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The ten best concerts in Denver this week

10. CLUTCH @ BLACK SHEEP | MON, 3/18/13 Clutch has dodged being saddled with a label, primarily because of the illusion of reinvention it's projected with each album. But the truth is that it's just an illusion. Clutch is set in its ways, yet all of its music sounds like bold experimentation -- even ... More >>

The ten best hip-hop shows this month

The hip-hop, as you know, doesn't stop. It's a new month, which means there's another fresh batch of dope shows for you. And trust: March has plenty of freshness on tap, from revered elder statesmen like De La Soul, Naughty By Nature and GZA to newer cats like Tech N9ne, French Montana and Kendrick ... More >>

The Ringer by Jenny Shank wins Best Fiction honors in the High Plains Book Awards

The 2012 High Plains Book Awards were announced last Saturday at the Yellowstone Art Museums in Billings, Montana, and winners included a hometown heroine: Jenny Shanks, who took Best Fiction honors for The Ringer. Shanks, who lives in Boulder, loosely based her book on the 1999 slaying of Ismael Me ... More >>

In the world's toughest bike race, Justin Simoni rode from disaster to triumph

Also see: Video: Justin Simoni on what it takes to ride the 2,745-mile Tour Divide

Rick Strandlof: The paper trail behind Colorado's biggest stolen valor case

This week's feature story, "Will the real Rick Strandlof please stand up?," explores the identities of a Denver college student who pretended to be a decorated Marine veteran. Although the Supreme Court overturned the Stolen Valor Act last month, effectively nixing any charges against him, Strandlof ... More >>

Hash ruling in Montana unlikely to fly in Colorado, attorney says

Last week, a Montana court ruled that hash and concentrates are not legally defined in that state's medical marijuana laws and are therefore illegal for MMJ patients there to possess. According to Denver marijuana attorney Warren Edson, a similar situation isn't likely to occur in Colorado -- but th ... More >>

Filmmaker Hunter Weeks on Where the Yellowstone Goes

Boulder-based filmmaker Hunter Weeks is bringing his new film, Where the Yellowstone Goes, to the Denver FilmCenter tonight at 7 p.m.; the screening will be followed by a Q&A session. Weeks and his crew -- including his wife, Sarah Hall, and Denver-based filmmaker Mike Dion, a frequent collaborator ... More >>

Artist Rik Sargent on his "One World, One Water" sculpture at Metro State

Metropolitan State College of Denver is hosting a dedication ceremony this afternoon that will showcase its newest monument: a 12-foot-high, 8-foot-deep, 10-foot-wide,1.5 ton water sculpture designed by artist Rik Sargent, and dedicated to Metro's One World, One Water Center for Urban Water and Educ ... More >>

Round two with Brett Shaheen, exec chef of the Wooden Table

Brett Shaheen Wooden Table 2500 East Orchard Road, Greenwood Village 303-730-2152 www.thewoodentablerestaurant.com This is part two of my interview with Brett Shaheen, exec chef of the Wooden Table. Part one of our chat ran yesterday. Favorite restaurant in America: Grizzly Bar in Roscoe, Montana. ... More >>

Vail Resorts Epic Pass holders get snowed by Montana rustlers

MT, not CO.​While Colorado skiers keep watching the skies and the weather reports, hoping to see some of the white stuff, other states aren't sitting idly by on their snowboards. Montana's Big Sky, for example is trying to rustle Colorado skiers...by honoring the Epic Pass issued by Vail Resor ... More >>

Places' pristine brand of pop is prime for radio

​Happy humpday! Here's some piping hot, pristine, radio-ready pop for you hot off the presses and straight out of the Mile High City. The band is called Places, and the tune is titled "Fire" from the group's brand new album, No More Wasted Days. We've been enamored with this act for a few year ... More >>

What's in a name? For craft brewers at #GABF, anything goes

There are the cute ("Smokey the Beer," Blind Tiger Brewing in Topeka, Kansas), the mysterious ("Hoodoo Voodoo IPA," Three Creeks Brewing in Sisters, Oregon), the sexy ("Sexual Chocolate," Foothills Brewing in Winston-Salem, North Carolina) and everything in between when it comes to beer names spotte ... More >>

One Book, One Denver serves up the literary equivalent of a Happy Meal

Ask the Bartender: Meet Joshua Smith, Colorado Cocktail contestant

​Sean Kenyon knows how to pour out both drinks and advice. A third-generation bar man with almost 25 years behind the bar, he is a student of cocktail history, a United States Bartenders Guild-certified Spirits Professional and a BAR Ready graduate of the prestigious Beverage Alcohol Resource ... More >>

Readers: There's no such thing as Colorado green chile!

