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From “ass clowns” to bigfoot: The 10 most popular Colorado outdoor recreation stories of 2023

Published Thu, 06 Feb 2025 10:57:16 GMT

Coloradans (and Colorado visitors) love to get outdoors, whether it’s to ski and stargaze, camp and hike — or to drive onto dirt roads until they get stuck and have to be rescued.And The Denver Post’s readers love to dig into those stories. This year, as always, skiing was one of the top topics of discussion, especially Epic Pass sales and a resort ranking. But hiking and camping were also big, especially when it came to Rocky Mountain National Park.We also had an unusual sighting, literally, in our top 10. But we’ll let you see that for yourself. Here are our 10 most-read outdoor recreation stories of the year, with the number-one story at the end.Bad drivers in the backcountry are a big problemThe sheriff in San Miguel County called a group of people who slid off Black Bear Pass in their truck “ass clowns,” which is funny. But the problem is real: More and more people, who lack skills or experience or proper maps, are driving on backcountry road...

A classic Colorado pizza joint holds on against stiff competition

Published Thu, 06 Feb 2025 10:57:16 GMT

Travel guides, transplants (and even this publication) have plenty of thoughts about Colorado’s best pizza places. I’m a transplant, too, and have fallen in love over the years with local favorites ranging from Beau Jo’s honeyed crust to Cart-Driver’s wood-fired pie.Related: 11 of the best pizza joints in and around DenverBut having arrived here 23 years ago from Dayton, Ohio — a city that’s no slouch when it comes to pizza — I’ve become dependent on a Denver shop that feels positively old-school compared to the new class of local pie-slingers.If your holidays include pizza — and why wouldn’t they? — East Colfax Avenue’s Enzo’s End is ready to bring the joy. (John Wenzel)Since 1996, Enzo’s End Pizzeria has been a comforting anchor on the semi-gentrified stretch of East Colfax Avenue between Colorado Boulevard and York Street, where pedestrian traffic is fairly constant. Its red, thatched shingles and...

Decades-old rule pushes mentally ill Coloradans out of hospitals too soon. Legislators may finally change it.

Published Thu, 06 Feb 2025 10:57:16 GMT

Barbara Vassis keeps a spreadsheet to track her daughter’s years-long journey through Colorado’s patchwork mental health system.The sheet goes back 11 years, a third of Erin’s life. There are holes in the narrative: Her daughter is schizophrenic bipolar, Vassis said, and she’s moved around different parts of the country. Still, even incomplete, Vassis’ growing tracker provides a glimpse at the revolving doors that Erin and hundreds of other Coloradans are stuck in every year.From April 2021 to April 2022, for instance, Erin spent 106 days bouncing between emergency rooms, detox facilities, hospital beds, homeless shelters and crisis centers. During that time, she never spent more than two weeks at a time in one hospital, Vassis said. Instead, she repeatedly was discharged within a fortnight, still unstable, thanks to a decades-old Medicaid rule that often forces the early discharge of low-income, mentally ill patients.Vassis looks at the spreadsheet aga...

“The Soul of Black Folks” is worth looking into at the DAM

Published Thu, 06 Feb 2025 10:57:16 GMT

The Denver Art Museum is charging visitors extra to see its new exhibition of paintings by Ghanian artist Amoako Boafo, and that came as something of a surprise at the box office last week.Those admission price add-ons are usually saved for blockbuster shows built around artists most people know and love already. (DAM actually has one on display now in the form of “All Stars,” a traveling blow-out featuring names like Georgia O’Keeffe, Jacob Lawrence and Jackson Pollock.)Retrospectives of work by living and lesser-known artists are nearly always included with the regular ticket, and that newcomer description still fits Boafo, who is just 39, and who has had limited exposure to U.S. audiences. With so much to see at DAM already, and with admission costs already steep, visitors will be reluctant to take a risk.But I encourage paying a bit more to see this offering. Boafo is a unique talent and a rising star in the international art scene. The exhibition, titled “Soul of Black Fo...

Man dies after crashing into scaffolding in South Los Angeles

Published Thu, 06 Feb 2025 10:57:16 GMT

A pickup truck driver died Monday morning after crashing into scaffolding in the West Adams neighborhood of South Los Angeles overnight.The incident was reported just after 1 a.m. near Crenshaw Boulevard and West 30th Street. Police investigate a fatal crash in South Los Angeles on Dec. 11, 2023. (OnScene.TV)A nearby security guard performed CPR on the driver, who collapsed after getting out of the truck. The life-saving measures were unsuccessful however and the unidentified driver was pronounced dead at the scene. Racist remarks against Mexicans caught on camera in Disneyland bathroom There was no immediate word on what may have caused the driver to crash.

