“Hot Spot,” Patricia Calhoun, June 6 Room to Glow I hope someone makes copies of Patricia Calhoun’s latest column about Rocky Flats and posts them at Candelas. The people looking at that development need to know that the open space to the north might seem like an amenity, but could…
Back in March 2012, Walt Disney studios, along with director Gore Verbinski and stars Johnny Depp (who plays Tonto) and Armie Hammer (who plays the Masked Man himself), descended on the southern Colorado town of Creede to film some scenes for The Lone Ranger, a summer blockbuster hitting theaters on…
Fracktivists call it poison. Governor John Hickenlooper sips a special formulation of it like a fine craft beer. But what’s really in the billions of barrels of fracking fluid that oil-and-gas drillers are pumping into the ground across the country? The simple answer is water — and a little something…
It’s not exactly news that oil-and-gas companies involved in hydraulic fracturing spend freely on lobbyists and political-campaign contributions. A 2011 Common Cause study calculated that the fracking industry had spent close to $750 million over the previous decade seeking to influence federal legislation, such as the 2005 law that exempted…
Physicians around the world overwhelmingly support medical marijuana, according to a poll conducted by the New England Journal of Medicine last month. Focusing on the hypothetical case of a breast cancer patient undergoing chemotherapy and experiencing pain and heavy nausea, the poll asked doctors if they would recommend cannabis to…
Yesterday, our website collected plenty of comments on posts about former Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow, who’s now signed with the New England Patriots. The following take, on an item that spotlighted the Boston Herald’s “GOOD GOD!” headline, maintains that Tebow’s bad press can be traced to his faithfulness…
Denver blog posts zero in. South Stands Denver’s Jenna Pacheco thinks Rockies mascot Dinger’s time has come and gone. Plants & Animals Denver touts this weekend’s all-vegan pop-up market. Denver Egotist has a way to track the 14ers you’ve conquered…
The camera pans slowly, lovingly over every gorgeous curve and line — lingering here and there to appreciate the beauty of the video star’s frame. Bicycle frame, that is. The aforementioned footage of a pricey Cannondale Scalpel (see it below) is flat-out porn for bike lovers. But it also provided…
As we’ve reported, Colorado Attorney General John Suthers determined that a new marijuana-law provision that treated pot magazines like porn was unconstitutional shortly after it was targeted by a pair of lawsuits — the first from publications like High Times, the second courtesy of the ACLU, representing newsstands and booksellers…
The year began with Manuel Rodriguez being strapped into a restraint chair. It ended with Rodriguez back in the chair. At Colorado’s state supermax prison, inmates get into confrontations with guards — over food, hygiene, privileges, a refusal to “cuff up” or whatever — out of boredom, mental illness or…
Update: Last month, we reported that Abbe Dorn, a Denver police officer whose moonlighting gigs included modeling, bodybuilding and an appearance on the reality show American Gladiators, was at the center of an internal investigation into alleged steroid use. In addition, Dorn was named in a lawsuit filed by a…
The hot weather still hasn’t broken, and much as we’d like, most of us can’t take off and visit one of our top ten Colorado places to stay cool in a heat wave — because we have to work. Fortunately, a lot of businesses in Colorado allow employees to dress…
We don’t reveal our Schmuck of the Week until Fridays — and there’s no denying that 29-year-old Christopher Snow would have made a great candidate for this sought-after honor. But we just couldn’t wait to tell you about Snow’s bold leap into the ranks of dopey criminals, via an alleged…
As Colorado moves forward with implementing Amendment 64, ganjapreneurs are busily trying to figure out ways to cash in on what some are predicting will be a million customers in these parts once the recreational retail system gets rolling. Among the brainstorms: marijuana vending machines. But while Colorado’s sophisticated pot…
Our post yesterday about Rolling Stone’s take on Denver as ground zero for “The New Stoned Age” started a conversation that looked at the issue from all angles. Below, peruse the views of a reader who thinks the more attention the Denver scene gets, the better it will be for…
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a Colorado case that asked the question, Should abortion protesters be allowed to wave signs featuring “gruesome images” in places where children might see? The case started in 2005, when abortion protesters did just that outside St. John’s Cathedral in Denver on…
Denver blog posts are sure you’ll agree. Denver Frank shares a clip that makes it clear going to the beach isn’t necessarily like a music video. Denver Stiffs’ Nate Timmons on the pros and cons of various coaches mentioned as candidates for the Nuggets job. Big Media’s Jason Salzman on…
The North American Prairie is a land mass that covers about 1.4 million square miles. It stretches north to Alberta and Saskatchewan in Canada and south as far as Texas — and it once made up 40 percent of the continental United States. Even so, many people find the plains…
Couldn’t resist sharing the way the Boston Herald’s page-one reaction to the New England Patriots signing Tim Tebow — with a photo of the Chosen One Tebowing in a Broncos uniform, accompanied by the headline, “GOOD GOD!” Whether Tebow will be as good is a totally different question — but…
Judging by a series of mug shots online, Atlantis Michaelson, age 41, has a thing for changing his appearance — perhaps in the hope of escaping responsibility for past offenses. Too bad for him that changing DNA isn’t nearly so easy. Michaelson was recently arrested in Virginia (where he was…
Last month’s passage of a THC driving bill, following two failed attempts, was achieved thanks to a language tweak that convinced one-time opponents to sign up. But might they have balked if they’d known about alleged problems at the state lab where the blood testing required by the new law…
More than a year ago, we told you about the slaying of Andrea Roan, a much-loved elementary school teacher. Roan was allegedly killed by Ryan Miller, an ex-boyfriend against whom she’d requested a protection order. Now, Miller’s been sentenced for the crime, joining Richard Leavitt, who’d been previously given a…
