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Coy Mathis, transgender first-grader, hits New York Times as school district responds

Update: In recent weeks, we've told you about Coy Mathis, a Fountain six year old who was born male but identifies as female. She's at the center of a dispute with the local district over access to the girl's restroom at her school; look below to see our previous coverage, complete with photos and v ... More >>

Catholic hospital's fetuses-aren't-people claim "hypocrisy," says NY Times's Frank Bruni

New York Times columnist Frank Bruni has weighed in on the story first reported in Westword two weeks ago about a father's attempt to sue a Catholic hospital for the wrongful death of his wife and unborn twin sons. Bruni sums up the way the Catholic hospital reacted -- by trying to dismiss the lawsu ... More >>

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Molly Ringwald on writing and advice she got from Bret Easton Ellis

Molly Ringwald, who comes from a family of voracious readers, started writing as a child -- before she became an '80s teen icon who starred in such John Hughes films as Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink and The Breakfast Club -- but says she never really thought she'd publish anything. Last year, thou ... More >>

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

Contest: Win Sunday brunch (plus drinks!) for four at Central Bistro and Bar

This past Sunday, Central Bistro and Bar, Lance Barto's hot, hip and happening contemporary American hangout in Highland, rolled out its new brunch menu (Nutella waffles!), and in honor of the occasion, we're giving one Cafe Society reader (and three guests) the chance to stuff their bellies for zer ... More >>

Announcement: We have a winner of our Central Bistro and Bar brunch contest

Last Sunday, Lance Barto and his kitchen crew rolled out Central Bistro and Bar's first brunch menu, and earlier this week, we posted a contest, giving one Cafe Society reader, along with three guests of their choice, the chance to check it out for free this Sunday (morning libations and a copy of t ... More >>

Aurora theater shooting threat, NYC Twitter subpoena coverage tells incomplete story

This morning, headlines are screaming about the New York City Police aiming a subpoena at Twitter in regard to tweets about launching an Aurora-theater-shooting-like attack on a Broadway theater. But little of the coverage I've seen has given a complete context of the alleged threat from the @obamam ... More >>

Reader: Sikh temple shooting would have gotten more coverage if victims had been white

In an item yesterday, we argued that the mass shooting at a Wisconsin Sikh temple had received less coverage than the Aurora theater shooting. The response to this point of view fell shy of total acceptance, but numerous readers agreed, and voiced theories about why. Here's one especially detailed a ... More >>

Chip Walton promises Curious's next season will be provoking...and entertaining

Curious Theatre Company just announced its fifteenth season, which includes five regional premieres as well as Yasmina Reza's Tony award-winning God of Carnage. Artistic director Chip Walton says he uses two criteria in making his selections: "I need to be moved intellectually and not just emotional ... More >>

Denver's Bombay Bowl gets a huge shout-out in the New York Times

In the two days since Bombay Bowl, Denver's only fast-casual Indian restaurant, was featured prominently in the dining section of the New York Times, owner Amar Singh has been inundated with franchising offers from all over the globe.

Mutton busting: Child abuse or childhood fun? The New York Times gets in on the debate

Flickr​Is it child abuse to encourage a five-year-old to bear-hug a 150-pound sheep and instruct said five-year-old to hold on tight as the sheep busts a move? Or is it just character-building, rough-and-tumble fun? The New York Times has now waded into the controversy surrounding mutton bust ... More >>

Denver police brutality: City legal payouts pale compared to New York's $500 million problem

Alex Landau.​Allegations of Denver police brutality, from Michael DeHerrera's beating in LoDo to Alex Landau getting pummeled after allegedly making an illegal left turn, continue to make headlines. But how bad is Denver's police misconduct problem? Here's one point of comparison: While Denve ... More >>

Letters: "Politicians have made this nightmare, not the teachers."

Jared Polis and Diana DeGette try to tighten regulations on fracking -- again

"Gasland"​Representatives Diane DeGette and Jared Polis are taking another run at tightening federal regulations on hydraulic fracturing, a natural gas drilling technique also known as fracking. Introduced this week by the Colorado twosome and fellow Democratic rep Maurice Hinchey from New Yor ... More >>

Readers: Denver Post no longer relevant to our lives -- or is it?

