Why did proud progressive Rachel Maddow pay a slow-clap tribute to, of all companies, Denver-based Newmont Mining on her MSNBC show last night? Because, in a day of epic losses on Wall Street following Standard & Poor’s U.S. credit downgrade, Newmont stood out as the rare non-loser. For a while…
Jason Sadler had a brilliant idea: He’d take pictures of himself wearing T-shirts with companies’ logos on them and then tweet and Facebook and make YouTube videos about it all day. For money. Now, two and a half years later, he’s hired four other T-shirt-wearers who wear T-shirts all day…
Not to be outdone by fellow Playboy cover girl Barbi Benton in the marketing of extreme cribs, Roxanne Pulitzer and husband Tim Boberg recently offered the Wall Street Journal a tour of their 23,000-square-foot Telluride home — which is up for sale for $19.9 million. That’s slightly higher than the…
I avoided attending IKEA Centennial’s July 27 grand opening due to the crowds. But my twin daughters wanted to visit the store on Saturday afternoon to pick up items for the CU dorm room they’re going to share, and given that ten days had passed, I figured things would have…
It turns out that even Aspen’s elite can’t escape the effects of the world recession. Smarting from the latest stock plunge, high country homeowners are also digesting today’s report in the Aspen Daily News that assessed property values in Pitkin County have dropped $10 billion over a two-year period –…
Getting rejected by a potential employer is disappointing. But getting rejected after building the company’s logo out of LEGO pieces and submitting it as your résumé is even worse. Thus was the case with Kendra Wiig, who applied for the job of community manager last September for LEGO Universe, an…
You can take the man out of the brewery, but you can’t take the beer away from the man. Governor John Hickenlooper will cement beer as Colorado’s state beverage on Monday when he joins Pete Coors and Glenn Knippenberg, present of Coors subsidiary AC Golden Brewing, in toasting Colorado’s 135th…
If you were wondering why the holy hell so many people are camping out for tomorrow’s grand opening of IKEA Centennial, there’s a simple answer: bribery of a pleasantly Swedish sort. Here are the details about giveaways over the first few days courtesy of the Colorado IKEA Fans blogspot…
To the average person, Tennyson Street between 38th and 44th avenues is an inconvenient mess of construction. To business owners, it’s a badly mismanaged city project that threatens their livelihood. Over the last few years, the northwest Denver street has become flush with shops, restaurants and art galleries — and…
Colorado’s first IKEA store is just seven days away from doing business, and lovers of Swedish furniture want to know the latest grand-opening information. The IKEA assembly instructions below are meticulously illustrated to help Colorado IKEA fans to self-assemble their own Centennial celebration…..
Update:This past weekend, Estate Auctions spent two days selling off furniture and belongings left behind by Carmelo Anthony, who lost about $6 million on the sale of his Denver-area house after moving from the Nuggets to the New York Knicks. But if you didn’t get a chance to bid, you…
Yadda-yadda-yadda has obviously paid well for Jerry Seinfeld. Otherwise, he could never have afforded the spectacular Telluride residence he’s now put on the market — for a mere $18.25 million. Fortunately, you’ll get a lot for the money — including eleven bedrooms and twelve and a half baths…
A list of “The 19 Most Hated Companies in America” in The Atlantic aspires to quantify all the rotten customer service, hidden and excessive fees, broken promises and general consumer aggravation out there. And one Colorado-based company, Dish Network, shows up at No. 18 — a bit embarrassing, sure, but…
That gnashing of teeth and muttered cursing you hear is coming from energy companies and developers north of the state border. Last week, U.S. District Judge John L. Kane ruled that an obscure jumping mouse should be considered a threatened species not only in Colorado but in Wyoming, too –…
The Qwest signs on top of the 52-story building at 1801 California Street are being replaced with Century Link signs this week. The change heralds the dawn of a new age in Denver — the age of global corporate insignificance. Too bad our downtown towers can’t be named for successful…
Another day, another list on which Colorado finishes in impressive fashion. This time its the Forbes roster of the best places for business, and this square state placed two communities in the top ten: Fort Collins at fifth, Denver at ninth. Here’s Forbes’ rationale for the strong performance…
In Colorado, degenerate urbanites are used to letting our mountain towns take the lead when it comes to killjoy environmental reforms, such as restricting the use of gas grills or parking spaces. So it figures that the green-leaning town of Basalt is proposing to get tough on plastic bag sinners…
Back in the lock-em-up frenzy of the 1990s, overcrowded state prison systems relied heavily on the emerging private prison industry to handle their excess inmates. Now that state prison populations are falling, you might expect the private sector to be taking a few hits, too — but guess again. For…
It’s safe to say the auction exceeded expectations. The only known photograph of William McCarty, alias Billy the Kid, was expected to draw bids around $400,000 over the weekend at Brian Lebel’s Old West Show & Auction in Denver. Instead, it went for a jaw-dropping $2 million to oilman and…
Update: Frontier Airlines has just announced that pilots have approved a cost-saving agreement, with 89.6 percent offering their approval. That’s not the end of the austerity plan, but in a statement, Frontier CEO Bryan Bedford says the carrier is more than halfway toward its “profitability improvement goal” of $120 million…
When sports celebrities leave Denver, they also need to unload some high-end real estate, and not always at a profit: Recently, Carmelo Anthony lost $6 million on his mansion’s sale. No doubt fired Broncos coach Josh McDaniels is hoping to avoid a similar fate with his former abode, a lovely…
Call it a big fat coincidence, but days after Rep. Doug Lamborn backed off his efforts to cut funding for renewable energy research, Golden’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory has unveiled a colorful online magazine promoting the practical applications of its work. Now Lamborn can read about all the alleged boondoggles…
