Yesterday was a record-setting scorcher, and the forecasts we’ve seen predict temps in the nineties (with a few high eighties thrown in) for the next week or so. How to avoid melting? Last year, during a similar heat wave, we turned to our Best of Denver archive, which features more…
After former Broncos quarterback/controversy lightning rod quarterback Tim Tebow was cut by the Jets in April, some pundits speculated that he would never catch on with another team. Wrong: Yesterday, word broke that he’ll sign with the New England Patriots, whose offensive coordinator, Josh McDaniels, drafted him in Denver (en…
Beginning last month, the Lakewood Police Department issued regular alerts about David Noren, who was last seen on May 19 — and the urgency increased as investigators became increasingly convinced something bad had happened to him. Now, the mystery of Noren’s whereabouts have been solved, albeit tragically: His body was…
The title of a report from the ACLU — “The War on Marijuana in Black and White: Billions of Dollars Wasted on Racially Biased Arrests” — gives a good indication of its contents. The authors argue that the war on pot is a waste of money and African-Americans are disproportionately…
A week since Peter Boyles was fired by KHOW after an incident involving his longtime producer, fans continue to lament his departure — even on Comment of the Day posts like this one. Here’s a post by a Boyles loyalist…
Any government functionary worth his or her bennies knows that the ideal time for a document dump — a release of some embarrassing matter you really don’t want to talk about — is late on Friday afternoon. And that goes double for the report Colorado Attorney General John Suthers saw…
Denver blog posts are just warming up. Colorado Pols shares a letter praising the NRA from a Florence con who’s looking forward to rearming once he’s out of the hoosgow. Denver Egotist highlights the Flobots’ take on the Bradley Manning prosecution. At Mile High Mamas, Dr. Ashley Norris offers seven…
Last July, Dean Carlson was arrested after driving the wrong way on a road near Boulder and causing a crash that left Daniel Mays, 28, gravely injured. Carlson registered nearly triple the legal limit for driving drunk; his record included three prior DUIs. Mays was in a coma for most…
Dixie Elixirs owner and founder Tripp Keber didn’t get to do much hanging out at the Hangout Music Festival in Gulf Shores, Alabama two weeks ago, after a security guard kicked off a search that resulted in misdemeanor (and initially felony) drug charges against the Denver businessman. Alabama law prevents…
On June 9, 1993 — twenty years ago yesterday — six-year-old Broderick Bell was hit by a random gunshot, kicking off what came to be known as Denver’s Summer of Violence. As can be seen in this 2006 photo, Bell survived, but many others haven’t during the summers that have…
The June 20 cover of Rolling Stone describes the stars of the new comedy This Is the End as “The Doobie Brothers” — a notion that ties in well with a special section on marijuana entitled “The New Stoned Age.” Under that label is a headline that reads, “Too High…
Last month, Cardhub.com compiled a list of the ten worst travel cities for summer 2013 that didn’t feature Denver — because it was deemed the finest. Now, the company has ranked the best — and worst — cities to work for a small business in, and Denver’s is number one…
In Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, robot R2D2 is playing Chewbacca, a giant creature known as a wookiee, in a game of chess — and Chewie is getting frustrated. At that point, Han Solo (Harrison Ford) notes that wookiees have been known to pull people’s arms out of…
Anyone with small children knows how naturally they’re drawn to water — and they’ve felt the fear that a single moment’s inattention could result in horror. That’s what happened yesterday to the family of Issah Lopez, age four, who was found dead in a community pool located in Thornton. Below,…
In digging up old articles on cannabis in Colorado, we’ve come across a few stories that didn’t warrant entire posts of their own. But they add up to something interesting, so we’ve compiled them for this week’s edition of Colorado Cannabis Time Capsule. The first comes from the Camp Hale…
Our item about a female moose attack on a woman in Grand Lake, the same town where a male moose was photographed mounting a moose statute, inspired posts by folks upset that the cow moose and her calf were euthanized. One reader also noted that such problems are less common…
Look out, lady elephants of North America! A new hunk is headed your way. Billy the elephant is scheduled to arrive at the Denver Zoo later this summer. The five-year-old will come from the Antwerpen Zoo in Belgium, where he was called Budi. But Denver already has an elephant named…
Denver blog posts are checking references. Denver Stiffs’ Jeffrey Morton considers whether Memphis’ Lionel Hollins is really the best choice to replace George Karl as the Nuggets head coach. The Redheaded Slut on kinks and broken dolls. Colorado Peak Politics wonders if a casino will bail out John Morse…
Bringing It Home, a new documentary about industrial hemp inspired by North Carolina eco-conscious home builder Anthony Brenner’s first hemp house, will be screening in Boulder tomorrow night as part of the fourth annual nationwide Hemp History Week. The film “explores the question of why a crop with so many…
You’ve got to figure there are a lot of ways to piss off a member of a SWAT team. But here’s one that’s certain to be near the top of the list: Steal his guns while he’s fighting cancer. That’s what Keaton Bell did. And now, he’s going to pay…
Year four of our Mile High Murder archive, which ended on May 17, was so brutal that we had to break our annual wrap-up into two parts; click here for part one, here for part two. Since then, we haven’t had a single Denver-metro entry. But unfortunately, our streak of…
Governor John Hickenlooper confounded death-penalty advocates and opponents alike last month when he granted a reprieve but not clemency to Nathan Dunlap, who’d been scheduled for execution in August for the 1993 murders of four people. Now David Isberg is hoping the governor will intervene to prevent another “death sentence”…
