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Would You Like to Be Westword‘s New Social Media Editor?

Westword has an opening for a part-time social media editor. This 20-hour/week position combines journalism with social-media skills to increase Westword’s audience and serve as its online public face. The social media editor manages Westword’s Facebook and Twitter accounts, among others, with the expectation of continued engagement and growth. The social media...
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Is Denver Going for a Clean Sweep of the City’s Homeless?

The cops arrived at ten in the morning, setting up a perimeter around the two dozen homeless individuals who were camping in the area known as “Resurrection Village,” near the former Big Wonderful site at the intersection of 26th and Arapahoe streets. The officers didn’t come alone. Their arrival was...
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Jasmine Burlingame Busted for False Rape Claim on Valentine’s Day

Over the years, we've reported about numerous cases in which DNA led to arrests in sexual assaults. The same is true in regard to Jasmine Burlingame — but with a twist. In previous instances, the people busted were men accused of committing sex crimes against women. This time around, Burlingame...
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Ten Best Fashion Events in Denver This Week

November is here and while the temperature is dropping, the fashion scene in Denver is heating up. This month is filled with fashion shows, trunk shows, galas and fundraisers, all designed to get you stylish just in time for the holidays around the corner. Here are ten of the best...
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Five More Underappreciated Films Made in Colorado

Colorado's movie industry has taken off in fits and starts over the last 120 years, but while boosters are always hoping that more films will be made here, some of the movies already made in this state deserve far more attention than they've received. Our survey continues (see the first...
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Get Ready for a Fringe Binge at the Boulder International Fringe Festival

The Boulder International Fringe Festival has no permanent venue and presents twelve days of events featuring nearly three dozen productions and many more performers, staged all over Boulder. So how do viewers prepare for the Fringe binge that starts this week? “It really is kind of like geocaching,” says Alex...
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The Ten Best Metal Albums of 2015

There's no doubt that headbangers enjoyed another banner year in 2015. These last 12 months proved to be a successful for many established, and up-and-coming metal bands from various sub genres. Through it all, we've been keeping track of our favorites and the bands that surprised us the most.This was...
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Good River Beer Opens in Denver Without a Tap Room — for Now

Long before they even considered the fun part — making and serving delicious craft beers — most of the breweries that have opened in Colorado over the past five years began with a physical location, their own equipment and some tables and chairs. But that hasn’t always been the case...
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Friendship on the Line at Beatrice & Woodsley

A new cook walks into a Denver kitchen, and the first thing another cook says to him is “Don’t I know you from somewhere?” The two look at one another, trying to figure out the connection before it dawns on them both: elementary school. Although Travis Messervey and William Johnson...
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Tommie Phillips Creates Album Art From the Heart for The Syn

Tommie Phillips has one foot in the past and the other securely in the future. Having lived through the psychedelic sounds of the ’60s, the progressive rock of the ’70s, the revival of both in the ’90s and the death of numerous music formats and their subsequent resurrections, he’s seen...
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Gary Ridgway, America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer, Out of Colorado

Colorado is home to some of the most dangerous and notorious people in America owing to the presence of supermax facilities in the state. Among them are "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski, "Shoe Bomber" Richard Reid and "Underwear Bomber" Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. Now, these notorious criminals are reportedly being joined by Gary Ridgway, also...
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Meet Denver’s Twenty Best Instagram Photographers

Denver blogs make snap judgments. At our Arts blog, Lindsey Bartlett highlights the twenty best instagrammers in Denver. Colorado Peak Politics isn't thrilled by Governor John Hickenlooper's veto of a red-light-camera ban. The Colorado Independent's Tessa Cheek on the possible repercussions for Twin Peaks Charter Academy as a result of...
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GABF’s New Session IPA Category Is Unusual But Very Popular

When judges rate beers at competitions like the Great American Beer Festival, they are typically looking for how well a particular brew fits its style definition. Does it taste, smell and feel like it is supposed to? Is it cloudy or clear? Does it have the right color, the right...
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Larry Stevenson, Mayor’s Ex-Best Man, Gets Wrist Slap After Bribery Charge

Larry Stevenson certainly had plenty of connections. A former Denver police officer turned high-profile employee for the city's Excise and License department, Stevenson was a personal friend of Denver mayor Michael Hancock, even serving as best man at his wedding. In addition, he created an anti-crime system known as Transportation on...
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NSFW: Amy Schumer Evaluates the Men of Fox31

Chris Parente, host of Fox31's Everyday and a popular emcee around town, has done some crazy interviews. But It would be hard to beat this one with hot-hot comic Amy Schumer and Bill Hader, stars of the new Trainwreck. Parente asked them to evaluate assorted male members of the Fox31...
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Goosebumps Honors the Vigorous Fun of R.L. Stine — for a While

Here's a scary story for you. Somewhere in Hollywood, a cabal of producers are forever zombie-ing up the corpses of long-dead licensed properties, ever hopeful that you will continue to throw your money at familiar trademarked characters even as they eat your brains. Sometimes, when a silver moon shines just...
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Ten Colorado Breweries That Would Make Good Buyout Targets

The world of craft beer is changing. Over the past twelve months, more than a dozen craft brewers have been gobbled up, either by larger breweries, corporate breweries, European interests or private-equity investors. And there is more — much more — on the way. If you follow beer, then you've...