During our sniff adventures for Denver’s Dankest Street Corners, William Breathes and I stumbled across the Museum of Marijuana, which is really just a little house nearly lost to the office spaces and retail fronts along South Broadway. Neither of us had heard of this place before, and due to…
Today marks the two-month anniversary of Occupy Denver, a movement cemented in three firm evictions, four large-scale altercations, eight Saturday marches, and more than eighty arrests, many of them repeat charges. Six days after the anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, the branch that started it all, Occupy Denver will continue…
This week’s cover story, “Welcome to Arapahell,” examines Arapahoe County District Attorney Carol Chambers’s frequent filing of habitual criminal charges against repeat offenders, which can triple or quadruple the length of a prison sentence. While other district attorneys use the habitual criminal charge sparingly, reserving it for their most violent…
Denver Broncos fans got a little jolt of reality this morning when they found out that three players from the Super Bowl years had been nominated for the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Running back Terrell Davis, safety Steve Atwater and linebacker Karl Mecklenburg all made the list of 26…
Mary Chadwick identifies days almost exclusively by number now. As in, Day 13 was when her daughter, Laura Triem, who was hit by a light rail downtown on November 4, woke up from her coma. Those thirteen days felt like months to Chadwick, and she thinks she’s aged fifty years,…
Joe Miklosi came out early as a Democratic willing to take on incumbent Mike Coffman in the sixth congressional district — whatever that might look like when redistricting is done. But party insiders are saying that Miklosi — despite his Best New Legislator win in the Best of Denver 2009…
The two groups vying to win the contract to redevelop Union Station are both missing the boat, says one reader. Instead of building off the concepts of the past, they need to look to the future, to the “one-off-thinking of today’s youth and young adults.”…
As part of our attempt to keep you abreast of the Zeitgeist, we now share with you this entry from the wacky new Pepper Spraying Cop website: “Thank you lord Jesus for taking time out of your busy day to allow me to throw a football around and run around…
In light of the recent creation of Liberate Denver, an occupation offshoot focused on safer spaces and better internal relationships, Occupy Denver proper has had a few decisions to make. Last night, this meant a vote to officially recognize the roles of the female and LGBTQ members inside the movement…
News that reporter Deborah Sherman is out at 9News — and the dearth of details as to why — has dragged disgraced doctor Louis Hampers into the news again. Sherman claims former ER doc Hampers stalked her after she broke a second date with him. In a civil lawsuit she…
Today, the Denver Post published an article in which John Elway was unwilling to dub Tim Tebow the Broncos’ franchise quarterback. But the team just made a larger statement about the future according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter. Here’s his tweet from moments ago…
No turkeys among these Denver blog posts. At this writing, 5280’s Natasha Gardner is counting down the mag’s top fifty power players. Stay tuned to see who’s seven spots higher than Phil Anschutz. Colorado Pols explains the following headlline: “Hickenlooper goes ‘Cloward-Piven!'” Denver Frank shares things overheard at Thanksgiving that…
In recent weeks, news broke that Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division head Dan Hartman would be leaving that post in favor of Laura Harris, director of the Liquor and Tobacco Enforcement Division — a controversial move that prompted plenty of speculation. Harris took charge of MMED on November 14, and she…
On Sunday night, four Larimer County Jail inmates allegedly squirted a feces-and-urine blend at deputies using shampoo bottles, causing a significant flood in the process. Unprecedented? Not according to Larimer County Sheriff’s Office public information officer John Schulz, who says such coordination is uncommon, but not the use of bodily…
In a video captured on Occupy Boulder’s livestream earlier this week, Boulder Police Officer Abel Ramos is seen presenting the gathering with “good news… The Chief of Police and the county commissioner have entered into this agreement, and we’re just going to let you do what you do. You guys…
We recently published a list of 10 names better than Metro State’s latest rebranding picks: Metropolitan Denver State University, Denver Metropolitan State University and Denver State Metropolitan University. But we place a poor second to one reader, who offered fifteen suggestions. Check them out below…
Colorado’s 6th Congressional District has been a safe Republican enclave — the sort of place likely to elect current representative Mike Coffman for as long as he cares to serve in Congress. But a judge recently redrew lines to make the district more competitive, thereby giving an actual chance to…
The arrest in Chicago of Father Richard James Kurtz, a Jesuit priest, for alleged sex assault on an underage male victim in Colorado is disturbing, obviously, but also puzzling. After all, the crime was reportedly committed and reported to authorities in 2001. So why did it take a decade to…
In June, avid bicyclist Eugene Howrey, age 73, was struck and killed by a dump truck driven by Christopher Loven, a man with a number of past run-ins with pedalers. In the years prior to the Lowrey tragedy, he was allegedly involved in two separate bike-rage incidents. Months later, the…
“PrayPal,” Jenny An, November 17 Bible Bytes All religions are based completely on ignorance: “I don’t know/understand, so God must be responsible.” Scientology doesn’t even mention Overlord Xenu until you’ve invested thousands of dollars, simply because of how outlandishly stupid the story is. Mormons actually believe Joseph Smith pulled the…
In 2007, Denver voters gave the thumbs-up to the Colorado Symphony Orchestra’s request for $60 million in bonds to help renovate Boettcher Concert Hall. The symphony would have to come up with an additional $30 million on its own in order to finance the total project, which was estimated to…
On the Saturday before Easter 2010, Dennis Pauls got it into his head to give his ex-wife a plant. It was an Easter lily, a Christian symbol of suffering and renewal; tradition says white lilies bloomed where Christ’s sweat fell to the ground in the garden of Gethsemane, a sign…
