Moving from one location to another can be stressful and often means prioritizing what to bring with you and what to leave behind. According to Delaware police, Andre Dismuke didn’t want to leave behind the amazing cannabis we have in Colorado just because he was moving to the First State…
Denver Police haven’t confirmed that the shockingly public slayings of Justin O’Donnell and Deon Rudd in northeast Denver on Friday were gang-related. But Reverend Leon Kelly, the veteran activist behind Open Door Youth Gang Alternatives, sees gang connections in this terrible act and many others that have happened in Five…
Back in January 2011, in the wake of our “50 reasons we’re glad we live in Denver and not the United States” post, we shared a Comment of the Day from a reader who declared the Mile High City boring and lacking in culture. The latter item has continued to…
As Patricia Calhoun noted earlier today, Duane “Dog the Bounty Hunter” Chapman’s A&E reality show has been canceled after eight seasons. We’re confident Colorado’s favorite Dog will bounce back, and soon. But in the meantime, we’re marking the program’s passing with our ten most memorable posts about Chapman and company…
Update: When speaking about the decision of three CU-Boulder students arrested for trespassing on the closed Norlin Quad amid the university’s effort to shrink the annual 4/20 event to fight the charge on First Amendment grounds, attorney Sean McAllister described the school’s tactics as “fascist” in an interview shared in…
The Colorado Bureau of Investigation maintains a website focused on convicted sex offenders in the state — including those whose current whereabouts are unknown, because they’ve failed to register with authorities. We’ve collected photos and identifying information for twenty such creeps. If you recognize any of them, phone the CBI…
Bottle-blond bangs swept over one eye — this, the other boys whispered, was not a man’s haircut. One of them — a popular, handsome specimen — grew particularly incensed by his classmate’s new look. He formed a posse and found a pair of scissors. After locating the blond boy, the…
“Lights Out,” Juliet Wittman, May 17 Brush Up Your Shakespeare Juliet, what’s with all the vinegar? Twelfth Night was full-on Shakespeare with a very concentrated cast and a maximized set. The Fool alone was worth the price of admission. Did you seriously get in your car and head back to…
Gay kids in Colorado are among the most protected in the nation. Last year, legislators expanded the state’s bullying-prevention law to prohibit the bullying of students based on several specific characteristics, including sexual orientation. The revisions make Colorado one of fourteen states to explicitly protect gay students; the revised law…
Rumors were flying over the weekend about a raid or some other type of law enforcement action going down at the Silver Lizard, a shop we reviewed last week. We’ve checked with the owners, who assure us there was no raid and the shop is still open for business…
Denver’s new crime lab smells like fresh paint and virgin plastic. Some of the office furniture is still wrapped in it, or stacked in boxes. But all of the major stuff — the lab benches, the fingerprint examination tables, the walk-in freezer and the test-firing range — is in place,…
Known as a high-strung, high-country lagomorph that’s particularly susceptible to dramatic temperature shifts, the American pika has been described as a kind of “canary in the coal mine” for gauging the impact of climate change on alpine species. And an unusual collaboration between a local environmental group and Groupon’s philanthropic…
Denver blog posts remember Memorial Day…or at least most of it. In a story about Barack Obama leading Mitt Romney by four points in a new poll of Coloradans, Colorado Pols notes, Politico references “the Boulder State.” Colorado Springs is going to be pissed. At Mile High Mamas, Danya Copeland…
In Colorado, the debate about the positive attributes of medical marijuana has been going on for years — but it’s relatively new in Arizona, home to our sister paper, the Phoenix New Times, which just published the Ray Stern feature “Marijuana is real medicine for a long list of ills.”…
Update: The shooting on Friday that killed Justin O’Donnell and Deon Rudd stirred controversy in part because the former’s body was left in view of a large throng for hours. Denver Police spokesman Detective John White stresses that no disrespect was intended — and he hints that the investigative work…
Fewer than two weeks have passed since the third anniversary of the Mile High Murder archive — and since that time, there have been at least seven homicides in the metro area, including four over the Friday-Monday Memorial Day weekend. The latest involves gunfire outside the duRozz Restaurant & Lounge…
Today marks the announced effective date of Denver’s new urban camping ban, an ordinance that makes it illegal to camp on public or private property without permission. After months of debate, followed by a two-week implementation period, both Occupy Denver and the homeless community prepared for its first day in…
Our latest Comment of the Day comes complete with a video! Yep, Square State’s Zappatero reached out to let us know that shmucky Representative Mike Coffman, pilloried by Rachel Maddow and her MSNBC colleagues for his recent birther remarks, was tattooed again over the weekend by Bill Maher. The HBO…
In 2010, Sensible Colorado’s Brian Vicente petitioned the Colorado Department of Public Health to add post-traumatic-stress disorder to the list of conditions that can be treated by medical marijuana. This effort not only failed, but it led to a public-relations disaster over untruths spoken by its symbolic backer. However, Vicente…
Why is presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney scheduled to make a campaign stop in the Town of Craig at 8:30 a.m. this morning? After all, the community’s population — 9,464, according to the 2010 census — makes it the sort of place most candidates fly over. The answer can…
After putting together our top ten “You know you’re from Colorado when….” punchlines list, plus our ten favorite “You know you’re from Denver when….” zingers, Boulder was feeling left out — or at least we’re pretty sure it was. Either way, we stumbled upon a vintage list of funny references…
As if the Friday murders of Justin O’Donnell and Deon Rudd, plus the Saturday slaying of Richard Nack, didn’t create enough bloodshed for the Memorial Day weekend, yet another homicide took place in Aurora late last night. The victim has not yet been identified, by the sickening circumstances have been…
