We visit the Rackhouse Pub at Stranahan’s Colorado Whiskey distillery to learn about the Colorado Distillers Festival and Colorado’s craft spirits boom.
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LEAVE A COMMENTCharlie La Greca and Illya Kowalchuk, the organizers behind Denver Comic Con 2013 (May 31-June 2), stop by in the midst of putting together an event that’s caused the whole city to go Comic Con crazy.
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LEAVE A COMMENTBig things are happening in Denver. New rail lines are snaking out in all directions. Union Station is transforming into a modern transit hub. High rises are sprouting from once-vacant lots. To figure out what it means, we chat with Ken Schroeppel, instructor at the University of Colorado Denver’s College of Architecture and Planning, not […]
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LEAVE A COMMENTDan Baum discusses his new book, Gun Guys, and why both sides of the gun control debate are wrong about gun lovers in the political crosshairs.
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LEAVE A COMMENTDinosaurs. Hell mustangs. Mad scientists. Folky cello players. This week, Joel, Vanessa and Jared turn the Denver Diatribe into one of those awesome Saturday-afternoon Syfy movies where ’80s C-list actors battle it out against bad-CGI monsters. It’s all thanks to Greg and Meredith Tally of the Best Western Denver Southwest. You know, the folks turning […]
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LEAVE A COMMENTThis week, Joel and Ron get all highbrow with Timothy Standring, curator of painting and sculpture at the Denver Art Museum and driving force behind the new blockbuster exhibit, “Becoming Van Gogh.” They learn all about Standring’s seven-year, semi-crazy quest to bring the nearly impossible, only-in-Denver show to fruition, and in the process discover the […]
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LEAVE A COMMENTThis week, Westword managing editor Jonathan Shikes, better known as the Colorado Beer Man, joins us to talk about all things cold and frothy. Over a round of 9 a.m. beers, we check in on everybody’s favorite political nuisance Seth Brigham, recently busted for indecent exposure; wonder why Denver Mayor Michael Hancock hasn’t used his history as […]
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LEAVE A COMMENTThis week, Jared, Josh, Vanessa and Joel take a long, hard look at violence in Denver: random community violence, gang violence, even violence stemming from the cops themselves. Joining them are Terrance Roberts, a former Denver gang member who founded the Prodigal Son Initiative youth organization, and Alex Landau, a police brutality victim now working with […]
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LEAVE A COMMENTJoel and Jared have a very illustrious guest this week: State Historian Bill Convery, who’s in the studio to talk about the grand opening of the brand new History Colorado Center. In honor of the special occasion, they try to keep things on the up-and-up, but instead devolve into discussions of milking make-believe cows and how, […]
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LEAVE A COMMENTIn this week’s episode, in honor of March Madness, we talk about food and tournament brackets, and how we’ve now resorted to making tournament brackets about food. It all gets a bit messy and meta, but thankfully we have on hand just the sort of reasonable guy to help us sort it out: Mark Manger, longtime […]
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