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December 22, 2011
Michael Buble's Christmas raises the bar for all holiday tracks, plus a breakdown of the charts
It's going to be a holly, jolly Christmas with Michael Buble's new collection of holiday classics.Michael Buble put out a killer Christmas record, and it could not have come at a better time. While the charts are currently flooded with dance-pop beats, synthesizers-laden hooks and auto-tuned ... More >>
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December 22, 2011
Winter Park Wonderland
It's going to be a holly, jolly Christmas with Michael Buble's new collection of holiday classics.Michael Buble put out a killer Christmas record, and it could not have come at a better time. While the charts are currently flooded with dance-pop beats, synthesizers-laden hooks and auto-tuned ... More >>
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December 21, 2011
Ask William Breathes, Westword marijuana critic, anything until 4:20 today
William BreathesThe holidays are upon us here at Westword. Editors have begun leaving for vacation, and the gaggle of unsupervised reporters have already begun dipping into the egg nog, singing dirty Christmas carols and wrapping up interns like presents.
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December 20, 2011
Have yourself a Merry dubstep Christmas
Every holiday season, almost as sure as you can count on Christmas falling on December 25, you can depend on some obsessive, Griswold-wannabe somewhere crafting a lighting display that makes all the previous standouts from past years seem like also-rans. You know the type -- the kind that lit ... More >>
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December 9, 2011
Top 10 White Elephant Christmas gifts of 2011
Big pics below.Last December, our friends at Arc Thrift Stores of Colorado shared their choices for the top White Elephant Christmas gifts of 2010 -- and they've wisely continued the tradition this year. Page down to check out their must-have countdown picks for the season, featuring Arc's p ... More >>
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November 11, 2011
Dear Mall Santa: Get here already. And bring that guy who smelled like Christmas with you.
Quit hiding the Ice Palace. Gimme Santa.The Ice Palace will open its doors at the Cherry Creek Shopping Center at 5 p.m. today -- which means that Santa Claus will finally be in the house. Er, the mall. The Ice Palace -- a fancy name for a faux icicle-covered indoor forest -- will feature six ... More >>
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December 30, 2010
And a very merry Kloewer Christmas to all!
I've been making the pilgrimage every Christmastime to the Kloewer family home on Elati Street, just north of Belleview, for at least the last eleven years, and this is why: Being Jewish and all, it doesn't really feel like Christmas until I've immersed myself in some sort of urban electric m ... More >>
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December 29, 2010
Guess where I'm eating?
Lori MidsonChristmas Day at my house is completely uneventful, unlike Christmas Eve, which is a day-long marathon of gluttony and wine- and champagne-filled debauchery. We wake up late on Christmas morning and pad around in our sloppy pajamas, eventually surrendering to our hangovers late in ... More >>
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December 27, 2010
Commerce City is dead end for dueling decorations: Kenny Be's Yard Arteology
click image to enlarge The photograph above features a decorative dead end in the Reunion subdivision of Commerce City. The center of the picture looks out into the future of planned suburban expansion. Until then, the nearly identical homes face off in a duel of nearly identical holiday deco ... More >>
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December 23, 2010
Treetops Glisten
click image to enlarge The photograph above features a decorative dead end in the Reunion subdivision of Commerce City. The center of the picture looks out into the future of planned suburban expansion. Until then, the nearly identical homes face off in a duel of nearly identical holiday deco ... More >>
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December 22, 2010
Blue Christmas: Craigslist's most depressing missed connections
For the lonely, there's probably not much lonelier than Christmas, that time of year when we're supposed to be basking in the warmth of family and loved ones, but instead we're watching It's a Wonderful Life for the third time and eating TV dinners seasoned with the bitter salt of our own tea ... More >>
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December 22, 2010
Return policy scenarios for after-Christmas shoppers: Kenny Be's Worst-Case Scenario
Time for an Exchange. There is only one thing people love more than Christmas gift shopping, and that is after- Christmas gift-return shopping! As seen below, It's also the one time of the year that Josh McDaniels and Carmelo Anthony can return what they've been handed, and ask for exactly ... More >>
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December 22, 2010
A Talulah Jones 24 Days of Christmas: Days Twenty-Two, Twenty-Three and Twenty-Four
We're all hearing a lot of talk this holiday season about shopping local and what it means to a community. But Talulah Jones shop owner Robin Lohre is doing more than that: Beginning December 1, Lohre will host a reception showcasing a different local artisan every night through Christmas Eve ... More >>
