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Colorado Convention Center

  • Blogs

    April 25, 2012

    Reader: If a bear shits in the woods, what would "Mustang" do?

    Sometime this weekend, a prankster added a new element to "I See What You Mean," the sculpture outside the Colorado Convention Center. Suddenly, the Big Blue Bear had taken a big blue dump. And one good turn definitely deserves another.

  • Blogs

    April 24, 2012

    Art attack? The Big Blue Bear needs a Big Blue Bathroom

    Does a bear shit in the woods? How about in the city -- in front of the Colorado Convention Center? The answer, it appears, is "yes."Someone snapped the above picture of an awesome "art attack" that took place sometime on Sunday night or Monday morning underneath the Big Blue Bear -- otherwise known ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2012

    Art of Winter proves there's no business like snow business

    Chill! The Snow Show has filled the Colorado Convention Center with a blizzard of activity, and the white stuff is spilling outside the facility into the 2012 Art of Winter, a snow-inspired exhibition featuring Colorado artists and innovators. At noon today and again next Thursday, the Denver Thea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2012

    The Art of Winter, SIA and the Winter X Games take over Colorado

    Recent powder dumps across the state couldn't have come at a better time: This week the entire snow sports industry is in town for its annual SIA Snow Show confab at the Colorado Convention Center and related Mile High Snow Fest events all over town, all the top pros are in Aspen for the Winter X Ga ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2012

    Gear: Boulder's ZEAL Optics gets all 21st century with new iON Goggles

    ​This week I've been inundated with press releases from various companies headed to Denver to show off their wares at the SnowSports Industries America Snow Show, January 26-31, at the Colorado Convention Center. One actually caught my eye: The new iON Goggles from Boulder-based ZEAL Optics fe ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 24, 2011

    Wheel Power

    ​This week I've been inundated with press releases from various companies headed to Denver to show off their wares at the SnowSports Industries America Snow Show, January 26-31, at the Colorado Convention Center. One actually caught my eye: The new iON Goggles from Boulder-based ZEAL Optics fe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 22, 2011

    Contest: Win a pair of tickets to the Rocky Mountain Rod & Custom Show

    I love you bro.​This summer's Fast Five movie generated a mind-boggling $626 million at the box office, helping lead-footed morons everywhere rationalize cutting you off in traffic while driving 80 in a 35. Great. However, if you haven't let shmucks in souped-up Civics decimate your love of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2011

    Opening day at Keystone, Copper; EpicMix; Ski Expo; and the Adventure Film Festival

    Keystone and Copper Mountain open today, joining Arapahoe Basin, Loveland, and Wolf Creek. And make sure you smile for the cameras at Keystone, where its parent company, Vail Resorts, debuts the new EpicMix Photo social media app: A small army of professional photographers on the mountain will be ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 3, 2011

    Skis and Brewskis

    Keystone and Copper Mountain open today, joining Arapahoe Basin, Loveland, and Wolf Creek. And make sure you smile for the cameras at Keystone, where its parent company, Vail Resorts, debuts the new EpicMix Photo social media app: A small army of professional photographers on the mountain will be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 16, 2011

    Over the Weekend: Create Denver's urban light show brings video art to the street

    ​It was a lovely, cool evening on Friday night, as the sun went down and people began to gather in the shadow of the Spire at 14th and Champa streets in the Denver Theatre District. The second night of Create Denver Week 2011 held the promise of what would perhaps be its most ambitious display ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 12, 2011

    Creation Story

    ​It was a lovely, cool evening on Friday night, as the sun went down and people began to gather in the shadow of the Spire at 14th and Champa streets in the Denver Theatre District. The second night of Create Denver Week 2011 held the promise of what would perhaps be its most ambitious display ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 14, 2011

    Kitchen Help

    ​It was a lovely, cool evening on Friday night, as the sun went down and people began to gather in the shadow of the Spire at 14th and Champa streets in the Denver Theatre District. The second night of Create Denver Week 2011 held the promise of what would perhaps be its most ambitious display ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 24, 2011

    Green Means Go

    ​It was a lovely, cool evening on Friday night, as the sun went down and people began to gather in the shadow of the Spire at 14th and Champa streets in the Denver Theatre District. The second night of Create Denver Week 2011 held the promise of what would perhaps be its most ambitious display ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 10, 2011

    Home Show, Sweet Home Show

    ​It was a lovely, cool evening on Friday night, as the sun went down and people began to gather in the shadow of the Spire at 14th and Champa streets in the Denver Theatre District. The second night of Create Denver Week 2011 held the promise of what would perhaps be its most ambitious display ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 27, 2011

    Snow Job!

