At our Backbeat blog, Kiernan Maletsky offers a hilarious take on the Denver Botanic Gardens: Chatfield show by Sara Bareilles, whose f-bomb drops aren’t exactly gangsta. Denver Urbanism’s Ken Schroeppel touts adaptive reuse at the Avanti Food and Beverage facility. Denver Egotist is glad DUI attorney David Suro’s new commercials…
There’s plenty of back-patting going on today in the smoke-free back rooms where politics thrives like spores in agar, after an eleventh-hour deal was forged by Governor John Hickenlooper, Representative Jared Polis and others to remove four initiatives dealing with oil and gas development from the November ballot. The move…
Editor’s note: Kris McDaniel-Miccio is a University of Denver law professor and plaintiff in a lawsuit that sought to overturn Colorado’s same-sex marriage ban. In July, Adams County Judge C. Scott Crabtree concluded that the ban is unconstitutional but stayed his ruling against the law, which Colorado State Attorney General…
When does a dress code enter into the realm of discrimination? That’s among the questions addressed in a ruling by the Colorado Division of Civil Rights on a complaint from Vito Marzano, who says Denver Wrangler, a gay club that reportedly caters to the bear subculture, exhibited bias by refusing…
Update below: As we’ve reported, the scandal at the Air Force Academy that followed in the wake of “The War Within,” then-Westword staffer Julie Jargon’s 2003 feature about female cadets victimized by sexual assault, led to changes at the institution intended to demonstrate that supervisors take the problem seriously. But…
Each time we’ve visited Etsy in recent years, we’ve been astonished by the number of Colorado pride items available — and our most recent stop was no exception. In fact, the variety and creativity of the Colorado-centric entrepreneurs seems to be higher than ever. Below, we’ve featured ten cool and/or…
Those in favor of marijuana legalization frequently stress that cannabis users don’t conform to hippie-centric stereotypes. Rather, they’re folks in all walks of life, including suit-wearing business executives, as suggested by the image above. Not that this pic is supposed to inspire people to support pot-law reform. Far from it:…
The question of who won the election to represent District 4 on the Adams 12 Five Star school board now rests with the Colorado Supreme Court. Candidate Rico Figueroa has appealed a district court judge’s recent ruling that the District 4 seat should be declared vacant. The judge had ruled…
Denver blog posts know that variety is the spice of life. Our Cafe Society blog lists more than forty new Denver dining spots that opened in July alone. Colorado Pols asks: “Can we admit the economy is doing better now?” Mile High Report’s Kyle Montgomery on the misdemeanor assault charge…
William Breathes’s post about state health officials calling for new Medical Marijuana Registry rules spurred suggestions aplenty. But to this reader, the distinction Colorado makes between recreational cannabis and medical marijuana creates more problems than it solves. See also: State Health Officials Want New Rules for the Medical Marijuana Registry…
We’re more than halfway through our first year of legal adult-use marijuana — and the pot stores just keep on openin’. There were nine new locations selling recreational marijuana in July throughout Colorado. Here they are: See also: Update: See All 88 Retail Pot Shops Denver Has Licensed in Six…
Yesterday, Justin Daerr and Danielle Kehoe were the top men’s and women’s finishers at Ironman Boulder. But before the main event got underway, plenty of competitors reminded us that we’ve been slacking on sit-ups via the Ironman Boulder Underpants Run, which sported more six packs than your neighborhood King Soopers…
Could metro Denver’s last drive-in be headed for extinction? That’s the contention of the folks behind the 88 Drive-In Theatre, who cite a letter from Commerce City Police Chief Troy Smith suggesting that if traffic and safety concerns aren’t resolved, the powers-that-be could suspend or revoke its business license. 88…
Jokeblogger.com is a crowd-sourced humor site that categorizes jokes by topic. No surprise, then, that we were able to find literally hundreds of jokes about Colorado, with topics including marijuana, the Broncos’ Super Bowl loss and…well, there were a few exceptions, but that’s mainly it. Are they funny? We’ll leave…
Rachel Lewin looks much happier in the photo above, shared on her Facebook page, than she does in her booking photo, and no wonder: She was arrested in an arson incident following a String Cheese Incident concert that resulted in her being sentenced in July to more than a decade…
How did relieving himself behind a dumpster lead to David Ludewig’s death? This incident triggered a confrontation with a security guard, who opened fire after the 24-year-old Ludewig pointed a gun at him, presumably not realizing the weapon wasn’t real. We’ve got the tragic details below, along with photos and…
Here’s a follow up to a Cannabis Time Capsule post from December 2013 about a wily Philly amateur pharmacist selling a hemp “cure” for tuberculosis. Actually, it’s more of the prequel, as it seems that we found one of the actual advertisements for Dr. H. James’s “Accidental Cure,” or at…
Our post about a $5 million lawsuit filed against the City of Denver after a deputy slammed an inmate into a courtroom wall provoked an eruption of commentary about the tax dollars being spent to settle such cases. This reader had an unusual take on such outlays. See also: Videos:…
Denver blog posts offer the best seat in the house. At our Show and Tell blog, Kyle Harris counts down the ten best Denver movie theaters at which to catch a summer blockbuster. Big Media’s Jason Salzman: “Gardner’s attack on Udall for supporting Senate immigration bill is part of immigration…
Prosecutors in the James Holmes case have sent an e-mail to victims clarifying that they are allowed to speak to Holmes’s attorneys if they want. Judge Carlos Samour ordered prosecutors to send the e-mail (on view below) after defense attorneys complained that prosecutors were discouraging victims from talking to them…
Since the January 1 launch of legal recreational marijuana sales in Colorado, there’s been debate aplenty about the wisdom of this civic experiment — and a new report from the Brookings Institution’s Center for Effective Public Management on view below won’t end it. But the findings of the study, unambiguously…
Twins Jody and Jacky Allard recently spent some time in Colorado — although presumably not as much as they’d like. In recent days, they were extradited from Broomfield to Oregon to face twenty charges related to child pornography — accusations made even creepier by their status as coaches in a…
