Utah

Nuggets never win in Utah -- except for last night

Denver blog posts are feelin' it. Denver Stiffs' Andrew Feinstein enjoys lauding Danilo Gallinari and (yes, it's true) Evan Fournier in recapping a rare Nuggets victory in Utah. The Cauldron's Jon Caldera on the Independence Institute's latest court victory. Denver Frank quotes Bob Costas quoting ... More >>

Utah's Epic Brewing will open new spot in Denver's RiNo neighborhood

Utah's Epic Brewing has signed a lease on a 20,000-square-foot building in the River North neighborhood, where it will open its second brewery. The facility is just four blocks from Our Mutual Friend, a nanobrewery that opened in October, and very close to Black Shirt Brewing, River North Brewing an ... More >>

Marijuana: Rachel Maddow links Amendment 64 confusion to end of alcohol prohibition

While the passage of Amendment 64 has received national and even international attention (via Mexico president Felipe Calderon's comments about his nation's pot policy in A64's wake), much of the mainstream media's coverage has been less than thoughtful. But as usual, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow is an exc ... More >>

Utah's Epic Brewing looks to Denver, a city that understands craft beer, for a second brewery

Epic Brewing's Kevin Crompton surprised a room full of reporters and bloggers during the Great American Beer Festival last week when he announced that his Utah company planned to build a second brewery in Denver during the first part of 2013. He also surprised Epic's owners, David Cole and Peter Er ... More >>

Utah's Epic Brewing will open a second brewery in Denver in 2013

Utah's Epic Brewing Company, known for its Brainless on Peaches beer, announced at the Great American Beer Festival today that is is hoping to open a second brewery in Denver in early 2013. If it does, Epic would be one of the first out-of-state breweries to open a second location in Colorado. Sever ... More >>

Ten best movie scenes where the undercover cop gets made

This is not the best time of year for new movies. So we have Wrath of the Titans, Mirror Mirror and American Reunion. Judging by the box office receipts, you went and saw Hunger Games like everyone else, and were probably were angry that Jennifer Lawrence is too fat and the little black girl from th ... More >>

Sh*t People From Denver Say -- and what our video should have said

Westword's addition to the rapidly dying Sh*t _______ Says trend, Sh*t People From Denver Say, earned reactions as hilarious as they are varied. True to form, most readers who commented offered funny and insightful slogans we missed in our video of city stereotypes. (Some of you, on the other hand, ... More >>

Reader: A bitch is a bitch even in Mormon country

Comedian Lori Callahan is not getting rave reviews for her video mocking the current "I'm a Mormon" campaign, the appropriately titled "I'm NOT a Mormon." "To me, it feels like a cult," Callahan says of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, explaining that the sketch was designed not to ... More >>

Mormons: A shallow yet helpful guide to see if you should hate them or not

Colorado ski areas dominate Ski Magazine's 2011-2012 resort rankings

Photo by Jeff Cricco, via SkiNet.comVail makes #2 in Ski Magazine's annual Western U.S. Resort Rankings.​Eleven of the twenty resorts profiled in Ski Magazine's reader's choice list of the top twenty ski resorts in the Western Unied States this year are from Colorado, including six of the top ... More >>

Racist clip of Asians talking about CU & Utah joining Pac-12 pulled by Fox Sports (VIDEO)

Video below.​Today's Boulder Daily Camera features an article in which University of Colorado ethnic studies professor Darryl Maeda calls a Fox Sports report about CU and Utah joining the Pac-12 conference "demeaning" to Asians. But the newspaper didn't really need to seek out an expert to mak ... More >>

How to get my job: Outdoor Survival School Teacher

​With summer beginning to wind down and the very real possibility for an apocalypse of zombie, alien, man-made, religious, nature, cat or other proportions around every corner, we decided it was a good time to have a chat with a real-life survival instructor. While we've got most of our surviv ... More >>

Oil-shale plans could be derailed by ruling on Graham's penstemon, an endangered plant

Susan Meyer​William Blake saw heaven in a wildflower. The energy industry sees nothing but trouble. Last week, a federal judge in Denver ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's decision not to declare an obscure plant as endangered was "arbitrary and capricious" -- a ruling that could ... More >>

Today in Stoke: Micah Cook on Never Summer's Shred 'em All

​Today Denver-based snowboard company Never Summer Industries released the first trailer for Shred 'Em All, the second feature-length film showcasing its team riders. The world premiere will be in Denver in the Fall, but we figured the trailer was news hook enough to catch up with director Mic ... More >>

Summer 2011: A tour of our state's weird - and wonderful - attractions

Colorado needs more official symbols. How about a State Brewpub?

