Forbes has just released its list of the best places in the U.S. to retire in 2016. No surprise that one of them is right here in Colorado. But the city of choice stands apart from the rest. Most of the communities selected are smallish — many of them with populations...
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Last year, NerdWallet's list of the ten best U.S. cities for tech jobs featured one community in Colorado — that being Boulder. This year, Homes.com conducted a similar study for its New Tech City Index 2016, and once again, Boulder made the grade. But another Colorado city did, too —...
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Tiny Japanese monsters have suddenly invaded Denver. If you download the free Pokémon Go app, you'll see them popping up all over town: high-tech versions of the characters introduced to America on Pokémon cards two decades ago. While the app leaves something to be desired on a technological level (the augmented...
Woodrow Wilson described D.W. Griffith’s notorious Civil War epic Birth of a Nation as “writing history with lightning.” Gary Ross’ Free State of Jones, which covers roughly the same period as Griffith’s film, is more like writing history with index cards. Diligent and informative but also fragmented and inert, it...
Colorado colleges often fail to score great grades on national surveys. Last year, just two Colorado institutions made the top thirty in an NPR roster of premier U.S. colleges. And in recent weeks, we noted that a ranking of America's best public colleges featured just one Colorado school in the top...
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Each year, Gallup-Healthways issues its well-being index, which, among other things, attempts to determine the happiest cities in these United States. And Colorado communities regularly make the cut. That's true again this year. Two Front Range community finished in the top ten, based on the following criteria: Purpose: Liking what...
Usually, we're able to keep lists ranking cities and states in perspective — maybe because Denver and Colorado so frequently wind up at or near the top of them. But there are exceptions. For instance, we were absolutely flabbergasted a couple of years back when Ranker suggested that there were...
It's going to be a loooong night for the Denver City Council this evening, with a packed agenda and at least two hot-button items scheduled for final consideration that have provoked considerable comment from neighborhood groups. The first is an ordinance for the licensing and regulation of short-term rentals, an...
On April 1, Chelsea Wolfe released a seven-inch single for “Hypnos," the song invokes the name of the Greek personification of sleep. It was written as a kind of ode, a love song, that Wolfe says is set in a dark dream. This is Wolfe's creative method to come to...
The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center has made an outsized contribution to our state’s cultural life over the years, showcasing the most important artists associated with Colorado and mounting one impressive exhibition after another. This has been particularly true since the completion of the hypersensitive addition designed by David Owen...
A new report shared with the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that many marijuana tourists got more than they bargained for when visiting Colorado after the state legalized limited recreational pot sales. Specifically, the number of out-of-state residents who made cannabis-related emergency room visits in 2014, after Amendment 64 went...
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This is your last chance to see Drawing Never Dies at RedLine, which closes at 7 p.m. today, August 5. Keep reading for my capsule review of that show, as well as other exhibits you can still catch along the Front Range. — including Performance on Paper, which I review...
Governor John Hickenlooper was back where it all began last night, signing copies of The Opposite of Woe: My Life in Beer and Politics, as fans flooded the Wynkoop Brewing Company. This is where Hickenlooper's public life began, at least. As the book he cowrote with Max Potter details — and...
We're so accustomed to Denver landing on positive lists — just last month, U.S. News & World Report named the Mile High City the best place to live in the country — that when our home registers poorly, it comes across as a shock. That's certainly the case with the...
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,...
The seventh annual Performance Art Week, spearheaded by Rian Kerrane, a sculptor who also teaches at the College of Arts and Media at the University of Colorado-Denver, kicks off tonight at Emmanuel Gallery. For this year's PAW, Kerrane is pulling both artists and the public into situations characterized by the immediacy...
When Michael Hancock ran for mayor in 2011, part of his platform called for changing the way Denver government interacted with its constituents. “We wanted to be the most globally competitive city, so we had to get better from the inside out,” Hancock explains. “We needed an innovative way to get at old vestiges of thinking in city government. We want a city built for 2016, not 1916.” The result was Peak Performance, which is winning awards and accolades around the county.
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Back in 2011, we told you about the arrest of Billy Jene Wilson for the murder of Gina Gruenwald seven years earlier. DNA evidence from a bite mark had put authorities on Wilson's trail, and he was eventually convicted of the crime — but he appealed based on at least...
In a part-timer economy, fast-food workers and janitors aren't the only ones feeling the pinch. Skimpy wages, long hours and a lack of benefits can also be found in the white-collar sweat shops operated by the Colorado Community College System. Last night, a group of CCCS instructors gathered at the...
#89: Sarah Wallace Scott A founding member of Denver’s Tank Studios and former RedLine resident, Colorado native Sarah Wallace Scott is an artist, teacher, curator and businesswoman who makes the time to create print, installation and mixed-media works that often speak to the tentative connection between society and disappearing nature. Read...
There has been no shortage of scribes offering their versions of Colorado's journey to legalizing cannabis, but few have presented it as the fascinating, epic comedy that it really is. Now Frisco bartender/author Johnny Welsh seems to have hit that target in his new book, Weedgalized in Colorado: True Tales from...