🗣️ Casa Bonita characters speak out

🍽️ Historic Restaurant to Get New Owner

After 60 years in the same family, The Fort in Morrison announced its imminent sale to local development firm Revesco Properties. Current owner Holly Arnold Kinney is ready to retire and says she’s “delighted to be passing the tomahawk to this team.” [Denver Gazette 🔒]

• Name sound familiar? Revesco Properties is the same development firm that was previously working with Kroenke Sports & Entertainment on the River Mile development in Denver before KSE bought Revesco out.

🏀 Nuggets Deny Disability Discrimination Allegations

The owner of the Denver Nuggets has asked a judge to dismiss a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by Drake Solomon, the former Rocky mascot, who alleges he was fired after needing hip replacement surgery. Nuggets ownership claims that Solomon was fired for legitimate “business reasons,” and also that his medical condition doesn’t qualify as a disability. [BusinessDen 🔒]

• Get the full story: Solomon’s father was the O.G. Rocky mascot for 30 years. [Westword]

⚖️ SCOTUS Takes on CO’s Conversaion Therapy Ban

A Colorado case will go before the Supreme Court this week challenging a 2019 law that made conversion therapy illegal. The lawsuit is being brought by the Alliance Defending Freedom — the same group behind the infamous 2018 Masterpiece Cakeshop case when a local baker refused to make a cake for an LGBTQ couple. This time they are representing a counselor who argues that the conversion therapy ban infringes on her free speech. [City Cast Denver 🎧]

🎭 Casa Bonita Characters Speak Out

The character actors at Casa Bonita are calling out upper management at the Pink Palace for benching the restaurant’s iconic roaming characters for the month of October to instead try out stationary “activations.” The staff’s entertainment cast say Casa’s failure to bargain with the union was illegal and has already led to the resignation of multiple workers. [Westword]

From haunted hotels to ghostly theaters, Denver has a darker side hiding in plain sight. How well do you know the city’s spookiest spots? Test your knowledge (and your courage) with this quiz to see how many of these ~allegedly~ haunted Mile High landmarks you can identify ⬇️

Question 1

This nine-story luxury hotel has hosted Denver’s elite for 133 years and is one of the city’s oldest continuously operating hotels. Today, some of the hotel’s ghostly guests are rumored to include an old train conductor, vanishing waitstaff, and a long-gone string quartet.

A. The Oxford Hotel

B. The Brown Palace Hotel and Spa

C. The Stanley Hotel

Think you know the answer? ⬇️

👻 Bonus! Tune into the City Cast Denver podcast for six more spine-tingling tales about Colorado’s haunted history 🎧