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Videos: I'm Shmacked captures CU-Boulder on biggest party day of 2013 (so far)

I'm Shmacked is the umbrella term for a series of documentaries intended to capture the culture on college campuses across the country -- which translates to videos of partying students gleefully losing their shit. The latest I'm Shmacked stop? CU-Boulder on St. Patrick's Day, naturally. We've grabb ... More >>

Lucky '13: Stand-up comedian Heather Snow

This past year has been tough for many people, and we're eager to kiss 2012 goodbye. In hopes that 2013 will turn out to be much luckier for many, we invited some of the town's cultural tastemakers -- entrepreneurs and entertainers we're lucky to have in Denver -- to answer a trio of questions. We e ... More >>

Aurora theater shooting victims' families ask state officials to investigate donation fund

Update below: Families representing eleven of the twelve people who died in the Aurora theater shooting have asked Colorado's attorney general and secretary of state to investigate Community First Foundation and its website, GivingFirst.org, which collected more than $5 million in donations to the A ... More >>

Controversy over fracking continues despite industry's best efforts to bury it

CU-Boulder out of Princeton Review's party school top 20, but number 1 for reefer madness?

The latest edition of the Princeton Review's top colleges tome, released this week, is an irony bonanza for CU-Boulder. The school, which topped Playboy's party school list last year, and finished third in Daily Beast party school rankings two weeks ago, is entirely absent from the Princeton Review ... More >>

CU-Boulder third best party school, says Newsweek -- based on arrests?

CU-Boulder has spent a lot of time and effort trying to ditch its party-school reputation -- by, for example, cracking down on the annual 4/20 celebration this year. Nonetheless, Newsweek has just placed the university third on its new party-school list, using unusual criteria: the number of arrests ... More >>

FML, white girl sitcoms and other things that can stay in 2011

R.I.P. FML 2008-2011​Yes, 2012 is creeping up on us like my 32nd birthday (no need to send presents -- I will only be accepting fan letters as gifts and creepy Facebook messages of adoration from high school stalkers). Since the world is not going to be ending as some of us maybe thought it wa ... More >>

Trendsttr: Off The Quad algorithm designed to find "most socially influential" college students

​ What makes someone "the most socially influential college student?" Off The Quad, a Boulder-based digital provider of daily tips about hot goings-on, has come up with a (nerdy) algorithm to figure it out that takes into account how often said college student posts stuff on Facebook and how m ... More >>

Six years after being named top party school, CU Boulder doesn't crack top ten

A Flickr photo."I'm so wasted! Not as wasted as the kids at Wisconsin, but still ..."​Important, breaking story today from the Associated Press, assuming you either have a college-bound child and want to know where not send him, or you are a college-bound child and want to know where to go: Th ... More >>

Colorado State University smells like... deer and locker rooms?

Yesterday, National Public Radio aired a story about Masik Collegiate Fragrances of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, which is developing a line of scents that are supposed to capture the essences of specific universities. Thus far, the firm has only come up with fragrances for Penn State and the Universi ... More >>

Thug Immortal

Agitprop rapper Immortal Technique demands to be heard.

Rough Ride

Mountain bikers and hikers face off over wilderness.

Center Stage

One of Denver's least-understood media projects gets ready for its close-up.

A Clean Break

Former Olympic runner Frank Shorter wants elite athletes to kick their habits.

We Are Capitol Hill

When Stephen Elliott was murdered in an Alfalfa's parking lot last year, it shocked neighbors right down to the bone. Down to the bone, that is, for about 72 hours.

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The Edge

Westword's guide to the 1997-98 ski and snowboard season

Free Beer

SEX AND THE SINGLE BIRD

BEFORE THAT THANKSGIVING TURKEY IS CARVED, A MOMENT OF SILENCE, PLEASE, FOR THE POULTRY GUYS.