >>

Super Bowl XLV: Ten bowls to counter-program

Lots of puns involved, unfortunately​The Super Bowl is the biggest TV event of the year. And not just for the actual game -- it affords the host station a massive audience for the post-game show (Glee this year) and other stations the opportunity of 106 million potential channel surfers in Ame ... More >>

Pit bull proponents take a bite out of City Hall today over service-dog ban and more

​City Hall will be going to the dogs today, with pit bull protesters converging on the building at 14th and Bannock streets at 11 a.m. today -- if the protesters can get around all that Big Air scaffolding. But there's already plenty of hot air in the dog-eat-dog world of pit bulls.

Pit bull activists bring Pit Fest to City Hall

After the Gabby Giffords shooting, Councilman Charlie Brown declines a TV interview about pit bulls

Fort Collins badass Jim Davidson to appear on I Shouldn't be Alive tonight

Somehow did not die.​Let's say you're trying to get to the top of Mount Rainier in Washington State. You're walking along with your buddy across a snow bridge, and all of a sudden it collapses, plunging you into an 80-foot-deep crevasse, causing an avalanche and killing your buddy, leaving you ... More >>

What week is it? A breakdown of obscure holidays, January 10-16

Let's get this poppin'​Pickings tend to run pretty slim in January, as far as holidays go -- in fact, our extensive research of googling a couple of things revealed exactly zero legit, nationally sanctioned holidays this week. Maybe what with Christmas and New Year's and Hanukkah and Kwanzaa a ... More >>

Jon Stewart in HD?: See complete list of Comcast's 70-plus new high-def channels

That arched eyebrow will pop!​After watching HD television for a while, viewers tend to consider standard channels to be hopelessly fuzzy. It's like looking at the world through the bottom of a Coke bottle. So local Comcast spokewoman Cindy Parsons has good news for every subscriber who wishe ... More >>

Steven Clay Romero indicted for dragging Buddy the Dog to death

Steven Clay Romero won't be getting his own show on Animal Planet.​Some individuals accused of crimes wind up generating a significant amount of sympathy -- but that's unlikely to happen for Steven Clay Romero -- because of what he's accused of doing to a dog named Buddy. Late yesterday, a gr ... More >>

At CSU, surrogate motherhood enters the stable

Photo courtesy of Colorado State UniversityAhhhhhh... so pretty... Move over, Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker. Surrogate motherhood isn't just for celebrities anymore. Or humans. Or the living. Last May, a tornado cut a swath through much of Windsor, Colorado, and among its victims was ... More >>

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From dirty jokes and soldiers to penguins and gays, we made our preferences known.

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Pet Project

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