The Denver John School (not affiliated with the John Denver School) can be a proven, comprehensive treatment program for insatiably horny Johns. On June 2, Gov. Hickenlooper signed a bill allowing the creation of John Schools. Denver can now schedule its own Prostitution Offender Program with readily available speakers and…
Josiah M. Hesse interviewed Amelia Nicol by phone on June 6, when she was still in solitary confinement, being held for — among other things — the attempted murder of two police officers during the May 6 March Against Police Terror. Since then, most of the felony charges have ben…
Paul Curry recently lost his job at MillerCoors in Golden for testing positive for pot — even though he’s a registered medical marijuana patient. Now, having retained big-shot pot attorney Rob Corry, Curry is fighting that decision in a move that could set state precedent over whether or not a…
A group of homeless men mulled playing another inning of softball this morning at Sonny Lawson Park. One man gestured to his nonexistent watch. Another joked, “My accountant can wait.” So the game went on, thanks to the Homeless Diamond program created and sponsored by local real estate broker Joe…
Summer beckons in Colorado’s high country, which means it’s time for an annual reminder to all whose usual encounters with nature don’t extend beyond a petting zoo. Pawing and picking up baby wildlife, no matter how adorable or seemingly in need of rescue, is almost never a good idea. This…
A friend of mine used to sell T-shirts in college. He was putting himself through school, along with a few scholarships, and he needed every dollar he could get. So he’d come up with a creative design idea, get a small loan from his mom and have the T-shirts printed…
Denver blog posts can’t be stopped! Denver Egotist touts the :30ish Film Festival, whose entries must be less than forty seconds. Take that, Titantic. The Colorado Independent’s David O. Williams on Ken Salazar’s bleak take on a snowpack report. Denver PR blog on Michael Hancock and the consequences of a…
We keep hearing that young people don’t give a damn about print products — but Dan Kennedy begs to differ. The CU-Boulder junior is the publisher of Boulder Today, a magazine aimed at his fellow Buffs — and while it’s available now, he’s planning a major redesign and circulation boost…
Update below: KMGH-TV, better known as 7News, is on the block — and so are Azteca America affiliates in Denver, Fort Collins and Colorado Springs, according to an announcement by McGraw-Hill, the stations’ parent company. Officially, the move is part of a “portfolio review” — but the real reason likely…
Berkeley has a long history of growing food for the creatures of Denver. In its early days, the entire neighborhood was an alfalfa farm that produced feed for the horses that pulled city streetcars. Over time, the land was developed into the city lots — now tended by the urban…
A group led by Brian Vicente and Mason Tvert has submitted eight marijuana-legalization initiatives with an eye toward the 2012 election — and they’re not alone. Legalize2012.com plans to offer a proposal, and now the advocacy outfit called Crazy For Justice has assembled a draft that, among other things, suggests…
Yesterday’s Denver Blogs roundup featured a post noting the contradictions inherit in fans who hate Josh McDaniels but love Tim Tebow, who the ex-coach drafted. One reader appears to feel the same about both of them. His comment:…
Update: The nationwide manhunt for Bret Lee Thompson, accused of kidnapping an eight-year-old girl from a southwest Denver alley and sexually assaulting her, didn’t end in dramatic fashion. According to the FBI, authorities in Brunswick, New Jersey found him sleeping in his van, which was parked behind a Walmart…
At this point, Denver Police Department reps aren’t saying why they handed over the Denver Players prostitution investigation to the feds. But no need to exhume Nostradamus to figure it out. After all, there are approximately a gazillion reasons why the DPD would want to put an inquiry that touches…
Update: The criminal case springing from the Thanksgiving weekend 2008 carbon-monoxide-poisoning deaths of the Lofgren family — parents Parker and Caroline, plus kids Owen, ten, and Sophie, eight — will continue thanks to a ruling by a district judge yesterday. But the hearing, at which the two defendants in the…
Last summer, some observers were still optimistic that Carmelo Anthony might remain a Denver Nugget. But their confidence was shaken when he put his Polo Ridge Estates mansion on the market for $9.5 million. A year later, the spread has finally sold for $6.2 million — more than $3 million…
Amelia Nicol grew up in the relative isolation of Grand County, but “I’ve always had an interest in where the world is heading,” she says. When the then-twenty-year-old moved to Denver a few months ago, she got the chance to put that interest in action, shaving her hair into a…
Help wanted: MCA Denver, our city’s bastion of contemporary cool, is seeking someone who understands high-concept art, someone who is responsible and punctual, someone who is, uh, good with animals and doesn’t mind bird poop. Sound interesting? Here’s the job ad that an Off Limits operative recently discovered: “We…
“Bums’ Rush,” Patricia Calhoun, June 9 Triangular Trade I used to think leaving LoDo bars late at night was scary — but that part of town has nothing on the Bumuda Triangle! I just don’t want to be the person who gets swallowed up in that black hole. Joe Garcia…
“Spreading Her Wings,” Westword editor Patricia Calhoun’s September 9, 2010, story about Kristen Stillman, who, along with her twin brother, was held hostage at a home in northwest Denver for over a decade, has won first place for non-daily feature reporting in the national Society for Professional Journalists Sigma Delta…
In 2009, the Denver Police’s High Activity Location Observation, (aka HALO) video-surveillance program, put in place for the Democratic National Convention, was re-configured to give the force 24/7 video feeds of high-crime areas around the city. The Big Brother-like operation drew criticism from police watchdogs, but the cameras were soon…
William Blake saw heaven in a wildflower. The energy industry sees nothing but trouble. Last week, a federal judge in Denver ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s decision not to declare an obscure plant as endangered was “arbitrary and capricious” — a ruling that could have far-reaching implications…
