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Jefferson County rangers recommend overnight road closures for Lookout Mountain

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 02:14:00 GMT

GOLDEN (KDVR) -- In their search for ways to protect Lookout Mountain from careless, overnight drivers, Jefferson County park rangers are looking to curb access in the dark.“Our mission is healthy, nature-based activities,” said Mary Ann Bonnell, a Jefferson County Open Space Park Ranger. “What people are doing up there, at night, is heartbreaking. It is not healthy, nature-based activities.” Aurora Fire gets help from robots, drones in construction site fire cleanup Bonnell says people drive up the mountain at night where they commit acts of vandalism, litter and discharge firearms. Because this happens at night, officials are forced to take a closer look.Officials noted in a proposed access management fact sheet that the area is "busier at midnight than it is at 10 a.m. on weekends."The management tool — digitally controlled gates — would close Lookout Mountain Road between the Chimney Gulch Trail pullout and Lookout Mountain Park from one hour after sunset to one hour before su...

Adams County family grapples with home invasion, death of 2 dogs in fire

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 02:14:00 GMT

ADAMS COUNTY (KDVR) -- A home invasion turning into a house fire has left an Adams County family traumatized.Investigators say a man with a knife broke into the family's Adams County home on 80th Avenue while they were inside and torched the place Wednesday morning. Burglar allegedly starts fire that killed dogs in Adams County home “It's hard, very difficult, actually, just to see the broken glass, it’s just a flashback," said Jennifer Jenson.Nearly two days after her home was set on fire, Jensen is letting it all sink in.“It definitely has taken the sense of security away from me," she said.Around 2 a.m. Wednesday, Jenson's son Zaide Taul was wrapping presents for a late Christmas celebration when he looked outside the window.“I see a man with no shirt facing his back to me," said Taul. "He has long hair, blood and substances on his back."He went downstairs to the basement to alert his mom.“I looked back up and there was a rock or something flying through the window and the glas...

Nikola Jokic hits 40-footer at buzzer, Nuggets rally to stun Warriors 130-127

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 02:14:00 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Nikola Jokic hit a 40-footer as time expired and the Denver Nuggets stunned the Golden State Warriors 130-127 on Thursday night after trailing by 18 points in the fourth quarter.Jokic had 34 points, 10 assists and nine rebounds. He tied it at 127 with a short jumper with 26 seconds left. Golden State's final possession ended with Stephen Curry's turnover, setting the the stage for Jokic's winner from near the right sideline. The defending champion Nuggets have won 11 of 13 and six straight on the road. They sent the Warriors — who failed to get back to .500 after snapping a three-game skid Tuesday night — to a 1-3 start on their seven-game homestand.Aaron Gordon scored 30 points for Denver, and Jamal Murray had 25. Curry led Golden State with 30 points. Klay Thompson added 24.Golden State pulled away in the third quarter, outscoring Denver 44-24 after trailing by double-digits early in the half. The Warriors had a 19-6 midway through the quarter, with Brandin Po...

Bim Skala Bim celebrates 40 years of Boston ska

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 02:14:00 GMT

When the band Bim Skala Bim first appeared in 1983, Boston didn’t have much of a ska scene. They worked hard over the years to make sure we got one.This Saturday the band celebrates its 40th anniversary at the Crystal Ballroom. True to their roots, it’s an all-ages matinee. “When we started there were just a couple of ska bands in town,” frontman Dan Vitale recalled this week. “There was Dub 7, who we really looked up to because they opened for the Clash on Cape Cod. As a young band we were very much into reggae as well as ska, in fact some of the first airplay we got in town was for our reggae songs. We didn’t have anyone to compare ourselves to, but we all loved Bob Marley and UB40. At that time it wasn’t easy to be an all-white reggae band, but now you can’t swing a stick without hitting one.”Bim Skala Bim has also been a remarkably stable band: All seven of the band’s original members have remained in the picture over the years, and all will be appearing this weekend. Other form...

Lowry: Left can’t handle the idea of a Trump victory

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 02:14:00 GMT

If 2024 is set to be tumultuous and unpredictable, just wait until 2025 if Donald Trump wins the presidency again later his year.His adversaries don’t have a history of accepting his victories with equanimity. Trump’s unexpected victory in 2016 launched conspiracy theories about how Russia had helped him win; catalyzed a years-long law-enforcement investigation into him and his campaign based on those theories; and set off protests in the streets.Trump’s opponents are sincerely, and to some extent, understandably alarmed by his conduct after the 2020 election, and how he’s branded his political comeback as a revenge tour.For most of them, though, saving democracy doesn’t mean upholding the rules no matter what and letting the voters decide the election and the fate of the next president. No, it means blocking Donald Trump by any means necessary, regardless of the consequences for the rule of law, democratic politics or faith in our system of government....