    ​It was a lovely, cool evening on Friday night, as the sun went down and people began to gather in the shadow of the Spire at 14th and Champa streets in the Denver Theatre District. The second night of Create Denver Week 2011 held the promise of what would perhaps be its most ambitious display ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 24, 2011

    Today in Stoke: Rock out with the Signal Snowboards x Skullcandy Boombox

    ​This week the Snowsports Industries of America (SIA) Snow Show is coming to the Colorado Convention Center, where all the major ski and snowboard companies will show off their latest innovations for the 2011/2012 winter season. Here's one we'd like to see on the showroom floor: The one-off Si ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 16, 2010

    Kush Pushin’

    ​This week the Snowsports Industries of America (SIA) Snow Show is coming to the Colorado Convention Center, where all the major ski and snowboard companies will show off their latest innovations for the 2011/2012 winter season. Here's one we'd like to see on the showroom floor: The one-off Si ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 26, 2010

    Get away from your family, win free tickets to the Rocky Mountain Rod & Custom Show

    Update: 1:11 p.m. Friday: We've picked our two winners! Check your email address to see if you're one of them! Thanks for playing along and reading Latest Word. ​Only kidding, of course! We know you want to spend every moment you can with your in-laws before they sadly will return home to ano ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2010

    Great American Beer Festival: Tips on what to do and what not to do

    New Belgium Brewing​The Great American Beer Festival can be daunting. After all, there are 2,200 beers on tap from 462 breweries all over the country, and the three-day event takes place in a massive convention hall filled with 49,000 of sweating, drunk, pretzel-wearing hopheads. What's the b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 7, 2010

    Marijuana festivals in Colorado: Is the state oversaturated with Cannapaloozas?

    ​Cannabis Festiva, an event booked for Dick's Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City on August 21, was designed for thousands of attendees -- but only hundreds showed. Could it be that potential attendees were already at the THC Music Festival that same weekend in Alma? Or perhaps folks were fe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2010

    GABF: Boulder County Brews Cruise, Denver Rare Beer Tasting tix selling fast

    ​Tickets for the Great American Beer Festival, at the Colorado Convention Center September 16-18, are selling fast, but so are passes to two of most popular events that take place in conjunction with the fest. Tickets for the Boulder County Brews Cruise -- which is sponsored by Draft magazine ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2010

    SkyNet, convention center's poorly named digital billboard, appears to be terminated

    ​Here's good news for all those fearing the coming robot apocalypse: SkyNet, the company behind the giant digital billboard at the Colorado Convention Center named for a fictional, computer-based defense system that takes over earth and spews out Arnold Schwarzenegger robots, seems to have bee ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 1, 2010

    Getting Rocky Mountain High

    ​Here's good news for all those fearing the coming robot apocalypse: SkyNet, the company behind the giant digital billboard at the Colorado Convention Center named for a fictional, computer-based defense system that takes over earth and spews out Arnold Schwarzenegger robots, seems to have bee ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2010

    Dixons Downtown Grill: Show us your ticket stub, save on grub

    ​Hey, culture snobs: The next time you think about tossing your ticket stub to the tenth performance of Phantom, think twice. Dixons Downtown Grill, 1610 16th Street, is offering 20 percent off your tab (food only) every time you present a manager with a stub or ticket from the Denver Center ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2009

    Five reasons to make the Ski Expo this weekend

    A Flickr photo.Expo 2008.​An estimated 30,000 ski and snowboard junkies will flock to the Colorado Convention Center this weekend for the 18th annual Ski and Snowboard Expo. Here, five reasons you should be one of them:

  • Calendar

    October 15, 2009

    On the Road Again

    A Flickr photo.Expo 2008.​An estimated 30,000 ski and snowboard junkies will flock to the Colorado Convention Center this weekend for the 18th annual Ski and Snowboard Expo. Here, five reasons you should be one of them:

  • Calendar

    July 30, 2009

    Treasured Moments

    Before Antiques Roadshow hits the road, C. Wes Cowan comes to Channel 12.

