Fort Collins

Fort Collins riot: 7 accused, charges pending on 9 others in post-NewWestFest/Old Town melee

NewWestFest macing.​On Monday, we shared videos of rioting in Old Town Fort Collins and noted that local police were studying such footage in an attempt to identify participants in the free-for-all. Now, the Fort Collins Police have named seven people (only one a CSU student) they've accused o ... More >>

Spin includes Candy Claws song as one of fifteen Songs You Must Hear Now!

​What a difference a year makes -- well, give or take a few months. While it hasn't quite been a year yet, when it launched its online tour last winter, Candy Claws was still something of an unknown quantity outside of Denver and its home of Fort Collins. And now, with its new album, Hidden La ... More >>

Whitewater Ramble's Patrick Sites on the time it's taken to release the band's first studio album

Darren Mahuron/Summit Studios​ Seven years and more than six-hundred live shows into its career, Whitewater Ramble has completed work on its long awaited studio debut, All Night Drive. It's been quite road getting to this point. The Fort Collins-based act could easily write a book chronicling ... More >>

Larkburger opens its its fourth location tomorrow in Fort Collins

​The Larkburger burger has come a long way since it was first featured on the bar menu of Larkspur Restaurant in Vail. In fact, that burger has proven to be the sandwich that launched a thousand ships. Or at least four.

Fort Collins sixth best place to live, says Money magaziners -- and they try to prove it

​The folks at magazines and websites love to cook up city lists -- rosters proclaiming that a certain burg is the best this, or the worst that. Doing so makes sense, given that people with a connection to those places will click, and the towns themselves will promote the links, garnering even ... More >>

Pep*Squad at the hi-dive

Culinary calendar for the week ahead: Booze, festivals and charity events

​Beer release parties, brewery birthdays and Old South Pearl's BrewGrass Festival are where it's at in food this week -- but there's plenty more for teetotalers or those who prefer wine or stronger spirits. Here's a taste of what's ahead: Monday, June 7: Jill's Restaurant, 900 Walnut Street ... More >>

Milking free speech: Royal Crest Dairy sues Fort Collins for door-to-door sales ban

Royal Crest Dairy is having a cow over Fort Collins' ban on door-to-door sales.​Is the door-to-door sale of milk a right protected under the First Amendment? It might sound utterly preposterous, but that's the argument a longtime Colorado milk delivery company is making in a federal lawsuit ag ... More >>

FoCoMx as seen through the lens of the Colorado Music Lounge

Last month, we took a trip up north for the second annual FoCoMx. Our experience was quite different from the one depicted above, namely we ended up spending the bulk of our time on a walking tour of Fort Collins. In our infinite wisdom, we chose to see shows that were a little bit off the grid. I ... More >>

Wake up to a new Snooze in Fort Collins

​"Snooze in the Fort, like a pea in the pod, a fit that simply makes our souls sigh. We love the community, the drive, collegiate ways, rivers that flow, beer that reciprocates, environmental leaders, and folks who love great food! A vision for years and a fruition come April 2010!" That's t ... More >>

Runaway bull in Fort Collins horning in on bad-ass cow's territory

A fuzzy image of the bull from 9News. Guess the photog didn't want to get too close.​Thunder on the hoof! Again! Today, a runaway bull reportedly wreaked a bovine brand of havoc throughout the morning in Fort Collins before being shot with three tranquilizer darts and led, dazed, into a waiti ... More >>

FoCoMX tickets on sale now

​Festival season is fast approaching, and the Fort Collins Music Experiment kicks things off locally three weeks from today. FoCoMX debuted last year by featuring most of Northern Colorado's considerable musical talent. This year, they're 50% bigger, which means over 150 bands, which is just ... More >>

Mad Greens keeps growing

​Denver-based Mad Greens is ready to conquer Fort Collins. On January 12, the company dropped $675,000 on a former Waffle House building at 616 South College Avenue, which will be its second location in that town. Mad Greens opened its first Fort Collins spot at 2120 East Harmony Road a few y ... More >>

Was medical marijuana the motive for Fort Collins home invasion?

