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The Denver Zoo is sending its fifteen-year-old bull elephant Chuck to Houston in hopes of seeing him start a family and help his endangered species of Asian elephants. Fewer than 40,000 Asian elephants exist in the world, and their population is in decline, making them an endangered species…
A year ago, two people were found dead inside American Elm, the restaurant located at 4132 West 38th Avenue. Emerall Vaughn-Dahler and Ignacio Gutierrez Morales were both valued employees, and the community was devastated…
Jessie Rayford is ready to bring New Orleans eats to Denver once again — for the next six years, at least. "This is the last one for me," he says…
Jake Soffes, founder and managing partner of Pearl Street Hospitality, has been working in the hospitality biz since he was eighteen, and he's now entered the live-music scene with his new venue, Two Moons Music Hall, now open at 2944 Larimer Street. "I actually don't have a huge amount of […]
Dear Stoner: I have a nineteen-year-old son with disabilities, and he is looking to get a medical card, but the MMJ doctors down here in Colorado Springs are very conservative. Are they more liberal in Denver?…
Rafael Nava, Joseph Szlanic and Ben Zickau are sitting on the porch of the Denver house they call home. It’s evening, but the sun has yet to set on the three musicians, who make up the indie-psych group shadow work…
The food and booze festival season is starting to heat up, with events like Oaxaca en Denver and the Big Stir on the calendar this week. Sunday also marks the kickoff of the second annual Mile High Asian Food Week, which has over 100 participating vendors this year…
The silent-era movie star Lon Chaney, who was originally from Colorado Springs, was known as "The Man of a Thousand Faces" thanks to his many pioneering makeup looks. However, his numbers pale compared to the stats of fellow Coloradan and social media success story "Mohawk Bob" Bagnall, who could […]
For the first time since 2019, the three fountains in Denver’s Cheesman Park will be fully operational all summer. The Denver Department of Parks & Recreation turned the fountains off for two years during the COVID-19 pandemic, and has only run them intermittently since…
It was a shot heard around the world today, even though it happened last night. No, we're not talking about Jamal Murray's epic game-two buzzer-beater over the Los Angeles Lakers on April 22, which put the Denver Nuggets up 2-0 in their first-round playoff series…
What's old is new again in Edgewater with the arrival of Lot 46 Music Bar at the Edgewater Inn. Lot 46 comes to the neighborhood courtesy of longtime Denver entrepreneurs and music venue owners Niya and Grant Gingerich…
Thrash metal was pioneered in the ’80s by bands that have now become known as "the Big Four": Metallica, Anthrax, Slayer and, of course, Megadeth. Nearly forty years after releasing its debut album, Killing Is My Business...and Business Is Good!, Megadeth will hit the road this summer for a […]
The Colorado Disability Funding Committee was a little late in reintroducing its auction for cannabis-themed license plates this year, but it was just in time for the NBA playoffs...and the end of 4/20 celebrations. For the fourth year in a row, the committee is auctioning off custom license […]
From Sunday, April 28, through Saturday, May 4, Mile High Asian Food Week (MHAFW) will highlight more than 100 culinary businesses offering limited-time specials, prix fixe menus, collaborations, discounts and more — double the number of vendors that participated in last year’s […]
Several factors make Denver one of the best beer cities in the world. First, the sheer number of breweries — there are more than seventy within city limits alone, according to Colorado Brewery List, and over one hundred more in the greater metro area…
As the Pink Moon peaked, Red Rocks morphed into a modern-day version of Valhalla the night of April 22, when the iconic open-air venue hosted Swedish Vikings Amon Amarth, the headliner of a death-metal debutant. Only two days after the smoke cleared from the latest 4/20 on the Rocks, the thousands […]
While we all know that Red Rocks is Colorado's most famous outdoor music venue, seeing a concert at Dillon Amphitheater is also a must-do for locals and tourists alike. Set on a lake with stunning views, the venue is intimate yet expansive, and its yearly concert offerings give the mountain […]
For district attorneys across the state — both past and present — Yvonne "Missy" Woods is a name that keeps many of them up at night. "The impact of her misconduct cannot be overstated," says 17th Judicial District Attorney Brian Mason of Woods, a disgraced DNA expert who used to work […]
Colorado author Joe Fassler once contributed to The Atlantic's "By Heart" series, starting back in 2013. In that role, he interviewed some of America's most cherished and famous authors — Stephen King, Amy Tan, Khaled Hosseini, Elizabeth Gilbert, Carmen Maria Machado and many others — […]
The joyride is finally over for Rendon Dietzmann, seven months after the YouTuber went viral after filming himself riding a motorcycle from Colorado Springs to Denver in only twenty minutes. Dietzmann was sentenced on Tuesday, April 23, to fourteen days in jail and nearly $2,300 in fines after […]
A lot has happened since the members of Armchair Boogie met at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point nearly a decade ago. Shortly after their nascent aggregation at the school, the group moved to the state capital of Madison, a couple hours to the south, where the band jelled and began to […]
Jill Carstens grew up in the suburbs of Denver back when the suburbs weren't all that far-flung. She and her family lived on Vivian Street near 26th Avenue, a thoroughfare she recalls her father saying would "take you anywhere you want to go."…
"I would never, ever do it again in Denver. Absolutely not," says Carlo Campagna, who opened his first restaurant, Toro Food Concepts, at 1018 East 11th Avenue last October, after working in the food industry for his entire career — over 35 years…
For the past decade and a half, Allgreens dispensary has served as the Cheers of hash for Colorado medical patients, where everybody knows your strain. "They know how to treat med patients properly," says cannabis industry worker and regular customer Conner Larny, a resident of Denver…
After finding containers of leafy greens in the garbage, Aurora nonprofits have started teaching migrants from West African countries such as Mauritania, Mali and Senegal how to cook with common ingredients from Colorado food banks. The Aurora Migrant Response Network, a coalition of fifty […]
