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Reader: "Serious" bikers are the most selfish pieces of human garbage on earth

By Patricia Calhoun Tue., Apr. 23 2013 at 6:00 AM

Yesterday's snow put a damper on Earth Day festivities and sent would-be cyclists back inside. And while they were there, one reader discovered Josiah Hesse's screed from last summer on why cruiser bikes suck.

He didn't appreciate it.

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Reader: Prince Harry should drink craft beer and smoke a joint at Red Rocks

By Patricia Calhoun Thu., Apr. 4 2013 at 7:05 AM

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Prince Harry is coming to Colorado in May, and Jenn Wohletz has several suggestions for what his Royal Hineyness should do while he's in this state. So do our readers, and their ideas are a hit list of some of Colorado's favorite things.

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Reader: Don't remember the Alamo for Best of Denver award

By Patricia Calhoun Wed., Apr. 3 2013 at 9:07 AM

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Alamo Drafthouse made a big splash when it opened last month in Littleton. Fans of the Texas chain's other locations, we even gave it a Best of Denver Award for Best Movie Theater -- Food/Drink, one of over 170 awards in just the Arts & Entertainment section alone.

But one reader thinks this particular award stinks.

See also:
- Best Movie Theater -- Food/Drink
- First Look: Alamo Drafthouse's limited-edition Robocop poster
- Alamo Drafthouse offers signature events in April

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Reader: It wasn't cute to vandalize the Big Blue Bear

By Patricia Calhoun Tue., Apr. 2 2013 at 9:59 AM

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"I See What You Mean" goes green.

One of Denver's most beloved pieces of public art, "I See What You Mean," better known as the Big Blue Bear, got hit by a big smear of green paint over the weekend.

There have been other pranks involving Lawrence Argent's sculpture of a giant bear peering inside the Colorado Convention Center -- but few involved actual vandalism.

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Reader: I wasn't disappointed by On the Road

By Patricia Calhoun Wed., Mar. 27 2013 at 7:01 AM

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Sam Riley and Garrett Hedlund are On the Road.

For fifty years, fans of Jack Kerouac's On the Road, an ecstatic recount of crossings and recrossings of North America in the late 1940s that provided a road map for the Beat generation, have been waiting for a movie of the book. Fans in Denver have a particularly interest: Muse Dean Moriarity was based on Neal Cassidy, a reform-school kid who grew up on the streets of Denver -- and is memorialized here in a letter he sent to a pal asking him to clear his bill at Paul's Place, today My Brother's Bar.

Now there's finally a movie of On the Road, but in his review, Nick Pinkerton suggests it would have been better to keep waiting.

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- In On the Road, Kerouac's classic becomes a fraud
- Jack was here: Showing you the spots where Jack Kerouac once was
- Denver: Jack Kerouc shlepped here

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Reader: "Ten signs your Colorado man might not be man enough" was pretty sexist

By Patricia Calhoun Wed., Mar. 13 2013 at 6:59 AM

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Britt Chester

Denver has earned the nickname Menver -- for its abundance of fit, healthy and attractive men. But are they manly enough? On Monday, Kate Gibbons offered ten danger signs that your date might not be man enough for you -- and some readers didn't appreciate her tongue-in-cheek tips.

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- Ten signs your Colorado man might not be man enough for you
- Of Mice and Menver: Numbers don't lie, but guys in bars do
- Everyone's a winner in Menver

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Reader: Most papers have an editorial section; Westword has Lisa Frank's diary

By Patricia Calhoun Mon., Mar. 11 2013 at 6:57 AM

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Dear Diary: Both Josiah Hesse and Bree Davies had tough weeks. Adam Carolla called Hesse an "asshole" from the stage of the Paramount because of an earlier interview Hesse had done with the comic; Bree got hit with snow because, well, because she lives in Colorado.

And they both got a blizzard of complaints about the pieces they wrote about these injustices.

See also:
- Dear Snow: I'm sorry I hate you
- Adam Carolla calls me an "asshole" and turns the Paramount crowd against me.
- Adam Carolla on Obama, obesity-shaming and Celebrity Rehab's Mindy McCready

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Reader: Bree whining about snow makes me laugh! Go to Wisconsin

By Patricia Calhoun Thu., Mar. 7 2013 at 7:03 AM

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Ugg boots? For Bree Davies, that's the best thing to come out of winter in Colorado. "Digging cars out of the snow, getting stranded for days inside my own house, standing in the cold waiting to get into a show, a movie or a restaurant -- these are all things I look forward to never doing again," she writes in Breeality Bites. "Being in the snow or cold willingly? I try not to at all costs."

But most readers do not share her sentiments.

See also:
- Dear snow: I'm sorry I hate you
- Stop inviting me to ruin your camping trip
- Photo: First Colorado snow of the season

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Reader: Adam Carolla doesn't worship at the politically correct Church of Liberalism

By Patricia Calhoun Wed., Mar. 6 2013 at 7:03 AM

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"I gave an interview to some asshole out here, from some crunchy newspaper," Adam Carolla said from the Paramount stage Wednesday night. "He's probably here somewhere tonight." And he was: Josiah Hesse was in the audience as Carolla proceeded to launch a Big Mock Attack directed at Hesse's discussion of McDonald's with the comic.

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Reader: I adore the demon horse!

By Patricia Calhoun Wed., Feb. 6 2013 at 10:00 AM

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Is it time for "Mustang" to turn its back on Denver? Next Monday, Denver's most loved -- and loathed -- piece of public art will mark its fifth birthday. And according to Denver policy, after a piece has been in place for five years, the city will consider requests that it be moved -- as we reported in last week's cover story. But over the last five years, has "Mustang" stampeded into a permanent place in Denver's heart?

That's what many readers think.

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