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Mayan myths: PeaceJam on the ten worst doomsday predictions , and one surprise

No one could have predicted that all the wacky doomsday predictions tied to the Mayan calendar and December 21, 2012 would mark a new beginning for PeaceJam, the homegrown effort that links Nobel Peace Prize winners with kids, teaching them how to make a difference in the world. But assuming the wor ... More >>

PeaceJam's founders hope to dispel myths about the Mayans

See also: PeaceJam leaders are predicting a busy 2013

Even a miracle may not bring Bill Lee's animals back

See also: Bill Lee, mall Santa whose animals were seized, gets two of his reindeer back

Get the edge on winter fun with The Edge!

TAG|RAW BAR plans to expand -- both its size and menu

TAG|RAW BAR, Troy Guard's house of (mostly) raw foodstuffs that are good for your body and soul, is one of the city's most petite restaurants, but by the start of Denver Restaurant Week(s), Guard and his gang will have doubled the size of the below street level space in the Larimer Square pedestrian ... More >>

Denver's ten best green chiles

If you were born and raised in Denver, you are, by default, a green chile geek. And for those of you who popped out elsewhere (New Mexico notwithstanding), and simply don't get why we're so besotted with suffocating our burritos, enchiladas, rellenos and French fries with verde, we can only assume y ... More >>

The twelve wines of Christmas 2012: part one

​Much like the little elves busy helping Santa at the North Pole, we've spent the better part of the year hard at work. tasting of hundreds of wines -- all so that we can serve up this listing of bottles worthy of only one thing: drinking your way through the most stressful wonderful time of t ... More >>

Ragtime is a visually elegant Arvada Center production

A very special Easter message from the Prophet Elijah

Stop lying to our children.​It's April, and Easter will be here before you know it -- which means it's time for the Prophet Elijah to weigh in. One of our perennial tip-line favorites, the prophet calls us with impressive regularity to tell us his thoughts on a variety of subjects, including w ... More >>

Manitou Springs brings the olde-timey weirdness

​Wherever you go, chances are that not too far away from you is a hidden gem tucked away in some off-the-path corner of the landscape, a weird little spot that somehow got bounced off the flatbed of time and just kind of stayed there -- to find it, you just have to know where to look. Where I' ... More >>

Rudolph: He's what's for dinner

Run run Rudolph!​Caffe Boa, the restaurant in Tempe, Arizona, that served rrabbit at a very special Easter dinner, is at it again, with a multi-course, not-so-tasteful menu for Christmas that's a reindeer roundup. Chef Payton Curry claims that his holiday meal features reindeer not from the N ... More >>

Top five foods to leave Santa instead of cookies

"You'd better watch your ass, Rudy -- Palin's got a gun"​ Over the years, poor St. Nick has been subjected to countless glasses of room-temperature milk and endless holiday plates of instantly-stale-out-of-the-oven sugar cookies dotted with those tiny silver-ball decorations (they're actually ... More >>

The Ratcracker and ten other sad endings to Christmas stories

​Everyone knows The Nutcracker, but few people know the story -- and that's for a good reason: It's is so slight, it's almost incoherent. Yeah, there's a pseudo-plot in the first act about a battle with a Rat King or something, but that's all wrapped up by the second act, which is devoted pret ... More >>

The Santa Ratings: Chik-fil-A on Havana

Bree Davies​This is not what we had planned. By all accounts, the Santa representative at the Aurora Mall -- ahem, the "Town Center at Aurora" --positioned in front of Macy's in a red suit and plopped down in a mildly sad, purple button-back chair was our guy. But after an elf explained that w ... More >>

The Santa Ratings: Cherry Creek Mall

Bree Davies​How Santa can be in so many places at once is something we will never know, but one thing is for sure: Right around Thanksgiving (and all the way until Christmas), you can find him anywhere people are buying stuff. We decided to stake out each incarnation of Santa in and around the ... More >>

Reality Elves

Kenny Be's Yard Arteology: Holiday decorating for everyday yard art

The study of neighbors through their holiday decorations... click image to enlarge​ Look to the left center of the picture above to find the everyday western-themed yard art hiding behind the countless candy canes and wire reindeers. At first, the bronze animal looks like a small bison, but ... More >>

Today's featured event: Make Destination Freedom: Black Radio Days your destination

Just over ten years ago, local filmmaker and stage director donnie l. betts took a chance on radio drama, a medium some might deem obsolete, by reviving the works of Richard Durham, whose long run of live radio theater programs profiled cultural and historical African-American figures beginning in ... More >>

All I Want for Christmas

Santa answers a most unusual wish.

No Chubbies? Fat Chance

The Anti-Gym's Michael Karolchyk says he wants you to hate him, and the media's eating up every word — even the little white lies.

All Aboard!

Sanity Claus

Separating holiday-music gifts from seasonal disorders.

Fred Claus

Vince Vaughn tries to attract a different set of underage babies with Fred Claus.

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.

Christmas Choo-Choo

Santa Baby...

Some culinary wishes and dishes for the new year.

Global Warning

The penguins only dance in the globes at Cherry Creek.

Insanity Claus

A quick guide to St. Nick and his pals at the malls.

Talking Shop

Hammond's raises cane for the holidays

Talking Shop

The early bird gets the bargain

Well Trained

Polar Express is a kids' action movie that parents will warm to.

Jump, Jive and Jingle

Brian Setzer and the gang ring those sleigh bells

Tights Fit

Elf has all the trimmings of a holiday standard.

Free Will

Another SNL vet may be the next Bill Murray. Seriously.

Waves of Fascination

Music's lunatic fringe lives, breathes and flourishes on the shortwave radio dial.

Two-Headed Humorists

A comic duo goes in search of Yeti and yuks.

Jingle Bell Mock

Rattlebrain's gifted comic performances don't always guarantee a happy ending.

Rescue 9/11

This year, a handful of shows provided the healing power of laughter.

Off Limits

Singing his praises

And to All a Good Night

The stage is set for Christmas in Denver.

Jingle Beers

A guide to holiday brews.

No Fighting in the War Room

After a thirty-year open house, NORAD declares Cheyenne Mountain off-limits to tourists.

Naughty, Not Nice

Christmas Packages

The best holiday discs, as well as others that will make you pity the yule.

Slay Bells

Lucky Strikes

Off Limits

Take Them to Your Leaders

Man or Astro-man? announces plans for world domination.

Go With the Floe

MONSTER MISHMASH