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December 22, 2010
Festivus and ten more made-up holidays for the Holidays
Tomorrow, Rick Gold will host a traditional Fesitvus celebration at the Shag Lounge. There, you can commune around the Festivus pole, air some grievances and perform some feats of strength. There will also be a ($5 maximum) gift exchange. In honor of disillusionment everywhere, we present 10 ... More >>
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December 17, 2010
10 things to do for $10 this weekend, December 17-19, 2010
Home for the holidays!As estranged family members start trickling into town this weekend for the holidays, chances are you're looking for something to do to show off this great city. You're probably also trying to do it on the cheap so you can save up for some awesome last minute gifts (or pa ... More >>
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December 16, 2010
Ten non-traditional Christmas records you should listen to this year
Stop! You don't have to!So we're well into the Christmas season, and chances are good you're getting a bit tired of Nat King Cole and Bing Crosby and the Time-Life Christmas collection in general. What had been a charming return to familiar holiday standards -- and perhaps the only reason to ... More >>
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December 15, 2010
The Christmas movie selection on Netflix Instant Streaming is terrible
Yep, that exists.It's 2010. We demand a solution to our seasonal movie needs that doesn't require leaving the house. Netflix Instant Streaming is our usual go-to in these sorts of occasions, but holy crap, have they dropped the ball on this one. There is no convenient way to browse what's ou ... More >>
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December 10, 2010
10 things to do for $10 this weekend, December 10-12, 2010
Hamilton was once quoted as saying, "I can last all night."Sure, you still need to find a Christmas present or holiday gift for your dad that isn't somehow related to golf, but maybe if you hit up some awesome DJ nights, the Candy Cane Festival or any other event this weekend you'll have a cr ... More >>
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December 10, 2010
The Ratcracker and ten other sad endings to Christmas stories
Everyone knows The Nutcracker, but few people know the story -- and that's for a good reason: It's is so slight, it's almost incoherent. Yeah, there's a pseudo-plot in the first act about a battle with a Rat King or something, but that's all wrapped up by the second act, which is devoted pret ... More >>
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December 8, 2010
Denver Nativity Scene: What grinch stole this Christmas mural?
Denver's holiday display wasn't always such an orgy of bad taste. Back in 1935, just three years after the Denver City and County Building was completed, muralist Louise Emerson Ronnebeck created a 76-foot-long Nativity painting for its pediment -- a painting that has since gone missing. What ... More >>
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December 8, 2010
Top 10 Booze-Fueled Holiday Songs
It's a holiday tradition no less practiced than trimming trees and visting family. We're speaking, of course, of drinking. And while "Frosty The Snowman" works just fine for opening presents with junior, kids songs start to sound a little creepy once you go in for thirds on the 'nog. We, of c ... More >>
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December 8, 2010
Top five cookies to show up your crazy friends at their cookie-swap party
A Flickr PhotoDid you use conventional flour in those? That's so 2006The holidays bring out the crazy in multi-tasking moms. As the seasons turn and after all the "My kid didn't fail third grade English" bumper stickers have been purchased, they turn their attention to cookie-exchange parties ... More >>
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November 25, 2010
Reality Elves
A Flickr PhotoDid you use conventional flour in those? That's so 2006The holidays bring out the crazy in multi-tasking moms. As the seasons turn and after all the "My kid didn't fail third grade English" bumper stickers have been purchased, they turn their attention to cookie-exchange parties ... More >>
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January 26, 2010
Wake-Up Call: Baby Jesus says goodbye
Last night, for the first time in eight weeks, the garish holiday lighting of the Denver City and County Building was not my night-light. That's because the city had finally flicked the switch, turning off the display at City Hall and packing up everything on the steps: Rudolph and his fellow ... More >>
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January 5, 2010
Kenny Be's Yard Arteology: Unorthodox holiday traditions on the 12th day of Christmas
The study of neighbors through their holiday decorations... click image to enlarge January 5 is considered the last of the twelve days of Christmas. It is the time for the family living in the home pictured above, to reflect upon their unorthodox traditions in preparation for celebrating Epi ... More >>
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January 4, 2010
Kenny Be's Yard Arteology: Little baby Jesus asleep in the... hey!
