Yesterday, we gave you a detailed look at the massive Liberty Firearms Institute, a veritable gun Disneyland that should break ground soon in northern Colorado. Among the comments that collected on the post was the following — an enthusiastic endorsement for the project and for the sort of folks for…
Denver blog posts understand. Colorado Pols on Ken Buck’s decision to take another swing at a senate seat. Mile High Mamas’ Amber Johnson on how to save money on back-to-school clothes. Purple Row has the video evidence of Wade Boggs gets dirty in Colorado…
Update: In our previous coverage of a death on the 14400 block of East Fremont Avenue (see it below), we noted that the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office was shying away from calling the incident either a murder or a homicide. Such shyness is over. The ACSO has now identified Arthur…
Last November, we told you about Mitchell Kusick, twenty, who was taken into custody after allegedly expressing his desire to kill President Barack Obama. Kusick has been in federal custody since then, suggesting that his words were being taken very seriously. But he’s now been sentenced to time served plus…
The rape and murder of Lisa Kimmell, aka “Lil Miss,” was one of the most shocking and brutal crimes of its era — the subject of multiple television shows and a book written by her mom that traces heartbreak over the course of more than a decade. The killer of…
Tonight, the Denver Broncos take on the San Francisco 49ers in the first game of the season. Okay, it’s a pre-season game, so it doesn’t really count. But given another disappointing Colorado Rockies season, not to mention the way the last Broncos campaign, we’re still grateful — and so are…
Americans have well-established rights to free speech. But at what point do such activities cross the line into defamation? That’s a question currently confronting Michelle Gabrieloff-Parish, a mother of three who lives near the site of Rocky Flats, a facility that once made triggers for nuclear weapons. A powerful law…
After our update of the most expensive homes for sale in Denver, we visited BoulderHomeSource.com and discovered that three properties included in our roster of Boulder’s most expensive homes for sale from earlier this year are still available — and still spectacular. In addition, two new entries have made the…
If you live in the Colorado Springs area and you’re told to drop off an item for sale on that city’s Craigslist website at 854 Chapman Drive, think twice. This number of thoughts isn’t suggested at random. Turns out that people trying to complete Craigslist transactions at that address have…
Dear Stoner: I saw that Uruguay is legalizing marijuana. What is going on down there? When should I start booking my airline tickets and hotel reservations? Tea Traveler Dear Traveler: Uruguay is basically pulling a Colorado, with the legalización of limited amounts of cannabis for adults and regulating sales through…
If at first you don’t secede, try, try again. Tired of being ignored, even insulted, by the Colorado Legislature, ten northeastern counties are considering ditching this state altogether and starting their own. They don’t like anti-gun, pro-gay, pro-grass, pro-green urban Colorado telling them what to do. They don’t like being…
Just off a desolate, two-lane county road outside of Cañon City, four Native American entertainers pile out of their car and onto the dirt-gravel parking lot by the three tipis outside the Rawhide Fur and Leather Co. It’s 1 p.m., and already the temperature has swelled to 90 degrees —…
“Fantasy Island,” Melanie Asmar, August 1 Strip Search Back in the 1970s, Glendale was the place to be. All the young kids moving into Denver wound up in cheap apartments in Glendale, and East Virginia Avenue was the center of nightlife. But things change. Just like East Hampden had its…
Like the fictional character Michael Bolton in the movie Office Space, Denver’s Amelia Earhart has a famous namesake. But unlike the surly Bolton (played by actor David Herman), Earhart has never shied away from the connection. In fact, Earhart, a weather and traffic reporter and anchor for KUSA 9News, has…
Earlier this week, we wrote about twelve deaths the Denver District Attorney’s Office believes are linked to medical marijuana; the original post is below. After the piece’s publication, the DA’s office reached out to let us know the folks there had overlooked another possible MMJ-related homicide — the murder of…
Yesterday, we shared the Princeton Review’s latest analysis of top party schools (Colorado institutions missed the cut) and the highest scoring reefer madness colleges (CU-Boulder slipped from first to second). All of which inspired one of our readers to wonder what kind of students are basing their enrollment on these…
Denver blog posts offer plenty of hat tips. Mile High Report’s Kyle Montgomery refutes reports that the Mile High Salute was about to be banned by the NFL. Coyote Gulch on good whitewater in the Arkansas River Basin. South Stands Denver’s Colin Daniels shares a story about the legacy of…
Earlier this year, we told you that the state’s entire film-incentives budget was earmarked for a Hallmark Channel show called When Calls the Heart. But things have changed since then. According to film commissioner Donald Zuckerman, the producers of the show convinced Hallmark to buy more episodes — and when…
Legal documents like the one on view below typically refer to an illegal scheme as an “enterprise.” And there’s no denying that Eric Holmes, the alleged ringleader of an actual crime ring, appears to have been plenty enterprising. A grand jury has indicted Holmes and three cohorts — Cathrina Woodvine,…
All the major players among the region’s natural gas companies are gathering in Denver this week, celebrating the resurgence of their industry thanks to the advent of hydraulic fracturing technology — and pondering why public opposition to fracking in Colorado and elsewhere is so fierce. It’s a tectonic mystery no…
One of the key challenges for anyone entering the hip-hop business is how to establish street credibility. But that’s not an issue for Fort Collins’ Joshua Jackson, nineteen — not anymore. Jackson, who performs under the name Adequate Advocate, created a video of a freestyle rap about a SWAT team…
Update: Yesterday, we shared our views about changes at the Denver Post, including new, smaller dimensions for the print edition, a website redesign and the departures of Broncos specialist Jeff Legwold and Jeff Bairstow, president of the Post’s parent company, Digital First Media; see our previous coverage below. Since then,…
