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Evolve and Pfizer cutting workers in Denver and Boulder

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 14:31:44 GMT

Denver-based Evolve is letting go of another 175 workers just four months after it dismissed 164 workers in response to a big drop-off in the vacation home rental market.The company, which describes itself as the “fastest-growing vacation rental hospitality company in North America,” manages properties on behalf of 30,000 owners and has hosted 10 million guests, according to its website.September’s job reduction, representing about a fifth of the staff, is part of a larger transition called Evolve 3.0 that Brian Egan, co-founder and CEO, described in a letter to employees last month.Egan said as he was scrutinizing how resources at the company were allocated — “every dollar and every hour, both payroll and non-payroll, all of it” — he realized he had to go beyond the millions of dollars in non-payroll savings and reduce the headcount.“The hard truth is that while we have a talented, hard-working and passionate team, and the vast majori...

Evictions surge in Denver as council members, advocates call for aid

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 14:31:44 GMT

Deborah Self couldn’t stand the sound of her ringtone any longer. She silenced it last week, easing the dread of yet another call from a Coloradan on the verge of eviction. She didn’t need the shrill notification to do her job. Someone in need is always on the other line. Her phone rarely leaves her ear.Self, a housing navigator at Colorado Housing Connects, works from home answering some 50 calls a day to help people search for affordable housing, rental assistance, or tenant and landlord mediation. The organization has seen a nearly 60% spike in calls from the same time last year.“There’s a whole range of emotions when people call,” Self said. “A lot of people are crying. There are occasionally people who are angry and they direct it toward us, but it’s nothing to do with us. I’m pretty good at de-escalating. I try to calm them down and see what we can do to help.”The increase in calls comes amid a broader surge in displacement and evictions in Denver and across the state. For two...

Now at MCA Denver: Cowboys like you’ve never seen them before

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 14:31:44 GMT

In the large-scale artwork “Set Ups,” Stephanie Syjuco contrasts an intricate, menacing print with a verdant landscape and faded imagery of the American West.“The green backdrop and screen is a nod toward that cinematic construction of cowboys,” said Syjuco, who was born in the Philippines and raised in the U.S., where she internalized decades of cowboy imagery in movies and TV shows. “When MCA Denver approved it I was like, ‘yes!’ It’s very specific to this region and the mythology of the cowboy, and it’s related to work I was already doing on landscape panting and how it’s come to influence narratives of westword progress.”Syjuco’s is one of dozens of pieces commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver for its new “Cowboy” exhibition. Works that invoke German American painter Albert Bierstadt’s epic landscapes sit next to visual interrogations of Manifest Destiny, asking us to recons...

Send in the clowns with evocative, dreamlike show from Theatre Artibus

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 14:31:44 GMT

The first thing you’ll likely notice upon entering the Savoy Denver’s performance space is that Theatre Artibus has placed risers and seats lengthwise, so that the audience sits on two sides of its latest work, “The Pâstisserie.” In addition to creating an intimate proximity to the patrons, the setup in the one-time ballroom affords this evocative, laugh-outright, dreamlike show a zany flow.Gertie (Meghan Frank) and Doris (Tiffany Ogburn) welcome soldier Fred Whipple (Buba Basishvili) to their strange factory in “Pastisserie.” (Michael Ensminger, provided by Theatre Artibus)And flow it does, with its trio of players — Tiffany Ogburn, Buba Basishvili and Meghan Frank — sending laboratory desks and chairs skating across the floor with choreographed flair. Or unfurling a red carpet for a factory boss referred to as “The Founder.”  Or fight-chasing in slow motion across the theater’s expanse to the audience’s hearty guffaws.“The Pâstisserie” explores memory and its adjacent and ac...

Colorado’s COVID hospitalizations are rising again following summer dip

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 14:31:44 GMT

Colorado’s COVID-19 hospitalizations are rising again, but it’s not clear if they’ll stay at roughly this level or continue to increase as the weather gets colder.Hospitalizations have been slowly increasing since early August, but jumped more noticeably in the last two weeks, from 131 people hospitalized for the virus in Colorado on Sept. 19 to 195 on Monday — the highest total since mid-March.The number of people admitted to hospitals for the virus has held relatively steady, though, averaging about 40 per day, said Beth Carlton, associate professor of environmental and occupational health at the Colorado School of Public Health. That’s higher than over the summer, but nowhere close to the peaks set in 2020 and 2021, when hundreds of people were hospitalized each day, she said.It’s possible the number of severe COVID-19 cases will continue to hover around this level through early December, which was when Colorado saw peaks in previous years, Car...

