The folks at Coors Field announced last month that they were raising their outfield fences by a significant amount, both to normalize the home-run record in the field and to prevent so many teams from scoring on the poor Rockies by way of the long ball. Clearly, this is an…
April is National Distracted Driving Awareness Month — and that’s no joke. According to the Colorado Department of Transportation, there were more than 15,300 distracted driving crashes in the state last year — a number that has grown by 16 percent in the last four years. And 69 people were killed…
The industrial stretch of Kalamath Street heading south out of town isn’t exactly what you would call scenic, and construction on the I-25 ramp ahead can slow traffic to a crawl. So when my phone told me that that was the fastest route home after I’d stupidly gone to a…
The curtain could rise again on the Aztlan Theater. Lindsey Bartlett visited the landmark on Santa Fe Drive, and spoke with the longtime owners who are hoping to bring new life to the place. No sooner had we given a Best of Denver award to Denver FUGLY than Brad Evans’s…
During his town hall meeting in Wisconsin last night, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump covered a lot of ground with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews — discussing immigration, the current campaign’s lack of decorum, and then abortion…again, and again. But even with all those subjects on the table, he managed to get…
Chris Hoover was so fed up with the potholes in city streets that he recently sent us his “Potholes: Enough Is Enough” proclamation. And plenty of people who read it are now ready to sign on to Hoover’s cause. Says Jeff: Excellent bit from the guy who contributed and he is dead on…
A civil action was filed this week accusing District 6 Commander Tony Lopez of violating protester Jessica Benn’s constitutional rights when he seized her cell phone as she recorded her husband’s arrest last April. The suit claims Lopez and the Denver Police Department violated her First Amendment right to record “newsworthy…
A controversial proposal that would legalize short-term rentals — but for only one primary resident per address — will make its way to Denver City Council for a final reading on June 13. The STR business is booming in Denver, but causing consternation among residents and neighborhood advocates alike, as…
Don’t touch that dial! Denver rises again: On Monday, April 4, Kelley & Kafer, the talk show on KNUS/710 AM, will move from 1 to 4 p.m. into the key 4 to 7 p.m. drive-time spot, switching slots with national yakker Hugh Hewitt, who’s moving his show to D.C. and…
Dear Stoner: Why do dispensaries have shitty weed for $20 a gram and the really good stuff on sale sometimes? I got an eighth for $25 yesterday that was way better than the top-shelf stuff. D.J. Dear D.J.: Beauty is in the eye of the nug-holder. Maybe you didn’t think…
The recent uproar over the KKK Cop Painting created by a tenth-grader and displayed in the Wellington Webb Municipal Office Building got us thinking about this city’s colorful past with public art — and by “colorful,” we mean “sometimes fucked up.” And so we compiled this handy roundup of the Ten…
We were sitting in the down-home bar that serves 2016’s Best Breakfast Burrito — Smothered, looking across the intersection at the upscale Chinese spot that’s the Best New Restaurant in Denver. This intersection at the corner of 35th and Larimer streets is one of the many spots in the city…
Your Broncos MVP, ladies and gentleman, can’t stop passing gas. In a classic Von Miller move, the linebacker and hometown hero told the Dancing With the Stars judges that he has been getting fined for being late and farting too much by his dance partner Witney Carson. The price? A…
The possessions collected in the homeless sweeps occurring around Denver are currently locked up in a building at 1211 Glenarm Street. Chris Walker recently visited the place, and found that only one person has retrieved possessions so far — but there are reasons for that, as readers were quick to…
Over a hundred seniors living at the Lowry Park Independent and Assisted Living Community in east Denver will be able to avoid the rushed relocation that some had feared. After one resident heard rumors that the complex was destined to be scraped and developed into hundreds of new units in…
Students in Delta County high schools and middle schools will get some new reading material on April 1., including the Satanic Coloring Book. And that’s no joke: The Western Colorado Atheists and Freethinkers are working with the Freedom From Religion Foundation to provide the kids with everything from guides to…
Rigs 4 Us will celebrate its first anniversary on April 1 with a day of dabbing and DJs at a real house party. It’s been a year since Anna Zhuravlev opened her head shop at 5912 East Colfax Avenue, next to the Mindful dispensary and Los Parceros, a Colombian restaurant. At…
The father of the Taxpayers Bill of Rights is back in jail. Last week Douglas Bruce was sentenced to two years in prison for violating probation, the latest chapter in a checkered past that the Gazette captured in its cover story, “A Greek Tragedy: The Rise and Fall of TABOR…
Last week marked the start of street-paving season in Denver, and as the recent snow disappeared from our streets, it revealed several unwanted spring surprises: potholes. The sorry condition of the city’s roads inspired reader Chris Hoover to share this: Potholes: Enough Is Enough Let’s see, where shall I begin?…
In the winter of 2014, South Carolina-based tennis coach John Prenelle called Ryan Segelke with a proposition. Prenelle was training a bright young Ugandan tennis player named John Lutaaya who was running out of funding and needed somewhere to go or else he’d be on his way back to Uganda,…
Denver-based Zen Magnets, founded in 2009 by University of Colorado grad Shihan Qu, has been waging an unusual battle against the federal government — and the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), in particular — over the past four years. The subject of our October 9, 2014, cover story, “Magnetic Attraction,” the…
The controversy that led a Denver tenth-grader to request her drawing of a police officer in a KKK hood pointing a gun at a child of color be removed last week from public display has raised several thorny but perennial questions: Should students be given full artistic freedom? Or are…
