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June 1, 2009
Obama burger watch
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July 25, 2008
Friday Rap-Up: 50 Cent, Dr. Dre, Nas
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August 7, 2008
Frances and Monica Owens on Cindy McCain: She's Nifty
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August 7, 2008
Frances and Monica Owens on Cindy McCain: She's Nifty
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August 26, 2008
Channel 4 leading the charge on Obama threat story
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August 26, 2008
Channel 4 leading the charge on Obama assassination threat story
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August 27, 2008
Inside the first Denver taping of The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
At this point, it's safe to say that I could commit myself to a full-time position of doing nothing but reporting on where the President (or VP) decides to eat his lunch every day. I mean, we've already had the Grey Poupon controversy (and the resulting, tongue-in-cheek marketing push by Grey Poupon ... More >>
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August 27, 2008
Inside the first Denver taping of The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
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August 29, 2008
Michelle Obama is the Bomb-a
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September 3, 2008
Obama murder plot story and the North Carolina connection
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November 5, 2008
Remembering Westword's endorsement of... George Clinton?
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November 7, 2008
Pueblo's Presidential Plate
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January 20, 2009
The idea of Shaquille O'Neal as a Nugget becomes an inaugural-concert laugh line
During last night's Kids' Inaugural concert, a Michelle Obama-hosted bash for military families and Washington, D.C.-area children that was nationally broadcast on the Disney Channel, performers such as Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers shared spotlight time with an extended video package shot in ... More >>
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July 10, 2008
Glory Be!
Hallelujah! A decade later, our defiled Glory Bear returns no worse for wear.
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April 29, 2009
Urbavore's Dilemma: Christie Isenberg aims to till the asphalt jungle
Urbavore's Dilemma is an ongoing web series detailing city dwellers' commitment to urban homesteading. From May through September, Westword writer Joel Warner will get his hands dirty, covering everything from backyard chickens to front-lawn gardens, from greenhouses to co-ops and food-sharing. ... More >>
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November 6, 2009
How does Michelle Obama's garden grow? Find out on Iron Chef America
Photo: Courtesy of Getty ImagesFirst, Michelle Obama caught the attention of carrot stalkers when she corralled a group of Washington, D.C., schoolkids to help her garden grow on the White House's South Lawn; she also pimped her garden on Sesame Street. Then Spike Mendelsohn, burger wizard, forme ... More >>
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January 6, 2010
ACLU wins settlement with Jeffco sheriff's office over Nobama shirt student
Blake Benson rocks his Nobama duds.Conservatives like to portray the American Civil Liberties Union as a bunch of dangerous lefties with a decidedly progressive agenda rather than principles that transcend the politics of the moment. But that argument was dinged today, when the ACLU's Colora ... More >>
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January 8, 2010
Strange Sauce: The week in national food news
OUCH. Michelle Obama appeared on Iron Chef America and challenged contestants to use ingredients from the White House vegetable garden. Mario Batali, known for his hideous orange Crocs, dubbed Michelle's dress "Obamatali Orange." Although we prefer him plump, George Costanza has agreed to ... More >>
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January 15, 2010
Busted: Food Network cops to filming fake White House veggies
It was a highly anticipated episode: Mario, Bobby, Emeril, and the White House executive chef, Cristeta Cornerford would all be there. The secret ingredient? Any vegetable from the White House vegetable garden. And the 7.6 million viewers that tuned in to Iron Chef America on January 3 also ... More >>
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January 15, 2010
Cafe Society: Week in review
What you may have missed this week on Cafe Society while you were getting your morning groove on at the new Rise & Shine Biscuit Kitchen and Cafe, which opened right around the same time as the Denver Biscuit Company. Cupcakes: out; biscuits: in. After hyping and hyping and hyping the two- ... More >>
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February 12, 2010
Strange Sauce: The week in national food news
Michelle Obama's "Let's Move" campaign against childhood obesity kicked off yesterday in full force. Among her goals are the demand for promoting more exercise within school curriculums, teaching children about healthy food choices, and ensuring that nutritional information will be less misle ... More >>
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April 20, 2010
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 >>
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May 25, 2010
McDonald's: Send in the clown
Ronald McDonald and his target market captured on www.retireronald.org. The clown at the center of the controversy had nothing on the clowns outside the annual McDonald's investor meeting in Chicago last week. Ronald McDonald has been under fire recently as a provider of both bad meals and ... More >>
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July 22, 2010
The Daily Beast lambastes the 25 unhealthiest kids meals
Friendly's Mac and Cheese QuesadillaIn solidarity with Michelle Obama's war on childhood obesity, the Daily Beast put together a nice little slideshow about the 25 unhealthiest kids meals in the country. Every gut bomb on the list contains more than 800 calories, but topping the charts was ... More >>
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July 29, 2010
Colorado kid's nutrition website leads charge in Michelle Obama's contest
Karen Laszlo started Zisboombah.com this past November to encourage kids to make better choices when it came to deciding what to eat. Six months later, she found her Boulder-based company in Michelle Obama's contest, competing against 90 other kids' nutrition technology applications from acro ... More >>
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September 17, 2010
Denver restaurants jumping on the healthy kids' meals bandwagon
With great power comes great responsibility.... That was the message from First Lady Michelle Obama to the professional food corps at the National Restaurant Association earlier this week. In the quest to fight childhood obesity, the motive behind her national "Let's Move!" campaign, Obama u ... More >>
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October 5, 2010
Michelle Obama awards Boulder-based ZisBoomBah $10,000 for kids nutrition website
Zisboombah.com nets $10,000 from Michelle Obama for its nutrition technology for kidsIn July, we reported that Boulder-based Zisboombah.com was a frontrunner in Michelle Obama's contest for the best kids nutrition technology application. The winner of that contest was up for a $10,000 grand p ... More >>
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October 12, 2010
Michael Bennet welcoming Bill Clinton, Michelle Obama -- and President Barack Obama, too?
