“Mind Games,” Melanie Asmar, February 6 This Is Crazy! Wow. I just read Melanie Asmar’s “Mind Games.” It is a comprehensive and disturbing look at the real results of pleading insane. I found it chilling to read about some of the cases. I found it hopeful that James Holmes will…
State representative Bob Rankin has waved the white flag. Last week, HB 1071, his proposal to take the new state brand to a vote of the people, failed to get out of committee, clearing the way for Governor John Hickenlooper’s Making Colorado campaign to continue rebranding this state. Just the…
Hollie Colahan’s second-floor office at the Denver Zoo features a standard magnetic whiteboard. But its content is far from standard: This is the Magnetic Whiteboard of Lion Sex. That’s not what Colahan calls it, of course. To her, the board’s blue dots (boy lions) and red dots (girl lions) represent…
He smelled of animal hide, which was heady and pungent…. Then he touched my face with the pads of his black fingers.” — Cum For Bigfoot When her daughter left for college in 2010, the forty-year-old Parker housewife decided it was time to pursue her dream of writing romance novels…
Dear Stoner: I know the Stoner is on paternity leave. So I wonder, as a parent of a newborn, what precautions do you take when smoking marijuana?Baby Buds Dear Sugar Babe: This is Hazel Kush, guest Stoner — and also a new mom. There isn’t a whole lot of scientific…
Due to its notorious status, marijuana has often been left behind as science moves forward with the study of botany. But much of that has changed with the passage of Amendment 64. “Despite the fact that cannabis is one of the most valuable and historically important crop species, we know…
We asked readers if they were offended or amused by a sign at a Las Vegas bar that claimed the “Broncos couldn’t beat the sick kids at St. Judes,” and we received dozens of responses from one end of that range to another. This post is among the most memorable…
Have you ever been to the zoo and caught an eyeful of two animals in flagrante delicto? This week’s cover story, “Beauty of the Beasts,” explains why and how that happens. One of the weirdest animal mating habits included in the story’s sidebar is a tidbit about giraffes: In order…
In today’s edition of Denver blogs, it’s all about us. At our Cafe Society blog, Patricia Calhoun shares a comment from a reader who says camping out for Trader Joe’s Friday grand opening would be impossible — because he’s still in line at Voodoo Doughnuts. At our Show & Tell…
According to a solar jobs census conducted under the auspices of The Solar Foundation, Colorado ranked ninth in the U.S. for solar jobs, with 3,600 people employed by the industry here during 2013. See an infographic about the findings below. A cause to celebrate? Not according to Margaret McCall, an…
Update: Earlier this month, we told you about the arrest of Quinton Stanley after a child in his care died; see our previous coverage below. Although the mother of the two year old had only been in a relationship with Stanley for two months or so, she stood by him…
Last August, we told you about a controversial portion of Boulder’s ten year plan to fight homelessness: the targeting of so-called “unwelcoming behavior,” much of it pinned to members of the community’s homeless population. Now, a Boulder City Council study group has taken on a very similar subject, tagged “social…
Last week, the Houston-based company that plans to develop an 85-acre, 1,500-room hotel and convention center in Aurora, near Denver International Airport, revealed that it would like to add a gigantic, $25 million indoor-outdoor water park to the project. RIDA Development Corporation, which took the project over from Gaylord Entertainment…
Back in 2012, Kelsey Whipple shared a collection of ten strange Colorado items from FOUND Magazine, a website and book series that specialize in notes, letters and photos sent in by folks from across the country — many of them hilarious, poignant, disturbing or some combination thereof. Nearly two years…
For the third consecutive day, we have sad news to report about the death of a skier in the Colorado high country — and the second in the vicinity of the Keystone ski area. But while the previous tragedy, involving a 46-year-old man who died after smashing into a tree…
The tragic Weld County deaths of Alisha Johns and her mom, Sheri Pachello, as well as the suicide of Cimmeron Johns, Alisha’s husband and the women’s presumed killer, may have taken place late last week, but the story may not be over. A friend of Cimmeron could conceivably face charges,…
Comedy can be the best medicine, especially if mixed with some medicinal cannabis. That was the idea behind the Medical Cannabis Health Fair & Comedy Fundraiser held last Friday night at the Oriental Theater. Set up by the Cannabis Patient Network, the event featured healthcare and educational vendors, speakers and…
Denver blog posts remain open. At our Show and Tell blog, Bree Davies writes an obituary for Kazoo Toys in Cherry Creek North. Coyote Gulch on January’s snowy, wet finale. Denver Infill’s Ken Schroeppel on a new Golden Triangle project: the Kirkland Museum…
Our post about reports of students consuming marijuana in class using vape pens generated lots of strong reactions. Here’s a post by a reader who’s equally tough on teachers and vape-pen users…
The Broncos’ loss to Seattle in the Super Bowl was an awful experience for every true fan of the team. But hundreds of Coloradans also experienced something considerably worse — and the vast majority of them got what they deserved: arrested. Specifically, the state Department of Transportation says 315 drivers…
So you think your neighbor’s a pain in the ass? If the portrait of 74-year-old Silverio Nuanez painted in a complaint filed against him by the Boulder DA’s office is accurate, he’s allowed his abode to deteriorate into such a hellhole that even the church across the street wants something…
Last June, we told you about a triple shooting at 1235 Albion that injured two people and killed one man, Gabriel Scott. Early on, Tayvon Martin, 21, was the prime suspect, but shortly after the shooting, he fled the state. Then, earlier this month, cops learned Martin was back –…
