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Photos: Top ten vegan-friendly cities -- and where Boulder placed

We recently shared a list of the ten worst travel cities -- a roster on which Denver finished first -- as judged by inexpensive flights, short travel times to popular destinations and accessibility. But what if you're more interested in another type of accessibility -- such as the ease of finding ve ... More >>

Photos: Ten famous same-sex couples who've tied the knot

Yesterday, Governor John Hickenlooper signed civil unions into law; for our coverage, click here. In honor of this historic step, we've assembled photos and information about famous same-sex couples who've legally committed to each other, either through marriage ceremonies in areas where doing so is ... More >>

Reader: Attachment parenting creates crybabies

Time magazine started the whole thing, with a cover that featured a toddler smirking like a teenager while latched onto his mother's breast. The cover story, on attachment parenting, inspired a response from both Westword writer Jef Otte, who thinks attachment parenting sucks, and local comic Andrew ... More >>

Contest alert: Win two tickets to see "hero of sustainability" Michael Pollan tomorrow night at the Paramount

He's been called a "hero of sustainability," his name appears on Time Magazine's 2010 list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World, and his bestselling books, including the Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, have made him one of the high priests of practicing -- and preachi ... More >>

Jeremy Kittelson, chef of Ambria, on trends, Taco Bell and eyeballs

Jeremy Kittelson Ambria 1201 16th Street 303-623-8646 www.ambriadenver.com This is part one of my chef and tell interview with Jeremy Kittleson, exec chef of Ambria. Part two of our chat will run tomorrow. Before Jeremy Kittelson opened Ambria in mid-November, he conducted a tasting, and while h ... More >>

Doomsday countdown, day four: Project Icarus and the asteroid that didn't destroy earth -- yet

Jerry Bruckheimer's prophesy was by far the most entertaining.​Every sensible person knows that when Earth is eventually destroyed, it will be by a huge asteroid like the one that killed all the dinosaurs. We learned this mostly from Jerry Bruckheimer, but Jerry Bruckheimer probably learned it ... More >>

TIME magazine unveils its world's most influential people poll -- and plenty of food warriors are on the list

Is Jamie Oliver one of world's most influential people? ​Every year, TIME magazine (which seems to get smaller each month) holds a little poll full of big names -- names that, according to those at TIME, are the most influential people in the whole wide world. And from now until April 14, yo ... More >>

Dan Savage, sex columnist, makes Time magazine, but not as Man of the Year: Why not?

Dan Savage.​In the years that Westword has published Savage Love, author Dan Savage's savagely funny, very smart weekly sex column, I've been fascinated by the seemingly buttoned-up Denverites who always turn to his page first to see what he might be saying about butt plugs, for example, or wh ... More >>

What's killing the music industry? Auto-Tune? The Internet? American Idol? All of the above?

​The music industry has been marked for death for a long time now, but amazingly, nobody has managed to come up with a concrete reason as to why. Sure, it's easy to assign blame, but the real reason the music is dying is still a mystery to most people in the industry. Thankfully, plenty of sta ... More >>

Michael Bennet dubbed powerful education force by Time magazine

Michael Bennet.​"School of Thought: 11 Education Activists for 2011," just published by Time magazine, contains some predictable names (Michelle Rhee) and some surprising ones (Jeb Bush?). But the highest ranking elected official cited is Senator Michael Bennet, who's been getting a gusher of ... More >>

Dixie Elixirs: Colorado medical marijuana soda company gets fizzy facelift

​Denver-based Dixie Elixirs & Medibles has been producing medical marijuana-infused sodas since 2009, but recently the company decided it was time for a facelift. Last month, the company unveiled seven new flavors of its THC bubbly: Sparkling Pomegranate, Sparkling Mandarin, Sparkling Grapefru ... More >>

Temple Grandin, CSU prof, named one of Time's 100 most influential people

Photo courtesy Cornell UniversityTemple Grandin is keeping some impressive company.​It's been a nice year thus far for CSU professor/cow whisperer Temple Grandin. In February, she was portrayed by actress Claire Danes in Temple Grandin, a well-reviewed HBO biopic. And now, she's been named on ... More >>

From the week of December 24, 2009

Joel Stein on Thomas Keller and reality food shows

Thomas Keller​ While having dinner recently, I overheard a woman trying to familiarize her dining companion with Jean-Georges Vongerichten. In an attempt to jog her memory, the friend asked, "What show is he on?" It's an interesting state of affairs, more obviously a sign of the times. In a ... More >>