​Our interview yesterday with the Denver Post's Mike Littwin about his column moving to the op-ed pages prompted a nasty attack on the Mile High City's paper of record. That was followed by a defense of the broadsheet -- sort of.

Aurora's Handsome Little Devils gets a positive nod from the New York Times

​The Handsome Little Devils' efforts to bring old-fashioned Vaudevillian melodrama to theatergoers in New York City has caught the attention of town's snootiest critics. Earlier this year, the local troupe took their "Squirm Burpee Circus" act out east after securing a spot at the New Victory ... More >>

Creepy, nutcase pastor Terry Jones thinks eating in restaurants is a sin

​Terry Jones, the bat-shit crazy pastor of the obscure 50-member Dove World Outreach Center (DWOC) in Gainesville, Florida, who threatened to burn copies of the Quran on the ninth anniversary of September 11, because he's opposed to the building of the "Ground Zero mosque" (he later called off ... More >>

Michael Bennet DPS deal hits the New York Times

​If you thought Michael Bennet's Regal Cinema deal for Philip Anschutz was complicated, just try to wrap your brain around the Denver Public Schools financing deal he arranged in 2008. The New York Times did, and just published "Exotic Deals Put Denver Schools Deeper in Debt." Here's the star ... More >>

Question of ethics: Should food writers call out restaurants that serve them foreign objects?

Monica Buck​Over the weekend, New York Times writer Mark Bittman posed a question to readers on his personal blog: Should he out the name of the restaurant that served him shards of plastic in his soup?

Army of Anyone: Five years after national Stand Down Day, local recruiters allegedly still bending the rules

Victoria HansenA younger me with my would-be recruiter, Sgt. Tim Pickel.​It's been five years since an investigative report that I wrote for my high school newspaper sent shock waves all the way to the Pentagon. For me, the bomb rush of media and interviews feels like a lifetime ago -- and gen ... More >>

How Colorado cooled the controversy between the Humane Society and big agriculture

Denver's favorite 2009 Netflix rental was The Curious Case of Benjamin Button? Really?

"I'm more appealing than I look."​ Wondering how your friends and neighbors spent their evenings last year -- the ones who close their blinds, anyway? Turns out many of them were watching a dreary, seemingly endless movie in which Brad Pitt spends a long, long time looking like an ancient, qua ... More >>

Unnamed author tried to steal his own book in Boulder. Let the baseless speculation begin!

Gawker spotted this amusing nugget in a story in the New York Times Book Review on Sunday: At Boulder Book Store in Boulder, Colo., one writer was even busted stealing his own books. Christopher Ohman, who was a manager at the time, said: "I think he felt somewhat entitled to the copies. In some w ... More >>

Are you Westword's new pot critic?

Some lucky writer is waiting to inhale in the really Mile High City

And the new, New York Times restaurant critic is...

A Gawker.com photo of New York Times restaurant critic Frank Bruni​For weeks, ever since Frank Bruni announced that he was going to be packing it in and leaving his gig as restaurant critic for the New York Times, speculation has been running high as to who Dining section editor Pete Wells and the ... More >>

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Nothing but the Truth at the Boulder Film Festival

New York restaurants snowed by ski-lodge style

  Ski lodge-style restaurants are all the rage in New York City, the New York Times reports in "Antlers and S'mores," a piece in the paper's December 7 edition. There's the Pinetree lodge, "a maze of comfy rooms with so many trophy heads mounted on the walls that you'd think they'd sn ... More >>

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Porn in the USA

I could write a book about the smut I’ve seen at the library.

The Nanny Diaries

Life as a young, hot, white, educated nanny in the city sure is a drag.

Go South

Make a break to Colorado Springs. No, you don't have to be religious.

Slim 7

Giving back in a big way.

Freestyle Fellowship

Awesome live bands sometimes make magic in the studio, too.

The Man With the Golden Bun

Nothing's forbidden at Forbidden City.

Follow That Story

School of Hard Knocks

Best Blues Artist

Otis Taylor

Flick Pick

Marooned in Iraq

The Full... Mindy?

This time, the middle-aged ladies of a small English town bare it all for laughs.

Letters

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The Pen Is Mightier Than the Pen

Prison censors' motto: What you don't know can't hurt us.

Off Limits

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