Subject: Manufacturing Sector

• False Gold

  January 19, 2007

• A Real Page-Turner

  October 3, 2006

• Rapp Sheet

  September 28, 2006

• State of the (Fashion) Union

  June 1, 2007

• Ben & Jerry's Free Cone Day

  April 29, 2008

• Milking It: My Friends Tigger & Pooh Corn Puffs

  May 12, 2008

• Denver Post Links Bicycles, Chipotle Burritos and Gas

  July 14, 2008

• Urban Peak Wants to Get Young People Wired

  July 15, 2008

• Candy Girls: Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory

  October 24, 2008

• Doing what comes naturally at Naturally Boulder Days

  October 31, 2008

• Milking It: Boo Berry

  November 3, 2008

• Best music-industry scandal

  June 29, 2000

• Off Limits

  October 12, 2000

• Best Computer Recycling Service

  March 29, 2001

• Best Chocolates Dedicated to Lucille Ball

  March 29, 2001

• Best Dinosaur Tracks --Indoors

  March 29, 2001

• Thanasi Foods thinks BIGS with bacon

  Thanasi Foods LLC, a Boulder-based company,makes such unPC-sounding branded food products as Stubb's and Jim Beam beef jerkys.In March, markets will start stocking its latest creation: BIGS, larger-than-average sunflower seeds (hence the name) with the flavors of Vlasic pickles, Frank's RedHot sauce and even bacon, a miracle made possible by the use of BaconSalt, a new product from J and D foods. (Jason Sheehan would probably bathe in if he got the chance.)Owner Justin Havlick launched Thanasi

  January 26, 2009

• Best Fundraiser Alternative

  April 4, 2002

• Best Margarita in a Box

  April 4, 2002

• The details behind Clear Channel and 9News public-service announcements for car dealers

  An image from a National Automobile Dealers Association public-service announcement. Yesterday morning, during one of his regular updates on KOA/850 AM's morning-news broadcast, Channel 9 business reporter Gregg Moss talked about a new series of public-service announcements for the automobile industry that would begin running immediately on Clear Channel stations like KOA, as well as on Channel 9 and its sister station, Channel 20 -- and he wasn't exaggerating. The instant his segment ended, vi

  February 13, 2009

• Best Place to Buy Big Ice

  March 27, 2003

• Best Place to Make a Hat

  March 27, 2003

• Best Homeland Security Uniforms

  March 27, 2003

• Best Hair on a TV Personality -- Male

  March 27, 2003

• Best Indoor Shooting Range

  March 25, 2004

• Best Example of Moving the Cheese

  March 25, 2004

• Hope for the Holidays

  Function as Fashion raises funds for LUNAFEST.

  December 13, 2007

• Road Food

  July 12, 2007

• Spring Fever

  The Seed show is sweet and succulent.

  April 5, 2007

• Pot of Gold

  Joseph Brodsky has a nose for great coffee. It led him all the way to Ethiopia, in search of the Geisha.

  December 14, 2006

• Next Big Things

  The five biggest attention-getters at E3.

  May 25, 2006

• Generation Next

  Microsoft's Xbox 360 fires the first shot in the next-gen console war.

  December 29, 2005

• Turbo A.C.'s

  Monday, November 21, Bluebird Theater, 303-322-2308.

  November 17, 2005

• Troubled Hubble

  Making Beds in a Burning House (Lookout)

  May 26, 2005

• Smoke Detector

  Anne Landman has dedicated her life to being a pain in the ash. Will it make a difference come election time?

  September 16, 2004

• Best Australian Hats

  Wallaroo Hat Company

  March 29, 2001

• Doing a Slow Burn

  The Colorado AG grabs a hot potato in the state's tobacco lawsuit--and hopes she won't get scorched by the legislature.

  March 5, 1998

• Hot Chocolate

  February 5, 1998

• Pack Contributions

  Tobacco lobbyists do a smokin' business with politicians.

  October 2, 1997

• The Marlboro Hombres

  Last June in Costa Rica, the tobacco lobby was berry, berry good to two Colorado legislators.

