To the average person, Tennyson Street between 38th and 44th avenues is an inconvenient mess of construction. To business owners, it’s a badly mismanaged city project that threatens their livelihood. Over the last few years, the northwest Denver street has become flush with shops, restaurants and art galleries — and…
Colorado’s first IKEA store is just seven days away from doing business, and lovers of Swedish furniture want to know the latest grand-opening information. The IKEA assembly instructions below are meticulously illustrated to help Colorado IKEA fans to self-assemble their own Centennial celebration…..
Update:This past weekend, Estate Auctions spent two days selling off furniture and belongings left behind by Carmelo Anthony, who lost about $6 million on the sale of his Denver-area house after moving from the Nuggets to the New York Knicks. But if you didn’t get a chance to bid, you…
Yadda-yadda-yadda has obviously paid well for Jerry Seinfeld. Otherwise, he could never have afforded the spectacular Telluride residence he’s now put on the market — for a mere $18.25 million. Fortunately, you’ll get a lot for the money — including eleven bedrooms and twelve and a half baths…
A list of “The 19 Most Hated Companies in America” in The Atlantic aspires to quantify all the rotten customer service, hidden and excessive fees, broken promises and general consumer aggravation out there. And one Colorado-based company, Dish Network, shows up at No. 18 — a bit embarrassing, sure, but…
That gnashing of teeth and muttered cursing you hear is coming from energy companies and developers north of the state border. Last week, U.S. District Judge John L. Kane ruled that an obscure jumping mouse should be considered a threatened species not only in Colorado but in Wyoming, too –…
The Qwest signs on top of the 52-story building at 1801 California Street are being replaced with Century Link signs this week. The change heralds the dawn of a new age in Denver — the age of global corporate insignificance. Too bad our downtown towers can’t be named for successful…
Another day, another list on which Colorado finishes in impressive fashion. This time its the Forbes roster of the best places for business, and this square state placed two communities in the top ten: Fort Collins at fifth, Denver at ninth. Here’s Forbes’ rationale for the strong performance…
In Colorado, degenerate urbanites are used to letting our mountain towns take the lead when it comes to killjoy environmental reforms, such as restricting the use of gas grills or parking spaces. So it figures that the green-leaning town of Basalt is proposing to get tough on plastic bag sinners…
Back in the lock-em-up frenzy of the 1990s, overcrowded state prison systems relied heavily on the emerging private prison industry to handle their excess inmates. Now that state prison populations are falling, you might expect the private sector to be taking a few hits, too — but guess again. For…
It’s safe to say the auction exceeded expectations. The only known photograph of William McCarty, alias Billy the Kid, was expected to draw bids around $400,000 over the weekend at Brian Lebel’s Old West Show & Auction in Denver. Instead, it went for a jaw-dropping $2 million to oilman and…
Update: Frontier Airlines has just announced that pilots have approved a cost-saving agreement, with 89.6 percent offering their approval. That’s not the end of the austerity plan, but in a statement, Frontier CEO Bryan Bedford says the carrier is more than halfway toward its “profitability improvement goal” of $120 million…
When sports celebrities leave Denver, they also need to unload some high-end real estate, and not always at a profit: Recently, Carmelo Anthony lost $6 million on his mansion’s sale. No doubt fired Broncos coach Josh McDaniels is hoping to avoid a similar fate with his former abode, a lovely…
Call it a big fat coincidence, but days after Rep. Doug Lamborn backed off his efforts to cut funding for renewable energy research, Golden’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory has unveiled a colorful online magazine promoting the practical applications of its work. Now Lamborn can read about all the alleged boondoggles…
Update below: KMGH-TV, better known as 7News, is on the block — and so are Azteca America affiliates in Denver, Fort Collins and Colorado Springs, according to an announcement by McGraw-Hill, the stations’ parent company. Officially, the move is part of a “portfolio review” — but the real reason likely…
William Blake saw heaven in a wildflower. The energy industry sees nothing but trouble. Last week, a federal judge in Denver ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s decision not to declare an obscure plant as endangered was “arbitrary and capricious” — a ruling that could have far-reaching implications…
Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking” — pumping massive amounts of water mixed with toxic chemicals into tight formations to extract oil and gas — remains a sore subject among environmentalists, neighbors of drilling rigs and some lawmakers, even as energy industry boosters insist it’s safe…
Back in 2009, we reported about the impending opening of a Tesla Motors outlet in Boulder, just in time for local shoppers to get a reported $42,000 tax credit for buying one of the sleek electric cars. Thank you, America! But less than two years later, the outlet — which…
There are two revolving doors in every prison system. One is for the inmates, many of whom fail on parole and keep coming back. The other is reserved for top administrators who, even amid scandal, move easily from high-powered positions of public trust to high-paid jobs in the private prison…
The Scarlet Ranch swingers club has revealed its new location, and it’s a meaty one: the former Northwoods Inn steakhouse in Littleton, as first reported on our Cafe Society blog. The launch is tonight and the grand opening party — nicknamed The Hunt for Ranch IV — is tomorrow. It’s…
A delegation from Bent County and Governor John Hickenlooper’s office went to Washington this week in an effort to interest the federal government in “repurposing” the Fort Lyon Correctional Facility, a remote and troubled state prison on the eastern plains that’s scheduled to close next year as part of the…
At the very least, the recent ragtag assembly of Colorado tourist-attraction mascots at the Discover Colorado Rally proved that the snuggly symbols of the state’s travel industry are out of touch with reality. To appeal to today’s cash-strapped consumer, Colorado needs truthier travel mascots…..
