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Lay Catholics use donations to fight back against their church's right-wing contigent

Catholics are pushing back against a decision by the Catholic Campaign for Human Development to cut off funding to an immigrant advocacy group in Durango because it has ties to an LGBT advocacy group that supports the legalization of civil unions. The progressive national nonprofit Catholics United ... More >>

Catholic fund stops aid to immigrant advocates over link to LGBT group

In February, Catholic Charities testified that if Colorado lawmakers legalize civil unions, it may stop providing adoption and foster care services. Now, it seems that another Catholic organization, the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, has cut off funding to an immigrant advocacy group in Du ... More >>

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 >>

The Long Road Home

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 >>

Jered Engbring: Colorado's hottest bachelor vows to bring it in Cosmo hunk-off

Jered Engbring.​So one day you're just a typical aircraft mechanic and engineering student who loves young women in tank tops and being outdoors -- flying, hiking, camping, mountain biking -- and the next you're officially Colorado's most eligible bachelor, according to the boy-crazy editors ... More >>

Clutch gets a beer named after it courtesy of New Belgium Brewing in Fort Collins

Clutch could use a cold one.​Colorado brewers love their music, whether they are talking about it, naming beers after it or rocking it in the brewhouse at volumes loud enough to malt barley on its own. Boulder Beer recently worked with String Cheese Incident keyboardist and song writer Kyle Ho ... More >>

Coloradans kick butt in Xterra Mountain Championship triathlon

Photo courtesy Xterra Mountain ChampionshipJosiah Middaugh, from Vail, won the Xterra Mountain Championships triathlon at Beaver Creek on Saturday​You don't want to go up against a local in a race like the Xterra Mountain Championship at Beaver Creek: On Saturday Vail's Josiah Middaugh set a n ... More >>

The Perennial Plate comes to Durango

Stephanie ColganDaniel Klein is filming an episode of his web series in Colorado.​Daniel Klein's resume includes some of the best restaurants in the world, restaurants including The Fat Duck and St. John in England, Thomas Keller's Bouchon and Tom Colicchio's Craft. Now he's producing The Pe ... More >>

Fill up on Big Shikes

Stephanie ColganDaniel Klein is filming an episode of his web series in Colorado.​Daniel Klein's resume includes some of the best restaurants in the world, restaurants including The Fat Duck and St. John in England, Thomas Keller's Bouchon and Tom Colicchio's Craft. Now he's producing The Pe ... More >>

It takes big men to make Ska Brewing's Big Shikes Orange Blossom Imperial Pilsner

Hop to it.​Brewing beer is physical work. Every day, the guys in rubber waders who do it for a living hump dozens and dozens of fifty-pound sacks of malted barley, rip them open and pour them into a mill. They carry heavy bags, buckets and barrels full of sugar, hops, honey and other ingredie ... More >>

Brewers get the key to the Governor's Mansion at Pints & Bites

Odell BrewingBeer gets a seat at the big kids' table.​When Coloradans elected former beer man John Hickenlooper to the state's top post last November, they had no idea they'd be letting the entire craft-brewing industry into the Governors' Mansion as well. But that's what happened last night ... More >>

Durango's Ska Brewing enlists Westword's Beer Man for a new, limited-release Imperial Pilsner

​I'm flying to Durango this morning for a 24-hour adventure in beer. It will start with a plane that uses propellers to fly over the mountains. It will involve a lot of malt, a lot of hops and perhaps some honey. When it's over, I hope to have helped Ska Brewing create a limited-release beer ... More >>

Jam Cruise raid followup: One Coloradan's take on the boat bust

​As reported yesterday, several people headed out on Jam Cruise were busted for trying to bring drugs on board the ship. Like this is a surprise. Jambands and mind-expanding drugs go together like... like... look, if I have to explain this, you just ain't gonna get it, man. So we got ahold of ... More >>

Silverton Brewing gets a little help from its friends in Fort Collins

​Silverton Brewing has hired the Fort Collins Brewing Company to contract-brew and bottle two of its beers so that they can be distributed throughout Colorado. Six-packs of Big Ass Brown and Ice Pick Ale should be available locally in February. The little brewery, which was founded in 2004 by ... More >>

Great American Beer Festival: 25 things I learned in 2010

​1) No matter how prepared you are for GABF, it is still overwhelming. 2) San Diego County makes more amazing beers than some entire regions of the country. 3) Maui Brewing's CoConut Porter was one of the most heavenly beers I have ever tried. Even better, sources say they'll begin distribut ... More >>

Euclid Hall taps its own house beer from Steamworks Brewing today

​When the crew from Steamworks Brewing makes the trip north today for the Great American Beer Festival, they're have something extra on board for Denver. The Durango brewery is making a limited-edition proprietary beer just for Euclid Hall, the happening new beer-centric gastropub owned by La ... More >>

The Rackhouse Pub gets loaded on last year's Great American Beer Fest winners

​The Rackhouse Pub, which celebrates its first anniversary on Halloween, wasn't around during the Great American Beer Festival last year, so the taphouse is catching up. Starting this week, and leading up to the 2010 fest, September 16-18, the Rackhouse plans to have at least a dozen and poss ... More >>

