Melanie Asmar’s post about the more than 28,000 overnight parking tickets issued this past summer — a supplement to her feature article “Feed Me” — inspired one reader to paraphrase the “Imagine a Great City” slogan that’s been used by Denver mayors from Federico Peña to Michael Hancock. But what…
Update below: The so-called Denver Medical Marijuana Workgroup meets today for the second time in two months. But despite its name, which has caused some confusion in the medical marijuana community, the group hasn’t been charged with any actual work and isn’t a regulatory committee in any way…
Later this morning, President Barack Obama is scheduled to speak at the Auraria campus, with subjects expected to include student-loan reform. But former mayoral candidate Jeff Peckman, the man behind the failed ET affairs commission initiative, would like him to touch on something else — a petition asked the government…
As the weather hit thirty degrees and the season’s first snow closed in on Occupy Denver last night, members turned once more to tents as a refuge from the elements. Because this was the reason the state patrol raided the camp two weeks ago, the four new tents lasted only…
While Tim Tebow’s Miami miracle resulted in an 18-15 Broncos victory, he paid by being sacked a league high seven times. This achievement earned him respect for his toughness, but also something more — a week’s supply of NuVo condoms to improve his “protection.” Although if The Chosen One is…
Sorry, Mr. President. The predicted SNOBAMA storm hasn’t been nearly fierce enough to trap you in the Mile High City. But while we’re bummed the visiting commander in chief won’t get a chance to sample our ten best things to do in Denver while stranded list, there are compensations –…
Occupy Denver has launched a call-to-action in advance of Barack Obama’s trip to Denver. The plan is for the president, here for a fundraiser and a jobs speech, to receive a bag of letters from the local 99 percent. Although the details of that plan are under wraps, the group…
Though he’s probably most famous for fathering 24-hour cable news, World Championship Wrestling and, to budding environmentalists in 1990 the world over, the Saturday-morning cartoon Captain Planet and the Planeteers (Goooo Planet!), media mogul Ted Turner also loves animals. Especially animals that live in the wild, wild West, such as…
Update below: It’s a temptation pretty much every student has felt — the urge to make a bomb threat because of an impending test or an awful assignment or the feeling that there was something more important to do than go to school. Of course, most of us are able…
At about 9:37 this morning, Matthew Messina Velasquez finds himself one half of a strange, if typical, conversation about the occupation. “So, what are you guys doing?” a stranger in a Yankees cap asks at Occupy Denver’s front desk. “Protesting.” “Protesting what? Are you for Bush?”…
Denver blog posts, in black and white. Over at Cafe Society, Patricia Calhoun reports that Michael Hancock nemesis Scottie Ewing is planning a move to Las Vegas by year’s end. Happy 100 day anniversary, Mayor! Coyote Gulch: Clock’s ticking on keeping global warming below 2C. Colorado Pols: This is the…
Today, 36 clergy affixed their names to a paid ad and open letter to Village Voice and the classified ad site Backpage.com. The full page ad was published in the New York Times. The religious coalition demanded that we close down our legal, adult classifieds…
Last week, attorney Jennifer Edwards and Talulah Jones owner Robin Lohre told us about a lawsuit filed against the Posh Maids service. The reason: Lohre found her dog, Ruthie, dead under her dining-room table after her house was cleaned. But Posh Maids owner Miranda Pallone feels that version isn’t wholly…
Buds for Boobies, taking place at 7 p.m. tonight at the Boulder Theater, is among the season’s most unusual fundraisers: a medical-marijuana-themed decorative bra auction, with proceeds earmarked for breast-cancer research. But it’s also a music-filled educational symposium arguing that MMJ isn’t just for nausea anymore…
Barack Obama is returning to Denver for a fundraiser and a jobs speech on the Auraria campus. And if the storm forecast to hit the area this evening and continue through most of tomorrow lives up to its advance billing, he may be here for a while. If Obama gets…
Intriguing comments beget more intriguing comments. That truism is proven again by the post below, originally affixed to a Comment of the Day item spurred by the federal raid on the Cherry Top Farms dispensary. Here, a reader talks about the leap of faith made by medical marijuana entrepreneurs to…
Just in case you went on a two-day heroin bender starting early Sunday or you were busy occupying stuff for the past several days, Tim Tebow really screwed up the Broncos’ chance of drafting Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck after the season. He led two touchdown drives with less than three…
Last night, MSNBC’s The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell devoted a hefty five-minute segment (on view below) to the Denver school board race and candidate Emily Sirota. Why? O’Donnell followed an article from The Nation that called the contest the wackiest in the country. But it’s hard to imagine either…
Society seems to have a different viewpoint about sex assaults involving an older woman and an underage male than if an older man and a teen girl are paired — but the former can certainly have tragic consequences. Case in point: the relationship between a fifteen-year-old boy who committed suicide…
Occupy Denver clashed with the Denver Police Department again last night over a recently built cardboard shelter in Civic Center Park. Later dubbed “the Thundercube” because of the symbol the Thunderdome has become regarding the group’s rights, the small, ceiling-free fort was built from about 25 cardboard boxes that had…
Downtown Denver’s ozone levels are monitored from a five-by-seven-foot shack guarded by a single padlock. The cramped room’s contents are those of a high-tech janitor’s closet: Windex, a broom, a chair, a fire extinguisher and about $25,000 worth of equipment that uses UV light to record the city’s levels of…
Josh Beckius is in search of redemption. That’s a word that comes up regularly when he talks about his life. At the age of sixteen, Beckius was charged with the murder of Dayton Leslie James, a night-time manager of the Baseline Cinema Savers in Boulder. The crime, which had occurred…
