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Update: Interstate 25 Reopens After Officer-Involved Crash

My drive to Westword's offices each morning takes me past Denver Health Medical Center — and when I saw the emergency room parking lot jammed with police vehicles and ambulances, I knew something substantial had happened. And it has. A police officer was reportedly injured during a traffic stop on...
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The Seven Best Places to Live in Colorado According to Livability

We recently noted that the Washington Post listed an astonishing sixteen Colorado counties among America's 100 best for climate and scenery. The state made an equally impressive showing in Livability's Top 100 Best Places to Live ranking, predated to 2016. The bad news: No Colorado cities made the second half of...
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The Mayday Experiment: 48 Hours of Social Engagement

From the beginning, the idea behind the Mayday Experiment was to try to change the conversation from being about “whether or not climate change exists” to “how can we be more sustainable regardless”? Because whether you believe in climate change or are among the very few who still deny its...
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Detour Aims to Send Colorado Bands on More Meaningful Tours

Over the next three weeks, the Flobots will visit fifteen towns across Colorado, playing everything from a fundraiser to a street party, hosting workshops at museums and having a powwow and song-sharing session with the Ute tribe. The tour is the first run of a pilot program from state agencies...
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Review: The Good Son Is the Next Act for the U Baron Group

Can there be a third act? That’s the question for the homegrown U Baron Group, which has mounted a string of restaurants in the former Lowenstein Theater complex since taking over a space there in 2012. The first run was Udi’s Pizza Cafe, which offered a combination of pizzas and...
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Literary Calendar: Three Book Events in Denver August 24-29

This is a week for beginnings and endings: The Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers will host a panel on how to write and publish a book, while BMoCA's Biennial-affiliated Line Break poetry series will say so long after seven poetic weeks. And in between, author Paul Levitt will talk about his...
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Jamey Fader: Denver’s Tacos Inspire a Chef’s Street Dreams

Hot fat drips from succulent, slow-roasting pork on a vertical spit, pork that has been marinated, loved and teased into a deep, Heart of Darkness-level frenzy of flavor. The gentleman tending to this meat is clad in a grease-patina’d apron, shorts, flip-flops and a beater T-shirt that reads “Born Lucky.”...
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Adams State President Insists Campus Ban of Critic Not Retaliation

It's not personal. It's just business. Last week's post about Danny Ledonne, the former Adams State University film instructor who was abruptly banned from the Alamosa campus with little explanation shortly after he launched a website critical of the school's administration and pay policies, has generated some interesting e-mails and...
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Huge Denver Homeless Shelter Near Aurora Will Close

Three buses will arrive just after 6:30 p.m. tonight, as they do every evening, at Lawrence Street and Park Avenue in Denver. They’re the types of coaches that one would take on a city tour or a long-distance trip, with fold-down TV screens and luggage racks above rows of bucket-seat...