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St. Baldrick's charity event at Fado today

Fado Irish Pub, 1735 19th Street, is hosting a charity event today as part of Paddython 2012, a week-long celebration of all things Irish; a bottomless Stella happy hour and music from That Eighties Band are just part of the festivities. Today Fado will donate 20 percent of all food sales to the St. ... More >>

Take a Powder

Fado Irish Pub, 1735 19th Street, is hosting a charity event today as part of Paddython 2012, a week-long celebration of all things Irish; a bottomless Stella happy hour and music from That Eighties Band are just part of the festivities. Today Fado will donate 20 percent of all food sales to the St. ... More >>

Vine Street hosts an event to raise money for kids with cancer

Vine Street Pub, along with a group of fifth-graders from Bromwell Elementary School, will host a fundraiser on Sunday night for the Raymond Wentz Foundation, which helps raise money for parents whose children have cancer and are dealing with the medical costs associated with chemotherapy. To get p ... More >>

STS9

Friday, January 13 and Saturday, January 14, Fillmore Auditorium, 303-830-8497.

Winning Movember, week 2: Slow and steady is already kicking mustache ass

A faint indication of the badassness to come.​October 4, 1957: a dark day for America, the day the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first artificial satellite ever to orbit Earth. It was the first milestone of the USA vs. USSR space race, and we totally blew it. But we didn't let it get us d ... More >>

Medical marijuana: Is cancer patient Bob Crouse being prosecuted over paperwork snafu?

Bob Crouse.​Bob Crouse is a longtime Colorado Springs restaurateur -- the eatery Yakibob's is a local staple -- as well as a cancer patient who uses medical marijuana. But he could also become a convicted felon. He currently faces criminal charges related to cultivation and distribution for ex ... More >>

Michael Douglas: Just let the man smoke, for God's sake

Back on the shit?​Every time I go to the doctor's office, it's the same old story: I show up on time for the appointment I've made in advance and then wait for two hours, during which they make sure I'm going to pay them and provide six-month-old gossip magazines for me to read. Then they tell ... More >>

How would the Predator, the Terminator and others have said goodbye to Stan Winston?

​Stan Winston, silver-haired demon and chief architect of nightmares the world over, died in his home in Malibu on this day in 2008, hopefully after transferring his consciousness to an ageless state-of-the-art animatronic he developed in his spare time that continues to work in secret, creati ... More >>

There's a new gay theater in town, and it's getting started with a comedy about nuns

​There's a new gay theater in town, created by Steve Paulding and Preston Britton. We haven't had one since Theatre Group, which at its height served a lively mix of raunchy, campy spoofs and serious gay-themed plays, so this new entry is welcome. But the first show indicates the Presteve Thea ... More >>

Medical marijuana: Longmont City Council moves toward dispensary ban

Longmont moves to ban dispensaries.​Last night, the Longmont City Council held a first reading of an ordinance that would ban medical marijuana centers in the city and restrict medical marijuana patients and primary caregivers. Judging from the 7-0 vote in favor of the ban, dispensary days are ... More >>

Hall of Shame: Westword's worst of the worst from 2010

Longmont moves to ban dispensaries.​Last night, the Longmont City Council held a first reading of an ordinance that would ban medical marijuana centers in the city and restrict medical marijuana patients and primary caregivers. Judging from the 7-0 vote in favor of the ban, dispensary days are ... More >>

House restaurant closes, giving the former Cozy Cottage a new home

Lori Midson​House, which opened in 2009 in the former Gemelli's space at 4363 Tennyson Street has closed, as has the Cozy Cottage, which had spent the last four years residing at 2423 South Downing Street, in a space the size of a rabbit hole -- but there's a twist: the Cozy Cottage, whose la ... More >>

Heather Lopez wanted -- again -- in theft of gift cards from 11-year-old boy with Leukemia

Large photo below.​One way to make sure you get a lot of attention for a robbery: Steal Christmas gift cards from a child with leukemia. That's what Bryant Ruff and Heather Lopez were accused of doing last January, and while Ruff's already been convicted, Lopez has reportedly skipped -- and th ... More >>

Uranium miners in Colorado defend their livelihood in (of all places) The New Yorker

​When a national magazine starts its examination of southwestern Colorado "uranium widows" with a glimpse of a woman drilling for ore while clad only in "sandals, denim shorts, and a bra," I brace myself for the worst -- another condescending article about the state's tragic history on the fro ... More >>

Medical Marijuana Advisory Committee gets rolling minus shadowy patient rep Ken Weaver

Ken Weaver​The most notable part of the first meeting of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment's new Medical Marijuana Advisory Committee, held this morning, wasn't what occurred, but what was missing: Staffers announced that Ken Weaver, the committee's designated patient ad ... More >>

George Karl at the ESPYs wants gov't to match cancer donations: Your move, Mr. Obama

George Karl at the ESPYs.​At last night's ESPY awards, Nuggets coach George Karl won the Jimmy V Award for Perseverance -- and he didn't use his time at the microphone to mumble platitudes about Karl's cancer fight, which kept him off the team's bench for the final (and key) part of last seaso ... More >>