‘Night Swim’ treads water, sinks

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 02:14:00 GMT

You learn not to expect that much from a horror movie being released the first week of the year, when theater auditoriums continue to draw folks with higher-profile movies that hit on or around Christmas Day.However, “M3GAN” — a tale of an artificial intelligence designed for children going epically out of control — arrived in that window last year with a fun mix of scares and laughs.That provided hope that “Night Swim” — an offering from the “M3GAN” triad of Universal Pictures, Atomic Monster and BlumHouse washing into theaters this week — would be similarly entertaining.But while “Night Swim” stays afloat for a while, it drowns in its third act.The problem isn’t that “Night Swim” — written and directed by Bryce McGuire, who based it on his 2014 short film of the same name and shares the story credit with Rod Blackhurst — eschews the mildly campy tone that worked well for “M3GAN.” After all, a haunted backyard swimming pool is, as you come to observe, deadly serious business. But t...

Scheinmann: Elite universities’ culture problem must be solved

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 02:14:00 GMT

Harvard President Claudine Gay’s resignation puts an end to a short and embarrassing era at America’s oldest university. Her unfeeling response and admission, under oath to Congress, that calls for genocide against Jews and antisemitic speech do not violate university guidelines were public relations disasters. Her tolerance of Jew-hatred on campus enabled the worst instincts to surface and spread fear amongst Jewish students. The message sent to young Americans was clear: antisemitism is prevalent on our campuses, but there’s little we can and will do about it.Her resignation is necessary, but not sufficient to actually change the culture at elite universities. The increasingly radical and antisemitic views of a younger generation of college students are a feature, and not a bug, of today’s higher education.It is therefore unsurprising that the views of college-age students, captured by a Harvard-Harris poll, on Hamas’s attack and Israel in general are so disturbing. Shockingly, 36...

Editorial: Warren waters down ‘steadfast’ support of Israel

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 02:14:00 GMT

Sen. Elizabeth Warren stands firmly with Israel in battling terrorism and defending its right to exist.Unless that position ticks off her progressive staffers.Warren posted on X Thursday: “When it comes to military aid to Israel, the U.S. cannot write a blank check for a right-wing government that’s demonstrated an appalling disregard for Palestinian lives. The U.S. should use all the tools at its disposal to condition aid & move the parties toward a lasting peace.”As Politico reported, the Massachusetts Democrat was all-in for Israel right after the Oct. 7 slaughter by Hamas terrorists. In an emotional speech at the same pro-Israel rally where Sen. Ed Markey was booed for calling for de-escalation, Warren said there is “no justification for terrorism ever” and pledged that America would be a “steadfast ally” to Israel.What happened between then and now?A late October open letter by more than 260 staffers from her 2020 presidential campaign. In it, they demande...

Sentimental ‘All of Us Strangers’ tries too hard

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 02:14:00 GMT

How is it that “All of Us Strangers,” this strange little gay fable from “The Twilight Zone,” is on the receiving end of such rapturous reviews from some critics, many of them on the festival circuit? It may be because the film co-stars Irish actor and critics’ darling Paul Mescal (“Aftersun”), who is currently filming “Gladiator 2,”and features an admittedly wrenching performance from Irishman Andrew Scott, perhaps best known as Professor Moriarty in that almost-good Benedict Cumberbatch “Sherlock” series and as “Fleabag”’s “hot priest.”Directed and co-written by Andrew Haigh (“45 Years”) based on the 1988 novel “Strangers” by Japanese author Taichi Yamada, the film is an odd bird. Haigh added the gay element. Scott is Adam, a single gay screenwriter who never gets past a few opening words of his latest screenplay. He is interrupted by a knock at the door. It is Harry, (Mescal), a handsome gay neighbor with a bottle of Scotch and a flirtatious manner. Will Adam invite s...

‘Memory’ romance a showcase for stellar cast

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 02:14:00 GMT

“Memory” is a romance about two severely damaged people who find one another and fall in love in Brooklyn. Sylvia (Academy Award winner Jessica Chastain) is an adult care-worker from a family with money. She lives in a semi-shabby, carefully locked and alarm-equipped apartment near an elevated subway with her 13-year-old daughter Anna (Brooke Timber), who she walks to school every day. Sylvia will not allow Anna to attend parties with older boys.One evening, Sylvia attends a high school reunion and a strange man sits beside her. His name is Saul Shapiro (Peter Sarsgaard), and he follows her home and stands outside Sylvia’s apartment in the rain. This may remind some viewers of the lover who dies after standing outside his beloved’s window in the rain in James Joyce’s short story “The Dead.” Sylvia’s calls the man’s contact number, his brother Isaac (Josh Charles), who lives in a townhouse with his daughter and Saul. Sylvia, an AA member who has been sob...