18 companies cut ties with Sean Combs in wake of sexual assault allegations

Published Thu, 06 Feb 2025 10:57:16 GMT

(The Hill) -- Eighteen companies shared that they have cut ties with a business venture created by Hip Hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs amid the slew of sexual assault allegations against the music legend. The companies confirmed with Rolling Stone Magazine on Sunday that they severed business relationships with Combs’ recently launched platform Empower Global. Empower Global, founded by Combs in 2021, is an immersive e-commerce, digital marketplace offering products from Black-owned businesses around the world. The platform is said to “elevate the Black economy by creating opportunities for Black entrepreneurs to build and scale successful businesses” for consumers. Luxury bag, eyewear, and apparel company House of Takura founder Annette Njau told the magazine that she cut ties with Empower Global after learning of Casandra Ventura’s – better known as R&B singer Cassie – lawsuit against Combs. “We take the allegations against Mr. Combs very seriously and find su...

Will Delta-8 Topicals Be the Next “Skincare Superstar?”

Published Thu, 06 Feb 2025 10:57:16 GMT

View the original article about Delta-8 Topicals at Real Tested CBD.Even customers who love delta-8 rarely mention using this cannabinoid in their skincare routine. Some might not even be aware that a few companies offer delta-8-infused skin-safe lotions. Unlike CBD, delta-8 THC hasn’t taken off in the topical industry. However, a few fervent followers believe in delta-8’s potential as a skincare supplement.It may not be easy to find “delta-8 lotions near me,” but more customers and businesses are interested in this new industry. Anyone interested in the latest trends in the lotion industry should take a closer look at delta-8 THC topicals.What Are The Benefits Of Using Delta-8 Topicals?Currently, there’s more data on the benefits of CBD topicals versus delta-8 lotions. Truthfully, we don’t know how delta-8 interacts with the skin layer. However, doctors now believe the endocannabinoid system (ECS) extends to human skin. Many tests show we have cannabinoid receptors on our skin, whi...

New Model Army Recall Mod Army

Published Thu, 06 Feb 2025 10:57:16 GMT

The WhoQuadrophenia (Track/MCS)New Model Army Recall Mod Army: New Model Army man Justin Sullivan told us about his love for the Who‘s mod classic.Justin Sullivan: I was nine years old when I first heard the Who’s “My Generation.” My response was to run around the house screaming and doing much air guitar playing and even more air drumming and it planted a kind of “fuck you” punk rock attitude in me forever. From that moment, the Who were always a group that I liked (especially watching Keith Moon on Ready Steady Go) but I didn’t really connect with them in the same way again until Quadrophenia. (Track/MCA)By this time, I was a typically confused seventeen-year-old and the album had everything that I wanted and needed – beauty, violence, mystery, melody, sex, pathos, romance, fury and the sound of the sea. It mixed orchestral splendour with rock chaos. Very few bands that could do the chaos thing quite as well as The Who but to be able to combine that w...

Can San Jose’s mobile home park residents rest easy now?

Published Thu, 06 Feb 2025 10:57:16 GMT

For years, San Jose native Jill Borders bounced between apartments with her husband and young daughter as they found it impossible to buy a single-family home in one of the country’s most expensive housing markets.That nomadic lifestyle changed in 2013 when the family discovered Imperial Estates, a mobile home park in South San Jose that finally brought the stability Borders had been desperately searching for. The couple’s 10-year-old daughter got to pick the paint color in her room. They got a second dog.But in the decade since, there’s been a worry constantly in the back of Borders’ mind: What if a developer just simply purchased the park to build apartments — like what happened to a community near the Winchester Mystery House — leaving her family back where they started?Jill Borders sits in her house at the Imperial Estates Mobile Home Park on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023, in San Jose, Calif. Borders has lived at the the mobile home park since 2013....

Steph Curry frustrated over mediocre start: ‘I’m sick of talking about it. We just have to do it.’

Published Thu, 06 Feb 2025 10:57:16 GMT

The Warriors arrived in Phoenix with a troubling 10-12 record at a crucial point.A team, a Hall of Fame core, that’s already carved out a distinguished place in NBA history is grappling with its identity. Steph Curry, Draymond Green, Klay Thompson, Steve Kerr are on a mission to prove that they still run this league, but are stumbling too much not to raise questions about their vitality.The motion offense has often looked stale. Players outside of Curry haven’t been able to close a significant scoring gap. Through the first 22 games, the Warriors haven’t dominated any facet of the game. They are what their record is, as Kerr put it, with some faith that all the ways they can succeed on paper will come to fruition.But how many more stumbles until the Warriors call it? The season is only a quarter-way through, but the season may be swirling the toilet if this mediocrity continues through the winter. Curry seems to see the big picture.“Got to figure out how to s...