Reader: Highlight local artists, not LoDo retards

Sure, it was tacky -- but folks around town were talking about our Colorado Rockies fans without underwear series, wondering how, exactly, these baseball fans might have lost their undergarments at Coors Field. Not to mention their lunch after they left the ballpark...

By Patricia Calhoun

April 13, 2012

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Sure, it was tacky -- but folks around town were talking about our Colorado Rockies fans without underwear series, wondering how, exactly, these baseball fans might have lost their undergarments at Coors Field.

Not to mention their lunch after they left the ballpark.

Says deeplyembarassedinDenver:

Shouldn't Westword be more focused on highlighting local artists, events and culture than pointing out the retards in LoDo? Sorry locals, we're against you, not for you.

Funny that you should point that out, deeply embarrassed. Because an hour or so after the naked fan post was published -- and several hours before you posted your comment -- we published this account of Governor John Hickenlooper saluting two of the state's artists, as well as two of the state's artistic communities that are winning awards at the Colorado Creative Industries. For more arts stories, see our Show and Tell blog.

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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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