A pot cookbook, a treatise on changing Cuba and a local Sherlockian expert are all in the spotlight this week at Denver bookstores. Here’s where to pick your poison: Robyn Griggs Lawrence and Povy Kendal Atchison The Cannabis Kitchen Cookbook: Feel-Good Food for Home Cooks Tattered Cover Book Store 7...
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Podcasts are among the most direct and engaging mediums to emerge from the digital audio revolution. Liberated from the demands of commerce (though sponsorship and advertising space are necessary evils for those who wish to monetize), podcasters forge meaningful relationships with their listeners, fostering a uniquely intimate bond in the...
American Horror Story: Freak Show actress Rose Siggins, who grew up in Pueblo, died in Denver on Saturday, December 12. She was just 43-years-old. Siggins's death is the second this year to strike a member of the Freak Show cast, and her fellow actors have responded with grief mixed with gratitude for...
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In 1961, Dwight Eisenhower famously left the White House with a warning to the American public about the rise of the military-industrial complex. When Barack Obama exits the Oval Office next year, he wouldn’t be remiss in cautioning the nation about the conspiracy-industrial complex, which has dug its tentacles into...
Last month's election in Denver wasn't packed with surprises. True, Tim O'Brien upset Chris Nevitt in the auditor's contest. But Mayor Michael Hancock won reelection easily, as did clerk and recorder Debra Johnson, and Debbie Ortega, Paul López, Mary Beth Susman, Christopher Herndon and Albus Brooks retained their seats on the Denver...
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Paul Vismara has a lot of talents. He's the co-author of Italy: Beer Country The Story of Italian Craft Beer, an expert beer slinger at Falling Rock Tap House and an artist: Vismara painted the beer logo murals that grace Falling Rock. And at 1 p.m., on Saturday, March 26, he'll...
The three solos currently on display at Robischon Gallery share a creepy yet elegant mood — like the feeling of walking through a decrepit mansion — and it strikes me that the atmosphere is a perfect fit for this time of year. Filling the initial set of galleries is Kahn...
As 2015 winds down, we're starting to look back at what helped define the year. And what better way to do so than to listen again to what you had to say. What follow are the ten most viewed 2015 posts from our Comment of the Day archive. As you'll...
Tonight on the Colorado State University campus, a candlelight vigil will be held to remember Ariana Grande and a fellow eleven-year-old from the Fort Collins area. The pair took their lives within a week of each other — and while the loved ones of the other child, a boy, have...
Back in the lock-'em-up frenzy of the 1990s, the Colorado Department of Corrections became increasingly reliant on private prison operators to stash its excess supply of felons. Those private companies tended to build their McPrisons in small towns on the eastern plains, far from the occupants' families, promising to hire...
The queasiest thing about American Crime Story’s (FX) retelling of the 1995 O.J. Simpson murder trial is how easily such a flagrant miscarriage of justice could happen all over again. The twin forces that most warped that case, after all, still plague us today: a tabloid culture that reduces flesh-and-blood...
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Jenna Berrios and Sawyer Oglesby had an idea to serve wholesome, quick breakfasts to a Denver coffee crowd ready for something more than muffins. The result is ProsperOats, which opened this summer at 2550 15th Street in Lower Highland. ProsperOats, which takes its name from the character Prospero in William...
Haunted locales may come and go (rest in peace, Flossie McGrew’s), but it’s their stories that make the standouts stand out. Here are six of Colorado’s most unusual spooky sites, guaranteed to give you the creeps not just on Halloween, but on any dark night. 1) Cheesman Park, between Humboldt...
When we recently shared a post highlighting rent prices for 25 people in the Denver area, we asked readers what they're paying. Lots of you weighed in — thanks! — and the results were all over the Denver-metro map. Some folks felt pretty good about the amount they're being charged...
Over the past year or so, we've shared a disheartening number of stories about inmates who've died in a variety of jails due to allegedly substandard medical care. In June 2014, we told you about Christopher Lopez, whose jailers at the San Carlos Correctional Facility in Pueblo joked and laughed as he...
Americans may not have invented the sandwich, but we’ve definitely taken the physics and geometry of nearly every bread-and-filling combination to extremes, from teetering Dagwoods to sauce-drenched sloppy Joes to heavyweight hoagies. We’re not the only innovators to latch onto sandwiches as the perfect portable street food or fast lunch,...
In December 2014, we told you about a lawsuit in which the states of Nebraska and Oklahoma asked the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down Amendment 64, the 2012 measure that legalized limited recreational marijuana sales in Colorado. Our headline: "NEBRASKA AND OKLAHOMA TO COLORADANS WHO VOTED FOR AMENDMENT 64:...
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In recent weeks, we've reported about numerous high-profile crimes on the 16th Street Mall. Included among them — a beating by a group of teens, a stabbing and the arrest of Jerry Odell, who allegedly committed four sexual assaults within minutes of each other. Now comes word of another sex assault...
In August, we told you about Go Topless Fort Collins, a "Free the Nipple" campaign to goad the Fort Collins City Council into removing the line "the breast or breasts of a female" from its public-indecency ordinance. Then, earlier this month, we updated you on a public survey about the...
It's the time of year for eggnog, present wrapping and terrible, awful, no-good bullshit Christmas movies. Seriously, is there any holiday more beleaguered by cheesy garbage than Christmas? While yes, there are gems that balance the sentiment with a good story, a little edge and maybe some laughs, most fall...
In the mid-2000s, during the height of Denver’s indie-rock era, the members of Somerset Catalog were in some of the city’s more prominent bands. Bryce Merrill, John Kuker and Trevor Trumble were part of Everything Absent or Distorted, whose raucous live shows displayed the influence of Guided by Voices and...