4:33 pm, May 22, 2012
As of this writing, the Rockies sit 13.5 games out of first place, by far the biggest deficit in baseball. This is an exceedingly difficult "feat" to achieve a week before Memorial Day. (They share the basement with the San Diego Padres, an organization that’s better suited to AAA-ball even when they don’t have 13 guys on the disabled list.) Part of the reason for this woeful situation is that...
11:55 am, May 22, 2012
I hate going to the gas station. It always costs more time and money than I expect. So, a few years ago, I devised a plan to delay the annoying trips to the pump until the last possible second. Whenever that you're-about-to-be-running-on-fumes light illuminates on the dashboard of my car, I reset my odometer and delay my trip to the pump for another 20 miles. Voilà. Procrastination at its best....
10:50 am, May 21, 2012
Masai Ujiri will be busy this summer. Not only does the Denver Nuggets' general manager have to get over another first-round playoff exit, he has to plan for the NBA draft, re-sign some key players, and figure out where his team is headed. Ujiri, who will be entering his third season as the team's chief decision-maker, seems undaunted—just don't tell him how exciting his team was last season. "We...
3:59 pm, May 17, 2012
For true baseball fans, a game doesn't require athletes with multi-million dollar paychecks. Really, a good game can come down to a pair of little league teams squaring off for neighborhood bragging rights. In Colorado, there's an option between the tots and the Tulos: The Colorado Rockies Triple-A affiliate Colorado Springs Sky Sox. The team plays at Security Service Field in Colorado...
11:45 am, May 17, 2012
Thirty years ago, Larry Mizel, his wife Carol, and rabbi Stanley Wagner had the idea to start a Jewish museum in Colorado. That one-room, synagogue-housed space eventually turned into the Mizel Museum, a nationally regarded "portal to the contemporary Jewish experience." Exhibits like 4,000 Year Road Trip: Gathering Sparks (a permanent show that opened in February) exemplify the museum's inspired...
1:28 pm, May 16, 2012
Feel like you’re losing your competitive edge at work? Takes you twice as long to read and understand a document as it did 10 years ago? Are your kids performing beneath their grade level at school? This past January, we stumbled upon a place that offered help for these problems. We ran a story about LearningRx, which we referred to as Denver’s only so-called brain-training center. Update: As it...
10:57 am, May 16, 2012
How fitting that this week’s political gamesmanship—better known as the backroom bullshit that makes voters yearn for term limits and recall elections—has devolved into a feckless round of he said/he said. On one side of the debate over the civil unions bill is Speaker of the House Frank McNulty. On the other is Governor Hickenlooper. One of them either steamrolled or stonewalled the other one,...
10:13 am, May 16, 2012
To say that Representative Don Coram cast the deciding vote to kill a bill that would have allowed civil unions for same-sex couples in Colorado is a bit shortsighted—after all, he was one of five Republican lawmakers on Monday who voted against the measure in a special state House subcommittee. But what made Coram's vote so interesting was his personal life: His son, Dee, is gay. Coram, who...
2:30 pm, May 15, 2012
The Denver Nuggets' impressive playoff run against the Los Angeles Lakers ended this past weekend, a loss that leaves our city with only one major professional team to get us through the summer. So, um, how about those Colorado Rockies? Well, for starters, the team is below .500 at both home and on the road this season, much of the starting pitching has imploded, and the team still hasn't...
11:05 am, May 14, 2012
We're often so busy sampling our state's brews—big, floral IPA's and fruity sours, to name a few—we forget to recognize the impact our precious suds have on Colorado's economy. The Centennial State's beer industry creates thousands of jobs and generates millions of dollars in revenue for the state. Thanks to a recent study conducted by the University of Colorado Boulder Business...