Pedestrian struck by car in Northridge may have been throwing bottles

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 14:31:44 GMT

Police are investigating a crash that left a pedestrian severely injured in Northridge Friday morning.The incident occurred shortly after midnight as the driver was traveling in the 18900 block of W Parthenia St.It was unclear if the pedestrian was in the street or the crosswalk at the time of the crash, but video showed clothing scattered across the roadway and a white sedan with front end damage and a shattered windshield. The unidentified pedestrian was taken to a local hospital with what were described as severe injuries. A Los Angeles Police Department spokesperson said the driver remained at the scene and was cooperating with investigators. Witnesses said the pedestrian had been throwing bottles at passing cars and was nearly struck several times before the crash happened.Police have not confirmed the witness accounts but are continuing to investigate.

Sleepbomb See the Sunn

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 14:31:44 GMT

Sleepbomb See the Sunn: Tim Gotch of Experimental rockers Sleepbomb told us about his Sunn o))) experience.Tim Gotch: In regards to the Best Gig I Ever Saw, I had to think long and hard about this question. As a voracious consumer of live shows, there are so many available to pick from as a potential “Best Gig” so I decided to go with “Closest Gig to a Religious Experience” instead, which has a bonus of reflecting the experience of both myself and Sleepbomb’s guitarist, Charlie.The two of us have spent many years going to shows together and have traveled to Europe and Scandinavia several times in pursuit of ultimate sonic bliss and we agree that this was right up there on the out of body transcendence scale.The gig in question as Sunn 0))) at Psycho Las Vegas in 2018. It was a simple proposition, just Greg Anderson and Steven O’Malley as a duo on the main stage at the old Hard Rock Casino (RIP), with approximately two semi-trucks worth of amps and...

49ers’ Brock Purdy on Cowboys: ‘One of my toughest games’

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 14:31:44 GMT

SANTA CLARA — When Brock Purdy led the 49ers to a divisional-round playoff win over Dallas in January, it was above and beyond the call for a rookie seventh-round draft pick.It’s not as if Purdy is a seasoned veteran, even if he conducts himself like one. He’s gone wire-to-wire in 11 games. But Purdy is expecting more out of himself when the 49ers host the Cowboys Sunday night at Levi’s Stadium.“They’re a really good defense and there were times where they did a good job of just getting me offset with some little things and just sort of made me rush some things and I feel like I didn’t get in a good rhythm,” Purdy said Thursday.The 49ers beat the Cowboys 19-12, with Purdy completing 19-of-29 passes for 214 yards and no touchdowns. In nine possessions, the lone touchdown came on a 2-yard run by Christian McCaffrey on the first play of the fourth quarter.Otherwise, the scoring was up to place kicker Robbie Gould, who converted field goal...

Donald Trump announces whom he’s backing for House speaker

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 14:31:44 GMT

By JILL COLVIN and FARNOUSH AMIRI | Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is officially backing Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, the pugnacious House Judiciary Committee chairman and longtime Trump defender, to succeed Kevin McCarthy as House speaker.“Congressman Jim Jordan has been a STAR long before making his very successful journey to Washington, D.C., representing Ohio’s 4th Congressional District,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social site shortly after midnight Friday. “He will be a GREAT Speaker of the House, & has my Complete & Total Endorsement!”The announcement came hours after Texas Rep. Troy Nehls said Thursday night that Trump had decided to back Jordan’s bid and after Trump said he would be open to serving as interim leader himself if Republicans couldn’t settle on a successor following McCarthy’s stunning ouster.Trump, the current GOP presidential front-runner, has used the leadership vacuum on the Hill to further demonstrate his control over the...

Warriors: How a longtime rivalry fuels Steph Curry’s chemistry with Chris Paul

Published Fri, 07 Feb 2025 14:31:44 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO — Warriors fans may need some time to adjust to this sight: Steph Curry and Chris Paul in the same uniform and in the starting lineup together.Fans will get their first glimpse of it on Saturday night at Chase Center when the Warriors take on the Los Angeles Lakers in their first preseason exhibition game.This pairing, which may be surprising to the outside world, is far more familiar with each other than might be expected.Curry and Paul organized team-wide mini-camps this offseason in Los Angeles, Las Vegas and San Francisco, and have also made it a point to get plenty of run together, along with Klay Thompson, during the offseason. They learned quickly that a decade-long rivalry and years of scouting had the former foes completely in sync. It helps, too, that the 38-year-old Paul is one of the smarter players in the NBA playing within an offense that thrives on high basketball IQ.“He was calling out stuff that he had been scouting against us for years and...