Estes Park reopened to visitors last week after Colorado’s devastating floods cut off access to one of the state’s favorite tourist towns — but the community is still trying to convince people it’s safe and accessible. Given Tuesday’s release of Stephen King’s Doctor Sleep, sequel to The Shining, which was…
Dear Stoner: We’re flying in for the Eagles game next weekend, and I want to get stoned before I go in. What’s my over-under on that? Green & Black Dear Fans of a Lesser Team: This question has come up a few times, actually. Yes, you can get stoned before…
Are you ready for a youth slam?” The capacity crowd whoops and cheers as the emcee begins the monthly Minor Disturbance poetry slam at the Mercury Cafe. Everyone is eager for literary pyrotechnics. The event will feature members of the Minor Disturbance youth slam team that last month took top…
“The Harshest Hit,” William Breathes, September 19 Another Hit I was incredibly moved by William Breathes’s story, “The Harshest Hit,” about the life and death of Jenny Kush. Hers was a harsh death, indeed. The fact that she worked to educate people about marijuana and was killed by a drunk…
Snow came to the high country just in time for all the national media crews in town for Monday Night Football to get some pictures of the white stuff — to add to their thousands of images of the floods that inundated much of Colorado this month, leaving behind mounds…
Last week, Telluride officially approved sales of recreational cannabis, joining a majority of other tourism-reliant ski towns around the state that have given an okay to the ganja. Telluride took one of the easiest routes to retail-weed approval possible, with the city council voting in an application and regulatory system…
Family members of people lost to homicide gathered today in front of the new Denver Crime Lab to memorialize their loved ones on the seventh annual National Day of Remembrance for Murder Victims. Approximately 200 people waited in line, holding posters and pictures, and awaited their turn on the microphone…
Denver blog posts are still going strong. South Stands Denver’s Colin Daniels touts a fan’s gift to retiring Colorado Rocky Todd Helton — a painting that pictures him as a centaur! Big Media’s Jason Salzman offers evidence that Ken Buck supports shutting down the government over Obamacare. Denver Frank touts…
Yesterday, we posted about a $360,000 settlement in the 2009 Denver Diner incident, which saw four women being maced and billy-clubbed by two officers who are still on the job. This last fact revved up a number of our readers, including this one…
In reporting “The life and tragic death of cannabis advocate Jenny Kush,” our feature article about a cannabis activist and Internet radio host killed by a drunk driver, we heard a lot of good stories and kind words that we just couldn’t quite squeeze in. Thankfully, there’s always room on…
In July 2012, we told you about the arrest of Marquis Garrison in the death of his two-month-old daughter, as well as the decision to pursue a first-degree-murder charge in addition to a child-abuse-resulting-in-death count. A likely reason: A probable-cause statement on view below says he tried to make the…
Over the past two weeks, the Facebook page for the Village, a nondenominational “seeker” church in Denver’s RiNo district, has seen a trickle of heartfelt farewells and laments, from “Gonna miss yall” and “This is sad” to one fan’s plaintive “Why??????” Nine months after its launch — and less than…
After watching the Broncos dismantle on the Raiders on Monday Night Football, Denver fans were left with questions like, “Should I book my Super Bowl tickets yet?” But Travis Sawrie of the real-estate blog Movoto wondered something entirely different: How long would it take Peyton to pay off my mortgage?…
Opponents of Proposition AA, intended to set tax rates on recreational marijuana sales, have gotten a lot of attention for showy events like Monday’s free-joint giveaway on Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall. But polls earlier this year showed 77 percent of those surveyed support such taxes, and Joe Megyesy, communications director…
Today, on the National Day of Remembrance for Murder Victims, families and loved ones of those whose lives were so cruelly cut short, including Denver Mayor Michael Hancock, whose sister was slain in 2002, will gather from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. outside the new Denver Crime Lab, 1371 Cherokee…
Since the floods that have devastated so many Front Range communities, we’ve seen a few instances of bad behavior — like alleged looting on the CU-Boulder campus — but many more of people trying to help others in desperate situations. Examples? Denver Craigslist is currently festooned with offers from people…
When he was a Tae Kwon Do instructor, Raul Gutierrez-Hernandez was known as “Master Raul,” and he was clearly skilled at martial arts, winning honors in the United States and Mexico. Now, however, a local district attorney has branded Gutierrez-Hernandez “gutless” — because rather than waiting to hear a jury’s…
Last week’s feature on Jenny Kush, a cannabis activist killed by a drunk driver, brought to light just one of the 1,342 impaired-driving arrests in Colorado made over a nineteen-day period around Labor Day weekend. Figuring out how many people are caught driving stoned is especially important here, since doing…
Our post about free-joint-rally co-organizer Rob Corry asking Vice President Joe Biden to help give away weed prompted numerous posts about the veep’s past as an energetic anti-drug warrior. Here’s an example from a reader who also appears to have a beef with Biden’s support of gun-control legislation…
Update: Earlier today, we noted that the Larimer County Sheriff’s Office had listed six people as missing — but at least two were promptly declared safe, with information suggesting that a third was okay as well. Now, the LCSO has reportedly reduced the list to zero, meaning all of the…
Denver blog posts aren’t resigning anytime soon. Colorado Independent’s Mike Littwin reacts to the most haunting question about gun violence he’s ever heard a President pose. Coyote Gulch on reports that Las Vegas will begin taking less water from the Colorado River. Denver Egotist: 3 Photographers + 3 Models +…
Our September 12 cover story, “The Cruelest Cut,” examined the growing controversy over a pet surgery that’s common in the U.S. but banned in many other countries — the declawing of cats. Some veterinarians and anti-cruelty activists would like to see the procedure, which involves removing a section of toe…
