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10 things to do for $10 this weekend (7 free!), February 22-24

Winter is finally here (for the moment, anyway), but there's still plenty to do inside (and outside) in the Mile High City. From proms to late-night full moon-watching to adult skateboarding parties and more, we've rounded up the ten best events for this last weekend in February. And as a bonus, ove ... More >>

The ten best New Year's Eve shows in Denver

Wow! Has 2012 really already come to a close? If you are anything like us, you might be relieved, but either way, you're ready to start the new year. That doesn't mean this year shouldn't end on a good note (pun fully intended). With that in mind, we've compiled a list of the ten best shows with whi ... More >>

New shows: Ellie Goulding, Trampled By Turtles, Ana Sia/Kraddy, Toro y Moi, and more

Update 10/24/12: A Bob Weir solo date with Jackie Greene has been announced on Thursday, December 13 at the Paramount Theatre. Tickets for the show ($37.50 - $56, plus fees) go on sale this Friday, October 26 at 10 a.m. So now that the final debate's over, we still don't know who's going to be in t ... More >>

Tonight: GABF after-party at Blake Street Tavern

The Great American Beer Festival flows through Denver today through Saturday, bringing with it 580 breweries, 2,700 beers and 49,000 thirsty beer lovers. Aside from the action at the Colorado Convention Center, there are hundreds of other craft beer-related events going on around town, including an ... More >>

Plenty on tap outside of #GABF on the calendar this week

The Great American Beer Fest will fill the Colorado Convention Center this Thursday through Saturday. Tickets to the seminal celebration of craft beer sold out in record time this year, and Cafe Society will be offering up comprehensive and "professional" coverage throughout the week -- as well as a ... More >>

It's Christmas in August! Celebrate with ten items from Walmart's closed convention

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas at the Colorado Convention Center, where Walmart is holding a closed-door Holiday Fair to prepare its employees for the big, big season ahead. The event has drawn close to 5,000 people to town to preview new merchandise in time (read: months early) for Chr ... More >>

Captain America is really popular in Denver

This past weekend we saw Captain America at a few different spots in Denver and Boulder, and while last summer's film left movie-goers unsatisfied, his role in The Avengers has returned him to the list of most popular super heroes. Here's where we spotted Captain American this weekend.

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.

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Wheel Power

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 >>

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 >>

Skis and Brewskis

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 >>

Creation Story

Green Means Go

Home Show, Sweet Home Show

Snow Job!

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 >>

Kush Pushin’

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Getting Rocky Mountain High

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 >>

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:

Treasured Moments

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

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 >>

A Pleasant Environment

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

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 >>

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...

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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

World Science Fiction Convention Shows Denver at its Geekiest

Dropping Science Fiction

A larger-than-life convention descends upon Denver.

Jeans Pool

Sporting Chance

Riding High

Season's Greetings

America's Pain Street

Colfax Avenue hosts some punishing running.

So You Think You Can Judge Dancing?

Best Deletion From the Denver Skyline

The "Old" Colorado Convention Center

Is Everybody Happy?

Smile, Denver! The tourists are in town.

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