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Click it or ticket. Today in Cafe Society: • Tony's Market gets a witness. • Fallout from Aspen's New Year's Eve bomb. • Chipotle salads: The secret is in the sauce. • Root Down joins the brunch bunch. • Class is in session at Bristol Brewery. • Denver-based Quiznos cuts the price on ... More >>

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Mark Rycroft

More than 100 University of Denver staffers apply for voluntary severance

Like Denver Boone, the longtime University of Denver mascot seen here, who was deep-sixed a few years back in part because he was deemed insufficiently manly and sophisticated, plenty of DU employees will soon be leaving the school. According to "Staff Leave Under Voluntary Severance Plan," a stor ... More >>

Today's Night & Day featured event: The Goldberger Week of Jewish Culture brings it all together at CU-Boulder

David Shneer is a one-man dynamo when it's come to bringing into focus the divergent cultural wings of the Jewish diaspora locally, in the past as a professor and director of the Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Denver and currently in a similar role at CU-Boulder. And he's starti ... More >>

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The "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" freshman seminar

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The Alan Gerry Cable Telecommunications Building

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Widowers live on the (Internet) radio

Just received word that psych-pop magicians Widowers are making an appearance on KVDU, the University of Denver's college radio station (wait, DU has a college radio station? Who knew?). Tune in to your Internet -- it appears that KVDU is an Internet-only radio station (sorry commuters!) from 4 to 6 ... More >>

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RTD Route 52
Arvada to University Hills

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Chipotle

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Al Hood releases new CD, stakes claim as Denver's busiest jazz musician

Al Hood has a very crowded agenda. The trumpeter teaches fulltime at the University of Denver's Lamont School of Music in addition to contributing to a slew of ensembles, including the Denver Brass and the Ken Walker Jazz Sextet. Somehow, though, he also found time to record a new CD entitled Just ... More >>

Musical Medicine

Light From the Desert is a harmonic bid for peace.

Funny Girl

Paula Poundstone stands up for KBDI-TV at the Newman Center.

What the Puck?

Paula Poundstone stands up for KBDI-TV at the Newman Center.

Street Dreams

Sowing creative seeds at the Botanic Gardens.

On the Ragtime

The old sound gets a makeover.

Table Talk

The old sound gets a makeover.

Bottled Poetry

The old sound gets a makeover.

Nutcracker Nemesis

Granny's got the true holiday spirit.

Modern World

DU's School of Art and Art History celebrates its own.

Promised Lands

For some, the search is never over.

Critic's Choice

May Day's Music Festival

Free For All

Highlighting the week's greatest gratis event

Reality Check

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MIND OVER MATTER

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An illuminating evening at the Candlelight

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Michelle Kwan becomes DU poster grad

Photo courtesy the University of DenverMichelle Kwan collects another trophy -- of sorts. Star figure skater Michelle Kwan wanted to be seen as just another University of Denver student during her stint at her school. But, of course, just another University of Denver student wouldn't have been feat ... More >>

Wake-Up Call: Read all about it

​It's been a bad year for newspapers, with cities acorss the country losing important institutions like the Rocky Mountain News. But it's been a very good year for homeless newspapers, judging from the entries in the first annual North American Street Newspaper Association Newspaper Awards. I ... More >>

Illegal Pete's is now legal on East Evans Avenue

Lori Midson​ Illegal Pete's, home of the fat fish burrito, has just opened its sixth location at 1744 East Evans Avenue, a textbook's toss from the University of Denver campus. Like its other outposts, the fast-casual coastal Mexican, whose beer-battered fish filets (and counter staff that mixes u ... More >>

What Marijuana Means to Colorado: "Marijuana is my life"

​As part of our search for a marijuana-dispensary critic, we asked applicants to write in and tell us what marijuana means to them. In the coming weeks, we'll publish some of our favorites, including this one from a female college student.

Denver Blogs: All eyes on Chauncey Billups' groin (hope that doesn't make him uncomfortable)

Keep drinking that milk, Chauncey.​Surf the web globally; read blogs locally. The Nuggets will turn to Anthony Carter to fill in during the short term for groin-injured Chauncey Billups, says Nick Sclafani of the Nugg Doctor. Hope that prescription won't have to be renewed. The Colorado Inde ... More >>

Sing the Body Eclectic

Keep drinking that milk, Chauncey.​Surf the web globally; read blogs locally. The Nuggets will turn to Anthony Carter to fill in during the short term for groin-injured Chauncey Billups, says Nick Sclafani of the Nugg Doctor. Hope that prescription won't have to be renewed. The Colorado Inde ... More >>

