As the USA Pro Cycling Challenge proved, Coloradans love their bicycling races. Governor John Hickenlooper hopes to tap into that passion and bring attention to an often neglected part of the state with “Pedal the Plains,” which his office announced today. The three-day race will take place September 21-23 over…
For anyone who has ever spent too much time in the grocery store, wrinkling their foreheads while reading ingredient lists and pondering the nutritional benefits of calcium sorbate or xanthan gum, NuVal is designed to help. The nutritional rating system scores most food on a 1-100 scale — and the…
The controversy surrounding RedPeak Properties’ proposed development near 32nd Avenue and Lowell Boulevard has been light on recent action and heavy on letters, motions and press releases. Given that, it’s been an busy week for the development, with Denver City Council District 1 rep Susan Shepherd, taking her first official…
When Josh McDaniels returns to the New England Patriots as an offensive assistant this weekend, he won’t only provide insight about a Broncos team he coached just last year. He’ll also complete an improbable circle in his career. Next year, McDaniels will take over as Patriots offensive coordinator, which is…
Evidence is mounting that Tim Tebow is a crappy quarterback. He has thrown four interceptions versus the Buffalo Bills and completed 27 percent of his passes in Sunday’s loss to the Kansas City Chiefs. But that doesn’t mean people think he’s a bad guy. In fact, in something called the…
Everyone has an opinion about Tim Tebow. For example, Buffalo Bills defenders likely find him to be an exceedingly generous sharer of the football. Some believe he is football Jesus and a decreasing portion of the population view him as a personal affront to professional quarterbacking. Broncos Executive VP John…
Neighbors surrounding the proposed site of three, five-story apartment towers just north of 32nd Avenue and Lowell Boulevard have made their opposition to the project clear. RedPeak Properties, the developer planning to build the structures, and Tom Wootten, the head of a group that owns the property, have been equally…
If you’re not a hardcore NBA fan in Denver you might not have noticed that the league hasn’t played any games yet. There was this whole thing about millionaires and billionaires arguing about how to chop up a few billion dollars. A quick synopsis: it was boring and tedious and…
Gerardo Noriega, a 21-year-old Smoky Hill High School graduate, now knows he won’t be deported to Mexico in the near future, but his future is still in limbo. As part of the immigration review pilot program currently underway in Denver, Noriega was granted administrative closure on his immigration case last…
Denver Nuggets head coach George Karl recently said in a radio interview on KKFN: “screw all the guys out there that think you gotta have a superstar to win a championship.” It’s a little lengthy, but it could be the Nuggets motto for the season and last night’s re-signing of…
While other teams like the Miami Marlins and Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim are spilling money on free agents like a drunk at the bar who just won the lotto, the Rockies are making un-sexy yet sound acquisitions. The latest and best came Friday when word leaked that the Rockies…
Eder Yanez-Mota is antsy. His coolers and freezers are empty, and his restaurant, Chili Verde, has been closed for almost two weeks during one of the busiest times of year, thanks to a fryer that caught on fire November 30. But today he’s re-stocking all of his food, and he’s…
Laura Lichter, president-elect of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, describes prosecutorial discretion in the context of a police officer witnessing a bank robbery and jay-walking at the same time and knowing to stop the bank robber first. This is essentially the principal that is being put to work in the…
After your Colorado Rockies traded closer Huston Street to the San Diego Padres yesterday for a player to be named later, General Manager Dan O’Dowd made sure to tell MLB.com that the organization didn’t just dump money in the deal, but created opportunities for players inside the organization. That is…
Last Wednesday, there was a lot more cooking in Chili Verde’s kitchen than the traditional Pueblan fare. Thanks to a fryer that caught flames, the entire kitchen almost ended up well done. Luckily, the fire didn’t spread, and Eder Yanez-Mota, who owns the restaurant at 3700 Tejon Street with his…
The NBA lockout was like a pregnancy. There was a lot of irrational screaming and finger-pointing, and of course, labor pains. And the entire time, all anyone wanted to see was the baby. In this case, the baby is a season, which was born very early Saturday morning and appears…
Jeanette Vizguerra’s legal fight to stay in the United States is not finished yet, but it’s closer than ever to reaching the conclusion she, her family and supporters fear the most. Her request for a work visa that would allow her to pursue legal citizenship was denied…
Mary Chadwick identifies days almost exclusively by number now. As in, Day 13 was when her daughter, Laura Triem, who was hit by a light rail downtown on November 4, woke up from her coma. Those thirteen days felt like months to Chadwick, and she thinks she’s aged fifty years,…
Having just put down a three-pound peanut-butter-bacon cheeseburger, my hands still covered in peanut butter, I stared at just less than a pound of fries, amazed at how much I hated the curly bastards and how slowly I was consuming them…
In 1987, Chris Gibbons was charged with revitalizing a Littleton economy that just saw it’s largest employer, construction aggregate supplier Martin Marietta, lay off about 7,000 employees amid a recession. And despite long odds, his Economic Gardening program was such a success that even Harvard has noticed…
The story of My Smart Snacker begins with a man eating out of a portable dog bowl. The man is Brighton resident Loren “Sam” Samuelson, whose sister invented the To Go Bowl, a water bowl for pets that fits into a cup holder; Samuelson would fill the bowl with snacks…
When you think of healthy restaurants in Denver, one of the healthiest cities in the country, a couple of spots whose menus are rife with the terms “organic,” “sustainable” and “local” come to mind: WaterCourse Foods and Root Down, for example. You won’t find them on Healthy Dining Finder –…
