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  • Blogs

    May 25, 2012

    Zoey Ripple: No charges (yet) for student shot after entering Timothy Justice's house drunk

    The featured players in a Boulder "Make My Day" shooting could hardly be more unlikely: Zoey Ripple, CU student and ultra-perky food blogger, and the pair of Timothy Justice and Doreen Orion, whose saga of traveling the country for a year in a "glorified tin can" is told in the book Queen of the Roa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2012

    Wylie Newton charged with stealing antique gun from museum, trying to sell it on TV

    Thieves dispensing with stolen goods typically do so quietly, outside the public eye. But if Wheat Ridge Police are right, Wylie Newton is a different breed. Newton is accused of stealing an antique pistol from a New Mexico museum, then trying to sell it on a reality TV show.

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2012

    Five hilarious craft beer videos: Drink 'em in.

    Wynkoop Brewing pulled off an outstanding April Fool's Day joke last weekend, producing this ballsy video about a fake beer: Rocky Mountain Oyster Stout. "These testicles; they're very fresh." In fact, it could be one of the funniest, best-produced joke videos to come out of our state's 140-plus cra ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 8, 2012

    Round two with Brett Shaheen, exec chef of the Wooden Table

    Brett Shaheen Wooden Table 2500 East Orchard Road, Greenwood Village 303-730-2152 www.thewoodentablerestaurant.com This is part two of my interview with Brett Shaheen, exec chef of the Wooden Table. Part one of our chat ran yesterday. Favorite restaurant in America: Grizzly Bar in Roscoe, Montana. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 24, 2012

    It's Canned Craft Beer Day! Celebrate with Star Bar or by toasting Ska Brewing

    Update: The Cheeky Monk is also celebrating Canned Craft Beer Day at its Colfax and Westminster locations. Try two canned beers from Belgium, Wittekerke and Bavik Pils ($5), along with Maui Coconut Porter, Avery IPA and Ska True Blonde ($4). The canned craft beer revolution began ten years ago in L ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 23, 2011

    Colorado music scene documentary underway

    ​In 2006, Diego Ramos started shooting a web-based documentary on the Colorado music scene, but he says it was a little ahead of its time. So last summer, Ramos, who's worked as director of photography on the Discovery Channel's Disappeared, started filming other local acts for another project ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 21, 2011

    Treepardy with Alex Treebark at Mile High Million tree-planting project's 1st fundraiser

    ​Trees need lots of things to grow: dirt, water, sunlight. And in the case of now-Governor John Hickenlooper's ambitious plan to plant a million trees in metro Denver by 2025, they also need cold, hard cash. As such, the tree-planting initiative, called The Mile High Million, is hosting its fi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2011

    How to get my job: Outdoor Survival School Teacher

    ​With summer beginning to wind down and the very real possibility for an apocalypse of zombie, alien, man-made, religious, nature, cat or other proportions around every corner, we decided it was a good time to have a chat with a real-life survival instructor. While we've got most of our surviv ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2011

    More equals less: Colorado breweries are pulling out of some states as they grow in others

    Great Divide Brewing​Great Divide made beer drinkers in six states cry last week when the Denver brewery acknowledged that it had pulled its beers from the shelves there. In addition to Michigan, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Kentucky, New Mexico and Alaska, the brewer is leaving Washington, D.C ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2011

    Five equally awful/awesome shows to watch now that Jersey Shore 3 is over

    Like Jersey Shore but with better hair: Police Women of Broward County​After watching the Jersey Shore crew drink and fight and tan together just like a real family, they moved out of the house last week in a rather deflated thirteenth and final episode of the show's third season. Though the group ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 8, 2011

    Ska Brewing makes light of beer -- but not light beer -- in new video

    ​Craft beer has been the star of a recent documentary, a television series and a couple of Youtube videos over the past year, now another feature-length documentary is scheduled to be released this summer. Most of these efforts have been serious, noble -- sometimes overly so. Leave it to the ... More >>

