All around the Denver area today, students will be enjoying lunches made exclusively with Colorado products as part of Colorado Proud School Meal Day, which educates students about locally sourced food. One thing that won’t (we hope) be on the menu? Listeria. In light of a recent Listeria outbreak, melon…
Common’s memoir, One Day It’ll All Make Sense, begins rather dramatically. The prologue reads: “When I was eighteen months old, my mother and I were kidnapped at gunpoint. My father held the gun. At least that’s one side of the story.” Common, with help from co-author Adam Bradley, a University…
If you told Rockies fans at the beginning of the year that on September 11, Carlos Gonzalez, Troy Tulowitzki and Todd Helton would not be playing and the highlight of the game for a sub-.500 team would be a 6-foot-5 rookie pitcher from Mississippi, they might have punched you in…
Before the Denver Broncos take on the Raiders tonight, football fans will take on another tough tradition: tailgating. Things are already cooking in the designated tailgating lot outside of the newly renamed Sports Authority at Mile High. The menu for a tailgating party should be easy: grill meat, add beer,…
Waste oil recycling is supposed to be a feel-good industry, taking what used to be thrown away and turning it into fuel. But in Boulder, two oil recycling companies are engaging in a minor grease war. Sustainable Oil Service (SOS) has accused Rocky Mountain Sustainable Enterprises (RMSE), also known as…
Drew Pomeranz eats appendectomies and shits perfect innings. And now, the prize of the Ubaldo Jimenez trade is officially a major-league baseball player. Just over two weeks after having an emergency appendectomy, Pomeranz pitched three perfect innings yesterday for the Tulsa Drillers, the Rockies’ Double-A affiliate. He will join the…
While Tennyson Street and Berkeley District business owners once saw themselves as the Denver shopping district family’s forgotten children, they’re now feeling some love. The City of Denver and Xcel, who they accuse of badly mismanaging a construction project, are helping fund a series of promotions reminding people that businesses…
On Sunday in Civic Center Park, people were yelling, bumping into each other, ringing cow bells, throwing flowers, drinking beer, singing Colorado’s praises and poppin’ bottles. Oh yeah, there was a bike race too. Levi Leipheimer, a Californian who held the leaders jersey for the final three stages, won the…
The Vail Time Trial was built for Levi Leipheimer. He is a time-trial specialist racing on a course that prides itself on punishing mountain climbs higher than that of any other race in the world. Leipheimer didn’t waste the opportunity, winning the stage and retaking the overall lead in the…
The Queen Stage, which racers battled yesterday from Gunnison to Aspen, was defined by two punishing climbs over Cottonwood and Independence passes. Yet, it was a rainy, white-knuckle inducing descent from Independence Pass that defined the day, and possibly the entire race. American George Hincapie won the stage and vaulted…
From the Rockies’ perspective, Alex White and Drew Pomeranz, the top two pitchers they landed from the Cleveland Indians, have to be better than one Ubaldo Jimenez. After all, Joe Gardner and Matt McBride, the other two players the Rockies received, aren’t guaranteed to make a meaningful contribution in the…
After almost four and a half hours of racing up and down hills and battling winds of twenty miles per hour over almost 100 miles of terrain, most of the standings were decided in the concluding sprint of the USA Pro Cycling Challenge’s first stage. American Levi Leipheimer broke away…
For all the talk about the elevation and hill climbs that litter the USA Pro Cycling Challenge, the race began with cyclists shooting out of the start like a gun and downhill from the Garden of the Gods into downtown Colorado Springs. When the speedy time trial was done, German…
Art Johnson still walks with a limp that he earned while playing football for the University of Colorado. He dresses in CU hats and shirts every day. Calling him a proud alum would be an understatement. So when Johnson decided to open his own restaurant in Boulder, a fast-casual spot,…
If you are interested in the USA Pro Cycling Challenge, you probably know the most pertinent information: 128 of the world’s best cyclists, including the top three Tour de France finishers, will race over 600 miles and reach elevations that few races, if any, have reached before. The competition, which…
So far, the most notable moment of the Rockies season was when management traded Ubaldo Jimenez, the best pitcher in team history. And now we have another notable — but not positive event — with which to mark the season: Mike Jacobs, first baseman for the Rockies’ Triple-A team, has…
Welcome to In the Weeds. Kyle will be right with you — most likely to complain about something. Usually he is pleasant, but this is his place to blow off some steam. Don’t take it personally; he just needs to vent because he’s been doing this for about thirteen years…
The Rockies should have known it wouldn’t be their night when Chris Nelson decided to play “Pin the baseball on the coach’s face” with Rich Dauer before the game in a gaffe seen in the background of an ESPN live shot. Then the Rockies’ unfortunate play was caught by ESPN…
The Rockies won’t know how they made out on the Ubaldo Jimenez trade until next year at the earliest. But based on Jimenez’s first two starts with the Cleveland Indians, especially last night’s gem, Colorado could be feeling some seller’s remorse…
When the Arvada Larkburger opens at 11 a.m. on Saturday, it will be the home-grown chain’s sixth location. Within a year, Larkburger president Adam Baker hopes it is just one of eleven outposts in Colorado. And at some point in the near future, Baker wants Larkburger to break out of…
It’s officially the season for altering the koozie. Hot on the heels of the Flowzie, a shotgun koozie, comes the Scorzie, a koozie that keeps the score of any game up to twenty-one. The Scorzie is the brainchild of two Denver residents who repeatedly found themselves in a predicament…
We are one step closer to having a peak near Carbondale named after Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr., who was born in Roswell, New Mexico. You probably know him as John Denver, which is the actual name the eastern peak of Mt. Sopris will take if J.P. McDaniel has her way…
