After Senator Chris Romer announced that he would be withdrawing most of a proposed bill aimed at regulating the medical marijuana industry, the Cannabis Therapy Institute, a prominent pro-marijuana organization, called his decision a “guarded victory” in a press release on view at the bottom of this item. And CTI…
Everyone knows that banjos are awesome. But are they also deadly? According to Colorado law, that depends on how you use them. If you use your banjo for, say, pickin’, you’re all good. If you use it for hittin’, such as in the case of 33-year-old Joseph Stancato, you’re not…
Photographer Aaron Thackeray ventured into the wild on Friday night for a glimpse of Denver in action; see his photos on the slideshow page. Also, Kiernan Maletsky climbed Mt. Hipster on Saturday night, taking in the Bad Weather California/Pink Hawks/Pictureplane show at the Hi-Dive. Read his review on the Backbeat…
Pierre Werner, aka Dr. Reefer, is one tough hombre. “I’m a convicted felon, so I can’t have any guns,” he says. “The only weapons I have are my fists.” And Werner used them early yesterday morning, when two men broke into the Boulder building, at 1121 Broadway, where his medical…
Senator Chris Romer has been working on medical marijuana legislation for many weeks — and he’s clearly grown frustrated with the chore. On Saturday, he published an essay in the Huffington Post declaring that “my attempts to bring medical marijuana out of the shadows through a complex regulatory structure are…
As we noted in this week’s cover story, Louisville game developer NetDevil is hoping to hit the big time with a family-friendly version of World of Warcraft thanks to its upcoming game, LEGO Universe. Most of the game’s development has been hush-hush, though the company released the first official game…
Senate candidate and former lieutenant governor Jane Norton is the latest GOP leader to blast Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar’s proposed energy reforms. The vitriol is pretty shrill — she refers to “new, draconian reforms,” as if the government was about to start beheading oil executives. Yet it’s also…
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Remember that beautiful day in October when Balloon Boy Falcon Heene puked on the Today Show as his dad, Richard Heene, tried to convince America that the entire fiasco involving his runaway “experimental craft” had been genuine? Well,…
Over at the excellent social-media site Mashable, there’s an intelligent and thought-provoking post about the ways social media has changed us. And while its conclusions about social media’s impact on our society included important points about information availability, political discourse and child literacy, I couldn’t help but notice there were…
Don’t let these Denver blogs fall through the cyber-cracks. 5280’s Michael de Yoanna clues us in about a plan to create “the world’s greenest parking facility” at Denver International Airport. And no, it doesn’t have anything to do with medical marijuana (H/T Portfolio). Over at Denver Stiffs, Andrew Feinstein remembers…
Update, 1:40 p.m. June 8, 2012: A new Broncos QB is said to be living in Shanahan’s spread. Learn more in our post “Peyton Manning reportedly staying in Mike Shanahan’s old Cherry Hills Village house.” Original post: FootballNewsNow.com reports that new Washington Redskins coach Mike Shanahan met with assistant coaches…
Dads are always doing embarrassing shit. That’s just a rule. With my dad, it was usually his clothes, which were always about a decade off and a few shades too bright. But sometimes he inflicted his lack of style and grace on me, by sending me to school with my…
Attorney Rob Corry has become the poster-lawyer for the medical marijuana business in Colorado, both through his legal gambits — like victory in a dispute over the Colorado Board of Health’s language switch involving the definition of a medical marijuana caregiver — to his primary role in the Colorado Wellness…
“The Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth have just taken over operations and prohibit reproductive services at their hospitals. But they will allow us to give patients that request birth control these fliers that offer programs for families, with emotional and behavioral problems, at their Mount Saint Vincent Home.”…
Last August, Diego Alvarez was arrested in Avon on charges of felony cultivation of marijuana and felony possession of more than eight ounces of marijuana in a bust that made news throughout the state. Now, however, the case has come to a screeching halt. In a pre-trial hearing in Eagle…
Gino Rael, 26, is a registered sex offender who received a four-year deferred sentence in 2006 for enticing a child. So what did he allegedly do while in Boulder County Jail this summer on unrelated charges? Sent letters to young girls whose photos he and a couple of buddies saw…
No surprise that Kidrobot, a New York-based toymaker, is reportedly relocating to Boulder. After all, the firm markets its doodads in the headiest manner imaginable: For proof, check out the video above. And its keepsakes, most of which are made from retro-hip vinyl, seem to have been dreamed up under…
Early on January 5, a man now identified as Douglass Singleton, 59, was gunned down on the 2600 block of North Leyden Street in what Denver Police continue to insist (despite doubts from many observers) was a medical-marijuana-related transaction gone wrong. Now, the Denver DA’s office has charged Peter Bellar,…
If Denver mayor John Hickenlooper decides to run for governor (as Ken Salazar, among others, would love for him to do), he’ll have plenty of campaign web addresses from which to choose, thanks to Andrew Hudson. “Basically, my thought was, that’s probably the last thing on John’s mind,” says Hudson,…
The pot proposal pushed by Denver city councilman Charlie Brown is up for public comment on Monday — and the Cannabis Therapy Institute, among the most efficient and effective marijuana advocacy organizations in the state, wants to make sure folks who agree with its views show up in droves. CTI…
Having trouble finding work? You’re not alone. Follow Jobbed every week as we troll for the weird, the wacky and the worst of what the recession-era world of job ads has to offer. The Job: Governor of the state of Colorado Responsibilities: Running the state; navigating Colorado out of horrific…
Nearly one in eight youth in juvenile corrections facilities nationwide report having been sexually assaulted, according to a report released today by the U.S. Department of Justice. There are other shocking statistics, too: 80 percent of the abuse was committed by a staff member; 95 percent of youth say they…
