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A food truck famous for its tacos has opened a restaurant in Brighton

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:48:11 GMT

Christina Richardson has a knack for creating recipes that get attention.A lot of attention.Over the last three years, Chile Con Quesadilla, the two bright pink food trucks that Richardson runs with her husband, Jason, and their son, Dillon, have earned continuing local accolades at events like the Shake + Brake Showdown, Beer & Bacon Classic, and Top Taco Denver, along with honors and recognition from Westword and other media outlets.All of that success meant the family was ready to take the next step. In late March, they opened a 140-seat restaurant, at 227 N. Main St. in downtown Brighton, where Christina will bring her green chile, birria tacos, and brisket quesadillas to a wider audience. A pending liquor license will also allow them to serve margaritas, sangrias, and local craft beers from 16 taps.Christina and Jason Richardson have won numerous awards. (Provided by Chile Con Quesadilla)The 6,000-square-foot location, near where the Richardsons live in Commerce City, featu...

Colorado’s psychedelic journey begins this week with first advisory board meeting

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:48:11 GMT

On April 13, the 15 people who will advise Colorado regulators on the rollout of legal psychedelics will meet and speak in public for the first time since they were appointed by Gov. Jared Polis.The members of the Natural Medicine Advisory Board will play a significant role in how the state’s psilocybin-assisted therapy industry takes shape, offering recommendations to the Department of Regulatory Agencies (DORA) as it writes rules to govern the manufacturing, testing and application of psilocybin and psilocin – two psychoactive compounds in “magic mushrooms.”Related ArticlesPolitics | Some Colorado communities don’t want psychedelic healing centers — but can they stop them? The board is due to make its first set of recommendations by Sept. 30, 2023, and DORA is expected to adopt rules and begin accepting license applications by Sept. 30, 2024. Regulations regarding facilitator training and qualification criteria will be adopted early, by Jan....

Sandlot Brewery at Coors Field hires first female brewer in 28-year history

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:48:11 GMT

Abby Lundien estimates she attended at least 25 Colorado Rockies games over the years growing up in Brighton, but she had never visited the Sandlot Brewery, located inside Coors Field, until she started working for Molson Coors.Now she’s there practically every day. Lundien, 31, joined the Sandlot team as a brewer in September and notably, she’s the first woman on staff in the famed beer maker’s 28-year history.As a Colorado native, Lundien is well aware of the legacy she’s stepping into. Blue Moon Belgian-style white ale was first developed at the Sandlot in 1995 (the same year Coors Field opened) before it became one of the most popular beers in the country, and the brewery has won at least 45 medals at the Great American Beer Festival over three decades.That heritage is the main reason why, following a longtime brewer’s retirement, Lundien jumped at the rare opportunity to work at Sandlot, which only has one other employee, lead brew master Mike Miller. And she’s already ma...

Who has the best burger in metro Denver? These 12 places fit the bill.

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:48:11 GMT

There are many qualities to consider when finding the perfect burger. It must have top-notch beef, first and foremost, with the right amount of umami — that fifth taste beyond sweet, sour, bitter, and salty. The patty needs to be moist and semi-charred and sandwiched between a slightly toasted, soft bun that shouldn’t disintegrate in your hands.Melty cheese is a great addition to blend with the crunchy pickles and lettuce, as well as the freshness of the tomatoes. And an awesome signature sauce is always a bonus.And as the purported birthplace of the cheeseburger, Denver needs to make a strong showing to keep the legacy alive. That’s right: many people believe the cheeseburger was first created or popularized here when Louis Ballast starting serving one in 1935 at his restaurant the Humpty Dumpty Barrel. He tried Hershey bars and peanut butter as toppings before he landed on cheese. A small monument next to a bank at 2776 Speer Blvd. commemorates that bit of hungry histo...

