A lot of folks weighed in on our post about a Highlands Ranch mom who filed a criminal complaint against a TSA agent following a pat-down she thought qualified as sexual assault. Here’s an interesting take from a reader who feels such searches are intrusive but also necessary…
Denver blog posts are featuring a lot of orange and blue these days — but don’t let that make you the other kind of blue…. At our Show & Tell blog, Bree Davies offers a survival guide for Denverites who either hate the Broncos or don’t care for football, period…
It took four tries for then-legislator Wilma Webb, but in 1984, the Colorado Legislature finally approved creating a state King Holiday — a few months after Congress made the third Monday in January a federal holiday. Thirty years later, Denver’s parade honoring Martin Luther King — the Marade, as Wilma…
While much of northern Colorado was concentrating on seceding from the state last fall, Garden City continued to go its own way — and that way was focused squarely on the future. And yesterday, Cloud 9 Caregivers opened in that tiny town (population 241 in 2012) — the first retail…
In September 2012, the family of Jimma Reat, who was killed after a 911 operator told his companions and him to return to an area near where they’d just escaped a racially motivated attack, sued the City of Denver. A subsequent ruling allowed a potential federal civil rights trial focusing…
Shocking but true: The folks at Comedy Central’s The Daily Show and The Colbert Report noticed that the Denver Broncos and the Seattle Seahawks, who’ll face off in this year’s Super Bowl, are from the two states that have legalized recreational marijuana sales. And on the show’s most recent programs,…
Numbers updated below: As of January 1, when recreational marijuana sales officially began, the City of Denver had licensed eighteen shops. But far more than that are in the pipeline, and city staffers have been working diligently to process them. The result: Fifteen more stores have been licensed by the…
Denver’s victory over the Patriots on Sunday stamped the squad’s ticket for the Super Bowl, where the Broncos will face off against the Seattle Seahawks and cornerback Richard Sherman, whose loony post-game rants about his greatness, as well as previous comments that Peyton Manning throws “ducks,” has made him Public…
Blas Leroux, the 34-year-old man shot by Denver cops during a hostage standoff at a 7-Eleven last week, has died — and according to his parents, he favored this fate over the alternative. He made one last phone call to them moments before being hit by police gunfire, and during…
This morning’s Denver Post had just one word for Peyton Manning’s peerless performance in Sunday’s AFC championship victory over the New England Patriots: SUPERB! Actually, the paper’s worshipful scribes had lots of words about the game and the Broncos QB, but SUPERB! just about summed it up. It’s a slightly…
In late December, right before marijuana made its loud and proud entrance into the Colorado retail economy, I walked down to Civic Center Park to see if you could still buy a nickel bag off a stranger, as I did when I first moved to town a decade ago. I…
Updated numbers below: After yesterday’s Denver Bronco win, everyone in this city is plenty high. But for those who’d like to augment that euphoria, there are now 33 fully licensed retail pot shops in Denver. Late Friday, the Denver Department of Excise and Licenses updated its list of the establishments…
This week, we shared Tom Brady hate memes and ten reasons not to hate Tom Brady — sort of. But this is the most satisfying post of all — four images of the fourth quarter moment Brady realized that his New England Patriots were going to lose to Peyton Manning…
Like most artists, Denver painter Heidi Keyes, seen here, was looking to expand her artistic endeavors. Then, a friend told her to create a Colorado-style version of the popular Sip and Paint/Canvas and Cocktails events already happening: “Why not some kind of 420-friendly painting class?” And with that, Puff, Pass…
Our post about a Denver man who says he was charged an extra $100 by a Kansas hotel because he was suspected (incorrectly) of smoking marijuana in his room just because he’s from Colorado got our readers talking. Among the topics was alleged pot profiling of cars with Colorado plates…
Denver blog posts like making a splash. At our Cafe Society blog, Patricia Calhoun shares the comment of a reader who thinks a high hipster ratio means a bar can’t be a dive. Big Media’s Jason Salzman quotes Tom Tancredo as saying Republicans won’t beat John Hickenlooper on gun issues…
Last September, when we reported that Kenneth Wheeler could get five years in prison for Facebook posts, a lot of you probably thought, “Fat chance.” And you were right to be skeptical, albeit only by a matter of degree. Wheeler’s now been sentenced to forty months — just over three…
Joe Hodas is used to living the high life: The longtime PR guy spent five years as spokesman for Frontier Airlines in the mid-2000s, went on to a VP role with Smashburger, and then became an executive vice president with Vladimir Jones, a high-powered ad and PR firm, representing clients…
Sinice 2008, Colorado voters have repeatedly rejected personhood ballot measures, each time by wide margins. But another version of the proposal has already been certified for the November 2014 election — and a group of anti-abortion legislators have just introduced a bill, HB 14-1133, with very similar language. A pro-choice…
Denver Broncos wide receiver Eric Decker isn’t the only local sports star taking a stab at a reality show. (Click to see our post on Eric & Jessie: Game On). Beginning Saturday, Nuggets center JaVale McGee will co-star in Mom’s Got Game on Oprah’s cable network. It’s no surprise reality…
Broncos receiver Eric Decker does a lot more than almost run back punt returns for touchdowns before falling down, as he did last week in a playoff game against San Diego. He and his wife, country singer Jessie James, have turned themselves into a virtual brand via oodles of photos…
Earlier this week, after we published a gallery of Tom Brady hate memes, a number of our readers called us out, arguing that “hate” shouldn’t have been used in this context. (We didn’t really hear similar complaints over a collection of Philip Rivers hate memes, but we digress.) And so,…
