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Marya Errin Jones' new zine gives wings to pilot Bessie Coleman's story

Bessie Coleman may not be a household name like Amelia Earhart -- but she should be. As the first black woman to get her pilot's license -- in 1921, before Earhart was in the air -- Coleman is the subject of the new zine series Mocha Chocolata Mamma, by Marya Errin Jones, performance artist and foun ... More >>

Denver Zine Library's non-crisis campaign: Book it!

The Denver Zine Library has declared February the month of online fundraising, to help "sustain and grow the zine community in the Denver area," says DLZ co-founder and longtime caretaker Kelly Shortandqueer. At the start of February, the group launched a month of events and awareness-raising camp ... More >>

Has a Tim Tebow double Sports Illustrated cover curse come to pass?

​In late November, in the midst of his amazing run of fourth quarter comebacks, Tim Tebow and Sports Authority Field at Mile High graced the cover of Sports Illustrated, in what we figured would be would be a horrendous continuation of the famed SI Curse; in fact, we laid out five ways that th ... More >>

Q&A: Tomas Moniz brings Rad Dad book/zine tour to the Denver Zine Library on Saturday

​The Denver Zine Library at 2727 West 27th Avenue is hosting a special Rad Dad reading on Saturday at 1 p.m. featuring Tomas Moniz, editor of the Rad Dad zine and co-editor (with Daddy Dialectic editor Jeremy Adam Smith) of the new book Rad Dad: Dispatches From the Frontiers of Fatherhood. W ... More >>

Father Knows Best

An ode to the Denver Zine Library

Robin Edwards​This is part of a series of posts in honor of Denver Arts Week, saluting some of our favorite people and places on the arts scene. A few weeks ago, I got a text from a friend excitedly telling me that she had come across a zine I made when I was seventeen at the Denver Zine Libr ... More >>

Reader: Only magazine that doesn't feature pics of hot, barely dressed girls is the New Yorker

The debate over the scrapped Hot Ass contest and fake-orgasm competitions at HempCon 2011, an alleged medical marijuana event, continues to broil even though the bash itself is over. Here's a post taking on the question of centerfolds in pot-oriented publications.

Lean Zine Machine

Tesco Vee of the Meatmen on punk in Michigan, Meatmen album covers and Touch and Go

The Meatmen​ In the late 1970s, Tesco Vee was an elementary school teacher in Michigan who lead something of a secret life, first as a fan of punk rock and then as the frontman of one of the most notorious and hilarious bands of that era -- the Meatmen (due this afternoon at Twist & Shout for ... More >>

Tonight: Drugs, daydreams and DIY at the Denver Zine Library

The content is not as trippy as the cover.​In the way that anything has at least its category in common with its opposite (red is the opposite of green, for example, but they're both colors), a magazine and a zine are opposites: Where magazines tend to be slick, polished and pandering (ours ex ... More >>

Back On the Road Again: Wayfaring stranger Enola Dismay visits the Denver Zine Library

​Zine author Enola Dismay doesn't like to stay in one place too long; she's 26 and just now "realizing that it's becoming harder and harder to stay in one place. The main reason," she adds, "is because when I settle down somewhere, I overload myself with projects, overextend myself and get str ... More >>

Today In Stoke: Skylar Holgate throws some pow on the cover of Snowboard Colorado

​Nobody's reppin' the local scene as hard as the new Snowboard Colorado magazine, and the third issue hit core snowboard shops this week. To pick up your free copy, look for the brand-new magazine racks made from Colorado beetle-kill wood. That's Skylar Holgate on the cover carving a big turn ... More >>

The Zine Scene

Das Racist

Thursday, August 12, The Church, coclubs.com.

Kim Kardashian's ass & other juicy details from the Carmelo Anthony-Lala Vazquez wedding

A different photo of Kim Kardashian's ass.​O. M. F. G.! Us Weekly, the best magazine ever and the reason it takes us twenty extra minutes at the grocery store checkout counter because we're engrossed in reading "Stars! They're just like us!," has all the dirt on Melo and Lala's wedding last w ... More >>

Rudi's buns win more than a passing glance from Good Housekeeping

​Good Housekeeping has been keeping an eye on a lot of buns lately. The ladies' magazine recently voted Boulder-based Rudi's Organic Bakery's buns the hottest of them all. Rudi's buns won out over the likes of Sara Lee and Pepperidge Farm buns in a taste test comparing eight brands of whole ... More >>

Cast your vote for the most delicious magazine cover of the year

​So, the American Society of Magazine Editors is holding a little contest, and it's the kind of contest that'll make you hungry. Here's the deal: See the half dozen food porn magazine covers above? It's your job to vote for the porn that speaks to your stomach. The covers comprise the top six fina ... More >>

Color the Past

Yellow Rake releases a best-of compilation.

INDenver Times renegades plan Rocky Mountain Independent

David Milstead. Today's update about INDenver Times noted that many of the principals in the project, including former Rocky Mountain News business writer David Milstead, had struck off on their own on April 23 after INDT signed up only 3,000 subscribers (its goal was 50,000). In a conversation at ... More >>

New Yorker State of Mind

Humor on the Slopes expands its horizons

Comic Genius

Two local artists face off in a battle royal.

Breathe Carolina checks in on Billboard charts

America's favorite sport? Shootin' at stuff

Silver Jeans and Teen Vogue Party

Silver Jeans: Affordable denim with a designer fit

The Zine Scene

Resurrecting the Champ Strikes Denver With a Low Blow

War Time Smile and the Return of John Reidy

See and Be Zine

Dive into the Denver Zine Fest.

DIY or Die

Hop aboard the Gadabout Traveling Film Festival.

Altitude Check

As other pubs fall, 5280 is a mile high and rising.

M.I.A.

Arular (XL Recordings)

The Beatdown

The Denver Hip-Hop Summit may have flatlined, but there was still plenty to celebrate about hip-hop in Mootown last week.

Best Rock-and-Roll Debacle

Riff's Rock In' Freak Fest

Best Place to Find a Flirty Frock

Agogo Star

Book Keepers

The Denver Zine Library opens a new chapter in Colorado letters.

Critic's Choice

Peter Cincotti

Best Place to Dispose of Old Magazines

Safeway

Best Next Job for Jeffco Sheriff John Stone

Time magazine subscription salesman

Survival of the Fittest

Planet Muscle publisher Jeff Everson isn't afraid to tackle the truth about bodybuilding supplements. Sort of.

Best Appearance by Colorado in a National Magazine

Rico, Colorado

Backwash

Local punk label, King Bee Music, is zine and heard

The Last Word

Stanley Tucci’s Secret is a poignant look at a writer and his curious subject.

Taking a Hit

A maker of "water filtration systems" for smokers gets more publicity than he bargained for.

All the Booze That's Fit to Print

At Denver's Modern Drunkard magazine, the glass is always half full.

WINNERS' CIRCLE

LOW FINANCE

AN ECONOMICS MAGAZINE FOLDS AFTER AMASSING A HUGE DEBT.

PUBLISH AND PERISH

HOW TO FAIL IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY FAILING.