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  • Blogs

    March 9, 2012

    Reader: Andrew Breitbart's Barack Obama video helps Democrats more than GOP

    Our post yesterday about footage of young Barack Obama introducing controversial Harvard professor Derrick Bell (a clip hyped as a blockbuster by provocateur Andrew Breitbart shortly before his death) attracted some sharp commentary. Here's an example from a reader who thinks such attacks are apt to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 8, 2012

    Andrew Breitbart's Barack Obama video: Talk radio v. mainstream media

    Shortly before his death at age 43, provocateur Andrew Breitbart hyped what was supposed to be a bombshell video of young Barack Obama -- one that would supposedly unmask his radical racialist agenda. Well, the video's out -- see it below -- and the mainstream media is reacting with a collective ya ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 20, 2012

    Reader: Another restaurant in LoHi? Get ready for more bitching about parking

    The edge of Highland -- now dubbed LoHi -- is the hottest restaurant neighborhood in town, and it's about to get hotter, with the addition of Central Bistro and Bar, which will open in late spring with Lance Barto in the kitchen. Don't confuse it with Le Central, the "affordable French restaurant" ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2011

    10 names better than Metro State's latest rebranding picks

    Big logos below.​Back in March, Metro State's Board of Trustees announced their plan to change the school's name to Denver State University -- a lackluster choice that also managed to piss off the folks at the University of Denver. So Metro is now asking students to choose among three new poss ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2011

    Artist Aidan Grey on Hoodoo and why co-op galleries are better for artists

    Attraction​ Candles lit the back room of EDGE Gallery during Aidan Grey's most recent show there, and a scrolled message on the door read, "Hoodoo is not Voodoo." Ingredients for potions were sprawled, loose and in bottles, on a table at the side of the small space: wasps, black pepper, lavend ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2011

    Littleton's Economic Gardening, up for an award from Harvard, helps jobs out-number residents

    Downtown Littleton.​In 1987, Chris Gibbons was charged with revitalizing a Littleton economy that just saw it's largest employer, construction aggregate supplier Martin Marietta, lay off about 7,000 employees amid a recession. And despite long odds, his Economic Gardening program was such a s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 30, 2011

    Thirteen hottest vegetarians, in honor of Hug a Vegetarian Day

    Flickr photo​As if vegetarians don't get enough kudos for being greener and more animal-friendly than their meat-eating counterparts, now they get rewarded with hugs. And who doesn't love a hug? Today is Hug a Vegetarian Day, according to PETA2. And since we've been slaving away in our cubic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 30, 2011

    After fifteen years as a local institution, the Denver Darkroom calls it quits

    Standish Lawder is not a fan of digital photography. Part of it has to do with his personal preference: A 75-year-old former pre-med major who switched to art history after taking a fateful humanities class and went on to earn a Ph.D. in it, Lawder has a mind that just sees things in film -- the che ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2011

    Parks and Rec membership fees (and revenues) could increase under tiered structure proposal

    ​Denver Parks and Recreation membership fees could increase if the city council approves a task force's recommendation to create a tiered fee structure for the city's 27 rec centers. The centers would be divided into three categories: neighborhood (small), local (medium-sized) and regional (fu ... More >>

  • News

    April 21, 2011

    Behind the controversial Anthology of Rap, co-edited by CU hip-hop professor Adam Bradley

    ​Denver Parks and Recreation membership fees could increase if the city council approves a task force's recommendation to create a tiered fee structure for the city's 27 rec centers. The centers would be divided into three categories: neighborhood (small), local (medium-sized) and regional (fu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2011

    Human trafficking: University of Denver to host conference on modern-day slavery and religion

    ​ Starting tonight and running through Sunday, April 3, the University of Denver and the Iliff School of Theology will host what organizers says is a first-of-its-kind conference, which will bring academics together to discuss one of the world's hottest topics: human trafficking.