It's official: Colorado is high!​When tax revenues are down, state legislators can feel marginalized, even redundant. Unable to fund -- hence debate, manipulate and gerrymander -- pet projects, they retreat to committee rooms or watering holes to wait for the economy to recover. In their quest ... More >>

Top 5 unfactual Colorado facts according to Uncyclopedia.com

uncyclopedia.com​Did you know that the City of Wheat Ridge once elected a known cannibal as mayor, that the original acronym for the NORAD military facility was GONAD, or that Colorado's official state song is "O, Wyoming"? It's all true according to the Colorado page at Uncyclopedia.com.

Kaskade at Global Dance Fest

Jacson Quintanilla-Mejia charged with forcing ex-girlfriend to take a trip to Utah

A Flickr photoMom's Cafe, a landmark in Salina, Utah.​Utah is a beautiful state that attracts thousands upon thousands of tourists each year. But those who enjoy themselves most tend to be the ones who visit by choice, not force. This distinction should prove important for Aurora's Jacson Qui ... More >>

Carmelo Anthony's people of Utah? What... the... hell?

The latest TV commercial featuring Carmelo Anthony is flat-out bizarre, and not only because it represents his head as a sun rising above the horizon -- iconography that blends Teletubbies with the Unification Church. As you'll see in the clip above, the tribute to His Basketball Eminence is delive ... More >>

South Park's Trey Parker and Matt Stone: What's their plan for bringing Mormons to Broadway?

​Now that South Park bad boys Trey Parker and Matt Stone have announced plans for a Broadway production titled The Book of Mormon, congregants of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are bracing themselves for some savage jokes about polygamous prophets, complicated underwear, annoy ... More >>

After-action report: Broadway Book Mall and beyond

​So how many people braved the weather last night and came out for my last book signing? Eleven. Which some people might see as sad, but not me. First, because that doesn't even take the record for my least-attended signing (which would be eight people showing up on a night without apocalyp ... More >>

Forest World

Friday, July 17, Rhinoceropolis, 303-641-9809.

Wake-Up Call: King for a day

Both Governor Bill Ritter and Lieutenant Governor Barbara O'Brien were out of town yesterday (he to the Western Governors' Association meeting in Utah, she to an education confab in North Carolina). And who did that leave in charge? By the Colorado Constitution, the State Senate President. But Br ... More >>

Ken Salazar wants windmills in the ocean, but first he'll have to save the Interior Department

The next Tom Tancredo

Proof that media outlets (like this one!) love stunts

Delegating Denver #49 of 56: Utah

Nuggets: The Good, The Bad, and The Corn-rowed

Q&A With Jepha Howard of the Used

ID Victory

Michael Vick Chew Toy, August 6

Patio Party

To ID or Not to ID

Identity Crisis

Utah is not to be trusted.

True Blue

Follow That Story

A Man Out of Time

A Shot in the Dark

Tougher regulations aim for the elusive fair hunt.

The Eye of the Beholder

Defining the limits of obscenity.

Best Place to Dispose of Old Magazines

Safeway

Ready for Takeoff

The "dull" Air Force Academy football team and its stoic coach zoom toward a bowl landing.

Woody Goes Limp

Post columnist Woody Paige's big shtick shrinks in chilly Utah.

Best New Kitsch Landmark

The Delicate Arch

Off Limits

The Fielder formula

Desert Storm

Canaries on the Rim: Living Downwind in the West

And the Winner Isn't ...

A company sues after a lobbying blitz at the legislature fails to net it a state contract.

Power Steering

Last session legislators gambled on a new program that lobbyists claimed would make Colorado's roads safer. Don't bet on it.

Feedback

Lode Warriors

A Denver mining company is looking for copper. All it's found so far is a rich vein of environmentalists.

What Hit Us?

Long Before "Asteroid," moviemakers made their mark on Colorado. A guide to some high and low points.