Hey! It’s time for a Denver blog post roundup! Mile High Report fan poster BroncoPH notes that the Broncos are relegated to a few pages at the end of Tim Tebow’s autobiography. Coyote Gulch: The snowmelt flooding risk is dropping (H/T Vail Daily). Colorado Pols weighs in what might be…
Medical marijuana critic William Breathes gets his Cheech and Chong on during a trip to the Bud Cellar. But those looking for something other than Acapulco Gold will be able to find it at plenty of places featured in our newly updated MMJ listings. Click to access our medical-marijuana dispensary…
This dispensary has closed. Given the cellar part of the name Bud Cellar (and my stoned imagination), I had grand visions of the shop. I imagined being led down a spiral staircase to a dank, stone-walled, dimly lit basement filled with chilled, curing jars of cannabis sitting next to aging…
The document allegedly linking Denver mayor-elect Michael Hancock to the Denver Players prostitution ring listed the cost for one session as $275. Which got us to wondering: What services would that buy? And what would you get if you played less… or more? To answer those questions, we turned to…
The Rocky Mountain Alley Cat Alliance is at it again. The Feline Fix organization, which has promoted spaying and neutering via unique campaigns involving Tom Cat condoms applied by the indefatigable Nurse Nancy is now tackling B.C.H.O.B.C.S.I.D. — Baby Cats Having Other Baby Cats Syndrome in Denver. Seems your kitty…
Update below: Last week, Denver Post columnist Woody Paige admitted using quotes without attribution from a piece by SportsBusiness Journal’s John Ourand. In the same item, he also denied an old claim by sportswriter Dan Le Batard that he’d plagiarized him back in the ’90s. Now, SportsByBrooks.com, the same blog…
If President Barack Obama thought he’d squelch the birther movement once and for all by releasing his birth certificate, he was wrong. Readers continue to post items like this one, which acknowledges that Obama isn’t Kenyan, but argues that he’s not American, either…
The latest developments in the story linking mayor-elect Michael Hancock to the Denver Players prostitution biz suggest that everyone who’s been slimed by it so far wants it to be over immediately if not sooner. And who’s at the front of the the parade along with Hancock himself? The Denver…
Cannabis Therapy Institute’s Laura Kriho raised concern about new regulations to be enacted by the Board of Health at a meeting yesterday. And following the marathon session, she’s still worried, especially about what she sees as “a backdoor method to create a new crime: DUI-MM” — driving under the influence…
Nederland’s Frozen Dead Guy Days, a tribute to the corpse of a dry-ice packed grandpa stored in a Tuff Shed, has become a weird staple of the local festival scene over the past ten years. But now, the town’s chamber of commerce would like somebody else to take over because,…
Two guys meet up in a bar and exchange a few words. Nobody gets hurt. No reason to make a federal case out of it. Unless, of course, the two guys are Lance Armstrong and Tyler Hamilton. Then the FBI, the AFLD and even TMZ want to know exactly who…
The prosecution of Molly and Alex Midyette by the Boulder District Attorney’s Office led to convictions for both regarding the 2006 death of their twelve-week-old son Jason. But now Molly is appealing her sixteen-year prison sentence, arguing Alex and his powerful family sabotaged her defense in order to help him…
Denver Public Schools has asked the Colorado Department of Education to investigate the credit recovery program at North High School, in light of concerns raised in the Westword cover story “Passing on Education,” DPS spokesman Mike Vaughn confirms. That move pleased Jennifer Draper Carson, chairwoman of North’s Collaborative School Committee,…
Chemo101.com, a Denver-based website designed to educate patients and caregivers about chemotherapy drugs, has welcomed over 125,000 unique visitors since it’s launch in December 2010. That’s equal parts impressive and sad for its president and founder, Kristin Gustafson…
Denver blog posts, hot from the cyber-oven. Mile High Report’s Sayre Bedinger on Brady Quinn’s belief that he can compete with Tim Tebow and Kyle Orton for starting Broncos quarterback. No word about whether he also he thinks he can fly. DenverInfill presents Union Station Update No. 69 — which…
The most recent sweeps period, when ratings determine TV ad rates, ended in May — but last night, 9News unleashed a blockbuster anyhow. The station reports that the Newhouse Hotel, across the street from the State Capitol, is the registered home of no fewer than eleven sex offenders…
Righthaven LLC, which has filed oodles of copyright-infringement lawsuits here and in its home base of Nevada, is on a losing streak. First, Judge John Kane ripped the firm, which subsequently dropped a case against chronically ill, mildly autistic hobby blogger Brian Hill. Now, a Nevada judge has done likewise…
Freaking out can have consequences — and they’re not always the ones we expect. Just ask Sarah Lane, 27, who allegedly threw a pita sandwich at a taxi driver in Boulder, only to wind up in handcuffs for something else entirely…
For months, newspaper insiders have been abuzz about Denver Post parent company MediaNews Group potentially acquiring Freedom Communications, owner of the Colorado Springs Gazette and the Orange County Register — two properties that synergize nicely with MediaNews strongholds here and in Southern California. The Wall Street Journal is now reporting…
Yesterday, Jonathan Shikes wrote about the diminishing returns of Taco Bell’s Colorado Rockies deal, which would be less impressive even if the Rocks weren’t mired in an offensive slump. Not that one reader is actually salivating at the thought of a bargain bite…
At 9 a.m., the Board of Health is scheduled to consider a series of new rules pertaining to medical marijuana patients and caregivers — and the Cannabis Therapy Institute’s Laura Kriho has objections to a lot of them. She’s particularly incensed by potential changes in the definition of caregiver and…
The story linking mayor-elect Michael Hancock to the Denver Players prostitution ring has turned into an absurdist comedy. Note that from 3:35 p.m. yesterday to 12:57 a.m. this morning, a team of ten editors, reporters and researchers from the Denver Post and 9News examined Hancock’s phone records in search of…
