University of Colorado

Sugar daddies really are sexy and rich, says dating website CEO

We recently shared a study by University of Colorado academics whose results contradicted sugar-daddy-and-cougars stereotypes. Their analysis suggested that people who marry much older or younger partners are seldom either wealthy or attractive. Au contraire, insists Brandon Wade, CEO of SeekingArr ... More >>

Sugar daddies and cougars: May-December couples seldom rich or hot, study says

The myth of the rich older man or woman who weds a gorgeous spouse many years younger has been perpetuated by TV, movies and the tabloids. But are such stories the rule or the exceptions? The latter, argues a study by two academics associated with the University of Colorado. Their analysis, which c ... More >>

Playwrights at Work

Reader: Ready to give breakfast a try at Moontower Tacos

Later this morning we'll post our Restaurant Roll Call for February, a compendium of all the openings and closings on the Denver dining scene last month. One of those openings? Moontower Tacos, which opened a week ago in the former Thai Mango space at Sixth and Grant. Owner Brent Thrash is from Aus ... More >>

The Dope on Drop City

Moontower Tacos will soon be serving tacos morning, noon and night

Construction is going quickly on the project to transform the former home of Thai Mango at 609 Grant Street into Moontower Tacos. Owner Brent Thrash, a native of Austin who went to the University of Colorado, is predicting his place will open in a couple of weeks. See also: - Tacos Junior deserves ... More >>

Walmart debate should make presidential debate look like chit-chat

The presidential debate won't be at University of Denver until tomorrow night, but the great debate is already raging in Denver: Does a Walmart belong in the development going in the former University of Colorado property at Ninth and Colorado? And if it does, should it benefit from tax-increment fi ... More >>

Alex Botwin and Berk Visual team up with CU Program Council to launch Elm & Oak Academy

Elm & Oak, the boutique clothing/art shop and music imprint that has absolutely blown up since opening its doors just off the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder, Colorado in 2009, has started what may be the best thing to happen to the University of Colorado since being named the 'Top Party School' in 201 ... More >>

Marijuana: Amendment 64 support letter signed by more than 100 college professors

As Barack Obama was visiting CSU, where he was greeted by 13,000 supporters and an attack sign with a typo, the folks behind Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act, released a letter with an academic flavor. It features the signatures of 100-plus professors who back the measure, inclu ... More >>

Reader: Gates project is none of this CU student's business

Stories on urban planning rarely inspire heated discussion, but Alan Prendergast's "Trouble in the Rubble," which details how a University of Colorado student filed an application to get historic landmark designation for the old Gates Rubber buildings, is a definite exception.

Zanitas Mexican is open for business in Boulder

Zanitas Mexican -- a fast-casual Mexican joint -- finally opened Wednesday at 1370 College Avenue on the Hill in Boulder. Zanitas says it hopes to stand out in the world of fast-casual dining -- T|ACO, anyone? -- with a "chef-inspired" menu featuring tacos topped with mac and cheese, grilled burri ... More >>

Lynne Fenton, James Holmes doctor, reportedly alerted threat team weeks before theater attack

Yesterday, we noted that Dr. Lynne Fenton, the psychiatrist ID'd as treating accused Aurora theater shooter James Holmes, was the target of stories about previous disciplinary action more minor than headlines implied. Now, however, Fenton is getting press more positive for her but potentially injuri ... More >>

Reader: These Auraria pictures remind us of a once vibrant neighborhood

The construction of the Auraria Higher Education Center four decades ago wiped out much of the earliest part of Denver. But Jonathan Pite, a graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder with a masters of fine art in photography, documented much of this changing area in 1977. And today, his photogr ... More >>

Aurora theater shooting: Judge makes CU records off-limits days before doc release

On Wednesday, we shared reports that suspected Aurora theater shooter James Holmes had sent a CU psychiatrist a notebook of attack plans and drawings. But if it exists, that item is off-limits, and so are all other typically public records related to the grad student under an order signed by Judge W ... More >>

John Buechner, former Boulder mayor, on how to make local government work

John Buechner, former mayor of Boulder and former head of the University of Colorado, thinks he has some solutions to the challenges of local government -- mainly that elected officials don't actually get that much done and citizens don't really care. He outlines his prescription for low-level pol ... More >>

Versus Verses

4/20 at CU-Boulder: Members of city council on why they support campus closure

Last night, the Boulder City Council passed a resolution supporting CU-Boulder's plan to shrink the campus 4/20 event by closing Norlin Quad and banning visitors on Friday; read it below. This morning, we spoke to two members of the council -- one who supports it wholeheartedly, and another who vote ... More >>

University of Colorado to ban visitors on 4/20 and close Norlin Quad

After weeks of denying that it would crack down on 4/20 events, the University of Colorado Boulder has announced that school will limit campus visitors to official business only and close down the famous Norlin Quad where as many as 10,000 students have gathered to smoke herb in past years. The camp ... More >>

Gemini Trajectory ventures to Rhinoceropolis on February 29

Gemini Trajectory

Hot dog! Geisty's Dogg House now open in Boulder

Geisty's Dogg House opened the week after the Super Bowl, and it seems to have scored with University of Colorado students.

