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Nikki Glaser’s naughty NYE laughs Saturday-Sunday. Comic, writer and podcast/reality TV host Nikki Glaser isn’t just a sex-positive anthropologist — although she’s most certainly that — she’s also a veteran of Comedy Central’s Celebrity Roasts. That makes her a perfectly acerbic voice to close out another difficult year, which she’ll do at the Paramount Theatre on Saturday, Dec. 30, and Sunday, Dec. 31. The Good Girl Tour shows are at 7 p.m. both nights at 1621 Glenarm Place in downtown Denver. Tickets for the anything-goes (and very 21-and-up) shows are $45-$69.50 at paramountdenver.com or ticketmaster.com. For more things New Year’s…

On a seismic day for the Broncos, the Centura Health Training Center locker room emptied out quickly. As news rattled around the NFL that Denver coach Sean Payton benched Russell Wilson for backup Jarrett Stidham heading into the final two weeks of the season, many players avoided the media scrum. Those who did speak complimented the work Stidham’s done and also expressed support for Wilson, a team captain and the face of the franchise since he was acquired for a haul of picks and players in March 2022. “Russ is a very mentally strong guy,” wide receiver Jerry Jeudy told…

A four-vehicle crash involving a wrong-way driver shut down both directions of E-470 on Wednesday in Thornton. One person died, and several were taken to hospitals. According to State Patrol Master Trooper Gary Cutler, dispatchers received a call at 4:33 p.m. Wednesday about a wrong-way driver causing a wreck with three other vehicles in the southbound lanes of E-470 near Colorado Boulevard. Cutler said one person died and several were taken to hospitals. He did not know how many people were traveling in each of the vehicles involved or which vehicle the person who died was traveling in. Northbound lanes…

Denver Mayor Mike Johnston joined the leaders of New York City and Chicago Wednesday in lambasting Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for continuing to send busloads of migrants from the southern border to their cities. The mayors said the chartered busing strategy was inhumane, reckless and inefficient, and in a joint media call they detailed new time- and location-based restrictions they will place on the buses’ arrivals in their cities. Johnston, New York City Mayor Eric Adams and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson also called on the federal government to declare a state of emergency. That could allow the government to grant…

By KEN RITTER (Associated Press) LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Colorado man was sentenced Wednesday to prison in Nevada following his arrest last January for setting his car afire at a remote facility in what authorities initially characterized as a terror attack on the electric system serving several Las Vegas Strip casinos. Mohammed Reza Mesmarian, 35, was sentenced to two to 10 years following his plea in November to guilty but mentally ill on charges of felony arson and property destruction in the incident at a remote desert solar array about 25 miles (40 kilometers) northeast of downtown Las Vegas.…

The Broncos’ potential spark on offense was dressed in a team Lululemon hoodie, hat and pair of Nike Dunks. Jarrett Stidham addressed reporters as Denver’s starting quarterback on Wednesday after head coach Sean Payton brought the fourth-year signal caller into his office in the morning. There, he informed Stidham that he would replace nine-time Pro Bowler Russell Wilson in a move to find some offensive rhythm in the final two games of the season. Whether or not Stidham is the solution Payton is looking for won’t be answered until Sunday’s matchup against the Los Angeles Chargers. For now, Stidham is…

A person died after hitting a tree with their vehicle Tuesday in southeast Denver. The crash happened at Yale Avenue and Colorado Boulevard, Denver police reported on X Tuesday at 8:46 a.m. Police Wednesday morning said the person died. Police have not released any additional information about the crash or the driver. source

Editor’s note: The opinions of the smart, well-read women in my Denver book club mean a lot, and often determine what the rest of us choose to pile onto our bedside tables. So we asked them, and other readers, to share these mini-reviews with you. Have any to offer? Email bellis@denverpost.com. “A Brief History of Earth,” by Andrew H. Knoll (Mariner Books, 2023) “A Brief History of Earth,” by Andrew H. Knoll (Mariner Books, 2023) Explaining “Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters,” the subtitle of this book, is a tall order. Fit all that scientific knowledge into a paperback the…

Pueblo police officers Tuesday afternoon shot and killed one alleged armed carjacking suspect and arrested another suspect after a pursuit. Officers received a call about a carjacking involving a handgun about 2:10 p.m. near the intersection of Jerry Murphy Road and Bonnymede Road and located the vehicle on the south side of Pueblo, according to a news release from the Pueblo Police Department. After a pursuit, the vehicle crashed into a fence in the 100 block between Broadway Avenue and Michigan Avenue, and both suspects fled on foot. The first suspect ran west through the alley, and when officers attempted…

By Khushbu Shah, The New York Times Jane Matsumoto’s family is so eager to eat their annual ozoni that they gather around the table at 2 in the morning, right after they’ve cleaned the confetti, streamers and Champagne glasses from their New Year’s Eve festivities. Matsumoto, who is sansei, or third-generation Japanese American, and the executive culinary director of the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center in Los Angeles, looks forward to the brothy soup bobbing with mochi pieces every year. Ozoni is standard New Year’s Day fare for many Japanese Americans, whether they are nisei, the children of Japanese…