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Photos: F*ck Yeah Colorado! celebrates the state you're in, 2013 edition

About this time last year, we tipped our hat to the Fuck Yeah Colorado! tumblr, a site that encourages folks to share images that encapsulate what they love about this fair state. The result is a cyber-collage capable of appealing to a wide range of Coloradans or people who'd like to be ones. Given ... More >>

Reader: History Colorado's Collision was disappointing

Do the Hoppa at Copper Kettle and the Friek at Odell

Last week, we told you about Boulder Beer Company's cameo in an episode of Parks and Recreation -- but this wasn't the only Colorado brewery to get a little air time. A can of Dale's Pale Ale made it into a reenactment scene in SEAL Team Six: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden, which premiered on November ... More >>

Video: 60 Minutes offers nation a primer on Colorado medical marijuana

In recent years, Colorado's medical marijuana business has been chronicled by news purveyors as varied as National Geographic (via the program American Weed) and The Daily Show (which featured our MMJ critic, William Breathes). Last night, 60 Minutes weighed in with its own report, offering a somewh ... More >>

Photographer Cory Richards wins American Alpine Club's 2012 Rowell Award

The American Alpine Club announced this week that Boulder-based photographer Cory Richards has won its 2012 Rowell Award for the Art of Adventure. The $15,000 award, which will be officially presented next month during Mountainfilm in Telluride, is named for photographers Galen and Barbara Rowell, w ... More >>

Andrew Skurka unpacks The Ultimate Hiker's Gear Guide

The greatest adventures are always more about the journey than the destination, but that truism can be easy to forget when you can't wait to get that heavy pack off your back. If the actual hiking isn't the most enjoyable part of your backpacking trips, then you just might be going about the whole t ... More >>

American Weed chronicles Colorado MMJ on National Geographic Channel

Video below.​The Colorado medical and recreational cannabis communities are put under the lens of reality television tonight. Tonight, National Geographic Channel will air the first episode American Weed, the latest weed-themed reality TV show to hit the mainstream. See a preview below.

OutsideOnline.com screening Sweetgrass Productions' ski film Solitaire tonight

Boulder-based filmmaker Nick Waggoner's Sweetgrass Productions film Solitaire -- documenting two years exploring South American backcountry terrain on a human-powered trek around Argentina, Peru, and Chilean Patagonia -- was the year's most surprising ski film, winning the Best Cinematography award ... More >>

Climber Cory Richards, skier Nick Waggoner finalists for National Geographic Adventurers of the Year

Self-portrait by Cory Richards, via adventure.nationalgeographic.com​National Geographic announced the finalists for its 2012 Adventurers of the Year awards on Friday, and they include two Boulder locals: Cory Richards, the first American to complete a winter ascent of an 8,000 meter peak, and ... More >>

19th century explorers make their way to Neptune Mountaineering tonight

In the 1880s, English explorers Teresa and St. George Littledale -- with their fox terrier, Tanny, in tow -- mounted expeditions in the Rocky Mountains and across North America. And then they headed even further afield, to the Caucasus, the Pamirs, Russian Central Asia, Mongolia and eventually Tibet ... More >>

Oskar Blues taps into viral honey badger video with new beer, but honey badger don't care

Oskar Blues is the second Colorado brewery to tap into a viral YouTube video, releasing Honey Badger Smoked Porter at its restaurants in Longmont and Lyons yesterday. The beer was inspired by "The Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger (original narration by Randall)," a National Geographic video with a hilar ... More >>

A crash course in MacArthur-winning journalist Peter Hessler, as suggested by Peter Hessler

​Ridgway-based journalist and recent MacArthur "genius" grant winner Peter Hessler's work spans China, small towns in southwestern Colorado and back to Nepal. Latest Word has more on the $500,000 award from the MacArthur Foundation which was announced its 22 winners yesterday, as well as a Q&A ... More >>

Reader: Perpetuating the social stigma of furries

​There's no way to offend a sub-culture, it seems, like writing silly captions beneath pics of one of their gatherings. So it goes with furries, many of whom have been upset by my Furry Field Guide, which parodied a National Geographic-style wildlife manual using photos from the 2011 Rocky Mou ... More >>

Henry Rollins on National Geographic gig and other adventures in work

​Henry Rollins (appearing at the Soiled Dove Underground this Sunday, April 3) began his career fronting Black Flag, an endeavor he won a Grammy for chronicling in the audio book Get in The Van. He went on to front The Rollins Band and appeared in numerous films.

