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Double rainbows verifies Denver as the pot of gold: Kenny Be's Staycation Pictures

Click image to enlarge.​ Greetings from Denver! They don't call it the Mile High City for nothing. Even Mother Nature agrees that Downtown Denver is the proverbial pot of gold. And, not just once, but twice! See how the double rainbows to the left of the photo above balance so nicely with the ... More >>

Nuggets in Denver Blogs: Will the Suns set on Melo and company again?

Photo by Michael RobertsWill they feel like dancing after tonight?​Blogs about Denver are floating around everywhere. Here are three we grabbed. In his preview of the Nuggets' final game of the regular season, Denver Stiffs' Andrew Feinstein notes that a Nugs victory will likely translate to ... More >>

Evil Incarnate

Photo by Michael RobertsWill they feel like dancing after tonight?​Blogs about Denver are floating around everywhere. Here are three we grabbed. In his preview of the Nuggets' final game of the regular season, Denver Stiffs' Andrew Feinstein notes that a Nugs victory will likely translate to ... More >>

Channel 7 wins duPont-Columbia award, broadcast TV's Pulitzer, for plane crash investigation

Tony Kovaleski's got a pretty fancy date next week.​Last March, we lauded 33 Minutes to 3-4 Right, an unusually ambitious half-hour long Channel 7 documentary about the December 2008 crash of Continental Flight 1404, and the thirty-minutes-plus it took for the first ambulance to arrive on the ... More >>

Calm and Composed

Tony Kovaleski's got a pretty fancy date next week.​Last March, we lauded 33 Minutes to 3-4 Right, an unusually ambitious half-hour long Channel 7 documentary about the December 2008 crash of Continental Flight 1404, and the thirty-minutes-plus it took for the first ambulance to arrive on the ... More >>

The mysteries of Sheehan's desk

​ That picture above? That's my desk as it existed this morning, shortly after I was told that I was going to have to move that glorious collection of crap, box it all up and put it in storage while the Westword offices are remodeled. I love my desk. Seven years of shwag, seven years of not ... More >>

Mommy Dearest

August:: Osage County hits the stage with dark humor and dysfunction.

Violet Secrets

Playwright Richard Greenberg delivers a mystical New York moment.

Now we are everywhere...

In case you haven't noticed (or in case you're too lazy to scroll down the page just a little), we--the indomitable staff of the Westword Cafe section--now have a twitter feed.  We're also sporting a couple of new bylines, some fresh blood, and have been working hard to keep the beast fed and t ... More >>

Today's featured event: Author Mark Obmascik's got his eyes on the sky again

Mark Obmascik. Back in 2002, Mark Obmascik, part of the Denver Post team that won a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the 1999 Columbine High School shootings, took a year off in order to write a book about, of all things, bird-watching -- and the slower pace agreed with him. "In journalism, we do ... More >>

7News wins second Peabody award this decade

Images from Channel 7's Peabody-winning series of reports. The Peabody award is the TV-news equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize -- and Channel 7 is among the 2008 winners, along with CNN, Saturday Night Live and HBO's epic John Adams mini-series. The station was honored for "Failing the Children: Dead ... More >>

Today's featured event: Pulitzer Prize winner and East High grad Dan Howe on what God hath wrought

East High grad and author Daniel Howe will talk about his 2008 Pulitzer Prize-winning history tome, What Hath God Wrought -- The Transformation of America: 1815-1848, at 7 p.m. tonight at the Colorado History Museum, 1300 Broadway. The 928-page book, published in late 2007, covers American histor ... More >>

News flash: Rocky Mountain News kicks Denver Post's ass one last time

The front page of the Rocky Mountain News' February 27 edition -- its last. Okay, our copies of the final Rocky Mountain News finally arrived, and I've gotten a chance to spend some time with one of them -- although not as much as I will. The wraparound section celebrating the history of the paper, ... More >>

Two members of Rocky Mountain News photo staff among those leaving paper

In "Rocky Mountain News editor John Temple on the future of the paper: 'We Have No Idea'" -- a blog published on February 16 -- the aforementioned Temple mentioned that approximately half-a-dozen members of his staff had left the tabloid of late, with some landing newspaper jobs despite the horrif ... More >>

Green Speak Happens

Thomas Friedman spreads the good word about an eco-friendly planet.

Wake-Up Call: a visit to the dinosaur museum

On Sunday, I stopped by the Newseum in Washington, D.C., the new, 250,000 square foot facility on Pennyslvania Avenue devoted to the history of news. The views from this building are stunning, as are many of the exhibits. But in many ways, I might as well have been at a natural history museum, loo ... More >>

Thou Art in Heaven

When it comes to Art Spiegelman, we’re not worthy!

Today's Night & Day featured event: The Goldberger Week of Jewish Culture brings it all together at CU-Boulder

David Shneer is a one-man dynamo when it's come to bringing into focus the divergent cultural wings of the Jewish diaspora locally, in the past as a professor and director of the Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Denver and currently in a similar role at CU-Boulder. And he's starti ... More >>

Jewish Culture 101

David Shneer is a one-man dynamo when it's come to bringing into focus the divergent cultural wings of the Jewish diaspora locally, in the past as a professor and director of the Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Denver and currently in a similar role at CU-Boulder. And he's starti ... More >>

Book 'em!

David Shneer is a one-man dynamo when it's come to bringing into focus the divergent cultural wings of the Jewish diaspora locally, in the past as a professor and director of the Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Denver and currently in a similar role at CU-Boulder. And he's starti ... More >>

A Cold Calling

Glengarry Glen Ross is a classic yet timely take on real estate.

Come Together

Journalist Sonia Nazario talks immigration.

Whale of a Tale

Journalist Sonia Nazario talks immigration.

World Science Fiction Convention Shows Denver at its Geekiest

Journalist Sonia Nazario talks immigration.

Hotel Stories

Watch The Hot L Baltimore in the Barth lobby.

Now Playing

Capsule reviews of shows

You Can't Take It With You

Why does anyone want to hang on to this play?

Blizzards: The Up Side

Why does anyone want to hang on to this play?

Peak Performers

Why does anyone want to hang on to this play?

More Messages: Snapped Up

Why does anyone want to hang on to this play?

James McMurtry and the Heartless Bastards

Tuesday, February 14, Larimer Lounge, 303-291-1007.

Talking Shop

There’s plenty to enjoy along Upper 15th Street.

The Shipping News

Flies the Fields (Quarterstick Records)

Making History

Pulitzer Prize-winning photos shine in Capture the Moment.

Best Introduction of a Major Contemporary Playwright

Fucking A, LIDA Project

Drink of the Week

Old Man and the Sea

The Message

Undercover Fox

This Is Not a Test

Despite its scholarly setting, the AvantGuitar Summit isn't all academic.

Best Date Show for Long-Marrieds

Dinner With Friends
Denver Center Theatre Company

Drawn to Comics

Something funny's going on at the Denver Comic Arts Festival.

A Kentucky Derby

History unfolds over two centuries in The Kentucky Cycle.

Best print reporter vs. print reporter feud, second place

Lynn Bartels vs. Mark Obmascik

Eyes on the Prize

The dailies jockey for position for the Pulitzer.

Night & Day

July 8 - 14, 1999

Night & Day

May 6 - 12, 1999

Fasten Your Seatbelts

May 6 - 12, 1999

Encore

May 6 - 12, 1999

Thrills for the week

May 6 - 12, 1999

WINNERS' CIRCLE

May 6 - 12, 1999