This past week, I visited Nashville and had the pleasure — the pure pleasure — of seeing Loretta Lynn perform live on the Grand Ol' Opry. As I listened to her still-vibrant voice deliver "Coal Miner's Daughter" and songs from her fine new album, Full Circle, I marveled anew at...
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Paris Belle Williams was born this past February and died in June. The following month, the little girl's parents, Lossie Thomas and Patrick Williams, who'd moved to Avon from the Los Angeles area, were arrested on suspicion of numerous charges, including child abuse resulting in death. Now, the pair have...
Black Cube's pop-up exhibition that opens March 5 in Texas will mark a lot of firsts for the nomadic museum. This will be the first time that executive director and chief curator Cortney Stell has taken Black Cube outside of Colorado, as well as her first time working in conjunction...
Wiz Khalifa announced today that he will partner with Denver-based RiverRock Cannabis on an exclusive line of cannabis products. This is the first collaboration of its kind that the multi-platinum-selling, Grammy-nominated hip-hop artist has done, though Khalifa has long been associated with marijuana culture, titling his 2011 debut Rolling Papers. ...
Colorado sold a little less than $1 billion worth of legal pot to consumers last year, but an annual industry report expects that amount to increase in 2016. The Marijuana Business Daily's yearly Marijuana Business Factbook holds high hopes for the legal pot trade, estimating the national market to be worth up...
The United States government is paying $175,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by the family of a severely mentally ill inmate who committed suicide in 2013 while in solitary confinement at the federal supermax in Florence. Although the settlement contains no admission of fault, one of the attorneys in the...
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A little more than eight years ago, two chefs who met while working at an upscale Italian eatery took a chance on a sandwich business. Justin Brunson and Steve Allee were working at Luca d'Italia (now just Luca) when they concocted a scheme to sell deli sandwiches out of a...
A manhunt is underway for three-to-four robbers who executed a bank heist while wearing masks of the sort associated with the movie Scream, then allegedly took part in a carjacking and assault that resulted in two people being shot. As noted by Fox31, the robbery took place around 10:40 a.m...
In February 2015, we told you about a death on Java Court that was being investigated as a homicide. The victim was later identified as Francis Canham, known to friends and neighbors as Frank. Within days, Daniel Gonzales was arrested for the crime even though he'd traveled across the country;...
No Sleep Till Denver at Amethyst Coffee Amethyst Coffee cranked up the coffee pots for the first time last February, serving cups of espresso and pastries at 1111 Broadway in the Metlo complex. And two months ago, owner Elle Taylor secured a liquor license, adding a hand-picked assortment of spirits...
The tweet — in which a teacher is compared to a penis prior to the use of the hashtag #douchebag — seems like the kind of thing a pissed-off student might send. But it went out into cyberspace from the (now-deleted) Twitter account of a teachers union, the Douglas County...
It’s been two weeks (or a little over eleven hours and fourteen days as “Nothing Compares 2 U” lovingly time stamps) since we lost our sweet Prince, and many of us have worn out our DVDs and VHS copies of Purple Rain. That film, though based on Prince’s life, was written...
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Colorado can hold its own when it comes to craft beer, artisan liquors and homemade hot sauces, but now the state is getting noticed for its legit bean-to-bar chocolate. One of the newest companies to enter the grind (well, company might be a stretch) is two-month-old Fortuna Chocolate, comprised of three...
A fractured film about a fractured family, Louder Than Bombs takes a potentially tired premise and reshapes it before our eyes. It opens on a newborn’s tiny hand helplessly clinging to a father’s finger, and ends with a different father watching his two sons sleep. In between is a story...
Over the weekend, Denver Post and ESPN personality Woody Paige made a big splash when he wrote that Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning, who led Denver to victory (with a lot of help from a tremendous defense) in Super Bowl 50, would announce his much-anticipated retirement. A helluva scoop? Well, the Broncos...
Colorado is a mecca for cyclists throughout the world — but it can also be a dangerous place to ride. In January, we reported about the conviction of cycling critic Patrick Ward in the death of Michel Van Duym. And in recent days, we told you about the sentencing of Zachary...
In the world of heavy experimental music there's nobody with as much clout as Aaron Turner. He founded the seminal record label HydraHead, fronted the post-metal goliath Isis for more than a decade, and has had his hand in so many groundbreaking side projects (Old Man Gloom, Mamiffer, Jodis, Split...
The Preservery, which opened in RiNo’s Backyard on Blake development this spring, is a product of its time: part market, part live-music venue, part restaurant and more. The relaxed, community-minded operation is a far cry from the intense, Michelin two-star restaurant in London where chef de cuisine Brendan Russell spent...
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"You never know how in one instance life may change course." A family member reportedly Facebooked this line shortly after twenty-year-old Jahvell Forrest was arrested for allegedly shooting an Aurora police officer during a November 2014 traffic stop. But while the bust certainly altered Forrest's trajectory in a permanent way...
The Denver District Attorney's Office has announced that it will not file charges in a fatal shooting at the Denver Coliseum earlier this year that killed a member of the Mongols, a prominent motorcycle club, stating that a successful prosecution would be impossible due to a credible claim of self-defense...
Marczyk Fine Foods at 5100 East Colfax will be closed today and tomorrow as a result of an automobile accident on the property. An SUV plunged through the front door of the market earlier this afternoon, taking out a light post in the process. The Denver Police Department Tweeted at...
Among the many artists making their Coachella debuts this year, Mavis Staples undoubtedly has the most storied résumé. As a solo artist and former member of The Staples Singers, the 76-year-old's powerful voice has graced over five decades of soul classics, including "I'll Take You There," "Let's Do It Again" and...