Colorado passed a host of laws in recent years intended to make the state's roads safer, from banning hand-held cell phones while driving to allowing motorcycle lane filtering — but there is more work to be done, a new report suggests. The state's traffic safety laws are still "dangerously" inadequate for occupant protection, child passenger safety and young drivers, according to a national analysis by Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety released on December 5 ..read more

By 5 a.m. on March 18, fans were lined up to get inside Colorado's first Buc-ee's, off I-25 at exit 252 in Johnstown. The massive, 72,000-square-foot travel center is much more than a typical gas station — it's a sprawling destination for endless snacks, merch, souvenirs and...gem-covered cow skull decor ..read more

In the 1993 movie Jurassic Park, Dr. Ian Malcolm, a fictional math genius specializing in chaos theory, explains the “butterfly effect,” which holds that tiny actions can lead to big outcomes. “A butterfly flaps its wings in Peking,” Malcolm posits, “and you get rain in Central Park instead of sunshine ..read more

The New Yorker's Instagram recently showcased a list of winter book picks from Tattered Cover, billed as "one of the U.S.’s largest independent-bookstore businesses." Not quite: Tattered Cover hasn't been independent since July, when it was bought out of bankruptcy by mega-chain Barnes & Noble ..read more

As Colorado prepares to open the doors to licensed psychedelic treatment centers, even those who've been following the action have questions. To help us all get up to speed, the Healing Advocacy Fund held a briefing on Thursday, December 5, with psychedelic therapy advocates and prospective practitioners ..read more

Netflix continues to rack up ratings with its three-part series Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey? And John Ramsey, who pushed the narrative through all three episodes, continues to talk about his quest to solve his daughter's killing, most recently today on CNN's Smerconish after an appearance on NewsNation earlier this week, when Geraldo Rivera apologized to him for a particularly tasteless mock trial in 1997 ..read more

What would you say at Twitter’s funeral? That’s the question my collaborators and I asked over 1,000 people on social media as part of a broader research project on Twitter migration ..read more

It’s beginning to look a lot like Canada...at least if you happen to be watching a Hallmark movie supposedly set in Colorado. The latest entry is Private Princess Christmas, which premiered on the Hallmark channel on December 7 ..read more

After a busy November that brought a lot of closures, the first week of December continued to be action-packed. Among the ten additions to the dining scene over the past few days are four pizzerias, including another outpost of Detroit-style chain Jet's in Arvada and Pizza Cucina, which is serving budget-friendly pies in the former Goomba's space on East Colfax ..read more

"I was without a band for a few years," says Alan Andrews, singer/guitarist of the newly reunited Denver post-punk band the Photo Atlas. "I didn't really know what to do ..read more