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Ports-to-Plains: Keep on Truckin'

This Weekend: Jerry Hahn, Paul Romaine, Jeff Jenkins and Peter Huffaker @ Dazzle

Smashburger is a smash in Wichita

Today, Wichita. Tomorrow, the world. Smashburger -- with its secret process that creates what Jason Sheehan called "meat candy" -- has been a smash since the Colorado-based concept opened its first restaurant at 1120 South Colorado Boulevard two years ago.Since then, the owners have opened s ... More >>

South By So What

Unknown bands can't expect much from SXSW, just ask the Czars' Chris Pearson.

Split Lip Rayfield

Friday, January 18, Quixote's True Blue, 303-297-1772; Saturday, January 19, Cervantes' Masterpiece Ballroom, 303-297-1772; Monday, January 21, Fox Theatre, Boulder, 303-447-0095.

The members of Los Campesinos! know how lucky they are

Friday, January 18, Quixote's True Blue, 303-297-1772; Saturday, January 19, Cervantes' Masterpiece Ballroom, 303-297-1772; Monday, January 21, Fox Theatre, Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Playlist

Friday, January 18, Quixote's True Blue, 303-297-1772; Saturday, January 19, Cervantes' Masterpiece Ballroom, 303-297-1772; Monday, January 21, Fox Theatre, Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Band Aid

Friday, January 18, Quixote's True Blue, 303-297-1772; Saturday, January 19, Cervantes' Masterpiece Ballroom, 303-297-1772; Monday, January 21, Fox Theatre, Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Glen Campbell

The Wichita Lineman finally made it to Phoenix.

' Til Death Do Us Part

Kirk Rundstrom refuses to go gently into that good night.

Training Day

This feel-good football tale scores with charm and sincerity.

The Lounge

Moving on

Common Cold

Harold Ramis's Ice Harvest is just a reheated Christmas caper.

Letters to the Editor

From the week of August 25, 2005

Split Lip Rayfield

Saturday, February 5, Fox Theatre, Boulder, 303-443-3399.

Road Warriors

A new show at the Arvada Center is fun on wheels.

Water World

Doris Laughton dives into the art of water at Studio Aiello.

The American Way

The young crook got my credit-card number. He also got my attention.

Lady Sang the Blues

Monica Janzen had a great voice, a solid band and a new record. She also had breast cancer.

In the Company of Men

The Big Kahuna is a little too true to the stage version.

Wok, Don't Run

Good looks can't make up for the lack of flavor at these two Asian spots.

Feedback

Good looks can't make up for the lack of flavor at these two Asian spots.

I'm OK, Euro OK

Good looks can't make up for the lack of flavor at these two Asian spots.

Playlist

Good looks can't make up for the lack of flavor at these two Asian spots.

RIGHT HAHN

Good looks can't make up for the lack of flavor at these two Asian spots.

PEOPLE & PLACES

Good looks can't make up for the lack of flavor at these two Asian spots.

5...4...3...2...1...HEADS UP

Good looks can't make up for the lack of flavor at these two Asian spots.

ERROR JORDAN

Good looks can't make up for the lack of flavor at these two Asian spots.

The White Way Grill lands in Lakewood

The White Way Grill is now part of Lakewood's Heritage Center. The White Way Grill, a classic diner created by Valentine Diners, a Wichita, Kansas-based company that produced "portable steel sandwich shops," is back in business in Lakewood. Sort of. The White Way was an Aristocrat model, purchas ... More >>

Boulder abortion doctor Warren Hern now seeing patients of murdered colleague George Tiller

Dr. Warren Hern in an image from a Boulder Daily Camera video. As one of the most prominent doctors in the country to perform late-term abortions, Boulder's Warren Hern has been much in the news since the slaying last month of his friend and colleague, Kansas's George Tiller. And now it appears tha ... More >>

Wake-Up Call: The doctor is still in

​Dr. Warren Hern just keeps making headlines -- whether he wants them or not. For decades, he's practiced behind bulletproof glass at his Boulder clinic, occasionally attracting the attention of publications ranging from Westword (you can read one of our profiles here) to the current edition o ... More >>

The Mexican picks the country's favorite Mexican restaurants

The late Stella Cordova at the Original Chubby's​Gustavo Arellano, author of Ask a Mexican, is working on a book on the history of Mexican food in the United States, and this past summer he invited readers to "tell me your favorite local Mexican restaurant and what makes it so bueno" -- in 25 ... More >>

Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers celebrates a grand opening in Aurora tomorrow

​Turns out that the metro area gained not four, but five new burger joints in February. That's because Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers opened its second Colorado outlet last week at 1103 Iola Street in Aurora. The state's s first link in the Wichita-based chain is at 2660 West Bellevie ... More >>

