Last month's election in Denver wasn't packed with surprises. True, Tim O'Brien upset Chris Nevitt in the auditor's contest. But Mayor Michael Hancock won reelection easily, as did clerk and recorder Debra Johnson, and Debbie Ortega, Paul López, Mary Beth Susman, Christopher Herndon and Albus Brooks retained their seats on the Denver...
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Telling his employees that Breckenridge Brewery had been sold to Anheuser-Busch was “challenging,” says Breckenridge chief Todd Usry. “But it went well. I believe in what we are doing, but I understand the emotion.” A day after the sale was announced, Usry continued to walk around the facility, talking to...
In 1961, Dwight Eisenhower famously left the White House with a warning to the American public about the rise of the military-industrial complex. When Barack Obama exits the Oval Office next year, he wouldn’t be remiss in cautioning the nation about the conspiracy-industrial complex, which has dug its tentacles into...
American craft breweries have been shaking up the European beer world over the past few years by exporting their big bold flavors overseas. Now an Italian brewer wants to bring Italian-style beers to the United States. Alex Liberati, a restaurateur and owner of the Revelation Cat gypsy brewery in Rome,...
American Horror Story: Freak Show actress Rose Siggins, who grew up in Pueblo, died in Denver on Saturday, December 12. She was just 43-years-old. Siggins's death is the second this year to strike a member of the Freak Show cast, and her fellow actors have responded with grief mixed with gratitude for...
"Or even some famous Colorado brownies." On the day that Democratic — make that self-labeled "democratic socialist" — Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders announced that he supports removing marijuana from its current classification as a Schedule 1 drug by the federal government, in effect leaving its regulation up to the states,...
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A reader recently argued that Big Pharma is responsible for the influx of heroin in Colorado. His belief: Pharmaceutical companies have been pushing opiate-based pain killers, and when doctors cut off patients, they turn to heroin supplied by Mexican cartels looking to make up for the money they've been losing...
Vermont Senator and Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders may be sick of hearing about Hillary Clinton's damned e-mails, as he memorably announced during a recent debate — but the controversy shows no signs of going away. That's especially true in light of a new Complete Colorado report detailing documents that appear...
A pot cookbook, a treatise on changing Cuba and a local Sherlockian expert are all in the spotlight this week at Denver bookstores. Here’s where to pick your poison: Robyn Griggs Lawrence and Povy Kendal Atchison The Cannabis Kitchen Cookbook: Feel-Good Food for Home Cooks Tattered Cover Book Store 7...
As 2015 winds down, we're starting to look back at what helped define the year. And what better way to do so than to listen again to what you had to say. What follow are the ten most viewed 2015 posts from our Comment of the Day archive. As you'll...
It's a strange and tragic situation with more questions than answers thus far. Examples: Servando Flores was busted in the wake of a murder at his Thornton apartment, only to be freed, at least temporarily. Meanwhile, brothers Brett and Paul Yamigawa were jailed for burglary and more — and they're...
The queasiest thing about American Crime Story’s (FX) retelling of the 1995 O.J. Simpson murder trial is how easily such a flagrant miscarriage of justice could happen all over again. The twin forces that most warped that case, after all, still plague us today: a tabloid culture that reduces flesh-and-blood...
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It’s harvest time, and Front Range gardeners aren’t the only ones bringing in their crops. Colorado’s 120 vineyards are about to harvest their grapes, which will be used by the 130 wineries around the state. Unlike last year, the 2015 harvest is expected to be fruitful, since the state had...
Tonight on the Colorado State University campus, a candlelight vigil will be held to remember Ariana Grande and a fellow eleven-year-old from the Fort Collins area. The pair took their lives within a week of each other — and while the loved ones of the other child, a boy, have...
The three solos currently on display at Robischon Gallery share a creepy yet elegant mood — like the feeling of walking through a decrepit mansion — and it strikes me that the atmosphere is a perfect fit for this time of year. Filling the initial set of galleries is Kahn...
Jenna Berrios and Sawyer Oglesby had an idea to serve wholesome, quick breakfasts to a Denver coffee crowd ready for something more than muffins. The result is ProsperOats, which opened this summer at 2550 15th Street in Lower Highland. ProsperOats, which takes its name from the character Prospero in William...
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Back in the lock-'em-up frenzy of the 1990s, the Colorado Department of Corrections became increasingly reliant on private prison operators to stash its excess supply of felons. Those private companies tended to build their McPrisons in small towns on the eastern plains, far from the occupants' families, promising to hire...
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When we recently shared a post highlighting rent prices for 25 people in the Denver area, we asked readers what they're paying. Lots of you weighed in — thanks! — and the results were all over the Denver-metro map. Some folks felt pretty good about the amount they're being charged...
Americans may not have invented the sandwich, but we’ve definitely taken the physics and geometry of nearly every bread-and-filling combination to extremes, from teetering Dagwoods to sauce-drenched sloppy Joes to heavyweight hoagies. We’re not the only innovators to latch onto sandwiches as the perfect portable street food or fast lunch,...
Haunted locales may come and go (rest in peace, Flossie McGrew’s), but it’s their stories that make the standouts stand out. Here are six of Colorado’s most unusual spooky sites, guaranteed to give you the creeps not just on Halloween, but on any dark night. 1) Cheesman Park, between Humboldt...
The past week has been hell on the highways in Colorado. Interstate 70 through Glenwood Canyon was closed late Monday, February 15, after two rock slides in the area of mile marker 124, not far from the Hanging Lake Tunnel — and now, the Colorado Department of Transportation says it...