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Photos: Mutiny Information Cafe adds character to Broadway with new mural

By Kalen Deremo
Oct 23, 2013

You can find a lot of interesting characters on Broadway, and this past week Mutiny Information Cafe added a few more. Painted on the store's previously blank north wall is a mural complete with flying monkeys, alcoholic authors, a Westword Best of Denver cow and legendary blues guitarists -- all...
Alan Weisman on why our inability to stop reproducing could be humanity's greatest threat

By Kalen Deremo
Oct 7, 2013

Nuclear warfare, biological warfare, meteor impact, global pandemic, global warming, supervolcano, alien invasion, zombie apocalypse... sharknado? All are theoretical ways that human civilization could meet its demise. And while all are gruesome, most would allow the human race to depart Earth with at least a strand of dignity still attached...
How Adam Sandler can help you understand why leaves change color in the fall

By Kalen Deremo
Sep 11, 2013

People often fear death; Mother Nature does not. She dresses up in flashy colors and goes out with a bang. And every year from mid-September to mid-October, those living in Colorado get to witness one of the most brilliant funerals in the entire world. But why are fall colors so...
Meet the tree that's making your neighborhood smell like Semenville, USA

By Kalen Deremo
May 30, 2013

Spring is in the air. You can tell, because the air stinks. That foul fragrance is the contribution of the Callery pear tree to Colorado. Those who have not inhaled its near-toxic fumes simply don't understand; it's something you have to experience to believe. But if the Callery continues on...
Skiing deaths confirm old proverb: Mother Nature can be a real bitch

By Kalen Deremo
Mar 18, 2013

Three times now, I've received a phone call that I never anticipated I'd get even once in my life. Two times, the call was from a friend who delivered the news; one time it was my mother. Though all three were different voices, each had a similar, haunting pitch and...

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