Mayor Hickenlooper's cruisin' for brews

​Is Mayor John Hickenlooper's tour around Colorado as he campaigns for governor really just an excuse for the former brewer to try out local beers? Campaign spokesman George Merritt denies it: "We certainly try to end up in local restaurants when we travel, and several times it has been a bre ... More >>

Culinary calendar for the week ahead: WomenCook! to Mother's Day

​From culinary delights prepared by women to Cinco de Mayo to a huge array of Mother's Day happenings, we've got a whole lineup of great foodie events taking place this week. Here's a taste of what's ahead: Monday, May 3: The city's most respected and creative women chefs cook at a gala emce ... More >>

Here are ten great beer names, but do the beers belong on a Colorado bucket list?

Mexican Logger​Coming up with new beer names, let alone great beer names, isn't easy, especially in the state with 115 breweries, each cooking anywhere from five to 65 different beers a year. But brewers are nothing if not creative - and occasionally, um, irreverent. Listed below are ten fant ... More >>

The world-wide Meatout begins tomorrow

A Flickr photo.​With the advent of such groundbreaking documentaries as Food, Inc., more than ever, we're learning about the cultural and environmental consequences of our diets -- particularly the consumption of meat. Food, Inc. was decades behind the times, though: Since 1985, people from a ... More >>

Top 100 Chinese restaurants and the Denver winners

Ho's Imperial in Superior​Yesterday, the Top 100 Chinese Restaurants awards were announced in Las Vegas, and three Colorado restaurants -- Empress Dim Sum Seafood Restaurant, Ho's Imperial of Superior and, despite the name, Sengataki Japanese Grill of Wheat Ridge -- made the list for overall e ... More >>

The Edge: Our guide to the season's best skiing, boarding and more

Ho's Imperial in Superior​Yesterday, the Top 100 Chinese Restaurants awards were announced in Las Vegas, and three Colorado restaurants -- Empress Dim Sum Seafood Restaurant, Ho's Imperial of Superior and, despite the name, Sengataki Japanese Grill of Wheat Ridge -- made the list for overall e ... More >>

Cannabis Therapy Institute offers framework for dispensary regulations

​Last night, city councils at localities throughout the state, including Longmont, Lafayette, Louisville and Thornton, discussed the issue of medical-marijuana dispensaries at city council meetings. In Durango, for instance, officials approved preliminary tweaks in regulations, setting hours o ... More >>

Is Bobby Fitzgerald the nation's top griller?

​A couple months back, Bobby Fitzgerald -- ex of Cherry Creek Grill, currently exec at the White Chocolate Grill at Park Meadows -- brought honor to his home state by kicking ass and taking names in the oddest of possible locations: on LIVE! With Regis and Kelly.  He and his recipe for grille ... More >>

Hiking the Colorado Trail? Try it on Google Earth first

​If you're thinking of hiking the Colorado Trail, a 500-mile hiking trail that stretches from Denver to Durango and covers almost every type of terrain our fair state has to offer, the first step you take should be online. Thanks to the efforts of Jerry Brown of Bear Creek Survey Service, who ... More >>

In Colorado, it's not about why the wildlife cross the road, but whether they'll survive the trip

​If you're thinking of hiking the Colorado Trail, a 500-mile hiking trail that stretches from Denver to Durango and covers almost every type of terrain our fair state has to offer, the first step you take should be online. Thanks to the efforts of Jerry Brown of Bear Creek Survey Service, who ... More >>

"Sheriff" Salazar rounds up some artifact rustlers

In his first few weeks as Secretary of the Interior, former Colorado Senator Ken Salazar was fond of sporting his cowboy hat and declaring that there's a new sheriff in town -- even though the work at hand didn't lend itself to quick draws, as explained in my feature "The Zen of Ken." But now t ... More >>

Two new Mexican spots emerge in Aurora

Lori MidsonI was in hot pursuit of a tow truck yesterday, which is neither here nor there, except that my chase landed me in Aurora, and whenever I'm in Aurora, I'm in taco country, and whenever I'm in taco country, I'm happier than a lizard lapping up flies. Today was no exception. In fact, it went ... More >>

Wake-Up Call: The week ahead, February 16-21

The big news: Barack Obama is coming back to Denver, the town where he accepted the Democratic nomination on August 28, and where now, as president, he will now sign the $787 billion stimulus bill on Tuesday, February 17 at the Museum of Nature & Science (conveniently vetted by the Secret Service ... More >>

The big news: Barack Obama is coming back to Denver, the town where he accepted the Democratic nomination on August 28, and where now, as president, he will now sign the $787 billion stimulus bill on Tuesday, February 17 at the Museum of Nature & Science (conveniently vetted by the Secret Service ... More >>

Do You Take This Shmuck to Have and to Hold?

The big news: Barack Obama is coming back to Denver, the town where he accepted the Democratic nomination on August 28, and where now, as president, he will now sign the $787 billion stimulus bill on Tuesday, February 17 at the Museum of Nature & Science (conveniently vetted by the Secret Service ... More >>

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