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Calling all couch potatoes! Check out the Food Network this Sunday at 7 p.m. for the Iron Chef America battle between Bobby Flay and Martin Rios of the Inn of the Anasazi in Santa Fe. Why? Because Chef Rios brought along his brother Daniel Rios as one of his two…

“The Home Foreclosure Depot,” Kenny Be, April 10 No Place Like Home Kenny Be’s most recent Worst-Case Scenario is the most gut-wrenching and poignant commentary I have seen in print on the so-called housing crisis. Could you guys spring $50 for a Pulitzer Prize application? Kenny deserves it for this…

Reporter Joel Stein must be Time’s real man of the year, because the magazine recently sent him to Denver for three days to drink beer and tour some of our local breweries — a nice job if you can get it. Stein chose Denver, which he dubbed the “Napa of…

Not long ago, this country was a diverse place. In Beat America, that fabled land of adventure and intrigue, all you needed was a hitchhiking thumb and a dream to find yourself on the road to adventure. Unique mom-and-pop shops dotted every winding roadway, and even a chance pit stop…

The name of News Corporation, Aussie Rupert Murdoch’s dominating mega-firm, implies that the enterprise is at least somewhat concerned with, well, news — but its interest apparently tilts more toward covering outside events rather than self-revelation. Most financial observers believe Murdoch sold a gaggle of regional television affiliates — including…

Marty Vanover has been part of Denver’s music scene for a dozen years, greeting crowds at the Ogden Theatre and listening to the bands on stage, whether they be hip-hop or hippie. After more than a thousand shows at the East Colfax concert hall, he’s gotten to know hundreds of…

We all knew the DPL’s Central Library on 13th and Broadway is a great place to look at porn and catch a sink-shower when you’re feeling a little ripe. But a place to bring your chemistry set? At 12:49 p.m., Denver Fire responded to the library on a hazardous materials…

As many of you are no doubt aware, April 11, aka College Friday — a day designed to promote higher education by the good folks at College in Colorado – has come and gone, and Mayor Hickenlooper, if that is his real name, which it is, declined to get in…

The trial of Rudy Sablan for the gruesome 1999 murder of cellmate Joey Estrella at the high-security U.S. penitentiary in Florence gets underway this week in Denver’s federal court. It’s only taken nine years — speedy by government work — for the case to get this far, but some interesting…

The video embedded above was posted by the Weld county sheriff’s department to help catch the crooks burglarizing the pictured condo. Who knew the Internets would be turned to such weird uses? Shopping was a given, porn seems obvious in retrospect, and Star Trek discussion and flame wars were clearly…

No sooner had Jason Sheehan’s review of Encore and its crooked tables hit the streets than those tables disappeared. The timing was pure coincidence, Sheehan reports in the current Bite Me. But the new hats on the chefs — replacing their Strawberry Shortcake: The Musical toques — was no coincidence,…

It’s ironic that Kaye Ferry ended her eighteen-year run as head of the Vail Chamber and Business Association this week enmeshed in a controversy over a word as ridiculous as “riff-raff,” considering that she’s said so much worse on the record before. The outspoken commentator on Vail politics was quoted…

Haters of 9News sportscaster Drew Soicher (of which I’m not one) often characterize him as little more than a jokester whose pranks and gimmicks detract from the information he’s being paid to dispense. However, his acerbic wit often enhances rather than detracts from his presentation, as viewers saw clearly during…

It’ll come as no surprise to most moviegoers that actor Crispin Glover is a rather odd fellow. But he’s also an intriguing one, as is clear from the following Q&A, conducted to promote the three days he’ll spend in Denver hosting screenings of his 2005 directorial debut, appropriately named What…

GB Fish & Chips used to be a computer store before owner Alex Stokeld got his hands on it last year. But the place really looks more like the kind of place where computers might’ve been operated in secret, like maybe during the run-up to a nuclear war. It is…

Tonight at 6 p.m., Denver’s Museum of Contemporary Art (1485 Delgany Street, 303-298-7554) will be hosting a reception for members, followed by the 12th annual members meeting. Although the museum has been around for a dozen years, this is the first time it has marked a birthday in the new…

Slide Show! Pueblo, Colorado is world-renowned for its public mural project along the cement river canals that divide the city, but traditional graffiti artists have no problems getting their (sometimes) less-than-legal murals up around town as well. — Photos by Adam Gildar…

Max Karson, the University of Colorado student whose attempts at satire have made him a press darling/whipping boy over the past couple of years, has no back-down in him. After an essay he wrote about Asians sparked an uproar that’s put CU’s Campus Press publication in a good many crosshairs…

University of Colorado Boulder journalism professor Michael Tracey, a co-star in the April 10 Message column about CU’s Campus Press publication and its fight for independence, wouldn’t be many people’s first choice to lead a discussion about ethics. He is, you’ll recall, the man behind several objectivity-free documentaries about the…

In his April 12 column, headlined “Of Prizes and Everyday Rewards,” Rocky Mountain News editor/publisher/president led into a piece about the Pulitzers with a surprising series of statements. “Before I begin, let me stipulate: Journalism has too many prizes. Way too many,” he wrote. In his view, the proliferation of…