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Photos: Utah's Epic Brewing is preparing new Denver facility, three Colorado beers

Denver is about to get Brainless. Sometime in late May or early June, Salt Lake City-based Epic Brewing, known for its series of Brainless fruit beers, will brew its first batch in Denver, in a soaring old warehouse building it is renovating in the River North neighborhood. By July, Epic plans to ... More >>

Margaret Hunt to head Colorado Creative Industries

Colorado Creative Industries, a division of the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade that replaced the Colorado Council of the Arts, has a new executive director, Margaret Hunt, who will be responsible for developing a statewide, shared vision for Colorado's creative indus ... More >>

Reader: Colorado drivers are getting profiled because of all the sh*tty states nearby

A post asking whether Colorado drivers are being profiled as a result of the state's marijuana policies begat a Comment of the Day from one reader who shared his own profile-target experience. And that post spawned still more memorable comments -- like this one dissing the places across Colorado's b ... More >>

Ten best Amendment 64-themed pictures on Instagram

It's 2012 -- at least for a few more days. It was the year that recreational pot became legal in Colorado, and people sure do love bragging about their marijuana on social media. Instagram is a particular hotspot for Amendment 64-related picture posts. Continue reading for our ten favorite Colorado ... More >>

The GrOpener opens your beer with one hand, keeping the other free for...

There are a lot of ways to open a bottle of beer. There are keychains and iPod cases with bottle openers embedded in them. There are openers on flip-flops and baseball cap bills, wall-mounted openers, countertops, knives and even a beer bottle stick. But a Denver photographer and part-time inventor ... More >>

Brian Jonestown Massacre's Anton Newcombe on Beck, living in Germany and Bright Channel

The Brian Jonestown Massacre (due tonight at the Bluebird Theater) has been through ups and downs since 1990. But through it all, singer and primary songwriter Anton Newcombe, has steered the band through releasing more great albums per decade than most bands have across entire career. For the unini ... More >>

Mormon Confessional

Joshua Hoggan met with Columbine's Frank DeAngelis before school-bombing-plot bust

Big photos below.​Most local news outlets aren't using the name of the sixteen-year-old Utah student who met with Columbine principal Frank DeAngelis a month before being arrested, along with eighteen-year-old Dallin Morgan, in an alleged plot to blow up their high school. But Utah media is id ... More >>

Reader: You wouldn't dare write about Jews or Muslims the way you did about Mormons

​Hundreds of fans lined up to buy The Book of Mormon tickets on Sunday, since the musical written by hometown heroes Trey Parker and Matt Stone will start its road tour here in Denver next August. For those who managed to snag seats, Jenn Wohletz, who spent several years in Utah, offered up t ... More >>

Five things you need to know about Mormons

Trey Parker and Matt Stone, who created The Book of Mormon , are hometown heroes -- and that alone is reason for a "Glory Hallelujah" all around. Tickets for the musical sold out in record time yesterday; for those lucky enough to have snagged them, there are a few things about the LDS faith that yo ... More >>

Penis-size map: Coloradans' units may be small -- but not compared to the Chinese!

​Penis size matters -- at least judging by the amount of time we spend obsessing about it. Which is why we were thrilled to check out the Penis Size Worldwide Map on view below. Or at least we were until we found out how the United States stacked up -- especially in light of a survey showing t ... More >>

Colorado's top skiers and snowboarders rock Winter Dew Tour in Utah

AlliSports.comBreck Freeride team member Eric Willet, center, wins Men's Snowboard Slopestyle at the Toyota Challenge in Ogden, UT​Breckenridge Ski Resort is getting a good return on investment from its Breck Freeride Team and its stepped-up park & pipe programs: Yesterday, Breckenridge snowbo ... More >>

Qwest, CenturyLink merger on the line for Colorado Public Utilities Commission

​Colorado's Public Utilities Commission is slated to sign off on Qwest's merger with CenturyLink today, a day after Montana became the fourteenth state to okay the deal, pushing memories of Mountain Bell even further down the line. The PUC was initially scheduled to approve the merger last we ... More >>

