Idaho

Marijuana: Smart Colorado takes anti-pot campaign to Idaho as activists' kids are seized

We've been hearing a lot about Smart Colorado's call for higher cannabis taxes in Colorado, as well as its connection to a possible attempt to repeal Amendment 64, which allows adults 21 and over in Colorado to use and possess small amounts of marijuana. But the group is also spreading its anti-pot ... More >>

Photos: Root25 takes root in the Hyatt Regency in the DTC

A new restaurant has taken root on the second floor of the Hyatt Regency in the Tech Center. Root25 Taphouse & Kitchen is a big step up from the standard chain-hotel restaurant, with locally focused fare, barrel-aged cocktails and a healthy kid's menu. Partnering with such local vendors as Haystack ... More >>

You can't hate everything: How Treefort Music Fest changed my mind about music festivals

Before I explain why last weekend's Treefort Music Fest was amazing, I have to say that I hate big/corporate/non-DIY music festivals. Most of those events are just a bloated excuse for bloggers, record-label people and other industry assholes like myself to get drunk in public for days on end, while ... More >>

Brian Unbehaun's twelve-pound Iowa pot bust: Are Colorado drivers being profiled?

By passing Amendment 64, which allows adults to possess small amounts of marijuana, voters here cemented Colorado's reputation as a pot mecca. Note the prominence of the state's name in headlines about the arrest of Brighton's Brian Unbehaun, who's accused of transporting nearly twelve pounds of wee ... More >>

Guess where you're eating? At an EatDenver restaurant if you're kalitso1

Cafe Society served up four Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from a a hot dog crowned with smoky collard greens from Dazzle, to a mighty bowl of cauliflower from Uncle, to a behemoth heap of shoestring fries that I likened to the "whole fucking state of Idaho."

Guess where I'm eating a whole state of French fries?

I'd asked for a small side of shoestring tubers. What I got was the whole fucking state of Idaho. Can you guess where I'm eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week's Guess Where posts is entered into a pool -- and every Monday, we select one lucky winner who'll r ... More >>

Photo: James Holmes-Obama billboard's message defended by conservative group

In the immediate aftermath of the Aurora theater shooting, President Barack Obama and presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney backed off politics for a few days. But the pair are back to going after each other hammer and tongs, as are their supporters -- like a group in Idaho that pr ... More >>

Director Skip Armstrong on The Warrior, fourth film in Of Souls Water series

This morning Forge Motion Pictures, NRS Films, and New Belgium Brewing released The Warrior, the fourth of five short films in Carbondale-based director Skip Armstrong's series Of Souls Water profiling a series of athletes and adventurers whose lives revolve around water in different ways. We've b ... More >>

Q&A: Buck Roetman on the aftermath of his plane crash

In over 35 years of flying, pilot Buck Roetman had never put so much as a scratch on a plane -- until recently. While flying at an air-show preview in Idaho a few weeks ago, Roetman's plane suffered a system failure and crashed, wrecking the aircraft but leaving the pilot with only minor injuries. R ... More >>

The Poop Fairy program expands to Boise

Ryan Miller accused of killing teacher Andrea Roan, Richard Leavitt charged as accessory (33)

While a three-year-old's shooting of a five-year-old may have been the holiday season's most shocking violent death, it was hardly the only one. Another tragic incident involved elementary school teacher Andrea Roan, who was allegedly slain by Ryan Miller, her estranged boyfriend, with Richard Leavi ... More >>

Shepherd's pie with tempeh satisfies on Meatless Monday

​​​​​No one's saying you have to go meatless just because it's Monday -- but as an incentive to join the growing Meatless Monday movement, we're featuring an animal-free recipe each week. Shepherd's pie is a comfort-food staple that contains several of our favorite things: mashed pota ... More >>

West Coast travelogue part two: Night of Joy, Lust-Cats of the Gutters and Sara Century come home

Kentaro MuraiLust-Cats of the Gutters in Moscow, IdahoThere is something really awesome about being able to wake up and look at a day and think, I'm probably going to be in at least two states during the course of the next 24 hours. This is the epitome of what tour feels like, when it's going well, ... More >>

Lefthand Canyon fire's 622 acres are 80 percent contained, human-caused (VIDEOS)

Videos below.​Given how wet our Marches tend to be, we don't expect conditions dry enough to create fire danger -- but there's concern aplenty in Lefthand Canyon, where a blaze has consumed approximately 622 acres and caused evacuations of 223 homes. At this point, with the flames 80 percent c ... More >>

The Source of All Things: Boulder-based author Tracy Ross on her harrowing journey from sexual abuse victim to survivor

​In 2009, Tracy Ross, Senior Editor for Backpacker Magazine, won a National Magazine Award for her December 2007 essay The Source of All Things, a story quite unlike any of the tales of outdoor adventure she'd previously written about. The essay centered on a hike she took as an adult with her ... More >>

Denver's Next Improv Star week 6 recap

​The exquisite corps is an oddity generally only seen in literature. If you are an exceptionally obsessive lit nerd and/or have taken eighth grade English, you've probably encountered it somewhere: someone begins a story with a sentence and other people finish it, sentence by sentence, without ... More >>

Rudolph: He's what's for dinner

Run run Rudolph!​Caffe Boa, the restaurant in Tempe, Arizona, that served rrabbit at a very special Easter dinner, is at it again, with a multi-course, not-so-tasteful menu for Christmas that's a reindeer roundup. Chef Payton Curry claims that his holiday meal features reindeer not from the N ... More >>

Guess where I'm eating?