  • Film

    January 13, 2011

    Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench is a giddy, old-style avant-musical

    ​ Starting tonight and running through Sunday, April 3, the University of Denver and the Iliff School of Theology will host what organizers says is a first-of-its-kind conference, which will bring academics together to discuss one of the world's hottest topics: human trafficking.

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2010

    The Anthology of Rap co-editor Adam Bradley on his background and compiling the book

    ​Making connections between Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Wonder Mike isn't such a stretch for Adam Bradley. As one of the editors of The Anthology of Rap, a newly released collection from Yale University Press, as well as the author of 2009's Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip-Hop, Bradley has ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2010

    See the trailer for A Small Act, screening tonight with director Jennifer Arnold

    ​It was a classic case of giving back: Chris Mburu, once sponsored by an American named Hilde Beck to attend school in his native Kenya, went on to graduate from Harvard, become a human rights lawyer and start a Kenyan school of his own for students in the situation he once was in. In A Small ... More >>

  • News

    December 2, 2010

    Mexican Macro-economics

    ​It was a classic case of giving back: Chris Mburu, once sponsored by an American named Hilde Beck to attend school in his native Kenya, went on to graduate from Harvard, become a human rights lawyer and start a Kenyan school of his own for students in the situation he once was in. In A Small ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2010

    Solitary confinement study "deeply flawed," says ACLU

    ​As reported here last summer, a controversial state study suggesting no harmful psychological effects from solitary confinement was drawing heated protests from prison activists even before it was published. Now that it's been released, psychiatric experts and the ACLU of Colorado are saying ... More >>

  • Film

    October 28, 2010

    Inside Job is a stupefying account of the 2008 global economic meltdown

    ​As reported here last summer, a controversial state study suggesting no harmful psychological effects from solitary confinement was drawing heated protests from prison activists even before it was published. Now that it's been released, psychiatric experts and the ACLU of Colorado are saying ... More >>

  • Film

    September 30, 2010

    Who needs friends? Facebook's tumultuous infancy is exposed in The Social Network

    ​As reported here last summer, a controversial state study suggesting no harmful psychological effects from solitary confinement was drawing heated protests from prison activists even before it was published. Now that it's been released, psychiatric experts and the ACLU of Colorado are saying ... More >>

  • News

    March 25, 2010

    Former Boulderite A.K. Barnett-Hart's senior thesis has become a go-to guide to the financial crisis

    ​As reported here last summer, a controversial state study suggesting no harmful psychological effects from solitary confinement was drawing heated protests from prison activists even before it was published. Now that it's been released, psychiatric experts and the ACLU of Colorado are saying ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 17, 2009

    Shaken, Not Stirred

    ​As reported here last summer, a controversial state study suggesting no harmful psychological effects from solitary confinement was drawing heated protests from prison activists even before it was published. Now that it's been released, psychiatric experts and the ACLU of Colorado are saying ... More >>

  • News

    July 30, 2009

    The state will need a pot of money to maintain the medical marijuana registry

    ​As reported here last summer, a controversial state study suggesting no harmful psychological effects from solitary confinement was drawing heated protests from prison activists even before it was published. Now that it's been released, psychiatric experts and the ACLU of Colorado are saying ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2009

    Blue Moon rockets to the White House

    Perfect for soothing racial tension.​The White House could get a little taste of Denver this week if President Barack Obama is able to pull off a meeting over beers Thursday between Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates and Cambridge, Massachusetts police sergeant James Crowley, who arrested Gat ... More >>

  • Film

    May 14, 2009

    Angels & Demons

    Perfect for soothing racial tension.​The White House could get a little taste of Denver this week if President Barack Obama is able to pull off a meeting over beers Thursday between Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates and Cambridge, Massachusetts police sergeant James Crowley, who arrested Gat ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 9, 2009

