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Paying and Playing It Forward at Starbucks

Pay this forward. “You might think, only in a place called Loveland could generosity pour out in the form of a Vente café latte,” the TV news feature begins. Yup, just in time for the holidays, and to cheer everyone up during the recession doldrums, comes this story from KUSA Channel 9’s ... More >>

Best place to check out shred betties

Loveland Ski Resort

Best Pizza -- Iowa Style

Justine's Pizza

The Empress rules!

Super Star Asian may rate as the Best Dim Sum in Denver, but according to Chinese Restaurant News magazine, the Empress Dim Sum Seafood Restaurant -- a more upscale, white-tablecloth joint located nearby at 2825 West Alameda Avenue -- ranks as the sixth-best Chinese restaurant in America, far ahead ... More >>

Best Mascot

Slapshot , Colorado Eagles

Club Scout

Aztlan Theater

Best Reason to Still Love Colorado Skiing

Loveland Ski Area

Mourned by Flies

Signs of Life
Self-released

What a Character

Signs of Life
Self-released

All Dressed Up

This scavenger hunt is a slippery slope.

Strange but True

A year of dysfunctional family values -- and missing panties.

Who Needs Sturgis?

Thunder in the Rockies is ready to exhaust riders.

Downhill Racers

Ski season beckons the snow junkies

Retroactive

REO Speedwagon

The Ride of Their Lives

These women are going downhill fast.

Vows With a View

Loveland chimes in with Mountaintop Matrimony

Thrills for the week

Loveland chimes in with Mountaintop Matrimony

SPACED OUT

Loveland chimes in with Mountaintop Matrimony

Denver Blogs: Stop yelling, I just want some Sun Chips!

Our daily look at local blogs. Send tips. Picket signs and screaming workers: Coming to a grocery store near you? (5280) Colorado leads the way in green jobs. (Colorado Pols) Tom Lucero gets down and dirty in Loveland. (Colorado Independent)

Go green: Hitch a ride to Monday's medical marijuana hearing

"Jump in, everyone!"Monday is shaping up to be a pot-tastic day. As Joel Warner reported earlier this week, the Colorado Board of Health will hold a hearing to consider tighter regulations on Colorado's burgeoning medical-marijuana trade. And all sorts of stoners, patients, advocates and stoned pati ... More >>

Loveland opening: "Leave your rock skis at home"

There's a lot of love in that land -- from skiers, especially.​ Loveland Ski Area wins this year's race to become the first to open in Colorado. But given how early the starting bell rang -- Loveland hasn't gotten started so soon in forty years -- should zealots leave their top-shelf equipment ... 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 >>

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas with the Nurses (that just sounds dirty, doesn't it?)

​And the Christmas songs just keep cropping up from the scene. Over the past week, we've spotlighted a pair of original holiday-oriented tunes from the Mansfields and Dressy Bessy. This one's a cover from a newer act out of Loveland called The Nurses doing a faithful version of the standard "Have ... More >>

Vows with a View

​And the Christmas songs just keep cropping up from the scene. Over the past week, we've spotlighted a pair of original holiday-oriented tunes from the Mansfields and Dressy Bessy. This one's a cover from a newer act out of Loveland called The Nurses doing a faithful version of the standard "Have ... More >>

Arcanium lands month long tour supporting Bullet for My Valentine

​ After a stint supporting Megadeth on its Endgame tour with Machinehead and Suicide Silence last fall, Arcanium has landed a slot on another high profile tour. At the end of the month, the Loveland-based metal act will join Bullet for My Valentine, Chiodos and Airbourne on the road. The twen ... More >>

Pizza Street is bringing belly-o sandwiches to the 16th Street Mall

​A Loveland-based pizza shop is expanding operations to Denver in the near future. Pizza Street, which serves calzones, wings, signature "belly-o" sandwiches and pizza is moving in soon at 1600 Champa Street, next to Floyd's Barber Shop. A person identifying herself only as the owner's siste ... More >>

Grimm Brothers Brewhouse opens tomorrow in Loveland serving German-style beers

​When Grimm Brothers Brewhouse opens tomorrow in Loveland, it will be the town's only independently-owned brewery. But it will also be one of several craft beer makers around the state that focus on a specific style of suds. "There are breweries in Fort Collins, Greeley, Longmont, Boulder, Es ... More >>

Today: Old Fashioned Roasted Corn Festival in Loveland

A Flickr photo.​Corn is one of the best grains out there -- full of flavor, versatile and good for you. It's particularly delicious roasted, and the city of Loveland must know that, because today and tomorrow, it's hosting the Old Fashioned Corn Roast Festival, featuring a Friday night street ... More >>

Loveland Reservoir Road fire update: No estimate on return for evacuees, see new videos

​While the Fourmile Canyon fire near Boulder is now 100 percent contained, the same can't be said for the Reservoir Road fire, in the Loveland area. According to the latest update, that blaze's containment percentage remains stuck at somewhere between 20 and 25, with authorities not ready to ... More >>

Five reasons to make the Ski Expo this weekend

A Flickr photo.Expo 2008.​An estimated 30,000 ski and snowboard junkies will flock to the Colorado Convention Center this weekend for the 18th annual Ski and Snowboard Expo. Here, five reasons you should be one of them:

Pizza Street hits the street on the 16th Street Mall

​After getting its start in Greeley and then moving on to Loveland, an outpost of Pizza Street opened last Wednesday at 1600 Champa Street. "We've had a lot of requests for our great-tasting food in the city," explains Tom Williams, the owner of this Colorado-based group.

