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May 25, 2012
Reader: Pedestrians need to get off the Cherry Creek Bike Path
"Those B cycle riders are almost as dangerous as the spandex warriors," says Yosh, in response to Bree Davie's rant about the Cherry Creek Bike Path. This Memorial Day weekend, Denver's parks and trails will be filled with people -- many of them very hazardous to your health. Who are the most dang ... More >>
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May 25, 2012
Smart meters: There's still time to send in your stupid parking stories
Parking at Smart meters can be stupid. After encountering two dumb problems in the space of a few hours downtown, we asked people to submit their most stupid parking story -- for the chance of winning a $50 Smart card to the city's meters. But anyone looking for parking on 14th Street will soon get ... More >>
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May 25, 2012
Ten things to do for $10 this Memorial Day weekend, May 25-28, 2012
Three-day weekends rule, and this one is certain to be a hit. The city is bursting with stuff to do, and you don't have to spend an arm and a leg to do it. Watch Footloose, see a Tim and Eric Awesome Show puppeteer, and more, all for under $10. Enjoy staying out late on Sunday night and experiencing ... More >>
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May 25, 2012
Camping cookbook author Patty Ruwoldt on outdoor cuisine (recipe for chicken stew included)
With Memorial Day comes the start of camping season, and here's a new tool to put in your pack: Patty Ruwoldt's Open Range Cook'n: Home on the Range Cooking Made Easy -- A Camp Cook's Guide to Tasty Vittles. Not only does the book include recipes for satisfying meals you can cook in the great outdoo ... More >>
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May 24, 2012
Five things to do for $5 this Memorial Day
Memorial Day is about honoring fallen soldiers, but it's also about enjoying good company, getting out of work, and firing up the grill. If you don't have a backyard to go to this year, we've got five events this Monday that won't cost you more than a five-spot, from a free barbecue to a rubber duck ... More >>
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May 23, 2012
Colorado beer calendar: Odell's Small Batch kicks off festival season
It's beer festival season and the fiestas -- from the high country to the plains -- are going to come fast. The first two kick off this Memorial Day weekend, but they'll be followed by new ones almost every weekend this summer. Enjoy -- and keep some Advil around.
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May 23, 2012
Elitch Gardens' Tube Top water slide resembles Sandworm from Beetlejuice
Though you can never truly count on the weather in Colorado, it's been consistently warm out there for a while and the forecast calls for it to stay that way. Fortunately, the water park at Elitch Gardens will open May 26, just in time for Memorial Day fun. Here's a look at the latest addition to ... More >>
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May 14, 2012
Roasted potato salad with parsley pesto for a summertime side dish on Meatless Monday
No one's saying you have to go meatless just because it's Monday -- but as incentive to join the growing movement, every week we're offering an animal-free recipe. Memorial Day is fast approaching, which means cookouts and buckets of potato salad. This version (adapted from vegan king Bryant Terry) ... More >>
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March 30, 2012
Reader: Telluride Mountainfilm program looks out of this world
Telluride just announced the focus of its 34th annual Mountainfilm festival program over Memorial Day weekend -- and it's the population explosion. One reader is ready to make some space here on Earth:
Blogs
March 28, 2012
Mountainfilm in Telluride announces 2012 Moving Mountains Symposium roster
Population is the theme of this year's Moving Mountains Symposium on Friday, May 25, kicking off the 34th annual Mountainfilm in Telluride film festival, which runs through May 28 over Memorial Day Weekend. The full roster of speakers for the symposium was just announced.
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September 1, 2011
Beautiful Ordinary
Population is the theme of this year's Moving Mountains Symposium on Friday, May 25, kicking off the 34th annual Mountainfilm in Telluride film festival, which runs through May 28 over Memorial Day Weekend. The full roster of speakers for the symposium was just announced.
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June 27, 2011
Elitch Gardens fireworks show lights up the night, but fizzles with some downtown residents
When Elitch Gardens first moved from northwest Denver to a new, city-subsidized home in the Platte Valley, the amusement park promised fireworks every night. But the real fireworks were set off by cranky neighbors worried about the noise, and the nightly shows fizzled. Now, sixteen years lat ... More >>
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June 2, 2011
Elevation Olympics
When Elitch Gardens first moved from northwest Denver to a new, city-subsidized home in the Platte Valley, the amusement park promised fireworks every night. But the real fireworks were set off by cranky neighbors worried about the noise, and the nightly shows fizzled. Now, sixteen years lat ... More >>
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June 1, 2011
Gratuitous randomness: War face!
Summer doesn't become official until the solstice later this month, but that shit is for hippies: it's June and after Memorial Day, and for all intents and purposes that means it's summer. And while summer is a time for lazy rivers and wasting away in gin-and-tonicville or whatever, it's also ... More >>
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May 31, 2011
Williams Park homicide: Chat turns into deadly shooting, cops looking for dark SUV (3)
Graphic below.Wouldn't it be nice to come out the other end of a Memorial Day weekend without having another death to memorialize? Not this year: Sunday evening at Dr. Daniel Hale Williams Park, a conversation between two men ended with one of them shooting the other to death.
