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Thefts of Kias, Hyundais in Colorado chase away auto insurance companies

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:17:51 GMT

With car thefts spiking in Colorado the past few years, three auto insurance carriers are now declining to cover certain vehicles, leaving at-risk owners with fewer options.Allstate, State Farm and Progressive are passing over new owners of some Kia and Hyundai vehicles, as thieves steal those cars at higher rates. In 2021, Colorado held the No. 1 spot in the nation for motor vehicle thefts – and those rates continued to skyrocket in the first half of last year, according to the Rocky Mountain Insurance Association.In 2022, the top 10 U.S. cities for car thefts included Denver, Aurora, Westminster and Pueblo, according to the nonprofit.From July through September of last year, the majority of the state’s most-stolen vehicles were either Kia models – Sportage, Optima, Sorento and Soul – or Hyundai – Tuscan, Sonata and Elantra. Truck owners were also targeted, with Chevy Silverados, Ford F-250s and GMC Sierras making the list.Some of these thefts are blamed on a social media tre...

Pierogies and pickle soup may not be pretty as a picture, but they’ll have you coming back to Cracovia

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:17:51 GMT

Editor’s note: This is part of our new series, Hidden Gems, in which we take a look at those restaurants you should know about but may not. They are either tucked away in strip malls or otherwise off the beaten path. Try them out; if you like what you eat, pass the word.  WESTMINSTER, CO – MARCH 10: A dish of kielbasa at Cracovia in Westminster, Colorado on Friday, March 10, 2023. Cracovia is a polish-american restaurant that opened in 2008. (Photo by Rebecca Slezak/Special to The Denver Post)There aren’t a lot of Polish restaurants in Colorado. Compared to the photogenicity of, say, dripping birria tacos or cheese pull-rific slices of pizza, white pork sausage and stuffed cabbage rolls pale in Instagram- and Tik Tok-worthiness. But there’s a beauty in perfectly pleated pierogi; an allure to a creamy soup swirled with bright olive oil and dotted with parsley.Maybe our current food trends aren’t overly conducive to Polish food, but Cracovia doesn’t really care about trends anyw...

Wash Park French eatery making way for something “a little more fun”

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:17:51 GMT

A French restaurant in West Wash Park has closed its doors, but its ownership plans to debut a new concept in the space this spring.Jared Leonard, owner of Au Feu Brasserie at 81 S. Pennsylvania St., told BusinessDen the restaurant’s fine-dining nature just wasn’t working.“The amount of time and food costs in fine dining, it’s just a format that’s kind of dying out,” Leonard said. “It’s hard to do in the current economy.”Leonard opened Au Feu in January 2021, after the restaurant had a short stint in RiNo’s Zeppelin Station food hall. Before that, he’d operated Budlong Hot Chicken in the Pennsylvania Street space.Au Feu offered small plates such as poutine and grilled oysters in the $12 to $25 range, according to a menu still posted on the window. Entrees ranged from $17 for fried chicken to $30 for steak frites.Leonard said he’s pivoting to launch a French cocktail bar in the space.“It will be more of a cocktail bar with small plates, instead of a full-service restaurant with cockt...

Heartburn in Golden: Food hall operators accuse partner of conflict of interest

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:17:51 GMT

Denver chef Jesus Silva, who started his restaurant career at 11 in his home country of Mexico, has won respect and recognition for his work and creative food concepts from the Denver Central Market to the Stanley Marketplace and Milepost Zero in McGregor Square.Silva, like many of his peers, struggled when COVID-19 hit. One venture closed at the height of the pandemic, but he opened stalls at the Milepost Zero food hall and helped open the Golden Mill food hall in Golden.Then legal troubles hit. The legal dispute has spawned accusations of conflicts of interest, intimidation and bullying tactics. Silva said it has left the fate of his business and his more than 30 employees at Golden Mill up in the air.“The worst thing we ever experienced in the industry was COVID,” Silva said. “I would think after COVID, nothing can be worse. And now I’m dealing with this. Oh my god, this is never going to end.”By “this,” he means strife between him and hi...

Movie review: “Luther: The Fallen Sun” a grander, but sillier version of show

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:17:51 GMT

Idris Elba’s John Luther finally has made it to the big screen.And sure, many — at least on these shores — will watch “Luther: The Fallen Sun” in their living rooms, but that doesn’t change the fact that this cinematic offshoot of the British drama series “Luther” feels theater-worthy.Already in a cineplex here and there, it arrives on Netflix this week.It does so as a bigger, bolder and, unfortunately, increasingly over-the-top version of the show.Created and penned by Neil Cross, the series revolves around its namesake, a detective chief inspector in London. Obsessive about catching killers to the point where he’s willing to blur some moral and ethical lines, DCI Luther found himself in a lot of legal hot water at the conclusion of the show’s fifth season — or “series” in Brit speak — in 2019.In its opening moments, “The Fallen Sun” takes us back in time slightly, to a bit of extortion that leads to a spot on a road that quickly becomes a crime scene. It soon is visited by Luther,...

