Dear Stoner: I recently found some edibles I’d forgotten I had — a candy bar that had been opened but was kept in the freezer, and a package of pot-infused mints, never opened. Does time affect potency? Can these spoil? Missing Marn Dear Marn: Treat any marijuana-infused food product as…
Ana McKenzie-Campbell’s post about what $1,200 rent will buy in metro Denver got a lot of people talking. Some were distressed by the high price tag on places that struck them as modest at best. Others pointed out that better buys were available the further renters ventured from downtown Denver. The…
Denver blogs posts are held to high standards. At our Food & Resurant blog, Gretchen Kurtz asks: How long should you wait before reviewing a restaurant? Predominantly Orange’s Brad James reveals how the Broncos are preparing to meet the Raiders in the Black Hole. WalkDenver’s Jill Locantore makes a simple…
Earlier this year, we reported about a settlement between Fort Collins and the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado over the town’s controversial panhandling ordinance. Since then, the ACLU has scored even more important victories in regard to panhandling rules that put severe restrictions on solicitation. A pair of U.S…
Law enforcement agencies frequently share wanted posters via social media — so the recent presence of one on the Morgan County Sheriff’s Office Facebook page doesn’t qualify as a surprise. But the man at the center of it certainly did. The person seen in multiple images on the graphic, on view…
In August, we told you about Go Topless Fort Collins, a campaign to goad the Fort Collins City Collins into removing the line “the breast or breasts of a female” from its public-indecency ordinance. Months later, the council is considering doing just that — among other things. As documented in a…
It’s no secret that demand for housing in Denver is near an all-time high. With an average of 4,000 people moving to Denver County each month and a shortage of places to buy, competition among renters is fierce — especially among those seeking apartment shares or rooms at under $1,200…
A couple of months back, the folks behind the Hinge dating app shared their list of the seven most eligible young professionals in Denver. Not to be outdone, Match.com is now featuring the eleven hottest and healthiest athletic trainers in America — and one of them just happens to live in…
Grinding — a dance floor move that calls for one person’s ass to be ground into another person’s crotch — is hardly a new phenomenon. Videos of the move have been popping up on YouTube for years; see examples below. Now, however, Arapahoe High School has banned grinding at dances…
Last year, in a post entitled “Is Colorado Pot So Good It’s Making Mexican Cartels Want to Take Over?,” Tom Gorman, director of the Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (RMHIDTA), shared some worries. “From what we’re hearing, Colorado marijuana is a lot more desirable than the Mexican marijuana,” he…
Our collection of top tweets from the Broncos’ win over the Vikings this past Sunday focused on Twitter Nation’s brutal criticism of Peyton Manning even though his team has won every game so far this season. Plenty of folks picked up on this theme. The following tweet, from a fan of…
Denver blog posts see “32” as a lucky number. At our Food & Drink blog, Linnea Covington spotlights the ten best eateries on West 32nd Avenue. Big Media’s Jason Salzman weighs in on KNUS host Dan Caplis seriously considering a U.S. Senate run. Mile High Report’s Tim Lynch thinks Peyton…
The U.S. Penitentiary Administrative Maximum outside Florence, Colorado, better known as ADX, has a deserved reputation as the highest-security supermax prison on the planet. It houses some of the most notorious inmates in North America — from Unabomber Ted Kaczynski and shoe bomber Richard Reid to Aryan Brotherhood leader Barry…
Earlier this year, we told you about Uber driver Gerald Montgomery, who was arrested on suspicion of trying to burglarize a client’s home — presumably because he’d taken her to the airport and knew she was headed out of town. Now, according to an arrest affidavit on view below, an…
Marijuana attorney Rob Corry has filed a class-action lawsuit against the LivWell chain of 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…
As rents were quickly rising late last year, we did a comparative survey of what $1,000 a month would get you in metro Denver — and came up with ten very different housing options. After another year of rising rents, we decided to repeat the exercise, this time looking for…
The senseless massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, which took the lives of twenty children, including Olivia Engel, seen here, plus seven adults, instantly stirs terrible memories of the 1999 attack on Columbine High School. On the tenth anniversary of that tragedy, we assembled a horrific roster of school shootings in the…
We’ve been reporting about the murder of two-year-old Donnie Ro’Mello Romero Jr. at the Lakewood apartment where he lived, allegedly by his cousin, Roman Morales. Donnie was laid to rest this past Friday in a superhero casket that reflected his love of costumed characters. Now, an arrest affidavit has been released…
In recent weeks, we’ve reported about numerous high-profile crimes on the 16th Street Mall. Included among them — a beating by a group of teens, a stabbing and the arrest of Jerry Odell, who allegedly committed four sexual assaults within minutes of each other. Now comes word of another sex assault…
In 2013, after two failed attempts, Colorado approved a stoned-driving standard of 5 nanograms of THC per milliliter of blood. Critics of the proposal pointed out that there was an almost total lack of scientific evidence to suggest that this limit would be accurate for the vast majority of people, as…
It’s not often that a reader picks a Comment of the Day for us. But that’s what happened after a strongly worded take on our article about Boulder City Council eliminating protected bike lanes along a four-block stretch of Folsom Street because, according to one local, the elimination of one lane…
Denver blog posts raise a glass to the people who make this community great. At our Music blog, Isa Jones shares sad news about the passing of Gary Lee Bomar, owner of Gary Lee’s Motor Club and Grub. Colorado Peak Politics weighs in on John Hickenlooper’s decision to take his…