Today in stoke: Vicariously walk 4,680 miles in Andrew Skurka's boots

​If you need some inspiration for your next epic trek (or just prefer to live vicariously through the tales of others), stop by Neptune Mountaineering in Boulder, 633 South Broadway Suite A, tonight at 8 p.m., where Boulder-based adventurer Andrew Skurka will share a multimedia presentation do ... More >>

Today in Stoke: Climbing expedition applications open for Copp-Dash Inspire Awards

​Ready to climb something crazy and then tell the tale in style? The Jonny Copp Foundation is now accepting applications for its $20,000 in 2011 Copp-Dash Inspire Awards, named in memory of Copp (Boulder's Adventure Film Festival founder) and his climbing partner Micah Dash, who died in 2009 i ... More >>

Birds in Arkansas: Ten more crazy things that fell from the sky

Courtesy of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette​More than a thousand blackbirds, grackles and starlings fell from the sky on New Year's Eve in Beebe, Arkansas. So far, there has been no official explanation for the avian precipitation, but we thought we'd look to other unexpected things falling fro ... More >>

Candy Claws' new video - "The Breathing Fire"

​This past summer, Candy Claws lost all of its gear in a car fire, mid-way through an East coast tour. Fortunately, the band escaped physically unharmed and forged ahead with the remaining dates, and a late summer full-length sophomore release, Hidden Lands, followed. This week, the octet debu ... More >>

Solitary-confinement report conclusions outrage prison activists

Colorado's supermax is so much fun the state is opening a second one. ​The release of a twelve-month study about the mental effects of solitary confinement at Colorado's supermax is still weeks away. But preliminary results leaked from the report -- which suggest state prisoners suffer little ... More >>

Die Antwoord take us deeper down the zef rabbithole

Our first encounter with South African Internet sensation Die Antwoord saw us categorize them as just another bizarro novelty for the Freaky Friday canon. But then a funny thing happened -- as we dug a little deeper, we started to kind of like it (well, some us did -- we seem to have a split decisio ... More >>

Sports Go to Extremes

Sports Go to Extremes

Sea Monsters

Wildlife Experience

Climb Every Mountain

Talking Shop

Changing Climates, Changing Minds

On the Backs of Great Men

Déjà View

Thought Equity Motion is using old footage in new revenue-generating ways.

Cherry Creek, Phone Home

First Round the Corner disappeared. Now Tattered Cover. What's next?

Culture Stock

Go native in Mesa Verde.

Brix

Going up the Creek

Best Bookstore for Readers Who Have Time (and Life) on Their Hands

Denver Book Fair

Artbeat

Brief sketches of what's happening in the Denver art scene.

Cache In

GPS is the techie's way to scavenge

Pharaoh Weather

Travel through time with Treasures of Ancient Egypt

Mall in the Family

If you build it, they will come.

Cultural Pioneers

Campaign for Tibet remembers the Rowells

Incredible Journey

Lewis & Clark re-creates an epic journey on the very big screen.

Short Sighted

Run, bounce, jump, sing and dance at KidSpree.

Belly, Belly Good

Make 'em quake with a shimmy and a shake.

Deep Thinker

The realistic Widowmaker cruises in a nuclear sea.

Mountain Do

In Himalaya, the human spirit tests its mettle.

Best Appearance by Colorado in a National Magazine

Rico, Colorado

Night & Day

June 10 - 16, 1999

Plane Truths

Calendar

Mar. 12 - 18, 1998

The Bust Was a Bust

Who got stung by National Geographic's on-camera sting of a fossil "poacher"?

Skeletons in Their Closet

The feds had a bone to pick with this fossil-hunting family.

BIG SMACK ATTACK