Denver blog posts have great city sense. At our Show and Tell blog, Lauren Monitz counters Bree Davies’s love letter to the Denver she used to know with a salute to what’s great about Denver today. Big Media’s Jason Salzman details how the expiration of a Kaiser Family Foundation grant…
Last week, we shared twelve updates about new or changing recreational dispensaries. Now, here’s the latest from the State of Colorado about medical marijuana dispensary licenses, including news about three new businesses granted MMJ licenses and the very first dispensary in Trinidad. Continue for details about these centers and more…
TripAdvisor.com has come up with a list of the top ten zoos in the country according to the vacation-loving folks who leave reviews on the site — and two from Colorado made the cut. Which ones? And where did they land? Continue reading for videos from the top ten zoos…
Hot on the heels of Peyton Manning’s awkward dancing to “Rocky Top,” which won the Internet via memes, GIFs and Vines, the Quarterback King of All Media is once again showing off his nonexistent skills in another medium: rap. In a sequel of sorts to last year’s DirecTV ad, Peyton…
Last October, we told you about one of the most disturbing child abuse stories in recent memory: the arrest of Wayne Sperling and Lorinda Bailey for abusing and neglecting their four boys, ages two, four, five and six, in a case whose feces-and-flies filled details were absolutely horrifying. Now, Bailey…
The toll the tough economy has taken on American cities is the subject of a new Brookings Institution report. Included is a list of the ten communities showing the largest increase of neighborhoods with 20 percent poverty rates or above from 2000 to 2012 — and unfortunately, one prominent Colorado…
The nation’s television viewers know Clement Park as the stretch of greenery over which hundreds of Columbine High School students fled in the wake of the 1999 attack there. But for residents of the area (including yours truly), Clement today is a center for recreational activity in addition to reflection,…
Those who work the overnight shift at Colfax motels no doubt have some tales to tell — but we hope few of them experience what a Days Inn employee witnessed today. Mere hours ago at this writing, a clerk discovered that the person who stumbled into the lobby at the…
We’re not really sure what the point of this August 10, 1893 pitch from the Greeley Tribune on “Hasheesh smokers” is all about. It starts out like something out of the SAFER playbook but then devolves into a complete hash fable loaded with half-truths. See also: Medical Marijuana Dispensary Review:…
Our post about a list of America’s happiest mid-size cities noted that Boulder didn’t make the cut even though it had landed atop previous rosters for happiest cities of any size. Our commenters responded with a variety of views about the town, including this particularly harsh one. See also: Movoto’s…
Denver blog posts do the hip shake, babe. Our Cafe Society blog offers up a list of the ten best hipster bars in Denver, summer 2014 edition. Mile High Report’s Kyle Montgomery says the Broncos’ victory of the Seahawks in Thursday’s preseason game is not quite revenge, but it isn’t…
When Amanda Cameron met her now-husband, Hap Cameron, on the beach in Mexico in 2006, she didn’t have the slightest clue that the nice guy from New Zealand would eventually become her husband — or what she’d have to go through to get his green card. That story is being…
We tend to think of grandmothers as passing along wisdom to their grandkids — and 43-year-old Trina Chavez-Hutchins appears to have been doing just that a few days back. In this particular case, however, the knowledge she was sharing allegedly involved helping her shoplift. Get the not-quite-heartwarming details below. See…
A bizarre story out of Ohio in which a woman burned off her fingerprints to hide her identity has a Colorado connection — one that appears to pertain to Ann Marie Miller, a onetime medical marijuana caregiver charged with assorted crimes who was featured in this space on several occasions…
Three years ago, Shannon Johnson made international headlines after her infant son drowned in the bathtub while she allegedly played a game on Facebook. She was sentenced to ten years behind bars for the tragedy. Did something similar happen in the case of Alexis Duron-Deluna? Fortunately, her baby didn’t die…
Denver County Fair’s pot pavilion wasn’t supposed to have any cannabis on the premises, but several people have reported feeling sick and dizzy after eating candy bars given to them by a pavilion vendor, with two men going to the hospital — and one of them filing a class-action lawsuit…
This week’s Denver Cruiser Ride theme revolved around the letter “S.” That left a lot of room for creativity, and as usual, the riders took advantage. Check out a sampling of shots from photog Marissa Shevins below. See also: Photos: Denver Cruisers Celebrate Christmas (and Every Other Holiday) in July…
More than 12 percent of Coloradans use illegal drugs every month. That’s among the Colorado-specific findings of a report from the National Surveys on Drug Use and Health. The stats are drawn from 2011 and 2012, which may make them a little behind the curve: As the Washington Post points…
The Cheech and Chong stickers on the windows of the former head shop next door are actually the most pot-related thing about the place. Otherwise, the simple, dark-green “MILE HIGH DISPENSARY” sign with two green crosses is about as low-key as dispensaries get these days. Of course, at this point,…
Our post about a toddler who was shot by another child, age five, noted that the nine-year-old who gave the gun to the kid who pulled the trigger told investigators he learned how to ready a weapon from playing Black Ops. We asked folks on Facebook if it was fair…
Denver blog posts have class. At our Backbeat blog, Tom Murphy chats with Thurston Moore, the Sonic Youth legend who’s spent four years’ worth of summers teaching at Boulder’s Naropa Institute. At Denver Stiffs, Nate Timmons notes that the Nuggets’ Kenneth Faried is now officially a finalist for the Team…
The State of Colorado released the most recent recreational marijuana licensing list on Friday, August 1. That list revealed changes in the adult-use sales status of numerous dispensaries — including the very first one in Salida to sell marijuana for recreational use, which is opening today. Check out a total…
