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A bad night in Boulder at Tahona

Blinded by Science

Boulder throws another Barbie on the fire.

Backwash

Boulder throws another Barbie on the fire.

Colorado's fast-expanding, fast-improving, fast-casual world

A few days ago, I was a food nomad. Mindlessly searching for sustenance, I wandered along Colorado Boulevard looking for something cheap yet nourishing -- with nourishing almost immediately eliminating most fast-food joints. But not all. The spots that really piqued my 'buds were pla ... More >>

Best Thick Pizza

A few days ago, I was a food nomad. Mindlessly searching for sustenance, I wandered along Colorado Boulevard looking for something cheap yet nourishing -- with nourishing almost immediately eliminating most fast-food joints. But not all. The spots that really piqued my 'buds were pla ... More >>

Buffs Taken Aback

A few days ago, I was a food nomad. Mindlessly searching for sustenance, I wandered along Colorado Boulevard looking for something cheap yet nourishing -- with nourishing almost immediately eliminating most fast-food joints. But not all. The spots that really piqued my 'buds were pla ... More >>

Finally, proof that Boulderites weren't always vegetarians

Glenn Asakawa, University of Colorado.The last steak knives ever to be used in Boulder. And you thought those arrowhead-like rocks you found in your flowerbed were cool. As several media outlets have been reporting, a cache of ancient tools, including knives and axes, has been discovered in a Bould ... More >>

Top Chef Hosea Rosenberg spreads the wealth

A few weeks back, shortly after it was announced that Boulder chef Hosea Rosenberg had taken home the big prize and won this year's Top Chef prize on the Bravo reality show of the same name, Rosenberg mentioned in passing that he was already working with a local artisanal foods company, but wouldn't ... More >>

Spaced Out

A few weeks back, shortly after it was announced that Boulder chef Hosea Rosenberg had taken home the big prize and won this year's Top Chef prize on the Bravo reality show of the same name, Rosenberg mentioned in passing that he was already working with a local artisanal foods company, but wouldn't ... More >>

Beauty and the Bestiality

Quit horsing around, Bob Beauprez!

When Country Wasn't Cool

Dusty Drapes and the Dusters uncover Boulder's country-music past.

Sweet Lunacy

The history of Boulder’s music scene plays out in a new documentary.

The Beats Go On

How a kid from Boulder became an eyewitness to the passing of an era.

Justice, Boulder Style

The county will soon have its first new DA in 28 years. But in order for justice to be done, former cop Steve Thomas thinks the office needs a complete overhaul.

Scratch It Up

The steel wheels keep turning in the DMC turntable battles.

Please Release Me

The funk, the punk and the drunk in a roundup of local recordings.

The Tab, Please

Now it can't be told: Without an indictment, what will the tabloids do?

Feedback

Now it can't be told: Without an indictment, what will the tabloids do?

Feedback

Now it can't be told: Without an indictment, what will the tabloids do?

The Spin Crowd

Now it can't be told: Without an indictment, what will the tabloids do?

The Mom Squad

For this group of online sleuths, death makes a holiday

Feedback

For this group of online sleuths, death makes a holiday

Feedback

For this group of online sleuths, death makes a holiday

Warning: Autoerotic Content

For this group of online sleuths, death makes a holiday

Free Comic Book Day comes to Time Warp in Boulder

Free Comic Book Day, which takes place on Saturday, May 2, is a nationwide celebration of the form, which, like other print mediums, is struggling to survive in today's techno-happy world. And Time Warp in Boulder is pulling out all the stops. Daniel Crosier, an event organizer and co-creator of t ... More >>

Made-in-Colorado film Entanglement debuts tonight

An image from the Ed Bowes film "Entanglement." The last major Hollywood movie filmed in Colorado was Eddie Murphy's Imagine That, which prompted yawns from most critics and scored so poorly at the box office that it may well have led to the firing of two top executives at Paramount, the studio tha ... More >>

Spinner dubs Boulder's Biafra one of music's 10 biggest geeks

​AOL's music blog, Spinner.com, posted a list late last week titled "Revenge of the Rock Nerds: The 10 Biggest Geeks in Music." Between such dorky songsmiths as Talking Heads' David Byrne (#10) and Weezer's Rivers Cuomo (#1) lies former Dead Kennedys frontman and longtime Bay Area fixture Jello Bi ... More >>

CU to host Cannabis Health Fair

​Colorado's confusing medical-marijuana laws have led to plenty of puffing on all sides of the issue, with the Cannabis Therapy Institute taking a leading role in pushing for greater availability of what it sees as a healing weed. Last week, the organization joined forces with other medical-ma ... More >>

Mile Highs and Lows: Peace in Medicine Center

​As Colorado's medical-marijuana industry grows, marijuana dispensaries of all types and sizes are proliferating around the state. Some resemble swanky bars or sterile dentist offices; others feel like a dope dealer's college dorm room. To help keep them all straight, Westword will be offering ... More >>

Medical marijuana in Colorado: A directory

Herbal Connections dispensary (photo by Aaron Thackeray)​ Colorado's medical marijuana business is booming -- or, if you prefer, blooming. You can read about the growth in Joel Warner's feature story or The Latest Word's marijuana category, which includes reviews of dispensaries. But if you ju ... More >>

Flobots winter tour dates announced

​All right, break's over, kids. Time for the big takeover. Looks like the Flobots are getting back to work -- and it's about damn time, for chrissakes. While the rest of us slept in intervals as a result of our efforts to diligently invest our time in such noble, productive pursuits as drinking ou ... More >>

Unnamed author tried to steal his own book in Boulder. Let the baseless speculation begin!