  • Film

    March 3, 2011

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

    ​Craft beer has been the star of a recent documentary, a television series and a couple of Youtube videos over the past year, now another feature-length documentary is scheduled to be released this summer. Most of these efforts have been serious, noble -- sometimes overly so. Leave it to the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2011

    Today in Stoke: Boulder's "Out There Guy" goes Out of the Wild on the Discovery Channel

    Photo courtesy Discovery ChannelRyan Van Duzer on the Discovery Channel's "Out of the Wild: Venezeula"​Tune in to the Discovery Channel tonight, when Ryan Van Duzer (Boulder's "Out There Guy" endurance athlete and adventure journalist) gets dropped off at Angel Falls with a bunch of annoying p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2011

    Urban explorers still drawn to abandoned Gates factory despite tragic accidents

    Gates.​The old Gates Rubber plant was supposed to be a new urbanism showplace -- but development has been stalled by the economy. Still, the abandoned buildings have been doing a booming business in urban exploring, and last night, another band of adventurers made it into the old factory at 90 ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 12, 2010

    YELLOW WITH ENVY

    Gates.​The old Gates Rubber plant was supposed to be a new urbanism showplace -- but development has been stalled by the economy. Still, the abandoned buildings have been doing a booming business in urban exploring, and last night, another band of adventurers made it into the old factory at 90 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2010

    Jon Stewart in HD?: See complete list of Comcast's 70-plus new high-def channels

    That arched eyebrow will pop!​After watching HD television for a while, viewers tend to consider standard channels to be hopelessly fuzzy. It's like looking at the world through the bottom of a Coke bottle. So local Comcast spokewoman Cindy Parsons has good news for every subscriber who wishe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2010

    The Angelo's Pizza patio is cozy, rain or shine

    Shela Burgess​Angelo's Pizza Parlor 620 East 6th Avenue 303-744-3366

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2010

    Gonzolo Martinez story on I (Almost) Got Away With It: Close but no cigar

    Not actually Gonzolo Martinez, but an incredible simulation.​Tonight's episode of the Discovery Channel program I (Almost) Got Away With It, airing locally at 8 p.m., has a distinctly Denver flavor. The show tells the tale of local-boy-made-bad Gonzolo Martinez, who was sentenced to almost ha ... More >>

  • Music

    February 4, 2010

    The Food Chain aims to kill preconceptions of what Denver hip-hop sounds like

    Not actually Gonzolo Martinez, but an incredible simulation.​Tonight's episode of the Discovery Channel program I (Almost) Got Away With It, airing locally at 8 p.m., has a distinctly Denver flavor. The show tells the tale of local-boy-made-bad Gonzolo Martinez, who was sentenced to almost ha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2009

    Worth the drive: Author David Quammen speaks in Colorado Springs tonight

    David Quammen writes about bugs, the cosmos and everything in between.​To call David Quammen a nature writer seems somehow inadequate. Yes, he's a whiz at crafting crisp, clear prose about the secret world of spoonworms and busting popular myths about dinosaurs and all that, but his essays go ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2009

    Wake-Up Call: Pitch, pitch, pitch

    A moment of silence for the passing of a pop-culture icon, gone so young at the age of fifty. Yes, that's right: Billy Mays, star of Pitchmen on the Discovery Channel, has died, silencing that big voice that had become ubiquitous on late-night infomercials. Mays got his start on the boardwalk of ... More >>

  • News

    May 28, 2009

    Jared Polis is having a tough year on TV

    Colorado connections make these reality TV shows more fun to watch.

  • Blogs

    February 26, 2009

    Amid coyote fever, mountain lions ask: What about us?