Michael Bennet and Ken Buck at 9News debate.Last night, Senator Michael Bennet and Republican challenger Ken Buck engaged in their most high-profile debate yet -- and shockingly enough, Bennet spokesman Trevor Kincaid believes his guy handily won the 9News-sponsored event on view below. Kinc ... More >>
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November 29, 2010
"Renegade Lunch Lady" Ann Cooper bellies up to the salad bar
Ann Cooper is a busy lunch lady -- even if she's not the hairnet-wearing stereotype, standing behind the hot-lunch line plopping down scoops of canned green beans and powdered mashed potatoes. In fact, she's been trying for years to make sure those green beans are fresh (even local!) and the ... More >>
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January 26, 2011
Michelle Obama was touting mentoring while my father was practicing what she preached
Ms. Obama.The president was not the only Obama to make a speech yesterday. Michelle Obama was at the Library of Congress celebrating the tenth anniversary of National Mentoring Month. My father didn't know it was Thank Your Mentor Day when he took his mentee, Byron, to his suburban Chicago Ro ... More >>
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February 1, 2011
Union Station redevelopment will close off the tunnel, but not the memories
I first stepped into Denver at Union Station. A group of families had taken the train out from Chicago for a ski vacation, and the kids had commandeered the dome car -- where, early the next morning, we woke to our first glimpse of the mountains. By breakfast, we'd pulled into Union Station - ... More >>
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February 22, 2011
Michelle Obama orders ribs at Restaurant Kelly Liken, gets called "fat" by Rush Limbaugh
Dominique Taylor, Vail DailyMichelle Obama spent her Presidents' Weekend without the president and with her daughters in Vail, where she skied, dined and managed to get the conservative media so riled up they called her fat. We know that the First Lady has made battling childhood obesity her ... More >>
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February 23, 2011
Reader: Skip the Michelle Obama/Rush Limbaugh food fight? Fat chance
Rush Limbaugh, ashShould Rush Limbaugh have commented at all on Michelle Obama's visit to Vail -- much less suggest that the First Lady, who has made childhood obesity her major cause, had no business eating short ribs? And did Cafe Society have any business getting into this political food f ... More >>
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February 23, 2011
Michelle Obama eats well on Top Chef's Kelly Liken's ribs; you can, too, with this recipe
Kelly LikenIt's been a big week for Kelly Liken of Vail's Restaurant Kelly Liken, who was named a James Beard semi-finalist for Best Chef: Southwest (for the third time) -- and then fed Michelle Obama and three friends over the weekend. Liken recently competed on Top Chef, and Michelle Obama ... More >>
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February 24, 2011
Reader: Keep those culinary-school graduates away from the stove!