Private Jefferson County mountaintop where ladybugs breed and lions and bears live soon will be public open space

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:48:11 GMT

A mountain summit in Jefferson County where millions of ladybugs breed with surrounding foothills that are home to elk moose, mountain lions, bears and other animals long has been off-limits as private property.Now this 9,741-foot Mount Tom, 30 miles northwest of Denver, is public open space following a $25 million deal by the Conservation Fund, Great Outdoors Colorado, Colorado Parks and Wildlife, and Jefferson County. They’ve acquired ownership of about 2,000 acres that eventually will be accessible to the public.“Even if our population stopped growing, all you have to do is go skiing on a weekend, or go camping in the summer, and see all the vehicle traffic heading up into the mountains,” the Conservation Fund’s state director Justin Spring said.The emerging new Mount Tom Conservation Corridor “is much closer to home,” Spring said, “and in a few years it will be a really accessible mountain recreation area.”For wildlife including th...

Could the most delicious pizza on the Front Range be in Longmont?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:48:11 GMT

Editor’s note: This is part of Hidden Gems, a monthly series in which we take a look at those restaurants you should know about but may not. They are either tucked away in strip malls or otherwise off the beaten path. Try them out, and if you like what you eat, pass the word.  It’s easy for those of us who don’t live in Longmont to miss some of the Front Range’s best pizza. (Some East Coast transplants might try to tell you that it’s the best, but pizza is far too important of a subject to have a single slice bear the burden of such a heavy crown.)Longmont is outside the busy Denver-Boulder corridor, and Rosalee’s Pizzeria is pretty small, so yeah, there are reasons we may not have tried this New York-style-but-crispier pie.But that shouldn’t matter when we’re talking thin, cheesy, just-greasy-enough slices and house-made Italian sausage that’s the star of sausage rolls, your 18-inch pizza and, unless you’re getting engaged or meeting your first grandchild, probably your night...

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Toll lanes being added for 20 miles on Interstate 80: Roadshow

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:48:11 GMT

Q: Every time we head to Sacramento and pass the work being done on Interstate 80 near Vacaville, I wonder what they’re doing. Lots of people travel in the fast lane, but it is right next to the temporary concrete barrier, so I worry about them.Barbara SandovalA: The work you see being done in the center divide is a project to extend the express lane for 20 miles from Red Top Road in Fairfield to Leisure Town Road (just past I-505 junction) in Vacaville. This area is a bit of a bottleneck now, where east/west traffic on I-80 joins with north/south traffic on I-505.Q: I take some exception to your advice about how handicap parking is enforced. I went to an Alameda County Courthouse, Dublin, I think, and a gardening tractor/trailer rig was parked across all handicap parking, except one or two spaces. I complained to sheriffs monitoring the metal detectors and their response was, “You got a parking space, so what’s the problem?”Even more egregious, Palo Alto Med...

Heather Farm Park set for major upgrades

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:48:11 GMT

Walnut Creek is eagerly preparing to upgrade one of its beloved parks, with a considerable chunk of funding stemming from a voter-approved sales tax expected to yield tens of millions of dollars for the project.The City Council has given the nod to the proposed improvement of Heather Farm Park’s swim center and community center,  both of which are more than half a century old and presently located on opposite sides of the 102-acre park.Though combining the two facilities will require reducing the size of the fishing pond to make room for the new pools, other amenities at the popular park will remain, including tennis courts, picnic areas, the equestrian center, a skate park, an off-leash dog park, bike paths, an all-ability playground, tot lots, a sand volleyball court, a nature pond, six athletic fields, restrooms and a connection to the Iron Horse Trail. The new swim center would be north of the central playground.This sweeping project, among the most expansive of its kind in the ...

Editorial: Abortion pill ruling further erodes trust in federal courts

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:48:11 GMT

Month by month, week by week, day by day, the federal courts are squandering their public trust.The partisanship of the judiciary was on full display last week when a Trump-appointed judge with a long history of anti-abortion activism issued a mind-boggling preliminary ruling invalidating the Food and Drug Administration’s 23-year-old approval of the abortion pill mifepristone.The decision threatens to make it much more difficult for patients across the country to access the medication. More than half of all abortions in the United States are medically induced using mifepristone. The ruling is an outrageous assault on a woman’s right to choose.If upheld, the decision would also undermine the FDA’s authority to determine whether drugs are safe and effective, creating chaos in the pharmaceutical industry. No court has ever overturned an FDA decision to allow distribution of a drug since Congress gave the agency authority in 1938.The safety of mifepristone should not ...