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Rob Redmond: Learn more about Virginia man who became ski season's fifth official casualty

Update: Rob Redmond died doing something he loved. As we've reported, Redmond died early yesterday morning from injuries sustained while skiing at Breckenridge on Sunday, becoming the fifth official casualty at a Colorado resort this season; see our previous coverage below. Now, we've learned more ... More >>

Exclusive sneak peek: Old Major, opening on February 22

Late last week, I was privy to personal tour of Old Major, the restaurant that culinary patron saint Justin Brunson, who also owns Masterpiece Deli, is tentatively opening on February 22 in Highland. The space, innovatively designed by Fin Art, a local firm, is still undergoing construction, but Bru ... More >>

Flags are at half-mast in Colorado today...as they have been so often this year

Flags in Colorado will fly at half staff today, as they have been since December 14, to honor the children and adults who were killed in Newtown, Connecticut. They'll be raised again to their full height on Wednesday -- unless of course there is another tragedy, another senseless death in Colorado o ... More >>

David Grosse, retired Air Force chaplain, suspected of multiple sex assaults

Another week, another arrest of a man with a ministerial past on a sex-crime beef. Mere days after disgraced ex-priest Daniel Drinan was charged with pleasuring himself on a plane, David Grosse, a retired Air Force chaplain, has been arrested for suspected sexual assault against four victims and may ... More >>

Friends can also betray you: Mexicans pay in blood for America's War on Drugs

Also read: Magical homicides: How Mexico lies about murders

Michael Hancock announces three new finalists for independent monitor

Will the second time be a charm? A screening committee has submitted a trio of finalists for Denver's independent monitor job to Michael Hancock -- two months after the mayor's choice to fill the vacancy left by Richard Rosenthal turned him down, and the mayor declined to extend the offer to either ... More >>

Summer Guide 2012: Things to do June 28-July 4

We released our 2012 Summer Guide in June, including hundreds of events and opportunities to escape both in the city and in the great outdoors. Each Thursday, we'll roll out the best things to do this week, making it easier for you to plan your summer. Among this week's listings are Fourth of July c ... More >>

Medical marijuana should be okayed for vets' PTSD treatment, activists say

In 2010, Sensible Colorado's Brian Vicente petitioned the Colorado Department of Public Health to add post-traumatic-stress disorder to the list of conditions that can be treated by medical marijuana. This effort not only failed, but it led to a public-relations disaster over untruths spoken by its ... More >>

Photos and an update: Lowry Beer Garden tapped to open the third week of May

By this time next month, the Lowry Beer Garden -- the first bona fide beer garden in Denver -- will be pouring suds, most of them local, from the confines of a new kitchen and bar that's part of a larger 8,000 square-foot project in the new Hangar 2 project in Lowry.

Growing numbers of veterans are becoming addicted to gambling

Where's the military when the chips are down?

Do Ask, Do Tell: Telluride Gay Ski Week reaches out to active military service members

Reichen Lehmkuhl wants you to come to Telluride Gay Ski Week."This is the first Telluride Gay Ski since the defeat of the marginalizing 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' policy for our LGBTQ U.S. military service members," says Reichen Lehmkuhl, celebrity host of this Telluride Gay Ski Week, in a news release ... More >>

Gevo, Inc. turns wood into jet fuel (really)

The process to turn wood into jet fuel sounds like half alchemy, half magic. But Gevo, Inc. an Englewood renewable chemicals and biofuels company, calls it science.

A veteran charged with killing his girlfriend, Robert Walters also put a hit on his wife, say police

Low-flying military craft headed for southern Colorado?

​The U.S. Air Force has delayed release of an environmental impact study of its proposal to conduct intensive low-altitude training flights across a wide swath of southern Colorado -- flights as low as 200 feet that had raised concerns among local ranchers and residents seeking the quiet life. ... More >>

The War Next Door

Rich in history and imperiled species, Pinon Canyon isn't like any other place on earth. Locals fear that the Army wants to tear the hell out of it.

Three years after his murder, memories of Ken Gorman -- Colorado's most vocal pot activist -- have gone up in smoke

White Stripes Air Force Super Bowl Commercial pulled. Ditto the one that sounds like the Who.

Won't Get Fooled Again -- or will we? Before we get to the new developments in the White Stripes beef with the Air Force Reserve, we can't believe that no one else has noticed yet or pointed out the similarities between the music for the Reserve's other "Live the Extreme" PSA we posted yesterday and ... More >>

Air Force Reserves Super Bowl Commercial allegedly rips off White Stripes. While they're sorting that out, have you seen the Reserves' other PSA? Sounds a lot like the Who.

There was something funny going on in the Super Bowl commercials this year, and it wasn't those stupid Bud Light ads. Nope, this one wasn't supposed to be funny at all. It was supposed to inspire you to join the Air Force Reserves, but instead it had us thinking about Lego's. By now, you've hea ... More >>

Life in Antarctica is cold — but bloggers there can still get burned

Colorado's parkour pioneers are running with it

Paul Gillis and Werner Drewes offer alternate points of view

Drop Boards Not Bombs

Llewellyn Werner thinks skateparks could get Iraq's economy rolling

The Broncos use stealth technology to land a B-2 flyover

Graduation Day: Obama and Bush in Colorado

Westword Music Showcase 2006

Be there or be square!

Ride the Legend

The World's Fastest Indian is powered by Anthony Hopkins.

Off Limits

Bolder in Boulder

Rare Sightings

Jeff Starr and Margaret Neumann riff off their idiosyncrasies.

The Message

Fighting the Chills

Beer Run

Honor Rolled

These Air force cadets were ready to fly. Then the honor board crashed their careers.

Top Guns

The Air Force Academy is changing its leadership -- but can it transform its culture?

Pop Quiz

Pray Ball!
April 3, 2003

Weather or Not

Despite advances in forecasting technology, predicting the weather is often a crapshoot.

Thick and Thin

Painterly solos are now on display at Carson-Masuoka and Pirate.

Wordsmith

Roland Bernier spells success in a triumphant solo at the DAM's Close Range.

A Hard Drive

Gordon Ulrickson wants to open a computer museum, but he doesn't have the storage.

Risky Business

Rapper Dannell McNeil takes a chance with his own record label and a new album.

G.I. Janes

Credit an energetic cast and a savvy director for putting some boogie-woogie in Swingtime Canteen.

A Native Is Restless

Weary Denver computer programmer Thom Lancy dreams of retracing the Kon-tiki expedition to the South Seas.

THRILLS

AN INCOMPLETE SENTENCE

FOR A DOZEN YEARS, FUGITIVE PEDOPHILE JAMES CHRISTENSEN CLAIMS HE LIVED CRIME-FREE. THAT'S NOT ENOUGH FOR THE STATE PAROLE BOARD.THE SINS OF THE FATHER WHEN PEDOPHILE JAMES CHRISTENSEN WAS SENTENCED UNDER THE DAY-TO-LIFE STATUTE, THE STATE DIDN'T FIGURE O

LETTERS

SICK TRANSIT

HE'S LEFT A TRAIL OF ANGRY CREDITORS AND ONCE SUED THE STATE AFTER FALLING OFF A BRIDGE. DAVID SHORTRIDGE SAYS HE'S A NATURAL CANDIDATE FOR THE RTD BOARD.

IF THAT DON'T BEAT AL!

A NEIGHBORHOOD GROUP MEETS THE UNSINKABLE AL AVRAM.