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Dilip Joseph: Springs doc saved in Afghanistan rescue that kills SEAL Team's Nicholas Checque

SEAL Team 6 didn't retire after leading the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. The elite squad continues to get the toughest assignments imaginable, and even when they're successful, there can be serious collateral damage. Case in point: A rescue operation in Afghanistan saved a Colorado Springs phys ... More >>

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Westword cover girl Claudia Folska's cooking show is a play on words -- and local food

Claudia Folska, Westword cover girl and a candidate for the RTD Board of Directors, has a variety of interests. In college, she started a nonprofit called Eyecycle that pairs sighted people and blind people on tandem bicycles. After college, she biked from Pakistan to China. This past spring, she ea ... More >>

Claudia Folska doesn't need to see to have vision

The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity is absorbing, funny and smart

Stoner MacGyver marijuana book review: Super Charged

Now and then, companies send us medical marijuana-related products ranging from vaporizers to board games to books. We showcase them in our quasi-regular product review section, Stoner MacGyver. The latest? Super Charged: How Outlaws, Hippies and Scientists Reinvented Marijuana

Najibullah Zazi, beauty-supply bomber, testifies at terrorism trial

The story seemed too crazy to be true: A DIA shuttle driver conspiring to blow up New York's subway system with bombs made from components found in Aurora beauty-supply stores? But after days of questioning in September 2009, 26-year-old Najibullah Zazi was indicted and shipped off to New York, wher ... More >>

Najibullah Zazi's classmate and alleged co-conspirator goes on trial today

Terrorism hit close to home in September 2009, when Aurora resident Najibullah Zazi, an airport shuttle driver, was indicted for being part of a conspiracy to bomb the subways of New York -- with homemade bombs concocted from ingredients he'd purchased at local beauty supply stores. In February 2010 ... More >>

Bennie Milliner, Road Home executive director, channels military experience in new role

Bennie Milliner.​Editor's note: This is the latest profile in Kelsey Whipple's ongoing series highlighting local political activists. Road Home executive director Bennie Milliner's career in service began the day he saw Calvin step out of his brand new, canary-yellow Chevy Impala. Emerging in ... More >>

Mohammed Zazi, father of confessed terrorist, will be sentenced today

Terrorism hit home in September 2009, when Aurora shuttle driver Najibullah Zazi was accused of conspiring to blow up the New York City subway system with homemade bombs made from beauty supplies in an al Qaida-authorized "martyrdom operation." Today, Mohammed Zazi, his father, will be sentenced for ... 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 >>

Q&A: Director Anson Fogel brings Cold to the Reel Rock Film Tour

​"What the fuck am I doing here?" asks mountain climber Cory Richards, in the opening seconds of Cold, one of six climbing films featured in the 2011 Reel Rock Film Tour that kicks off tonight at 6 p.m. at the Boulder Theater. It's a poignant question: Richards is at 21,959' and freezing his a ... More >>

Sneak Peek: Mountainfilm in Telluride 2011

​This week, Mountainfilm in Telluride promoters released the full program for the 32nd annual festival (May 25-30). Since there are more than 70 films on the schedule, we caught up with Mountainfilm's program director Emily Long to bring you a sneak peek at some of this year's most hotly antic ... More >>

Sarah Palin: Colorado Christian Univ. troops salute in wake of Osama bin Laden's death

Sarah Palin.​Wouldn't you know it -- the day after Osama bin Laden was killed by an elite Navy Seal team in Pakistan, former vice presidential candidate and political star Sarah Palin will offer a salute to the troops at Colorado Christian University. And surprisingly enough, she may not be t ... More >>

Inside Jokes

Aurora Fox presents a daring evening of theater with K2

Ask the bartender: Thank Alexander the Great for rum

​Sean Kenyon knows how to pour out both drinks and advice. A third-generation bar man with almost 25 years behind the bar, he is a student of cocktail history, a United States Bartenders Guild-certified Spirits Professional and a BAR Ready graduate of the prestigious Beverage Alcohol Resource ... More >>