  August 21, 1997

• The Marlboro Woman

  The AG's campaign fund is nicotine-stained--and critics say she's dragging her feet on tobacco suits.

  May 1, 1997

• ONE LAST GASP FOR MARLBORO COUNTRY

  AMERICA'S LARGEST TOBACCO COMPANY WANTS TO RUN SMOKERS OUT OF DENVER ON A RAIL.

  December 13, 1995

• Totally Sweet

  You’ll melt for the Colorado Chocolate Festival.

  May 7, 2009

• Candy Girls: Happy candyversary!

  Liz KellermeyerA year ago, we came to you with a simple pink maltball that tasted like Barbie, and the Candy Girls were born.  In addition to this momentous anniversary, Aubrey has even bigger news to commemorate with the birth of her baby boy last night!  What better way to celebrate the concurrence of these events than with a cigar.  Chocolate, of course.   We picked up these beauties at the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory in Writer's Square.  They're the onl

  May 8, 2009

• Bill Ritter goes to the dogs

  Photo courtesy of Nestlé Purina"Could somebody remind me why I wanted this job?" Before Bill Ritter co-hosted a tribute to MediaNews Group CEO and Denver Post publisher Dean Singleton, who's hardly a fan of his policies, he appeared at a photo opportunity with a dog. Yep, Ritter joined Dealer, a Miami border collie, at the dedication of a solar-panel installation at Nestlé Purina's Denver plant yesterday. No word about which of these guests of honor was easier to handle -- but my money's on D

  May 15, 2009

• Black Tuesday for fourteen Colorado Chrysler dealers

  An image from an economic-impact study about car dealers in Colorado. Today's the day when fourteen Colorado auto dealers are supposed to stop selling Chrysler products as part of the beleaguered company's attempt to emerge from bankruptcy -- an effort that hit a bump in the road yesterday when a ruling by Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg delayed the firm's sale to a consortium led by the Italian automaker Fiat. Tim Jackson, spokesman for the Colorado Automobile Dealers Association, ha

  June 9, 2009

• More information about Huffington Post's plan to open Denver branch

  A Flickr photoArianna Huffington. As reported in this space on Monday, the Huffington Post is planning to open a series of local branches -- and in a recent interview, Arianna Huffington, the site's namesake, revealed that an outpost in Denver would follow the launch of ones in Chicago and New York. Yesterday, I followed up via e-mail with HP spokesman Mario Ruiz, who invited questions -- but when I sent him around a dozen, many of them quite detailed, he replied with a request for fewer inquir

  June 25, 2009

• Denver manufacturing job losses: We're 45th!

  A Flickr photo​Throughout the ongoing economic downturn, the Denver Business Journal has tried to look for upbeat stories to counterbalance the most dismal reports. But one of the latest has a small nugget of compensation built in. "Denver Loses 6,900 Manufacturing Jobs in Five Years" puts its worst news right in the headline. However, a subsequent roster of the top labor markets, in which Denver ranks 45th out of 100 in terms of manufacturing-job shortfalls, puts this number in context --

  August 5, 2009

• Lockheed's spin on impending layoffs at Jeffco facility

  An image from Lockheed Martin Space Systems' website.​Lockheed Martin Space Systems' Waterton Canyon facility has served as a major economic engine for southern Jefferson County for decades, and it will no doubt continue to do so -- but its horsepower is due for a reduction. The firm plans to cut 800 jobs by the end of the year, with the reductions impacting Waterton Canyon and an operation in Sunnyvale, California. In a news release, company spokeswoman Joanne Maguire insists that this mo

  August 18, 2009

• Ask the Critic: When the chips are down...

  ​Last week in Ask the Critic, I was trying to help out a buddy (and frequent Cafe Society commenter) who was looking for a place to get some real Hong Kong-style roast goose -- but either no one who frequents this little corner of the blogosphere knows where to find the stuff, or there's really no place in Denver to get it (which is always possible). Either way, it wasn't a good week for the Ask the Critic.So this week, I've got a question that has lots of answers and is sure to inspire some s

  October 12, 2009