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The gentlemen of Ultra Music Festival 2013

By Victor Gonzalez Gay, straight, bi, or simply rolling face, if you're a man with abs like Jesus and just enough fabric to cover your genitals, there was nothing wrong with showing off your manhood in Miami this past weekend. It's Ultra Music Festival, baby! And the Gym, Tan, Molly fraternal order ... More >>

Fresh Takes Kitchen brings healthy, affordable meals to the community

It's one thing to know that you should be eating healthier, and another to have the time and money to prepare healthy meals. Saloni Doshi and Chelsea Katz, co-founders of Fresh Takes Kitchen, are working to make healthy, affordable meals accessible to the community. Their goal is to become a viable ... More >>

Starlet portrays the old, the beautiful and the naked

Running Over the Rainbow

Julian Christianson is top-three finalist in TransWorld Skateboarding video contest

Local skater Julian Christianson -- Westword's Best of Denver 2012 Best Skateboarder pick -- has a knack for turning local contest honors into bigger opportunities. Last year his Hometown Heroes contest win in Denver earned him an invite to skate in the amateur finals at the X Games in Los Angeles, ... More >>

The Trinity Grille's Patrick Canfield goes after gluten-free diets and admits he doesn't give a rat's ass about reviews

This is part one of my interview with Trinity Grille's Patrick Canfield. Check back here tomorrow to read part two. Patrick Canfield Trinity Grille 1801 Broadway 303-293-2288 www.trinitygrille.com Most of us have scrubbed a few pots and scraped a few plates, but if you eat dinner every night at ... More >>

Colorado Gives Day: Money keeps coming for twelve nonprofits that won $5,000 prizes

Last month, we told you which of the 928 participating nonprofits raised the most money during Colorado Gives Day. This year, technical difficulties caused the 24-hour online charity blitz to be extended to 36 hours, during which folks donated a total of $12.4 million.

The ten worst skateparks in Colorado

The November issue of Thrasher included the results of a contest in which the magazine had asked readers for the worst skateparks in their towns for a list titled "Certified Piece of Suck: Doo-Doo Skatepark Construction." One of these pieces of suck is located in Colorado.

R-U Engaged and the case of the mysterious disappearing yarn bombs

Have you seen me?​We told you about the yarn bombs across Boulder B-Cycle stations. Now, R-U-Engaged, who was planning on turning the large-scale yarn art into blankets for charity, can't find the brightly colored cozies. It is like they just disappeared into the night. "Having stuff disappea ... More >>

"Silent Disco" at Denver Zoo really hits its stride with Journey's "Small Town Girl"

"Get those hands up!"​Much like pantsless subway rides and flash mobs involving dancing in public places, the phenomenon of the "silent disco" -- wherein dozens of people, mostly White People (sorry fellow crackers, it's true, we're dorks.) -- has come and hung around longer than maybe it shou ... More >>

Welcome Back to Bessemer! in Pueblo, where Colorado history was forged

Copyright Bessemer Historical Society / CF&I Archives. ​The town of Bessemer, which immediately surrounded Pueblo's storied reason-to-be, the mighty Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, was incorporated in 1886, 125 years ago. It was home to hard-working immigrants from around the world -- Italians ... More >>

Denver Burger Battle, Dinner In White and more on this week's culinary calendar

​With Euclid Hall's first anniversary party, the Denver Burger Battle and the Dinner in White, the Denver dining scene already has a very full plate this week. But there's more, lots more, including Vesta Dipping Grill's Menu Classic Mondays ((those are Vesta's samosas you see before you). Her ... More >>

Today in Stoke: Denver skateboarder Julian Christianson wins big

Denver's Julian Christianson, center, won the Element Skateboards 2011 Make It Count international contest series​Earlier this month, 303 Boards' CLFX team skater Julian Christianson won the Denver stop of the Element Skateboards Make It Count contest series at the Lafayette Skatepark, earning ... More >>

Four weird no-wave films

​The no-wave movement of film-making, which used ultra-low budgets and a punk sensibility to produce films heavily steeped in mood but with generally incoherent story-lines, had a big impact: Besides being heavily influential for directors like Jim Jarmusch and David Lynch, it pretty much sing ... More >>

Rowdy Roddy Piper on Charlie Sheen and staying in the ring

Watch out, Cindy Lauper.​Rowdy Roddy Piper is one of the stranger interviews I've ever done. He's a hard man to get a hold of -- he juggles a variety of projects from showbiz to professional wrestling -- but once you get him on the phone, he's like a spigot unstopped, a torrent of tangentially ... More >>

