11:00 am, Mar 25, 2013
We haven't actually counted, but the number of Colorado canned craft beers rivals the number of craft brew bottles on the shelves of Front Range liquor stores. Ten years ago, Oskar Blues Brewery started this canning trend, which has been adopted by just about everyone else. What's more, Beverage World Magazine recently gave a nod to the...
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9:00 am, Mar 22, 2013
Rant: Xcel EnergyImagine this scenario: You walk downstairs in your house and you're hit with a wall of foul-smelling natural gas. A knob on the stove is broken and gas is spewing out of the burner. There's obviously a problem, so what do you do? I can tell you what I did. I followed Xcel Energy's safety plan, which entails getting...
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3:37 pm, Mar 21, 2013
We’re used to seeing volunteers doling out chili in soup kitchens or spearing plastic bottles in park cleanups. But here's a volunteer twist: The Vail Ski Challenge, a charity-driven competition where 13 local business and civic leaders race against one another to gain the most vertical feet. This season’s teams have been picked and...
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1:00 pm, Mar 21, 2013
Colorado is helping make private sports teams and clubs safer for children. Senator Rollie Heath introduced Senate Bill 13-012 in January, which seeks to hold employees of private sports programs responsible for reporting child abuse or neglect:The bill adds directors, coaches, assistant coaches, and athletic program personnel for private sports...
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12:05 pm, Mar 21, 2013
Let the madness begin. The NCAA basketball tournament begins in the state today when Colorado State University faces the University of Missouri tonight at 7:20 p.m. in Lexington, Kentucky. The game will be televised on TBS.Though CSU is the No. 8 seed in the Midwest Region and Missouri is the No. 9, the Rams are underdogs in the game. CSU was 25-8...
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3:40 pm, Mar 20, 2013
Wintry weather that blew through Colorado the past few weeks has done little to ease drought conditions, a sign the coming summer could be even more troublesome for residents across the state. According to the United States drought monitor, eastern Colorado is suffering through some of the nation’s most severe drought conditions and Front Range...
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1:30 pm, Mar 19, 2013
Over the past few weeks, a commotion has erupted between Fox News and Colorado's, uh, secular utopians. The folks who cobble together Bill O'Reilly's nightly contribution (sic) to American political and social discourse have trained their eye on Colorado Speaker of the House Mark Ferrandino.At issue is Ferrandino's apparent refusal to bring "...
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10:38 am, Mar 19, 2013
For the fifth year running, the Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Denver (BGCMD) is offering you a chance to win a Denver dream home while you also help support 14 safe neighborhood clubs that function as “second homes” for 2,000 community kids each day. Raffle tickets let you vie for a variety of prizes (cars, vacations, cash!),...
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4:09 pm, Mar 18, 2013
There are plenty of things you should know about fracking. (We recently covered a handful of them.) Things like, first and foremost, what the f*#$ is fracking, is it safe, and who does it affect? (Note: "fracking" is shorthand for “hydraulic fracturing,” a process used to extract oil and gas locked in dense rock formations thousands...
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1:40 pm, Mar 18, 2013
When our readers last heard from Gary Flakes, he was standing at the start line of a 5K fundraiser. He looked a little out of sync wearing dark slacks and dress shoes in a sea of Lycra and windbreakers. He was standing alone, as he often has. First as a youth sentenced to prison in adult court and, now, as a civilian running for a city council...
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7:08 am, Mar 18, 2013
Although I haven't tried all the "-chip" ice creams out there, I fully intend to. But after enjoying—again and again—the dulce de leche choc-chip gelato made by Ballpark's Buenos Aires Pizza, I'm not sure I'll find a frozen treat that's any better. There's an art to making chocolate chip anything. Sure, you can buy a bag of Nestlé or...
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1:15 pm, Mar 15, 2013
Rant: St. Patrick's Day OverkillAs another March 17 looms, it's time to brace ourselves. Because whenever there's an occasion that has even the slightest connection to alcohol, certain Denverites attack it like a cheetah going after an antelope. They turn the holiDAY into a holiWEEK, delighted to behave, frankly, like total idiots. In public.(...
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11:00 am, Mar 14, 2013
Ben Petrick played his last game with the Colorado Rockies on June 30, 2003—a pinch-hit appearance in which he struck out—and ended his major league career in Detroit fewer than three months later. The catcher’s career numbers are hardly legendary: five seasons, 669 at bats, 27 home runs, and a .257 batting average. But those statistics become...
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8:47 am, Mar 14, 2013
Not long ago, we took a peak inside the labs at Golden's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), a principal research facility for the U.S. Department of Energy, and made an interesting discovery: NREL scientists are researching the possibility of using algae as a petroleum substitute to fuel vehicles such as jets. More recently, the...
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3:36 pm, Mar 12, 2013
Last Friday morning, roughly two hours into an all-day marathon debate about gun laws on the Senate floor, a dull roar echoed throughout the state Capitol. It came from across the hall, from the House chamber, where lawmakers had just voted to approve legislation known as the ASSET bill, which will let undocumented students pay the in-state...
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