Pony up for some Denver blog posts. Mile High Report’s fan poster gnarlybroncodude breaks out the stats to prove Tim Tebow’s better than his detractors claim. Denver Egotist: Vote up Colorado agencies in the Webby Awards. Colorado Independent’s John Tomasic: Did suspect polling numbers provided by a group affiliated with…
With a nickname like “Buffs,” it’s no wonder that the naked-lady-lovin’ folks at Playboy magazine would have a hard-on for the University of Colorado at Boulder. And now they’ve expressed their affection for the school’s lifestyle by naming CU America’s number one party school (Link is NSFW). Which probably won’t…
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow has been very kind to Colorado authors of late. On the same March program in which she tried to teach America how to say the the word “Colorado,” she spotlighted David Sirota’s Back to Our Future. And earlier this week, she offered an astonishing fifteen-minutes-plus of airtime…
Can’t wait for the NBA playoffs to begin this weekend? Neither can the Denver Nuggets. In fact, the team would be a lot better off simply forfeiting to the Utah Jazz in tonight’s regular season finale than playing it, given the nagging injury issues plaguing the squad…
At the heart of the Washington Virginia Vale neighborhood sits the Four Mile House, the Denver landmark that served as a stage stop, wayside inn and tavern to travelers on the Cherokee Trail. Here, the big appetites of strangers have always been satisfied by the biggest of fruits…..
Eric Caverly, 37, was a youth group volunteer with a Colorado Springs church — and we’re using the past tense in this sentence because he’s presumably been cut loose following his arrest on suspicion of sexual assault on a child. The victim in question? A young woman who was sixteen…
Denver mayoral candidate Carol Boigon’s new ad stresses that putting medical marijuana dispensaries “everywhere” is “not a jobs plan.” This line, which seems on the surface to be a stealthy attack on Doug Linkhart, who supports the medical marijuana industry, and other hopefuls who’ve rubbed shoulders with MMJ types, riled…
Did you know Denver cops have expanded DUI enforcement in the Stapleton neighborhood to bicycles, skateboards and even strollers, which are being used to transport obscene amounts of liquor in addition to toddlers? You would if you check out The Stapletonion, a new website that advises readers to “Think Globally,…
Update: Brian Hill, a chronically ill, mildly autistic North Carolina blogger sued by Nevada’s Righthaven LLC for unauthorized use of a Denver Post photo, put his website, www.uswgo.com, in sleep mode while fighting the claim. But after Righthaven dropped the matter via a snippy dismissal notice, most of which was…
Update: Plants 4 Life, Castle Rock’s only medical marijuana dispensary, had been ordered to close by 7 p.m. yesterday in accordance with the MMJ retail-sales ban passed by the town last week. But late in the afternoon, attorney Rob Corry, who’s been fighting on behalf of Plants 4 Life since…
In the wake of our Best of Denver 2011 issue, we’re highlighting Best of winners from this year and past years to help Denverites spice up each day of the week. And it’s Tuesday’s turn!…
For years, Denver Zoo orangutan Mias looked sad. “He was definitely lethargic and slower,” says Tiffany Barnhart, zoo spokeswoman. “We’d see him holding his head off in the corner and not participating in things with his mate.” But lately, things are looking up for Mias. Why? Because of fancy medical…
The High Times Medical Cannabis Cup came into town on April 2 and 3, and left many attendees in what seemed like a permanent high. Westword pot critic William Breathes gushed that it was “one of the most amazing cannabis events in Colorado short of passing Amendment 20 nearly twelve…
Isn’t it about time to peruse some Denver blog posts? In his third annual Stiffy awards, Denver Stiffs’ Andrew Feinstein names Carmelo Anthony and LeBron James co-Stiffs of the Year for the damage they inflicted on the Nuggets and Cavaliers before splitting — although Denver’s doing much better than Cleveland…
On Sunday morning, Jim Sprague woke up, opened his copy of the Pueblo Chieftain and learned that he and Dorothy, his wife of many years, had just won the Colorado lottery, which was worth $4.3 million. An hour later, he found out he was wrong — because the newspaper had…
After Hugo’s Charles and Laura Clagett were found murdered late last month, local police identified the person of interest only as a teen relative. Now, however, we know that he’s Greg Smith, the Clagett’s great-grandson, who turns seventeen next week — because the 18th Judicial District DA’s office has charged…
Wheel Fun Rentals is the national company with the contract to provide pedal boats at Denver park lakes. In the picture above, the Berkeley Park pedal boat shed gets tagged with an alarming consumer complaint. But it takes the help of the Urban Dictionary to translate the message…..
Unlike Michelle Obama, Birther nation has little love for the President of the United States, as is clear from the comments that have collected on our post about a Colorado Springs man reportedly accessing Obama’s selective service records. Here’s an update with a very particular point of view…
Erie’s Nicole Bernard never gave much thought to her neighbor, Gordon Schumacher, and no wonder. He’s 35, married, seemingly ordinary in every respect. Until he allegedly snuck into her house and planted a webcam in her bedroom, prompting his arrest for being a high-tech peeping tom…
Manager of Safety Charley Garcia is singlehandedly making up for years of inaction regarding alleged excessive force cases. Just weeks after finally firing Officers Devin Sparks and Randy Muir in the Michael DeHerrera beating, he’s sacked another pair of cops, Ricky Nixon and Kevin Devine, over a July 2009 incident…
Update: The results are in: The Denver Broncos have officially named the 26 cheerleaders who’ll represent the team this year. Look below to check out a group shot of the winners who survived the arduous audition process, which is documented in the series of shots on the pages that follow…
Legal Document: Jury Summons” reads the outside of the notice with the State of Colorado seal…and a mark indicating that U.S. postage was paid in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Could this be some sort of scam? After we heard about several people — all residing in different Colorado counties — getting…