The Benefits of Fine Dining

George Karl at the ESPYs.​At last night's ESPY awards, Nuggets coach George Karl won the Jimmy V Award for Perseverance -- and he didn't use his time at the microphone to mumble platitudes about Karl's cancer fight, which kept him off the team's bench for the final (and key) part of last seaso ... More >>

Jay Marvin on his wife's possible breast cancer and the decision to pass the torch to David Sirota at AM 760

Photo by Michael RobertsJay Marvin at home in June, before his epic surgery.​Earlier today, Jay Marvin appeared on the AM 760 program he used to host with David Sirota, who's been named his permanent replacement. And those who missed hearing it may not get another chance to catch him on the ou ... More >>

Orbit Service to release new track on cancer benefit comp

​Orbit Service, the experimental/psychedelic pop outfit of Randall Frazier, will be appearing on the upcoming compilation MOM. The disc is a benefit for Beta-lactam Rings Records owner Chris McBeth's mother, who has cancer. "[McBeth and I] have become very close friends over the past few year ... More >>

Elana Rogers teaches us to stop and smell the roses

Well wishes are due to Elana Rogers, who was recently diagnosed with IDC breast cancer. Last month, the young singer-songwriter underwent a double masectomy and had four of her sentinel lymph nodes removed. Fortunately, the surgery went well and Rogers now appears to be on her way to making a full r ... More >>

Do good when Dos Casas returns to Lola

I'm leaving for a girls weekend in New Orleans on April 30 and hoping to make it out of the Big Easy with no permanent tattoos and both kidneys, so I was trying to stay off the cocktail circuit for the rest of April. But there's that COBG contest I'm judging on April 26, and the April 29 Dos Casas e ... More >>

Pink Hooter cupcake for a cause

The Candy Girls were systematically working our way around the chocolate shops, bakeries and specialty candy makers of Denver when we stumbled upon Big Fat Cupcake, 129 Adams Street. While the uniquely flavored, award-winning cupcakes drew us in, it was shop-owner Kathleen Nevin's mission to donat ... More >>

Dog Days

Project RUFFway lends a helping paw.

Lance Armstrong's Colorado girlfriend is pregnant...without sperm doping!

Is there anything Lance Armstrong can't do? Not only has the 37-year-old cyclist won the Tour de France a gazillion times, but now CNN is reporting that his steady girlfriend, Anna Hansen, is pregnant without the involvement of medical fertility procedures. Quite a feat for the testicular cancer s ... More >>

If David Isberg can beat cancer, why not the prison bureaucracy?

Medical treatment for prisoners and halfway-house residents can be tough to swallow. Health care inside prison walls can be downright criminal, a situation we’ve chronicled in some detail in our Crime and Punishment Archive. But the care can actually be worse for parolees, since the Colorado ... More >>

A Lotta Latte Art

Medical treatment for prisoners and halfway-house residents can be tough to swallow. Health care inside prison walls can be downright criminal, a situation we’ve chronicled in some detail in our Crime and Punishment Archive. But the care can actually be worse for parolees, since the Colorado ... More >>

Lola Love

Medical treatment for prisoners and halfway-house residents can be tough to swallow. Health care inside prison walls can be downright criminal, a situation we’ve chronicled in some detail in our Crime and Punishment Archive. But the care can actually be worse for parolees, since the Colorado ... More >>

Channel 12's Aaron Harber Lands Interview With General David Petraeus

Medical treatment for prisoners and halfway-house residents can be tough to swallow. Health care inside prison walls can be downright criminal, a situation we’ve chronicled in some detail in our Crime and Punishment Archive. But the care can actually be worse for parolees, since the Colorado ... More >>

Kids Connection

Medical treatment for prisoners and halfway-house residents can be tough to swallow. Health care inside prison walls can be downright criminal, a situation we’ve chronicled in some detail in our Crime and Punishment Archive. But the care can actually be worse for parolees, since the Colorado ... More >>

' Til Death Do Us Part

Kirk Rundstrom refuses to go gently into that good night.

Aztec Sol

Hit us with your best shot.

Not So Bon Mots

Shadowlands plods through a potentially intriguing love.

Alternating Currents

Hybrid styles fill the Mizel Center, and pure abstraction stars at Havu.

Best Photography Solo -- Deceased Artist

Ron Wohlauer memorial

Uplifting Charity

Bras for the Cause raises money for breast cancer

Giant Steps

The Global Walker returns to Colorado

Late Love

Louie and Ophelia grapples with mature commitment

Not Doggin' It

Jonrowe forges ahead in Danskin Triathalon

Unflinching

Nomad Theatre's Wit illuminates the dying process.

Best Item Confiscated at DIA

Deer antlers

Best Way to Thine Own Scent Be True

Eleuria

The Case for Safety

Is this a case of an industry policing itself?

Firing Line

Former Visotcky employees sound off.

Night & Day

October 22 - 28. 1998

Cracking the Case

A local pathologist takes time out from real-life cancer-fighting to do some fictional crime-fighting.

HIT PICK

A local pathologist takes time out from real-life cancer-fighting to do some fictional crime-fighting.

GETTING TESTY

A DISPUTE OVER AIDS TESTING ENSNARES A HEALTH OFFICIAL FROM COLORADO SPRINGS.

Off Limits

Hacks at work