Crimson and Gold goes for a liquor license tomorrow

Lori MidsonThe former Aroma Cafe space will soon be Crimson and Gold​Aroma Cafe lasted less than a year at 2017 South University Boulevard -- but the brothers who've taken over the space have a restaurant record that stretches back more than twenty years. Kevin and Craig Caldwell, the partne ... More >>

Collected Works

Lori MidsonThe former Aroma Cafe space will soon be Crimson and Gold​Aroma Cafe lasted less than a year at 2017 South University Boulevard -- but the brothers who've taken over the space have a restaurant record that stretches back more than twenty years. Kevin and Craig Caldwell, the partne ... More >>

Taste the Language

Lori MidsonThe former Aroma Cafe space will soon be Crimson and Gold​Aroma Cafe lasted less than a year at 2017 South University Boulevard -- but the brothers who've taken over the space have a restaurant record that stretches back more than twenty years. Kevin and Craig Caldwell, the partne ... More >>

DU pioneers the use of the rebus on campus traffic signs: Kenny Be's Sign Language

Caution, pedestrian jumping over TO, HERE.​The jumble of words and pictures on the sign shown above indicate that University of Denver traffic engineers are firm believers in the use of picture puzzles to sharpen the mind. This roadway rebus is located on East Asbury Avenue between the Rickets ... More >>

Skew will bring culture on a stick to the DU 'hood in November

​Culture on a stick. That's the new concept that Hutch Phanichamnuay and his wife, Wattra Phairatphiboon, are bringing to the University of Denver neighborhood in November when they unleash Skew, a fast-casual joint at 2070 South University, located in the former Stick-e Star space, which clo ... More >>

Bikinis Sports Bar & Grill strips down on South University

​Bikinis Sports Bar & Grill has moved into the former home of University Sports Grill at 2442 South University Boulevard, near the University of Denver campus. This is the latest link in a Texas-based chain that got its start in 2001, when founder Doug Guller was on a much-needed vacation in ... More >>

Tonight: Academic Adventure for the Generations

A Flickr photo.​The University of Denver will host an Academic Adventure for the Generations: Those Who Eat Well, Live Well, from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. today at the newly renamed Knoebel School of Hospitality Management. On the agenda: Elise Wiggins of Panzano giving a cooking demonstration, ... More >>

The Hollyfelds make like the Wu in new video

​As in they ain't nothin' to fuck with. The video, for The Hollyfeld's excellent song "Ain't It Something" from 2009's Black Heart Blue was a collaboration with the University of Denver's CAM Records. In it, singer Eryn Hoerig has a one-night stand that'll wind up on her permanent record. Watc ... More >>

Home Show, Sweet Home Show

​As in they ain't nothin' to fuck with. The video, for The Hollyfeld's excellent song "Ain't It Something" from 2009's Black Heart Blue was a collaboration with the University of Denver's CAM Records. In it, singer Eryn Hoerig has a one-night stand that'll wind up on her permanent record. Watc ... More >>

Reader: Metro State name change to Denver State will cause confusion with DU

​We had a lot of fun with our recent top ten suggestions for new Metro State names other than Denver State -- but many of the comments have taken the proposed moniker swap very seriously. Among the more interesting is a post suggesting that Denver State will cause confusion with the University ... More >>

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.

Nova Yogurt brings more self-serve frozen yogurt to the DU 'hood

Lori Midson​It's been the summer of frozen yogurt, and we've seen several shops open around town, most of which are the self-serve pay-by-the-ounce variety that offer dozens of flavors of yogurt plus a melange of toppings. Nova Yogurt is just that kind of shop, and it opened a couple of weeks ... More >>

Colorado School of Mines tops DU, CU in Best Colleges survey -- and AFA is liberal arts?

Big pics below.​U.S. News & World Report has released its annual list of the best colleges in the country -- but finding Colorado institutions will take a while if you start from the top. None appear in the top fifty, and of the three that appear in the top 100, Colorado School of Mines tops t ... More >>

Medical marijuana dispensary review: Serenity Moon (University of Denver location)

​We've got a new college intern around here and her youthful energy and endless fascination with all things cannabis remind me of my own college-age years. Back then, getting ounces of herb wasn't as easy as walking down to the nearby dispensary. You had to be somewhat in the know to find qual ... More >>

10 names better than Metro State's latest rebranding picks

Big logos below.​Back in March, Metro State's Board of Trustees announced their plan to change the school's name to Denver State University -- a lackluster choice that also managed to piss off the folks at the University of Denver. So Metro is now asking students to choose among three new poss ... More >>

Metro State College's identity crisis continues, no new name yet

​Metro State students are getting an unexpected lesson in just how hard it is to rebrand a beloved institution. Yesterday, the school's board voted to postpone by at least a month a final decision on a new name for Metropolitan State College.