The Boulder County Farmers’ Markets organization, which operates weekly markets in Boulder and Longmont, has been the envy of Denver food lovers for years. Many of them make regular visits to Boulder; some complain that Denver farmers’ markets tend to be more like flea markets than purveyors of healthy foods...
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For more than a year, the Jefferson County School Board — and specifically a voting bloc consisting of members Julie Williams, Ken Witt and John Newkirk — have been a lightning rod for controversy The trio's alleged efforts to turn Jeffco's history curriculum in a more "patriotic" direction, coupled with...
A recent study in states where medical or recreational marijuana is legal shows that most employers haven't let the social shift in legalization soften their tolerance, or lack thereof, regarding employees who test positive for the substance. Conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management, the survey polled 623 human...
Editor's note: Moments after Peyton Manning led the Denver Broncos to a comeback win over the San Diego Chargers, an already brewing quarterback controversy steamed over. The question: Who should start under center for Denver in its first playoff game, slated for Sunday, January 17: Peyton or Brock Osweiler, who won...
At 11 a.m. on Sunday, November 29, Governor John Hickenlooper will be on the steps of the State Capitol, greeting the participants in the seventeenth annual Sand Creek Massacre Spiritual Healing Run. Last year, on the 150th anniversary of the raid that Colonel John Chivington led on a peaceful camp...
Like a classic reel of 35mm click-clacking through a projector's sprockets, film events keep unspooling across metro Denver. Even if the weather is great this month, you'll want to head inside to catch the ten best film events in March, presented here in chronological order. 10. The Brakhage Center Symposium...
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James "Caz" Bzdek, the man behind Dueling Pianos Road Show, has been a well-known figure on the entertainment scene in Denver and the region for years. Now, however, he's getting the kind of publicity that can hardly be termed good for business. He and an associate, Bethany Concha, have been...
The third and final installment of High Plains Underground Archives' series on Denver music reunion shows, features Warlock Pinchers. These days it is very easy to find out about local bands if you make even a small amount of effort. But back in the late '80s and early '90s, this was...
The Denver Tech Center (and nearby blocks that tend to get lumped in under that moniker) is interlaced with shopping centers and strip malls that attract corporate crowds at lunch on weekdays, even if the area clears out by nightfall and becomes a ghost town on the weekends. Restaurants regularly...
Artists are natural hoarders. To us, everything has potential, everything has possibility. Add to that the word “free” and resistance is futile, I’m afraid. Though I’ve tried to be incredibly conscious about what I take into my life while building the tiny house, the general rule of stuff is that...
They have been coming every Sunday morning for weeks now, in sunshine or snow, rain or wind. Old men and children, teens and middle-aged professionals — between thirty and fifty people, usually, gathering outside the gates of the Nhu Lai Buddhist temple in southwest Denver. They bring cardboard protest signs...
We just unveiled our 2016 list of the best Chinese restaurants in Denver last week, which included dim sum palaces, noodle houses and specialists from regions as far-flung as Sichuan, Shaanxi, Hong Kong and the island nation of Taiwan. Our goal was to not only find great cooking, but to highlight...
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Ask any corrections officer: Guarding high-profile criminals is one of the most difficult parts of the job. Not because the most notorious are more dangerous than the rest, but because other inmates know that one way to get famous is to go after the infamous. Serial cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer found...
Here in Colorado, adult possession of marijuana in small amounts has been legalized. In plenty of other states, however, such activities remain against the law, and violators face potentially massive penalties, including years in jail. Take the story of four young men — Brandon T. Stoll, 21, Zachary McDaniel, 22, Chad...
Growth and change were the main themes of the past year in Denver — and the restaurant scene was no exception. Fast-paced development has meant more — and more expensive — restaurant spaces, frustrating parking situations, and a wave of newcomers from other states looking for favorite foods they left...
We tend to think of snow days as being universally beloved by students of all ages. But that wasn't the case for everyone impacted by the decision by the University of Colorado Boulder to close the campus yesterday. That's because the closure took place during finals week — and students...
A confrontation over the serving of an eviction notice yesterday in Park County led to a shootout in which the home's resident, Martin Wirth, and a deputy, Corporal Nate Carrigan, were killed and two others were injured. Now, additional information has surfaced about Wirth, who was an outspoken activist affiliated...
"My Mother said, 'I'm a survivor, I pull together Christmas, every year.'" So says Cristina in her 1981 song "Things Fall Apart," an ironic new wave take on the trials and pressures of the season and life in general. Not all the tunes below are so icy, but they are...
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Just yesterday, we share our list of the ten reasons to love the 16th Street Mall. But last night, something happened on this stretch that no one can love. A brawl involving a couple of diners and a group of what one witness describes as teens resulted in two injuries...
The biggest story at this year's Sundance Film Festival was the record-breaking bidding war for The Birth of a Nation, a prestige biopic about rebellious slave Nat Turner. When Fox Searchlight snatched it for $17.5 million — $5 million more than any other flick in the festival’s history — their...
In August 2014, we told you about the arrest of Daniel Stetzel, who was accused of stabbing his mom, Kathleen Stetzel, with a screwdriver and then strangling her following an argument over cigarettes. Days later came a new revelation: Stetzel had escaped from a halfway house before the murder, but authorities...
Dear Stoner: How would I test marijuana for pesticides? Mike C. Dear Mike: Unfortunately, you can’t spot pesticides with a trained eye and handheld microscope, as you can powdery mildew, mold or spider mites. Finding chemical residue left behind by pesticides requires processes like gas chromatography or polymerase chain reaction...