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Ax Handle Attacker Alex Ewing Named Suspect in Bennett Family Murders

At a press conference this morning, representatives of the Aurora Police Department and other local law enforcement agencies confirmed that Alex Christopher Ewing, a 57-year-old prisoner in Nevada, where he's serving time for brutally beating a couple with an ax handle, has been named in arrest warrants related to the 1984 hammer killings of Bruce, Debra and Melissa Bennett and the severe wounding of Vanessa Bennett, then age three, as well as the murder of Lakewood resident Patricia Louise Smith six days earlier.
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Why Denver Is One of the Riskiest Places for Natural-Hazards Housing Damage

Given the horrific damage wreaked upon Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico by recent hurricanes, those of us who reside in Colorado may think we're relatively safe from Mother Nature at her most extreme compared to most places in the country. But a new study suggests that we're living in a dream world. The figures show that five counties in Colorado, mostly along the urban corridor, are at very high risk of housing damage from natural hazards, with Denver listed as the sixth most imperiled major city in the country by this standard.
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The Fight Against Circumcision in Colorado and Beyond

American Circumcision, a feature-length documentary about the debate over circumcision in this country that will make its Denver debut on April 9, features an appearance by Gillian Longley, state coordinator for Colorado Advocates for Body Integrity and Children's Rights, shorthanded as Colorado ABC. Although little known by the general public, the group is the one of the main reasons why Colorado Medicaid didn't pay for circumcisions in the state during most of this decade to date, and Longley, a nurse by training, remains dedicated to getting the message out about a procedure she sees as cruel, unneeded and sometimes dangerous.
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100 Colorado Creatives 4.0: Miriam Suzanne

Multi-talented as an artist, actor, designer and musician, Miriam Suzanne has roots in Brian Freeland’s Lida Project, which brought an era of bracing experimental theater to Denver before Freeland moved to New York four years ago.
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Epic’s Purchase of California Brewer Could Be Just the Beginning

When Salt Lake City's Epic Brewing revealed in 2012 that it would open a newer, larger production facility in Denver, co-owner Dave Cole mentioned that the search had come down to Colorado and California. Colorado won out, though, and Epic unveiled its $2.5 million, twenty-barrel brewery the next year. But...
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How Much It Costs to Live in Denver Right Now

Many of the readers who responded to our recent post "Why It's So Hard to Make a Living in Denver Despite Strong Economy" told us that costs in the Mile High City are putting a major squeeze on their pocketbooks. And indeed, Denver is currently among the twenty most expensive cities to live in North America as measured by updated price data for basic commodities in the area.
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Michael Gibney and Jeb Breakell on Boulder, Dessert and Emmerson

Before moving to Boulder to open Emmerson, Michael Gibney and Jeb Breakell amassed star-studded New York résumés. Here they discuss their goals for the restaurant, what’s challenged them in their relocation to Boulder, and why you should always order dessert when you’re dining at Emmerson.
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Flying High on The Ornithologist‘s Shape-shifting Impieties

The Portuguese director João Pedro Rodrigues has called The Ornithologist, which follows a lone bird expert in a remote northern part of the country, an “adventure film.” It’s a genre he fantastically destabilizes to encompass martyrdom, transmigration of the soul, and wild revelers cavorting in Mirandese, a nearly extinct language...
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How LGBTQ-Friendly Are Eight Colorado Cities?

When it comes to LGBTQ rights, all Colorado cities aren't equal. Still, one thing is clear: Plenty of places here and beyond have a lot of room to improve. That's among the takeaways from the latest edition of the fifth annual Municipal Equality Index, a study conducted by the Human...
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Idaho Springs Barbecue Joint Comes to the Yard on Santa Fe

The Yard on Santa Fe, at the corner of West First Avenue and Santa Fe Drive, has been slowly taking shape ever since Renegade Brewing added a production facility at the former lumber yard two years ago. Since then, two fitness centers, Board Game Republic, Fin Art Co. (a design...
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How Sustainable Is Denver?

Sustainability is a 21st century ideal — a quality to which every city should aspire during a period in which concerns about the environment, and the ways we interact with it, continue to increase. With that in mind,  Amsterdam-based Arcadis, which describes itself as "the leading global design and consultancy for...