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Theater review: Local Theater Company’s “You Enjoy Myself” grabs us at “hey”

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 23:39:40 GMT

Fast friends Cory (Bobby Bennet, left) and Isabel (Iliana Lucero Barron) in Local Theater Company’s world premier of “You Enjoy Myself.” (Michael Ensminger, provided by Local Theater Company)Even if the beloved-by-so-many band Phish isn’t your jam, the new play “You Enjoy Myself” very well might be. Because as Judith (Eden Lane) tells the audience at the outset of Topher Payne’s intricate, sexually frisky and open-hearted work, “Melody and memory cradle you, wrapped up in your collected stories … whether you feel swaddled or smothered … You’re just there.”Music’s power to be exquisitely personal even as it can be deeply communal is on fine display as the comedy’s Phish phanatics and their loved ones revisit their bonds and forge new ones. “You Enjoy Myself” is receiving its world premiere at the Dairy Center for the Arts thanks to the diligent work of the Boulder-based Local Theater Company, which nurtured the sly comedy at its 2022 annual development gathering, Local Lab.A decades-...

Bustang canceled 51 Colorado rides over past two weeks

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 23:39:40 GMT

Coloradans planning to take Bustang buses between Front Range cities couldn’t be certain they’d reach their destinations this week as the state transportation agency’s contractor again canceled rides, inconveniencing travelers at a rate of roughly one in 13 scheduled buses.Bustang service between Denver and Fort Collins has been canceled nearly every day since Sept. 11.  Bus rides between Lamar and Colorado Springs also were canceled on Tuesday, according to the “alerts”  that the Colorado Department of Transportation’s contractor, Ace Express Coaches, posts at ridebustang.com and on X, the social media site formerly called Twitter.These followed delays and cancelations over the past month on multiple routes around Colorado. CDOT and contractor officials blamed the frequent delays on traffic and the cancelations on “driver unavailability,” particularly along the high-demand route that links Denver and Fort Collins.The cancelation rate for the 692 bus tr...

The radical idea to combat Colorado’s predatory towing problem

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 23:39:40 GMT

John Connolly wants to scrap the entire system and start over.The president of the Towing & Recovery Professionals of Colorado, a trade group representing the state’s towing operators, remembers how his industry used to operate. Back in the 1970s and ’80s, property owners paid towers to remove abandoned vehicles from their lots — without charging consumers.But in recent decades, “we allowed the fox in the henhouse,” state Rep. Andrew Boesenecker, a Fort Collins Democrat, said.Apartment complexes, which used to pay to have cars removed, now get the service for free. Instead, tow carriers bill drivers hundreds of dollars per tow, causing serious financial strain for a wide swath of low-income residents. And the more cars these companies haul off to tow yards, the more money they rake in.Colorado lawmakers in recent years have sought to address these financial incentives by passing a “Towing Bill of Rights” designed to better protect consum...

Better than expected, still dicey: Colorado business leaders size up economy

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 23:39:40 GMT

The economy has turned out better this year than Colorado business leaders expected, but they remain pessimistic due to high interest rates, inflation and trouble filling open jobs.The latest Leeds Business Confidence Index released Thursday by the University of Colorado in Boulder marks the seventh consecutive survey indicating business leaders’ pessimism about the national and state economies.A score of 50 is neutral, while marks below that signal negative outlooks. The overall confidence index fell to 43.6 heading into the fourth quarter of 2023, down from of 44.1 in the third quarter.But the outlook for the first quarter of 2024 brightened a bit to an overall level of 45.7.“We heard from business leaders, a majority of them, about two-thirds, indicated the economy has outperformed their expectations so far in 2023,” said Brian Lewandowski, executive director of research at CU Boulder’s Leeds School of Business.At the same time, Colorado business leaders c...

Keeler: Thanks to Deion Sanders, from The Rock to Lil Wayne, Boulder is where stars want to be

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 23:39:40 GMT

BOULDER — Who needs Will Ferrell when you’ve got Lil Wayne and Ralphie?A year ago at this time, the home sideline at Folsom Field was radioactive. Now it’s the new Crypto.com Arena, the sporting venue where stars — we’re talking A-list dudes: The Rock, Master P, Offset, Terrell Owens — want to be seen.“That doesn’t happen anywhere, for real, unless you’re in Los Angeles and you’re winning,” LenDale White, former Broncos running back, USC star and Chatfield High state champ told me a few days ago. “Bama? People don’t stop there (unless) you’re winning. (Then) people want to be a part of that.“But for people to already be at CU and seeing that excitement already. I haven’t seen that effect in college football. Even in my (time at USC), I was on teams where we had two Heisman winners and my spring game never had a sellout crowd or stuff like what the CU spring game had.”White was a Denver ki...