    Flick Pick

    Perfect for soothing racial tension.​The White House could get a little taste of Denver this week if President Barack Obama is able to pull off a meeting over beers Thursday between Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates and Cambridge, Massachusetts police sergeant James Crowley, who arrested Gat ... More >>

  • Film

    April 9, 2009

    Harvard Beats Yale 29-29

    Perfect for soothing racial tension.​The White House could get a little taste of Denver this week if President Barack Obama is able to pull off a meeting over beers Thursday between Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates and Cambridge, Massachusetts police sergeant James Crowley, who arrested Gat ... More >>

  • News

    August 28, 2008

    Barack Obama gives principal Michael Johnston extra credit

    Perfect for soothing racial tension.​The White House could get a little taste of Denver this week if President Barack Obama is able to pull off a meeting over beers Thursday between Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates and Cambridge, Massachusetts police sergeant James Crowley, who arrested Gat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2008

    Leeroy Jenkins Rocks ROFLCon, Snags Wired Mention

    Perfect for soothing racial tension.​The White House could get a little taste of Denver this week if President Barack Obama is able to pull off a meeting over beers Thursday between Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates and Cambridge, Massachusetts police sergeant James Crowley, who arrested Gat ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 29, 2008

    Colorado Connection

    A powerhouse of a woman speaks for Unique Lives.

  • News

    April 3, 2008

    Inviting Hickenlooper to Break Bread

    If the mayor can wear a stupid T-shirt, he can have lunch with me.

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2008

    Hank Brown for President?

    If the mayor can wear a stupid T-shirt, he can have lunch with me.

  • Calendar

    February 7, 2008

    Green Thumbs Up

    Catch Jamaica Kincaid at the Denver Botanic Gardens.

  • Blogs

    January 30, 2008

    Leeroy Deconstructed

    Catch Jamaica Kincaid at the Denver Botanic Gardens.

  • Blogs

    October 24, 2007

    Day Three: Wherein My Baby Starts The Revolution

    Catch Jamaica Kincaid at the Denver Botanic Gardens.

  • News

    November 30, 2006

    Irish Ay-Yay-Yay-Yay’s

    Don’t blame Ireland on the Mexicans.

  • Home Entertainment

    June 1, 2006

    Jesus Wept

    Anybody got a good anagram for "crap"?

  • Film

    October 20, 2005

    Swift Kick

    Elijah Wood as a soccer thug in Britain? Not bloody likely.

  • Music

    September 29, 2005

    Rivers Changes Course

    Weezer's auteur takes a tentative step into the real world.

  • News

    September 22, 2005

    Letters to the Editor

    From the week of September 22, 2005

  • Home Entertainment

    September 15, 2005

    New releases available this week

    From the week of September 22, 2005

  • News

    July 14, 2005

    What's So Funny

    From the week of September 22, 2005

  • News

    September 2, 2004

    Throwing Fitz

    The move to Fitzsimons was supposed to send CU's Health Sciences Center sailing into the 21st century. So why are so many doctors jumping ship?

  • Calendar

    February 5, 2004

    Out There

    NASA astronomer makes sense of the cosmos

  • Sports & Recreation

    April 4, 2002

    Best Way to Bag Two Fourteeners in a Day

    Grays Peak/Torreys Peak

  • News

    November 18, 1999

    Moments of Glory

    The most important events in Denver sporting history.

  • Calendar

    August 5, 1999

    Over the Rainbow

    The most important events in Denver sporting history.

  • Music

    June 3, 1999

    In the Guralnick of Time

    A New Mexico jazz trio makes smart music -- but you'll probably like it anyway.

  • Film

    July 30, 1998

    Math Wizardry

    A New Mexico jazz trio makes smart music -- but you'll probably like it anyway.

  • Calendar

    April 23, 1998

    Night & Day

    April 23 - 29, 1998

  • Calendar

    June 14, 1995

    THRILLS

    April 23 - 29, 1998

  • Film

    February 22, 1995

    A TRUE CRIME

    April 23 - 29, 1998

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