On December 14, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that it had completed planning for a western expansion of the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge — that’s the former Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons plant, minus several hundred acres that are deemed too contaminated to ever go public — as…
The late Christopher Hitchens was not only a great writer, he had a great appreciation for alcohol. And he got a lot of mileage from an incident that occurred in Aspen back in 1990. Here’s his account from a 1994 Vanity Fair: “At a bar at the top of a…
Jesus and Saturday Night Live got it right: Despite the ardent orange-and-blue Tim Tebow fans who filled Sports Authority at Mile High yesterday, the Patriots clobbered the Denver Broncos — as an SNL sketch in which Taran Killam, as Tebow, and Jason Sudeikis, as an athletic-sox wearing Jesus, had predicted…
Kristen Stillman had been on the witness stand for two days — talking about how her mother had dropped Kristen and her twin brother, Will, off at a house in northwest Denver when they were eight, and how the head of that household had abused them emotionally, physically, sexually for…
Visit Denver just announced the people who will be inducted into the Tourism Hall of Fame at the thirteenth annual celebration set for March 14, 2012, and the list includes two key people from the Colorado drinking/dining scene: Great American Beer Festival president Charlie Papazian and Pete Meersman, president and…
In the 1860s, the town fathers of baby Denver realized the city would never grow without the railroads — but the transcontinental route was moving full-steam ahead through Wyoming. So Denver boosters funded a spur line that ran from Cheyenne to Denver, and saved the city. That move involved a…
The businesses of Lower Highland have been decking the halls — or at least their doors — for the holiday season, and the Laughing Latte, the coffee shop at 2001 West 32nd Avenue, just took top prize in the LoHi Merchant Wreath Contest with a wreath made of coffee filters…
Good news! The world is not going to end on December 21, 2012. That’s the word from Dawn Engle, co-producer of 2012: The True Mayan Prophecy, which airs tonight on Colorado Public Television. But just in case she’s wrong, we asked some state leaders for their can’t-miss Colorado activities in…
What’s next for Frontier Airlines? Charging to use the bathrooms? Selling off the mascot animals to a circus? The latest cost-cutting move for the onetime hometown airline is the end of its in-flight magazine: The Wild Blue Yonder is heading off into the mild blue yonder. Here’s the announcement from…
For decades, the area around Union Station was Denver’s heart, the place where many people (myself included, on a train from Chicago) got their first glimpse of the city. But a century after Denver’s founding, air travel was taking over the “Travel by Train” touted in neon above the station,…
Inspired by her visit to Mama Sannino’s, Laura Shunk served up a list of Denver’s five best neighborhood Italian restaurants. Which inspired fond memories of Fratelli’s and Valente’s from some readers, as well as a slap from another for skipping Cafe Jordano. And then there was this rave from Barslinger…
I first met Corey Donahue in June at Casselman’s, where I attempted to moderate a debate on the legalization of marijuana. He argued, interrupted, lit up a joint on stage. And he was not the worst-behaved person on the panel. We both returned to the crime scene three weeks ago,…
When people hear Kristen Stillman’s story — how her mother left eight-year-old Kristen and her twin brother, Will, at a house where they suffered horrific abuse for a decade, with Kristen giving birth to four children by head of the household/rapist Eric Torrez by the time she was twenty –…
After more than a year of study, the Denver Food Action Task Force delivered a report to a city council committee yesterday detailing what can be done to put gardens of eating in the city’s current food deserts, including streamlining the permitting process for grocery stores. And the city could…
“Mustang” is ready for its close-up — but don’t get too close to the genital area of Luis Jiménez’s giant horse, as The Colbert Report did in its hilarious piece on all the phallic symbolism at Denver International Airport. And Blucifer also just made Travel + Leisure’s list of the…
The world’s powerlifting championship is coming to Aurora next year. But this once scrawny suburb has been doing plenty of powerlifting of its own this year, muscling in on the turf of its big brother, Denver. Aurora’s most recent trophy? Becoming part of just one congressional district, rather than two…
Honk if you’re interested in what will happen in court today when David Lane pushes for an injunction against enforcement of ordinances he feels restrict Occupy Denver’s free speech rights. Lane charges that the City and County of Denver has used these ordinances against the protesters unfairly — when others…
Metro State students are getting an unexpected lesson in just how hard it is to rebrand a beloved institution. Yesterday, the school’s board voted to postpone by at least a month a final decision on a new name for Metropolitan State College…
In a repeat of a trip he made with then-governor Bill Owens back in 2003, Governor John Hickenlooper is now winging his way to California. He and new Denver mayor Michael Hancock are officially trying to encourage businesses there to expand to Colorado — and, unofficially, to maybe ditch the…
With temperatures predicted to plummet to just above zero later this week, Occupy Denver is looking increasingly like Occupy Iceberg. But protesters in a small Colorado city a few hours to the south — Occupy Trinidad — have figured out how to keep themselves occupied in the cold winter months…
The Good Food Awards has announced the finalists in its second annual national celebration of products that are “tasty, authentic, responsible.” And the list includes not just several local brewers and spirit makers, but Dagstani & Sons, “A Very Fine Fruit Company” that makes small-batch fine fruit preserves, marmalades and…
Governor John Hickenlooper announced yesterday that he’d created the Colorado Innovation Network, “a roadmap for making Colorado the best state for innovation,” he explains, “and where every road must lead to new jobs.” And when those jobs arrive, there will be plenty of young workers to take them, because despite…