    Grrrrrr. A couple of recent coyote-related incidents (read about them here and here) have kept the yipping varmints in the local news -- when newspapers and TV stations haven't been reporting about the travels of a certain lovesick wolf, that is. When the hell did Colorado media turn into the Disco ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2008

    The week ahead: From the election to the economy, it's scary

    Grrrrrr. A couple of recent coyote-related incidents (read about them here and here) have kept the yipping varmints in the local news -- when newspapers and TV stations haven't been reporting about the travels of a certain lovesick wolf, that is. When the hell did Colorado media turn into the Disco ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 18, 2008

    Proof that media outlets (like this one!) love stunts

    Grrrrrr. A couple of recent coyote-related incidents (read about them here and here) have kept the yipping varmints in the local news -- when newspapers and TV stations haven't been reporting about the travels of a certain lovesick wolf, that is. When the hell did Colorado media turn into the Disco ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2008

    Delegating Denver #54 of #56: West Virginia

    Grrrrrr. A couple of recent coyote-related incidents (read about them here and here) have kept the yipping varmints in the local news -- when newspapers and TV stations haven't been reporting about the travels of a certain lovesick wolf, that is. When the hell did Colorado media turn into the Disco ... More >>

  • Music

    May 8, 2008

    Worked Up

    Here’s the soundtrack to your future unemployment!

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2008

    The Soundtrack to Your Future Unemployment: Five More Songs

    Here’s the soundtrack to your future unemployment!

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2007

    CU's Solar House Profiled By Discovery

    Here’s the soundtrack to your future unemployment!

  • Home Entertainment

    December 13, 2007

    Up and Coming

    Our top DVD picks scheduled for release this week

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2007

    Delegating Denver #14 of 56: Guam

    Our top DVD picks scheduled for release this week

  • Blogs

    March 20, 2007

    Hitting the Highway

    Our top DVD picks scheduled for release this week

  • News

    August 24, 2006

    Spanish Inquisition

    Mixing it up in New Mexico.

  • Home Entertainment

    May 18, 2006

    The Brain Game

    Can Nintendo really make you smarter?

  • News

    December 15, 2005

    Shop Over

    The sky's the limit at DIA for last-minute giving.

  • Dining

    August 11, 2005

    A Lobster Tale

    A meal at Del Mar's is a real crab shoot.

  • Sports & Recreation

    March 24, 2005

    Best Way to Train Like Lance

    Carmichael Training Systems

  • Goods & Services

    March 24, 2005

    Best Store at Denver International Airport

    Mile High Harley-Davidson

  • News

    December 2, 2004

    Head of the Class

    With his grades and high school activities, Pablo is an ideal candidate for college, except for one hitch: He's illegal.

  • Culture

    November 25, 2004

    Savage Beauty

    The DAM's Tiwanaku is an impressive, groundbreaking exhibit.

  • Calendar

    September 30, 2004

    Hop-Heads Unite

    The Great American Beer Festival flows again

  • Music

    September 23, 2004

    The Fu, the Proud

    For Fu Manchu, rocking is the highest calling.

  • Calendar

    August 5, 2004

    Painting the Town

    For Fu Manchu, rocking is the highest calling.

  • News

    May 16, 2002

    Top of the World

    Kim Clark says Everest's air is thinner than Denver's. She should know -- she's up there right now.

  • Music

    May 11, 2000

    Backwash

    The music showcase came and went without the world blowing up.

  • News

    February 10, 2000

    Off Limits

    Wellington Webb's party crasher...

  • News

    May 6, 1999

    Off the Deep End

    Colorado's Ocean Journey is banking on expensive special effects to drive home its conservationist message.

  • Dining

    December 11, 1997

    Mouthing Off

    Colorado's Ocean Journey is banking on expensive special effects to drive home its conservationist message.

  • News

    April 11, 1996

    Model Behavior

    Former Channel 9 co-host Susan Crenshaw stars in her own courtroom drama.

  • Calendar

    July 27, 1994

    THRILLS

    Former Channel 9 co-host Susan Crenshaw stars in her own courtroom drama.

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