United Nations

PeaceJam founders headed to the United Nations for global call to action

When we last caught up with Dawn Engle and Ivan Suvanjieff, the founders of the homegrown PeaceJam, they were on their way to Guatamela, to spend December 21, 2012 -- that important date on the Mayan calendar -- with Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu Tum, Mayan elders and hundreds of indigen ... More >>

Marijuana: Why ex-drug warriors hate Amendment 64, other drug initiatives

Former drug czars, DEA administrators and national "addiction experts" have come out in opposition to Colorado's Amendment 64, as well as similar measures before voters in Washington and Oregon. In other wildly-unexpected news: The sky is, indeed, blue.

Sacha Baron Cohen's Dictator fails to keep it real

Regis University teaching online courses to refugees in Kenya, Malawi in pilot project

Regis University in Denver is taking the lead on a program to teach online college courses in refugee camps in Malawi and Kenya, and in urban Syria. The four-year pilot project is called "Jesuit Commons: Higher Education at the Margins" and it aims to solve a stark problem: the dearth of higher educ ... More >>

Sexiest right-winger at Western Conservative Summit? Our top 20 countdown (PHOTOS)

Big pics below.​Friday through Sunday, Colorado Christian University hosts the Western Conservative Summit, an event that's drawn plenty of the right's notables. But how to pick who to see? Sexiness, of course! We've ranked the twenty main speakers in order of smoulder -- and plenty of these ... More >>

Gay immigrants: Washington Post says to halt deportations of immigrants in same-sex unions

​ A Washington Post editorial reprinted today in the Denver Post calls for a moratorium on the deportation of gay immigrants who are legally married or in civil unions until after federal courts decide the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).

Strange but True: The year's weirdest news stories

What week is it? A breakdown of everything you could be celebrating, December 6-12

​For about the next two weeks, the daylight hours will continue to get shorter, leaving little to do but contemplate the existential despair that comes with the gathering darkness, and maybe try to get some Christmas shopping done. Unless you're Jewish, in which case it's day six of Hanukkah, ... More >>

Happy UNbirthday

Colorado Rockies mathematically eliminated: Rocktober won't be the same without you!

Ubaldo Jimenez.​These three Denver blog posts are guaranteed fresh. Purple Row's Andrew T. Fisher writes the postmortem on the loss that officially buried the Rockies' 2010 season. It's a dirty job, but somebody had to do it. Face the State's Jared Jacang Maher tallies up legislators' travel ... More >>

Pedibus: Is Denver (and Dan Maes) ready for the next pedal-powered revolution?

​Denver is ground zero for pedal-powered programs, from its flourishing pedicab scene to B-cycle, the city's innovative bike-sharing program that's drawn the ire of Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes. But is it ready for the next step in gear-and-chain conveyance that's turning heads ... More >>

Photos: The Denver Cruisers' U.N.-themed bicycle ride in honor of Dan Maes, 8/25/10

​The Denver Cruisers -- the bicycle club open to anyone -- stuck a thumb in the eye of Dan Maes last night with its United Nations themed bike ride through the city. Maes, the Republican candidate for governor, made comments earlier this summer that Denver's participation in the B-Cycle rent-a ... More >>

Dan Maes "ad" portrays John Hickenlooper as Evil Comrade of Bicycling/United Nations dupe

Comrade Hick.​The Dan Maes campaign may think his comments about Denver's B-Cycle program being a United Nations plot have been overblown by the media -- but they aren't going away, as our slideshow of the Denver Cruisers' UN-inspired bike ride proves. Still, the funniest iteration thus far is ... More >>

Red riders: A Hawaiian city will be the next to fall under the communist threat of B-cycle bikes

Dan Maes: Bicycling and UN quote distorted by blogosphere echo chamber, says spokesman

Dan Maes.​Update below: If Republican guv candidate Scott McInnis isn't a dead fish, as his spokesman announced in this space today, some credit is owed his main opponent, Dan Maes, who's lately made several remarks that have taken on lives of their own. In the view of campaign spokesman Nate ... More >>

Dan Maes: First-day proclamations of the new administration

"There's no 'UN' in Colorado!"​This is shaping up to be one lively governor's race, what with GOP hopeful Dan Maes suspecting a UN agenda behind Denver's bicycle program, promising layoffs of state workers and an unshackling of the energy industry -- and claiming to have driven 5,000 miles a m ... More >>

Dan Maes: Five more terrifying ways Denver is turning into the United Nations

Dan Maes.​There's been lotsa entertainment value in Colorado's primary races, from Tom Tancredo's guv run to Scott McInnis's plagiarism problems -- and now, Dan Maes's declaration that Denver's B-Cycle program might turn the city into "the United Nations" via wrongheaded environmental do-goodi ... More >>

He Loves Rock and Roll

Heavy Rotation, our top spins for the week of November 9, 2009

​As music critics, the most common question we get asked (and ask each other, for that matter) is, "What are you listening to?" The pervasiveness of this query is precisely what inspired Heavy Rotation. For the benefit of those who happen to be curious, we've compiled a list of all the things we'r ... More >>

Focus on the Family's nightmare scenario about an Obama victory

Bug Theatre's Iraq War, the Musical takes a bite out of George W. Bush

Singing with Saddam, in Bug Theatre's Iraq War, the Musical!

Q&A With Filmmaker Amy Serrano

The Ice Man

When Al Gore and other global-warming experts want to come in out of the cold, they turn to Boulder's Konrad Steffen.

Britney Spears No Pants, August 30

DIA Conspiracies Take Off

Conspiracy theorists think something's fishy at Denver International Airport.

Lansdowne Arms Bistro and Bar

Ethical drinking.

A Shot in the Dark

Ido Ziv and Friends

Assiya (Deep Tree Music)

Cash Course

Eastwood's latest Baby proves he's still a money player.

Sum 41

Chuck (Island)

Follow That Story

Strange Bedfellows

Best Seafood Restaurant

McCormick's Fish House & Bar

Breast in Show

In Taking Lives, the filmmakers are the real boobs.

Flick Pick

Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War

Flick Pick

Human Rights Watch International Film Festival

Tune In

Swallow Hill offers the finest in folk

Date-a-Thon

Looking for love in the arms of a stranger -- ten of 'em at a time.

Flaming Wreck

Owen Wilson goes Behind Enemy Lines and lands on familiar terrain.

Toys Ahoy

Classic toys help lift spirits at DIA.

Letters

Off Limits

Letters

Warning: Autoerotic Content

The Talks Heat Up

The state's global-warming forums are canceled after foes show up en masse.

World Without End

Still Crazy After All These Years

The names of the patriots have changed, but not their tune.

THRILLS

DOOM AND DOOMER

DR. NORM AND THE REST OF PATRIOT RADIO FACE THE APOCALYPSE. NOW.

LETTERS