The group Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America is celebrating a victory after Chipotle requested that its customers not bring guns into its restaurants. The group had pressured the Colorado-based chain to take a stand following an incident in which open-carry supporters brought assault rifles into a Texas…
Today Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood was once again ordered to stop discriminating against same-sex couples seeking wedding cakes. The Colorado Civil Rights Commission unanimously upheld a previous ruling by an administrative law judge finding that the bakery violated Colorado’s anti-discrimination laws when it refused to bake a wedding cake for…
Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood discriminated against a same-sex couple when it refused to bake them a wedding cake in 2012, according to an order issued today by the Colorado Civil Rights Commission. The commission upheld an administrative law judge’s prior determination that the bakery and its owner, Jack Phillips, violated…
Should bakeries be allowed to refuse to make wedding cakes for same-sex couples? The Colorado Civil Rights Commission is expected to answer that question tomorrow, when it will hold a public hearing to determine whether the Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood discriminated against a gay couple who attempted to order a…
This week’s cover story, “In Sickness and In Health,” tells the story of Jen Berman, a Denver attorney who lost her fiance, Doug Furcht, to brain cancer last year. Jen had already bought a wedding dress for their upcoming nuptials; after Doug’s death, she donated it to Brides for a…
For nine months, it hung in her spare bedroom: the dress she had planned to wear on her wedding day. It was long and white, like a wedding dress should be, and it was overlaid with intricate lace. Delicate chiffon flowers and silver beading accented the straps and cascaded down…
A meeting Tuesday night to discuss a potential partnership between high-achieving East High School and struggling Manual High School looked like this: Lines of parents queued up behind two microphones, firing questions at East principal Andy Mendelsberg, who patiently — if not a bit nervously — answered them as best…
Rebecca Maez was sentenced on Friday to ten years in prison for the death of cannabis advocate Jenny Kush. Maez, 28, was drunk and driving the wrong way in an HOV lane on I-25 last September when she collided head-on with a car being driven by Kush’s boyfriend, Jeremy DePinto,…
East High School is hosting a meeting on Tuesday, May 27 to discuss the possibility of a new partnership between East High, considered one of the best high schools in Denver Public Schools, and Manual High, which has struggled for years to maintain enrollment and improve its academic performance. The…
Denver-based edibles manufacturer Dixie Elixirs and the inventor of MED-a-Mints cannabis-infused candy have settled a dispute over alleged trademark violations. MED-a-Mints inventor Gary Gabrel claimed that Dixie Elixirs violated the contract between them when it changed the product’s packaging, making its own name more prominent and replacing the words “cannabis…
Should diners be able to openly carry guns in restaurants? Chipotle Mexican Grill doesn’t think so. The chain, founded in Denver by Steve Ells just over two decades ago, is asking customers not to bring firearms into its restaurants. The request follows a recent incident in which open-carry enthusiasts brought…
Chipotle, a chain founded in Denver by CU grad Steve Ells, is asking that customers not bring guns into its restaurants following an incident in which open-carry supporters brought assault rifles into one of its restaurants in Texas. “Historically, we felt it enough to simply comply with local laws regarding…
When you think of the Highlands Mommies, the powerful northwest Denver parents group we profiled back in 2010, you don’t often think of hard drugs. But one vigilant mommy recently helped the Denver police bust three people for heroin and cocaine after observing what she suspected were drug deals going…
Last month, we brought you the news that Libertarian Glendale mayor Mike Dunafon is running for Colorado governor. Dunafon has a storied history with the tiny city of Glendale: In the late ’90s, he helped stifle the then-mayor’s plans to put restrictions on the city’s lucrative strip clubs — including…
Revenue from Red Rocks Amphitheatre has been steadily increasing, according to numbers provided by the city of Denver, which owns Red Rocks. In 2006, for example, the iconic venue pulled in $5.7 million in revenue, and the total five years ago was just over $7 million. By 2013, the projected…
If Malayan tapirs were cookies and not animals, the adults would be Oreos and the babies would be a sort-of reverse Fudge Stripe. Don’t believe us? Take a look at these adorable photos of tapir Rinny and her new baby, Baku — both of whom live at the Denver Zoo…
Update: The Colorado Supreme Court has declined to hear the petitions filed on Monday by James Holmes’s attorneys. Read the high court’s (brief) orders at the end of this post. Original post: Attorneys for Aurora theater shooting gunman James Holmes have filed two petitions with the Colorado Supreme Court. One…
Ashton Kutcher could film a new movie in Colorado. Earlier today, the Colorado Economic Development Commission approved a film incentives package for a movie called The Violent Separation of Flesh and Blood, in which Ashton Kutcher is slated to star. The film is projected to spend $7.3 million in Colorado…
This week’s cover story, “Rocks and Roll,” is about four concertgoers who were injured by falling rocks at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in September 2011. They’re now suing the city of Denver, which owns Red Rocks. They allege that the city was lax in its efforts to prevent such an incident…
Neon lights cut through the darkness that filled Red Rocks Amphitheatre just before 1 a.m. on September 11, 2011. On stage, Sound Tribe Sector 9 started to play the final song of its encore, a meandering track called “Baraka” that starts out like a trippy lullaby punctuated by throbbing bass…
This week’s feature, “Rocks and Roll,” tells the story of four concertgoers who were injured by falling rocks at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in September 2011. They’re now suing the City of Denver, which owns Red Rocks. They allege that the city was lax in its efforts to prevent such an…
Four people who were injured by falling rocks at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in September 2011 are suing the City of Denver, which owns Red Rocks. In all, seven people were hit by rocks during the encore of a Sound Tribe Sector 9 show, but only four have filed lawsuits. They…
