Interested in reacquainting yourself with the weird side of Denver? Spend some time on Denver Craigslist, where strangeness is on view every single day — and it can be yours for a bargain price! Below, eyeball the ten most unusual posts we found during a recent tour of the site’s…
The just-released review of the Lower North Fork Fire, which cost three lives and destroyed dozens of structures, is quite a thorough document given the short amount of time it took to produce. And while the report (on view below) is written dispassionately, it’s plenty damning when it comes to…
We don’t know with metaphysical certitude that the Christopher Lites who was arrested in Boulder over the weekend on a charge of pedaling his bicycle under the influence is the same Chris Lites whose Facebook profile photo depicts a bizarre version of the Gary Busey family (it’s on view below)…
When she saw the gas masks, she realized she’d need help. Denver squad cars had blocked off Broadway, and soon police officers — more than a hundred of them — were pulling black body armor, batons, clear plastic face masks and those gas masks from their trunks. Trouble was coming,…
In the two months that 21-year-old Sacha Heppell has taken hip-hop lessons with a private dance instructor, dude has developed some serious moves. So he decided to put them to good use: Yesterday, he got footloose at tryouts for the Denver Broncos cheerleading squad. And while he expected his day…
This past week, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, dubbed the “Underwear Bomber” after a failed attempt to bring down an airliner in December 2009, joined the ranks of Ted Kaczynski (the Unabomber), Terry Nichols (who conspired with Timothy McVeigh in the Oklahoma City bombing) and others as one of the most notorious…
Monarch Montessori, the charter school that’s the subject of this week’s cover story, “Play Time is Over,” has enrolled enough students to open this fall. Denver Public Schools, which approved the school due in part to pressure from the State Board of Education, gave Monarch until April 20 to enroll…
Denver Blogs is feeling refreshed after a couple days off…. Colorado Pols notes that Joe Coors managed to outraise Ed Perlmutter in the first quarter of 2012 by giving himself $218,000 — about five grand more than the rest of humanity donated. South Stands Denver’s Colin D thinks the Broncos…
Update below: Last month, a majority of attendees at the Denver Republican Assembly backed Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act. And enthusiasm is even more widespread among Democrats. Saturday’s Dem state convention and assembly in Pueblo formally supported Amendment 64 — an action that proves to proponent Mason…
In defending CU Boulder’s decision to close Norlin Quad and ban visitors on 4/20, Chancellor Philip DiStefano claims the event is a party, not a protest — an assertion echoed by the institution’s spokesperson. But Mark Silverstein, legal director for the Colorado ACLU scoffs at this argument even as he…
The urban camping ban, currently scheduled for a May 7 city council vote, is moving too quickly for Denver neighborhood leaders. On Saturday, the Inter-Neighborhood Cooperation urged the council to push its decision back until past May 12, when the group will discuss it internally. But councilman Albus Brooks, chief…
Last week, we noted that former Arapahoe County sheriff Pat Sullivan’s moniker had been removed from the detention facility named in his honor — a move made in the wake of his guilty plea in a case involving meth-for-sex trades. What to call the joint now? One reader has a…
“The Landlord,” Will Ferrell’s classic Funny Or Die skit, pivots on the hilarity of a toddler knocking at a front door. But there was nothing amusing about the tiny tap, tap, tap and ringing doorbell that awoke Colorado Springs’ Traci Gilbert early Sunday morning. That’s because the youngster standing before…
As shown in this photo recently taken on the 16th Street Mall by one of our readers, police work isn’t all car chases and kicking down doors. We don’t know if the officers seen here are filing reports, learning about crimes in progress, texting each other dirty jokes or playing…
Earlier this month, a CU Boulder spokesman denied that the university’s approach to the annual 4/20 celebration on campus represented a crackdown. But that was before the announcement that Norlin Quad would be closed and visitors banned on a day that’s clearly not among CU president Bruce Benson’s faves. This…
The press has portrayed fans of Peyton Manning and Tim Tebow as being at odds — but this happy couple, seen at Denver International Airport Saturday, shows that nothing could be further from the truth. And it suggests something else, too: Mixed marriages can work!…
Plenty of people who tuned in last night’s episode of the Showtime series Nurse Jackie probably found themselves saying, “Hey, isn’t that Carmelo Anthony?” And it was: Melo appeared as a patient in a rehab center — yet Showtime PR reps hardly knocked themselves out ballyhooing the gig. Why? Maybe…
Now and then, companies send us medical marijuana-related products ranging from vaporizers to board games. We showcase them in our quasi-regular product review section, Stoner MacGyver. The latest? LighterMate magnetic lighter…
After three days of panels on everything from feminism and film making to bicycles, banks and Burger King, the Art of Social Justice conference on the Auraria campus came to a close last night with a breathtaking speech by human rights activist, Dr. Cornel West. The Turnhalle Ballroom in the…
On Sunday night, NBC’s Education Nation, a traveling summit about innovations in education, will host a Teacher Town Hall in Denver. Moderated by NBC education reporter Rehema Ellis, the teacher-only event will feature a rotating panel of nine local educators picked for their expertise on topics such as school funding,…
After weeks of denying that it would crack down on 4/20 events, the University of Colorado Boulder has announced that school will limit campus visitors to official business only and close down the famous Norlin Quad where as many as 10,000 students have gathered to smoke herb in past years…
Released yesterday, the list of finalists for the open Independent Monitor position features three natives of the Golden State. The finalists bring experience at the Offices of Independent Review in their current homes of Fresno, Los Angeles and Orange County. From here, the finalists will be whittled down to the…