Cars trapped by rain-fueled mudslides in Baldwin Hills

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:17:51 GMT

Multiple mudslides in Baldwin Hills snarled traffic and trapped vehicles late Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning as yet another storm hit Southern California.The mudslides impacted multiple areas, including traffic on La Brea Avenue, footage from the scene showed.Perhaps the largest incident occurred at about 2 a.m. Wednesday on La Brea just north of Don Lorenzo Drive, where all northbound traffic had to be halted, but not before vehicles were caught in the debris.At least two cars were caught in the mud, and tow crews had to be brought out to help remove the vehicles.Another mudslide affected the 5200 block of El Mirador Drive just after 11:30 p.m. Tuesday. In this instance, debris flowed from the back of a property facing Punta Alta Drive.The rain

Presale Codes for Clutch No Stars Above Tour with Dinosaur Jr. and Red Fang

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:17:51 GMT

Don’t let yourself have an Electric Worry — that’s because the band Clutch just announced a tour to satisfy all your hard rock needs. Dubbed the “No Stars Above Tour,” the band will hit 12 dates this summer and feature artists Dinosaur Jr. and Red Fang. The tour will launch on July 21 in Washington, DC and wrap on August 5 in Denver, CO, although no dates in Southern California have been announced — see below for all dates. Passwords and presale codes for the Clutch No Stars Above Tour with Dinosaur Jr. and Red Fang tickets are as follows:Presale codes for Clutch No Stars Above Tour with Dinosaur Jr. and Red FangPresale tickets for Clutch No Stars Above Tour with Dinosaur Jr. and Red Fang are on sale and we’ve been told the following presale codes and passwords may work. Details are subject to change, and vary by event date:Blabbermouth presale code or password: BBMCLUTCH2023 live March 15 at 10am ET on Blabbermouth.netLive Nation website presale code o...

Presale Codes for Drake It’s All A Blur Tour with 21 Savage

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:17:51 GMT

If you gotta throw a party for your day ones, and they ain’t in the studio but they’ll lay somethin — then it’s time to get hype, because Drake and 21 Savage are going on tour. Since their joint album was announced last year, we’ve been waiting for this, and this summer the dynamic duo are blessing us with 29 dates. The tour launches June 16 in New Orleans, LA, wraps September 5 in Glendale, AZ, and includes four dates here in LA — August 12 and 13 at the Kia Forum in Inglewood, and August 21 and 22 at Crypto.com Arena — see below for all dates. Passwords and presale codes for the Drake It’s All A Blur Tour with 21 Savage tickets are as follows:Presale codes for Drake It’s All A Blur Tour with 21 SavagePresale tickets for Drake It’s All A Blur Tour with 21 Savage go on sale today, March 15 and we’ve been told the following presale codes and passwords may work. Details are subject to change, and vary by event date:Chase card presale cod...

Where the 49ers’ roster stands as free agency and new league year officially begin

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:17:51 GMT

At the close of the regular season, the 49ers all but said goodbye to quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo, tackle Mike McGlinchey, defensive back Jimmie Ward and linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair.All have reportedly agreed to terms with other teams during the negotiating period and can officially sign contracts Wednesday at the start of the new league year — Garoppolo with the Las Vegas Raiders, McGlinchey with the Denver Broncos while Ward joins former defensive coordinator DeMeco Ryans in Houston and Al-Shaair heads to Tennessee.Those losses were factored in by coach Kyle Shanahan and general manager John Lynch to the cost of doing business under the salary cap.Two more players — cornerback Emmanuel Moseley (Detroit) and defensive tackle Hassan Ridgeway (Houston) will also depart, with Moseley being a mild surprise coming off an ACL tear in Week 5.An important piece of the offensive line was brought back in center Jake Brendel, while others scheduled for free agency who re-upped were...

Editorial: SVB failure adds to tech industry’s greedy image

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:17:51 GMT

Day by day, month by month, year by year, greed is ruining the tech industry’s image.This time it was tech’s response to the failure of its primary financial institution, Silicon Valley Bank. When it comes to privacy, child internet protections, curbing misinformation or, now, protecting our banking system, tech companies repeatedly put profit before the public good.The federal government bailed out tech this time, but the public’s patience with the industry is running thin, threatening its future.Silicon Valley Bank was a niche institution catering to financing for the tech industry. Two weeks before its collapse, the bank’s CEO, Greg Becker, reportedly sold $3.6 million in company shares. That’s right. Becker apparently made sure he got his money knowing the potential that others could be caught holding the bag.It was Becker who helped bring about the crisis. In 2015, he pleaded with Congress to weaken the Dodd-Frank Act regulations, created after the...