In hopes of climbing out from beneath crushing debt, the Shadow Theatre Company formally declared bankruptcy earlier this month. Its biggest creditor: Seedco Financial. According to bankruptcy documents filed February 2, Shadow owes $220,924 to Seedco for a “Bank Loan.”…
A Denver-area woman who goes by the name Gabi Jones recently told the British newspaper Metro that eating to excess causes her to have orgasms. “Junk food makes woman have orgasms” was published last week, and the story has since been picked up by news outlets around the world. Jones…
A bill to broaden the scope of what Colorado’s home-birth midwives can do passed another hurdle yesterday: The Senate Health & Human Services Committee approved it in an 8-1 vote. Testimony stretched for three hours and included impassioned pleas from both sides, including from Indra Lusero, the home-birth mom and…
The antiquated mayoral forum is a terrible framework to learn about the unique talents of Denver’s current 16 candidates. Michael Forrester, Doug Linkhart, James Mejia and Theresa Spahn prove that the ballroom dance competition would be a far more captivating way to interest entertainment-savvy voters. While the couples above demonstrate…
Denver city officials are engaging in some interesting wordplay in an effort to keep a special budgetary task force’s meetings behind closed doors. The Structural Financial Task Force — comprised of 21 community, business and civic leaders — was recently convened by Mayor Bill Vidal to “address the structural deficit…
New foreclosure filings in Colorado are at an eight-month low and the number of foreclosed properties being sold at auction is down nearly 22 percent from this time last year, according to a report released today by the Colorado Division of Housing. “The past several months have certainly been positive,…
Poor, sad Denver International Airport. No matter how much money and effort officials expend trying to craft DIA’s image as an efficient, modern portal of global travel, its reputation is forever linked to wild accusations about underground bases and the New World Order…
Kristen Stillman has a second chance at motherhood. A victim of horrific abuse for more than a dozen years — which resulted in her giving birth to four children before she was twenty, all fathered by her rapist — she’d been in court to testify against Eric Torrez, who wound…
Our item yesterday about KOA talk-show host Mike Rosen seeing nothing wrong with recycling one of his old Rocky Mountain News columns in the Denver Post stirred a lively debate. Given that Nevada’s Righthaven LLC has been suing news agencies for unauthorized use of Post material, one reader wonders if…
A dispensary owner and grower leasing a warehouse in a neighborhood at the heart of the current Denver City Council zoning discussions plans to file a lawsuit alleging that developer Mickey Zeppelin, Councilwoman Judy Montero and former Councilwoman Susan Barnes-Gelt not only interfered with his ability to conduct business, but…
Last weekend, the Denver Center Theatre Company’s New Play Summit featured Great Wall Story, a play by Lloyd Suh based on the true story of how, in 1899, three Denver reporters came up with a hoax that the Great Wall of China was being torn down. It was quite a…
It’s been a good week for mustang lovers. Not only did the Bureau of Land Management, in the wake of lawsuits, back off a plan to round up the entire West Douglas herd of wild horses in northwest Colorado, but the U.S. House of Representatives voted to cut $2 million…
AM 760 host and columnist David Sirota is promoting a new book about the 1980s, Back to Our Future, with a March 16 book launch party at the Mercury Cafe, as well as an ’80s photo contest on the AM 760 Facebook page. To get the ball rolling, Sirota’s posted…
These days, as the government slashes NASA’s budget and entrepreneurs start making inroads towards the heavens, the space race is increasingly becoming a private-sector enterprise. The development could bode well for the Front Range. Indeed, the Denver-Boulder area may just be perfectly positioned to become the Silicon Valley of the…
Give these Denver blog posts a chance. Mile High Report’s John Bena applauds Broncos transparency, exemplified this time by John Elway’s tweets about making a new Champ Bailey contract a priority. WhoSaidYouSaid wonders if tax proponents can beat the clock. Colorado Independent’s John Boven on the in-committee death of a…
In his latest medical marijuana dispensary review, William Breathes gives Patients Plus a minus. Fortunately, there are more positives to be found in our newly updated MMJ listings. Click here to access our medical-marijuana dispensary directory…
This dispensary has closed. Last year on The Daily Show, I quipped that dispensaries are like restaraunts: Some people want a nice steak house, while others can settle for McDonald’s. Patients Plus is the latter — a fast-food marijuana stop…
With John Hickenlooper having taken office as Colorado’s governor, we know Denver will have a new mayor this year, and the race is wide open. To introduce you to the players, we’re offering profiles of official candidates. Next up: Dwight Henson. “A lot of people say, ‘Don’t judge me unless…
Forget the Colorado Home and Garden Show! As shown above, electronic lifestyle advancements have replaced the potted patio ficus tree with a Wi-Ficus phone-charging tree. Below, the greatest advancement will help growers use outdoor sunshine indoors…..
Our recent cover story, “Special Delivery,” tells the tale of 36-year-old Indra Lusero, a Denver home-birth-mom-turned-lawyer who’s advocating for what she sees as common-sense changes to Colorado’s midwifery law. Today at 1:30 p.m., the bill to make those changes will be heard by the Senate Health & Human Services Committee…
Update below: This week, a tipster informed yours truly (and Colorado Pols) that KOA talk show host Mike Rosen had basically copied a 2008 column he wrote for the Rocky Mountain News and republished it in December as a Denver Post piece. Rather than simply running side-by-side excerpts, we shared…
Yesterday, 25 abused lions from Bolivia arrived at DIA en route to Keenesburg’s Wild Animal Sanctuary, subject of our 2008 feature article “Inside One of the Nation’s Top Carnivore Sanctuaries.” And they weren’t alone. Accompanying them were CSI’s Jorja Fox and The Price is Right icon Bob Barker, the undisputed…
