What did Henry Kunter have against his dad? Maybe he was resentful about being saddled with a moniker that mean kids probably loved to pronounce as obscenely as possible. Or perhaps his decision to embezzle a six-figure sum was made without thinking about his pops at all, even though one…
What area suffered the worst damage in the recent Front Range flooding? One candidate is the Fourmile-and-Salina area captured in the following photos shared by Boulder County. The destruction is positively astonishing. Continue to see what we mean…
Urban Dictionary doesn’t just offer definitions of terms like “penalty shotgun” and “MERL” — both featured in our post dedicated to UD phrases inspired by CU-Boulder. It’s also a place where site visitors define plenty of other things, including Colorado cities — sometimes positively, but often in alternately hilarious and…
Denver Cruisers preceded Talk Like a Pirate Day by riding like them — a fitting sequel to themed 2013 events focusing on Twins, Mascots and Major Leagues, Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves, Woodstock, County Fair, Dress Night, Tourist Night, Where the Bleep is Waldo?, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Bible Belts and…
The numbers are constantly changing when it comes to the devastating floods in Colorado — and unfortunately, the latest alteration involves an increase of the fatality total in both Boulder County and the state as a whole. The Boulder Office of Emergency Management has confirmed the death of Gerald Boland,…
This dispensary has closed. If there were ever businesses open to the public even though the public clearly didn’t want them to be, they’d have to be the few remaining Blockbuster Video stores that have limped along through the past five or six years. With a selection of ten DVDs…
Our post about Colorado Department of Health and Environment warnings in regard to synthetic marijuana, popularly known as Spice, prompted many of our commenters to take umbrage at any comparison between the aforementioned not-for-human-consumption incense and cannabis. This reader put it succinctly…
Denver blog posts are finger-lickin’ good. Colorado Pols explains why opponents of Colorado Republic Party chairman Ryan Call plan to protest a weekend meeting by bringing boxed chicken lunches. Big Media’s Jason Salzman says Scott Gessler contradicted his own office’s policies when he said Coloradans can vote anywhere. The Redheaded…
Access to basic products and services — like haircuts, lip balm, tampons — can be difficult for Denver’s homeless population to find. That’s why the city’s annual free resource fair for the homeless, Project Homeless Connect, is so important. More than forty organizations took part in this week’s event at…
This week’s feature article about the life and death of cannabis activist Jenny Kush tells the story of a woman who connected with hundreds thousands of people in part through a no-holds-barred weekly radio show covering two of her favorite topics: sex and marijuana. Kush may have been taken away…
Earlier this week, we put together a photo gallery of flood damage to Colorado roads, featuring images from around the state. But unsurprisingly, the roads in Boulder County were among the hardest hit. Below, see photos from the Boulder County Facebook page spotlighting some of the most notable damage…
Last week, a Justice Department rep told a Senate committee the federal government was working on a solution that would allow marijuana businesses in Colorado to legally use the banking system — something that’s been officially forbidden up until now. Among the Colorado agencies lobbying for such a fix is…
This past May, as ex-Denver Nugget Chris “Birdman” Andersen was taking part in the NBA playoffs with his current team, the Miami Heat, a Douglas County Sheriff’s rep told us an Internet Crimes Against Children investigation into his actions was still ongoing after more than a year; see our previous…
About this time last year, we shared not one but two photo galleries featuring shots from the 2013 Broncos cheerleaders calendar shoot in Cancun. Now, the cheerleaders are inviting two people to join them at their next calendar-photo session, at an as-yet undetermined but sure-to-be exotic location — and it’s…
“The bridge that the water used to go under is now clogged with rocks and debris, which has caused the water to change directions and find a new path downhill:” This description of the photo above can be found on the Facebook page of Rocky Mountain National Park, one of…
Our recent overabundance of water, resulting in flooding that has devastated so many Front Range areas, continues to flow east, effecting communities downstream. And while the damage thus far has generally been less impactful than in places like Lyons and Jamestown, plenty of problems have cropped up. Witness Sterling, where…
Dear Stoner: Are edibles the best way to get high on the downlow? I have a retail job, and when the holiday season arrives, the place turns into a hellish nightmare of customers running me around like a chicken with its butt-feathers on fire. I desperately want to use marijuana…
The swarm of international media buzzing around the tiny hamlet of Deer Trail in recent months doesn’t know what to make of the much-discussed proposal that would allow shooting down drones out of the skies above the town. Some have treated it as a symbolic protest against government spying, others…
Labor Day weekend is regarded as one of the biggest drunk-driving holidays on the calendar, right up there with Memorial Day, New Year’s Eve and Thanksgiving. Statistics support it: According to the Colorado Department of Transportation, 1,342 people were arrested over a nineteen-day stretch between August 16 and September 3…
“Design Flaw,” Melanie Asmar, September 5 High-Rise Anxiety Nice article on issues concerning law and construction defects in general. However, Melanie Asmar wrote one extremely hyperbolic sentence that I take issue with: “Regardless of where the truth lies, most lawsuits end up settling for millions of dollars.” Wow. This cannot…
A week after Senate president John Morse Senator Angie Giron, both Democrats, were recalled from their seats representing Colorado Springs and Pueblo, respectively, Colorado is still trying to make sense of the effort, which initially focused on the now-former lawmakers’ stance on gun control but grew into so much more…
The Colorado medical marijuana patient registry saw the largest increase in active patient numbers in months this summer, growing by 2,475 patients to 109,292 people from June to July. The Department of Revenue received a total of 3,514 applications during that time period and hasn’t reported any denials. That means…
