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A grand Western tradition Through Jan. 26. The 16-day National Western Stock Show gets underway Saturday, Jan. 11 (and continues through Jan. 26), with a jam-packed schedule of rodeos, animal displays, Western livestock and agricultural culture, competitions, a trade show, and all-ages fun to celebrate the event’s 119th installment. Slip on your boots and check out the Jan.

After decades serving up food, drinks and dancing in the National Western Center’s Livestock Exchange Building, the Denver Stockyard Saloon will close its doors in April after a clash between the restaurant and building owners over renovation plans. Saloon owner and manager Dean Maus announced the closure in a Facebook post and confirmed the news to The Denver Post on Wednesday. Maus said the building’s new owners initially tried to work with him on keeping the saloon open, but negotiations later fell apart and they stopped responding to his messages.

At least 78 Native American children died at Colorado boarding schools designed to strip them of their Indigenous language, culture and heritage, according to a new investigation recently published by the Washington Post. The newspaper’s yearlong reporting project — relying on government and boarding school records, newspaper obituaries, death certificates and other documents — found three times as many students died at these schools nationwide than the federal government previously had identified. In Colorado, the Washington Post found 13 more children died at the state’s five schools than History Colorado identified in 2023, though that organization’s 139-page report focused only on the two most prominent schools. History Colorado found at least 65 children died at Fort Lewis Indian Boarding School and the Grand Junction Indian Boarding School, also known as the Teller Institute. The new investigation found an additional nine students died at the Ute Mountain Boarding School in Towaoc, six died at the Southern Ute Boarding School in Ignacio and two died at the Good Shepherd Industrial School in Denver. The U.

A dispute among Denver school board members that’s set to be aired publicly Thursday night follows a year-long attempt by one elected director to receive full compensation for his official duties and incidents he had with at least two senior Denver Public Schools staffers. Three school board members — Michelle Quattlebaum, Xóchitl “Sochi” Gaytán and Scott Esserman — publicly accused John Youngquist, who joined the board in late 2023, of “behavior unbecoming of a board member toward DPS staff” last month. Youngquist, they noted, had levied his own allegations, accusing his colleagues of violating Colorado’s open-meeting law after he was excluded from an executive session in December. “His subsequent threats, accusations of legal violations and overall unprofessional behavior towards his fellow board colleagues are not in alignment with the respectful and collaborative tone that we are all expected to uphold,” Quattlebaum, Gaytán and Esserman wrote in Dec.

Born in Naples, Italy, the modern concept of pizza is about 150 years old. The industry now boasts a quarter of a million parlors around the world, $160 billion in sales, hundreds of styles, shapes and variations, passionate opinions, prestigious contests and at least three museums. That’s a lot of baggage – and certainly more than Matt Dulin wanted to deal with, which is why the baker and owner of GetRights, in Wheat Ridge, decided to start from scratch. Co-owner and chef of GetRight’s Bakery, Cafe and Plant Shop Matt Dulin, left, and his wife, co-owner and front of house manager, Lindsey Judd at the bakery in Wheat Ridge Friday, December 8, 2023.

Dear Eric: My husband and I are seniors. We no longer host Thanksgiving and other holidays, as our youngest son has taken that on willingly. I still prepare a variety of dishes and baked goods which we take to his home. He has a lovely, blended family now, and everyone converges to enjoy food and time together.