Kenya

Ulrich Seidl's Love artfully tackles love, sex and the death of innocence

Paradise: Love

In Room 237, the theories behind the Shining are as fascinating as the classic

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The ten most underrated rappers of all time

What contributes to a rapper's underrated status? Is it the unwillingness to compromise? The inability to compromise? An early demise? Bad promotion? Possibly all of these things and more? Whatever the case, with these rappers, it's certainly not for a lack of talent. We put together a list of the t ... More >>

Even sobriety can't tame comedian Ben Roy's savage humor

See also: Everybody Loves Ben Roy: Denver comics weigh in on their longtime colleague

The Presser Foot hosts Sew Day for African Girls benefit Saturday

This Saturday, February 16, The Presser Foot, a sewing and quilting store in Longmont, will host a Sew Day for African Girls. Working with the nonprofit Empower Women In Africa, the store will provide all the materials and inspiration to create cloth menstrual pads -- and in the process help women i ... More >>

Documentary filmmaker Pete McBride releases first trailer for The Water Tower

Basalt-based photographer/filmmaker Pete McBride is offering a sneak peek at his new film The Water Tower today, with the unveiling of a teaser trailer for his documentary that follows Golden-based climber Jake Norton's Challenge 21 team to Mt. Kenya and its vanishing glaciers. See also: - Chasing ... More >>

Why the Obama campaign might want to rethink continuing to use U2's "City of Blinding Lights"

There's no question that the President -- in town this evening to debate Mitt Romney -- is a huge music fan. From quoting Sam Cooke during his '08 acceptance speech to randomly singing Al Green verses during a fundraiser to citing Stevie Wonder as being responsible for his marriage, Obama is far and ... More >>

Albus Brooks leads a trip to Nairobi, Denver's sister city

Denver has ten sister cities, each with its own customs and priorities. Among them is Nairobi, Kenya. City Councilman Albus Brooks, so much a fan of Kenya that he named his daughter after the nation, recently led a trip of Manual High School students (and one teacher), plus private sector businessm ... More >>

BoldLeaders trip to Kenya postponed, but the explorations continue

After months of planning and fundraising, this year's BoldLeaders trip to Kenya has been grounded, thanks to threats of violence from the Somali militant group, Al-Shabaab. The Denver-based group had flights arranged and was within a week of departure when the U.S. Department of State and its embass ... More >>

Guess where I'm drinking rosé on a hot, hot day?

"When did Denver's climate become Kenya?" quipped a friend, who was dripping -- as we all were -- with sweat. The heat, by just about anyone's standards, is insufferable, but a cold glass of rosé, or, in this case, four, in an air-conditioned bar, provided a bit of temporary relief, lasting just lo ... More >>

Hail to the Chiefs

Stoner MacGyver marijuana review: High Times cannabis cookbook

Now and then, companies send us medical marijuana-related products ranging from vaporizers to board games. We showcase them in our quasi-regular product review section, Stoner MacGyver. The latest? The Official High Times Cannabis Cookbook.

Reader: Albus Brooks is wrong about Kenya

Meet your 2012 slam poetry teams: Slam Nuba, Mercury Cafe and Minor Disturbance

Among the lines delivered at poetry slams, one is often repeated: "The point is not the points; the point is the poetry." This has never been more true than over the last week and a half in Denver, when all three of the city's national teams -- Slam Nuba, the Mercury Cafe team and teenage dreamers M ... More >>

Regis University teaching online courses to refugees in Kenya, Malawi in pilot project

Regis University in Denver is taking the lead on a program to teach online college courses in refugee camps in Malawi and Kenya, and in urban Syria. The four-year pilot project is called "Jesuit Commons: Higher Education at the Margins" and it aims to solve a stark problem: the dearth of higher educ ... More >>

This just in: Yer memes R dumb

After the University of Colorado at Boulder's meme page showed up on Facebook, I was convinced that the Internet could use fewer memes. While glittery animated GIFs were once the way to "show some love," memes are the way to show some stupidity, taking an image and vandalizing it with a statement ab ... More >>

Challenge21 climber Jake Norton sets out for three tallest peaks on each continent

Jake Norton, from Golden, CO, is attempting to climb the Triple Seven Summits -- the three highest peaks on each continent -- to raise money to support the Denver-based non-profit Water for People​Jake Norton, a mountain climber from Golden, CO, is in Uganda this week to climb Mount Stanley's ... More >>

Reader: Barack Obama isn't Kenyan, he's British -- and definitely not American-born

​If President Barack Obama thought he'd squelch the birther movement once and for all by releasing his birth certificate, he was wrong. Readers continue to post items like this one, which acknowledges that Obama isn't Kenyan, but argues that he's not American, either.

