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Julie Baxter just faced the most agonizing decision a person with pets can face: whether to euthanize an ailing animal in the face of the overwhelming desire to keep a beloved companion alive. Baxter’s pain was made all the more acute as she and her partner wrestled with wanting to do all they could for their dog Roscoe, while realizing there was a limit to how much they could spend on tests and hospital stays.

Just for laughs Wednesday-Sunday: For the fourth year in a row, the Boulder Comedy Festival puts a spotlight on women and diversity in the industry, showcasing a wide variety of comedians, including nationally touring comics featured on Comedy Central, Netflix and Amazon to festival winners, newcomers and Colorado-based headliners. They include Hannah Jones, Chip Nicholson, Amy Brown, Ali Kareem, Zoe Rogers, Ricky Ramos, Joshua Emerson and more. The shows, which are fun and relatively inexpensive (typically $25-$35), run June 19-23 at multiple venues throughout Boulder, including the Dairy Arts Center, the Junkyard Social Club, Boco Cider and Finkel & Garf Craft Brewery. All shows are 18+.

Like a favorite book, read and re-read, loaned out, and then pushed off a bookshelf by newer titles, Denver’s Tattered Cover was headed to the landfill. The independent bookstore was snatched from the trash pile this week – a messy bankruptcy proceeding that documented $1.6 million in debt and $50,000 in unpaid rent — for a second chance. The immediate threat of closure has been avoided by the bookstore’s sale to global goliath Barnes & Noble, a company with the means to pay off the debt and keep all four remaining Tattered Cover stores open and books on the shelves. But the death of this institution could come in another way – the whittling away of public spaces, the closing of doors to local authors, and the end to partnerships like the Pen and Podium series. The Tattered Cover could be rebound beyond recognition, even though the name and location remain the same. But we are hopeful that will not be the case. In 2022, The New York Times proclaimed that in the publishing world, Barnes & Noble had gone from ‘villain to hero” in a collective stand by booksellers against Amazon, where shoppers can find the exact book they are looking for at deep discount, but cannot “discover” new titles from obscure authors and small publishers. The CEO of Barnes & Noble has pushed back on the Walmart-ification of its 600 retail stores in America with the embrace of local flare, much to the chagrin of marketing experts. All of this is encouraging that Tattered Cover may even return to its 1994 roots when it occupied a two-story warehouse space in the then-ragged LoDo location at 16th and Wynkoop, not with an actual move but with an embrace of Denver’s culture at its remaining stores on East Colfax, in Littleton’s Aspen Grove, in Denver’s International Airport, and the kids’ store in Aurora’s Stanley Marketplace and the store at. Twenty-eight years ago Tattered Cover was run by Joyce Meskis, a fierce advocate for free speech and a successful entrepreneur who took a small store in Cherry Creek to the top of the New York Times list of best booksellers. John Hickenlooper and Dan Recht paid tribute to Meskis after her death in 2022 at the age of 80 in an opinion column for The Denver Post that captured exactly what makes Tattered Cover so special: “Joyce created an ambiance in the Tattered Cover that felt almost like an extension of one’s home.

The 2024 NHL offseason started unofficially Wednesday with a flurry of transactions, as several teams decided they couldn’t wait until the end of the Stanley Cup Final to start reshaping rosters. For the Colorado Avalanche, it’s an uncertain summer but there are holes to fill on a depth chart that still starts with one of the best cores in the league.

For northern and eastern Colorado, there are many candidates for Congress on the primary ballot this June. Having lived in Logan County for the past 22 years and both of us having grown up in Congressional District 4, Cheyenne Wells in Kit Carson County (Byron) and Sterling in Logan County (Celeste), we would like to share our concerns surrounding some of the candidates and explain why we are voting for former state Sen.

Dear Amy: I’m having a hard time letting go of being snubbed by a close friend of many years. My friendship with “Shelley” included our spouses and children. We’ve celebrated, laughed, shared meals, vacations, worries and mourned together. Recently I learned from a mutual friend that we both were excluded from two major celebrations hosted by her family. (Other members of my extended family and friend group were invited.) Shelley recently saw me at a different social event, ran up to me and said: “Can you forgive me?” without naming the offense I was to forgive her for. I said, “Yes,” but I’m hurt. She didn’t acknowledge my comment, except to say that she’s had a lot on her mind.