Our friends at Movoto have shared their list of the ten best American cities for 2013, and given that the site came up with the top thirty reasons for moving to Denver just a few months back, it’s no surprise that the Mile High City made the cut. But where…
Earlier this week, we featured some of 2013’s most memorable mug shots, divided into categories spotlighting women, tattoos, painful-looking pics and the combo of hot messes and celebrities. Today, however, we’ve gathered what we think are the 25 most memorable booking pics of the year — including this image of…
With Christmas and New Year’s coming up, the lucky among us often have some time off work. But how best to spend it? Well, in case you haven’t noticed, you happen to live in a state with some of the best ski resorts on the planet, and snow conditions this…
One good thing about herb is that when it hits you, you feel no pain. Unless, of course, you’re smoking some pretty poorly grown weed — in which case you may get a scratchy throat or headache. If that has been the case for you lately, maybe rockin’ over to…
There’s been a lot of response to our post about Denver City Councilman Albus Brooks’s push to decriminalize marijuana for those under age 21. But the most memorable of the comments is arguably one from a reader recalling a day when he was seventeen and a police officer had the…
Denver blog posts are nondenominational. At our Show & Tell blog, Josiah M. Hesse offers five reasons everyone should boycott Christmas. Denver Urbanism’s Ryan Mulligan on FasTracks progress at the Union Station bus complex. Got a taste for Sriracha bacon lollipops? Denver Frank does…
Earlier today, we shared a guide to marijuana licensing hearings from Smart Colorado, an anti-pot group that apparently wants to slow down the process as much as possible. But what about entrepreneurs eager to take part in this new industry? What do they do? Denver’s answers to these questions can…
This week’s cover story, “Parks and Wreck,” looks into a series of evolving controversies over the way Mayor Michael Hancock’s administration is managing Denver’s park system, from battles over ballfield revenue and use to a lawsuit triggered by trading city-owned open space in the Cherry Creek corridor for an office…
Update: Occasionally, we have to report bad news — and that’s what we’re bringing to you now. To whit: Justin Kraemer, the Wichita anchorman caught muttering “Let’s get the fuck out of here” line at the end of a recent newscast (see it below), isn’t coming to KOAA in Colorado…
Earlier this month, our crack (as opposed to on-crack) Schmuck of the Week team bestowed its honorific on Suzette Hall, a grandma officially accused of practicing cosmetology without a license, but also the target of colorful claims about topless barbering and more. The latest? Hall has now been slapped with…
Numerous members of the marijuana industry see the City of Denver as putting up obstacles to shops wanting to be open for the January 1 kickoff of recreational pot sales — a claim officials vigorously deny. But there’s one local organization that appears to be doing all it can to…
Earlier this week, we told you about controversy over CU-Boulder professor Patti Adler, who implied to students that she was being forced out at the university over a prostitution skit she included in her class entitled “Deviance in U.S. Society.” Since that post, and in the face of social-media protests…
With marijuana now legal in Colorado (if you’re 21 and above and the amount is an ounce or less), odds are good that you’ve got a stoner on your holiday gift list. Or maybe two stoners. Or possibly ten. Wondering what to get them this year? We’re here to help,…
The next chapter in our annual roundup of the year’s most memorable mug shots features what may seem on the surface to be an odd pairing: unknowns whose booking photos find them looking like hot messes and famous people who got the wrong sort of publicity — including at least…
Update: After the 1999 Columbine High School attack, law enforcers closely guarded most details, to the frustration of pretty much everyone. In contrast, the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office has been impressively transparent when it comes to the investigation into Friday’s shooting at Arapahoe High School, quickly correcting early misinformation and…
“Taking Flight,” Patricia Calhoun, November 28 Healing History Thank you for such a well-written and captivating article, which I understand to be the first in a series commemorating the 150th anniversary of the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre. I look forward to the next. In this week of Nelson Mandela’s death,…
Deck the pols! For the first time that anyone can remember, the same local photographer has created holiday cards for both Denver’s mayor and Colorado’s governor. Evan Semón, who’s done work for everyone from Visit Denver to assorted nonprofits to happy newlyweds (see his work at evansemon.com), got the assignments…
It could have been a simple matter, this business of replacing a popular but time-battered playground on the west side of Denver’s City Park. But the itch to do more, to radically transform what a playground might be and what it could mean, seems to have been racing through the…
Dear Stoner: The recent issue about whether people can smoke in public view, like on personal patios or balconies, has me a little confused and irritated. Non-smokers say smoking pot in public view is dangerous to families and might influence children the “wrong way,” but I feel that cigarettes are…
As you know, real marijuana is now legal for 21-and-over adults in Colorado, at least in small amounts. But smokable “synthetic marijuana” remains illegal — and a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows why. In August, use of synthetic marijuana was linked to 221 Colorado…
We’re still collecting comments on our interview with a spokesman of Mayor Michael Hancock denying that Denver is dragging its feet on the pot sales launch. The following reader cites a 2012 Hancock quote predicting huge problems if Amendment 64 passed before adding a zinger of his own…
Denver blog posts are all for togetherness during the holidays. At our Cafe Society blog, Patricia Calhoun writes about the partnership between Chipotle Mexican Grill and Pizzeria Locale. South Stands Denver’s Colin Daniels on the perpetual tardiness of new Bronco Jeremy Mincey. Colorado Pols previews “the first pointless GOP grandstand…