Mustang goes airborne before smashing into Grand Terrace home

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 23:39:40 GMT

Surveillance video captured an out-of-control Ford Mustang going airborne before it crashed into a Grand Terrace home Thursday evening.The incident occurred around 7 p.m. in the 22000 block of Pico Street near Mt. Vernon Avenue.A surveillance camera captured a car crashing into a Grand Terrace home on Sept. 28, 2023. (OnScene.TV)The video shows what appears to be a speeding driver losing control of their vehicle, which eventually went airborne after going through a stop sign. The car then hits the corner of the home as it returns to the ground. The driver was able to get out of the vehicle after the crash and declined medical treatment, news stringer OnScene.TV reported. Man walking dog shoots, kills man in Garden Grove neighborhood No one inside the home was injured in the incident, according to the report.It was unclear what caused the driver to lose control of the vehicle.

Gunshots in the grandstands: Why violence at high school football games is spiking and what can be done

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 23:39:40 GMT

In the middle of coaching his team’s first game of the season, Lloyd Johnson looked up into the stands at Fremont High School in Oakland and saw fights breaking out, one after another.The same thing happened that night at Piedmont Hills High School in San Jose with fights among spectators forcing the game to be canceled.Fan violence is happening elsewhere, too, sometimes involving gunfire. In Sacramento, 15 shots were fired at a recent youth football game. At a high school game in South Los Angeles, a stray bullet sent a woman to the hospital. At a game in Oklahoma, a 16-year-old was fatally shot and four others were wounded. There was another shooting fatality in Louisiana. Shots have been fired at games in St. Louis, Baltimore and Chicago.This year, there have been 39 school shootings at high school sporting events nationwide, according to David Riedman, a data scientist who founded the K-12 School Shooting Database.With football season not yet at its midpoint and basketball seaso...

Dianne Feinstein, longest-serving female US senator in history, dies at 90

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 23:39:40 GMT

Washington (CNN) — Dianne Feinstein, whose three decades in the Senate made her the longest-serving female US senator in history, has died, according to a source familiar. She was 90.This story is breaking and will be updated.The-CNN-Wire & © 2023 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.

5 things to know about California’s new proposed rules for insurance companies

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 23:39:40 GMT

By ADAM BEAM | Associated PressSACRAMENTO  — Months after California’s home insurance market was rattled by major companies pausing or restricting their coverage, the state’s top regulator said Thursday that he would write new rules aimed at persuading insurers to continue doing business in the nation’s most populous state.Seven of the 12 largest insurance companies by market share in California have either paused or restricted new policies in the state since last year.Some state lawmakers tried to come up with a bill that would address the issue. But they failed to reach an agreement before the Legislature adjourned for the year last week.Here’s a look at what California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara proposed and how it would affect the state’s insurance market:WHAT ARE THE RULES FOR INSURANCE COMPANIES?Unlike most states, California heavily regulates its property insurance market.In 1988, California voters approved Proposition 103. It said insur...

Tensions run high at another school board meeting — this time, in the heart of San Jose

Published Mon, 16 Dec 2024 23:39:40 GMT

The night began with a man dressed in a white coat with what looked like fake blood spilled over his front. He approached the podium at the Franklin-McKinley school board meeting ready to perform — and by pretending to be a doctor hell-bent on performing gender-affirmation surgeries on children, that’s what he did.“Thank you, progressive educators and those of you who glorify gender ideology and LGBTQ lifestyles,” said the man sarcastically, addressing the school board on Tuesday night.The man, who listed his name as only Noel V, was one of many speakers at yet another divisive school board meeting in the Bay Area. This one centered around the recent censure of school board member Marc Cooper, and accusations by Informed Parents of Silicon Valley, a local parents’ rights group supportive of Cooper, that Franklin-McKinley’s policies promoted teaching about LGBTQ+ issues and sex education that are inappropriate for school children.That school district on San JoseR...