Denver blog posts avoid the chopping block. At our Cafe Society blog, Patricia Calhoun shares a reader’s take on the choice between being a model and serving grub at Twin Peaks. Colorado Peak Politics on Amy Stephens’s Senate race exit. Denver Egotist on the “Greatest Drum vs. Cowbell Showdown The…
Aurora theater shooting gunman James Holmes has a new trial date: October 14, 2014. But that date, which is already a postponement from Holmes’s original February trial date, could be pushed back again. At a court hearing this morning, Holmes’s defense attorneys indicated that they plan to challenge a ruling…
They may have been dressed like paranoid beekeepers, but their foul-mouthed ways earned them a much tougher-sounding nickname: the Trash-Talking Bandits. And they’re wanted for what the FBI believes is among the biggest bank robberies in Colorado history, as well as one with a bizarre aftermath. How so? Apparently, one…
Update: Earlier this week, we told you about a murder outside Aurora’s Smoky Hill Liquor store; see our previous coverage below. The victim has now been identified as Ryan Thompson, 22 — and there’s been an arrest in the case. The suspect in custody is a seventeen year old whose…
Inside Edition’s hysterical report about ski-area smoke shacks — a phenomenon our William Breathes has been covering for years — was quickly followed by the destruction of Leo’s Smoke Shack in Breckenridge, the most elaborate structure featured in the IE piece. Although a ski-area rep who spoke to us about…
Update: How quickly is the Denver recreational marijuana scene changing? On February 4, when we last updated our list of recreational marijuana shops licensed by the city so far, the total was 37 — more than double the eighteen that opened on January 1. And now, just over three weeks…
Local swingers haven’t had a lot of luck lately when it comes to places to hang out — or let it all hang out — in the heart of the city. But now, James Riggs is hoping to get lucky with 3090 Eden, a brand-new, members-only club for swingers –…
Update: Yesterday, we talked with KNUS yakker Peter Boyles, who said he’d been contacted by a producer for Fox News personality Bill O’Reilly about appearing on a Wednesday night broadcast about Colorado — but when Boyles said he favored pot legalization, the producer became markedly less enthusiastic and later hung…
Dear Stoner: I was wondering about RVIA licenses for vehicles and motor homes — whether people can use marijuana in the enclosed area of those vehicles when they’re not in use. I know there are some quasi-public ones around, but I’m more interested in private use and whether I can…
On a frozen Wednesday evening last month, hundreds of residents of Denver’s west side squeezed their way into an open house held at a former yeshiva on Quitman Street, just a short walk from a new light-rail station. Cold cuts and cheese plates were available, but most of the visitors…
“Take Ten,” Patricia Calhoun, February 20 Straight to the Art As someone new to town, I was very impressed to read about the Westword MasterMind Awards and all the amazing people who have won the grants. This is the kind of program that makes me happy I chose to move…
Millions of dollars in tax revenue are now pouring into Colorado’s coffers due to recreational marijuana sales. And that’s not to mention the personal-liberties victory that came when limited amounts of cannabis was legalized for personal adult use and consumption. Yet Governor John Hickenlooper wouldn’t suggest that other states change…
Our post spotlighting a Gallup poll that ranked Colorado among the less religious states in the country spurred a fascinating conversation about faith and regional differences in the way it’s practiced. Here’s a post from a reader with experience in a state that landed near the top of the religiosity…
Denver blog posts remain open. At our Cafe Society blog, Lori Midson on CapRock Farm Bar’s upcoming Friday farewell. Colorado Pols: How would you caption this photo of a bow-tie-wearing Jared Polis? South Stands Denver’s Colin Daniels on Jan Vesely getting the Deadspin treatment…
Yesterday, we shared a completely hysterical Inside Edition report about smoke shacks at Colorado ski resorts — a longtime phenomenon that our William Breathes has been writing about in depth for years. Turns out, though, that one of the main settings for the Inside Edition piece — Leo’s Smoke Shack…
In an unprecedented move, the El Paso County Coroner’s Office has amended the death certificate in the 1997 death of a twelve-week-old infant, changing the cause of death from “homicide” to “undetermined” — dealing yet another blow to prosecution efforts to seek the death penalty for the infant’s father, Edward…
Back in October, at a time when plenty of jurisdictions across Colorado were balking at allowing recreational marijuana sales, Pueblo County Commissioner Sal Pace told us that officials in his part of southern Colorado had chosen to embrace the new industry. “As communities turn down this part of Amendment 64,…
Over the years, we’ve intermittently highlighted unsolved Colorado murders listed on the indispensable Families of Homicide Victims and Missing Persons website. Our most recent offering appeared last September, on the National Day of Remembrance for Murder Victims. For loved ones left behind, however, every day is a day of remembrance…
We recently shared a slide show of images from a Twin Peaks calendar girls meet-and-greet, with stars of the shoot visiting three metro-area locations to promote the restaurant chain’s 2014 Mountain MANual calendar. But judging by the images below, culled from a behind-the-scenes video, the only mountain men around were…
Bionca Rogers’ Facebook page is filled with happy photos co-starring friends, family and an adorable little girl — and Rogers herself seems not to have a care in the world. She does now, however. She’s been named in a first-degree murder warrant pertaining to the death of Grant Frazier, a…
Back in 2012, our William Breathes offered an in-depth tour of smoke shacks — low-key structures at numerous Colorado ski resorts where particularly kind skiers stop to smoke a little pot before getting back to the slopes. Now, Inside Edition has discovered these venerable attractions, but the hilariously hysterical tone…
One of our most liked and shared posts of the past week was William Breathes’s item noting that the clock at under-construction Union Station has been frozen at 4:20. We’ve gotten plenty of amused, and amusing, comments, too. Here’s an example…