HIGH TIMES

Gary Faulkner, if you think Osama's put a bounty on you, you really are crazy

Watch out, Gary!​The vote is in: Here's our latest Shmuck of the Week: Bend over, media. You -- and by "you," I mean "us," too -- have been enabling self-proclaimed Osama hunter Gary Faulkner. With Greeley's latest micro-celeb now claiming bin Laden's put a hit on him, the story's gone from e ... More >>

Gary Faulkner, on David Letterman show, says he and Osama bin Laden are "two heavyweights"

Gary and Dave.​Osama hunter Gary Faulkner's fifteen minutes are ticking away quickly, and he's making the most of them. Mere hours after blathering on CBS' Early Show about his intention to capture bin Laden like a thief, the Greeley man was sitting opposite David Letterman essentially measuri ... More >>

Gary Faulkner, bin Laden hunter: In Letterman preview, he says he wanted to take Osama alive

"Up yours, Osama!"​America can't get enough of Gary Faulkner, who recently returned from Pakistan following his quizzical quest to bag Osama bin Laden. Just days after a remarkable CNN interview during which he almost imploded, he hit CBS' Early Show in advance of his planned appearance on Dav ... More >>

Gary Faulkner displays Colorado's can-do spirit

​And here we thought Ryan Snodgrass and Justin Lariscy, the rafting guides who rescued a thirteen-year-old girl from Clear Creek and got arrested as thanks, were take-charge guys. Now comes news of Gary Faulkner, the Greeley man who made it his mission to kill Osama Bin Laden -- and was pack ... More >>

Here's the rub: A blend of seasoning shops in Boulder could get spicy

Tonight's MTV Hope for Haiti Telethon has roots here at home with mGive

As you've undoubtedly heard by now, tonight the biggest names in entertainment are coming together for MTV's Hope for Haiti Telethon, a unified relief effort to raise much needed funds for the disaster torn country, devastated by the recent earthquake. The relief effort is wide reaching and beyond m ... More >>

The Denver connection to the Queens terror raids

The FBI conducted a number of high-profile raids in Queens yesterday -- high-profile enough to have prompted the CBS report above (beware; you have to watch a commercial before the story actually runs). Along the way, correspondent Bob Orr mentions a man "from the midwest" whose recent travels to A ... More >>

Wake-Up Call: Week starts with a win

It wasn't just the decisive win that made last night's Nuggets victory so gratifying. And it wasn't the fact that Denver looked so good -- if very, very wet -- on national TV. What was particularly sweet about this chapter in the Cinderella story is that the Nuggets were never supposed to be at th ... More >>

Fascination Street: War of Words

Everyone's selling something for the Democratic National Convention. Are you buying it?

Is This Muslim Republican Mr. Right or the Big Cheese?

Ali Hasan is young, rich and brash, and plans to follow in his parents' political footsteps – cowboy boots and all.

Late World With Zach

Zach Galifianakis stands up in Boulder.

Q&A with Zach Galifianakis

Burn, Baby, Burn

Road Warriors

These adventure hounds are gearing up for the quest of their lives: driving across six continents and 100 countries in two years.

To Hell and Back

Michael Winterbottom puts a face -- and a hood -- on the suffering at Guantanamo.

Troubled Water

Deepa Mehta completes her trilogy amid outrage from Hindu fundamentalists.

War Counsel

This drug program is a bust.

Letters to the Editor

From the week of October 20, 2005

Torch or Torture?

The Greeks may have their hands full for the Olympics.

From Bad to Worse

An Afghan girl faces the terror of life under the Taliban.

The World Within

When DJ Vadim traveled to the ends of the earth, he found hip-hop in every corner.

A Taste of Freedom

Salvadoran immigrants have a hunger for the good life.

A Sport for Good Sports

The stately game of cricket is winning young converts.

Our Town

From blues to kiddie core, the year 2001 was an odyssey in local music. Backbeat writers remember the best.

Grim Reverb

For Maraca Five-O, instro-rock means catchin' an asphalt wave.

Santa Fe Style, Part Two

Another trip down Santa Fe Avenue.

Broadcast Noose

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