​Doubters! Although anyone who lives and eats in Denver quickly recognizes that Colorado cuisine includes a particular variation of green chile -- goopy, soupy and porkorific -- there are still those who doubt that there's a particular green native to this state. Blixco for example; New Mexi ... More >>

One chapter book reviews: Henry Winkler's I've Never Met an Idiot on the River, Chapter 2

​At some point in the career of many a celebrity (probably too many a celebrity) comes the dubious decision of writing a memoir, a book people will read presumably on the basis that it's written by a famous person. Of course, for most of those famous people, it actually isn't -- writing (not t ... More >>

Qwest, CenturyLink merger on the line for Colorado Public Utilities Commission

​Colorado's Public Utilities Commission is slated to sign off on Qwest's merger with CenturyLink today, a day after Montana became the fourteenth state to okay the deal, pushing memories of Mountain Bell even further down the line. The PUC was initially scheduled to approve the merger last we ... More >>

Beer bloggers plot world domination

​There are as many styles of beer blogging on the Internet as there are blogs, and there's a new beer blog starting out there every other day. Last weekend, at least a hundred of those bloggers -- from all across the country -- showed up in Boulder to talk beer. They spent the three days of f ... More >>

Reader: Art like Jesus receiving oral sex painting must be protected against vigilante force

​We've hosted a lively debate on a post about "The Romantic Cannibals," an artwork depicting Jesus receiving oral sex that Montana trucker Kathleen Folden allegedly destroyed using a crowbar. Many of the comments debate whether or not the piece, on view below, can be considered art. But for I ... More >>

Driven By Distraction

Top five uses for zucchini

The heroic zucchini that beat back a bear.​Missoula, Montana, is a lovely town in the middle of nowhere with a population consisting primarily of cowpokes and carnivores. Yesterday, the two met in a standoff on the back porch of a house just outside of town, when a black bear paid a surprise v ... More >>

Not player-haters: Hayter's opens in LoDo, Rockaway Tavern opens on Broadway

Whitewater Ramble's Patrick Sites on the time it's taken to release the band's first studio album

Darren Mahuron/Summit Studios​ Seven years and more than six-hundred live shows into its career, Whitewater Ramble has completed work on its long awaited studio debut, All Night Drive. It's been quite road getting to this point. The Fort Collins-based act could easily write a book chronicling ... More >>

Hayter's moving into 1920 Blake Street

Hayter's & Co. is almost ready for company​Mike Hayter and his business partner, Mike Refling, are getting ready to open their new sports bar, Hayter's, in the former Lizard's Bar & Grill space at 1920 Blake Street. And they moved here from Bozeman, Montana, to do it. "First of all, getting ... More >>

Stan Garnett tries to capitalize on AG John Suthers's link to serial killer Scott Lee Kimball

Stan Garnett's playing hardball.​In an April post announcing his intention to challenge Colorado Attorney General John Suthers at the polls this November, Boulder district attorney Stan Garnett focused on issues like watching out for consumers, championing the environment and crafting a workab ... More >>

The guys who called Coloradans' d*cks small: Shmucks of the Week

"I'm small, but I'm powerful."​So ...I love city and state rankings. I even wrote a whole ode to them once. I'm fully aware that they're complete bullshit, just bait for us desperate blogger-types to suck down and spit out in the form of free publicity for whichever company pulled the alleged ... More >>

Mud Lines

Happy Birthday, Dear Bison

Wake-Up Call: Back in bear country

​"Please scare the bears," reads the lead sentence in a story from today's Wall Street Journal. "That is the message state wildlife officials are sending residents of Colorado communities besieged by hungry black bears with a taste for fresh-baked pies and other fattening human fare." The bea ... More >>

Former Bronco Travis Henry sentenced to three years in prison

Travis Henry during his locker-room days. Back in September, former Denver Broncos running back Travis Henry was arrested in relation to a series of cocaine-related charges -- but because the drugs in question were found in Montana, the trial took place there rather than in Denver. That proceeding ... More >>

Vesta giving away twenty happy hours

Vesta Dipping Grill, at 1822 Blake Street, is launching its own "Colorado Stimulus Plan," and giving away a month of happy hours -- a total of twenty in June (one every Monday through Friday through the month). According to Vesta's announcement, the owners (who are also responsible for Steuben's) "f ... More >>

First potential Rocky Mountain News buyer not exactly a media powerhouse

Today's Rocky Mountain News and Denver Post both feature articles about Shawn White Wolf, a Montana entrepreneur who issued a press release last Friday announcing his potential interest in purchasing the Rocky. (Read those pieces here and here.) But White Wolf doesn't go into any detail about how ... More >>

This shop has a captive audience

Shotgun Willie's takes a bullet for the DNC

The sign squad

The sign squad

Vintage Q&A With the Decemberists' Colin Meloy

Party Central

The Art of the DJ and Other Assorted Goodies

Delegating Denver #30 of 56: Montana

The Fire Next Time

True Blue

Solid Gold (and Black)

Beaten back by Montana State, can the Buffs charge ahead with this new anthem?

Rocky High

A photographer looks over the terrain of his adventurous career

Club Scout

Sentence

Best dang recording

Nounsville by Dang Head

Hidden Treasure

Your Fiends and Neighbors

Young Guns

Seeds of Discontent

Kansas farmers say their weather-modification program causes rain. Colorado farmers say it causes trouble.