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May 31, 2011
Over the weekend: Rockin' the British Car Boot Sale
In the beginning, there was the Ballpark Market, a singular urban flea with a European ambiance. And not long after that, sisters Kim Dahlquist and Stacey Johnson begat A Paris Flea Market in downtown Littleton, bringing a similar concept to the the southwest 'burbs. And then, and then, and t ... More >>
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May 27, 2011
Lobster Festival over Memorial Weekend at the Fresh Fish Company
It's Memorial Day weekend, which means lots of people will be cooking out -- and if you're already sick at the thought of a weekend full of burgers, brats and beer, head to the Fresh Fish Company, which will present a Memorial Weekend Lobster Festival with specials on Maine lobster dinners th ... More >>
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May 27, 2011
Chris Power Bain spoke for Denver
Chris Power Bain.Memorial Day is still three days away, but all week I have been carried away by memories. The extended Westword family lost one of its members this week when Chris Power Bain, who'd served as advertising manager in the early '80s, passed away. There's much more to her story ... More >>
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May 27, 2011
10 things to do for $10 this weekend, May 27-28, 2011
It's Memorial Day weekend, which for some people means a three-day party. For others it means celebrating veterans and for another set it means extra-long work hours. For most of us, it means we'll be able to drink an extra mojito on Sunday morning and not have to worry about a damn thing. Re ... More >>
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May 27, 2011
This Weekend in Stoke: Top five reasons to hit the road for Memorial Day weekend
Magic Trip is a featured film this weekend at Mountainfilm in TellurideRoad trip! The 32nd annual Mountainfilm in Telluride film festival gets into full swing today at 9 a.m. with opening remarks from filmmaker Tom Shadyac and a Moving Mountains "Awareness into Action" symposium. The first sc ... More >>
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May 27, 2011
Happy Friday: Here's a good place to find a date
Jonathan ShikesThe patio at Ale House at Amato's is usually packed.In the Best of Denver 2011, we named Common Grounds the Best Coffeehouse for Finding a Date, thanks to the constant crowd of young professionals who mingle over cappuccinos. And because we're big proponents of ditching online ... More >>
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May 27, 2011
Country Club cabbage seeds grow faster than money trees: Kenny Be's Hip Tip
Even though household incomes in the Country Club neighborhood are three times higher than the citywide average, money does not grow on trees for residents there. The privileged citizens who live west of the Cherry Creek shopping district grow their money the old-fashioned way -- by sowing p ... More >>
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May 27, 2011
Be My Designated Driver opens service in Denver just in time for Memorial Day weekend
Drunk driving of the sort that allegedly took the life of Lilly Duncan earlier this month is always a concern, but even more so during a three-day weekend like Memorial Day. With that in mind, BeMyDD.com, a new designated-driver service, has just launched in Denver. How does it work?
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May 27, 2011
Pezzner, J.Caprice, Disco Biscuits and more on this Memorial Day weekend's Dance Card
Pezzner plays Appaloosa tonight.The underground scene will be poppin' this Friday night with two back-to-back residencies sharing space. Seattle's Pezzner (Om/Freerange records) will share the stage with Sound Advice, the Tableist and Blood Beat, and Matt'e (aka Garret) at Appaloosa Grill. (9 ... More >>
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May 27, 2011
Keep it low-key and free on Monday at BMoCA
This work by Henrique Oliveira is not a painting. It's made out of wood.Whether you spend the morning of Memorial Day nursing a three-cumulative-day hangover or getting up early and running a perverse distance in the Bolder Boulder, chances are, by Monday afternoon, you are going to need some ... More >>
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May 26, 2011
Older and Bolder
This work by Henrique Oliveira is not a painting. It's made out of wood.Whether you spend the morning of Memorial Day nursing a three-cumulative-day hangover or getting up early and running a perverse distance in the Bolder Boulder, chances are, by Monday afternoon, you are going to need some ... More >>
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May 17, 2011
Mr. Midas gives a sneak peek of his upcoming Flight Risk mixtape, due out on Memorial Day
Still riding high off the success of his full length album, Son of the Crack Era, Mr. Midas is gearing up for a Memorial Day release of his latest project, a mixtape titled Flight Risk. Conceptually, he says the mixtape is an extension of his debut, while others open doors to a different them ... More >>
Blogs
May 10, 2011
Upslope Brewing toasts its new tap room and cans a new beer
Upslope Brewing has a big summer on tap. The Boulder brewery has just tripled the size of its taproom -- a grand reopening party takes place on Thursday, May 12 -- and will add a fourth canned beer to its all-can lineup, Upslope Craft Lager, in the next two weeks. "We wanted to complement o ... More >>
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April 22, 2011
Summer festivals: Seven outdoor events in Colorado to check out (or avoid)
Guy MorissetteMemorial Day weekend is just around the corner, which kicks off the summer festival season. From sweaty outdoor concerts to snooty art crawls, here are the good, bad and ugly of the Metro-area's most popular festivals.
