The number of newly homeless people has dropped significantly over the past two years in metro Denver, but an increasing number are adults with children, according to the 10th Homeless Point-in-Time Study, conducted on Jan. 24, 2011, by the Metropolitan Denver Homeless Initiative.
In 2011, the number of newly homeless — which means homeless for the [...]

Aidan Hartman squatted near the 152 million-year-old fossil and studied it with a critical eye.
The only other dinosaur bones he had seen before Monday were in a museum and were well- scrubbed, connected and intact. But this piece, excavated by a group of Northglenn High School educators just a few months ago, held a special [...]

***1/2 more panda-monium
“Kung Fu Panda 2″ makes one thing clear from the get-go: Lord Shen, he’s one angry bird.
Gary Oldman voices the peacock whose pride may goeth, but not before he causes a storm of destruction in the lovely sequel to the 2008 surprise that introduced us to Po.
Jack Black returns as the voice of [...]

or her 26th birthday, Kellie Hernandez wanted to get all glammed up for a night on the town, but her champagne tastes — designer dresses and professionally styled hair and makeup — didn’t quite square with her modest salary as a medical assistant.
Fortunately, she had an inside line to a modern version of Cinderella’s godmother [...]

Now that she no longer feels like the Sword of Damocles is hanging by a slender thread over her head, mother-of-two Jen Singer can at last get her dream off the drawing board.
That dream is Parenting With Cancer — the website she wishes had existed when she was diagnosed with stage 3 non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma on [...]

As any parent will tell you, the gear you need to lug around for a newborn — diaper bags, baby carriers and the like — sometimes feels better suited for a bellhop.
But when your infant needs a constant hookup to an oxygen tank, the load is literally almost too much to shoulder.
That’s certainly what Michelle [...]

Christian ministries Stand4Kids and India Transformed!(formerly UEMI) are sponsoring Global Kidz Day to celebrate International Children’s Day Wednesday to provide Denver families with an opportunity to learn about helping children around the world and locally.
Nonprofit organizations dedicated to easing children’s suffering, including Compassion International, Encompass, Food for the Hungry and Women of Vision, will host [...]

Don’t miss the chance to instill the importance of Memorial Day with your children. Here are Denver’s area events:
May 27
A Veterans Benefit Informational Town Hall Meeting, hosted by US Department of Veterans Affairs, will be from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at College Heights Baptist Church, 2035 Church Ave., Alamosa. Veterans and their families can [...]

Summer is upon us. Eeek!
As a parent, my excitement about the open-ended days of summer is tempered with dread. Don’t get me wrong: I love hanging with my kids. But sometimes… well, sometimes Mommy is Too Boring. (Not to mention bored to tears at the thought of playing yet another round of Spiderman vs. The [...]

Through Monday. Celebrate the arrival of summer fun at the Boulder Creek Festival. The weekend-long fest starts Friday with a concert, starring That Eighties Band at the 29th Street Mall. Things kick really kick into gear on Saturday: Two food courts, five stages of entertainment, an art show, carnival rides and more, all running through [...]