Gay immigrants aren't alone in fighting the "social visibility" criterion in pleas for asylum

​ What does a gay man look like? Or a whistleblower? Or a woman who, were she to return to her home country, would be targeted for female genital mutilation? Those are the questions raised by "social visibility," a criterion adopted by the Virginia-based Board of Immigration Appeals that some ... More >>

Disney's African Cats anthropormorphizes, but it also addresses harsh realities of life on the plains

Twestival Denver 2011: twestivus for the rest of us!

The Denver Twestival promises to be less dramatic than this photo.​Tweethearts unite! Twitter users and non-Twitter users can network together without a technology barrier at the third annual Denver Twestival on Thursday at Green Spaces in downtown Denver. The Twestival (@twestivaldenver) is o ... More >>

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 >>

Jessica Posner wins $100,000, hugs Jane Lynch as VH1's "Do Something" award winner

Jessica Posner.​Denver's Jessica Posner is the winner of VH1's "Do Something" award, bestowed upon the under-25-year old doing the most to change the world for the better. As proof she's got her priorities straight, the Facebook page for Kenya's Kibera School for Girls, whose good works earned ... More >>

Tom Tancredo's Tea Party "lunacy" about Obama and Kenya a First Lady quote, he insists

Photo by John JohnstonTom Tancredo -- a "minor figure" big enough to be slapped by the White House.​Former Colorado congressman Tom Tancredo has been making the Tea Party circuit of late, with his remarks about topics like civics literacy tests prompting conservative heavyweight Dick Armey to ... More >>

The End of Poverty?

Bill Menezes on the closure of Colorado Media Matters

Photo by Anthony CameraBill Menezes, in a 2006 photo. In "On Watch," a September 2006 Message column, former Rocky Mountain News and Denver Post journalist Bill Menezes explained his mission as head of Colorado Media Matters, the first state-based spin-off from Media Matters, a Washington, D.C. org ... More >>

BARACKTI Chai is a spicy, caffeinated play on words

Bhakti Chai, a micro-brewed, fresh-pressed ginger masala chai tea company, has released a limited edition version of its chai: BARACKTI Chai, in honor of a certain someone who was just inaugurated. Brook Eddy, founder and owner of the Boulder-based company, simply added a shot of AA Kenyan coffee t ... More >>

There's no place like home for Somali refugees in Greeley

Peter Boyles scores first Dr. Jerome Corsi interview since his deportation from Kenya

The Rocky Mountain News's Obama-Kenya Mea Culpa

The Rocky Mountain News's Obama-Kenya Mea Culpa

Keith Olbermann slaps Rocky Mountain News for Obama-Kenya Gaffe

Keith Olbermann slaps Rocky Mountain News for Obama-Kenya Gaffe

Starting Now

There’s more to see at the Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver than the building itself.

We'll Drink to That

Stranger in a Strange Land

I'd never understood Ethiopian food -- and then Haime Asfaw showed me the way.

Dreams Deferred

Inner-city boys spend a year in Kenya. Does it change their lives?

Funky Fresh

A white leading man in a black movie? That is something new.

Bark If You Love Jesus

The annual Blessing of the Animals celebrates paws and claws.

Low Yield

The Constant Gardener ripens into a distasteful thriller.

Talking Shop

Diversity unfolds at the African Market

Wild Denver

Predator Ridge transforms the Denver Zoo

Off Limits

Captive audience

Nowhere, Ma'am

A focus on the wrong woman hinders the otherwise beautiful Nowhere in Africa.

Best Appearance by Colorado in a National Magazine

Seven Lakes Lodge
Sports Illustrated

Lost and Found

The war is now half a world away, but these Sudanese refugees are still fighting to find their place.

Coming to America

These refugees lost their homes and families in southern Sudan. But in Denver, they're finding a future.

The Doctor Is In

This book's a killer!

Kenya Dig It?

A wobbly Basinger and a feeble screenplay doom I Dreamed of Africa.