Subject: Natural Disasters

• Storm Chaser

  The Museum of Nature & Science handles natural disasters.

  February 12, 2009

• A Rocky Road

  January 23, 2007

• Boulder's Storm Warning

  August 29, 2006

• All Wet

  May 16, 2006

• Gustav lets loose a flood of Katrina memories...and Michael Brown

  September 1, 2008

• Turnabout is fair play: Ex-FEMA head Michael Brown evacuated in Boulder fire

  You remember Michael Brown -- or "Brownie," as George W. Bush liked to call him. He was head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) when Hurricane Katrina hit, and he soon became the walking, talking symbol of the government's failure to anticipate the size and scope of the disaster or adequately aid victims once it struck. Not long thereafter, he wisely (and appropriately) stepped down from his post and returned to Colorado, where he'd distinguished himself as legal counsel for an

  January 8, 2009

• Wake-Up Call: FEMA trouble

  Among the residents who evacuated in the face of a fast-moving fire in Boulder this week was Michael Brown, current consultant and talk-show host, and former head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, a man who will be forever linked with this remark by President George W. Bush over his handling of Hurricane Katrina: "Heckuva job, Brownie." Brown certainly knew how to handle himself in the Boulder evacuation situation -- he has a "go bag" always packed -- and, as he shared with me in

  January 9, 2009

• Best Way to Avoid an Avalanche

  April 4, 2002

• Best Tornado Tours

  April 4, 2002

• Drink of the Week

  June 26, 2003

• Best Underground-Band Documentary

  March 25, 2004

• Best New Slogan for CU Buffs

  March 25, 2004

• Katrina, stark and surreal, in Trouble the Water

  October 16, 2008

• Alter Ego

  Tony Clifton stops by the Walnut Room.

  September 25, 2008

• Dave Matthews Band

  Friday-Monday, September 9-12, Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 303-830-8497.

  September 8, 2005

• The Rescuers

  Best Friends founder Michael Mountain signs his new book.

  September 4, 2008

• Rik's Trip

  May 8, 2008

• Spiked

  May 1, 2008

• Today's featured event: Natural Disasters in Film at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science is a real screen

  While a slow walk through the exhibit, Nature Unleashed: Inside Natural Disasters, currently on view at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science through May 3, will answer many questions you might have about the unleashed power of volcanoes, twisters and earthquakes, chances are it will merely whet, rather than satisfy, your absorption in that which possesses the untamed, uncompromising capacity to squash you like a bug. And while the exhibit itself is a blast, with its hands-on create-your-own

  April 16, 2009

• Anarchists Stalk Democratic Convention

  On a walking tour of Denver, Unconventional Action makes plans for the Democratic National Convention.

  January 24, 2008

• Storm Rising

  Verne Carlson hunts tornadoes.

  September 20, 2007

• Oyster Opportunity

  March 30, 2006

• Blowin' in the Wind

  March 15, 2007

• Otis Taylor

  Definition of a Circle
  Telarc Records

  March 1, 2007

• Weird and Wonderful

  A look back at the year's flick picks.

  January 4, 2007

• A True Horror Classic

  December 21, 2006

• Henry Butler

  Katrina swamped his life, but music keeps this jazzman afloat.

  November 16, 2006

• Weird and Wonderful

  January 18, 2007

• The Eye of the Storm

  From the bayou to Boulder, Michael Brown's had a heckuva year.

  August 31, 2006

• Myth America

  Hurricane Katrina evacuees have enough woes without battling stereotypes.

  August 31, 2006

• The Skeptic

  Celebrated and shunned, CSU's Bill Gray is taking heat in the global-warming debate.

  June 29, 2006

• Queen City of the Plains

  Nathanial Trotter has a plan to crown Oprah.

  May 25, 2006

• Mogwai

  Mr. Beast (Matador)

  March 9, 2006

• Dr. John

  Thursday, February 16, Cervantes' Masterpiece Ballroom, 1-866-464-2626.

  February 16, 2006

• Critical Fatwa

  Michael Stipe

  February 16, 2006

• Out and About

  Fresh at Lotus

  September 29, 2005

• Critical Fatwa

  Michael Jackson

  September 29, 2005

• We're Not Worthy

  Charity began at home. This home.

  September 29, 2005

• Club Scout

  Dazzle Restaurant and Lounge

  September 15, 2005

• Off Limits

  A Real Horse's Ass

  September 8, 2005

• Off Limits

  Trouble's Bruin

  September 1, 2005

• Pop Quiz

  Slurry With the Singe on Top
  July 24, 2003

  July 24, 2003

• Slide Rules

  An avalanche buried their friend -- and a Denver trio is still digging out.

  March 20, 2003

• Consumed by Fire

  On the front lines of the Hayman blaze.

  August 8, 2002

• Swept Away

  Six friends headed off for a day of backcountry fun. But then came the fast slide to disaster.

  April 22, 1999

• Funnel Vision

  May 16, 1996

• CSU's Japan earthquake test: best experiment ever

  Yesterday, a Colorado State University team led by civil engineering professor John van de Lindt successfully staged a very large-scale test in Miki City, Japan. They've come up with a new approach to building earthquake-proof (or at least more earthquake-proof) buildings, and to see if they're on the right track, they assembled a seven-story mock condominium on an enormous platform capable of simulating a magnitude 7.5 temblor. Not only were the initial results positive, but they're a lot of

  July 15, 2009

• Colorado is suddenly earthquake central

  The blue square on the map represents the location of an earthquake earlier today (click to enlarge).​Earlier today, an earthquake struck near Craig; the U.S. Geological Survey rates it a 3.7 magnitude temblor. That follows a 3.9 magnitude quake near Eads yesterday. So where will nature's vengeance strike tomorrow? Carbondale? La Junta? Or maybe Highlands Ranch, where it can send all those Californians who've moved here to get away from earthquakes into a blind panic? Probably not -- but

  August 18, 2009

• Live and Learn

  November 12, 2009

• The Real World Hooters = Classy

  MTV is looking for overweight home-schoolers who have been affected by natural disasters for the next season of The Real World -- and it's coming to find them in Denver, which hosted its own cast of seven strangers picked to live in a house in 2006 and 2007. Real World casting directors will be at a Hooters at 1390 South Colorado Boulevard tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., where, we imagine, they will sift through hundreds of hot, bicurious babes and Red-Bull-and-vodka-swilling dudes to find th

  November 13, 2009