Last December, CU banned the use of Nerf guns in the on-campus game Humans vs. Zombies, leaving HVZ organizer Scott Serafin and his fellow renegades to face off against the undead using socks as weapons. Which require a lot of imagination to seem lethal. But the Nerf guns were out…
Denver has more than three blogs. But you’ve got to start somewhere. Predominantly Orange’s Kim Constantinesco measures Kyle Orton against Brady Quinn in categories that pertain to on-the-field play, like touchdown-versus-interception ratio, and off-the-field stats like “Physique:” Quinn is listed as “ripped,” while Orton is said to be “sometimes covered…
In the immediate aftermath of yesterday’s health-care vote in the U.S. House, Republican Party types have deemed a number of representatives nationwide as being ultra-vulnerable, with Betsy Markey’s name coming up as often as anyone’s. One reason: Markey voted against the health-care measure in November — a decision that a…
Last week, we told you about Dakota Ridge High School senior Conner Cordova and his impending dream date with Arianny Celeste, UFC ring girl. Well, the get-together took place on Saturday night, and while it evolved from Conner’s original concept, the event went so well that Cordova still sounds giddy…
The study of neighbors through their lawn decoration… Figure 55. Globeville: Where the rubber meets the sod. Used tires are America’s greatest unnatural resource and can be found easily in ever-growing tire piles and mountains. These wastelands are attracting heaps of do-it-yourselfers, who are accessing the cheap material and tirecrafting…
Usually, Colorado State Patrol officers respond to reports of erratic driving. But this morning, things worked the other way around. Motorists complained about problems relating to a CSP vehicle, leading to a stop by Douglas County Sheriff’s Office personnel that was captured by a cameraman aboard Channel 9’s helicopter and…
Another Monday. Ugh. Not sure if reliving the weekend will make it better or worse, but we don’t have much of a choice, do we? So, without further ado, some shit that happened between last Friday and now: • Kate Levy threw down at the Wrangler’s Sunday Beer Bust. •…
The Saturday Denver Post blurb about Affiliated Media couldn’t entirely avoid the word “bankruptcy,” as the broadsheet’s writers have endeavored to do since January. After all, the judge who approved the prepackaged plan assembled by the holding company of MediaNews Group, the Post’s Denver-based parent firm, is assigned to the…
In recent years, the dangers of concussions has finally begun to receive serious attention across the sporting landscape. But a complaint filed in Denver District Court last week (read it here) alleges that this belated shift didn’t take place in time to save former Colorado Crush kicker Clay Rush from…
Even as President Barack Obama and a divided Congress are on the cusp of formalizing historic, sweeping changes in the way the country handles health insurance, Colorado Representative John Kefalas, a Democrat from Fort Collins, is looking out for the little guy (he’s barely over five feet tall — but…
Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent Jeffrey Sweetin has been making an effort to set the record straight on his agency’s approach to medical marijuana, most notably in a wide-ranging interview with Westword’s Joel Warner. And members of the medical marijuana community — even those nervous about HB 1284, the regulatory…
Press reports about Denver International Airport in the late 1990s included lots of optimistic forecasting about the arrival of a luxury hotel at the airport’s doorstep by, oh, no later than 2002 or so. More than a decade later, that hotel still doesn’t exist except in the minds of DIA…
The Denver Roller Dolls — the fourth-best roller derby league in the country, according to the Derby News Network — have one of the best deals in derby. They’ve partnered with promoter AEG Live and Denver sports heavyweight Kroenke Sports Entertainment. Plus, they’ll skate in a revamped 6,500-seat mini-stadium: the…
Since the release of Denver’s top-fifty-most-wanted-criminals list, we’ve kept you up to date with those who’ve been arrested: Freddie Ray Lazzo and three others on Monday; Jharel Bobby Jones and another duo on Wednesday; and Samuel Crespin yesterday. Today, four more: No. 16, David Bowman, No. 32, Sabrina Mitchell, No…
Isela Reyes-Talamantes, 25, wasn’t accused of personally killing her two-year-old son, Elijah, in 2008. But she’s earned two decades in stir anyhow because, according to the Denver District Attorney’s Office, she “rode around running errands for hours with her boyfriend as her 2-year-old son was dying a slow, painful death…
This is the day that was in Denver bloggery. At Mile High Report, guest blogger GreatGuessKowski notes that Kyle Orton is still the Broncos starter despite the arrival of pretty-boy Brady Quinn. The conclusion: “All you who are flush and feverish about Brady Quinn… go take a cold shower, and…
On Tuesday, we told you about a lawsuit over ballot-petition rules filed by attorney David Lane on behalf of advocates as varied as the Independence Institute’s Jon Caldara and SAFER’s Mason Tvert. It’s possible the group of plaintiffs could grow even more ideologically diverse. Gualberto Garcia Jones, director of Personhood…
Yesterday, we published an extended interview with DEA special agent Jeffrey Sweetin, a lightning rod for controversy about medical marijuana. Predictably, some of his assertions about the DEA’s actions troubled Jessica Corry, an attorney and medical marijuana advocate. But along with her criticisms, Corry, the wife of fellow attorney/advocate Rob…
I always liked Georgetown. Pretty campus, cool uniforms, lots of history — what else do you need to know about a team to deem it Elite Eight-bound? But then the tournament started, and Georgetown decided to wet itself against a team that, eighteen hours later, I can’t even remember their…
“You think my support of the Health Care Reform Bill will jeopardize my re-election? Well, just what do you know about anything? I can tell you this, what you don’t know, Mr. Sirota, could fill a book. Make that two books, a blog and a three-hour daily radio show.”…
Mighty few semi-obscure musicians earn a full-scale obituary on National Public Radio — but that’s what happened yesterday in the case of Alex Chilton, who died at age 59. Chilton had one major chart hit — “The Letter,” released in 1967 when he was a member of the Box Tops…
Yesterday, we told you about Boulder’s Catharine Pierce, 52, whose decision to garden topless in her front yard, which is located near a pre-K through 12th grade school, stirred complaints and police calls even though her actions are legal under current town rules. The latest? The Boulder Daily Camera reports…
