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World Science Fiction Convention Shows Denver at its Geekiest

The Big Blue Bear's thoughts on being on Good Morning America today

Millions of bleary-eyed Americans were greeted this morning by the sight of a big blue bear -- a living embodiment of the iconic "I See What You Mean" bear statue on the side of the Colorado Convention Center -- waving cheerfully to them from their televisions. It was part of a Good Morning Americ ... 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 >>

Best Deletion From the Denver Skyline

The "Old" Colorado Convention Center

Drunk of the Week

Falling Rock Tap House

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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: 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 >>

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

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 >>

Dropping Science Fiction

A larger-than-life convention descends upon Denver.

Season's Greetings

A larger-than-life convention descends upon Denver.

Sporting Chance

A larger-than-life convention descends upon Denver.

Riding High

A larger-than-life convention descends upon Denver.

America's Pain Street

Colfax Avenue hosts some punishing running.

Gorging on Good Deeds

Colfax Avenue hosts some punishing running.

Motorcycle Mania

Hot bikes and cool tricks hit the streets.

What's So Funny

Hot bikes and cool tricks hit the streets.

Is Everybody Happy?

Smile, Denver! The tourists are in town.

Letters

Smile, Denver! The tourists are in town.

A Pleasant Environment

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

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 >>

Treasured Moments

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

On the Road Again

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

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 >>

Getting Rocky Mountain High

​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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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:

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 >>

Kush Pushin’

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 >>

Snow Job!

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 >>

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 >>

Home Show, Sweet Home Show

​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 >>

Green Means Go

​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 >>

Kitchen Help

​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 >>

Creation Story

​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 >>

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 >>

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

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 >>

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 >>

Wheel Power

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 >>

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 >>

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 Wint ... 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 Denv ... More >>