Gawker spotted this amusing nugget in a story in the New York Times Book Review on Sunday: At Boulder Book Store in Boulder, Colo., one writer was even busted stealing his own books. Christopher Ohman, who was a manager at the time, said: "I think he felt somewhat entitled to the copies. In some w ... More >>

Coming Home

Gawker spotted this amusing nugget in a story in the New York Times Book Review on Sunday: At Boulder Book Store in Boulder, Colo., one writer was even busted stealing his own books. Christopher Ohman, who was a manager at the time, said: "I think he felt somewhat entitled to the copies. In some w ... More >>

Westboro Baptist Church plans to picket funerals of Boulder plane crash victims

A rainbow purse leads to a plane crash? Really? (Click to enlarge.)​When last we heard from the virulent homophobes at Westboro Baptist Church, they were no-shows at a same-sex-marriage debate at CU that they'd earlier promised to picket. But that doesn't mean they've forgotten about Boulder. ... More >>

Chef and Tell with James Mazzio

Lori Midson​James Mazzio sneaks a look at his ticker. He's doing a dinner for a hundred people in less than three hours and his cooks need him on the line. It's the final hurrah in his three-month stint at Le Chateau, the French restaurant where he's been cooking since last October. "They let ... More >>

Boulder's the happiest city in the USA: How much does weed help?

​Lists about cities! Here in Colorado, we love 'em! Because they're usually flattering -- like the ones that named Denver the 13th best place in the country for singles and in the top ten for raising children. But these achievements are piddling in comparison to Boulder's finish in a new Gall ... More >>

Culinary calendar for the week ahead: Fat Tuesday, brews and tequila

​There's plenty going on this week for Fat Tuesday, but if you don't feel like abstaining for six weeks until Easter, don't fret; we've got all the indulgent food-and-drink events to keep the debauchery going for as long as you please, including Wynkoop's 2010 Beerdrinker of the Year brew. Her ... More >>

Tonight: Fat Tuesday celebrations in the city -- and beyond

​It's Fat Tuesday -- which means the six weeks of abstinence heading into Easter start tomorrow. Make the deprivation worth your while by partying hearty tonight:

Boulder: As memories of JonBenét Ramsey fade, the town is happy at last

​The panhandler outside looked happy. The hostess inside looked happy. The server looked happy. And we were happy, to take a break from our marathon drive across Colorado to look at colleges and sit down in a booth in a Boulder restaurant with a nice view of the Pearl Street Mall and all the h ... More >>

Mile Highs and Lows: The Greenest Green

​As Colorado's medical-marijuana industry grows, marijuana dispensaries of all types and sizes are proliferating around the state. Some resemble swanky bars or sterile dentist offices; others feel like a dope dealer's college dorm room. To help keep them all straight, Westword will be offering ... More >>

Harold "Nicky" Nicholson's murder has been solved -- but Boulder County still has fourteen cold homicide cases that haven't heated up yet

"Some of these cases are even cold by my standards."​This week, the Boulder County Sheriff's Office revealed that they'd closed the 1970 murder of Harold "Nicky" Nicholson. Not that the alleged slayer -- Jake Dwight Jones, Nicholson's father in law -- will be prosecuted for the crime. Investig ... More >>

Siamese Plate on the Go....directly to jail?

​Last year, the son of the owner of Arvada's Alamos Verdes was rated the Worst Boss of 2009, an honor he clinched with "simply repulsive" behavior with young female employees, according to a lawsuit filed by the EEOC in October. But Opas Sinprasong, owner of several Thai restaurants in Boulde ... More >>

Culinary calendar for the week: Oysters, grand openings and more

​We're the first to admit that oysters look like one of the last things you'd want to put in your mouth, but they're pretty darn tasty -- tasty enough that every year, the Jax Fish House locations in both Denver and Boulder celebrate an entire week of oyster-loving. Boulder's Oyster Week kicks ... More >>

A Slow Foods dinner feeds the body, mind and soul

​We're the first to admit that oysters look like one of the last things you'd want to put in your mouth, but they're pretty darn tasty -- tasty enough that every year, the Jax Fish House locations in both Denver and Boulder celebrate an entire week of oyster-loving. Boulder's Oyster Week kicks ... More >>

Freeloader: Download a new track from Pretty Light's forthcoming EP in advance of shows this week in Boulder and Denver

​ Derek Vincent Smith, who performs under the Pretty Lights moniker (due tonight at the Boulder Theater), has announced plans to release three new EPs, the first of which, Making Up a Changing Mind, was just posted to his site last week. With three albums already under his belt that have rec ... More >>

Culinary calendar for the week ahead: Hooves & Hops to Culinary Connectors

A Flickr photo.​It's a week of whiskey, green beer and Italian wines. Here's just a taste of what's ahead on the Denver dining scene: Monday, March 15: Enjoy a five-course pig feast, complemented by handpicked local brews from Odell, at Hooves & Hops, which starts at 7 p.m. tonight at Osteri ... More >>

Fort Collins and Boulder get fatty props in Gallup obesity study

Boulder, Boulder I'm in doubt -- why's your belly sticking out? Too many weed naps?​Coloradans who read today's kill-joy piece in the Denver Post, which says one Coloradan dies every hour from cardiovascular disease, might be in need of a little pick-me-up. And we've got just what the doctor ... More >>

Medical marijuana patient busted for driving under the influence makes TV news: Mason Tvert weighs in on sensationalistic coverage

Raghv Sharma doesn't look stoned to us...​TV-news coverage of medical marijuana often veers toward the sensational -- and a story on Channel 4 serves as a perfect example. Last night, the station reported that two people in Boulder, Raghv Sharma and Benjamin Gennis, were busted for driving un ... More >>