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Rocker Spirits Is Aging Well in Littleton

My impression of the Rocker Spirits taproom, distilled into a few words: rugged yet classy, manly yet inviting to all. The distillery, located a few blocks off Littleton’s Main Street at 5587 South Hill Street, feels like an elegant makerspace for spirits and cocktails. Distinctive architectural salvage elements – dimpled steel...
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Mary Chapin Carpenter Can’t Hide From the Country’s Mood

It's no surprise that with a voice like soft suede and a gift for story-telling that hoists listeners up and allows them to float along with her every syllable, country-folk-Americana singer/songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter has won five Grammys and sold over twelve-million albums worldwide.
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David Flores: My Bank Robbery Bust Wasn’t as Dumb as It Seemed

David Flores doesn't mind if stories linger online about his 2010 arrest for bank robbery. He was definitely guilty of committing the crime, as he readily admits. But what pisses him off is that those articles portray him as an idiot who was literally caught red handed after trying to use stolen currency stained, along with his fingers, by a dye pack that exploded as he made his getaway. He insists that the truth is a lot more complicated, and a lot less dumb.
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See Channel 2’s Natalie Tysdal Vomit on Live TV

On yesterday's edition of Channel 2's Daybreak, co-host Natalie Tysdal vomited on live television. And while some stations try to downplay their on-air gaffes, the folks at Channel 2 did just the opposite, sharing the footage on social media with pride. See it below and access links to many of Denver TV's all-time best bloopers, including an inadvertent penis shot, a reporter who made a horrified child cry and a weatherman who told a female colleague, "Congratulations on your big hooters."
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Amendment 64 Co-Author Brian Vicente on Colorado Legal Pot’s Fifth Birthday

Monday, November 6, marks exactly five years since Colorado voters approved Amendment 64, which legalized limited recreational marijuana sales in the state. To mark the occasion, Brian Vicente, an attorney who co-authored the measure, will join other key figures in the campaign at a reception, dinner and fireside chat about the march to victory and the way the industry has developed during the half-decade since then. In advance of the celebration, whose details are featured below, Vicente offers reflections on the past and a look ahead to the future of legal marijuana in Colorado and beyond.
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Op Ed: Parents Must Urge School Districts to Do More to Support Students

In May, Colorado submitted its state plan to implement the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) to the federal government for review and approval. In August, the U.S. Department of Education responded, requesting that Colorado do more to move students towards grade-level proficiency.
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Eric Ashby Finally ID’d as Rafter Who Died Looking for Forrest Fenn Treasure

On June 28, 2017, Eric Ashby went missing in the Arkansas River while reportedly searching for a $2 million treasure hidden by New Mexico author Forrest Fenn. Four weeks or so afterward, human remains were found on the river in Fremont County, and just shy of six months later, they've finally been identified as Ashby. He is now officially the third person from Colorado to perish while looking for this prize during a period of about a year and a half.
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Tavernetta to Reopen After Fire, but What Have the Employees Been Doing?

Tavernetta — the much-anticipated Denver debut from Frasca Food & Wine's Bobby Stuckey, Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson, Peter Hoglund and partner Mark Falcone — was barely a week into service when tragedy struck: a fire broke out during dinner service on September 21, eventually requiring an evacuation — and forcing the restaurant to shutter. A...
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Two 13-Year-Olds Allegedly Had “Kill List” for Their Middle School

News that two thirteen-year-olds who allegedly compiled a "kill list" related to their middle school have been arrested in Colorado Springs hardly qualifies as shocking at this point. In the more than eighteen years since the April 1999 attack at Columbine High School, folks in the state have seen far too many instances of young students being arrested for alleged school threats and violent plots, as documented below.