Joe Biden Meets The Press, Fails To Quiet Worries

There has been a spate of brewery expansions over the past six months as local beer makers look for ways to expand their market and expand their reach. The expansions have included new taprooms from Downhill Brewing (Greenwood Village), Lone Tree Brewing (Parker), Westbound & Down Brewing (Basalt), Cerebral Brewing (Aurora), Verboten Brewing & Barrel Project (Fort Collins), Living the Dream Brewing (Littleton), Westfax Brewing (Colorado Springs), Denver Beer Co.

A sushi restaurant with 10 locations nationwide has applied for a liquor license at 1439 Larimer St., a space that is currently home to an upscale shoe store in Larimer Square. Sushi by Scratch, which is based in Los Angeles, offers omakase dinners in small and often luxurious spaces in some of the most expensive zip codes in the United States: Las Vegas, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, Sonoma County, Seattle, Austin, Dallas Chicago and Miami.

Being homeless in Evergreen after an injury put John Alex out of work wasn’t easy, he said. The only shelter, run by a local Christian group, operated from October to April, and outside those times, the easiest place to sleep undisturbed was the woods. Even that wasn’t always peaceful, though, with bears roaming in search of food and water. Alex, 50, talked about his time without a home from a more comfortable space on an unusually hot day in late July: his apartment in Lakewood, in a building that opened less than two months earlier.

Stay safe on the water Life jackets save lives, but only if they are worn. A recent incident on the Chatfield Reservoir highlights the importance of wearing a life jacket. A boater fell into the reservoir after their sailboat flipped over. Fortunately, they were wearing a life jacket and were rescued, but that isn’t always the case. In the most recent United States Coast Guard boating statistics, three out of every four boaters who died in a boating accident drowned, and of those deaths, 87% were not wearing a life jacket.

Dear Eric: My brother and his family are born-again Christian. I stayed with him in his hometown for about a week while I was having surgery to remove my prostate. After the stay, my brother told me that I was no longer invited to his home because my atheism made them uncomfortable, but we could always meet at a café. I don’t wear my atheism on my sleeve, but he did attempt to convert me.

8212; The 1975 is being sued after Matty Healy’s kiss of a bandmate in an on-stage protest shut down a music festival last year in Malaysia. Healy used profanities as he criticized Malaysia’s stance against homosexuality before kissing bassist Ross MacDonald during the band’s headline performance at the Good Vibes Festival in Kuala Lumpur.