Lori Midson​I'm a sucker for skinny, salt-licked fries, and these hand-cut tubers, fresh and hot and sidekicked with a choice of dipping sauces -- in this case, curried -- are worth their weight in Idaho potato fields. Can you guess where I'm eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the fi ... More >>

Body parts, animal parts and prophylactics: top five horrific things found in food

A Flickr photo​For anyone who's keeping track, a North Carolina teen is the latest victim to fall prey to finding an unappetizing object in his food. In this case, it seems the kid found an entire box cutter -- intact -- in his bag of Barcelona-brand peanuts. Quick, call Homeland Security! ... More >>

Guess where I'm eating?

Lori Midson​There's nothing that beats the gravy fries at Steuben's or the cheese fries at Jonsey's EatBar, but these French fries, pelted with bacon and ribbons of scallions, drizzled with mild cheese sauce and served with a side of housemade ranch dressing, certainly do justice to the lowly ... More >>

Dialed In: This week's local music radio playlists

​Here what the area's local-centric specialty radio shows were spinning this week. We're currently tracking the playlists a number of different shows including, Radio 1190's Local Shakedown*, KTCL's Locals Only, the Colorado Sound, which originates at KRFC and is re-broadcast all over Colorado ... More >>

Say olé! to Cafe Rio Mexican Grill

Lori Midson​ If Chipotle, Qdoba, Illegal Pete's and Chez Jose aren't enough to satisfy your seam-busting burrito cravings, there's a new contender in town that might. Cafe Rio Mexican Grill, 610 South Colorado Boulevard, which shares the same small mall address as a new Garbanzo Mediterranean ... More >>

Q&A with Eric Gilbert of Finn Riggins

​Eric Gilbert, Lisa Simpson and Cam Bouiss formed Finn Riggins in the small town of Hailey, Idaho, in August of 2006. Since that time, the band has put out five releases. Three of those albums were released on the Portland, Oregon-based Tender Loving Empire label including the act's latest, Vs. Wi ... More >>

Why I hate green (and vegetarian and organic and other politics-driven) restaurants

​I am something of a killjoy when it comes to marketing fad masquerading as political movement. I am, by nature, highly suspicious of anyone who hangs their ideals out there in undisguised effort to make a buck. Sure, these might be deeply felt beliefs. They might have, at their core, some h ... More >>

Beer and Cheer: Tommyknocker Winter Warmer

Merry Christmas! Happy Hanukah! Feel like drinkin'? Why not try any number of awesome craft beers that are released only around the holidays. Try the one below, or read about many others in our Booze News blog archive. Cocoa Porter Winter Warmer Tommyknocker Brewery Idaho Springs A rich, dark po ... More >>

I am not the guy for Five Guys

  Since 1986, Five Guys Burgers and Fries has focused on keeping things simple, serving burgers wrapped in foil and bagged to-go in greasy brown paper sacks, even if you're eating in; Idaho potato fries, hand-cut and fried in peanut oil; cold Cokes; some hot dogs. It's a classic American operat ... More >>

Live from the MySpace Café, DNC headquarters for ass-kissing and flesh-pressing

Jason Sheehan, live from the MySpace Cafe at the Corner Office

Live from the MySpace Café, DNC headquarters for ass-kissing and flesh-pressing

Looking for Larry, #2

Looking for Larry

Centuries in the Making

The Peking Acrobats put on an age-old show.

Good Cop, Bad Cop

Mystery writer C.J. Box discusses his latest tale.

Thespians, Unite!

Photo Finish

Visitors to DIA can now walk a mile in our shoes.

Delegating Denver #16 of 56: Idaho

The Nigerian Scam Strikes Again

Caught in an Internet con, courtesy FedEx.

Third Time Around

The 2005 biennial at the MCA is an absolute must.

Sharpening Klawz

The UNC Bears tangle with tougher grid foes.

Flick Pick

Golden Film Festival

Pop Quiz

Play Quizball!
March 13, 2003

Critic's Choice

Caustic Resin

This Place Is a Dump!

Rocky Flats was designed to produce plutonium triggers for nuclear bombs. But what it really produced was waste -- lots of hazardous waste.

Q-Tip

Amplified
(Arista)

John Linnell

State Songs
(Zoë Records)

A Booming Field

A Grand Junction couple churns out big-bang theories about fireworks.

Loaded for Bear

State biologist Tom Beck wants hunters to think before they shoot. It's been a hard sell.

Letters

DON'T TOUCH THAT DIALOGUE

THE LITTLE-KNOWN CCEM DOESN'T CLEAN UP POLLUTION. BUT WITH $7.6 MILLION IN TAX MONEY TO PLAY WITH, IT SURE CAN TALK ABOUT IT.

EJECTION DAY