Lynn Coleman seeking high flyers for Aerial Acrobatic Arts Festival

Lynn Coleman​Big Air ski-jumping in Civic Center Park not enough spectacle for you? A call for fans and practitioners of high-flying acrobatics -- on trapeze, hoops, fabric and other riggings -- is now underway for Denver's first Aerial Acrobatic Arts Festival, May 12-15, at the Oriental Theat ... More >>

'Tis a privilege to live in Colorado: Cal-orado reunion finally pulls into Denver

​The Calhoun family Cal-orado reunion -- a crazy jumble of travel by planes (although not many from the snowbound East Coast), trains and automobiles -- started yesterday morning at Snow Mountain Ranch outside of Granby, where I'd snapped a photo of a New Year's Day rainbow, and ended last ni ... More >>

In honor of Vladimir Putin singing "Blueberry Hill," here are five of the best singing politicians

​If you haven't seen this video of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin singing "Blueberry Hill," stop what you're doing right now and watch it. It's just that amazing. You see, in America, we sing to the president, but in Soviet Russia, the president sings to you (sorry!). Actually, we're pr ... More >>

Boulder Fourmile Canyon fire update: Burned acres double -- see videos, structure list here

Filling up.​The fight against the Fourmile Canyon fire near Boulder is far from won. Since our last update on the blaze, says Boulder County public information officer Mike Banuelos, the size of the fire has more than doubled, and so have the manpower resources being deployed to battle it. Get ... More >>

Mad Greens is tossing mad salads today -- for free!

​To celebrate the opening of its tenth Colorado location at 2073 South Colorado Boulevard, Mad Greens is tossing free salads today from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. According to manager Ben Pappas, lines haven't started forming yet, but they're ready for action. Customers can choose from any one ... More >>

Sex blog "Shame Lane:" Provacateur Max Karson's mom isn't a fan

Max Karson is at it again.​"Long time, no publicly criticize." That's the e-mail greeting I received this weekend from Max Karson, a former CU student who made headlines for years in these parts with provocative (and frequently misunderstood) satire about race, relationships and pretty much a ... More >>

Game over for phony Bronco Amadeus Harlan

Amadeus Harlan​Amadeus Harlan lived life like the Bronco player he claimed he was -- driving fast cars, wooing ladies left and right, even setting up a community sports company based around his gridiron glory. Too bad it was all a lie, as Westword described in the January 2008 feature "Pro and ... More >>

Flying high with the trapeze artists of Westminster

Photos by Alan Prendergast​ The scene: A vacant field at 76th and Stuart in Westminster, now home to the rig of the Imperial Flyers, quite possibly the oldest continuously operating amateur trapeze group in the world. The cast: Daring young men, some not so young, and daring young women, too ... More >>

Down and dirty on Colfax

The YMCA's In and Out List

The New Depression thriftiness is forcing ad execs to get creative. Car commercials brag about how much money their tiny hatchbacks will save on gas. Banks insist they're the only trusted sources of financial wisdom left. Weird late-night TV ads urge you to stick your gold jewelry in a plastic bag, ... More >>

Beards On Parade

Facial hair is so hot right now.

Lodo's Bar & Grill raises the roof

High Times

Things are looking up in Glendale.

Amadeus Harlan Out of Prison and Into Jail

Pro and Con

Amadeus Harlan has spent his life playing everyone around him — but not as a Denver Bronco.

Racing and Rugby

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Letters to the Editor

From the week of March 3, 2005

Free Weights

Out with the flab, in with the fab

The Truck Stops Here

The mobile Compass program keeps kids like Rico and Monkey playful.

End of the Line

For decades, folks along Highway 40 left the driving to Greyhound. Now they've been left behind.

The Beatdown

Welcome to the school of hard rocks.

Dream Time

MLK breakfast benefits youth

Camp Rock

The Boulder YMCA is getting kids amped on music.

Security Reach

RTD hardens its target with compulsory anti-terrorism training.

A New Day Dawns

Early last Friday morning, Colorado went Cup Crazy for soccer.

Letters to the Editor

From the week of September 13, 2001

Sweat Equity

Longtime members of the downtown YMCA are angry about losing their favorite hangout.

Best News for a Downtown Institution

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Hoop Dreams

Jon Bowman wants to bring order back to this court.

Off Limits

Mission unprofitable...

Off Limits

Night & Day

June 11 - 17, 1998

Soar Losers

It's air today, gone tomorrow for the frequent flyers at the Central YMCA.

THRILLS