Stop by The Front Tea and Arts weekday mornings and you’ll find a typical small-town Colorado coffee shop, showcasing a wide range of teas and coffees plus the work of local artists. But lately on certain evenings, the smell of roasted beans switches over to the smell from vaporized bowls…
We recently profiled Colorado’s Secretary of State Scott Gessler, who has received a great deal of attention due to allegations of corruption and accusations that he has suppressed voters. In our reporting, we got perspectives from many local politicians and elected officials on Gessler’s first years in office. Below is…
Denver blog posts make up the difference. Colorado Pols notes that all of Colorado’s Republican reps turned thumbs down on the bill for Hurricane Sandy relief. At People’s Press Collective, Eileen McGuire-Mahony says not to worry: She wasn’t invited to the inaugural ball, either. Denver Frank has two words for…
This week’s cover story, “The Lifers Book Club,” reports on the Words Beyond Bars Project, a pilot progam at the Limon Correctional Facility that puts high-security prisoners, many of them serving life sentences, in a room with volunteers to discuss great books. It’s a modest effort that could transform lives…
Nearly six months after the mass shooting in Aurora, Cinemark, the owner of the theater where the massacre occurred, is reopening the site to the public on Friday, sparking backlash from victims’ families. More debate could arise about some of the movies being screened for free over the weekend –…
Update: The Denver coroner’s office has identified the woman murdered Friday night on Pearl Street as Heather Hurd, a 44 year old from Littleton. One connection between Hurd and Clifford Fordyce, the man accused of killing her: They were friends on Facebook — an online relationship that hadn’t been going…
Our recent post about a new lawsuit filed against the owner of the Aurora Century 16 noted that it was at least the eighth formal complaint spawned by the July 20 theater shooting at which twelve people died and seventy were injured. One reader has mixed feelings about the proliferation…
Periodically, we post about unsolved murders in Denver — and one of the ten cases we featured last May focused on the 1994 slaying of Jacqueline Gallegos. Now, however, a grand jury has indicted three men — Andre Jackson, Samuel Sims and Jackie McConnell — with the grisly and shocking…
In case you’re a GDI (that stands for “God Damn Independent”), Total Frat Move celebrates (usually) (sort of) the kind of behavior that separates members of college fraternities from the rest of humanity. The site regularly features user-submitted photos from across the country, including Colorado. Check out our ten home-state…
At least eight lawsuits have been filed against Cinemark, owner of the Aurora Century 16, where twelve people were killed and seventy injured in a July 20 attack. (The theater will reopen tomorrow.) Now, however, a newly filed suit targets different parties: Dr. Lynne Fenton, who provided psychiatric care for…
Update: Yesterday, we told you about the continuing search for 21-year-old Denver-area musician Kaitlin Kenney after she disappeared in the Grand Canyon, and her mom’s sense that she lost her life; see our earlier post below. Now, the National Park Service has announced that the search for Kenney is being…
By 9 a.m. today I had received at least three e-mails asking how I felt about my “real identity” as Craig Claiborne being outed in a New York Times opinion piece today by Frank Bruni. Last I checked, though, I’m not a long-dead Times food critic. Or am I? Nudge…
When Denver craftsman Corbin Clay launched his own custom furniture company a few years back, he saw an opportunity to make stylish, affordable pieces out of an abundant resource: the vast stands of dead lodgepole pines left by Colorado’s raging beetle epidemic. It was a shrewd move; among thousands of…
At the Capitol yesterday, Secretary of State Scott Gessler had lots to discuss at a State Affairs briefing — but only a few minutes into his presentation, he was interrupted by critical questions from lawmakers. The immediate criticisms, which were put on hold until after he finished his prepared remarks,…
Before Saturday’s Broncos-Ravens playoff game, Denver Mayor Michael Hancock made a friendly wager with Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake. If Denver won, Rawlings-Blake promised to send a platter of broiled crab cakes. If Baltimore won, Hancock agreed to mail a box of dry-aged “cowboy cut” ribeye steaks. And do the Ray…
Denver blog posts stand up for what’s right. Big Media’s Jason Salzman on Cory Gardner raising the specter of Nazi Germany in discussing the debt ceiling. Coyote Gulch: Bad snow-pack news — it’s only 63 percent of the average. Plants & Animals Denver: Rub-a-dub-dub, vegan soap in your tub…
These days, radio and television stations are known in some quarters as “old media.” How can such operations survive in the wake of the Internet revolution? By combining forces. At least that’s the theory of folks at public-radio station KUVO, at 89.3 FM in Denver, public-TV service Rocky Mountain PBS,…
We recently wrote about the debate at the governor’s marijuana task force regarding the licensing of retail pot shots. Sparking some controversy, at least one task force member wants to see a state agency own and operate all commercial establishments. We now have a copy of a letter from Boulder…
In his post about a GOP bill to allow guns in schools, Sam Levin mentioned last year’s accidental shooting at CU-Denver. A new comment argues that the latter is instructive rather than an indictment of the guns-in-schools concept…
Last August, just over a week after the Aurora theater shooting, we checked movie-ticket websites for the shuttered Aurora Century 16 and were shocked to discover that a user review making light of the tragedy was on the Movietimes.com page. With the theater set to reopen on Thursday, we looked…
Welcome to our fourth annual look at the latest Colorado selections from the twisted People of Walmart website. As in our collections from 2010, 2011 and 2012, this year’s batch catches customers at their very best — or at least at their funniest. Check out the latest crop below…
As we reported last week, calculating ski-area deaths in Colorado is tricky, since Colorado Ski Country USA applies a strict criteria to those included in overall figures. Cases in point: Olathe, Kansas resident Stuart Brownlee and Summit County’s James Lindenblatt died while skiing in recent days, but neither meet the…
