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North Africa

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2012

    Woody Paige, Vincent Carroll get pay cuts at the Denver Post?

    Today, the Denver Post's Woody Paige lauds Baylor for winning the NCAA women's basketball championship. But did he receive less compensation for his prose than usual? Multiple sources tell us Paige received a pay cut around the time columnists Mike Littwin and Penny Parker were laid off -- and so di ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2012

    Meet Atomga, a homegrown outfit specializing in traditional Nigerian Afrobeat and funk

    Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 bring their white hot melodies, thunderous vocal stylings and high vibration rhythms to the Boulder Theater tonight. But while Seun, the son of legendary Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti, and his band are clearly the main draw this evening, you won't want to miss the opener, Atomga, a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2012

    Reader: Beer made human civilization possible!

    Did beer save the world? According to this infographic, beer has been a boon to mankind since the time of the Egyptians (who used it as medicine), an economic driver behind railroad development, commercial refrigeration and, yes, the automatic (and hypnotic) bottling process.

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2012

    How beer saved the world: An infographic on the historical benefits of beer

    Dating back to the time of the Egyptians, beer has benefited man (beer was prescribed as a medicine, naturally.) Through the modern age, beer was an economic driver behind railroad development, commercial refrigeration, and yes, the automatic (and hypnotic) bottling process. Below is an infographi ... More >>

  • Music

    March 8, 2012

    Men in Burka mix it up at Rhinoceropolis on March 8

    Dating back to the time of the Egyptians, beer has benefited man (beer was prescribed as a medicine, naturally.) Through the modern age, beer was an economic driver behind railroad development, commercial refrigeration, and yes, the automatic (and hypnotic) bottling process. Below is an infographi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 21, 2012

    Stoner MacGyver product review: The Little Black Book of Marijuana

    Now and then, companies send us medical marijuana-related products ranging from vaporizers to board games. We showcase them in our quasi-regular product review section, Stoner MacGyver. The latest? The Little Black Book of Marijuana by Steve Elliott.

  • Film

    November 3, 2011

    Swedish documentary The Black Power Mixtape tells it like it was

    Now and then, companies send us medical marijuana-related products ranging from vaporizers to board games. We showcase them in our quasi-regular product review section, Stoner MacGyver. The latest? The Little Black Book of Marijuana by Steve Elliott.

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2011

    The history of candy -- very short and sweet

    Flickr photo​There's something so sweet about sweet. The cavemen knew it, and were willing to risk limbs and whatever other body parts weren't covered in hair in order to grab honey from beehives. Over many, many thousands of years, the preferred form of sweet evolved from honey to all kinds o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2011

    Reader: Princess Diana showing up in Egypt is no pyramid scheme.

    ​What if Princess Diana wasn't killed by that car wreck in Paris? What if she survived, and re-invented herself as a commoner in Egypt, where she attempted to solve the mystery of what happened to Ankhesenamun, King Tutankhamun's wife? What if? That's the unlikely premise behind The Lost Qu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 18, 2011

    Princess Diana survives the crash and starts a new chapter in The Lost Queen of England

    ​Boulder author H. Elizabeth Owen just published a book about Princess Diana surviving her paparazzi-induced car wreck and escaping to Egypt, where she became intertwined with another long-lost queen. So let's get this out of the way right now: Does Owen actually believe Princess Diana is aliv ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2011

    Peter Hessler: Q&A with winner of MacArthur Foundation genius grant and cool half million

    Peter Hessler.​Colorado-based writer Peter Hessler, best known for his articles and books on China, won a MacArthur Fellowship. Colloquially called the "genius" grant, the $500,000 award, paid out over five years, is a blank check for the recipient to pursue his or her creative ambitions. For ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2011

    Write a one sentence story and win publication in the next Fast Forward Press anthology

    ​Fast Forward Press' release party for its new flash fiction anthology is coming up tonight at the Mercury Cafe, and you could be featured in the next book. To the reader who writes the best one sentence story in the comments section below, Fast Forward Press will offer publication in their ne ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2011

    Willow, the prodigal cat: Where we suspect she spent her five lost years

    Willow the cat.​Meet Willow, a six-year-old calico who has gained five years, one and a half pounds and surprisingly little gray hair since she was lost from her Broomfield home half a decade ago, somehow not eaten by coyotes and discovered Wednesday in the Big Apple. To be clear, that's roug ... More >>

  • News

    August 25, 2011

    What's in a tres leches cake?

