Opinion | Calhoun: Wake-up Call

King Tut gets props in the cowboy state

City boosters are calling this Denver's blockbuster summer, but we were still surprised to see publicity bust out across the border, with a sign for the Denver Art Museum's show featuring King Tut -- he of the missing penis -- an hour outside of Casper on Highway 220. So near,...
By Patricia CalhounJuly 6, 2010
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City boosters are calling this Denver’s blockbuster summer, but we were still surprised to see publicity bust out across the border, with a sign for the Denver Art Museum’s show featuring King Tut — he of the missing penis — an hour outside of Casper on Highway 220.

So near, and yet so pharoah.

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Patricia Calhoun is editor emeritus of Westword, the alt-weekly she co-founded in September 1977. She was editor-in-chief from 1977-2026. 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 (probably for her bar tab). She’s 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, and is a weekly commentator on Colorado Inside Out, PBS12’s public affairs roundtable.

patricia.calhoun@westword.com

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