Visit RinglingBeatsAnimals.comThe Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus is in town, kids! The first show of its Denver run gets underway at 7:30 p.m. tonight at the Denver Colesium, with performances running through October 11. And as a special bonus, animal lovers who arrive early for tonight’s spectacle will…
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“Before I came to Washington, I used to wonder a lot, as a lot of people who are in public education do, as to why the federal government seemed so mean,” says Senator Michael Bennet, who’s been chosen to sit on the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, filling…
Last night, Denver Public Schools superintendent Tom Boasberg gave his first-ever “State of the Schools” speech at North High School to a not-quite-SRO “crowd” of about 75 people — a total that even DPS chief communications officer Michael Vaughn can’t make sound impressive. “It was a decent turnout,” he offers,…
It’s true. Just watch the video. Apparently desperate to find a new coach (despite having just enjoyed his team’s first victory since 2007), Detroit Lions owner Adolf Hitler recently flew to Denver to court former-Denver Broncos head Mike Shanahan. OMG, Hitler, you so cray-zee!…
An account of last night’s Rockies-Brewers game, as told by my large intenstine: First inning: As Jason Marquis loads the bases, my digestive system begins to rumble in distress, only to give a sigh of relief, in a matter of speaking, when he escapes with no scoreboard damage. Things further…
Is there any forest land in Colorado not festooned with marijuana? Weed roundups have become commonplace in recent months, as demonstrated by this slideshow and blog about $2.5 million worth of ganja seized on Sugarloaf Mountain this summer. The latest: $500,000 worth of marijuana plants found by hunters on Division…
No more shortcuts after this. Today in Backbeat Online: • Over the Weekend: Vendetta Festival. • Beer today, gone tomorrow: Synthetic Elements shoot new video at LoDos. • Katie Herzig and Frito-Lay are evidently Made for Each Other. • The String Cheese Incident readies Trick or Treat in time for…
Our daily stroll through the local blogosphere. Over at Denver Stiffs, Nate Timmons has a nice little look at why Nene will help the Nuggets back to the playoffs this year. 5280 is counting the ways that Bill Ritter has pissed off Labor. There seem to be many. If you…
Once a week, Susan Froyd muses on five things about Denver worth celebrating. Don’t let them slip through the cracks. Flobots.org is on a roll. The nonprofit started by the Flobots, Denver’s own activist band, to promote the community and cultural engagement of youth is beginning to roll out the…
We’ve been doing the Twitter Tuesday thing long enough to fill your feed up with some interesting Twits — so we’ve decided to open things up a bit and have some fun. We’re harnessing the power of the Internet’s latest and greatest darling to answer the big questions in life,…
Love him or leave him: Michael Moore is either a political tastemaker an acquired taste, depending on which side of the spectrum you stand on. But one thing’s for sure — with each new film, he will always stir up a discussion, often a heated one, and you never know…
It didn’t take long for KHOW talk-show host Peter Boyles’ dream of putting up so-called birther billboards to come true. In late August, he first began talking about erecting World Net Daily billboards reading “Where’s the Birth Certificate?” — a mantra of zealots who believe President Barack Obama wasn’t born…
Boulder County District Attorney Stan Garnett loves, loves, loves talking about medical marijuana, unlike just about all of his colleagues. In a recent Joel Warner blog, he confirmed his willingness to consider legalizing marijuana, enforcing his previously stated desire to be the most progressive DA in the state when it…
Update: Thanks for your interest, everyone. We’ve received well over 100 applications and will be culling through them shortly in search of the best candidate(s). Unfortunately, we can’t accept any more essays/resumes. Original post: Do you have a medical condition that necessitates marijuana? Do you have a way with words?…
Pitcher Adam Eaton swings in a cocktail dress by Asha Monique, while center fielder Eric Young, Jr. hits his first career home run in an evening dress by Rachel Tai…..
View Larger Map Yesterday, we told you about the early morning shooting of a woman in a parking lot on East 40th Avenue. Just in: A release from the Denver Coroner’s Office slightly amending the address where the crime took place, from 2535 E. 40th to 2530, an area captured…
Our Basebrawl series of trash-talking with the folks at the SF Weekly, our sister paper, en route to the MLB playoffs is winding down thanks to the Giants’ 1-3 series against the Cubs over the weekend and a kind call on a Clint Barmes “catch” that allowed the Rockies to…
Clint Barmes’ astonishing grab, which helped the Rockies preserve a 4-3 win over the St. Louis Cardinals on Sunday, turns out to have been neither astonishing nor a grab, as assorted photos that have been popping up in the past day or so prove. Clearly, the umpires missed Barmes’ bobble…
Best of Denver winner Sandy Clough has a reputation as the last angry man of local sports-talk radio — a thirty-year veteran of the market who figuratively shouts from his yard at all the kids playing in the vicinity. In truth, he’s no ol’ yeller. But because he uses his…
Some of the celebrities who take part in the long-running “Got Milk” campaign pull off the moo-curdling look better than others. Chauncey Billups, for instance, actually looks kind of distinguished, as if he’s rocking a gray ‘stache in keeping with his status as one of the NBA’s elder statesmen –…
The White House wants us to believe that the economy is on the mend, but teachers in the Denver Public School system aren’t buying it. Why else would they agree to a midstream contract revision that reduces a 4.15 percent cost-of-living increase to 2.5 percent, with a 1.65 percent bump…
