Colorado State Fair

New beers from Strange, TRVE, Dry Dock, Copper Kettle and River North

Each week, Strange Brewing taps a new, small-batch creation: just one barrel of whatever head brewer Tim Myers and buddy Harry Smith (who is starting his own brewery next year) can think up. Along with the beer, they take a pic of the wort as it is being brewed and post it on Facebook as Strange Mas ... More >>

10 things to do for $10 this weekend, August 31-September 3, 2012

Since etiquette of yore prohibits the wearing of white after Labor Day, be sure to wear all of your white attire on this three-day weekend. And there will be plenty of places to display your duds, from food-truck pool parties to tiny art shows, vintage auto exhibits to free film screenings. The best ... More >>

Rocky Ford cantaloupe hit King Soopers today

Rocky Ford cantaloupe took a big hit last year, unfairlyfingered by the FDA in the early days of the listeria outbreak in a September 14, 2011 release that warned consumers not to eat Rocky Ford cantaloupes. And never mind that the real culprit, Jensen farms, was more than a hundred miles away. Me ... More >>

Ten new reasons to buy your ticket to the Denver County Fair now

If last year's inaugural Denver County Fair was a grand experiment, this year's "is going to blow the first one out of the water on all counts!" says DCF maestra Dana Cain. That's because Cain's mental notepad was a cover-to-cover frenzy of new ideas and lessons learned by the time the 2011 event wa ... More >>

Ben and Maggie Weinroth clear their names after Colorado State Fair goat-doping allegations

Sue Weinroth describes it best: "This goat story got legs and ran," says the mom, shaking her head. Last summer, she watched her two children, nineteen-year-old Maggie and fourteen-year-old Ben, lose their titles, reputations and hobbies when they were banned from the Colorado State Fair on allegati ... More >>

Maggie and Ben Weinroth, accused of drugging championship goats, fight to clear their name

The world of competitive livestock showing is a quiet one, perhaps, but it can be cutthroat. After nineteen-year-old Maggie Weinroth and her fourteen-year-old brother Ben were accused of cheating at the 2011 Colorado State Fair by drugging their prize winning goats, Ben was banned from competition, ... More >>

Better Than Fair

Colorado beer calendar: Dry Dock sets sail for the Littlest Big Beer Fest at Hops & Pie

​What?!? But it's only August, right? Sure, it's August now, but school starts this week, and before you know it, it will be Labor Day weekend, and Sniagrab will kick off at Sports Authority. Then football will be here, along with a chill in the air as our tomato plants die. Halloween candy wi ... More >>

Colorado beer calendar: Denver Beer Co opens, Crooked Stave gets funky

Dry Dock​Dry Dock Brewing kicked its weekly firkin in a record 49 minutes last Friday, and since the taproom opens at 3 p.m., that means there was none left for anyone who showed up after 3:50 p.m., which can be tough since most people don't get off work til later. So the brewery plans to sta ... More >>

Summer 2011: All's fair in Colorado this summer

Mile Highlights: This week's concert news, local radio playlists and top album sales

Here's what's good in the Mile High City this week: In concert news, INXS is coming to the Ogden in July, Lil Wayne's coming to Comfort Dental in August and Steve Earle is due at the Ogden in September. On local radio, Force Publique, Signal Path and Bop Skizzum got some spins. Meanwhile, at our l ... More >>

Mile Highlights: This week's concert news, local radio playlists and top album sales

Here's what's good in the Mile High City this week: In concert news, INXS is coming to the Ogden in July, Lil Wayne's coming to Comfort Dental in August and Steve Earle is due at the Ogden in September. On local radio, Force Publique, Signal Path and Bop Skizzum got some spins. Meanwhile, at our l ... More >>

Dana Cain's top ten things needed for a successful county fair

Job creation is the goal of the State Fair Job Fair: Kenny Be's Worst-Case Scenario

Slight changes to the scheduled attractions at the annual Colorado State Fair in Pueblo could transform the dated farm show into a much needed economy-boosting job fair...​ Big experience, extreme references and speed résumé would be the three main events at the State Fair Job Fair Olympics ... More >>

Colorado State Fair promises food fit for ... a state fair

Fair food ferris wheel = ?​This year, the Minnesota State Fair is introducing corn dog pizza and camel-on-a-stick to its fair-worthy menu. Meanwhile, Iowa debuted octopus-shaped "octodogs," and offered deep-fried pineapple and a number of other weird creations at its state fair, which wrap ... More >>

Culinary calendar for the week ahead: Telluride Mushroom, Bootstraps Western Wine and Chile Harvest festivals

​If you can't make the drive up to Telluride for the annual Mushroom Festival, don't fret -- there's always the Bootstraps Western Wine Fest in Evergreen or Lakewood's Chile Harvest Festival. Here's what else is on the menu for this week's culinary events:

Colorado State Fair now has looser restrictions on alcohol. Drink up!

