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Patricia Calhoun

Patricia Calhoun is editor-in-chief of Westword, the alt-weekly she co-founded in September 1977. She’s been inducted into the Colorado Press Association Hall of Fame, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia Hall of Fame and the Colorado Restaurant Association Hall of Fame. She’s also received dozens of local, state and national awards for writing, including first place for feature writing and first place for column writing with the Society of Professional Journalists. Patricia is a weekly commentator on Colorado Inside Out, PBS 12’s public affairs roundtable, which has won two Emmys.

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Reader: There Are Too Many of These Damn Food Court Things

By Patricia CalhounOctober 26, 2025

Has Zeppelin Station gone the way of the dinosaur?

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The Brown Palace Has Made a Spirited Comeback

By Patricia CalhounOctober 21, 2025

“It’s hard to describe, but there’s a spirit here like no other. The Brown Palace isn’t just a hotel, it’s a feeling.”

“Promote Local Artists Without Trashing Others. This is 2025!”

By Patricia CalhounOctober 19, 2025

Taylor Swift broke records with her latest album. Why not share the wealth with Denver musicians?

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Reader: “More Sysco Slop for Us Brain-Dead Consumers”

By Patricia CalhounOctober 19, 2025

What’s the future of this city’s restaurant scene? Laura Shunk’s essay served up plenty of food for thought for Denver diners.

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Reader: Entrust a Waymo Robot With My Life? I Don’t Think So

By Patricia CalhounOctober 19, 2025

Robotaxis are about to roll through Denver. But they could be in for a bumpy ride, judging from comments on our cover story.

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Everyone Wants to Own a Cabin in This Colorado Town

By Patricia CalhounOctober 16, 2025

Number two could be a cheap option, particularly with that pesky flooding.

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Goodbye, Columbus: Today Is Not a State Holiday in Colorado

By Patricia CalhounOctober 13, 2025

But Denver is marking its first official Indigenous Peoples’ Day city holiday.

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Dominion Voting Systems Settles Defamation Suit with Rudy Guiliani

By Patricia CalhounSeptember 29, 2025

The terms are confidential, but America’s one-time mayor doesn’t have a lot left.

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Meet the Coloradan Ready to Make Some History With James Comey

By Patricia CalhounSeptember 26, 2025

With assignments like this, Lindsey Halligan won’t win Miss Congeniality.

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Attention Local Law Enforcement: It Wasn’t Denver7’s Decision

By Patricia CalhounSeptember 22, 2025

Conspiracy or coincidence? ICE recruitment commercial airs in Denver, an alleged sanctuary city.

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Before There Was Charlie Kirk, There Was Alan Berg

By Patricia CalhounSeptember 19, 2025

Free speech shouldn’t pay the price this time.

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RiNo Art District Turning Twenty With New Exec Director

By Patricia CalhounSeptember 16, 2025

Daisy Fodness-McGowan has always had a “deep interest in place-making,” she says, and she’s found quite a place to pursue that interest: RiNo.

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Instead of Bar Bar, More Tech Bros and Chipotle Apartments – Denver Has Lost Its Character

By Patricia CalhounSeptember 7, 2025

The Carioca Cafe hasn’t poured a drink for the past fifteen months…and now the building will be demolished.

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Every Opening and Closing This Week: All Aboard for Reopened Eateries at Union Station

By Patricia CalhounSeptember 6, 2025

Pigtrain Coffee and Milkbox Ice Creamery are back on track after major renovations.

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Raise a Glass to Denver’s Best Dive Bar, Whose Remaining Walls Will Soon Come Tumbling Down

By Patricia CalhounSeptember 4, 2025

In June, a car drove into the Carioca Cafe, aka Bar Bar, sealing its fate.

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Space Case: Donald Trump’s Rocky Relationship With Colorado

By Patricia CalhounSeptember 3, 2025

In pulling Space Command from Colorado Springs, the president blamed this state’s mail-in voting system and “automatically crooked elections.”

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Restaurant Roll Call: All the Openings and Closings in August 2025

By Patricia CalhounSeptember 1, 2025

Noble Riot, Pandemic Donuts and Milk T Boba House all closed on the last weekend of the month.

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Every Opening and Closing This Week: New Locations for Santo, Cherry Cricket, Bao Brewhouse, Aloy Thai, Yum Cha

By Patricia CalhounAugust 30, 2025

Homegrown brands expanded this week, while two watering holes dried up in RiNo.

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Sixteenth Street: The Summer It Turned Pretty

By Patricia CalhounAugust 27, 2025

Even Denver’s mayor uses the popular Prime series to promote the almost completed renovation. But pretty is as pretty does.

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Every Opening and Closing This Week: Pig and Tiger, Rougarou and La Loma DTC Debut

By Patricia CalhounAugust 23, 2025

The La Loma story is as hot as its green chile!

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Vail Settles With Artist Danielle SeeWalker Over Free-Speech Case

By Patricia CalhounAugust 22, 2025

“I was unfairly censored and characterized as anti-Semitic, and that could not be further from the truth.”

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Rougarou Opening Today in Five Points “a Little Bit Swampy, a Little Bit Rock and Roll”

By Patricia CalhounAugust 21, 2025

The creators of the award-winning Yacht Club are opening the next chapter of that story in this historic neighborhood.

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