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Night & Day

November 12 - 18, 1998

Mouthing Off

November 12 - 18, 1998

Today's Night & Day featured event: Jody Williams gives PeaceJam a chance

Jody Williams. Sure, Denver hosted the Democratic National Convention in August 2008, filling the town with bold names and high hopes. Still, for sheer exuberance and truly Nobel intentions, it didn't top the tenth anniversary celebration of PeaceJam, which in September 2006 brought a dozen Nobel P ... More >>

The Beatdown

A long day's journey into the Wild Divine.

The Ice Man

When Al Gore and other global-warming experts want to come in out of the cold, they turn to Boulder's Konrad Steffen.

Give Peace Jam a Chance

Adolfo Perez Esquivel speaks out.

Letters to the Editor

From the week of 8/16/2007

Nobel Virtues

Colorado's Nobel Peace Prize nominees rock harder than Bono.

Letters to the Editor

From the week of September 28, 2006

Speak Your Peace

Some very Nobel intentions pay off.

Nobel Intentions

Go, Broncos! Promoting peace is serious business.

Maggiano’s Little Italy

Love thy neighbor

The Hills Are Alive

Matt Fecher brings the sound of music to Fairplay.

Pressing Engagements

Matt Fecher brings the sound of music to Fairplay.

A Nobel Calling

In just two months, change starts here. In Denver. No joke.

A Peace of the Action

Look out, Cherry Hills: The world's coming to Denver.

Let Us Prey

Alan Clements uses Spiritually Incorrect to skewer modern hype.

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Alan Clements uses Spiritually Incorrect to skewer modern hype.

Hit Pick

White Dynamite

Make Book With PeaceJam

The PeaceJam outreach continues in a new book.

We Be Jammin'

PeaceJam scores two theatrical releases -- and kudos from Michael Moore.

Night & Day

May 13-19, 1999

Peace Pipeline

How a couple of "average, flawed people" are jammin' till the jam is through.

Punch and Duty

How a couple of "average, flawed people" are jammin' till the jam is through.

Thrills for the week

How a couple of "average, flawed people" are jammin' till the jam is through.

Skip the Blue Moon, Crowley, and tap one of these other Colorado beers for the political slurp heard 'round the world

Blue Moon: Not the best beer for solving a national crisis.​If the pundits are to be believed, the entirety of our country's centuries-old racial upheaval will be solved today with the cracking open of a couple cold ones. After President Barack Obama ignited a fiery national debate on race re ... More >>

OMG! Douglas County teens face horrors of sexting

​I am back from the front lines of the kiddie porn wars with some shocking news: The prosperous, sprawling suburbs of Douglas County conceal a steamy underbelly of underage sexual exhibitionism. Youth are being exploited right and left. Usually by each other. Sexting -- the insidious, techno ... More >>

Wake-Up Call: A noble, if not Nobel, calling

​Yesterday was a long day in Idledale, the tiny town in the foothills where Dawn Engle and Ivan Suvanjieff put up their feet when they're not pounding the pavement on behalf of PeaceJam, the non-profit they founded over a dozen years ago that links up youth from around the world with Nobel Pea ... More >>

Peace Out!

​Yesterday was a long day in Idledale, the tiny town in the foothills where Dawn Engle and Ivan Suvanjieff put up their feet when they're not pounding the pavement on behalf of PeaceJam, the non-profit they founded over a dozen years ago that links up youth from around the world with Nobel Pea ... More >>

Wake-Up Call: Pull some strings for Peacejam

​It's been a tough year for Peacejam, the homegrown nonprofit that over the past fifteen years has reached out to hundreds of thousands of kids around the globe, showing them that in the toughest circumstances, it's still possible to push for peace -- and then proving it by bringing ten Nobel ... More >>

Give PeaceJam a chance: Buy a guitar

​The five hand-painted guitars signed by ten Nobel Peace Prize winners that will be auctioned off on eBay today are truly for the man who has everything -- although "that's not true until they buy one of the guitars!," points out Ivan Suvanjieff, the founder of PeaceJam, the organization that ... More >>

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​The five hand-painted guitars signed by ten Nobel Peace Prize winners that will be auctioned off on eBay today are truly for the man who has everything -- although "that's not true until they buy one of the guitars!," points out Ivan Suvanjieff, the founder of PeaceJam, the organization that ... More >>

He Loves Rock and Roll

​The five hand-painted guitars signed by ten Nobel Peace Prize winners that will be auctioned off on eBay today are truly for the man who has everything -- although "that's not true until they buy one of the guitars!," points out Ivan Suvanjieff, the founder of PeaceJam, the organization that ... More >>

Obama gives $125,000 in Nobel Prize money to Denver-based American Indian College Fund: Find something to hate about that!

