As William Breathes’s lists featuring the best marijuana gifts of 2012 and 2013 demonstrate, Colorado pot shops have embraced the holidays for a while now. But 2014 promises more deals than ever, with a number specifically pegged to Black Friday. See also: Photos: Top Fifteen Marijuana Gifts of 2013…
Kristin Pazulski’s coverage of a homeless Solutions Center planned for the Athmar neighborhood prompted many responses about the project itself. But this reader talks about her own experiences with homelessness and the people she encountered. See also: Is the New Homeless Solutions Center Really a Solution?…
Denver blog posts know when to come in from the cold. The crew at our Backbeat blog picks the five coziest music venues in Denver. Denver Egotist shows off a new app that lets you trade your way along the Silk Road. Colorado Peak Politics on the initiative that would…
It’s become a common sight in Colorado — at Broncos games, in movie theaters and malls, in the bathrooms at bars and clubs, even behind high schools and in employee parking lots. People will quickly, slyly grab a device from their pocket that looks like a pen and put it…
Either the cold weather is slowing down business in general, or the recreational boom in cannabis is finally slowing down. There were nine additions to the recreational licensing list last month — and shockingly, not one of those locations was in Aurora. Find out where they all were instead: See…
Ten Fort Collins women have been attacked over the past few months, and police believe the same man assaulted many, if not all, of them. Against this backdrop, 27-year-old Jose Alderete-Gomez has been arrested in one of the incidents — and investigators are working to see if they can link…
Last night, as we’ve reported, protests in Denver following the decision of a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri not to indict a police officer who shot and killed unarmed teenager Michael Brown were peaceful — and that’s the plan for another gathering, planned for Civic Center Park this evening. Continue…
Denver’s typically on plenty of positive city lists — but this one’s not among them. Trulia has put together a report entitled “Where Is Homeownership Within Reach of the Middle Class and Millennials?,” and according to data compiled by the site, Denver’s among the least affordable in the country. Where…
Black Friday marks the official start of the holiday shopping season — and presumably also the holiday shoplifting season. With that in mind, the Aurora Police Department is sending a simple seasonal message: “Shoplift in Aurora and go to jail!” Those are the first words in a new APD Facebook…
The Denver Police Department didn’t need this. On an evening of largely peaceful protest in the Mile High City after a Ferguson, Missouri grand jury’s failure to indict a police officer who shot and killed unarmed teenager Michael Brown, video has surfaced in which a Denver cop can be repeatedly…
Earlier today, a new billboard encouraging responsible storage of marijuana edibles was introduced by the Marijuana Policy Project; see more images below. MPP spokesman Mason Tvert stresses that the display is part of an ongoing educational campaign and shouldn’t be interpreted as message to legislators, who’ll be making decisions about…
Our post about a woman who says her family has been made homeless by Denver’s high rent prices prompted an avalanche of commentary. Many of those who weighed in agreed that the cost of rent is outrageous. But this reader offers a different perspective and suggests that complaining isn’t productive…
Denver blog posts don’t conform to regular hours. At our Cafe Society blog, Gretchen Kurtz collects restaurant-biz suggestions for great places to get late-night drinks. Colorado Pols offers its picks for the best and worst political ads of the (blessedly) just-completed campaign season. Roundball Mining Company’s Tom Darrow gives Kenneth…
Six years after the drill-baby-drill crusaders of the Bush administration targeted one of Colorado’s most ecologically unique places for widespread energy leases, a surprisingly reasonable compromise has been hammered out over the fate of the Roan Plateau. The deal is being praised by state and federal officials as well as…
Remember those never-ending working group meetings surrounding the never-say-die edibles bill? The working group has been unable to reach a consensus, but you still have a chance to offer a public comment…if you do it quickly. Keep reading for details. See also: Marijuana: Pot Sales Down, Patient Numbers Up in…
Doyle Robinson has run Sox Place, a downtown daytime shelter for youth, for more than a decade; during that time, he’s seen the nonprofit’s rent skyrocket as the area became more and more popular. For more than two years, Sox Place was on a month-to-month lease at 2017 Larimer Street…
Back in August, we reported that Jennifer Reali, who’d gained a lot more notoriety as the so-called Fatal Attraction killer of her lover’s wife than she has for the gospel singing on self-released albums that she recorded while doing time at the Denver Women’s Correctional Facility, was living in a…
“Does anyone actually ENJOY dating?” asks a woman at the top of this vintage, Denver-centric thread. And the answers she receives run the gamut, painting a portrait of dating in Denver that captures the good, the bad and the ugly of the scene. We’ve photo-illustrated our picks for the ten…
Denver offensive lineman Manny Ramirez isn’t getting upset about a Broncos loss in this amusing screen capture, which has already spawned a popular Vine on view below: Instead, he’s pissed that Brandon McManus, who the Broncos picked up after unwisely jettisoning Matt Prater, missed his fourth field goal in his…
Early Sunday morning, a man was killed at The Beach, a nightclub near Mile High Stadium, and friends are identifying him as Kevie Durham, better known to local hip-hop fans as KL Tha General; read a remembrance of him in our Backbeat blog. Here’s the latest about this crime and…
Willie Nelson says he gives his horses beer, but according to this 1893 article in the Leadville Herald-Democrat, he should be using weed. Yes, the cure for a worn-down horse is good-old THC. See also: “Medical Marijuana Dispensary Review: Five Years Later at Walking Raven in Denver”…
Our post about the 471 percent increase in public-pot-smoking tickets over the first three-quarters of 2014 inspired many of our readers to debate whether cannabis clubs should be allowed. Here’s someone who puts his response in the context of officials’ continuing reluctance to acknowledge marijuana tourism. See also: Public Pot-Smoking…