    Willow the cat.​Meet Willow, a six-year-old calico who has gained five years, one and a half pounds and surprisingly little gray hair since she was lost from her Broomfield home half a decade ago, somehow not eaten by coyotes and discovered Wednesday in the Big Apple. To be clear, that's roug ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2011

    How The Inner Room, filmed entirely in Colorado, was made

    Filming on location in Bumfuck, Egypt.​Fairplay, Colorado, is a tiny mountain town with about one street, situated some 40 miles south of Frisco between the San Isabel and Pike national forests. In other words, it's in the middle of nowhere. In other other words, it's a really difficult place ... More >>

  • Film

    July 14, 2011

    Flick Pick: Politics and ethics underscore the drama in If a Tree Falls

    Filming on location in Bumfuck, Egypt.​Fairplay, Colorado, is a tiny mountain town with about one street, situated some 40 miles south of Frisco between the San Isabel and Pike national forests. In other words, it's in the middle of nowhere. In other other words, it's a really difficult place ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 5, 2011

    13 Assassins, Once Upon a River and other new-release picks for July 5, 2011

    ​Going back to work after a three-day weekend sucks, so take a few minutes to deviate from your expected tasks and plan your evening. Today promises some exciting new releases, which translates to exciting new ways to bond with yourself, whether it be chillaxing in your hammock reading a new b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2011

    Cars 2 and other sequels that tried (and failed) to freshen up by going abroad

    ​What's the best way to perk up a tired movie franchise? Most of the time, there is no way. But movie producers still continue to try by taking the old characters overseas and hoping the new locale will reheat the leftovers. Case in point: Cars 2. The film comes out this Friday and promises to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2011

    On cooo: If pigeons didn't love MCA Denver, they wouldn't keep coming back, right?

    ​Homing pigeons are amazing birds. From a young age, they have the ability to find their way home to where they were raised from hundreds of miles away. This ability -- which has yet to be fully understood - made them perfect for delivering messages in ancient Egypt, where people would tie not ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2011

    Gay immigration: Queen Boat incident, Egypt's infamous anti-gay raid, is reason to seek asylum

    ​ "Coming Out To America" tells the story of Sam, a gay Egyptian seeking asylum in the United States. Though Egypt doesn't have any explicit laws against homosexuality, gay men there are routinely arrested and tortured. In one infamous incident, 52 men were arrested in 2001 on a floating disco ... More >>

  • News

    May 5, 2011

    Gay immigrants need asylum from persecution at home

    ​ "Coming Out To America" tells the story of Sam, a gay Egyptian seeking asylum in the United States. Though Egypt doesn't have any explicit laws against homosexuality, gay men there are routinely arrested and tortured. In one infamous incident, 52 men were arrested in 2001 on a floating disco ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2011

    Science Lounge combined the whimsy of childhood with the drinking of adulthood

    Please touch the artifacts.​As a small child whipping my crayons around the perfect spiral assistance of the Spirograph, I never never anticipated that I could maximize that activity by adding the sweet elixir of booze, or that I'd be doing both with the aid of the Denver Museum of Nature and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2011

    SXSW Travelogue: Air Dubai engages in water gun fight and plays its first showcase

    ​ Saturday, March 19 (or Friday, March 18 -- since the night just isn't over) Let me first start today's travelogue by saying how amazing a time it has been here in Texas. It's 4 a.m. currently (technically, still the night of Friday the 18th, but whatev), and I am writing from our hotel roo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2011

    Photos: Lions at DIA portend of the vast Illuminati conspiracy

    Clever ruse, Bob Barker, but we know of your nefarious designs.​If there's one thing we've learned from Dan Brown, it's that, when the Illuminati get a vast conspiracy reaching to the very highest levels of the world's centers of power going on, they like to drop little hints about it. For exa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2011

    Girl Scouts won't be arrested for selling door to door in Boulder, 'cause sheriff needs Thin Mints

    Flickr​Earlier this week, local Girl Scouts of Colorado troop leaders received an e-mail warning that anyone who doesn't get approval in Boulder to sell cookies door to door or from a booth "will be arrested." If Boulderites see cops slapping cuffs on six-year-old Brownies, the Pearl Street M ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2011

    UFO Phil on his plan to build a giant pyramid on Pikes Peak

    UFO Phil.​Think you're good at suspending disbelief? The latest story from Phil Hill, aka UFO Phil, will put you to the test. The vigorous self-promoter, who says he's been abducted by aliens "my whole life," now has a plan to generate free electricity for all by building a giant pyramid on P ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 3, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 13, 2010

    Cut Chemist at the Gothic, 12/10/10

    Paul LukesCut Chemist on Friday night at the Gothic Theatre.​ CUT CHEMIST J Flash • Skwared 12.10.10 | Gothic Theatre DJ Skwared took the stage at 9 p.m. Surprisingly, the kid in the Tap-Out hat knew his hip-hop. He started his set with Newcleus' "Jam On It," went into Juan Atkins' "Clear" ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2010

    ICE seizes torrent websites in Wack-a-mole-esque operation

    Kicking ass and seizing websites​When U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) isn't prowling our borders for drug traffickers, it's prowling our digital borders and shutting down torrent domains that facilitate the piracy of copyrighted material. But seizing a domain name is a lot like ... More >>