Today in Stoke: Loveland's in the snow day spirit with super-discounted lift tix

Photo courtesy Loveland Ski AreaLoveland's slashing ticket prices (and offering free hot chocolate) for anyone willing to brave the cold​Snow day! Denver Public Schools and others around the region are closed today "due to severe weather conditions and below-freezing temperatures," and Lovelan ... More >>

Loveland valentine verse gets realistically racy rewrite: Kenny Be's Worst-Case Scenario

Dan the Cupid aims to create a postal cachet that reflects modern mores.​ Loveland's annual valentine's program featuring the hand-stamped postal cachet needs to be updated to reflect the racy reputation of the Sweetheart City today...

I Now Pronounce You Stoked For Life

Dan the Cupid aims to create a postal cachet that reflects modern mores.​ Loveland's annual valentine's program featuring the hand-stamped postal cachet needs to be updated to reflect the racy reputation of the Sweetheart City today...

Valentine's Day e-cards from Loveland: Chamber of Commerce is feeling the love

Big pics below.​Updated, 10:48 a.m.: Loveland promotes itself as "the Sweetheart City" via a remailing program that stamps Valentine's Day cards with the community's postmark. WithLoveFromLoveland.com, a website that offers free V-Day e-cards, isn't an official part of this project, which is ... More >>

Medical marijuana dispensaries in Loveland must close by today: $85,000 in revenue earned

​In November, Loveland voted against allowing medical marijuana dispensaries -- and today's the last day they can legally operate in town. Of the fourteen centers in business late last year, Loveland revenue manager Jim Wedding says seven have already shut down, with the rest presumably follow ... More >>

Medical marijuana: Rob Corry on denial of injunction against Loveland dispensary ban

Rob Corry.​Update: On March 1, attorney Rob Corry sued the City of Loveland on behalf of three dispensaries that had to close the previous day under the provisions of a voter-approved medical marijuana business ban. However, yesterday's preliminary injunction hearing didn't go the plaintiffs' ... More >>

Loveland Tax Day Tea Party: 3rd annual event growing -- which is why Ken Buck will be there

​Anyone who doubts the continuing influence of the so-called Tea Party movement need only look at the guest list for tomorrow's third-annual Loveland Tax Day Tea Party. Speakers constitute a who's who of conservative political power in Northern Colorado and beyond.

Reader: Tea Party types are wrong to think Social Security is a redistribution of wealth

​Our post about this past weekend's Tax Day Tea Party in Loveland turned into a lively forum for debate about whether this grassroots movement is a good thing or a bad thing. Here's a post from someone representing the latter point of view.

All Downhill From Here

​Our post about this past weekend's Tax Day Tea Party in Loveland turned into a lively forum for debate about whether this grassroots movement is a good thing or a bad thing. Here's a post from someone representing the latter point of view.

Today in Stoke: Loveland's Chair 4 lottery

Chair 4, photo courtesy of Loveland Ski Area​Retired chairlift chairs are a hot commodity around here, where hardcore skiers and snowboarders like to turn them into porch swings or mountain cabin decor: When Arapahoe Basin offered its old Expedition seats last year to make way for the new Blac ... More >>

You can now earn your way into Heaven... Fest

In case you're wondering, there's only one way to rock So get this: we've received word from trusted and reliable sources that contrary to century's old dogma, you can now earn your way into heaven. Well, not heaven heaven, as in eternity and all that, obviously -- the jury's still out on that ongo ... More >>

Powder day! Wolf Creek Ski Area opens tomorrow with 36 inches of new snow

​"It would be sad to see this much snow not being skied on at a ski area," says Elesha Goad, ticket office supervisor at Wolf Creek Ski Area, where they're opening this weekend to take advantage of the 36 inches of new snow that has fallen in the last 24 hours, and where the forecast calls for ... More >>

Loveland Ski Area welcomes skiers tomorrow, the latest in a string of early-season openings

2010 first chair photo courtesy Loveland Ski AreaFirst chair honors at Loveland will be up for grabs on Friday​The 2011/2012 ski season is officially upon us: Arapahoe Basin opened this morning and Loveland is opening tomorrow. Each will be open daily until well into the Spring skiing season.

Opening day awesomeness at Wolf Creek, Arapahoe Basin, Loveland Ski Area

Photo by Dustin Schaefer, courtesy Loveland Ski AreaLauren Weibert saw a rainbow on opening day at Loveland​The season of winter stoke is upon us: Wolf Creek, Arapahoe Basin, and Loveland Ski Area were all open over the weekend and, this being the 21st century, we found some sweet video covera ... More >>

Who's got the 10 1/2? Loveland and A-Basin ride the storm, Protect Our Winters takes it Further

​Thinking about taking a snow day and heading for the hills this morning? Crank up the Black Flag and point towards the Continental Divide, because the first snow of the season here in Denver hit ski country even harder, with Loveland reporting over 10 inches this morning at 5 a.m. and Arapaho ... More >>

Opening day at Keystone, Copper; EpicMix; Ski Expo; and the Adventure Film Festival

Keystone and Copper Mountain open today, joining Arapahoe Basin, Loveland, and Wolf Creek. And make sure you smile for the cameras at Keystone, where its parent company, Vail Resorts, debuts the new EpicMix Photo social media app: A small army of professional photographers on the mountain will be ... More >>

January is Learn to Ski and Snowboard Month -- but can anyone really do it?

Shredding it on the bunny hill, or something.​"First time?" the guy behind the Loveland rental stand asked as he installed the gadget that would hook my boots on to the board. I don't think he ended the question with "dude," but with his slouched over 'tude, I wanted to hear "dude" or "gnarl ... More >>