We’ve recently shared posts featuring the most expensive homes for sale in Denver and Boulder. But while many of them are amazing, the priciest residential properties in Vail are in another class. The following five, culled from the impressive Hoffman-West real estate site, feature plenty of unusual images, including a…
The Northglenn Police Department is currently in the midst of investigating an incident yesterday during which a knife-wielding burglar was hit by multiple bullets after allegedly attempting to break into a foolhardy target — the home of a Wheat Ridge police detective. If this sort of story rings a bell…
It’s a holiday weekend and you’re (hopefully) already out smoking spliffs and forgetting about the Internet for three days. So we’ll keep today’s Colorado Cannabis Time Capsule brief. This blurb from Castle Rock’s Record-Journal newspaper, dated October 1931, is about a brief encounter with a man who briefly lost his…
The Colorado Department of Corrections doesn’t adequately train parole officers overseeing the electronic monitoring of high-risk parolees — such as absconder Evan Ebel, who murdered DOC director Tom Clements and another man this year — and needs to develop more consistent and comprehensive programs for treating and tracking offenders headed…
Yesterday, we wrote about a lawsuit against a strip club filed by four exotic dancers who believe the venue’s owner is breaking labor laws. The suit reveals a system of fines imposed against dancers for a slew of infractions, including allowing a patron to touch their genitals — information that…
Denver blog posts do plenty of laboring. Big Media’s Jason Salzman seems happily surprised that local media organizations paid so much attention to strikes at Denver fast-food restaurants. Colorado Peak Politics on Tom Tancredo’s call for a Republican peace pact when it comes to the 2014 gubernatorial race. Denver PR…
Outspoken Denver Public Schools board member Andrea Merida will not run for re-election. In a blog post on her website (the full text of which is below), she explains why: “I cannot, in good conscience, serve on a board whose only function now is to give tests.” Merida was the…
According to the 19th Judicial District DA’s office, Joyce Bradmon, 76, has “a history of disagreements” with residents in her Greeley neighborhood. But one incident stands above all the others, marking her as both a legendary crank in the hallowed, get-off-my-lawn tradition and a deserving Schmuck of the Week honoree…
The Peyton Fuckin’ Manning T-shirts we highlighted earlier today may have turned heads before and after last night’s Broncos-Cardinals game, but as far as we know, none of them was featured on the TV broadcast. In contrast, the shirt above got unplanned screen time a couple years back during the…
Among the biggest hits of the just-wrapped Colorado Innovation Network Summit was a ten-year-old boy from East L.A. Caine Monroy is the star of the short film Caine’s Arcade (watch it below), which tells of how he built an arcade out of cardboard boxes in his dad’s used auto parts…
Update: The Aurora Police Department has just announced that Isabella Guzman, eighteen, has been formally charged with murdering her mother on Wednesday night. See our previous coverage below. Update, 5:59 a.m.: Yesterday, we told you about a search for eighteen-year-old Isabella Guzman, who was described as a homicide suspect; see…
In April 2012, as captured by a Denver Post video on view below, staff members at the paper learned about Craig F. Walker winning the Pulitzer Prize for photography while gathered around director of photography John Sunderland’s computer. The image suggests that Sunderland was viewed as the veteran coach of…
Earlier this week, we posted about the top ten speed traps in Denver, as compiled from 2013 posts on the Speedtrap.org website. Then, when we shared the list on the Westword Facebook page, we asked if there were any speed traps we’d missed — and as always, our readers came…
Everyone knew last night’s Broncos preseason closeout against the Arizona Cardinals was meaningless. But when someone gives you free tickets at the last minute, does any of that matter? Hell, no. Even though the game ended with a 32-24 Cards win (and, reportedly, a serious injury when a man fell…
Standing Akimbo’s products aren’t new to me at all. We’ve featured SA’s potent, award-winning edibles in numerous articles over the years. But we’ve never actually made it over to the oddball little building the shop calls home, a place just on the edge of Jason Street, overhanging the dip in…
Earlier this week, Alan Prendergast introduced us to David Gunn, a former gun-store owner touting an electronically controlled firearms safety device he’s invented. The concept inspired our readers to share their thoughts about gun control in general. The following post hardly conforms to stereotypes…
Colorado blog posts represent a perfect union. Colorado Pols has thought the secession movement was idiotic for a while — but the site thinks it just got stupider. Denver Infill’s Ryan Dravitz updates the Emerson Lofts project. At Free Range Longmont, Ron Forthofer decries a bipartisan surveillance state…
It’s only been a matter of minutes since news broke about the Obama administration announcing that it won’t sue to stop Amendment 64 from going into effect. But we’re already hearing from major players about this huge development, including Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper, Colorado Attorney General John Suthers, marijuana advocate…
The Obama administration will not sue to stop Colorado’s Amendment 64, which allows adults 21 and over to use and possess small amounts of marijuana, and establishes a foundation for retail sales of recreational pot. This long-awaited news was confirmed by the office of Colorado-based U.S. Attorney John Walsh shortly…
We’re giving away two tickets to this weekend’s Rocky Mountain Showdown between the CSU Rams and the CU Buffs; click here to learn how you can win them. And in anticipation of the big game, Ram mascot Cam is seen on the CSU video below getting ready for the challenge…
Four exotic dancers are suing a Grand Junction strip club, claiming the venue and its owner, Kevin Eardley, are breaking labor laws via a payment structure that includes exorbitant fines for a whole range of actions — such as ponying up $50 plus increased stage fees if a customer touches…
UPDATE: We have a winner! The tickets go to Jenn, who won with the following response:I’ve always wanted to go to this game. I just don’t know who to root for. 🙁 Poor me… I did my undergrad at CU and grad school at CSU. But I’m thinking the Rams…