  • Culture

    October 28, 2010

    Now Showing

    Kicking ass and seizing websites​When U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) isn't prowling our borders for drug traffickers, it's prowling our digital borders and shutting down torrent domains that facilitate the piracy of copyrighted material. But seizing a domain name is a lot like ... More >>

  • Culture

    October 21, 2010

    Now Showing

    Kicking ass and seizing websites​When U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) isn't prowling our borders for drug traffickers, it's prowling our digital borders and shutting down torrent domains that facilitate the piracy of copyrighted material. But seizing a domain name is a lot like ... More >>

  • Culture

    October 14, 2010

    Now Showing

    Kicking ass and seizing websites​When U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) isn't prowling our borders for drug traffickers, it's prowling our digital borders and shutting down torrent domains that facilitate the piracy of copyrighted material. But seizing a domain name is a lot like ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 21, 2010

    Red Sea parted (on computer) by CU & National Center for Atmospheric Research: Holy Moses!

    ​Hallelujah! The parting of the Red Sea, one of the great miracles of ancient times, has occurred again -- only this time it happened on computer simulators designed by Boulder researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the University of Colorado at Boulder. The result, sa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2010

    King Tut's penis: It's missing from him, and the new DAM exhibit

    ​The Denver Art Museum's new mega-blockbuster exhibit "Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs," features more than a hundred artifacts associated with the celebrity pharaoh. But one thing you probably won't find anywhere is Tut's penis. That's because it's apparently missing, poss ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 24, 2010

    Gunning for World Cup Glory

    ​The Denver Art Museum's new mega-blockbuster exhibit "Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs," features more than a hundred artifacts associated with the celebrity pharaoh. But one thing you probably won't find anywhere is Tut's penis. That's because it's apparently missing, poss ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2010

    Today: Cook Street focuses on North Africa

    ​Those of us who love food tend to love it from all regions of the globe. But while we might appreciate certain exotic cuisines, it's sometimes difficult to incorporate them into our own cooking repertoire. You can change all that with Cook Street School of Fine Cooking's A World of Taste ser ... More >>

  • News

    May 7, 2009

    You'll have a swine time at the Cherry Creek mall

    ​Those of us who love food tend to love it from all regions of the globe. But while we might appreciate certain exotic cuisines, it's sometimes difficult to incorporate them into our own cooking repertoire. You can change all that with Cook Street School of Fine Cooking's A World of Taste ser ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 13, 2008

    Checkmate

    ​Those of us who love food tend to love it from all regions of the globe. But while we might appreciate certain exotic cuisines, it's sometimes difficult to incorporate them into our own cooking repertoire. You can change all that with Cook Street School of Fine Cooking's A World of Taste ser ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 2, 2008

    Light Rock

    ​Those of us who love food tend to love it from all regions of the globe. But while we might appreciate certain exotic cuisines, it's sometimes difficult to incorporate them into our own cooking repertoire. You can change all that with Cook Street School of Fine Cooking's A World of Taste ser ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 7, 2008

    The Color Purple

    ​Those of us who love food tend to love it from all regions of the globe. But while we might appreciate certain exotic cuisines, it's sometimes difficult to incorporate them into our own cooking repertoire. You can change all that with Cook Street School of Fine Cooking's A World of Taste ser ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2008

    Hover Bacon Virus Destroys Nation, World

    ​Those of us who love food tend to love it from all regions of the globe. But while we might appreciate certain exotic cuisines, it's sometimes difficult to incorporate them into our own cooking repertoire. You can change all that with Cook Street School of Fine Cooking's A World of Taste ser ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 13, 2008

    Howling with Laughter

    Animals get funny at the Pet Comedy Challenge.

  • Calendar

    February 28, 2008

    Earth Mother

    Animals get funny at the Pet Comedy Challenge.

  • Dining

    January 31, 2008

    Big Hoss Bar-B-Q

    Smoking out another great barbecue joint – and something more.

  • Film

    October 18, 2007

    Rendition

    It’s not torture, but this latest Mideast thriller’s as conventional as they come. We’re (water) bored. (Sorry.)

  • Dining

    November 10, 2005

    Z Whiz

    This bistro is a beauty.

  • Music

    August 30, 2001

    Bumpa Crop

    From Moroccan-flavored psycho-trance to furious superfunk, Critters Buggin cross space and time zones with their music.

  • Dining

    August 16, 1995

    MOUTHING OFF

    From Moroccan-flavored psycho-trance to furious superfunk, Critters Buggin cross space and time zones with their music.

  • Dining

    May 4, 1994

    A SHORE BET

    From Moroccan-flavored psycho-trance to furious superfunk, Critters Buggin cross space and time zones with their music.

  • Dining

    January 26, 1994

    OUT OF AFRICA

    From Moroccan-flavored psycho-trance to furious superfunk, Critters Buggin cross space and time zones with their music.

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