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American Guns' Gunsmoke Guns: Did Wyatt family rip off the I.R.S. for years?

Update: We've been following a series of surprising incidents involving Gunsmoke Guns, a Wheat Ridge store that served as the setting of American Guns, a reality TV series that was recently canceled by the Discovery Channel; see our previous coverage below. First, there was a robbery. Then, there w ... More >>

Former Dogfish Head brew master Bryan Selders joins Big Red F's Post Brewing

Reality TV fans know him as the quirky but loveable co-star of the Discovery Channel's short-loved series Brew Masters. Beer geeks know him as the guy who helped create and produce odd, boundary-busting beers for Delaware's famed Dogfish Head Brewing for nearly a decade. And now Colorado will get to ... More >>

Film incentives could bring Hallmark Channel show set in rural town to Colorado

A Hallmark Channel television series about a young woman in 1910 who takes a teaching job in a rural coal-mining town could be shot in Colorado if the state legislature sets aside more money during the next fiscal year for the state's popular film incentives program. Last week, the Colorado Economi ... More >>

This city-sponsored wheat-paste exhibit came down a little too fast

Reader: If more people had guns, maybe people wouldn't steal them

We recently wrote about Gunsmoke Guns, the setting for the just-cancelled Discovery Channel show American Guns, which was burglarized last week through a hole in its roof; thieves got away with fifteen firearms. One reader has a theory about how such a crime could have been prevented -- but it would ... More >>

Just-cancelled American Guns' Gunsmoke Guns robbed through hole in roof

It's been a rough patch for Wheat Ridge-based Gunsmoke Guns. First, American Guns, the Discovery Channel show set at the business, was cancelled in what some have interpreted as fallout from the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. And now, the arms-heavy shop has been ... More >>

Zoey Ripple, drunk CU grad, thought she was with pals until Timothy Justice shot her

Update: Many questions remain in the matter of Zoey Ripple, the CU grad who was shot after entering the wrong house -- an incident detailed in our original coverage below. But we've got more answers thanks to Boulder Police's release of an arrest affidavit, seen here, which quotes her as saying that ... More >>

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.

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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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 >>

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 >>

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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 >>

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

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

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 >>

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

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 >>

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 >>

Jared Polis is having a tough year on TV

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

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 >>

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

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

Delegating Denver #54 of #56: West Virginia

Worked Up

Here’s the soundtrack to your future unemployment!

The Soundtrack to Your Future Unemployment: Five More Songs

CU's Solar House Profiled By Discovery

Up and Coming

Our top DVD picks scheduled for release this week

Delegating Denver #14 of 56: Guam

Spanish Inquisition

Mixing it up in New Mexico.

The Brain Game

Can Nintendo really make you smarter?

Shop Over

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

A Lobster Tale

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

Best Way to Train Like Lance

Carmichael Training Systems

Best Store at Denver International Airport

Mile High Harley-Davidson

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.

Hop-Heads Unite

The Great American Beer Festival flows again

Painting the Town

Backwash

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

Off the Deep End

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

Mouthing Off

Model Behavior

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

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