Update: It’s been almost three weeks since Kenia Monge vanished after a night of partying at a downtown club that should have rejected her due to her age, nineteen. Since then, more disturbing information has surfaced about Travis Forbes, a man who gave her a ride in his van and…
Get your marijuana-infused celebrating done on 4/20 tomorrow, since two days later, on Earth Day, there apparently won’t be much to light up about. According to new research, indoor marijuana cultivation — i.e., the kind that accounts for the vast majority of medical marijuana sold in Colorado — accounts for…
Last week, mayoral candidate James Mejia wrapped up his campaign to sleep over at homes across the city. I was at the last slumber party on Friday night, as it was hosted by my boyfriend’s house, Sleeptight, which he shares with four roommates in the Lincoln/La Alma Park neighborhood…
Say goodbye to Denver Magazine. The publication that convinced Fox31 anchors to turn into skankers on its cover a couple of years back is no more, with rival 5280 acquiring intellectual property like internet domain names and its Facebook page. Here’s 5280 founder, editor and publisher Daniel Brogan on the…
Allow us to show off our latest collection of Denver blog posts. Denver Stiffs’ Unitary Executives point out that the Thunder exceeded season averages in pretty much every offensive category in game one in the playoffs. Hope for the Nuggets? What’s one of the latest Things to Do in Denver…
It’s 4/20 time again. Tomorrow, Civic Center Park will be taken over by the city’s annual tribute to weed, and organizer Miguel Lopez is thinking big. The rally typically attracts around 50,000 people — but he’s shooting for 100,000. The complete schedule of events is below, after a photo gallery…
Ballots for the 2011 General Municipal Election were mailed out to voters late last week. With nine candidates running for Denver mayor, voters will need to keep a “cheat sheet” handy. My Speed Candidating profiles cut through the political rhetoric to help uncover what is buried below. Today, we dig…
According to CBS4’s Shaun Boyd, the station was granted an interview with President Barack Obama because “we asked.” But this on-air explanation doesn’t tell the whole story. Obama sat down with numerous TV reporters from local outlets yesterday — presumably because his staff felt he might get more favorable coverage…
Student-recorded fight videos are becoming a new favorite on local TV news. Less than two weeks after Fox31 offered a report about Maria Plazola, who allegedly rooted on her daughter in a brawl instead of stopping the fisticuffs (something that got the Denver Police Department’s attention), 9News is sharing a…
Our post about this past weekend’s Tax Day Tea Party in Loveland turned into a lively forum for debate about whether this grassroots movement is a good thing or a bad thing. Here’s a post from someone representing the latter point of view…
Yesterday, shortly before a senate committee took on a bill to set THC driving limits, Westword published the results of medical marijuana reviewer William Breathes’s blood test, which showed he was almost three times over the proposed standard when sober. The committee subsequently decided to delay the measure — and…
According to the Denver coroner’s office, Rajeev Sharma, 33, was the man who committed suicide Sunday at 1600 Glenarm Place, reportedly by using hydrogen cyanide that forced the evacuation of two floors in the building. It’s not the first time this sort of life-ending method has been used locally. In…
Yesterday, the Denver Post’s Mike Keefe won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning — an honor that will cheer those of us who’ve enjoyed his work for years. But the Post deserves a tip of the cap, too, simply for keeping Keefe on the payroll. Because these days, folks with…
MapQuest, the Denver-based online mapping service, will celebrate its fifteenth anniversary on April 25 with a ritzy, VIP-studded event at its new LoDo headquarters (Need directions? You know what to do.) But getting directions from MapQuest, Google Maps or your GPS device can be, uh, hit-or-miss. Here is a roundup…
I met this girl when I was ten years old And what I loved most, she had so much soul She was old school when I was just a shorty Never knew throughout my life she would be there for me. The smooth beats of Common’s “I used to Love…
“Speed Candidating,” Kenny Be, April 14 To Be or Not to Be? Kenny Be is a genius! His “Speed Candidating” is the only thing I’ve seen this entire campaign season that makes the candidates seem interesting. If only Kenny were running for mayor… Lucy Myers Denver “Trigger Happy,” Patricia Calhoun,…
Theron and Teague Harrison, Manual High School’s top debaters and the subjects of our recent feature, “Say What?”, were in New York City this past weekend for the Urban Debate National Championship, along with Thomas Jefferson High debaters Danite Reda and Talan Lousignont. So how did Denver’s debaters stack up?…
Government officials in Jefferson County are negotiating with a Spanish construction company that is interested in financing, designing, building and operating the controversial Jefferson Parkway, a ten-mile toll road between State Highway 128 in Broomfield and State Highway 93 at West 64th Avenue north of Golden…
Just to provide a little perspective on the Rockies having the best record in baseball: Their opponents are a combined 25-36 this year. But they’ve set a 12-3 mark without any meaningful contribution from ace Ubaldo Jimenez and even less from veteran pitcher Aaron Cook. Fresh off a 2-1 series…
Nicolas Cage apparently got sick of Charlie Sheen hogging all the Hollywood-crazy spotlight, going apeshit this weekend in New Orleans, where he’s shooting The Medallion, which sounds like another payday flick for an actor who seems more concerned about paying off his massive IRS debt than making a movie anyone…
We bring you these three Denver blog posts at no additional charge. Predominantly Orange’s churst breaks down the preseason schedule for John Fox’s first season at the Broncos helm — in the hope that the games will actually be played. We can dream, can’t we? At Colorado Education News, Alexander…
Last week, in advance of today’s Senate debate over a bill that would set THC driving limits, I had blood drawn (for a second time) to see just how much active THC was in my blood even after a night of sleep and not smoking for fifteen hours. As it…