Tips From the Toilet: University of Colorado athletics offers recruiting reminders

Okay, admittedly, this is a bit outside of the Backbeat wheelhouse, but we spied it at a music-related event (the Colorado Music Hall of Fame induction ceremonial dinner, which was fab, by the way, in case you haven't heard), and that sort of counts, right?

Reader: At least the geezers remember their University of Colorado civics lesson

Big pic below​The 4/20 celebration at the University of Colorado is an annual rite of spring, and news that some student leaders don't consider it an actual right and want to move it off campus has inspired both complaints and this rebuke of those complaining: "Why don't all of you MMJ geezers ... More >>

Poetry In Motion

Denver Animal Shelter now has state-of-the-art facility: Kenny Be's Worst-Case Scenario

​ The cat illustrated above is learning to relax in the paw-painting studio. The Denver Animal Shelter is moving to a new building and is offering many improved programs to help homeless pets transition back into society...

The apocalypse will kick off in Boulder, and here's why

Human trafficking: University of Denver to host conference on modern-day slavery and religion

​ Starting tonight and running through Sunday, April 3, the University of Denver and the Iliff School of Theology will host what organizers says is a first-of-its-kind conference, which will bring academics together to discuss one of the world's hottest topics: human trafficking.

Learn everything you ever wanted to know about beer tomorrow night in Boulder

Care to know more?​If you're anything like us, all you need to know about beer is that it's good for filling the void of existential desperation and it makes driving a car way funner. But if you're one of these hoity-toity "liberals," you probably also want to know a bunch of worthless facts a ... More >>

Catch Your Breath

Animation Nation

CU gun-ban violators' hottest looks for packing heat: Kenny Be's Worst-Case Scenario

​ Page down to find the latest back-to-campus clothing tips for Colorado University students who are having trouble fitting concealed weapons into their trendy form-fitting fashions...

Fun with the Princeton Review: Match Colorado universities to their rankings

At which school do you think you're most likely to see these?​Earlier in the week, we brought you news of the University of Colorado's fall in the pot rankings. But why stop there? The Princeton Review ranks, logically or not , all manner of things: class discussions, race relations, general e ... More >>

Belly Up to the Bard

Monsters and Aliens

Medical marijuana and South Park: Everybody's favorite obscene cartoon takes on Colorado's hottest topic -- plus scrotum coats!

​South Park's creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone grew up in Colorado and attended the University of Colorado in Boulder, which explains why their celebrated show includes lots of local references. So it was only a matter of time until the duo took on the hottest topic around these parts these ... More >>

Out of This World

An expressive ode to Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church

​As you may have heard, Fred Phelps and his cheerful band of hate mongers failed to show up at the University of Colorado campus last night as threatened for the same-sex marriage debate sponsored by the campus Catholic ministry. Pity. From what we hear, the students were all geared up and rea ... More >>

Jax Fish House Boulder celebrates fifteen years of flinging fish

​For the past fifteen years, the original Jax Fish House, at 928 Pearl Street in Boulder, has been feeding fish heads to the finicky (and spawning a Top Chef victor, but you already know all about that), a feat that's being marked through the week as part of a fifteenth anniversary celebration ... More >>

Are you Westword's new pot critic?

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

All Cooped Up

Boulder housing market defies gravity

The capital of Ballorado.​Forget about finding a bargain house in Boulder. As housing sales and prices continue to plummet nationwide, those in the community that puts the exclamation point in 3OH!3 remain unusually robust -- so much so that Business Week has just named Boulder the strongest h ... More >>

Speaking from the Gut

Melt Your Mind

David Cronenberg’s Videodrome was eerily prescient.

The Whole World's Watching

Get some perspective in Boulder this week.

Space Case

Celebrate Yuri Gagarin's space milestone.

Earth Mother

It's a Small World After All

Season's Greetings

Sphere-iffic

Pure Thought

History does the talking in All That I Have Lost.