While the results of the Jefferson County School Board recall were the biggest election story locally, there were plenty of other important measures that went before Colorado voters, including Proposition BB, which was touted as allowing the state to spend excess tax money generated by marijuana sales beyond state estimates — a requirement...
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Today is officially Orange Friday, as proclaimed by Mayor Michael B. Hancock, and buildings all over the city will get lit up in orange and blue to celebrate the home team. But the celebrations have spilled far beyond Denver, all the way to a sculpture hoax in Asia. Keep reading for...
Editor's note: This story originally appeared on The Colorado Independent, whose Susan Greene has written definitive work about the case of Clarence Moses-EL; he served 28 years in prison for a 1987 rape case to which another man has confessed before the convictions were lifted and he was granted a new trial last...
Yesterday's spring storm closed Denver International Airport for only the second time ever (DIA is open again, but delays remain) and turned some of the highways in and around the metro area into parking lots for hours at a time. I know about the latter from personal experience. I was...
While breweries might argue over whether bottles or cans are better for packaging beer, two of the companies that make rival packaging equipment are joining forces. Meheen Manufacturing, a well-respected, two-decade-old Washington-based maker of craft-beer bottling lines, and Wild Goose Canning, the Boulder canning-line upstart, have merged into one business...
When I think of the Center for Visual Arts, Metropolitan State University’s off-campus art center, I think of contemporary art because that’s what’s typically shown there. So I was surprised to find the place decked out, in part, in James Gillray’s hand-colored etchings from the late 18th and early 19th...
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Commuters on 6th Avenue driving toward downtown Denver from the west yesterday morning found the route closed at Wadsworth — a sure sign that something awful had taken place. Unfortunately, that proved to be true. A single-car accident near 6th and Sheridan resulted in the death of nineteen-year-old Kayla Flinchpaugh,...
On Saturday, the University of Denver and Colorado College played a historic outdoor hockey game at Coors Field. And while DU came out on top, 4-1, the school was victimized by disrespect to its unofficial mascot, Denver Boone, who was escorted out of the stadium, and the apparent theft of...
Longmont-based Oskar Blues, one of the fastest-growing craft breweries in the country, announced today that it's rolled up industry darling Cigar City Brewing, bringing the Florida beer maker under the umbrella of Fireman Capital Partners, the private equity firm that also controls Oskar Blues, Michigan’s Perrin Brewing, and the Squatters...
New Belgium forged new ground two years ago when it released Snapshot, a sour wheat for the masses that was available in both twelve-ounce cans and bottles. Now Epic Brewing in Denver is taking things a step further with Tart 'n Juicy Sour IPA, which it calls "a unique fusion...
In December 2014, we told you about a lawsuit in which the states of Nebraska and Oklahoma asked the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down Amendment 64, the 2012 measure that legalized limited recreational marijuana sales in Colorado. Our headline: "NEBRASKA AND OKLAHOMA TO COLORADANS WHO VOTED FOR AMENDMENT 64:...
Early on the morning of July 13, police officers arrived en masse at Confluence Park, as expected — only there were a lot more of them than seemed necessary. This was the moment that members of the advocacy group Denver Homeless Out Loud were waiting for; they wanted to document...
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Karl Marx has been quoted — not quite accurately — as calling religion the "opiate for the masses." If art is your religion, you'll want to overdose on Opiates for the Masses, a new show at Helikon Gallery that's guest-curated by Myah and Scott Bailey, the busy duo who own Sally Centigrade gallery. In...
Colorado soared past the 300 brewery mark in 2015, helping it remain one of the biggest, most important states in the nation for the craft brewing industry. But it isn't the numbers so much as the variety and quality of our beer that makes Colorado shine. In the meantime, bottling...
When Denver band One Flew West set out to make the music video for the single “Had It All” (which debuted this week) the band got help from an unexpected place: students at University of Colorado Denver. The Cam Records course is a requirement of the music business program at...
Estately, the website that revealed the top ten cities for douchebags (including two in Colorado) is back with a timely list: "The Costume Ideas Each State Googles More Than Any Other State." Findings are based on a whopping eleven years of Google Trends data. The results are both fun and...
Fawkes and the Hound at Rebel Restaurant “I will usually tweak older recipes,” says bartender Jason Randall. “I look at recipes that existed a hundred years ago, or the turn of the century, and basically put my own spin on it.” But Randall is moving away from that formula in...
Three years after the groundbreaking for Tavern Platt Park, the latest edition to the Tavern Hospitality Group finally has an opening date: Monday, February 29. And really, if you count by leap years, that puts Tavern Platt Park — which occupies the address at 1475 South Pearl that was once home...
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News that Broncos practice squad player Ryan Murphy had been sent home from the Super Bowl after being swept up in a Santa Clara prostitution sting made headlines nationwide. And even though Murphy was only questioned, not arrested or cited with a crime, during the incident, his case is being cited...
In a recent Comment of the Day, a reader argued that Colorado natives are starting to sound like Donald Trump. His point? He thinks some of those born in Colorado would like to build a wall around the state, so no one else can move here — sort of like...
Among the most famous quotes in sports is a line from boxer Mike Tyson: "Everybody has a plan 'til they get punched in the mouth." This philosophy is at the heart of a just-filed lawsuit in the July 2014 death of Ryan Ronquillo, an alleged car thief who was killed by...
Melanie Brinegar woke up one morning in July 2014, took her daily dose of medicine and then headed to work. She never got there. Police pulled her over for an expired license plate, then noticed an empty dispensary bottle in the back of her car. Brinegar, an employee of RiverRock...