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Underwear Bomber’s Supermax Suit: Force-Feeding, Abuse by Nudie Mags

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, dubbed the Underwear Bomber after a failed attempt to blow up a Detroit-bound airplane on Christmas 2009, was imprisoned at ADX Florence, aka Supermax, in 2012, immediately making him one of the most notorious terrorists housed in Colorado. Now, Abdulmutallab has filed a lawsuit against Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the federal Bureau of Prisons in which he claims that he's been prevented from properly practicing his Muslim faith, force-fed during hunger strikes staged to protest his treatment and belittled by guards who showed him photos of nude women during prayer time.
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Q House Will Bring Modern Chinese Cuisine to Colfax Avenue

Christopher Lin and Jonathan Pinto have worked together in restaurants for years, but not in Denver. Although Pinto grew up in Colorado, he moved to New York City and worked front-of-house positions, where he met Lin, a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York, who...
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Adam Lee’s Widow Launches Web Attack on Ski Area Where He Died

Late last year, as we've reported, Loveland Ski Area employee Adam Lee was killed while working on the Magic Carpet, a conveyor belt-type lift for beginning skiers. A report about the accident issued by the Colorado Passenger Tramway Safety Board revealed that there was nothing mechanically wrong with the lift, which didn't stop until its mechanism crushed Lee to death, but leaves unanswered questions about why he was working beneath it for more than an hour. Now, Erika Lee, Adam's widow, has created a website that castigates the resort even as it reveals the pain she's feeling after losing her husband in such a tragic way.
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Craft Brewing Had a $3 Billion Economic Effect in Colorado

Did you buy a pint of beer at your local brewery in 2016? Then you can be proud to boost the Colorado economy. Craft breweries and brewpubs nationwide contributed $67.8 billion to the U.S. economy in 2016. That's a lot of pints, and it's an increase of 21.7 percent from just...
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Neo-Nazi Clash at CSU: University Calls Collusion Claims “Ridiculous”

The Denver General Defense Committee, a progressive group affiliated with the Industrial Workers of the World, also known as the Wobblies, has published a fiery account of the clash between members of a white supremacist group and Antifa protesters outside a controversial event on the Colorado State University campus earlier this month. In it, the authors explicitly state that members of the CSU Police Department stood "on the side of the neo-Nazis and fascists" during the confrontation and argue that a video shared here provides evidence to that effect by way of an officer telling a protester afterward, "If you guys need something, let us know."
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Review: Moving Paint II Gives Ania Gola-Kumor Her Due

Ania Gola-Kumor is one of Colorado’s best abstract painters, but she is inexplicably also one of the most underappreciated. Her latest efforts are on view in Moving Paint II: Ania Gola-Kumor, a handsome and tight solo now at the Sandra Phillips Gallery.
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New Shooting Shows Gentrification Hasn’t Stopped Violence Near RiNo

Just shy of 4:30 a.m. today, September 20, the Denver Police Department tweeted about a shooting near the intersection of 31st and Marion Street. The condition of the victim, who was transported to a local hospital after reportedly being found in a car, isn't known at this time. But the incident is one more indication that gentrification in the RiNo, Cole and Whittier neighborhoods hasn't stopped the violence that has afflicted the area in the recent past.
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Two Denver High Schools, Two Sh*tstorms

Friday, September 22, was a rough day for Denver Public Schools. First, a number of East High School students joined assorted parents at a protest prompted by the de facto ouster of principal Andy Mendelsberg and assistant principal/athletic director Lisa Porter in regard to their handling of videos showing cheer team members being forced into splits. Then, that evening, claims about a Confederate flag at a football game between the Weld Central High School Rebels and the Manual High School Thunderbolts resulted in charges of racism and alleged in-game injuries to three Manual players that may have been related to bad blood stirred by the controversy.
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The Mega-Irritating John Denver Revival on the 20th Anniversary of His Death

Twenty years ago today, on October 12, 1997, John Denver died when an experimental aircraft he was flying crashed into Monterey Bay off the coast of California. But even before this benchmark anniversary, the makings of a full-scale JD revival was underway, as exemplified by the prominent role his song "Take Me Home, Country Roads" plays in two major films currently unspooling at a multiplex near you. And speaking as a longtime resident of the city for which the man born Henry John Deutschendorf Jr. renamed himself, I find that irritating as fuck.
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A Popular Cannabis Beer Won’t Be Back at GABF This Year

Judging by the long lines that snaked away from the Dad & Dudes Breweria booth at the Great American Beer Festival the past two years, just about everywhere in Denver has tried cannabis beer. Last year's version, called George Washington's Secret Stash was an IPA infused with cannabidiol, a non-psychoactive...