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Aquatic Animals

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2012

    DIY feminist science writer Margaret Wertheim discusses the Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef

    Science writer Margaret Wertheim specializes in weighty topics, but she has a light touch when writing about science and mathematics. The author of several books dealing with theoretical physics within a cultural context as well as articles for numerous publications -- everything from the New York T ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2012

    Videos: John Elway's top ten commercials

    Neptune Krill Oil sounds like something you'd find on page 117 of the Kama Sutra. Still, it doesn't actually matter if you're unfamiliar with the dietary supplement -- because John Elway will tell you about it. The Broncos legend turned football operations veep has put his John Elway on a years-long ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2012

    Get your geese at the High Plains Snow Goose Festival in Lamar

    The lesser snow goose is an undependable fellow: Cruising the Western Central Flyway during migration, it makes one of its stopovers at John Martin Reservoir near Lamar. But, hey, some days the pickings might look better at Horse Creek Reservoir outside of Las Animas. And sometimes, when the weather ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2011

    Reader: Beware the golden egg of Denver's goose harrassers

    Geese seem to have become as common in Denver's winter months as Suburus with ski racks, a situation that Westword's Kelsey Whipple decided to look into. What she found is that there is a population of Canada geese here who have never even been to their namesake country. They don't migrate and are i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 27, 2011

    What's good for the (Canada) goose isn't really good for Denver

    An adult goose releases approximately one pound of poop every single day. This fact stays relatively unnoticed until wintertime, when thousands of Canada geese -- seemingly overnight -- come out of the woodwork and waddle onto your property and into your parking spot. Why are there so many? The trut ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2011

    Eric Uffelmann, exec chef of Marlowe's, rips on Denver Restaurant Week and revels in foie gras

    Lori Midson​ Eric Uffelmann Marlowe's 501 16th Street 303-595-3700 www.marlowesdenver.com This is part one of my interview with Eric Uffelmann, exec chef of Marlowe's. Check back here tomorrow for part two of our chat and chew. It's just past 4 p.m. on a Monday, and the bar at Marlowe's, t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2011

    Five top Colorado birding spots from Mark Obmascik, author of The Big Year

    ​The Big Year, based on a 2004 book by former Denver Post writer Mark Obmascik and starring Steve Martin, Jack Black, Owen Wilson, Rashida Jones, Anjelica Huston and Rashida Jones, among others, debuts in theaters nationwide today. But before The Big Year got the big Hollywood treatment, it w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2011

    Cooking with Pete and Barb Marczyk: Lobster roll

    ​Pete Marczyk and Barbara Macfarlane do not leave their work behind when they leave Marczyk Fine Foods and head for their great old Denver house with the big, new kitchen. They often bring some of their market's choicest ingredients home with them, and cook up a feast. Ge used to it, says Ba ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2011

    Shark-chicken and the good and bad of alley fence art: Kenny Be's Yard Arteology

    Congress Park: Mechanical crow mobile suspended above an ocean mural.​ Privacy fencing provides yard artists a secure area in which to create and display yard art projects that might not otherwise be ready for a full front-yard showing. As the photograph above demonstrates, alley fencing is an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2011

    Top five shark-related pop-culture references, in honor of Megalodon

    ​A new exhibit is opening at the Wildlife Experience Museum tomorrow: Megalodon: The Largest Shark That Ever Lived. The exhibit includes a life-sized replica of megalodon (pictured above) and comparisons with other sharks we think of as scary-big, like the Great White, along with explanations ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 26, 2011

    Shark Attack

    ​A new exhibit is opening at the Wildlife Experience Museum tomorrow: Megalodon: The Largest Shark That Ever Lived. The exhibit includes a life-sized replica of megalodon (pictured above) and comparisons with other sharks we think of as scary-big, like the Great White, along with explanations ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2011

    Our Commercial Culture: Outcasts Unite

    Guided by ducks​What kind of idiot eats a sandwich while standing over an open casket? A very special kind, and you just gotta love him. This advert for a good cause requires just as much creativity as advertising for a bad cause. Maybe even more. It takes the ability to pull at the heart stri ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 3, 2011

    Show Us Your Long Johns!

