No question that the Nuggets’ 118-117 overtime victory against the Atlanta Hawks last night was exciting: I left the Pepsi Center feeling simultaneously elated and in need of emergency medical care. But while the contest certainly spotlighted many of Denver’s attributes, it also left me wondering if the squad’s issues…
Headlines spurred by John Ramsey’s promotional blitz on behalf of his new book, The Other Side of Suffering, have focused not on the potential identity of the person who killed his young daughter, JonBenet, in Boulder circa 1996, but on his negative comments about child beauty pageants and the Toddlers…
Frontier Airlines may be facing business turbulence, but that hasn’t stopped the carrier from launching its weirdest promotion yet. Frontier is asking visitors to its website and Facebook page to vote for its next animal mascot, with possibilities including Samson the Sloth and Melvin the Turtle, who hardly symbolize on-time…
The Facebook page for Lakewood’s Cody Charlton features a single like: Big Brother, a TV show in which bad things often happen to people confined in a house. Which is appropriate given that he’s just been sentenced for improperly touching at least ten kids at the home where his mother…
Those early reports that Peyton Manning would decide on a new team by Tuesday proved to be as greatly exaggerated as our initial view that he’d join the Los Angeles Lakers before he’d ink with the Broncos. At this writing, Denver is thought to be among Manning’s final four or…
Over the weekend, I attended South By Southwest Interactive in Austin, where I was scheduled to host a medical marijuana seminar; look for more on that subject in this space soon. But one of the most intriguing, and controversial, projects on display wasn’t at the convention. It was on the…
Last night, police arrested three Occupy Denver/Thunderdome protesters on the corner of 14th and Broadway after an attempt to film one officer ended in threats of violence and the protesters being pepper-sprayed in the face. Corey Donahue and Patrick Marsden, both Thunderdome cooks, are currently in jail on suspicion of…
Denver blog posts play hurt, like all the great ones. Bronco Talk’s Jon Heath shares the argument of the Broncos’ Tony Hills, who thinks Tim Tebow and Peyton Manning could coexist on the same squad. Colorado Pols accuses the Denver Post of sanitizing a GOP rally. Denver Stiffs’ Colin Neilson…
The most shameful date in the history of Colorado’s death penalty is January 6, 1939 — the day the state executed a bewildered 23-year-old man with an IQ of 46, a man who was innocent in just about every sense of the word His name was Joe Arridy. And three-quarters…
Last week, one Occupy Denver protester self-identified as having scabies. The skin infection, created by mites inside the skin, is spread through close contact, leaving city officials concerned about health in Civic Center Park and protesters worried about repeated visits from police and Public Works employees. Yesterday, approximately fifteen police…
Paul Staffin, 67, appears to have conformed to pretty much every known stereotype about older homeowners when he allegedly pointed a pellet gun at a kid who’d strayed onto his lawn. But the story spelled out in a Boulder Police Department report on view below subsequently took a weird turn…
This past weekend, the Denver Post reported about controversy over abortion items in the Doonesbury comic strip. The piece noted that the Post doesn’t publish Doonesbury; it stopped doing so this past June. The decision retroactively frustrated one reader, who shared a slew of passionate notes on our earlier offering,…
Mayor Michael Hancock was supposed to be the headliner at an event to celebrate the year’s inaugural B-cycle ride and Selection Monday for the NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament, whose Final Four takes place in Denver March 30-April 3. But Hizzoner was under the weather, so Deputy Mayor Cary Kennedy slipped…
Back in January, prosecutors said they wanted Hyung Kyo Chung and Shannon Jeffrey to spend time in jail after being convicted of animal cruelty for mistreating their puppy, Bailey. In the end, though, the couple earned probation even though the dog suffered two bone breaks within his first six months…
Pro-choice activists, legislators, physicians and faith leaders gathered on the west steps of the Capitol Monday in a “Rally to Protect Women’s Health.” The event was a spin-off of Pro-Choice Lobby Day, as well as a response to local and federal fetal personhood proposals…
In January, U.S. Attorney John Walsh sent seizure-threat letters to 23 medical marijuana dispensaries within 1,000 feet of schools — and his office promises that a second wave of missives will follow shortly. No new targets have been named yet, but clues about possible future actions can be found on…
After Troubleshooter Tom Martino’s bankruptcy became a mainstream media story this past September, he pointed out that he had already spoken about his financial woes on his KHOW radio program. Now, he’s engaged in similar self-disclosure regarding a lawsuit filed against him by Sheldon Chrysler, a former friend who he…
Initially, many of us regarded the thought of Peyton Manning signing with the Broncos as a pipe dream . Well, the stuff in that pipe has been pretty amazing thus far, with Manning actually visiting Denver in person shortly before a similar stop in Arizona. Now, with Peyton’s decision delayed…
In this time of confusion and turmoil, God’s Word remains the only truth in which we can trust. God has shown us again the truth that He alone is true. In Romans 3:4 God declares: ‘Let God be true but every man a liar.’ Events within the last year have…
“On a Roll,” Laura Shunk, March 8 All Viets Are Off There goes Laura Shunk again with her trailblazing reviews. New Saigon is ridiculously overpriced, has a notoriously rude staff, and serves average food. It’s 2012; there are a plethora of great Viet restaurants in Denver now, yet they’re deprived…
This is not going to be good. A yellow school bus is plowing down Colorado Boulevard, spraying snow in its wake, its windows revealing the tiny, messy faces of children. The combination of slush and students is enough to strike fear in the heart of any sign spinner, but Justin…
As of this morning, the Girl Scouts of the USA, that bastion of female youth and empowerment, is now roughly twice as old as Hawaii. Founded on March 12, 1912 by original Girl Scout Juliette Gordon Low, the organization celebrates its 100th anniversary. In the Denver headquarters of the Girl…
