IsThereaFuckingRockiesGameToday.com, recently spotlighted by Jonathan Shikes, is an ultra-practical website intended to help LoDo dwellers prepare themselves whenever an onslaught of baseball fans is expected to hit the area. Many of our readers were amused by the concept, but less so by the current team. Here’s one example…
Denver blog posts know that brevity is the soul of wit. At our Backbeat blog, Drew Ailes offers six reasons your band shouldn’t play longer than twenty minutes. Coyote Gulch: “If you like your toilet, you can keep your toilet.” Denver Stiffs’ Danny Neubert recaps the Nugs’ improbable road win…
Sixteen-year-old Nicole Castaneda had one request of the supporters who gathered in front of the Denver immigration court before her hearing: to sing John Lennon’s “Imagine” because, as an advocate explained, Nicole wanted them to “imagine a world where kids could just be kids, without fear of deportation.” Nicole was…
As you can tell by this photo, Allen Quint, 76, doesn’t exactly fit the stereotypical image of a pimp. Yet pimping is the charge he’s facing due to his alleged affiliation with a so-called prostitution and human-trafficking ring that’s been under siege by Colorado Springs-area law enforcement for the better…
Colorado’s marijuana laws allow communities to decide whether or not to allow recreational sales. Votes on the topic have taken place in more than a dozen municipalities over the past couple of weeks, with a hefty percentage turning thumbs-down. These results don’t frustrate one prominent marijuana advocate charged with following…
For the past week-plus, the embattled newspaper industry has been buzzing with chatter about the potential sale of print properties held by Digital First Media, the parent company of the Denver Post. When contacted by Westword, Post CEO Mac Tully declined to comment about the possibility of a Post sale…
Early last year, we introduced those of you not already in the know to Denver Circlejerk, a Reddit forum on which users share items ranging from legitimate questions to bizarre non sequiturs that make often make no sense — probably even to the person who posted them in the first…
We recently told you about the annual Airline Quality Rating study, in which Frontier Airlines got hammered, particularly in the area of customer complaints. Turns out, though, that another carrier — Spirit Airlines, which wasn’t included in the AQR report — has generated more gripes than Frontier according to “The…
One of the first dudes I ever got stoned with in high school was a super metal-head named Eric who was into Dungeons and Dragons, wizards, warlocks and Tolkein novels. His room at his mom’s house, where we would smoke after school, was a tribute to all of these things,…
Our interview with Senator Linda Newell about her bills to create a definition of a drug-endangered child drew a big response from readers, many of whom continue to see its language as criminalizing cannabis-using parents despite Newell’s reassurances. Here’s the take of a reader who sees the measures as nanny-state…
Denver blog posts believe in moderation — usually. At our Cafe Society blog, Patricia Calhoun shares a comment from a reader with kind words — situationally speaking, at least — for Viva Burrito. Purple Row’s Jordan Freemyer thinks Walt Weiss has got Michael Cuddyer in the right spot in the…
Over a hundred residents of Washington Park and beyond made their way to the Denver Baha’i Center last night to debate whether or not the park should put a temporary ban on alcoholic beverages — specifically 3.2 beer, the only liquor allowed there. The crowd seemed evenly divided, with half…
Secretary of State Scott Gessler overstepped his bounds when he issued an emergency rule on election night in November 2013 declaring that votes cast for ineligible candidates are invalid and shouldn’t be counted, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled this week. In a legal challenge brought by eight voters in the…
On May 17, 2012, one day after we marked the three-year anniversary of our Mile High Murder archive, a man robbing a Commerce City jewelry store fatally shot its owner, Bernardo Saenz, and fled, prompting a citywide manhunt and media blitz. Just shy of two years later, Anton Valdez has…
Plenty of teachers are leaving their profession these days, but few make as much noise doing so as Pauline Hawkins. On Monday, the staffer at Colorado Springs’ Liberty High School posted a resignation letter in which she says her reasons for quitting include negative impact from programs like No Child…
This is the 100th day since recreational marijuana sales became legal in Colorado, and to mark the occasion, Michael Elliott of the Marijuana Industry Group has put together eight reasons it’s working, supported by coverage from national and local media outlets. Yes, the items are cherry-picked, and legalization opponents could…
Outsiders may believe that CU-Boulder’s student body is monochromatic and diversity-free. But I, Too, Am CU, an amazing tumblr and Facebook campaign, proves otherwise. Organized in part by members of the African Students’ Association (and inspired by similar efforts at Harvard, Oxford and Iowa), the project is wide-ranging, with students…
Thus far, we don’t know why 21-year-old Taria Wilhite-Moore sports prominent facial wounds in her booking photo or how these injuries may or may not tie-in to the first-degree murder charge on which she was busted. But there are at least two undisputed facts about the case: Eddie Johnson, 25,…
“The Spies Left Behind,” Joel Warner, April 3 Humor in Uniform I was very impressed by the story of Alvin Plucker, the “plucky” man who has honored the history of the USS Pueblo with the collection in his Colorado basement. I had vaguely remembered what happened when these brave servicemen…
At 55, Cynthia Masters wasn’t ready to stop being a teacher. The energetic single mom had come to the profession late in life but had quickly grown to love it. She was drawn to working in high-needs schools with high-needs kids, and her job as a special-education teacher at Centennial…
Dear Stoner: I’ve always wanted a hemp houseplant. What are the rules and regulations for growing hemp on a small, non-commercial scale? And does that count as one of the six plants that I’m allowed to grow? I realize that if I’m already growing marijuana, I’d need a male hemp…
Hussein Mohamed took a hard road to America. Born into a minority clan in a nation rife with ethnic conflict, the boyish 24-year-old with gangly limbs and intense brown eyes describes fleeing his village in Somalia in 2012 after gunmen threatened to kill him. Mohamed says he was forced to…
