As most of the rest of Denver was preparing for the big blizzard last week by stocking up on groceries at the supermarket, I went out for more important errands and found myself at B*GOODs with a few other like-minded individuals preparing for a stoney snow day…
Westword’s addition to the rapidly dying Sh*t _______ Says trend, Sh*t People From Denver Say, earned reactions as hilarious as they are varied. True to form, most readers who commented offered funny and insightful slogans we missed in our video of city stereotypes. (Some of you, on the other hand,…
Denver blog posts know where the fun is. Mile High Report’s John Bena breaks down Broncos free agency, from Brady Quinn to Matt Prater and beyond. Burning Down the House’s Andi marks seventeen months since a devastating fire. At Square State, Jack Van Ens asks: Do Americans love themselves too…
Editor’s note: This is the latest profile in Kelsey Whipple’s ongoing series highlighting local political activists. In the house where she grew up, Ashlin Malouf-Spinden’s family spent a great deal of time discussing democracy. But because they feared retribution, those conversations never left the dinner table…
Regan Benson isn’t afraid to speak her mind, and neither are her kids, including son Blake, who made news for sporting a “Nobama” banner during Michelle Obama’s visit to Dakota Ridge High School, and Bryce, who ex-guv candidate Tom Tancredo backed in a controversy over wearing a “Border Patrol” T-shirt…
Opinions on the proposed signage upgrade at Sports Authority Field at Mile High remain split. On the same day the city’s Community Planning and Development Board issued a statement approving the changes, the Sloan’s Lake Citizens’ Group voted to oppose them — just like every other registered neighborhood organization within…
Our Sh*t People From Denver Say video continues to inspire comments that are funny, angry and weird — sometimes simultaneously. And as usually happens in a good conversation, the tangents can be just as entertaining as stuff that sticks to the subject. Take the following post, which references DIA’s evil…
Integrity. Respect. Personal growth. Community. Wisdom. These words are front and center on the website home page of Kent Denver School, one of the most highly touted (and expensive) private educational institutions in Colorado. It’s not the kind of place typically associated with crime — yet three Kent students are…
A homicide yesterday on West 9th Avenue is being described in some quarters as a Make My Day case, even though the shooter and the alleged intruder knew each other. The same was true of a November 2011 Mesa County shooting in which Sean Southwell killed Jesus Sanchez — but…
This morning, the Today show is reporting on the Kyle Dyer dog bite without running video of the actual incident. Why not? The story, on view below, announces that NBC — the parent network of 9News — has decided not to feature the footage, and adds that the Denver station…
Tim Wilson, a 25-year-old Colorado man arrested last year after Japanese authorities say he conspired to have marijuana candies sent to the weed-intolerant island nation will finally be coming home, according to 9News. The station quotes Wilson’s family as saying he received a “suspended sentence” and should be back on…
The video of 9News morning anchor Kyle Dyer being bitten in the face by a rescued Argentine Mastiff yesterday morning has led to an enormous amount of debate in our comment section. But the clip has also raised questions about whether 9News tried to squelch use and distribution of the…
Usually, individuals charged with first-degree murder who are fortunate enough to make bail are careful not to get into more trouble. But Michael Clark appears to be an exception to that rule. He was busted for DUI after being accused of killing City of Boulder staffer Marty Grisham in 1994…
Over the last four years, drug violations at Colorado K-12 schools have increased by roughly 45 percent. And according to a report shared by Education News Colorado about the issue, the rise can be squarely attributed to medical marijuana dispensaries…
On a small stage on the steps of the Capitol this morning, surrounded by more than a hundred local film industry folks, House Minority Leader Mark Ferrandino ticked off movies made in Colorado: City Slickers, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and one he called “the seminal piece of film…
It’s official: 2011 was a record-busting year in the oil industry, with the five largest companies — BP, ExxonMobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, and Royal Dutch Shell — reporting all-time-high profits of $137 billion. That’s a 75 percent jump from the year before, even though the giants produced less oil than in…
Tuesday night, Boulder City Council reduced fines and approved no jail time for first and second convictions on sixty municipal offenses — an effort to prevent a flood of minor cases (like Occupy Boulder camping tickets) from filling courtrooms. Some aspects of these changes please the ACLU of Boulder. Others…
Denver blog posts are enjoying a wacky Wednesday. Big Media’s Jason Salzman on reports that there’s a birther-driven petition movement underway aiming to ban Barack Obama from the Colorado ballot. Denver PR Blog on why a Denver Post paywall is coming. Geeks Who Drink’s Gerry-oke provides this all-purpose answer to…
Earlier this week, we contacted Boulder Daily Camera publisher Al Manzi after hearing the paper’s publishing company had told nearly twenty workers they would be laid off — and that they’d subsequently learned many of the paper’s ad-design chores would be outsourced to India. Today, Manzi got back to us,…
Ethan Hemming, charter school whiz and former interim executive director of the Charter School Institute, is no longer interim. The institute’s board of directors has made him the official executive director and head of an organization in the process of righting itself after several things went wrong, as explained in…
The Denver Police Department is reporting an early morning homicide on the 3400 block of West 9th Avenue — and judging by the information the DPD has collected thus far, there’s every possibility that it could be ruled justifiable. After all, the account revolves around a home resident and an…
In its February newsletter, under the headline “PROPOSED SPORTS AUTHORITY SIGNS CONTROVERSIAL,” local neighborhood organization the Sloan’s Lake Citizens’ Group encourages its membership to write the city in response to the potential additions to Sports Authority Field at Mile High. Because of its lighting and view plane implications, the issue…