A Flickr photo"I've got chronic pain! And I can give the same to you!"​Another day, another grabby crime that may (or may not) be related to medical marijuana -- this one a home invasion in Fort Collins that's resulted in the arrest of four subjects who allegedly bound a trio of men and held t ... More >>

Head for the Hills

Head for the Hills
Self-released

Flier of the Week: Paean at Hodi's Half Note

Click for large version​This week's top flier comes to us from the far-off, exotic land of Fort Collins. While we don't get up that way as often as we should, there's no shortage of talented acts coming out of there and, as this flier shows, no shortage of talented designers helping them get t ... More >>

Freeloader: Sneak peek of M. Pyres new album

​Fort Collins-based indie rock maestros M. Pyres just completed work on a brand new album titled Apart the Echo, which is out now on the band's label, Patient Sounds, and will be officially released locally sometime within next month. We got our hands on a track from the new record, which the outf ... More >>

Wake-Up Call: While three cities put pot on hold, Denver prepares to fire up

​Fort Collins, Pueblo and Loveland have joined the ranks of Colorado cities with moratoriums on additional medical marijuana dispensaries -- although their actions yesterday were more limited than the hysterical "emergency" designation on the day's hearings had implied. Fort Collins wound up a ... More >>

Passing a medical-marijuana moratorium in Fort Collins not such an emergency after all

Fort Collins councilman David Roy didn't see medical marijuana as an emergency issue.​The word "emergency" has been bandied about frequently in relation to medical marijuana, as in the recent Board of Health meeting to change the definition of caregiver -- a decision that was subsequently toss ... More >>

Medical-marijuana caregiver fears restrictions in Fort Collins will further stigmatize her patients

A Flickr photoNot everyone who uses medical marijuana is a whippersnapper.​At 6 p.m. tonight, the Fort Collins city council will consider an emergency ordinance to place a moratorium "upon the acceptance of applications for the issuance of licenses or permits related to businesses that seek to ... More >>

Wake-Up Call: Who cares about Richard Heene?

​The news is full of real stories about real people in need. People who can't find jobs, people who can't pay their mortgages, people who can't feed their families. Not high on the list of the truly needy: People who want to feed their hunger for fame. But still, Cheri Foster and her daughter ... More >>

Balloon Boy family's craziness may be contagious

The latest developments in the Balloon Boy case -- i.e., Larimer County authorities declaring the whole thing to have been a hoax -- seem to have frayed the nerves of the Heene family's Fort Collins neighbors. Clips like this one from Friday, in which a woman defends the clan ("This was not a joke! ... More >>

Balloon Boy: A nation turns its lonely eyes to you

When you woke up this morning, did you think you'd be riveted by the story of a Fort Collins kid who may or may not have floated away in a silvery balloon? And if so, are you being treated for assorted ailments at the Capitol Hill Medicine Shoppe? At this point, none of the reporters with the appr ... More >>

Medical marijuana in Colorado: A directory

Herbal Connections dispensary (photo by Aaron Thackeray)​ Colorado's medical marijuana business is booming -- or, if you prefer, blooming. You can read about the growth in Joel Warner's feature story or The Latest Word's marijuana category, which includes reviews of dispensaries. But if you ju ... More >>

TriMedia Film Festival in Fort Collins

Flick Pick

Party time in Fort Collins after CSU beat CU -- and before the rubber bullets started flying

Last night, Colorado State University fans descended on downtown Fort Collins to celebrate the Rams' out-of-the-blue 23-17 victory over the heavily favored CU Buffs in this year's Rocky Mountain Showdown. But what began as a good time devolved into a bummer when cops used rubber bullets to disperse ... More >>

Silver Mine Subs tapped out in Denver

​"Around 1996, two guys were sitting around discussing their future. It was soon decided to leave the Midwest and travel to the base of the Rockies to seek fame and fortune, and that's when they developed a 'nugget' of an idea for a fast food operation," says the Silver Mine Subs website "A li ... More >>

Motorhome

Almost Vegas
Self-released

Denver Blogs: Smart Grids for Everyone!

