If you and a special someone are looking to spend a cannabis-infused evening together for Valentine’s Day, there are a few events this week you might want to bookmark. And for those looking to learn about cannabis cultivation and extraction should get out their planners, too. See also: William Breathes…
Colorado tends to excel in health rankings such as a recent United Health Foundation report naming it the least-obese state. But drill a little deeper and it’s evident that Colorado’s robustness isn’t universal. The just-released 2015 Colorado Health Report Card, from the Colorado Health Foundation, shows why. The ninth-annual survey…
The video of an Aspen High School student being roughly taken to the ground by multiple law enforcers might have stirred controversy no matter the offense for which he was arrested. But the fact that his bust was prompted by him allegedly rolling a joint has upped the outrage of…
Colorado has plenty of great places to work, as indicated by the 28 businesses from these parts that wound up on Outside’s most recent best places to work list. But are there jobs available? NerdWallet says yes. The blog’s recent roundup of the best cities for job seekers prominently includes…
Our Cannabis Time Capsule excavations first uncovered Maltos-Cannabis marijuana-infused Swedish medicinal treats a few years back, in an 1897 advertisement in the Svensk Amerkanska, a Denver paper for Swedish-speaking immigrants. Now, we’ve dug up another reference, this time in an actual article from 1895 in the same paper. It seems…
Our recent post about the back-and-forths between marijuana advocates and pot haters over crime statistics was subsequently supplemented by an online conversation that went into many different areas. In the example below, two readers debate whether public smoking has become more prevalent since limited recreational cannabis sales became legal. See…
Denver blog posts are cuisine fiends. Our Cafe Society blog counts down the ten best Chinese restaurants in Denver. Colorado Peak Politics thinks Senator Cory Gardner is a funny guy. Chalkbeat Colorado offers guides to important people and policy questions at Colorado schools. See also: Inside the Crazy Caribou Ranch…
February is Black History Month, but the tradition of the black cowboy — a figure that’s gotten short shrift in much of our film and literature about the West — is very much alive. For proof, check out the following video, in which Mikala Nealy and other members of the…
The size and scope of federal land holdings in this country — including national parks, monuments and more — is so vast that people can venture into them and literally disappear. Note the case of Dale Strehling, who went for a hike in Mesa Verde circa June 2013 and hasn’t…
Back in January, we told you that Aurora theater shooting survivor Carli Richards had sold one of the birdshot pellets that hit her for $1,650. Now, Richards has sold a second pellet, the last one she had, for the same sum. She says the proceeds have allowed her to begin…
Richard Reid is in a Colorado supermax facility for an attempted crime that goes way beyond mere schmuckiness: In 2001, he tried to blow up an American airliner occupied by 197 passengers using explosives in his shoe. But the man now better known as the “Shoe Bomber” than by his…
There are hundreds of pot-related smartphone apps, but few are really worth the time, effort or (often) money that it takes to install them. I recently downloaded ten of the top canna-apps in iTunes to see what’s worth getting — and what’s worth forgetting. See also: Stoner MacGyver Product Review:…
It’s been about six months or so since we shared a collection of Visit Denver photos so gorgeous they were capable of making even more people move here. Since then, the tourist agency has kept clicking, and the images are as spectacular as ever. Check out twenty of our favorites…
When you and your partner are having sex, can you time it with an hourglass? Or does it make more sense to use a stopwatch? The Spreadsheets App, which, according to Nerve.com, employs “your phone’s accelerometer and speakers to provide statistical feedback about your duration, thrusts, and decibel peak,” provides…
After members of the Fountain Fire Department responded to a reported blaze in a suburban neighborhood early Wednesday morning, they found the body of a young woman inside. The victim has now been identified as Larissa Tiffany-Schiess, 27 — and police who are investigating her death as a homicide believe…
High Street Growers was one of the dozen or so dispensaries forced out of Fort Collins in 2012, when the town passed a ban on medical marijuana businesses. Unlike a lot of its competitors, High Street was able to make the jump and transfer its license to Denver, where the…
Our post revealing that Colorado is dead last among states when it comes to the number of kindergartners getting inoculated against measles rapidly turned into a platform for debate about falling vaccination rates. This reader thinks she knows who to blame. See also: Measles Outbreak: Vaccination Rates Across the U.S…
Denver blog posts don’t require bidding. At our Backbeat blog, Adam Perry offers behind-the-scenes scoop on the insane auction for memorabilia from Caribou Ranch, where Michael Jackson and other legends once recorded. Coyote Gulch on Colorado’s vulnerability to climate change. South Stands Denver’s Colin Daniels: “Some teams lose on purpose,…
What began as a welfare check at a residence on Java Court has now become a homicide inquiry. Thus far, however, the Denver Police Department is keeping the vast majority of details hush-hush. See also: Rapist Tony Dotson Guilty in Murder-For-Hire Bid Against Victim…and Sister Is Still Missing…
Edibles had a rough ride in Colorado last year. With deaths blamed on pot food, an increase in emergency-room visits and a very public freakout by Maureen Dowd of the New York Times, edibles came under fire in Colorado in 2014. As a result, state lawmakers and the Marijuana Enforcement…
Over the past eight years or so, Tony Dotson has been in the public eye for vastly different reasons: first as the heartsick sibling whose sister had vanished without a trace, then as a man accused and later convicted of acquaintance rape, and now as the newly convicted perpetrator of…
Each session of the Colorado legislature spawns controversial bills — like, for instance, Representative Timothy Dore’s call for grants to Colorado counties to offset the impact of legal pot whether sales are allowed there or not. But this year has also spawned a slew of legislation that appears to target…
