Earlier this week, we shared Mapquest’s picks for the top ten Denver neighborhoods, and quite a few of our readers disagreed with the company’s picks. So we looked around for other choices and found a couple of notable ones — top-five Denver neighborhood lists put together by real-estate blog Movoto…
It had been more than a week since a murder had taken place in the Denver metro area — the kind of stretch that we don’t see nearly enough. But this homicide-free streak was broken last night in an extremely violent way, via multiple gunshots that ended the life of…
When Jadin Bell hanged himself at age fifteen earlier this year, his dad, Joe Bell, did more than mourn. He launched Joe’s Walk for Change, a cross-country trek intended to raise awareness about bullying — behavior with which Jadin, who was gay, had been victimized. Joe didn’t reach his destination:…
This week, we’ve been posting about an attack at the 30th and Downing light-rail station — the third such incident over recent months in the metro area, following a pair of incidents that took place in June. The startling video footage of the assault got a lot of our readers…
Update: Earlier today, we posted about a letter sent to U.S. Attorney John Walsh by attorney Rob Corry on behalf of No on Proposition AA, the campaign opposed to a marijuana tax measure on next month’s ballot; see our previous coverage below. In the missive, Corry asked Walsh to state…
Denver blog posts make learning fun. Denver Stiffs’ Nate Timmons on the dismissal of a domestic-violence case targeting Nuggets star Ty Lawson and his girlfriend, Ashley Pettiford. Colorado Peak Politics shares kickoff videos for the gubernatorial runs of Scott Gessler and Mike Kopp. Denver Frank introduces us to Miss Ping…
Fact: A lot of men who think they’re irresistible ladykillers are actually incredible creeps. A case in point is a thus-far-unknown man who’s wanted by the Longmont Police Department for illegal use of the hands, times three. Specifically, this perv grabs random women on the ass, then blows kisses to…
This season, there’s been nary a discouraging word said about Broncos QB Peyton Manning, who’s on one of the most spectacular runs in NFL history. But the medical journal Pediatrics is an exception to this rule. A new study just shared in the publication evaluates athlete endorsements in food marketing…
Remember the print edition of the Weekly World News, the supermarket tabloid that specialized in stories about rock music curing a deaf girl, JFK and Hitler still being alive and Hillary Clinton adopting an alien baby? Well, we found an amazing archive of its “reporting” from the Reagan era into…
At 10 a.m. in the State Capitol, capital punishment opponents, including Boulder District Attorney Stan Garnett, will commemorate World Day to End the Death Penalty. Among other things, the event is scheduled to feature “reflections of the death penalty’s biased and unjust application.” But what about when executions go wrong?…
Denver blog posts know how to put the biscuit in the basket. Mile High Hockey’s Steve House writes that Patrick Roy’s Avs “hunkered down and clinched their sphincters to hang on to their one-goal lead” last night. Sounds painful. Colorado Pols: Fun with press releases, the Pat Quinn edition. Denver…
Yesterday, Melanie Asmar reported about Denver City Council lifting its 1,000-foot buffer from schools for needle-exchange programs. However, medical marijuana dispensaries within 1,000 feet of schools remain against the rules — a fact mentioned by a slew of our readers, including this one…
Update: Rob Corry has responded to our interview request about the Colorado Ethics Watch complaint against the No on Proposition AA campaign. His comments follow our original post. Over the past month or so, the organization opposed to the marijuana taxation measure Proposition AA has staged rallies in Denver and…
It’s been well over two years since we first told you about accusations against David Morrow, who expressed his frustration with a drunk teenager by punching him hard enough to break his jaw. Now, at long last, Morrow has been sentenced for the crime, earning five years behind the sort…
AshleyMadison.com, a dating site devoted to people who love snapping bonds of matrimony (its slogan is, “Life is short — Have an affair”) has come up with its 2013 list of the top ten cities for mistresses as measured by the percentage of women who cheat. And Denver made it!…
One of the highlights of the latest television season to date is Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., a sort-of spinoff from The Avengers executive produced by that film’s director, geek god Joss Wheedon, and starring Clark Gregg as Agent Phil Coulson, who proves that dying on the big screen can turn into…
One year ago today, nineteen-year-old Kara Nichols vanished after leaving her Colorado Springs home for a modeling shoot in Denver. Since then, her parents, Julia and Paul Nichols, have worked tirelessly to find their beloved daughter, but to no avail thus far. Kara marked her twentieth birthday in May, and…
Yesterday, we collected angry tweets from Broncos fans upset about a Comcast outage during the second half of the epic Denver-Dallas game. Our post inspired many readers to share their own frustration over the situation — but it also prompted the following comment from a reader puzzled by the vitriol…
Denver blog posts take it one game at a time. South Stands Denver’s Colin Daniels definitely doesn’t see the Broncos as a lock to bring home the Lombardi Trophy this year. Not that it’s beyond the realm of possibility…. At Mile High Mamas, Sarah Stith, a Boulder mom, shares her…
Denver police officers Ricky Nixon and Kevin Devine, fired for their actions in the 2009 Denver Diner case, aren’t going quietly. Nixon filed a lawsuit against the city prior to his dismissal, claiming that forcing him to give up his gun and work the radar unit violated his civil rights…
Amendment 64 allowed communities to opt out of retail pot industry, and plenty of them have done so. As we’ve reported, weed sales have been prohibited in far more places than they’re allowed. But Pueblo isn’t balking at this new industry. Far from it: The city called on an A64…
Millions of viewers watched Miley Cyrus host Saturday Night Live this past weekend — but how many noticed a cameo appearance by Denver? At least one sharp-eyed Westword reader, who realized that the establishing photo at the beginning of “Mornin’ Miami,” a skit in which Cyrus co-stars as a bummed-out…