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June 3, 2010
Surf’s Up in Vail
Guy MorissetteMemorial Day weekend is just around the corner, which kicks off the summer festival season. From sweaty outdoor concerts to snooty art crawls, here are the good, bad and ugly of the Metro-area's most popular festivals.
Blogs
June 1, 2010
~~Ten~~ eleven albums for your summer road trip
With the passing of Memorial Day we can finally say summer is here. And with summer comes summer camp, vacations and tours -- and how do we get there? We drive. That's how. This is America, after all. In celebration of seemingly endless sunny days and left-arm tans, we've picked some of our favori ... More >>
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June 1, 2010
Think pink, part deux: Five fantastic rosés to sip this summer
Photo courtesy of Noble Swine Supper ClubInfinite Monkey Theorem roséNow that Memorial Day has come and gone, some people might say that summer has officially started. Others might insist that It's now officially, unrepentantly, rosé drinking season. A few weeks ago I threw down the 201 ... More >>
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May 28, 2010
Tom Tancredo and his band to star at Arizona immigration rally: Kenny Be's Fotochop Friday
While many of America's celebrities announce their Arizona boycott plans, Colorado's most famous performer is preparing a big show of support. Inspired by the new immigration law passed by the Arizona state legislature, Tom Tancredo is getting the band back together.
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May 27, 2010
Loop the Loop
While many of America's celebrities announce their Arizona boycott plans, Colorado's most famous performer is preparing a big show of support. Inspired by the new immigration law passed by the Arizona state legislature, Tom Tancredo is getting the band back together.
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May 27, 2010
Rock On
While many of America's celebrities announce their Arizona boycott plans, Colorado's most famous performer is preparing a big show of support. Inspired by the new immigration law passed by the Arizona state legislature, Tom Tancredo is getting the band back together.
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May 27, 2010
Keystone Loves Mother’s Nature
While many of America's celebrities announce their Arizona boycott plans, Colorado's most famous performer is preparing a big show of support. Inspired by the new immigration law passed by the Arizona state legislature, Tom Tancredo is getting the band back together.
Blogs
May 27, 2010
High Grade Alternatives is a high point on the dispensary scene
As Colorado's medical-marijuana industry grows, marijuana dispensaries of all types and sizes are proliferating around the state. Some resemble swanky bars or sterile dentist offices; others feel like a dope dealer's college dorm room. To help keep them all straight, Westword is offering a n ... More >>
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May 26, 2010
Cooking with Pete and Barb: Memorial Day quinoa and black bean salad
Pete Marczyk and Barbara Macfarlane do not leave their work behind when they leave Marczyk Fine Foods and head for their great old Denver house with the big, new kitchen. They often bring some of their market's choicest ingredients home with them, and cook up a feast. "There's always somethi ... More >>
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May 24, 2010
Memorial Day observed 24/7 by a brooding bald eagle: Kenny Be's Yard Arteology
The study of neighbors through their lawn decorations... Photo by Kenny Be Figure 64. Fort Logan: An eagle-eyed watch over a tiny gravestone dedicated to those who gave. At Fort Logan National Cemetery, veterans, Boy Scouts, Auxillary wives and Senator Michael Bennet will observe this week ... More >>
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May 24, 2010
Culinary calendar for the week ahead: Mountain festivals, wine dinners and field trips
Photo courtesy of Tomas Green/Beaver Creek.You know the summer festival season is upon us when Beaver Creek kicks off the high-country Blues, Brews & BBQ. That's only one of many culinary events to get you through Memorial Day; here's a sampling of what else is in store: Monday, May 24: Fra ... More >>
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May 12, 2010
Cheeky Monk to open new Westminster location, add American craft beers
The Cheeky Monk has discovered the New World. The Belgian beer café, which has spots on East Colfax and in Winter Park, plans to open its third location over Memorial Day in Westminster, and the new place will feature more than a dozen hard-to-find American craft beers alongside its Belgian ... More >>
Music
June 4, 2009
The ’80s are alive at the Roadhouse
The Cheeky Monk has discovered the New World. The Belgian beer café, which has spots on East Colfax and in Winter Park, plans to open its third location over Memorial Day in Westminster, and the new place will feature more than a dozen hard-to-find American craft beers alongside its Belgian ... More >>
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August 28, 2008
A Day At the Park(s)
The Aetna Park to Park 10 Miler runs its course through the city.
Dining
May 29, 2008
Brothers BBQ
It’s the pits.
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May 22, 2008
Jerk-Off at the Gang Bang
Clean, wholesome fun with the Cycle Jerks.
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May 24, 2007
Fest in Peace
Clean, wholesome fun with the Cycle Jerks.
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May 24, 2007
From the Ranch
Salida hosts an art party like no other.
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June 1, 2006
The Back Way
Our Journey uncovers Colorado's prairie treasures.
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May 25, 2006
Jock Stories
Our Journey uncovers Colorado's prairie treasures.
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