The anti-incumbent mood of last weekend’s state Republican Assembly may spread to this weekend’s wedding of party chairman Dick Wadhams to Wendy Evans… As seen above, Evergreen businessman Dan Maes, who cultivated Tea Party support to gain top gubernatorial primary ballot placement, will no doubt score another shocking upset when…
The Spencer’s Gifts outlet in the Town Center at Aurora mall sells a cap with a marijuana leaf on it. But if you buy it and wear it out of the store, cops could immediately evict you from the shopping center and order you not to return until 2011. That’s…
It’s official: Even with the corrective measures British Petroleum is undertaking to try to contain the oil leak flowing into the Gulf of Mexico, the massive spill has been flowing at a rate two to four times greater than original estimates. In a teleconference with journalists this morning, United States…
Lindsay Lohan’s career trajectory has taken her from adorable scamp (in The Parent Trap) to a human train wreck who earlier this week was ordered to wear an alcohol-monitoring anklet to avoid going to jail. As such, she’ll be closely tracked by Littleton’s Alcohol Monitoring Systems — and she’s not…
An arrest affidavit for Robert Laurencio Montoya is filled with one shock after another regarding his relationship with Kayleah Wilson, the twelve-year-old Greeley girl found dead last week. And now, it turns out that Montoya’s MySpace page, still active at this writing, refers to him as “Devil Nero.” His mood…
When city planners first suggested building Denver International Airport at its present location, plenty of locals pointed out that the area is nicknamed “Tornado Alley” thanks to its proclivity for kicking up high winds and severe storms. Fortunately, no major tornadoes have struck the terminal head on in the two…
Ask a Mexican, Gustavo Arellano, May 13 and May 20 Burros and Asses Thanks to Gustavo Arellano for putting that Know Nothing Michelle Malkin in her place regarding Mexican’s immigration laws. How did she wind up in Colorado, anyway? She must have taken a wrong turn on her way to…
You won’t see a cart selling Pinche Tacos on the 16th Street Mall this summer. No, the Downtown Denver Partnership didn’t have the huevos to let the street-food company operate with that name. After all, pinche roughly translates to “fucking,” and DDP spokeswoman Sarah Neumann says the booster group has…
There’s no second-guessing on Jaden Franklin’s lacrosse field. He’s on the move from the first face-off, his cleated feet taking him exactly where he needs to be, sometimes before his mind even catches up. Lacrosse IQ, they call it: knowing instinctively how to exploit the ever-changing geometries of the 110-by-60-yard…
After the embarrasing political scrum over the sex offender bill that prompted Governor Bill Ritter to veto the mess last week, it’s easy to overlook the fact that something was actually accomplished on the criminal justice front in the legislature this year. Yesterday, Ritter signed into a law a package…
We’re a little late with our Denver blog roundup today — but these posts were worth waiting for. Toward the bottom of his Mile High Report fan post, aLuffabo argues that Brady Quinn should be traded because BQ wants to start and he’s got no chance to do that in…
Los Angeles documentary filmmaker Gabriela Cowperthwaite didn’t know what to expect when two years ago she returned to Denver, moved into the basement of her parent’s house with her one-year-old twins (daddy stayed in LA) and turned the cameras on City Lax, the inner-city youth lacrosse program that her friend…
Those who’d spent weeks searching for, and praying for, twelve-year-old Kayleah Wilson had barely begun to process her death when news broke that Robert Laurencio Montoya, eighteen, had been charged with sexual assault due to an alleged sexual relationship with the girl that began last October. Yesterday, just prior to…
Shortly after Colorado media outlets like Channel 4 caught on to GringoMask.com, the site went from being an amusing satire of Arizona’s controversial immigration law to a much less funny protest against it. The site, created by Miami’s Zubi Advertising, originally featured very Caucasian masks that folks worried about police…
Citing Boulder’s mishmash of granola-eating tree-huggers and a flourishing entrepreneurial landscape intersected by academe and technology, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance has rated the city among the most promising for the next decade. Here’s how “Best Cities 2010” describes the community, which ranks in the fourth position, behind Austin, Seattle and Washington…
In February, we told you about a fight between the City of Windsor and MediGrow, a dispensary owned by Lazarus Pino. Windsor passed a moratorium that grandfathered in two dispensaries, In Harmony Wellness and A New Dawn Wellness Clinic but excluded MediGrow — because, said Mayor John Vazquez, Pino’s operation…
While Sex and the City 2 opens in theaters today, Denver’s own never-ending dating drama continues to be played out by dummies in the downtown window of Diamond Lil’s. Much like the movie, the mannequin ménage à trois depends on changing outfits and modeling positions to market sex and the…
Update, 11:18 a.m. May 26: According to Denver District Attorney spokeswoman Lynn Kimbrough, a determination about whether or not to charge the homeowner who shot and killed seventeen-year-old Marcus Duran, who was allegedly trying to break into his house at the time, will likely be announced more than a week…
Colorado Attorney General John Suthers’s name was recently juxtaposed with that of an extremely unsavory fellow — serial killer Scott Lee Kimball. A front-page Denver Post story over the weekend noted that Suthers, who was then a U.S. Attorney, “signed the order that transferred the habitual criminal and escaped convict…
Representative Jared Polis has spent a lot of his legislative capital of late defending the medical marijuana industry in Colorado from possible interference by the federal government. In February, for example, he sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder expressing concern about saber-rattling statements made by DEA special agent…
Approximately 400 people said goodbye to Kayleah Wilson at a memorial service in Greeley yesterday — the same day eighteen-year-old Robert Laurencio Montoya, who reportedly had a sexual relationship with the late twelve-year old, was in court on a sexual assault charge. In the meantime, tributes to the girl continue…
Lately, major businesses like Frontier Airlines and Qwest have made news for decreasing their presence in Denver, not expanding it. But Yahoo!’s acquisition of Associated Content last week brings more positive tidings. Associated Content founder (and newly minted Yahoo! vice president) Luke Beatty reveals that Yahoo! will be opening a…