    Guided by ducks​What kind of idiot eats a sandwich while standing over an open casket? A very special kind, and you just gotta love him. This advert for a good cause requires just as much creativity as advertising for a bad cause. Maybe even more. It takes the ability to pull at the heart stri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2010

    Absurdist Interview: Artist/Photographer Sara Ford

    Photo: Jessica Sain​Colorado native artist and photographer Sara Ford started painting in college because she didn't want to take the color theory class everyone hated. Needless to say, she got really good at it. Through photography, she has worked with clients such as 303 Magazine, Denver Mag ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2010

    Wyland's Ocean Blue celebrates its grand opening

    J. WohletzWyland cutting the ribbon​ The grand opening of Wyland's Ocean Blue restaurant/gallery in the Shops at Northfield Stapleton appeared to be a swimming success, with artist Wyland (he doesn't use his first name, Robert) himself in attendance last night, cutting the ribbon, plugging h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2010

    Denver Zoo mourns Frosty the bear, welcomes sea lion pup

    Dave Parsons/Denver ZooNaptime!​ Call it the circle of life. This week, the Denver Zoo mourned the loss of a polar bear named Frosty and celebrated the birth of an effing adorable baby sea lion named... well, nothing yet. The baby is a very talkative girl whose vocalizations, as heard in the ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 24, 2010

    Animal Dreams

    Dave Parsons/Denver ZooNaptime!​ Call it the circle of life. This week, the Denver Zoo mourned the loss of a polar bear named Frosty and celebrated the birth of an effing adorable baby sea lion named... well, nothing yet. The baby is a very talkative girl whose vocalizations, as heard in the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2010

    Ken Salazar still in hot seat -- but with lots of company

    "Bring me the head of Tony Heyward." ​Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar is still getting roundly pummeled in the press over the Obama administration's response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster. But there's increasing evidence that the administration is trying to shift the falte ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2010

    Penguin's revenge: UCD students' animated short drawing studio buzz

    The Penguin as seen in "A Complex Villainelle."​Most student film projects never get a screening outside the classroom. But the University of Colorado at Denver's Digital Animation Center takes a different approach. Instead of sending budding Scorseses out to make two dozen individual and utte ... More >>

  • Music

    April 29, 2010

    Common Loon

    Wednesday, May 5, hi-dive, 720-570-4500.

  • Calendar

    March 18, 2010

    Ice, Ice, Baby

    Wednesday, May 5, hi-dive, 720-570-4500.

  • Calendar

    February 18, 2010

    Cove Story

    Wednesday, May 5, hi-dive, 720-570-4500.

  • Blogs

    November 13, 2009

    Can you think of something to call this penguin (aside from dorky)?

    Won't somebody flip this bird a name?​Know a kid age twelve and under in need of some holiday cash? Then encourage him or her to come up with a name for this penguin, the mascot of the 35th annual Parade of Lights, scheduled for December 4 and 5. The winner will receive, among other things, a ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 6, 2009

    Human/Nature

    Poet Anne Waldman pushes at boundaries in Manatee/Humanity.

  • Calendar

    May 15, 2008

    Inky Giants

    Learn all about the giant squid in Parker.

  • Calendar

    July 19, 2007

    Chill Out

    Learn all about the giant squid in Parker.

  • Dining

    December 21, 2006

    Palace Arms

    Nothing succeeds like excess.

  • Calendar

    July 6, 2006

    Swim With the Fishes

    Nothing succeeds like excess.

  • Dining

    June 22, 2006

    Survival of the Fittest

    How the right cuisines could conquer the world.

  • Calendar

    February 16, 2006

    Life's a Ball

    Elegance and class reign at this Mardi Gras fete.

  • Dining

    September 15, 2005

    Drunk of the Week

    Paramount Cafe

  • Dining

    September 16, 2004

    Drink of the Week

    Blue Footed Booby

  • Dining

    September 20, 2001

    Check, Please!

    Readers give our food critic something to chew on.

  • Dining

    August 16, 2001

    Check, Please!

    Readers give our food critic something to chew on.

  • Dining

    August 21, 1997

    Mouthing Off

    Readers give our food critic something to chew on.

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