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Reader: The Big Lie Is Not About the Lie Itself, It’s About Undermining Belief in Everything

By Westword ReadersAugust 17, 2024

Donald Trump claims the Kamala Harris Detroit rally photos were faked. But a Denver photographer knows they’re real: He took them.

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Kamala Harris Crowd Photos: AI or Evan Semón?

By Patricia CalhounAugust 12, 2024

The Denver photographer was in Detroit to shoot the event for the United Auto Workers.

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Reader: Elway’s Time in Cherry Creek Has Come…and Gone

By Westword ReadersAugust 11, 2024

The former Broncos’ quarterback and his partner are closing the doors to make way for a major construction project, but the steakhouse could reopen in a new spot.

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Reader: With Mutiny Leaving Denver, the City Is Losing Some of Its Soul

By Westword StaffAugust 11, 2024

With its longtime building up for sale, the bookstore is moving down Broadway to a new space in Englewood.

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Analysis: Even Short Trips to Space Can Change an Astronaut’s Biology

By susan baileyAugust 10, 2024

NASA just announced that the two Starline astronauts could be stuck in space for months.

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Fore! Pro Golfer Wyndham Clark Now Welcomes You to Denver

By Patricia CalhounAugust 9, 2024

“Colorado takes center stage this month as the best players in the world visit the Mile High City.”

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Photos: Legendary Caribou Ranch Hits Market for $48 Million

By Patricia CalhounAugust 8, 2024

Once a mining camp, then a ranch that raised Arabian horses, it became a recording mecca fifty years ago.

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History Happened Here: Four Things to Do on Hiroshima Day

By Patricia CalhounAugust 6, 2024

More than 10,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated at Camp Amache in southeastern Colorado.

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Reader: With Charlie Brown’s Off Limits, Where Are the Good Smoking Patios?

By Westword ReadersAugust 4, 2024

A city inspector determined that the patio at Charlie Brown’s is enclosed…which means smoking there is banned.

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Reader: Isn’t Everyone High on Colorado? (And in Colorado?)

By Westword ReadersAugust 3, 2024

On the Centennial State’s 148th birthday, we asked why you love Colorado.

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Reader: Johnson’s Corner Had Some of the Best Cinnamon Rolls of All Time!

By Westword ReadersJuly 28, 2024

One of the original Johnson’s Corner locations is becoming Johnson Station.

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Analysis: What a Kamala Harris Presidency May (and May Not) Mean for Progressives

By Lisa CalderonJuly 28, 2024

The candidate is a complicated person who deserves to be judged within the full context of her record.

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Denver’s Air Quality Among the Worst in the World Right Now

By Patricia CalhounJuly 23, 2024

This city can try to clean itself up, but it can’t fence out foreign contaminants.

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Snow Job: David Lesh Gets a Pass for Unsanctioned “Work Activity” at Keystone

By Teague BohlenJuly 22, 2024

“This is not just a victory for me, but for basic American freedom and social liberty.” And people who poop in Hanging Lake.

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Reader: It’s Not Supply and Demand. It’s Supply, Demand and Money

By Westword ReadersJuly 21, 2024

Denver’s housing inventory is increasing faster than in any other major city. But who can anyone to buy here?

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Reader: We Need Better Musicians Representing Colorado

By Westword ReadersJuly 21, 2024

Ingrid Andress went from singing the national anthem at the MLB Home Run Derby to entering rehab.

Stuck at Denver International Airport? Where and How to Pass the Time

By Patricia CalhounJuly 19, 2024

While you’re stranded by the global IT glitch, you might as well amuse yourself.

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Analysis: Trump’s Raised Fist Is a Go-To Gesture With a Long History of Different Meanings

By Roger J. KreuzJuly 14, 2024

In addition to the former president, the raised fist has been used by fascists, socialists, communists, Black Power advocates and even golfer Tiger Woods.

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Reader: A Lot of Copy/Paste People Walking Around Denver, for Sure

By Westword ReadersJuly 14, 2024

Pollsters found that 72 percent of people in Denver had hiked, biked, skied or recreated in the mountains in the last twelve months.

A sunrise at Red Rocks Amphitheatre.

More on That Red Rocks UFO Sighting…and the Lack of Photographs

By Patricia CalhounJuly 10, 2024

“I’m not saying it was aliens. It could have been the government. That’s why I reached out to MUFON.”

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Attention, Scofflaws: DPD Will Restore Traffic Stops for Expired Plates…Temporarily

By Patricia CalhounJuly 8, 2024

The department will be “temporarily, and partially, suspending its policy regarding low-level traffic stops.”

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Reader: Bar Bar Was Always an Adventure, and the Best Dive Ever!

By Westword ReadersJuly 7, 2024

While the Carioca Cafe is closed because of fire damage, memories continue to flow.

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