Update, 5:29 p.m.: A mug shot of suspect Zachariah Thomas Santaguida has just been released. We’ve added it to this blog, first published at 10:22 a.m. Here’s the original item. Late last night, Jefferson County Sheriff’s officers responded to an address on the 30000 block of Hill Top Drive in…
Today, the Denver Post reports that a Park Hill homeowner named Ken was backing out of his driveway on Saturday when he spotted something strange on his roof. Was it a cardboard box? A cat? No, no. Upon closer inspection, Ken realized it was a fox! A tired fox, who…
The infamous anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church — which is currently making headlines for its claim that God was responsible for a mine explosion this week in West Virginia that killed 25 miners — has plans to protest more than a dozen Denver area schools, churches and businesses this month. The…
Colorado is all over the Big Lead’s “2010 NFL Draft: Ten Best Storylines With Less Than Two Weeks To Go.” Brandon Marshall’s destination turns up at number ten, with writer BigBrainOnBrett arguing that BM “could make the right team substantially more dangerous, and possibly push a B-level team to the…
Winding up the week with a Denver blogs triple play. Jeremy at Roundball Mining Company writes about the Nuggets’ victory over the Lakers: “For the second night in a row the Denver Nuggets delivered a feel-bad win.” He’s right, although a loss would’ve felt worse… 5280’s Michael de Yoanna shares…
For the Drunken Horny Man, women do have a tendency to blend together, especially when that man is young and unpolished in the arena of managing his drunken woman-chasing. But still, Stu. You gotta stay in the right bed. As Michael Roberts reported on Monday, a young woman recently had…
For weeks, there’s been speculation aplenty about whether or not Frontier Airlines, purchased last year by Republic Airways Holdings, will be keeping its name and identity when combined with new sister carrier Midwest Airlines. First, a Milwaukee paper hinted that the combined airlines could be dubbed “New Air” — a…
“Create Denver Week is an event where professionals teach artists that to be financially successful today, it is important to spend more time creating cross-platform marketing plans and to spend less time actually making art.”…
Our interview earlier this morning with Michael Bennet spokesman Trevor Kincaid in advance of 21 county assemblies slated for tomorrow drew a rapid response from Dean Toda, his counterpart for Andrew Romanoff, who’s also seeking the Democratic senatorial nomination. Unlike Kincaid, who thinks tomorrow’s gatherings are equal in importance to…
The search for Kitchi the otter, who escaped from Cheyenne Mountain Zoo on March 25, has taken on a life of its own, with the Colorado Springs facility offering daily updates about the missing furball. But Kitchi’s days on the loose could soon be coming to an end. Fresh tracks…
As we noted yesterday, a jet-scrambling mid-air panic that ended at Denver International Airport happened as the result of an ill-considered joke by Qatar diplomat Mohammed Al-Madadi about lighting his shoes on fire. Considerably funnier is the string of updates on the case posted by Colorado Springs-based Fox News contributor…
Tomorrow, Democratic assemblies will be held in 21 counties, including many of the state’s largest — Denver, Jefferson, Boulder, Arapahoe, Douglas — to choose delegates in advance of primaries this August. These gatherings will be a big test for Senator Michael Bennet, who was bested by rival Andrew Romanoff in…
House Bill 1284, the legislation designed to regulate the medical marijuana industry, originally featured language allowing municipalities to ban dispensaries — a prohibition MMJ advocates see as unconstitutional. Perhaps that’s why the provision was removed from the bill late last month. But Tim Wise, owner of Wise Buys Antiques in…
Today’s lesson, students, is a reminder that things you see in movies may not be quite as amusing if you try to reenact them in real life. Take the Taser scene from The Hangover, on view above. Hilarious! Rob Riggle has never been more funnier (or funny at all, frankly)…
Update, 4:32 p.m.: Just notified by the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office that Merle Allison, who’s believed to be the Limping Latex Bandit, has been captured. Look below the original item to get all the details. As the number of Denver area robberies continue to capture the imagination of TV news…
You won’t likely won’t find any derby brats named Risky Bitchness, and their on-track uniforms include tights that cover up their bruised knees. But judging from the photos on the Seattle Derby Brats website, junior roller derby girls are nothing to mess with. And now Denver is getting a junior…
April’s here, which mean the snow is melting, the grass is growing — and the dreaded city street sweepers are back trolling the streets, leaving in their wake a trail of yellow parking tickets on the windshields of all those cars that weren’t moved out of the way when they…
The blogs of Denver, readable whenever. Mile High Report links to what may be the most elaborate where’s-Brandon-Marshall-going blog to date, in which Ted Bartlett uses algebra to conclude that BM deserves a contract worth $54.6 million over six years. We’ll have to take your word for it. Colorado Pols…
Our collection of “Mile Highs and Lows” dispensary reviews is growing again. Today, check out William Breathes’s critique of Lotus Medical, an operation that has almost everything a MMJ aficionado could want (aside from convenient parking). But it’s hardly the only game in town. Learn more by perusing Westword’s dispensary…
As Colorado’s medical-marijuana industry grows, marijuana dispensaries of all types and sizes are proliferating around the state. Some resemble swanky bars or sterile dentist offices; others feel like a dope dealer’s college dorm room. To help keep them all straight, Westword will be offering a no-holds-barred look at what goes…
The Denver Sheriff Department is inviting city employees and select guests (who can pass a criminal background check) to Downtown’s new Van Cise-Simonet Detention Facility for a one-night-only slumber party… Check-In: Division Chiefs Elias Diggins and Marie Kielar, along with Deputy Sheriff Susan Berig (above, far right), will greet City…
The latest legal chapter in the up-and-down life of Brian Bonsall, former child star and Family Ties cast member, has been closed. As the Boulder Daily Camera reports, Bonsall pleaded guilty to felony menacing and third-degree assault. In exchange, he’s been sentenced to forty hours of community service, five days…