A Flickr photoGetting your drink on at the state fair just got easier.​It may not have all the amenities of Las Vegas or New Orleans, but the Colorado State Fair is starting to look more and more like Sin City and The Big Easy in the alcoholic beverage department.

The Colorado State Fair wants your salsa, your green chili and more

​It's not all quilting and scrapbooking, folks. Though we admit we're a little weirded out by the "Dress Your Doll" contest on tap for this year's Colorado State Fair, we're going to try to overlook that in favor of the fair's introduction of some Colorado-centric categories to its cooking com ... More >>

Get your junk food fix at the Colorado State Fair

​The Colorado State Fair kicks off today in Pueblo with rodeos, carnival rides and parades, but the real reason to hit it up? The frosty lemonades, ice-cold beer, meatball sandwiches, tacos, nachos, menudo, green chile, pizza, hot dogs, hamburgers, roasted corn, pork chops-on-a-stick, Thai foo ... More >>

The Westword.com blog shortcut, August 28 edition

I used to love Mr. T cereal....​Pity those fools. Today in Backbeat Online: • Freaky Friday: "Treat Your Mother Right." • Q&A with John Osborne of KingBilly. • Last Night: Desolation Wilderness at Rhinoceropolis. • The Denver Boot: Lion Sized at the Larimer Lounge -- 08/02/09. • Fiv ... More >>

Wake-Up Call: The DNC's island of misfit toys

​I'm looking across the highway at the Pepsi Center and Invesco Field at Mile High, the settings for so many memorable sights during the Democratic National Convention, which kicked off exactly a year ago today. And between them -- at least from this vantage point -- is Elitch Gardens, where, ... More >>

The Westword.com blog shortcut, August 21 edition

Roll out the barrel....​The line starts here. Today in Cafe Society: • Mountains of food and wine this weekend at the Mesa Verde Country Food, Wine and Art Festival. • Cherry Creek North Food and Wine Festival takes over Fillmore Plaza. • Mysteries of Sheehan's Desk: Day 8. • Andrews ... More >>

Spam is on a roll at the Colorado State Fair

The winner and still the chomp Spam is enjoying unprecedented popularity in these trying economic times, which means that the 2009 Great American SPAM Championship, a recipe competition that includes a qualifier at the Colorado State Fair, could be the toughest contest on record. Last year, a ... More >>

The SPAM champ among us

Pearman's creation.(Read Jason Sheehan's SPAM confession here.) All hail the SPAM king, ruler of all that is pink and meaty and rectangular. This year, the king is from Colorado Springs. Ron Pearman -- 48-year-old Lockheed Martin engineer, father of four (soon to be five) and Colorado State Fair c ... More >>

Mark Udall rides the Twitter bandwagon

All's Fair at the Fair

Strange but True Stories From 2007

The truth is out there, and in 2007, it was often weird, wicked or just plain wild.

Fair Game

The Taste of Colorado loses some regulars.

Watch This

NIMBY neighbors go low in Park Hill.

Retroactive

Olivia Newton-John

The Beatles Continue

Tribute band recalls the Fab Four

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Trivial Pursuits

Thirteen weeks of sports and leisure, arts and entertainment, and people and places.

Off Limits

Animal passions

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Critic's Choice

Franky Perez

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All's fair

Fair Time

The Colorado State Fair salutes hometown virtues.

Thick and Thin

Painterly solos are now on display at Carson-Masuoka and Pirate.

Taking Stock

Wear a badge proudly at the National Western Stock Show.

Hit Pick

Mullethead

Night & Day

August 27 - September 2, 1998

Mouthing Off

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Thrills for the week

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Thrills for the week

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