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Dawn Engle

  • Blogs

    May 8, 2012

    PeaceJam founders on the time they helped Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys get an audience with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in the '90s

    While we've been mourning the untimely passing of Adam Yauch (aka MCA) of the Beastie Boys last week and reminiscing about the act's shows in Denver, we've learned that the musician/activist had pretty interesting ties to our city beyond playing here nearly a dozen times over the past two decades. B ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2012

    Shirin Ebadi comes to Denver as another Nobel Peace Prize winner pulls out of Chicago summit

    Mairead Corrigan Maguire, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976 for her work in Northern Ireland, has pulled out of the twelfth World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates that starts Monday in Chicago. "That's what happens when you don't hold your big Nobel events in Denver!," jokes Dawn Engle, a founde ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2011

    Are you ready for 2012? Watch The True Mayan Prophecy tonight

    ​Good news! The world is not going to end next December 21, no matter what people insist the Mayan calendar predicts. Dawn Engle and Ivan Suvanjieff, the founders of PeaceJam, exploded that myth in 2012: The True Mayan Prophecy, the award-winning film they released last year that will air toni ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2011

    Visit Denver fills your bucket list with lots of beer...and more suds at Smiley's

    Lights for your list.​Good news! The world is not going to end on December 21, 2012. That's the word from Dawn Engle, co-producer of 2012: The True Mayan Prophecy, which airs tonight on Colorado Public Television. But just in case she's wrong, we asked some state leaders for their can't-miss C ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 10, 2011

    Give PeaceJam a Chance

    Lights for your list.​Good news! The world is not going to end on December 21, 2012. That's the word from Dawn Engle, co-producer of 2012: The True Mayan Prophecy, which airs tonight on Colorado Public Television. But just in case she's wrong, we asked some state leaders for their can't-miss C ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2011

    Doomsday countdown, day five: Harold Camping's third try

    Harold Camping, living it up.​If there's any lesson we can take from our look back this week at a number of apocalyptic prophesies (apophesies, as I like to call them) in advance of what Harold Camping is predicting to be the end of the world today, it's that they all have one key component in ... More >>

  • News

    October 20, 2011

    Former GOP-er Ali Hasan is pushing his movie

    Harold Camping, living it up.​If there's any lesson we can take from our look back this week at a number of apocalyptic prophesies (apophesies, as I like to call them) in advance of what Harold Camping is predicting to be the end of the world today, it's that they all have one key component in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2011

    Doomsday countdown, day four: Project Icarus and the asteroid that didn't destroy earth -- yet

    Jerry Bruckheimer's prophesy was by far the most entertaining.​Every sensible person knows that when Earth is eventually destroyed, it will be by a huge asteroid like the one that killed all the dinosaurs. We learned this mostly from Jerry Bruckheimer, but Jerry Bruckheimer probably learned it ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2011

    Doomsday countdown, day three: The Amazing Criswell and the Denver goo

    The Amazing Criswell: As much credibility as anyone else, really.​Call it an unlucky guess: In March 1963, the Amazing Criswell, born Jeron Criswell Konig and otherwise known as Jeron Criswell King, predicted that John F. Kennedy would not run for re-election because something would happen to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 18, 2011

    Doomsday countdown, day two: Kim Miller jumps off the deep end and never comes back

    When Christ returns, it's going to be weird.​In late December 1999, while the artist then known as the artist formerly known as Prince was preparing to party, and while the rest of the world was shoveling canned goods into their bunkers in preparation for the would-be-apocalypse of Y2K, Kim Mi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 17, 2011

    Doomsday countdown, day one: The many apocalyptic predictions of Harold Camping

    This dude just looks like a charlatan, doesn't he?​If the world had a nickel for every time the world was supposed to end, let's just say the world would have a whole boatload of nickels -- but as not-at-all-unusual as it may be for the various pseudo-prophets and charlatans of history to pred ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2011

    Jeff Dowd, the dude who inspired The Dude, to appear in person with The Big Lebowski at Film on the Rocks

