Earlier this year, Michael Floorwax vanished from his longtime gig co-hosting the morning show on 103.5 The Fox with partner Rick Lewis. The only explanation offered to date comes from Greg Foster, vice president/programming for the Denver branch of Clear Channel, the Fox’s owner: “Floorwax is currently taking a personal…
Legal cannabis has attracted a wide variety of tourists to Colorado who might not have come to the state otherwise — including Pennsylvania State Senator Daylin Leach. But Leach’s trip was work-related. He and a few staff members recently spent three days here in order to inhale as much information…
The holiday for which July is best known in the U.S. of A. remains Independence Day — unless we’re talking about the Denver Cruisers, whose most recent ride celebrated any and all holidays at the same time. Check out a sampling of Marissa Shevins’s shots from the festivities below. See…
Beginning in 2011 and continuing in 2012 and 2013, we’ve posted about the top ten speed traps in Denver based on nominations from users at Speedtrap.org. For our fourth annual collection, we’ve broadened the scope to include picks in the metro area as a whole. Count down the top ten…
Kelsy Newell-Skinner is only 21 years old, but she’s already given birth to five children by two different fathers. Now, however, she’s been arrested on suspicion of felony child abuse resulting in severe injury — a charge that will certainly be altered following the death last night of her youngest…
Personalized Organic Treatment is tucked into a warehouse district just south of the traffic nightmare that is 6th Avenue at I-25 — on Second Avenue, just before it snakes south and turns into Tejon. There’s not much drive-by traffic other than truckers and people like myself trying unsuccessfully to dodge…
During a recent visit to Colorado to stump for Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob Beauprez (and raise his national profile in advance of an expected bid for the 2016 presidential nomination), New Jersey Governor Chris Christie defended criticizing Colorado’s quality of life following legalization of limited marijuana sales. Our post on…
Denver blog posts have taste. At our Cafe Society blog, Patricia Calhoun shares a reader’s take on the comparison between Taco Bell and Chipotle. Coyote Gulch accesses the Conservation Community 2014 scorecard. Denver Frank offers a video whose time has come: “Every Samuel L. Jackson ‘Motherf*cker’…Ever.” See also: Chive Fest…
Colorado’s primary was a month ago, and the candidates who triumphed in that round are racing toward the November 4 election. But 35 percent of the active voters in Colorado had no real say because they are unaffiliated. And although a voter can affiliate with a party in order to…
Think Peyton Manning’s dancing to “Rocky Top” during a recent Broncos practice this week was the uncoolest thing ever? Well, the Internet disagrees with you — sort of. His busted moves have now been featured in a variety of forms: a GIF and a Vine video (with “Rocky Top” replaced…
Actor Kelsey Grammer visited Colorado earlier this week, but he wasn’t in the state where he once maintained a ski home for pleasure. Quite the opposite, in fact. He appeared via video conference from Denver at a Buena Vista parole hearing for Freddie Glenn, a man convicted of killing Grammer’s…
Update below: The Colorado Court of Appeals has overruled a Denver judge’s decision to allow Open Door Ministries to operate a treatment program for recovering addicts in an historic mansion on Clarkson Street — the latest twist in a long-running zoning battle in the neighborhood that was the subject of…
Update: Early on July 21, a crash near the intersection of Colfax and Speer resulted in seven injuries, two of them serious; see our previous coverage below. Now, 23-year-old Emily Strock has been formally charged with causing the crash, allegedly after drinking a beer and smoking a bowl of marijuana…
There are literally hundreds of pages on Wikipedia that feature the word “Denver,” and many of them include information that’ll be new even to most natives — about, for instance, the Denver Tool, the Denver Doll and Denver Spiderman, who was a murderer rather than a superhero. And that’s not…
Why did Daniel Monkert allegedly steal a trash truck and lead authorities on a strange low-speed chase? The reasons aren’t spelled out on his Facebook page, but his posts over the past few days are notably odd — including a single word shared during the wee hours of this morning,…
Last week, we told you about a $3.25 million settlement agreement in the case of Jamal Hunter, who maintained that the City of Denver failed to properly protect him after he says inmates scalded his genitals with boiling water and two deputies attacked him in an incident caught on video…
“Hard Realities,” Gretchen Kurtz, July 17 On Guard I have dined at Guard and Grace twice and no more. I prefer to support the ethos that guides the kitchen at Panzano. G&G is all about conspicuous consumption, and Troy Guard obviously knows how to reel in the stupidest folks with…
Denver may be the state capital, but it’s surrounded by areas so different they could be different worlds — or at least separate states. In honor of Colorado Day, which is August 1, we grabbed a map and divided this state by geography, economy and philosophy. Join us as we…
Dear Stoner: Can you just brew up cannabis like tea and drink it to get stoned? I figure a bud in a teabag in the morning is much easier than taking an afternoon to make myself butter and then all those fatty treats.T Sipper Dear T: Yes, you can make…
It was like landing on the moon. The thought ricocheted through Joleena Malugani’s mind as she took in the vast, dusty expanse of the corner of West Texas claimed by Midland and Odessa. Malugani was fresh out of college when she came across an Ector County Independent School District booth…
State health officials are calling for a public rule-making committee this fall to iron out details involving the medical marijuana patient registry, including limiting the ability of caregivers to serve more than five patients. In a letter to the Colorado Board of Health earlier this month, Ron Hyman, director of…
Denver blogs just want some peace and quiet. On our Backbeat blog, Gina Tron looks into how The Chive got permission to host a festival in City Park. The most annoying noise in Boulder County? Skydiving planes, according to Free Range Longmont. South Stands Denver ponders why no one wants…