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2009

    Frasca dinner with Bodegas Muga wines

    On Monday, May 11, Frasca Food & Wine, 1738 Pearl Street in Boulder, will offer a wine dinner with Steve Lewis of Giuliana Imports presenting the wines of Bodegas Muga. Master Sommelier Bobby Stuckey will be on hand, and chef/co-owner Lachlan Mackinnon Patterson will cook a four-course seasonal menu ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 30, 2009

    A Pleasant Environment

    It’s easy being green at Denver’s first-ever Green Festival.

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2009

    Wake-Up Call: Revving up for the week ahead

    You auto know better: In advance of the Denver Auto Show, which revs up in the Colorado Convention Center April 1 through April 5, the Metro Denver Automobile Dealers Association is hosting the second annual Rocky Mountain Auto Summit today, covering everything from technology to financing to gree ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 20, 2009

    Kenny Be's Worst-Case Scenario: 2009 Sustainable Opportunities Summit comes to Denver, part 3

    Jay Cutler's and Josh McDaniels's ability to sustain their sports spat should qualify them to be the closing speakers at this week's Sustainable Opportunities Summit at the Colorado Convention Center...

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2009

    Wake-Up Call: Ward without end, and other long-running controversies

    News is busting out all over today -- and not just in Denver District Judge Larry Naves's courtroom, where Ward Churchill may take the stand in his case against the University of Colorado, now starting week two. Or on the Auraria campus, where veteran newshounds of the Rocky Mountain News will un ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2009

    Chefs go up front today for Operation Frontline

    Chefs Up Front, a benefit for Share Our Strength's Operation Frontline, brings twenty top chefs to the Colorado Convention Center at 5:30 p.m. today, March 15. The participating restaurant/chef combos include Andrew Lubatty of Avenue Grill, Pete List of Beatrice & Woodsley, Sean Huggard of Black Pea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2009

    SPIRE-tini: The new taste of downtown living

    Spire, the 42-story condo tower going up at 14th and Champa streets, is all about the cool. From its energy-efficient design to its so-called attainable unit prices (60 percent of its cushy units will go for less than $400,000) to its strikingly illuminated facade, this ain't your granddaddy's high- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 24, 2008

    Red-hot photos of uncensored big blue bear lovin'!

    We've long known people love the iconic big blue bear that peeks into the Colorado Convention Center (it's officially titled "I See What You Mean"). Blue bear miniatures have been selling like hotcakes, and, as we uncovered in a tell-all interview, the big blue bear even recently appeared on Good Mo ... More >>

  • News

    August 14, 2008

    Everyone's selling something for the Democratic National Convention. Are you buying it?

    We've long known people love the iconic big blue bear that peeks into the Colorado Convention Center (it's officially titled "I See What You Mean"). Blue bear miniatures have been selling like hotcakes, and, as we uncovered in a tell-all interview, the big blue bear even recently appeared on Good Mo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 7, 2008

    World Science Fiction Convention Shows Denver at its Geekiest

    We've long known people love the iconic big blue bear that peeks into the Colorado Convention Center (it's officially titled "I See What You Mean"). Blue bear miniatures have been selling like hotcakes, and, as we uncovered in a tell-all interview, the big blue bear even recently appeared on Good Mo ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 31, 2008

    Dropping Science Fiction

    A larger-than-life convention descends upon Denver.

  • Blogs

    June 20, 2008

    Jeans Pool

    A larger-than-life convention descends upon Denver.

  • Calendar

    January 24, 2008

    Sporting Chance

    A larger-than-life convention descends upon Denver.

  • Calendar

    January 3, 2008

    Riding High

    A larger-than-life convention descends upon Denver.

  • Calendar

    November 8, 2007

    Season's Greetings

    A larger-than-life convention descends upon Denver.

  • Calendar

    May 17, 2007

    America's Pain Street

    Colfax Avenue hosts some punishing running.

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2006

    So You Think You Can Judge Dancing?

    Colfax Avenue hosts some punishing running.

  • Calendar

    August 17, 2006

    Gorging on Good Deeds

    Colfax Avenue hosts some punishing running.

  • News

    December 9, 2004

    What's So Funny

    Colfax Avenue hosts some punishing running.

  • Dining

    October 14, 2004

    Drunk of the Week

    Falling Rock Tap House

  • People & Places

    March 25, 2004

    Best Deletion From the Denver Skyline

    The "Old" Colorado Convention Center

  • News

    March 22, 2001

    Is Everybody Happy?

    Smile, Denver! The tourists are in town.

  • News

    March 19, 1998

    Letters

    Smile, Denver! The tourists are in town.

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