We don’t tend to think of mid-morning as a likely time for homicide. But that’s when a man was stabbed to death on Saturday in an Aurora cul de sac. At this writing, a suspect who was taken into custody shortly after the incident has yet to be identified. But…
Do you love April Fools’ Day? Or do you think it’s the most annoying holiday ever — an excuse for amateur comedians to play pranks proving once and for all they’re not very funny? We’ve gathered together a collection of April Fools’ Day memes intended to appeal to both groups…
Last week, we shared our list of 2012 Best Hair on male Denver TV personalities (as well as the 2012 Best Hair on female Denver TV stars) in the build-up to Best of Denver 2013. Now, this year’s issue is out — but while the winner’s been announced, we’ve kept…
If it was intended as an early April Fools’ Day joke, it wasn’t a very funny one. On Saturday night, vandals splashed green paint on the Big Blue Bear, the symbolic mascot of the Colorado Convention Center, and of Denver tourism in general — if you don’t count DIA’s demon…
The investigation into Evan Ebel, the man thought to have gunned down pizza-delivery man Nathan Leon and Colorado Department of Corrections executive director Tom Clements, has taken another bizarre twist in a continuing series of them. On Saturday, Texas prosecutor Mike McLelland and his wife Cynthia were murdered — and…
The judge in the Aurora theater shooting case has agreed to hear oral arguments on Monday about whether Fox News reporter Jana Winter should have to testify about her unnamed sources. But he is requiring Winter to travel to Colorado, despite the fact that her attorneys requested she not have…
Though cannabis paranoia was alive and well years before this 1921 article was written, marijuana use was still dubbed a “new menace” facing people living along the Mexican border. According to this report, found in the Telluride Daily Journal, pot was thought to be a menace as great as opium…
Denver blog posts offer a mile high salute. Mile High Report’s Kyle Montgomery introduces the new starting lineup at the venerable blog, which has turned over staff. Colorado Pols: Michael Bennet’s non-binding but politically controversial vote in favor of the Keystone XL pipeline. Denver Egotist: Check out the second iPad…
Law enforcers deal with criminals all the time, and even though plenty of them deserve to be called names, the cops tend to resist the urge to do so. It’s a tribute to Todd Griffin’s schmuckiness, then, that Oakland, Michigan, County Sheriff Michael Bouchard has publicly dubbed the man busted…
How many seconds of video does it take for someone to secure momentary Internet fame? In the case of one Joe Szklarski, the answer is six. That’s the length of a clip showing him trying and failing to execute a stunt known as the escalator helicopter — one that goes…
Update by Melanie Asmar: Was James Holmes’s court filing stating that he was willing to plead guilty to avoid the death penalty a publicity stunt? That’s the allegation being made by prosecutors in a response to Holmes’s filing (on view below). The filing, they wrote, “appears to be an attempt…
Just a couple of weeks ago, we noted that Edwin Ernest Rivera Gracias, suspected of committing a brutal murder in Jefferson County circa 2011, had been added to the FBI’s updated Ten Most Wanted list. Gracias didn’t stay there long, however. He surrendered to the FBI in El Salvador and…
There have already been several weird twists in the story of David Reathman, 65. And don’t bet against more of them popping up before the final chapter is written. Unfortunately, the end has already come for Reathman’s wife, Barbara, age seventy, who was found dead in her Golden home on…
Earlier this week, we shared our list of 2012 Best Hair on a female Denver TV finalists and the reigning champ in anticipation of a new crop of winners for Best of Denver 2013. Well, the top picks are out — but what about the nine finalists who finished just…
Same-sex marriage and marijuana legalization aren’t natural bedfellows, as it were. But do the topics have more in common than seems obvious at first blush? Jonathan Rauch thinks so. In a new Brookings Institution study on view below in its entirety, he maintains that just as states have the right…
Update: Evan Ebel is dead, but the investigation into his suspected murder of pizza-delivery man Nathan Leon and Colorado Department of Corrections boss Tom Clements goes on, and it’s making more ripples nationally than at any point since the news broke. As the Colorado Department of Corrections released his prison…
Wellness Center of Denver is probably the closest dispensary I’ve found to the dispensary-less wasteland that is Aurora. Due to their proximity to A-Town, the folks there really didn’t need to do much more than set up a cash register and fill some jars with warehouse buds. Instead, they’ve opted…
Update: Earlier today, we told you about a murder on the 1600 block of Bryant Street; see our previous coverage below. Now, the identity of the victim has been released, albeit a bit prematurely. The Denver Police Department sent out a news release without the name of the man, but…
Melanie Asmar’s post about National Compassion Fund standards suggested by families that lost loved ones in the Aurora theater shooting left at least one reader unconvinced. In response, Anita Busch, who lost family member Micayla Medek in the massacre, explained why such a plan is needed. Here’s her response…
Denver blog posts bleed purple. South Stands Denver’s Colin Daniels channels fans who go to Coors Field for the atmosphere, not the baseball when he writes: Don’t blame me if the Rockies suck. Colorado Pols: President Barack Obama will be in Colorado next week to talk about gun violence. Coyote…
In July, we told you about Greeley high school teacher Rhonda Eisenberg’s arrest for sexual assault in a case involving what was at the time an underage student. Eisenberg subsequently pleaded guilty in the matter, and she was sentenced yesterday. But the resolution of the case was complicated by two…
The group that organized opposition to Amendment 64, which allows adults to use and possess small amounts of marijuana, was called Smart Colorado. Now, a new organization by the same name has been created to lobby legislators tackling legislation required to enact the measure, with a bill expected to be…
