Here’s another thing to love about Denver: It’s a big city, but not so big that dignitaries would scoff at attending the grand opening of a Dunkin’ Donuts. Earlier today, as reported on our Cafe Society blog, DIA’s new waiting area, Final Approach, debuted, as did one of the metro…
As we reported yesterday, Terrance Roberts, a former gang leader who’d transformed himself into an inspirational anti-gang activist, was arrested for a shooting at a Friday unity rally he’d planned. We’ve now obtained the probable cause statement in the case (see it below), and in it, Roberts claims he acted…
Yesterday’s free-joint giveaway on Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall, staged by opponents of marijuana tax measure Proposition AA, didn’t include Vice President Joe Biden, who’d been invited by co-organizer Rob Corry to take part in between tours of areas devastated by recent flooding. The Biden angle, and the latest rally, has…
Last week, we shared with you five nice/nasty definitions of five Colorado cities — Boulder, Greeley, Vail, Grand Junction and Denver — on Urban Dictionary. But those were hardly the only places from our fair state to get the sometimes on-point/often flat-out-crazy treatment from the site’s inspired definers. Look below…
Last night, the Denver City Council approved a $360,000 settlement over a 2009 incident at the Denver Diner, during which four women were billy-clubbed and maced by Officers Ricky Nixon and Kevin Devine, both of whom are still members of the department. Attorney Siddhartha Rathod, who has represented the victims…
The rivalry between your Denver Broncos and the Oakland Raiders runs so deep that our recent collection of Raiders suck memes only hints at the passions on both sides. But it’s tough to sustain the usual level of antipathy this year — because even though the Raiders are improving, the…
The second free-joint giveaway sponsored by opponents to Proposition AA, the marijuana taxation measure on November’s ballot, took place beginning at 11 a.m. today on Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall. And according to photographer Brandon Marshall, who snapped the images on view below, it was hardly a mob scene. While he…
We’re still collecting comments on Patricia Calhoun’s post about an aborted plan by the Denver Police Department to allow officers to distribute Bibles. Many of our commenters feel this would have been inappropriate, but not all. Take this reader, for instance…
Denver blog posts are masters of suspense. Mile High Report’s Tim Lynch thinks Von Miller’s alleged urine-swapping scheme means he deserved his six-game suspension. Colorado Peak Politics takes on what it calls the “liberals’ big lie on disaster-relief funding.” At Denver Urbanism, Dan Malouf ranks Colorado’s nine Amtrak by ridership…
“Terrance Roberts is one of Denver’s great comeback stories,” Westword’s Joel Warner wrote back in January. “A one-time shot-caller in the Park Hill Bloods,” Roberts, now 37, had turned his life around and founded the Prodigal Son Initiative, an anti-gang youth program in northeast Park Hill. When a 2008 gang-related…
Last month, two new reports on Colorado’s prison system urged officials to get smarter in how they spend precious tax dollars — specifically, in how they classify and monitor high-risk offenders, while figuring out which inmates are more in need of rehab than expensive cell time. Now, a pilot program…
The 2014 elections may seem a long way off, but not to Ilyse Hogue, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America. Hogue came to Colorado to speak at a weekend fundraiser for Colorado NARAL that attracted numerous political heavyweights. But she’s sticking around today to meet with locally based activists, in order…
The numbers of those still unaccounted for after the flooding that devastated the Front Range continue to fall. Over the weekend in Larimer County, for instance, the total dropped from sixty to six. But while that’s certainly good news overall, it’s accompanied by plenty of concerns about whether those who…
We’ve assembled two previous collections of Raiders suck memes, most recently in May, when Charles Woodson chose to sign with Oakland rather than Denver. But in just a few months, Memes Nation have come up with a whole batch of new ways to say that the Raiders suck — and…
As we’ve reported, a protest against marijuana taxation measure Proposition AA is scheduled to take place at 11 a.m. today on Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall, complete with free joints for attendees. The event, and an invitation for Vice President Joe Biden to participate, has already come under fire from the…
While mug shots vary widely from community to community, jurisdiction to jurisdiction, they usually share one quality: The person they picture is centered in the frame. Not so school-bust driver Burton Carpenter. In the image seen here, and in a larger version below, he appears to be supporting himself by…
Earlier this month, a group opposed to Proposition AA, the measure to establish tax rates on recreational marijuana sales in Colorado, staged a rally at Civic Center Park during which attendees were given free joints. Now, that same group, No on Proposition AA, is planning a second free-joint event tomorrow…
In researching this week’s feature article about the life and death of cannabis activist Jenny Kush, a lot of people we spoke with emphasized that she was also quite the artist in addition to the long list of other hats she wore — including the host of SexPot Radio. iCannabisRadio…
Denver blog posts have a way about them. South Stands Denver’s Colin Daniels delves into the International Juggalo Erotic Fiction Writer’s Association. Predominantly Orange’s Kim Constantinesco shares Peyton Manning’s reflections on his ol’ buddy, retiring Rocky Todd Helton. Colorado Peak Politics on the fifty riches members of Congress and the…
Yesterday’s post about Chris “Birdman” Andersen being cleared of wrongdoing related to an Internet Crimes Against Children investigation, and revelations that he’d been doubled-Catfished in an online scheme, brought out fans confident he’d been innocent all along. Here’s one example…
In the devastating aftermath of our recent floods, it’s easy to forget that water has typically been a scarce resource in Colorado, battled over by competing interests, even as its rivers feed into eighteen states, from the Pacific Ocean to the Mississippi. But The Great Divide, a recently announced documentary…
“Please drive carefully and be aware of the road closures,” reads a post on the Weld County Sheriff’s Office Facebook page. “Driving around barricades is dangerous and illegal.” Stupid, too, as evidenced by these WCSO photos of what happened when a driver figured a bridge in the area was more…