Colorado has two of Livability's top ten food cities...and neither is Denver

Pueblo Chamber of CommerceFoodie fun in Pueblo: the annual jalapeno-eating contest​Yes, it's yet another list. Livability, the site that invites you to "discover America's best places to live," has just released its list of "Foodie Finds: 10 Surprising Food Cities," and Colorado occupies two o ... More >>

Tom Cruise won't stop talking in Knight and Day

Pueblo Chamber of CommerceFoodie fun in Pueblo: the annual jalapeno-eating contest​Yes, it's yet another list. Livability, the site that invites you to "discover America's best places to live," has just released its list of "Foodie Finds: 10 Surprising Food Cities," and Colorado occupies two o ... More >>

Quote/Unquote: "Wichita, CO" by Weather Maps

​All right, how many times have you been bopping along, minding your own business, listening to some tunes, when all of the sudden, you'll hear a line in a song that instantly makes you do a double-take? You know, the ones where you keep rewinding the sucker, marveling aloud to no one in parti ... More >>

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Man vs. Festival: Five tips for staying alive through Warped Tour

​Earlier this week, a Wichita man died at the Vans Warped Tour in Bonner Springs, Kansas. Although the cause of his death has yet to be determined, it's a safe bet that prolonged heat exposure might have had something to do it (temperatures reportedly climbed over a hundred degrees that day). ... More >>

Beyond the Five Napkin Burger: Tarbell's rises to the occasion

​Earlier this week, a Wichita man died at the Vans Warped Tour in Bonner Springs, Kansas. Although the cause of his death has yet to be determined, it's a safe bet that prolonged heat exposure might have had something to do it (temperatures reportedly climbed over a hundred degrees that day). ... More >>

John Statz

Ghost Towns
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DJ Bedz on his mixtapes, donating the proceeds to Safehouse Denver and Melo

​According to Safehouse Denver, three women are killed each day by an intimate partner in America. DJ Bedz, of Radio Bums and Denver Nuggets official DJ fame, is doing his part to help reduce the effects of domestic violence against women and their families by donating the proceeds of his mixt ... More >>

First Friday: Co-ops celebrate milestones and art is in the air

Mark Penner Howell, "Broadcast," Acrylic and India ink on canvas.​ There's no time like the present. It's time to get gallery-hopping, and the first First Friday of the year has plenty to offer. Such as:

A new exhibit at the CVA features work by Metro faculty, including the late E. C. Cunningham

Mark Penner Howell, "Broadcast," Acrylic and India ink on canvas.​ There's no time like the present. It's time to get gallery-hopping, and the first First Friday of the year has plenty to offer. Such as:

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Mark Penner Howell, "Broadcast," Acrylic and India ink on canvas.​ There's no time like the present. It's time to get gallery-hopping, and the first First Friday of the year has plenty to offer. Such as:

Now Showing

Mark Penner Howell, "Broadcast," Acrylic and India ink on canvas.​ There's no time like the present. It's time to get gallery-hopping, and the first First Friday of the year has plenty to offer. Such as:

Social networking: Denver ranked 3rd in U.S. by Men's Health (eat our hashtags, Portland!)

​Congratulations, Denver: You have officially been swallowed up whole by the Matrix. Men's Health recently came out with its list of the country's most socially networked cities, and Denver, of all places, came in third. Do we get a prize for this? Like a new FarmVille animal or something?

Rachel Maddow showcases CO author Stephen Singular, abortion doctor George Tiller's murder

Stephen Singular.​MSNBC's Rachel Maddow has been very kind to Colorado authors of late. On the same March program in which she tried to teach America how to say the the word "Colorado," she spotlighted David Sirota's Back to Our Future. And earlier this week, she offered an astonishing fifteen ... More >>

12 dog-stabbing incidents in recent months -- and at least a dozen shmucks

Diamond.​Earlier this week, Matthew Weatherspoon was charged with stabbing a five-month-old bulldog puppy named Diamond after the dog nipped him. He is then accused of tossing the dog out of his apartment, where it was later discovered and taken to an animal hospital. Unconscionable? Yes. But ... More >>

Nickelback in Denver on June 10 at Pepsi Center

​By early June, Denver will long be in the rearview for the Black Keys dudes, who'll play here on Monday, April 30. Too bad. It would've been sweet-ass sweet to witness a good old-fashioned battle royale for ultimate supremacy between them and the Nickelback dudes to settle this whole "rock an ... More >>

Weekend's best live bets: Fitz & the Tantrums, Machine Head and more

Catch Fitz & the Tantrums this Sunday, January 15, at the Ogden Theatre with Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. and American Tomahawk​For whatever reason, you'll notice that this Saturday night, aside from the second night of STS9's two-night stand at the Fillmore, there aren't too many must-see shows. Th ... More >>