Viewers of Glee last night saw a lot of Littleton-bred Melissa Benoist, whose character seems targeted to become the new Rachel now that the Lea Michele-portrayed fave has moved to NYC. As a result, lotsa video of Benoist has surfaced, including a 2007 solo when she was an Arapahoe High…
Update: The driver who struck and killed sixteen-year-old Centaurus High School junior Brooke Brunsvold late Monday will not face charges in the terrible incident — because Brunsvold, making a late-night visit to a boyfriend, was crossing U.S. 287 against the light. Meanwhile, a Facebook group has sprung up to celebrate…
German Medina is gone. At this writing, no one knows where the undocumented immigrant is, but he’s definitely wanted…by the Aurora Police Department and the 17th Judicial District DA’s office, which has charged Medina in absentia with first-degree murder of his girlfriend, Bertha Garcia. And the background circumstances are disturbing…
There’s not much online about The Retreat — just its location and its connection with five other dispensaries, including many of the former Colorado Dispensary Services (CDS) locations. That means no online menu, no website telling its story, nothing. Just the basics. Which, in hindsight, is much like the dispensary…
Mimi the elephant is in the twilight of her elephant life. Zookeepers’ best guess is that she’s 53 years old, which easily makes her the oldest Asian elephant at the Denver Zoo and means she’s surpassed the average elephant life span of about 44 years old. As such, Mimi has…
Ninth time’s a charm. President Barack Obama was back in Colorado this morning, marking his ninth visit to the state this year and his third campaign stop here in just three weeks. The crowd of thousands flocking to Golden — and the surrounding traffic jams and street closures — served…
Denver blog posts are all natural. South Stands Denver’s Colin D. on fans in one section of Mile High Stadium who’ve got a problem that’s for the birds. This Lively Earth’s Priscilla Stuckey on yoga with Wendy Bramlett. Colorado Peak Politics reports on a Montrose Democrat accused of giving herself…
Before a group of Mitt Romney supporters in Centennial earlier this week, Fox News analyst and conservative pundit Dick Morris said Barack Obama won’t be elected because his fans won’t actually vote. Today, before Obama took the stage in Golden, we asked ten supporters what they think of Morris’s comments…
It took a cartoonist to re-energize interest in eccentric scientist Nikola Tesla. Matthew Inman recently posted a piece on The Oatmeal, his comic website, explaining “Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever lived,” and it’s inspired more than a million dollars in donations to turn one of his…
Yesterday, we told you the story of Dre, a pit bull reunited with his family in Brighton months after he was threatened with euthanizing following an incident in which he reportedly showed aggression but didn’t bite anyone; more than 68,000 people signed a petition demanding that he be saved. We’ve…
Yesterday, Sam Levin wrote about ex-pollster and current pundit Dick Morris, who argued during a Centennial appearance that Obama’s African-American and Latino supporters won’t vote in November, thereby allowing a comfortable victory for Mitt Romney. One reader responded by endorsing Morris’s expertise, albeit in a way he may not enjoy…
On Monday, before Amendment 64’s proponents lost a court case over excised Blue Book language, and prior to Governor John Hickenlooper announcing his opposition to the measure, law enforcement officials held a press conference touting a study about the dangers of marijuana grows. Was the latter part of a coordinated…
Earlier this month, Christopher Garduno, 38, was found murdered outside Village By the Park Apartments in Northglenn. Now, the Northglenn Police Department has made an arrest in the case, jailing Demetrius Trujillo, 35, on a first-degree-murder warrant. Thus far, though, details are scarce…
Over the past six months or so, we’ve paid tribute to the hilarious Texts From Last Night website with Colorado-centric collections from the 303 and 720 area codes. Now it’s 970’s turn — and judging by the crazy entries we found, the Colorado texters with those digits are more than…
Jamal Hunter spent a stretch of 2011 in jail — and he still bears the scars. Hunter has filed a lawsuit against the City and County of Denver and individual law enforcers for failing to properly protect him, after he says inmates scalded his genitals with boiling water and two…
Late yesterday afternoon, in the biggest surprise since the sun rose in the east, Governor John Hickenlooper announced his opposition to Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act. Amendment proponent Mason Tvert responded with a statement charging Hick with hypocrisy — a theme that echoes reaction to the negative…
On a hot Tuesday afternoon, Lori Maloney slumps in a lawn chair by her garden, staring at the cars and buses whizzing by on the freshly paved Research Road that the Department of Energy finished constructing this spring. This new two-way street leads to a gated entrance to the campus…
“A Mile High,” Patricia Calhoun, August 30 Hope and Changed I must say that I thoroughly enjoyed reading “A Mile High.” I have become bored with most of the issues we read about — and that was not the case with this article. I was in prison for a weapons…
What? A sensible new rule adopted by the City of Denver without a public uproar? Amazing, but true. On August 30, Tom Downey, director of the Denver Department of Excise and Licenses, signed a new rule — with the blessing of City Attorney Doug Friednash — that removes the hard-and-fast…
Scene and herd: We know that Governor John Hickenlooper is considered something of a golden boy in the Democratic Party; in fact, he was recently included in the list of a half-dozen politicians that CNN suggested might be “the next Obama.” But convention planners in Charlotte definitely put the colorful…
Could the Mitt Romney/Paul Ryan ticket be better for medical marijuana in Colorado than the Obama administration? That depends on who you ask — and when you ask it. Last Friday, Republican veep candidate Ryan told a Colorado Springs TV station that MMJ and pot legalization are state’s rights issues…
In this week’s feature, “Sun Burn,” we go inside the National Renewable Energy Lab — the federal facility in Golden that has for 35 years been dedicated to innovations in energy efficiency. In print, we take an in-depth look at NREL’s important role in solar energy and other industries over…
