Birthdays should be treated with fanfare, and these 15 local restaurants agree. Show up for breakfast, lunch or dinner and claim tasty treats including a free milkshake, free cookie and plenty of free drinks to toast to the big day. Keep in mind, a lot of chain places offer free goodies on your birthday, too, … Read more
Elon Musk-owned social media site, X, left up a viral post with content promoting the enslavement of Black people. The post has garnered over a whopping 2 million views since it was posted. A post shared by Twitter user The Hellenist (@The_Hellenist), who has verified account status, includes a screenshot from the 1939 film “Gone … Read more
Annie Valentina Castanon knows the endless scroll of social media well — one short video on an app like Instagram or TikTok turns into another, she said, and soon a minute turns into hours. The quick rush from flashy entertainment gives way to anxiety as she worries about losing time that should have been spent … Read more
The caller came on the line during public comment at last week’s Lakewood City Council meeting and immediately launched into a hateful, antisemitic tirade that made claims about Jews, repeating multiple oft-recited tropes. From the audience in the council chambers, someone shouted: “Are you going to allow this?” Lakewood’s new mayor, Wendi Strom, took to … Read more
Colorado Democrats are eying a large portion of the state’s $1.8 billion-plus surplus this year to provide child tax credits targeted to help lower-income families — along with another slice devoted to helping people working in health- and child-care fields. The proposals are costly policy moves that could put state lawmakers on a path for … Read more
Phil Nickinson / Digital Trends In the fall of 2023 I decided to do a little experiment in the height of the “blue check” hysteria. Twitter had shifted from verifying accounts based (more or less) on merit or importance and instead would let users pay for a blue checkmark. That obviously went (and still goes) … Read more
A FORMER Team GB judo star has appeared in court accused of stalking his ex-girlfriend. Frazer Chamberlain, 33, is said to have tracked Katie Snow via location settings on her iPhone, a Ring Doorbell and two Amazon smart devices. 1 Former Team GB judo star Frazer Chamberlain has appeared in court accused of stalking his … Read more
NEW YORK — A New York judge ruled Friday against Donald Trump, imposing a $364 million penalty over what the judge ruled was a yearslong scheme to dupe banks and others with financial statements that inflated the former president’s wealth. Trump also was barred from serving as an officer or director of any New York … Read more
At the historic Hotel Colorado in Glenwood Springs, guests can stay in the same quarters that President Teddy Roosevelt did during his visits out West. In fact, Hotel Colorado was once considered the “White House of the West” because President Roosevelt brought out his staff to stay for a three-week hunting trip. At the historic … Read more
Amache National Historic Site in southeastern Colorado is officially America’s newest national park, the National Park Service announced Thursday. Amache, located one mile outside of Granada, was one of 10 incarceration sites used to detain thousands of Japanese-Americans during World War II. The town of Granada acquired and donated the land needed to establish the … Read more