While comments continue to fly over Rush Limbaugh's response to Michelle Obama's visit to Vail and Amber Taufen's open letter to militant vegans (148 comments and counting), some readers are fed up with controversy. If you can't stand the heat, get back in the kitchen. That's what Scubasteve did, ... More >>
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April 11, 2011
Jessica Simpson (and Michelle Obama) to honor military families at Coors Field on April 13
Jessica Simpson.Pop trollop Jessica Simpson may not have really hexed Dallas quarterback Tony Romo when the two were an item. But with Troy Tulowitzki just shaking off the curse of Katy Perry, we still have reason to worry about any connection to J-Simp, who'll reportedly make an appearance a ... More >>
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April 19, 2011
Barack Obama's sit-down with CBS4's Shaun Boyd: The pros and cons of going local (VIDEO)
Video below.According to CBS4's Shaun Boyd, the station was granted an interview with President Barack Obama because "we asked." But this on-air explanation doesn't tell the whole story. Obama sat down with numerous TV reporters from local outlets yesterday -- presumably because his staff fel ... More >>
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May 16, 2011
Common and the White House: What The Anthology of Rap suggests about the flap
Last week, conservatives cried foul over Michelle Obama inviting the rapper Common to a poetry reading at the White House, since he'd rapped about violence against cops and President George W. Bush. While the reading went off without a hitch, the debate goes on: Jon Stewart and Bill O'Reilly ... More >>
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June 23, 2011
La Toya says Michael Jackson was murdered: Top five other music myths and conspiracies
In an interview with CNN yesterday, La Toya Jackson stated rather bluntly that she believed her brother was murdered. "I would never, ever think differently," she said. "Michael told me that they were going to murder him." It's not that outrageous of a claim, but it's also one of those things ... More >>
Culture
June 30, 2011
Realism be damned, Hairspray gives us exactly what we want
In an interview with CNN yesterday, La Toya Jackson stated rather bluntly that she believed her brother was murdered. "I would never, ever think differently," she said. "Michael told me that they were going to murder him." It's not that outrageous of a claim, but it's also one of those things ... More >>
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July 12, 2011
Top five foodie fights to last a lifetime
Watching foodies beat the organic-arugula shit out of each other in the media is a lot like watching toddlers fight in the sandbox: It's hilarious, semi-productive, and it basically comes down to which kid has the biggest shovel and sand pail to knock down bodies with. Foodie fights are semi- ... More >>
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July 14, 2011
Bastille Day: Five reasons to love the French
Flickr photo by whologwhyWith DSK (Dominique Strauss-Kahn) and his did-he-didn't-he-rape-a-New-York-hotel-maid story all over both sides of the Atlantic, it's not a great time to be French. The guy once seen as a top contender in 2012 presidential election pool has now become a poster-child f ... More >>
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September 12, 2011
Michelle Obama-like-Planet of the Apes-character comment earns laugh from radio host
Michelle Obama.Denver blogs posts take a licking and keep on ticking. BigMedia.org's Jason Salzman on a radio listener saying Michelle Obama recalls Planet of the Apes -- and host Jimmy Lakey guffawing. Colorado Independent's David O. Williams on federal loan guarantees earmarked for a sout ... More >>
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October 3, 2011
Michelle Obama = Chewbacca according to Colorado Springs radio host Jimmy Lakey
Not Michelle.Denver blog posts a-go-go! BigMedia.org: Jimmy Lakey, the same radio host who laughed at comparisons of Michelle Obama to Planet of the Apes, now thinks she looks like Chewbacca. Classy! Colorado Education News' Alan Gottlieb on teacher bashing. Colorado Pols: Today's the dead ... More >>
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October 28, 2011
J.R. Smith is going to regret taking that easy Chinese money if NBA lockout ends soon
J.R. Smith.Denver blog posts play hurt. Denver Stiffs' Andrew Feinstein thinks J.R. Smith, Wilson Chandler and Kenyon Martin will rue the day they locked in to play basketball in China until March if the NBA lockout ends soon. Free Colorado's Ari Armstrong on the student-loan bailout. BigM ... More >>
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November 2, 2011
Secret no more: PlatteForum receives award from Michelle Obama in Washington, D.C.
Salvador Flores-MartinezThe cat's now out of the bag: Earlier today, PlatteForum founder and artistic director Judy Anderson, education director Meagan Terry and nineteen-year-old student representative Salvador Flores-Martinez were honored at the White House by First Lady Michelle O ... More >>
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November 3, 2011
Eyes on the prize: Michelle Obama honors PlatteForum
Ain't it beautiful? That's Judy Anderson and Salvador Flores-Martinez of Denver's PlatteForum accepting the 2011 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award from Michelle Obama yesterday at the White House. Their voyage to Washington also marked Sal's first-ever jet flight and an ensuin ... More >>
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December 22, 2011
Fifteen best Denver ART moments in 2011
Bicycle vs. Homing Pigeon vs. Moped from Village Voice Media on Vimeo.We've been rolling off lists this week like there's no tomorrow, and maybe there isn't, considering that pesky 2012 Mayan prophecy and all that. Earlier this week, Jef Otte presented his 10 best moments in Denver arts list, riffin ... More >>
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December 30, 2011
John Hickenlooper hangs with Barack Obama, Neil Diamond at the Kennedy Center Honors
Carol PrattLarge image below.During Tuesday night's broadcast of the 34th annual Kennedy Center Honors, the cameras frequently swept over the President's box occupied by Barack and Michelle Obama, as well as honorees Sonny Rollins, Barbara Cook, Neil Diamond, Meryl Streep and Yo-Yo Ma -- and ... More >>
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January 3, 2012
Reader: John Hickenlooper invited to hang with Barack Obama because he's a sell-out, too
Carol PrattThe lineup at the Kennedy Center honors: (from left) Sonny Rollins, Barbara Cook, Neil Diamond, Meryl Streep, Yo-Yo Ma, First Lady Michelle Obama, President Barack Obama and, yes, Colorado governor John Hickenlooper and Helen Thorpe.John Hickenlooper still isn't sure why he was the ... More >>
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