Courtesy of the White House"The Republicans can't blast me for doing this, can they?"​These days, pretty much everything President Barack Obama does is criticized by someone or other. But his detractors will have to work overtime to fault him for his decision regarding the money he received f ... More >>

2012: Mayan end-times prophecies, courtesy of PeaceJam

​It's been quite a year for PeaceJam, the homegrown organization that uses Nobel Peace Prize winners to empower kids to fight for peace around the globe. But the challenges of the past year -- including a major restructuring and a new PeaceJam office -- are nothing compared to what 2012 might ... More >>

PeaceJam looks ahead to 2012, Mayan style

Bradlee ArendtRigoberta Menchu.​Kate Power is one of the few people who can say that her job is "never boring." Power works at PeaceJam, the Arvada-based non-profit that collaborates with Nobel Peace Prize winners to teach kids how to foster peace around the world. "The kids really value tha ... More >>

Rigoberta Menchu Tum, Nobel Prize winner, inspires Denver one community at a time

Rigoberta Menchú Tum.​Rigoberta Menchú Tum, winner of the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize, visited two at-risk Denver communities yesterday, not to preach peace but to preach "harmony." For Menchú Tum and Mayan spiritual teachers Don Pedro Yac Noj and Doña Faviana Cochoy Alva, who are traveling wi ... More >>

The Biennial Roundtable on Women promotes discussion -- and sharing

Rigoberta Menchu Tum​The Biennial of the Americas is in full swing, and at the "Americas Roundtable on Women: Drivers of the New Economy," on July 7, 1992 Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu Tum eloquently summed up the goal of the event when she declared, "I believe that women should be ... More >>

Tireless satire: For Tomfoolery, don't leave your brain at home

Rigoberta Menchu Tum​The Biennial of the Americas is in full swing, and at the "Americas Roundtable on Women: Drivers of the New Economy," on July 7, 1992 Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu Tum eloquently summed up the goal of the event when she declared, "I believe that women should be ... More >>

Flick Pick: 2012: The True Mayan Prophecy shows March 3

Rigoberta Menchu Tum​The Biennial of the Americas is in full swing, and at the "Americas Roundtable on Women: Drivers of the New Economy," on July 7, 1992 Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu Tum eloquently summed up the goal of the event when she declared, "I believe that women should be ... More >>

The apocalypse will kick off in Boulder, and here's why

Rigoberta Menchu Tum​The Biennial of the Americas is in full swing, and at the "Americas Roundtable on Women: Drivers of the New Economy," on July 7, 1992 Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu Tum eloquently summed up the goal of the event when she declared, "I believe that women should be ... More >>

Eyes on the prize: Pray the Devil Back to Hell focuses on Leymah Gbowee

Leymah Gbowee, Nobel Peace Prize winner.​The five-part "Women, War & Peace" spotlights the stories of women in conflict zones. Part two of this series, Pray the Devil Back to Hell, features 2011 Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee and her work in organizing the women of Liberia to unite, ul ... More >>

Give PeaceJam a Chance

Leymah Gbowee, Nobel Peace Prize winner.​The five-part "Women, War & Peace" spotlights the stories of women in conflict zones. Part two of this series, Pray the Devil Back to Hell, features 2011 Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee and her work in organizing the women of Liberia to unite, ul ... More >>

Are you ready for 2012? Watch The True Mayan Prophecy tonight

​Good news! The world is not going to end next December 21, no matter what people insist the Mayan calendar predicts. Dawn Engle and Ivan Suvanjieff, the founders of PeaceJam, exploded that myth in 2012: The True Mayan Prophecy, the award-winning film they released last year that will air toni ... More >>

Round two with Rob Lawler of the Truffle

Lori Midson​ Rob Lawler The Truffle 2906 East Sixth Avenue 303-322-7363 www.denvertruffle.com This is part two of my interview with Rob Lawler, former chef and the sovereign of cheese at the Truffle. Part one of my chat with Lawler ran yesterday. Favorite restaurant in America: I really do ... More >>