The study of neighbors through their holiday decorations... click image to enlarge Of the twelve days of Christmas, today is devoted to the eleven pipers piping. Lest we forget, they are tooting for the birth of the little baby Jesus. The historical account of elbeejay's birth, revealed in ... More >>
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December 24, 2009
Xmas Marks the Spot
The study of neighbors through their holiday decorations... click image to enlarge Of the twelve days of Christmas, today is devoted to the eleven pipers piping. Lest we forget, they are tooting for the birth of the little baby Jesus. The historical account of elbeejay's birth, revealed in ... More >>
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December 23, 2009
Dialed In: This week's local music radio playlists
Here what the area's local-centric specialty radio shows were spinning this week. We're currently tracking the playlists a number of different shows, including Radio 1190's Local Shakedown, KTCL's Locals Only*, 99.5 the Mountain's Homegrown Show*, the Colorado Sound, which originates at KRFC ... More >>
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December 23, 2009
Feast of the seven fishes at Oceanaire
Italians know how to do a lot of things right. They make sexy cars, damn good wine and great cheeses. Most important, they know how to celebrate Christmas Eve. On the night referred to as "the vigil" or La Vigilia, Italian-American families gorge themselves on seven-course seafood feasts. I ... More >>
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December 9, 2009
Heavy Rotation, our top spins for the week of December 7, 2009
As music critics -- and people who generally think about, talk about, listen to and make music -- the most common question we get asked (and ask each other, for that matter) is, "What are you listening to right now?" The pervasiveness of this query is precisely what inspired Heavy Rotation. For t ... More >>
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December 7, 2009
Top five most overplayed Christmas songs in stores
"Do I irritate you?"Worry over the outcome of a mail-in vote on a new contract isn't the only thing stressing out King Soopers workers this season, as I learned during a shopping trip yesterday. When "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" came streaming over the speakers, our teenage s ... More >>
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December 3, 2009
Wake-Up Call: City Hall's Santa knows when you've been bad or good
"Oh, we know you were here," a city official told me Monday, after I'd returned from my undercover mission to inventory the shlock and awe that is Denver's annual holiday display on the steps of City Hall -- and then explain why, exactly, it's legal to have a Nativity scene at a a public faci ... More >>
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November 26, 2009
Parental Advisory
"Oh, we know you were here," a city official told me Monday, after I'd returned from my undercover mission to inventory the shlock and awe that is Denver's annual holiday display on the steps of City Hall -- and then explain why, exactly, it's legal to have a Nativity scene at a a public faci ... More >>
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November 19, 2009
Tweetup for tots tonight
The holiday season is in full swing, and even Denver's monthly Tweetup is getting in on the action. The November meeting of the Twitter faithful is pairing up with the Denver Santa Claus Shop for the latest event, to help ensure a merry Christmas (or other culturally appropriate winter holi ... More >>
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December 25, 2008
Sing for Your Dinner
HANU-Karaoke takes Hanukkah songs to the stage.
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December 25, 2008
A Very Scantily Clad Holiday
3 Kings brings back a Christmas favorite.
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December 4, 2008
Live From Mars
The Flaming Lips’ Christmas film hits the Boulder Theater screen.
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November 20, 2008
Skate Or Die
Strap on your ice skates and start enjoying the holidays.
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November 20, 2008
Sweet Memories
The Christmas memories of Dylan Thomas take the University Theatre stage.
Dining
December 20, 2007
Tambien
This restaurant’s time has come.
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December 20, 2007
Our Savior
Consider the alternative at 3 Kings.
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December 20, 2007
Last Rites
The art of last-minute shopping.
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December 6, 2007
Talking Shop
Our holiday boutique watch.
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November 29, 2007
Winter Wonderland
Jump-start the Christmas spirit at WinterWorld.
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December 14, 2006
Ten Days 'Til Christmas
Jump-start the Christmas spirit at WinterWorld.
Dining
December 23, 2004
Drink of the Week
Bourbon "Spiked" Hot Chocolate
Dining
December 9, 2004
Drunk of the Week
California Pizza Kitchen
Dining
December 25, 2003
Bite Me
My Letter to Santa
Dining
December 25, 2003
Drunk of the Week
Funky Buddha
Dining
December 25, 2003
Season's Eatings
Cooking up the perfect holiday party to cap off the year.
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