Utah judge declares it okay to rap your Mcdonald's order

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Natural Grocers ditches disposable grocery bags

A Flickr photo.​No more feeling guilty, averting eye contact and mumbling excuses when you go to Natural Grocers. Unlike at Whole Foods, where forgetting your reusable totes can feel akin to getting spotted by a professor on a walk of shame, if you forget to bring your own bags to the natural ... More >>

Mike Shanahan era officially over now that Tony Scheffler's gone

"Just wait, Joe. You're gonna miss me."​We've been panning for Denver blogging gold. Here's three posts we sifted out. In a fan post on Mile High Report, Joe Medina calls April 19 "a day that will live in infamy" -- because Tony Scheffler's departure means the Broncos' Mike Shanahan era is of ... More >>

Claim: No "peak-oil crisis" -- thanks partly to Western Colorado oil shale

​Worried that the world's oil supplies will soon dwindle into nothingness? Relax -- we've got plenty. At least that's the assertion of H. Sterling Burnett, a senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis, which describes itself as a "nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy research org ... More >>

California fast food more In than Out in Colorado

So close and yet so far away.Colorado has plenty of homegrown fast-food and fast-casual chains to keep locals happy. There's Chipotle, Qdoba, Smashburger, Einstein Bagels and Quiznos just to name a few. But Coloradoans also love their California fast food, and we've made some gains in the past few ... More >>

Okay, Denver, we need to talk.

I just received a press release from the Salt Lake City Arts Council (cue the Pace picante sauce dudes asking incredulously, "Salt Lake City?!") informing me of their Twilight Concert Series. Evidently, the concerts, which are free and take place every Thursday night at the Gallivan Center in downto ... More >>

Sheriff Salazar stalled by posse politics

Republicans rallied the troops in the Senate this morning and managed to block the much-delayed confirmation of David Hayes, Ken "New Sheriff in Town" Salazar's choice to serve as his top deputy at the Department of the Interior. In a crucial test of whether the new administration's bold break wit ... More >>

The Pirate Signal invades Sundance. Takes no prisoners.

Goodness gracious. Our man Yonnas Abraham has got his hustle down cold. Just received word that the Pirate Signal has been tapped as the house band in some fabuloso mansion during the Sundance film festival in Park City, which kicks off next week in Park City, Utah. Broseph is going to be throwing d ... More >>

RNC protests: No fair! Why does St. Paul get all the violence?!

It's a Mod, Mod World

The Straight-Talk Express Goes to Utah. And Europe.

Thespians, Unite!

Climbing High

Michael Vick Chew Toy, August 7

The Music Men

Halfway through Sundance, and still whistling a happy tune.

Sympathy for the Devil

Even horny horse whisperers get off in Sundance docs.

Listen Up

Fast reviews of recent releases

DIFF Burns On

The 28th Starz Denver International Film Festival is ready for action.

One Wild Ride

Marc Frank Montoya brought the inner city to the snow-white world of boarding.

Raiding the Roan

Rich in wildlife and natural resources, the Roan Plateau survived the last energy boom. Will this one destroy it?

Best Wilderness Survival Courses

Boulder Outdoor Survival School

Letters to the Editor

From the week of January 30. 2003

Long Bombs Away

The true spirit of sport returns when pigskins fly.

Best Colorado Peak Performance at the Olympics

Mt. Wilson

Chants of a Lifetime

As the Olympics begin, glory looks certain for America's golden hockey girls.

Mountin' Frustration

Too many shocks numb the senses in Vertical Limit.

Best dinosaur

Cedarosaurus weiskopfae -- Weiskopf's Cedar-reptile

Bomb Squad

For Buzz Bomber and the M-80s, raising money is a blast.

Off Limits

Why are there no cameras rolling in Denver?

This Means War

An Honest Living

Researchers may have fabricated state-of-the-art polygraph technology, but it can't forge the Truth.

Fallout in the Family

Eranium made Charlie Steen rich. But the fortune became too hot to handle.

Whistle Stopped

A proposed railroad merger threatens jobs throughout Colorado -- and, up in Minturn, a way of life.

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