The question of whether or not the Denver Broncos would sign Super Bowl MVP Von Miller to a new contract has been the single most irritating issue surrounding the team during the off-season. So we're both thrilled and relieved that prior to today's 2 p.m. deadline, Miller reached an agreement...
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Days after last year's Ironman Boulder challenge, competitor Brian Godlove died of causes associated with the race, including dehydration. The latest Ironman Boulder, staged yesterday, brought a different kind of tragedy. McCook, Nebraska's Michelle Walters, 34, was killed after being struck by a vehicle during the race. Thus far, the Colorado State...
A former Trinidad district attorney has abruptly dropped out of the race to replace Frank Ruybalid, the embattled top prosecutor in Las Animas and Huerfano counties, saying that the office is so badly underfunded by state and county officials that "the safety of the citizens of this district is at...
Today the Board of Education of Denver Public Schools is slated to vote on the sale of the Emily Griffith property at 1250 Welton Street to Stonebridge Companies for $26,100,000. Legendary Denver educator Emily Griffith would probably give this deal an A — although for a long time, it looked...
“The first time I wrote a play, I was teaching high-school theater, 25 years ago,” says John Moore, the award-winning former Denver Post theater critic and current senior arts journalist at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. After that came a long hiatus until Brian Freeland, then artistic director...
The Great American Beer Festival pours into Denver on Thursday, October 6, and although it was sold out minutes after tickets went on sale, pre-gaming events are on tap all over town this week. But if beer isn't your cup of brew, there are plenty of other tasty events to...
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In recent weeks, we've been filling our Election archive with stories about statewide ballot measures and races. But ballot issue 4B is specific to the communities in and around the Mile High City. The measure seeks to reauthorize the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District, which funds organizations devoted to culture and...
Colorado’s top three favorite strains, according to commercial marijuana data firm BDS Analytics, are Blue Dream, Durban Poison and Alien Dawg. With the help of a couple of growers, I’ve already offered my field guide to the first two. Now it’s Alien Dawg’s turn in the spotlight. A surprise on...
Patrick Marold: Residuum, an intriguing solo at Goodwin Fine Art, features abstract process pieces by one of Denver’s most accomplished conceptual artists. They have the refined elegance and quiet, contemplative character that have been key components of Patrick Marold’s work over the past decade — but they also reflect a...
The success of Glass Animals’ 2014 debut album Zaba is, in the words of fellow British rocker Nigel Tufnel, a mystery that's "best to leave it...unsolved." Through a curious blend of tribal percussion, casually psychedelic lyrics and a transverse connection to both modern rock and electronica, Glass Animals achieves an impressive sonic iconography. Their style...
How did a Louisiana-bred associate professor of African-American Studies at Georgia’s Valdosta State University come to the conclusion that Denver was “the most important place in the country to the glue-sniffing epidemic”? For historian and author Thomas Aiello, it started when he began researching his 2010 book Bayou Classic: The...
One thing is for certain: The coordinators of Field Day Camp Show are not in it for the money. “We’re going to be paying out of our pocket for this,” confesses Jeremy Marquez, one of the festival’s three organizers-slash-bookers-slash-promoters. The other two members of the coordinating team, Logan Misegadis and...
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U.S. Presidents can only serve two terms, but beers — they can serve longer. Avery Brewing first created Ale to the Chief in 2008 to celebrate Inauguration Day, January 20, 2009 (which we wrote about way back then, as the Democratic National Convention was in Denver), and brewed a second...
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Those of us in charge of determining Schmucks of the Week don't usually tell folks how not to be chosen for this august honor. That would be bad for business. But today, we're making an exception. Our advice: If the crime you're accused of committing isn't all that unusual, you're probably...
Anti-fracking groups were incensed when the Colorado Secretary of State's office announced that initiatives 75 and 78, a pair of measures they supported, had failed to qualify for the November ballot. Not that Coloradans will have a shortage of choices to make when they either literally or figuratively step into...
Octave Mirbeau’s The Diary of a Chambermaid, a 1900 novel about the depravities in all social strata written from the point of view of a servant named Célestine, has famously been adapted twice before, by two of cinema’s immortals. Benoît Jacquot’s uneven take on the material won’t challenge the stature...
Earlier this summer, April Sanchez filed a lawsuit in regard to the fatal Denver police shooting of her son, Ryan Ronquillo, outside a funeral home, where he had traveled in July 2014 attend the viewing of a friend who'd taken his own life. The suit's central claim: Ronquillo, an alleged car...
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A few breweries are making a point this year of not brewing pumpkin beers. It's not that they want to squash the pumpkin craze, it's just that they want to do something different. Alaskan Brewing, for example, which distributes in Colorado, chose to forego its traditional pumpkin offerings this year...
Editor's note: Twenty years ago today, influential hip-hop artist Tupac Shakur died in Las Vegas after being shot six days earlier. In his new book, Original Gangstas: The Untold Story of Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Tupac Shakur, and the Birth of West Coast Rap (out today with Hachette Books), former music...
Ned Garthe Explosion’s highly experimental music, and the artistic concepts surrounding it, began with a realization that the cops weren’t paying attention, which allowed the bandmembers to get away with whatever they wanted. “Stuart [Confer] and I used to live in this house by Fort Logan mental hospital,” guitarist and...
When you live in Los Angeles, you don’t really think about music scenes anywhere else. Why would you? L.A. has it all. Sure, you might occasionally give a passing nod to cool shit going on in other places. Kudos to Seattle for that grunge run way back when. And, yeah,...