Dear Amy: I have a neighbor who was previously convicted of a sexual offense involving a “child.” He served time in jail.
I don’t know the exact circumstances, but I do understand that the term “child” may include a person as young as an infant and as old as a teenager.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Dear Amy: Have I been gaslighted?
My mother was a difficult person. She was often not nice to my sister-in-law.
I admired my SIL for taking the high road and for being respectful toward my mother, and I told her so many times.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Dear Amy: I’m a 45-year-old woman, married to my wife for five years. My issue is my 21-year-old son, who lives with us. He’s a good kid but he’s now unemployed (for four months) and spends his days playing video games.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
State regulators say that a local Indian restaurant with one location used “half-truths and lies” to sell investors on its grandiose plans for a nationwide expansion before spending the $380,000 that shareholders invested on rent, operating costs and Ponzi-like payments.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Colorado is known for producing some of the best beer in the world, but cocktail fans here also have access to bars where mixology keeps step with some of the nation’s best.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Dear Amy: I married a lovely man two years ago. We lived together for three years before marrying.
We met as his first, long-term marriage was falling apart. We are both 70 years old.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Dear Amy: Some of my family members are going to have a mini family reunion in Paris in a few months — the city where my brother lives.
My brother’s son, wife and their two young children will be flying to Paris from Istanbul, and I will be flying in from the USA.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Dear Amy: How should I react to some of the baffling requests for gifts and money when invited to wedding showers, weddings, and baby showers?
I just received an invitation for my niece’s baby shower (my sister is her mom).More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
When a group of investors announced they’d be opening Longmont’s first food hall this year, a flood of more than 100 applications from local food vendors came rushing in.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareDenver is well known for its green space, but every April it gets even greener with the arrival of 4/20.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareCelebrated Denver chef Dana Rodriguez has decided to close one of her restaurants.
Cantina Loca, at 2890 Zuni St., opened in January 2022 and was billed as Rodriguez’s first solo restaurant project.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
The world of Asian cuisine in metro Denver has become deeper, larger and more complex over the past few years as chefs and restaurants have begun focusing on regional cooking styles, elevated fare and fusion dishes that combine multiple kitchen traditions.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareGrowing up in Chihuahua, Mexico, chef Dana Rodriguez was used to seeing rows of restaurants serving similar menus all next door to each other.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareDear Readers: Periodically, I publish “updates” to previous questions and answers published in this space. The following was published in 2018. The update follows the original Q&A.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareThe last frost date for the Denver is May 4, according to the Farmer’s Almanac. Generally across the Front Range, you can count on closer to Mother’s Day weekend to begin warm-weather garden planting.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
I’ve completed 17 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzles in the past 14 weeks. Mostly by myself.
Over that same time, I also cut way back on booze, halved my phone screen time (okay, it’s maybe 30% less), and gone on a dozen hikes.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Dear Amy: My 24-year-old daughter is expecting a baby boy.
She told me that she plans to use her biological dad’s name as her baby’s middle name.
Her dad, “Tobias,” and I divorced when she was six and her brother was four.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Dismal. Crashed and burned. Total BS.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareDear Amy: I’m a sophomore in college. My girlfriend and I met on campus at the beginning of the school year and have been together for six months (we’re both women).More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
A new brewery with a familiar name is now open in Fort Collins.
This week, Verboten Brewing and Barrel Project debuted its second location at 1611 S. College Ave., in the space formerly home to Black Bottle Brewery.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
They say what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. But with the Craft Brewers Conference underway there, the results of the event’s hallmark competition, the World Beer Cup, were bound to get out.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareWhen Denver International Airport announced in 2015 that it was looking for a local company to build and operate a brewery inside the attached Westin hotel, it was big news.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Denver recently beat out New York, Chicago and Detroit to take the top spot on a controversial list of the best pizza cities in the country. How did it happen?More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
In 1999, the U.S. women’s soccer team captivated sports fans across the globe when it won the World Cup and became the first team in the female league to do so on home soil.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Dear Amy: My brother is due to get married next year and while I’m really happy for him, I’m dreading the idea of having to see my mother again.
Our mom ticks all the malignant narcissistic personality disorder boxes: Emotionally immature and dysregulated, lacks empathy, disrespectful of boundaries, etc.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
BrewDog, the Scottish-born beer maker that was founded based on a brash attitude and big beers, has teamed up with a family-owned holding company on a new location in Denver.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Francois Safieddine is staying busy.
The Denver restaurateur behind concepts like ViewHouse and the recently opened Wonder + Yard is planning a Mexican restaurant in a LoDo building he bought last September.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Dear Amy: My wife and I have been married for five years. Each of us has brought up the topic of having an open marriage at one time or another.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
There are so many fun ways to enjoy the great outdoors in Colorado, but it’s not always easy to share. It can be alarming to have a mountain biker or horseback rider suddenly interrupt your saunter on a trail (and vice versa).More | Talk | Read It Later | Share