Cafe Society: Week in review

​What you missed this week on Cafe Society while you were contemplating how you were going to sneak your way into Hush, the new "underground" supper club in Boulder that'll be all exclusive and private and well, hush-hush: It's not hush-hush that the (almost) iconic Cherry Creek Egg Shell is ... More >>

Jason Sheehan makes Time's top ten list

​Time magazine is out with the Top 10 of Everything in 2009 -- and Jason Sheehan's Cooking Dirty makes the list of the top ten non-fiction books of the year, coming in at #9. Here's what Time says about Sheehan's book in its round-up: "It's a paradox of the post-Bourdain era: chef memoirs ar ... More >>

Uranium-mine opposition and Grand Junction's glowing legacy

Grand Junction, circa the 1950s.​The Denver Post headline "Uranium Mining May Get Buried," about residents in Nunn, a town near Greeley, who oppose building a uranium mine nearby, hit close to home. I grew up in Grand Junction, and the repercussions of the supposedly safe uranium industry that ... More >>

Tonight: Meet the very tall, dark and handsome Jason Sheehan

Lori MidsonOhmigod. That's Jason Sheehan in CROCS! So...if you haven't already heard about Jason Sheehan's new memoir, Cooking Dirty: A Story of Life, Sex, Love and Death in the Kitchen, then your reading catalog clearly consists of titles that you should keep between yourself and your therapist. ... More >>

Cooking Dirty: Eight days and counting

Lev Grossman is my new best friend. Who is Lev Grossman, you ask?  Lev Grossman is the book critic for Time magazine.  And in Time magazine, Lev Grossman (my new best friend) just wrote a killer review of my book, Cooking Dirty. Yeah, that Time magazine.  And yeah, little ol' me and ... More >>

Common Royalty

Two Kennedy siblings speak at Unique Lives and Experiences.

The World By Road boys take a pitstop in Colorado

Steve Shoppman and Steve Bouey, with their crew, are back home. When I first met Steve Shoppman and Steve Bouey more than two years ago, their plan sounded a little crazy. The longtime roommates and adventure lovers had read a 1967 memoir called Who Needs a Road?, about a road trip all the way arou ... More >>

Could Wayne Allard actually be a good CSU chancellor?

Wayne Allard. As soon as word surfaced that Wayne Allard was interested in the open post of Colorado State University chancellor, the folks at the left-leaning ProgressNow organization hit the apeshit button, arguing that Allard would be as bad a CSU administrator as he's been a U.S. senator. B ... More >>

Redemption Song

Celebrate Bob Marley's life and music at What About Bob?

Untraceable

Following Untraceable’s lame-brained argument, we’re all to blame for this massively dumb movie.

Amateur Night

On the Road, Again

Here's something to do in Denver when you're dead: stay famous.

Off Limits

Sealed With a Kissoff

Off Limits

Hick of the Litter

Making Radio Waves

Ira Glass tapes in Denver

Last Writes

Some newspaper columnists speak volumes even after they're gone.

Best Next Job for Jeffco Sheriff John Stone

Time magazine subscription salesman

R.E.M.

Reveal (Warner Bros.)

Off Limits

Rocky Mountain hype

Stonewalled

A year after the Columbine murders, agonizing questions remain — about the attack, the police response, and a sheriff under siege.

The Making of a Media Event

The Columbine anniversary promises to be the biggest thing since...well, Columbine.

Off Limits

What a tangled Web we weave...

Hall of Shame 1999

Although Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were an impossibly horrific act to follow, others gave it a shot.

Their Clocks Are Ticking

...And where will you be at the stroke of midnight?

For Heaven's Sake!

This was the year many Coloradans decided to play God -- and I'm not happy about it.

Live From Denver -- Almost

Radio personalities that really go the distance.

Off Limits

Stood up...

A Master Storyteller's Final Chapter

Get Hep

For Hepcat's Alex Desert, his love of ska is no act.

Another Spielberg Monster

Air Jordans for Everybody!

To Buy or Not to Buy

Reviews of 23 recent superstar recordings--just in time for your holiday purchasing pleasure.

FRANKLY SPEAKING

CUBA. SEE.

PLAYLIST

OFF LIMITS