The brilliant minds attending the Colorado School of Mines can be included with those other young people who apparently need federal protection against drugs. Mile Highs and Lows caught up with Golden Alternative Care owner Craig Mardick briefly yesterday, who confirmed that his shop was included in the most recent…
Ron Swift and Randall Hatlee — the Echo Valley Ranch owners being charged with three counts of animal cruelty — will have their six horses returned to them as the prosecution continues. In a probable cause hearing on April 10, Park County Judge Brian Green found that the horses wouldn’t…
In the past month, the Denver Police Department has institutionalized numerous changes aimed at increasing the efficiency of its internal reviews and encouraging the public to put faith in the results. According to Police Chief Robert White and Manager of Safety Alex Martinez, this is a very, very good thing…
Most of the time, a trip to Coors Field is a great escape, what with the baseball, beer and (usually) sunshine. But sometimes, like at Monday’s home opener, you need an escape from your escape, whether its a new part of the park to explore or a factoid to ponder…
Sure, it was tacky — but folks around town were talking about our Colorado Rockies fans without underwear series, wondering how, exactly, these baseball fans might have lost their undergarments at Coors Field. Not to mention their lunch after they left the ballpark…
We first told you about the Denver Zoo’s plan to turn a shitload of shit into electricity and heat back in 2009. The key is a scientific process called gasification. Basically, it works like this: Poop and trash and other waste goes in, science happens, and then voila! The end…
A parrot, a tree frog and a chipmunk. These are the three animals that made the finals in Frontier Airlines’ publicity stunt to choose a new mascot and spokes-animal for the tails of some of its planes. All three have been campaigning at coffee shops and yogurt joints around Denver,…
The changes to Denver Kush Club since our first visit in May 2010 haven’t been drastic, but the transition from stoner den with a thrown-together lounge and dispensary to a slick storefront with memorable herb made for a great second first impression…
Denver blog posts run for their lives. The Huffington Post gets in on some hot action when a Diamond Cabaret truck pulls up behind CBS4 reporter Greg Moody during a live feed from a Rockies game. Meanwhile, Denver Frank has localized something called Map of the Dead, which will help…
Catholics are pushing back against a decision by the Catholic Campaign for Human Development to cut off funding to an immigrant advocacy group in Durango because it has ties to an LGBT advocacy group that supports the legalization of civil unions. The progressive national nonprofit Catholics United has started a…
This morning, the ACLU of Colorado requested a formal investigation of the Denver Police Department’s conduct with Occupy Denver during the past six and a half months. The complaint, delivered to Police Chief Robert White and the Office of the Independent Monitor, cites both First Amendment freedoms and evidence of…
After losing popular head men’s basketball coach Tim Miles to Nebraska, Colorado State University landed a proven and relatively high-profile replacement: Larry Eustachy. There’s just one catch: The new CSU head coach is kinda, sorta most well-known for being photographed while partying with students when he was head coach of…
Denver Police Chief Robert White has appointed Michael Battista to the post of Conduct Review Commander; he will head all reviews of police misconduct. In announcing the appointment, White said he hoped the new structure would cut down review time by at least 50 percent. With the new addition, the…
Yesterday we offered the bare facts on the woman taken to Denver Health after she stripped naked at Denver International Airport — allegedly after she was told to extinguish the cigarette she’d lit up on the concourse. People at DIA were shocked by the sight, but as these historical photos…
Overnight, the unnamed woman who stripped at Denver International Airport has become Colorado’s biggest celebrity, responsible for the most-viewed item on TMZ. The would-be traveler, who was taken to Denver Health for evalution, allegedly stripped down in protest after being told to put out a cigarette as she waited to…
Destined for Deportation begins with the personal. Jeanette Vizguerra, a mother of three children who are United States citizens and is now facing deportation, explains that she came to America not for money, but for safety. Her husband drove a bus in Mexico and was hijacked at gunpoint three times…
Years before he won an Academy Award, filmmaker Daniel Junge was a barback at the Wynkoop Brewing Company — and yesterday his former bosshosted a reception to celebrate not just Junge’s recent Oscar win for best short documentary, Saving Face, but also Ryan Tedder’s Grammy — a real double whammy…
As evidenced in our “7 best-dressed (and undressed) fans at Colorado Rockies home opener,” the fans at Coors Field were far more entertaining than the shutout loss for the home team. And yesterday one local voyeur cameraman contacted us to say he could one-up our list’s number-one spot with a…
On Saturday, Evergreen-based horse rescuer Monika Courtney organized a benefit concert for six emaciated horses seized by the Park County Sheriff’s Office from owners Ron Swift and Randall Hatlee of Bailey. The event was a success, raising $7,800, and participants assumed the horses (including one named Little Big Man, seen…
For the second month in a row, the Colorado medical marijuana registry has seen an increase in the number of patients, definitively ending a six-month stretch of people giving up their red cards. According to stats released by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment last week, a total…
When Tia Jones got the call yesterday, she was elated. The Family and Senior Homeless Initiative reached its goal three and a half years early when it helped its 1,000th family transition into permanent housing on February 8. One month and sixteen more families later, it’s time to celebrate. As…
Frank Gray is president of the Castle Rock Economic Development Council in Douglas County. Yet at a public hearing yesterday on six projects vying for big-bucks state tourism incentives, Gray eschewed his county’s own project and, like many of the 23 people who testified, spoke in favor of Gaylord Entertainment’s…
