This week’s article isn’t so much damning cannabis (or Indian hemp as it’s called in the piece). No, cannabis’ reputation as a sinful vice seems to have been already established at this point. Instead, a doctor loosely links cannabis with alcohol to make the demon of booze seem even worse…
In the introduction to our post about Lucas Piper, wanted for allegedly trying to burn down the house of people he met at a String Cheese Incident concert, we noted that fans of the band have a reputation for mellowness. But one reader says such impressions don’t always prove to…
Denver blog posts accept your invitation. South Stands Denver’s Jennifer Eakins introduces the first in a series of salutes to craptacular sports tattoos. At Free Range Longmont, M. Douglas Wray shares a photo gallery from Longmont Cruise Night. Denver Frank touts a new way to mark someone as a hater…
Over the years, we’ve shared numerous stories about robberies at medical marijuana dispensaries that didn’t exactly result in a bonanza for thieves — like, for instance, a 2012 caper that netted $8 from the karma jar and a broken scale. Good Meds Network, near 6th and Interstate 25, suffered a…
As faithful visitors to our Schmuck of the Week archive know full well, schmucks come in every size, shape and description. But one frequently seen thread seems to be collateral damage, i.e. a schmuck whose frustration over one thing boils over in a way that causes a whole raft of…
Last year, the Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area released a study about the dangers of home marijuana grows shortly before the vote on Amendment 64. Now, as talks about implementing A64 continue, the RMHIDTA is weighing in with a new analysis of weed in Colorado — one that…
Our collection of Denver Cruisers galleries keeps growing. This summer, we’ve given you glimpses of Dress Night, Tourist Night, Where the Bleep is Waldo?, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Bible Belts and Panties, Thrift Shop Fashion Show and Glow. This week’s addition? Halloween in July, in which Cruisers took their costuming…
In recent months, we’ve highlighted separate vintage photo collections shared on the Aurora Police Department Facebook page, featuring badass Aurora cops from the ’70s and the ’80s. Now, we venture even further into the past, via vivid images that date back to the 1950s — including a highly unusual shot…
Bears, bears everywhere. Just days after a bear walked into a bar in Estes Park, one with an appetite was caught on surveillance footage trying to spirit away a dumpster from a Colorado Springs restaurant. The video, shared below, inspired us to collect our six favorite bears v. humans stories,…
Shotgun Willie’s, the iconic Glendale joint at the corner of Colorado Boulevard and Virginia Avenue, is endeavoring to build a better strip club. As explained in this week’s cover story, “Fantasy Island,” the intersection where Shotgun Willie’s sits is being widened to help with traffic flow to the nearby SuperTarget…
Late last month, the Aurora Police Department launched its search for an alleged kidnapper with an upgrade over the typical suspect sketch — a computer-generated image. The Boulder Police Department is trying a different tack when it comes to two men wanted for beating and robbing a cyclist. Instead of…
People’s Choice Wellness Center has a small waiting room up front with an ATM, but I didn’t get any time to check it out — and it’s not like it matters much anyway. According to my budtender, the shop isn’t going to be sticking around this location much longer. So,…
The Colorado-made hemp flag that flew over the Capitol in Washington on the Fourth of July has made its way back to the Centennial State. And today — which is known as Colorado Day, in commemoration of the day on which the state officially joined the union in 1876 –…
Yesterday, we told you about “The Hotel Rehearsal,” a floating hotel room/art piece available for rent at $50,000 per night. After perusing photos of this unusual creation, a slew of folks shared their thoughts about its artistic value, and not all of them were impressed. Take, for instance, this reader…
Denver blog posts keep on keepin’ on. Colorado Pols notes a new Mark Udall e-mail blast that raises the specter of a Ken Buck candidacy regarding a fundraising pitch. Mile High Mamas tout a way to deal with your device vice. The Ralphie Report’s David A. Gerhardt lends an ear…
Last week we reported that Representative Jared Polis had gone to court to try stopping a gas drilling operation on property adjacent to a farm he owns near Berthoud. The congressman abruptly withdrew that lawsuit, but that doesn’t mean he’s resigned to getting fracked. Instead, he’s put out a four-minute…
There was a major profanity on page one of yesterday’s Denver Post — sort of. In news boxes all over the city, attentive folks looking at copies of the print edition saw the words “s hit record” above the fold. But it’s not as if the remaining copy editors at…
It’ll come as a surprise to precisely no one, but our latest roundup of memorable mug shots — this one from July — is dominated by men. Indeed, the male-to-female ratio is fourteen to one, although the one woman’s offense certainly stands out: a fatal DUI hours after she Facebooked…
Last year, we shared a collection of the ten weirdest recent posts on Denver Craigslist’s “Rants & Raves” section — and weird they were. But most of them don’t compare to the flat-out bizarre screeds we found when we revisited the page — not just attacks on targets like early…
Back in 2010, Westword contributor Teague Bohlen put together a list of TV’s scummiest get-rich-quick schemers — and prominently featured among them was Boulder’s Russ Dalbey, whose “Winning in the Cash Flow Business” infomercials attempted to separate suckers from their wallets via easy-money promises related to promissory notes and mortgage…
Update: Yesterday at this time, we told you about a triple-injury East Colfax hit and run in which the driver was caught on camera fleeing the scene; see our previous coverage below. Given these images, not to mention all the evidence left behind, the man’s decision to rabbit seemed pointless…
Build a better strip club, and the men who love tits and ass will beat a path to your door. That’s exactly what Shotgun Willie’s, the iconic gentleman’s club on the corner of Colorado Boulevard and Virginia Avenue in Glendale, is trying to do by building a new and improved…
