Even as the national media has tried to establish a tie between marijuana and the rise in applications submitted to Colorado colleges, Chane Behanan, a Louisville basketball star kicked off the squad last year because of drug use, recently transferred to Colorado State University. But before he could take his…
Washington Park is without question one of Denver’s favorite parks. But is this status endangered by the bad behavior associated with alcohol? That’s among the assertions made in a letter by Denver City Councilman Chris Nevitt, who’s calling for a ban on alcohol in the park. Continue for more information,…
Yesterday saw whipsaw reversals in the case of Meghan McKeon, a Steamboat Springs mom whose three-year-old son, Austin Davis, died under highly suspicious circumstances. First, McKeon was cleared of three misdemeanor accusations against her, to the horror of at least one court observer. But the dismissal was swiftly followed by…
Welcome to Spring in Colorado: fabulous, shirt-sleeve weather one day, and sloppy, splashbacky snow the next. People in some parts of the country may get angry at such meteorological twists and turns. But most natives and longtimers see it as just another way living in Colorado keeps us on our…
Few of the police impersonators we’ve written about over the years have been as frightening and violent as the one described by the Aurora Police Department. Example? The man in question allegedly yanked the woman by the hair while trying to take control of her car. And he would have…
Asked and Answered Maybe you should combine the Ask a Mexican and Ask a Stoner columns. Just saying — kind of writes itself.Sean McManusDenver “Street Fight,” Joel Warner, March 20 Taxi Dance Now that the 21st century has come to the Denver cab business — better late than never —…
“I was always a keeper,” Alvin Plucker says. “I tend to save everything.” And that’s an understatement. In the basement of Plucker’s spacious ranch house in LaSalle, Colorado, every bit of wall space and every flat surface is cluttered with memorabilia, much of it yellow with age. Clipped to a…
Dear Stoner: Where can I buy quality seeds in Denver?John A. Dear John: Recreational sales for seeds are slim pickings these days, but you can pick up beans from Reserva Privada Colorado at the Clinic, as well as Rare Dankness seeds at River Rock and Medicine Man. Those two companies…
State lawmakers are working on six bills related to marijuana during this legislative session, not including the proposed budgets for the marijuana regulation divisions of the Department of Revenue and the Department of Public Health, which also have to be approved by the general assembly. Among them are two that…
A recent Denver Blogs post featured a Cafe Society reader comment railing against restaurants beloved by “hipster douchebags.” The term definitely raised the hackles of many readers, both positively and negatively. Here’s one take that decries the pejorative use of this particular H-word…
Denver blog posts are all about options. At our Show and Tell blog, the Voice Film podcasters talk up Scarlett Johansson in two very different films: Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Under the Skin. Mile High Hockey’s c6hor8 on the latest victory by the Avs, the only currently playing…
Update: Earlier today, we noted that the Republican National Committee was on the cusp of determining the finalist sites to host the Grand Old Party’s 2016 convention. Denver was one of eight contestants — and a short time ago, the Mile HIgh City made the final cut, along with Cleveland,…
In a highly unusual move, the Denver coroner’s office has listed marijuana intoxication as a contributing factor in a death — the fatal fall of college student Levy Thamba from a hotel balcony last month. Thamba consumed a marijuana edible before he died. A coroner’s office spokeswoman says the facts…
April Fool’s Day pranks are a sacred tradition for Denver Cruiser Ride. Last year, for example, the Cruisers released a collection of bogus themes for the weekly Wednesday rides (including “Skid Marks & Seamen Stains”) before sharing the genuine items. And this year? The Cruisers unveiled the real themes only…
Yesterday, we shared our list of the top ten Best Hair on female Denver TV personalities countdown, featuring the 2014 Best of Denver champ and the nine other local on-screen talents who missed the big prize by just a hair or two. Now, it’s the guys’ turn. Look below to…
Rhiannon VanTassell’s mom recently shared a Facebook plea in which she asked her Colorado Springs-based daughter to return home rather than remain on the run with Roy Hanthorn, a fugitive she’d allegedly chosen over her own child. A subsequent post suggested a happy ending might be in the offing. But…
For more than a year, we’ve shared stories about alleged pot profiling of cars with Colorado license plates. Examples include a Westword writer stopped twice during one cross-country trip and a man who said he’d been improperly blamed for toking by managers at a Kansas hotel. Now, Darian Roseen, seventy,…
Readers had a lot of theories about why Colorado placed so high in a list of the ten most sexually active U.S. cities. Most of them were highly complimentary, but there were exceptions, including the one that follows — although its author displays a definite sense of humor…
Denver blog posts light up the night. At our Backbeat blog, Kat Bein shows and tells us what ravers at the Ultra Music Festival keep in their fanny packs. Denver Egotist makes the local link to Surfer Magazine’s “The Cradle of Storms.” Colorado Pols accuses a GOP candidate of “undiluted…
The Broadway Plaza Motel opened at 11th and Broadway back in 1958, when motor hotels were the next big thing. More than fifty years after that iconic sign went up, though, the upscale travelers who used to stay here had been replaced by drug addicts and prostitutes who frequented the…
How easily can vulnerable teen girls be forced into the world of prostitution? An arrest affidavit in the case of a thirteen-year-old dubbed “Bunny” tells the tale in disturbing detail. The latest chapter? Five people, including alleged ringleader Socrates “Chrome” Packer, have now pleaded guilty to crimes that include human…
On Sunday, season two of Eric and Jessie: Game On premiered on E!, and although we know how the story of Eric Decker’s free agency ends (the onetime Broncos receiver signed with the New York Jets) , the show picks up while he is still here in Denver, with a…