Fort Collins is ready for more efficient energy.​Get your blogs here. We catch 'em fresh daily. Send us links. Fort Collins will be the proud owner of Colorado's second Smart Grid. (Square State) I don't want to ruin the ending, but they painted photoshopped your name on the field, and Dan H ... More >>

MP3 Freeloader: The Nautical Mile Sunday, July 5 at hi-dive

Abbi McCouryThere is definitely a critical mass of precocious radio-friendly pop rock bands along the front range. Add Boulder-by-way-of-Ft Collins band Nautical Mile to the rapidly expanding roster of bands vying for your attention. Featuring Rachel Cummings providing the frontman, er, frontwoman d ... More >>

Gelazzi's gelatinis are unwrapped tonight on the Food Network

Gelazzi, the gelateria at 1411 Larimer Street, with additional shops in Fort Collins and Highlands Ranch, is making its television debut tonight, June 8, at 7 p.m. on Food Network's Unwrapped, the popular show hosted by Marc Summers that explores America's most classic foods. (Think peanut butter, b ... More >>

Chicken fingers and drive-in movies, that's what Fort Collins does!

A Flickr PhotoMy mouth is watering uncontrollably. I love chicken fingers. And the drive-in. One of these loves is new-found and the other is a classic, but my adoration for both was renewed this week when I took a trip to Fort Collins. And since this is a food blog, let's focus on the chicken fing ... More >>

Missed FoCoMx? No worries. Check this out.

Last month, the Fort Collins Music Association hosted the area's first ever all local music festival, dubbed the Fort Collins Music Experiment (FoCoMx for short). As hard to believe as it is that such an event never existed until this year, it's not difficult to see that the supply definitely exists ... More >>

Stella Luce

Zugenruhe
Self-released

Closure of Fort Collins Now marks end of era in great Northern Colorado weekly newspaper war

An image from the last edition of "Fort Collins Now." Today marks the final edition of Fort Collins Now, a weekly newspaper that built up a considerable following dating to 2003, when it was born as the Fort Collins Weekly. Indeed, Northern Colorado as a whole was practically bursting at the seams ... More >>

Fort Collins Coloradoan's Denver printing switch starts today

As you can see by the adjacent logo, the Fort Collins Coloradoan's slogan is, "Bringing Fort Collins Home." But beginning today, the company responsible for bringing the Coloradoan to Fort Collins is the Denver Newspaper Agency. Back on March 11, rumors began circulating about a deal between the ... More >>

Rich Bircumshaw, voice of CSU Rams, dies

Rich Bircumshaw. The Fort Collins Coloradoan reports in this article that Rich Bircumshaw, news director of KCOL radio and the official voice of the Colorado State University Rams, was hospitalized after suffering a stroke yesterday -- and unfortunately, he was unable to recover. A spokeswoman for ... More >>

Synthetic Elements

Trashed Out Paradise
Filthy Beast Records

Roe

Letter and Lights
Self-released

Fort Collins set to debut all-local music fest in April

In recent years, Fort Collins has produced and fostered its fair share of acts, from Brotherhood of Dae Han and the Heyday to Set Forth and Roe. Now our neighbor to the north has its very own local-music festival, thanks to the fine folks at the Fort Collins Musicians Association. The event, dubbed ... More >>

Clothes Call

A preview of Immortal Dominion's forthcoming album

Immortal Dominion, the monster metal unit out of Fort Collins, has recently completed tracking its brand new album. After spending five weeks in the studio with renown producer Sterling Winfield, who's overseen albums by Mercyful Fate, Pantera and Hell Yeah, among others, the platter has been shippe ... More >>

Ozric Tentacles moves to Fort Collins

Received word over the weekend from Chris Kresge, aka Chris K, the host of Colorado Sound on KRFC in Fort Collins, that Ozric Tentacles, a lauded British prog-rock act with 25 releases to its credit in its nearly quarter century existence, has relocated to the Fort. Word comes on the heels of news ... More >>

Beer and Cheer: Isolation Ale

Isolation Ale Odell Brewing Company Fort Collins Isolation Ale is one of several local winter warmers - Avery's Old Jubilation, Boulder Beer's Never Summer and Breckenridge Brewery's Christmas Ale among them. But this traditional English-style strong ale is lighter and easier to drink than some of ... More >>

Although Chicago is home to Rise Against, the band has strong ties to Colorado

12 Cents for Marvin commemorates a dozen years together by... breaking up?

Roe previews songs from new record

Live Review: Ween's "Super Secret" MySpace Show at Hodi's Half Note

Magnolia Tapestry Project

Fort Collins Musuem of Contemporary Art