Employees of Frontier who don’t want the airline’s name to change aren’t the only folks in the industry to have rallied lately. Yesterday at Denver International Airports, over a hundred United flight attendants showed up with pickets in hand to protest a contract stalemate that’s lingered for a year. The…
Yesterday, Kyle Orton appeared at a press conference for the first time since the Broncos obtained the services of former Cleveland Browns hunkster Brady Quinn. Among his comments: He appreciated that coach Josh McDaniels confirmed that he remains the starting quarterback. Which is all very nice, but as we noted…
Remember that gut-wrenching paranoia and the adrenaline that ran from your heart to your clinched knuckles as your driving instructor told you to “check your blind spot?” There’s nothing scarier than a two-ton piece of machinery that can top a hundred miles-per-hour and has blind spot. Well, magnify that times,…
J.R. Smith and Kenyon Martin have reportedly kissed and made up after an April Fools’ Day gag fell flat. As we noted yesterday, Smith’s driver, Laquan Johnson, filled Martin’s Range Rover with buttered popcorn, prompting a profanity-laced outburst from K-Mart and a tweet from Smith featuring the letters “LMAO.” Nonetheless,…
The item in William James Rucker’s Crown Royal bag packed quite a kick — maybe because it was manufactured by Smith & Wesson. Rucker, who’d been convicted of five previous crimes punishable by over a year in stir, took imprisonment to the next level yesterday, when he was sentenced to…
Allow us to connect you with three Denver blogs. Sayre Bedinger of Mile High Report sparks a lively conversation by way of his link to a Washington Post item speculating that a Brandon Marshall move to Washington could be the Redskins’ first post-McNabb-acquisition move. Most commenters feel it’s not going…
Back in February, we told you about a Boulder woman who woke up to discover a stranger’s hands in her underwear, even though her boyfriend was beside her. At the time, Boulder Police Department spokeswoman Sarah Huntley said, “There hasn’t been an incident like this in town for quite some…
It’s been a grim past few days for RTD. On Saturday, a bus ran a red light near East 8th Avenue and Lincoln Street, smashing into a vehicle containing Carla Miranda and Dustin Peletier, both 29, who were killed in the crash. Then, yesterday, another bus ran over a thus-far-unidentified…
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Stories of animal abuse don’t get much stranger or more disgusting that the one involving two pigs at Venetucci Farm, a 190-acre spread near Colorado Springs that was donated to the Pikes Peak Community Foundation in 2006. According to Lieutenant Lari Sevene, public information officer for the El Paso Sheriff’s…
For politicians, being arrested is never a good thing — and the combination of alcohol and firearms doesn’t improve the situation. Yet David Cox, one of three Republicans running for Colorado House District 54, has no plans to stop running — and he’s clearly hoping his extremely detailed explanation of…
Words commonly used to describe mug shots include “menacing,” “pathetic,” “disturbing” and “hilarious” — but usually not “sexy.” So congrats, Dustin Winesberry. The seductive, come-hither mug shot taken of you yesterday at Boulder County Jail looks like the cover of a ’70s-era album — say, Dustin Winesberry Gets Next to…
At a meeting tonight, the Boulder City Council will take up a proposed public nudity ordinance that’s gone through several permutations in recent months. At first, the measure forbade the display of a woman’s nipples, among other things. Then, the council stripped the ordinance of this language. But now, council…
For members of the medical marijuana industry, Jeffrey Sweetin, special agent in charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Denver field office, is a lightning rod thanks to comments he made after the DEA raided the home of Highlands Ranch’s Chris Bartkowicz, who showed off his grow to 9News. Recently, however,…
J.R. Smith and Twitter — not always the perfect combination. Last August, the Denver Post’s Woody Paige knocked Smith’s tweets as immature, while a separate article implied that his use of the letter “K” as a substitute for “C” recalled spelling used by members of the Bloods street gang. Then,…
Denver’s two roller derby leagues, profiled in the Westword’s feature “Denver’s Roller Derby Rivalry Could Start the Sport Rolling Across the Country,” are stepping up their games this year — both on the track and off. Exhibit A: The Rocky Mountain Rollergirls have been kicking ass against out-of-state teams, as…
In March, more than a hundred people participated in a “Save the Animals” rally calling for Frontier Airlines’ new owner, Republic Airways Holdings, to retain the carrier’s name and branding. To see photos from the demonstration, many of them featuring Frontier employees, click here. These folks won’t have to wait…
We clicked on these Denver blogs. Maybe you should, too. Ian Henson at Bronco Talk thinks Brandon Marshall may have chosen to get married in Denver because “subconsciously he feels that he’s not going anywhere.” Well, he did put a ring on it… Over at 5280, Michael de Yoanna wonders…
Is Andrew Romanoff’s Colorado senate run against Michael Bennet making an impact in the Beltway? Prominent mentions in the Washington Post serve as telling indications — and the paper has name-checked Romanoff twice in as many days. Yesterday, the Post’s Dan Balz gave Romanoff the full-scale profile treatment via a…
The study of neighbors through their lawn decoration… Figure 57. Berkeley: A reminder to residents that “P” is for prostrate. It appears that the downtown parking lot sign pictured in figure 57 above, has been seized and is being held for worship in this northwest Denver garden. Such a display…
On April 6 of last year — opening day for the Colorado Rockies — I fearlessly predicted that the team would end the 2009 campaign with a meager 72 victories. Early on, I looked like Nostradamus. But on May 29, after a dismal start, the team belatedly sacked manager Clint…
Some box office prognosticators predicted that Hot Tub Time Machine would be a box-office smash thanks to positive word of mouth. But that won’t happen in Denver, especially among Broncos fans. Why not? Because one of the plot points involves “The Drive,” the John Elway-led march that resulted in the…