    No, I'm The Dude. ​Somewhere out there, The Dude abides, taking 'er easy for all us sinners -- no, seriously: There is an actual Dude. His name is Jeff Dowd, his nickname is The Dude, and he was the Coen Brothers's inspiration for their most famous and beloved character by the same name, playe ... More >>

  • News

    May 19, 2011

    The apocalypse will kick off in Boulder, and here's why

    No, I'm The Dude. ​Somewhere out there, The Dude abides, taking 'er easy for all us sinners -- no, seriously: There is an actual Dude. His name is Jeff Dowd, his nickname is The Dude, and he was the Coen Brothers's inspiration for their most famous and beloved character by the same name, playe ... More >>

  • Film

    March 3, 2011

    Flick Pick: 2012: The True Mayan Prophecy shows March 3

    No, I'm The Dude. ​Somewhere out there, The Dude abides, taking 'er easy for all us sinners -- no, seriously: There is an actual Dude. His name is Jeff Dowd, his nickname is The Dude, and he was the Coen Brothers's inspiration for their most famous and beloved character by the same name, playe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 27, 2010

    Watch three clips from 2012: The True Mayan Prophecy

    The Dalai Lama talks about 2012.​Last week Westword published "Apocalypse No," an Off Limits piece on the 2012: The True Mayan Prophecy, a documentary recently released by PeaceJam founders Ivan Suvanjieff and Dawn Engle. In addition to the story, Westword presented the documentary in its enti ... More >>

  • News

    December 23, 2010

    The 2012 apocalypse scenario is all wrong, say filmmakers

    The Dalai Lama talks about 2012.​Last week Westword published "Apocalypse No," an Off Limits piece on the 2012: The True Mayan Prophecy, a documentary recently released by PeaceJam founders Ivan Suvanjieff and Dawn Engle. In addition to the story, Westword presented the documentary in its enti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2009

    Wake-Up Call: Pull some strings for Peacejam

    ​It's been a tough year for Peacejam, the homegrown nonprofit that over the past fifteen years has reached out to hundreds of thousands of kids around the globe, showing them that in the toughest circumstances, it's still possible to push for peace -- and then proving it by bringing ten Nobel ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 9, 2009

    Wake-Up Call: A noble, if not Nobel, calling

    ​Yesterday was a long day in Idledale, the tiny town in the foothills where Dawn Engle and Ivan Suvanjieff put up their feet when they're not pounding the pavement on behalf of PeaceJam, the non-profit they founded over a dozen years ago that links up youth from around the world with Nobel Pea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2009

    OMG! Douglas County teens face horrors of sexting

    ​I am back from the front lines of the kiddie porn wars with some shocking news: The prosperous, sprawling suburbs of Douglas County conceal a steamy underbelly of underage sexual exhibitionism. Youth are being exploited right and left. Usually by each other. Sexting -- the insidious, techno ... More >>

  • News

    August 9, 2007

    Nobel Virtues

    Colorado's Nobel Peace Prize nominees rock harder than Bono.

  • News

    September 21, 2006

    Speak Your Peace

    Some very Nobel intentions pay off.

  • News

    September 14, 2006

    Nobel Intentions

    Go, Broncos! Promoting peace is serious business.

  • Blogs

    September 6, 2006

    Give PeaceJam a Chance

    Go, Broncos! Promoting peace is serious business.

  • News

    July 20, 2006

    Pressing Engagements

    Go, Broncos! Promoting peace is serious business.

  • News

    July 6, 2006

    A Nobel Calling

    In just two months, change starts here. In Denver. No joke.

  • News

    November 10, 2005

    A Peace of the Action

    Look out, Cherry Hills: The world's coming to Denver.

  • Calendar

    March 11, 2004

    Make Book With PeaceJam

    The PeaceJam outreach continues in a new book.

  • News

    March 13, 2003

    We Be Jammin'

    PeaceJam scores two theatrical releases -- and kudos from Michael Moore.

  • Calendar

    November 12, 1998

    Peace Pipeline

    How a couple of "average, flawed people" are jammin' till the jam is through.

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