Last month’s rant by 9News anchor Kyle Clark begging viewers to stop sending photos of their snowy patio furniture has incited a bit of a good-humored backlash. Today, on the occasion of Denver’s first big snowstorm, rival station 7News has taken to Twitter to solicit photos of snow-heaped deck chairs…
Today, a Fort Collins family is getting the type of holiday present that only an exterminator can give (sorry, Santa): a bed bug-free home. As part of a national charitable event called Taking the Bite Out of the Holidays, the Loveland-based EnviroPest company — tagline: Colorado’s cure for creepy crawly…
Ron Burgundy is back! Will Ferrell, obviously thrilled to be promoting a movie (Anchorman 2) that lots of folks actually want to see, has been everywhere lately, including ESPN, where he got Peyton Manning to come clean on the issues America’s most wanted to hear him address — like how…
Over the past couple of days, forecasts have predicted that Denver would get hit by a major winter storm, with snowfall totals up to nine inches in the city. But at this writing, the weather system seems to be bringing bitterly cold temperatures but not nearly as much of the…
Last month, 9News anchor Kyle Clark starred in a hilarious rant about viewers who send the station photos of their snowy patios during storms. And this morning, amid the first real snow event since then, viewers seem to have taken his criticism to heart — either that or 9News staff…
Of all the conditions that bring patients to The Clinic Medical Marijuana Centers, one is especially important to master grower Jay Price: multiple sclerosis. He knows which strains help the muscle pains and which strains help the eye spasms or the depression that often comes from battling the incurable disease…
Melanie Asmar’s post about the final Colorado hemp regulations inspired a wide variety of comments: some celebratory, some accusatory. Additionally, one reader wondered why the state is bothering to test hemp when it has a negligible amount of the psychotactive ingredient in marijuana……
Denver blog posts are on top of the trends. At our Cafe Society blog, Samantha Alviani counts down Denver’s ten best hipster restaurants. Colorado Pols marks the start of War on Christmas season. Denver Frank is brave enough to check out the Chatroulette version of Miley Cyrus’s “Wrecking Ball.” Will…
The Denver coroner has ID’d the man stabbed to death late Sunday afternoon as Steven Perez, 38. Additionally, a published report says Perez was a member of the North Side Mafia, the venerable Denver street gang at the center of a 2010 episode of the History Channel’s Gangland series that…
It’s been nearly a week since three people were found shot to death in a Pueblo County home that had been set ablaze, presumably to cover up the terrible crimes. Yet the man who’s clearly a person of interest for investigators — Harry Mapps, 59 — remains at large despite…
As noted in its just-released semi-annual report (read the document below), Denver’s Office of the Independent Monitor is “charged with working to ensure accountability, effectiveness and transparency in the Denver Police and Sheriff disciplinary processes.” And when it comes to inmate grievances, monitor Nicholas Mitchell and his staff find the…
Truth be told, most mug shots don’t capture their subjects at their best. But somehow, John Snorsky looks ready for a male-modeling gig in his booking photo. Too bad he was busted for allegedly kidnapping a child from her bedroom window. This pic is only one of the most memorable…
When last we checked in with Zonker Harris, a long-running character in the seminal Doonesbury comic strip, he dreamed of becoming either a local hemp farmer named Kevin Colorado Springs or a respected drug lord in Boulder. Now, he’s in Colorado, but he’s got a new professional goal: He and…
The headline on a post published around this time last Tuesday — “Marijuana: Denver City Council ban on front-porch smoking looks bound for victory” — reflected the conventional wisdom regarding an addition to the Denver pot ordinance that would have made smoking weed on front porches and front lawns an…
Westword again will honor the top creatives and social media personalities on the local web with its Web Awards party this Thursday night. Winners in more than twenty categories with be fêted, tweeted and favorited — with the entertainment you’d expect at a party thrown by this town’s alt-weekly. Starting…
Are attorneys who work with marijuana businesses violating professional ethics by assisting folks whose actions are legal in Colorado but break federal law? According to the Colorado Bar Association, the answer is: Not always, but often. This conclusion concerns Warren Edson, an attorney who specializes in weed-related matters. But he…
Since we first posted about the ten driving tips non-Colorado natives forget before their second winter here, we’ve collected comments left by hundreds of folks, including many from other states who feel they’re at least as good behind the wheel as people from these parts, if not better. But some…
Denver blog posts have a vice for spice. At our Cafe Society blog, Lori Midson reports about Food & Wine magazine lauding Rocky Mountain Chili Bowl’s chili. Mile High Hockey’s Cheryl Bradley recaps the Avs’ Wild win. Denver Egotist spotlights Olympic hopeful Torah Bright and Breck’s NEU Productions…
Kyle Williams, known on Facebook as “The Wullums,” came up with a novel way of altering one of “The Dancers,” the Jonathan Borofsky statues installed near the Denver Center for the Performing Arts complex — by yarn-bombing a Colorado flag Speedo. Williams’s shot of “Project Speedo” deservedly wins our Photo…
Every bureaucracy needs its whistleblowers and gadflies, its disgruntled ex-gofers and disillusioned ex-go-getters, eager to expose government waste and folly. Without them, the smell would become unbearable, like a public toilet that hasn’t been disinfected in months. And that makes the disappearance of The Real Colorado Department of Corrections, an…
Update: Last week, we told you about a triple shooting on North Lima Street in Aurora; see our previous coverage below. At the time of that post’s publication, one man was dead, while another was in critical condition. But the second man died as well, with the victims subsequently identified…
Gunfire shattered the silence along East Colfax this morning. In the aftermath, one man is dead, while police look for another. The second person is described as a suspect. We’ve got the basics from multiple sources. Look below to get details, as well as to see photos and an interactive…
