Denver blog posts know that it’s not easy being great green chile. At Westword Food & Drink, Mark Antonation presents the ten best places for green chile in Denver, 2016 edition. A confession by Mike Olson of Denver Stiffs: “I play with myself.” A provocative Colorado Peak Politics headline reads,…
Tonight, the Emily Griffith Foundation will host what it’s calling the Party of the Century in honor of legendary educator Emily Griffith, who founded Denver’s Opportunity School in 1916. That school is still going strong, offering an array of high-school and continuing-education courses that dwarf the three classes Griffith offered…
Colorado has been the trendsetter in legal recreational marijuana for more than two years, and as debates about the plant’s economic and social effects rage around the country, people frequently look to this state’s capital for data that supports their arguments. But until recently, Denver hasn’t been able to provide…
If the tales told by prosecutors about 28-year-old Jason Tremblay are accurate, he’s not only a fine candidate for Schmuck of the Week honors. He’s a multi-faceted Schmuck as well. First, there are the allegations about his interest in having sex with a pair of sisters, ages ten and fourteen,…
Ron Howard had an important role in the lead-up to Super Bowl 50, won by your Denver Broncos. But he made his biggest contribution to the contest after the fact — via a video shared here, in which he speaks for a pouting Cam Newton while being gently chided by…
Last October, we told you about a class-action lawsuit filed against LivWell Englightened Health dispensaries based on its alleged use of a pesticide called Eagle 20 “in the first quarter of 2015 and likely for many months, if not years, earlier.” The substance is described in the suit, seen in its…
Rich Wyatt’s reversal of fortune has taken place in slow motion. Five years ago, he was a reality TV star thanks to American Guns, a popular Discovery Channel program that showcased him, his telegenic family and his business, Gunsmoke Guns in Wheat Ridge. But American Guns was canceled in December 2012,…
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Highland, the Highlands, the Northside — whatever the hell you want to call it — has become the poster child for Denver gentrification. But that hasn’t stopped a lot of us from going to one of the neighborhood’s trendy restaurants or trying to squeeze into Williams & Graham for a…
Our Matthew Van Deventer recently wrote about potential changes to short-term-rental rules in Denver. Suggestions floated by a Denver city councilwoman include requiring that the owners to live on the properties in question — a change that would likely impact loads of STRs in the Mile High. Readers reacting to…
Denver blog posts have a neighborhood feel. At Westword Arts, Teague Bohlen lists five things that make Five Points residents really, really mad. Denver Infill’s Ryan Dravitz offers a final update on the 250 Columbine project in Cherry Creek. Mile High Mamas’ Amber Johnson details a Boulder mom’s new babysitter app…
Want to make some extra cash and get better cell service? Maybe one of your favorite cell providers can install a tower in your back yard — just what the Kirk of Bonnie Brae church, at 1201 South Steele Street, is considering, much to the dismay of many Cory-Merrill neighborhood residents. Marti…
The ACLU of Colorado has filed a lawsuit against Adams State University on behalf of a former professor who started a website critical of hiring practices and was then banned from campus — and subsequently accused of posing a public safety risk by the university’s president. As we first reported last…
Stan Kroenke, owner of the Denver Nuggets, the Colorado Avalanche and lots of other stuff, clearly has a thing for ranches. Until recently, he reportedly owned eleven of them in Arizona, Montana, Wyoming and British Columbia. Now, make it a dozen — and number twelve is a whopper. The W.T. Waggoner…
To the victors go the spoils — and for your world champion Denver Broncos, they include making appearances on major talk shows. First, Ellen DeGeneres hosted Super Bowl 50 MVP Von Miller, who said that he job was to make sure the other guy had a horrible day. Then, last night,…
Back in 2014, we shared Centers for Disease Control figures showing where several major Colorado cities ranked as measured by binge drinking. The results weren’t especially positive — and data from the United Health Foundation’s annual health rankings suggest that the trend has yet to be reversed. There’s plenty of good…
When it comes to a series of incidents that took place in unincorporated Arapahoe County yesterday, tragedy followed tragedy followed tragedy. First, a woman was sexually assaulted at knife-point. Then, law enforcers speaking to the victim belated entered her apartment to find that a six-year-old boy had been stabbed to…
Dear Stoner: Does marijuana help with depression? Searching Dear Searching: Unfortunately, the answer is not a simple yes or no. There’s such a wide range of studies on the subject that trying to wrap your head around it can make your hair fall out — or leave you more depressed…
We recently wrote about how rents for apartments in Denver rise and fall depending on the size of their building. But the discussion wasn’t limited to this theme. Indeed, one of the most interesting responses involved the condition of homes for rent — the implication being that the demand for…
Denver blogs know it’s a long way to the top if you want to rock and roll. At Westword Music, Brett Callwood describes how watching AC/DC in concert is like watching It’s a Wonderful Life. Predominantly Orange’s Tylor Walden lists important off-season dates for your Denver Broncos. The Colorado Independent’s Mike…
The only remaining plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging a high-rise development across the street from Sloan’s Lake have withdrawn from the case — a move that a frustrated neighborhood group claims is the result of “improper influence” on the part of the developer, which allegedly offered to buy the plaintiffs’…
By the time the TV news teams showed up at Sustainability Park on October 24, most of the arrests had been made, and the city’s dump trucks were already in the process of hauling away five tiny houses that had been built there by dozens of homeless people and activists…
