The Boulder house where JonBenet Ramsey was murdered in 1996 is back on the market once again, after several unsuccessful sale attempts in recent years. In sharing photos of the home, we asked readers if they could imagine living there. Here’s the post of someone who could…
Denver blog posts are an open forum. At our Show & Tell blog, Byron Graham interviews comedian Chris Fairbanks about Sexpot Comedy, suicidal engineers and Daniel Tosh’s rape-joke controversy. Colorado Pols on Tom Tancredo’s “Pleasant Outreach Program.” Colorado Peak Politics on the maneuvering related to a version of Jessica’s Law…
In a motion that quotes liberally from Twitter, defense attorneys for Aurora theater shooting gunman James Holmes asked the court this week to order Colorado Judicial Branch public information officer Rob McCallum to comply with a gag order in the case. Their main complaint? That McCallum uses Twitter to disseminate…
Denver Relief Consulting’s announcement of a new partnership with Laura Harris, former head of Colorado’s Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division, instantly stirred controversy, with some members of the local cannabis community crying foul and at least one good-government activist citing potential ethical concerns. But DRC co-founders Ean Seeb and Kayvan Khalatbari…
Update: Yesterday, we told you about a shooting on the 1600 block of Yates in which a suspect was quizzed, then released; see our previous coverage below. Since then, the Denver coroner’s office has identified the man killed in the incident as Dwayne Kelly, 52. The cause of death: multiple…
At this writing, the CU Buffaloes are mere hours from tipping off against the Pitt Panthers during the first full day of the annual NCAA men’s basketball tournament, popularly known as March Madness. How to watch the action, and all of the hoops craziness that will follow in the days…
Update: The man killed last night at the Anschutz Medical Campus (see our previous coverage below) has not been officially ID’d yet. However, his brother tells us his name was Joe Gorden, and he worked at the University of Colorado Hospital. Tom Gorden says he and his siblings believe reports…
Coloradans have always loved our state’s flag. And in recent years, the image has become more iconic than ever, popping up on hipster T-shirts and products of every description as a shorthand way of declaring state pride. So we were shocked — shocked! — to discover that on Ranker’s list…
Meth suspects, like every other arrestee in these United States, is innocent until proven guilty, and that’s the way it should be. But most of us have noticed that in booking photos, those accused of such crimes tend to look, well, rough. That’s certainly the case for the fourteen people…
Best of Denver 2014 Readers’ Poll Caught Mapping Regarding the finalists for Best Central American Restaurant — Cafe Brazil, Cuba Cuba, Lola, Rincon Argentino and Cuba Cuba Sandwicheria: Perhaps it is a gross oversight, but according to even just the United Nations’ list of recognized nations, neither Brazil nor Cuba…
“We are excited and ready to start our business,” says Mekonnen Gizaw, president of Mile High Cab, sitting behind his new corporate desk in a small fourteenth-floor office in Aurora, an office that’s nearly empty. The room where Mile High’s dispatch system will operate is just a tangle of phone…
Dear Stoner: The hint of warmer weather has me thinking: Can I grow ganja outside in Denver?Sprouts Dear Sprouts: According to Colorado law, your growing must be done in an enclosed, locked space and not conducted “openly or publicly.” That’s a pretty broad definition, and one that hasn’t really been…
High Times will once again be a Mile High on the 4/20 holiday, when the magazine will bring its now-annual Cannabis Cup back to Denver. But do recent shutdowns of other cannabis-friendly events in the city mean that attendees won’t enjoy the same huge clambake that has marked the last…
Our coverage of last week’s CannaSearch, touted as Denver’s first marijuana-industry job fair, got a lot of people talking. Many of our readers were enthusiastic about the event, including this one, whose reasoning isn’t the least bit smoky…
Denver blog posts can’t stop, won’t stop. At our Show & Tell blog, the Voice Media film critics split on Lars Van Triers’s controversial Nymphomaniac: Volume 1. Big Media’s Jason Salzman Obamacare attack ad fact-checking. At Mile High Mamas, Sydney Ayers and Lisa Cutter ask: “Do you think what the…
A second mental evaluation of Aurora theater shooting gunman James Holmes will be postponed until objections raised by Holmes’s attorneys have been resolved, Judge Carlos Samour ruled this week. Samour’s order (on view below) is in response to three motions filed by the defense on March 14 asking Samour to…
Since 2012, we’ve been reporting about DISH’s firing of Brandon Coats, a paralyzed medical marijuana patient, after he failed a drug test. Coats’s lawsuit over the issue has failed in Arapahoe District Court and the Colorado Court of Appeals. It’s now headed to the Colorado Supreme Court, where powerful forces…
Was marijuana a contributing factor in the death of two-year-old Levi Welton earlier this year? Expect this to be among the arguments made against his parents, Julia and Chris Welton. More than two months after Levi died following a fire in the family’s Sterling home, his mother and father have…
Is the Denver Public Library promoting bestiality? Not exactly — although there are plenty of beasts featured in the pics below, culled from the DPL’s amazing digital collection and regularly shared under the banner Weird Photo Wednesday. We first highlighted Weird Photo Wednesday in an August 2013 post. But thanks…
The Boulder home where six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey was murdered in 1996 has been a tough sell. In 2011, as we reported at the time, the property was put on the market for a sale price of $2.3 million — but no one bought it. Three years later, the same owners…
At a press conference yesterday, the Denver Sheriff’s Office tried to explain how Sebastian Littlejohn, who was being held in Denver jail on charges related to violent felony beefs, was mistakenly set free, only to be recaptured a day later. This time, the sheriff’s office may not be at fault…
Last week, Fox News shared a piece suggesting that a jump in admissions at colleges across Colorado may be related to the passage of Amendment 64, which legalized retail pot sales. Of course, eighteen-year-old college freshmen couldn’t take advantage of this law anyhow, since it only pertains to adults ages…
