Back in April, we told you about the Hot Sulphur Springs shooting death of Joshua Stevens at the hands of a prominent couple — a lieutenant with the Grand County Sheriff’s Office and a prosecutor for the 14th Judicial District. Now, Jefferson County DA Pete Weir has ruled that the…
Since the early days of Colorado’s marijuana legalization movement, the prospect of Big Tobacco moving into the state and taking over the pot industry has concerned activists. So it was only natural that when RJ Reynolds, among the most powerful of the nation’s tobacco companies, announced that it had chosen…
A few months back, we shared our top ten Texts From Last Night out of the 303 area code — the 2013 edition. But we couldn’t help thinking we were leaving some numbers out. Like, for instance, 720 — and the latest submissions to the site from those digits are…
How unhappy is Weld County Commissioner Sean Conway about the political direction in which Colorado is heading? So unhappy that he and several of his colleagues are gathering support among officials in other nearby counties to form what he calls the “51st Star Committee.” Its mission: to secede from Colorado…
Since we were children, we’ve been trained to think of firefighters as heroic figures who earn our trust by putting the welfare of others before their own. But if the information contained in an arrest affidavit on view below is accurate, Denver firefighter Ronald Asciutto broke that trust in a…
A few months back, after we checked out Root Organic in Boulder, several readers urged us to go back and visit Boulder Wellness next door. The herb is better quality and worth the drive up from Denver, they said. Whereas Root Organic (on the right) takes the more slick, modern…
Yesterday, Patricia Calhoun’s wrote about the largest online booster for Boone, the University of Denver’s embattled mascot. The website’s plug-pulling appears to mark the end of the campaign on behalf of Boone, who’s being mothballed due to concerns that some might see him as a racist figure. Such claims infuriate…
Even Denver blog posts are surprised sometimes. Denver Stiffs’ Nate Timmons on Josh Kroenke’s bold decision not to bring back NBA Coach of the Year George Karl to the Nuggets for another season. Colorado Pols smacks members of Colorado’s Congressional crew whose vote could make immigrant kids eligible for deportation…
A long-awaited report by the National Academy of Sciences on the federal government’s efforts to manage herds of wild horses across the West is finally out, and it confirms what mustang advocates have been saying for years: The Bureau of Land Management program is poorly managed, relies on an unsustainable…
In a post published yesterday, Denver City Councilman Chris Nevitt defended a Denver proposal to limit recreational marijuana license applications to previously existing medical marijuana businesses until January 1, 2016. Marijuana attorney Warren Edson is a longtime critic of such an approach, and he’s not thrilled with this one, either…
When we designated Bridgette Sandoval a Schmuck of the Week back in February, we admitted that we weren’t sure if her excuse for a police chase and failed escape — she claimed she’d been forcibly injected with heroin and meth — was brilliant or crazy. A better word, we now…
On Monday, we shared photos of a moose in Grand Lake mounting a moose statue — and the hilarious Facebook comments generated by the images; see them below. This incident may not have struck another Grand Lake moose as especially funny, though. The next day, a female moose seriously injured…
Last week, attorney David Lane, representing High Times and other publications, sued the state over a new marijuana-law provision that treats pot magazines like porn. Days later, the ACLU filed its own suit against the passage on behalf of newsstands and booksellers such as the Tattered Cover. Both parties were…
Yesterday, we posted about the ten Colorado counties with the most DUIs in 2012, using statistics from the NoDUIColorado.org website. But in addition to bust numbers, the site determines the average blood alcohol content of arrestees in each county. That allows us to figure out which county’s drunk drivers are…
Ever look through photos of a person gone before his time and wish you’d gotten a chance to meet him, because the pics make it crystal clear how much fun he must have been? That’s the reaction most people will have to perusing the images below of 22-year-old Tyler Mayle…
Last week, we told you about the manhunt for Steve Pierce, a convicted sex offender wanted for allegedly molesting a nine-year-old family member; see our previous coverage below. Now, Pierce has been captured a long way from home, at a location in Washington state. But even as law enforcers travel…
Dear Stoner: I know smoking them is a headache waiting to happen, but what should I do with the crystal-covered stems left over from my buds? I hate the idea of throwing away good THC. Scrooge McDank Dear Scrooge: Strangely, you’re not alone in your miserly ways. Up until just…
Under the watchful eye of director Geoffrey Kent, a rehearsal for the Colorado Shakespeare Festival’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream gets under way at the Charlotte York Irey Dance Studios on the Boulder campus of the University of Colorado. Shakespeare’s “rude mechanicals,” the working stiffs hired to put on a performance…
Philip Sneed, former artistic director for the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, is now executive director for the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities — and although the people now running the festival decline to say much about his time there, they’re clearly looking forward to a Sneed-free season. In the…
“Funny Business,” May 30 Comic Relief Great work by the artists featured in your Comics issue last week. I loved the supervillain Meter Maid and the courteous homeless dude, but my favorite was the “Rejected Denver Breweries,” by Monte Mitchell. Hope we’ll see more from him.Lu GarciaDenver I’d like to…
Nearly the entire city of Denver will head to Tokyo next week on two separate flights — on June 10 and 11 — as part of a trade-and-tourism mission that is also meant to promote United Airlines’ new non-stop flight from Denver International Airport to Narita International Airport, which starts…
The AR-15 is lighter than I expected. It’s an intimidating chunk of rough-hewn black metal and rubber, but it sits softly in my hands. I bring it to my shoulder and, making sure I’m not pointing it at anyone, peer down its sights. I’m not sure what to do, so…
