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Suit: Boulder Jail at Fault After Ryan Partridge Gouged Out His Own Eyes

On December 17, 2016, during a psychotic episode, Ryan Partridge, an inmate at Boulder County Jail, tore his own eyeballs from his head. Partridge survived this horrifying example of self-harm, and he's now suing Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle and more than twenty other named defendants. David Lane, the attorney who filed the lawsuit, accessible below in its entirety, stresses that this shocking incident isn't isolated.
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The Six Best Events on the Culinary Calendar This Weekend

Denver's culinary scene owes a lot to our neighbors south of the border: From mariachi and Mexican art to Mexican-inspired beer and nationally televised tacos, this weekend is full of events that wouldn't exist were it not for our hermanos mexicanos. Here are six of our favorite food and drink events...
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Duo Adds “Kitchen Livable Wage Surcharge” to Help Reduce Wage Gap

Restaurants in Denver and across the country are coming up with different ways of addressing the growing disparity in pay between tipped employees and back-of-house staff. Minimum wage hikes are only marginally narrowing the gap, while increased menu prices only result in higher tips for waitstaff, since tips are based...
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CU Historian: After One Year, Donald Trump Already Worst U.S. President Ever

On January 19, 2017, the day before Donald Trump's inauguration, we listed the ten worst American presidents of all time as chosen by members of the CU Boulder history department and interviewed Professor Thomas Zeiler, a key part of the group, about Trump's odds of joining this roster. A year later, we checked in again with Zeiler in an effort to gauge The Donald's progress in regard to this dubious potential achievement, and the prof says Trump has reached the peak in record time. According to Zeiler, Trump is already the lousiest chief executive ever elected in the U.S., and he sees no way for his status to rise during the remaining three years of his current term.
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How Sheriff’s Office Laziness Kept Michael Bailey in Jail for 52 Days

According to a recently filed lawsuit, Michael Bailey spent 52 days in jail because the Colorado sheriff's office where he was wanted for a minor offense didn't bother to pick him from the facility that held him. And a representative of the American Civil Liberties Union, which is backing the complaint, says his story is far from unique.
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Blown Forecasts and the Revenge of the Farting Weatherman

The National Weather Service forecast for metro Denver in the early hours of October 9 called for heavy snow that might not stick to the roadways became of warm pavement temperatures but could potentially snap limbs from trees. What we've gotten instead in most city locations is cold rain and a little bit of sleet. In other words, a classic blown forecast of the sort former Denver weatherman Chris Dunn defended to us when he said the biggest misconception about people of his profession is "the idea that, 'Oh, you guys are always wrong' and 'If I had a job where I was always wrong and still got to keep my job, it'd be the greatest job in the world.'" Which makes it only appropriate that he recently became Internet-famous for apparently blowing a fart on the air.
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The One Metro-Denver Place Where Rent Is Actually Going Down

As we've reported, rent prices in metro Denver are finally starting to moderate, but they're still up by a considerable amount over this time last year. The trend continues in the latest Denver rent report for September, which shows that prices are higher than they were twelve months earlier in all nine area communities analyzed. But the numbers are leveling off on a month-to-month basis, where only one of the nine experienced a rent increase of more than 1 percent since August, and costs actually fell in another metro town.
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Top Ten Resolutions for Transplants in 2018

You’re new to the Mile High City. You have a good job, a place to live, and high hopes for the quality of life that you’ve bought into. There are some things you should know, and we’ve covered a lot of them over the past year, month by month. But in addition to those suggestions of rules that you’d do well to live by, we also have some suggested resolutions for you to make, just to successfully navigate the open seas of the Queen City of the Plains.
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Six New Cold-Weather Colorado Beers to Look Forward to This Winter

Skiers and snowboarders think about snow all winter and fall, and they know when its’s getting close because there are gear and season-pass sales all over the place. Beer lovers think about rich, high-gravity treats all winter and fall, and they know when they're getting close because labels like these...
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Adam Lee’s Widow Upset by Silence Over His Loveland Ski Area Death

On December 28, forty-year-old Loveland Ski Area employee Adam Lee died from crushing chest injuries while working on the Magic Carpet, a motorized beltway used to teach kids how to ski. More than two weeks later, Erika Mackey Lee, Adam's wife, says her grief has been compounded by a lack of information from the resort about the circumstances that led to his death.
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Exploring Havana Street: Eat All You Can at Sushi Katsu

“Are you sure you want a Havana roll? They have a ton of mayonnaise,” our server warned as we turned in our all-you-can-eat sushi order at Sushi Katsu. She was grossly underestimating my love of mayonnaise but cautioning me fairly, since most people turn away the Havana roll when it...
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Jordan Klepper and The Opposition Struggle to Fight Parody With Parody

The Opposition airs weeknights on Comedy Central In the first episode of Comedy Central’s new nightly satirical late-night series The Opposition with Jordan Klepper, the host explains why he jumped ship from The Daily Show, where he’d been a correspondent since 2015. The Jordan Klepper who cocked his eyebrow through...