Alma Fonda Fina Chef Johnny Curiel inside his restaurant. Photo: Courtesy of Shawn Campbell
🍽️ Johnny Curiel, the Michelin-star chef behind Alma Fonda Fina, is opening his fourth restaurant today, called Alteño, on the ground floor of Cherry Creek's Clayton Hotel & Members Club. (BusinessDen 🔑)
✊U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will bring his "Fighting Oligarchy" tour to Denver's Civic Center Park this Friday. He'll be joined by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.). (Denverite)
👩💼 More than 600 federal workers in Colorado have filed for unemployment amid the Trump administration's purge of the federal workforce. It's unclear how that number will change after last week's ruling reinstating thousands of fired probationary federal workers nationwide. (Colorado Sun)
🕯️The recent death of a woman partially paralyzed in the Columbine High School shooting was ruled a homicide, raising the death toll of the 1999 attack to 14.
She died of sepsis, and complications from her paralysis were found to be a "significant contributing factor" in her death. (AP)
💨 Denver's long-running 4/20 festival in Civic Center Park will no longer be free, starting this year. Tickets will start at $20. (Westword)
🦫 Plans for a second Buc-ee's in Colorado are on pause after developers withdrew their application to annex a 36-acre site in the town of Palmer Lake. But a new proposal is expected to be submitted soon. (Denver Post 🔑)
