Denver blog posts have a style all their own. On our Backbeat blog, Ashley Rogers asks Snowball attendees to explain their fashion statements. Big Media’s Jason Salzman on Cory Gardner’s position on abortion, which he says is identical to the views of former Colorado Archbishop Charles Chaput. Colorado Peak Politics…
Friday was opening day for the Rockies, which meant LoDo was decked out in purple to celebrate baseball’s return — and the Rockies rewarded fans with a victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks. Photographer Scott Lentz captured the jubilation of the Rockies’ first home win of 2014 with shots of the…
In the immediate wake of a tragedy, donations often pour in. That was certainly the case with the 2012 Aurora theater shooting, after which people from all over the country donated millions of dollars for the victims. But that money has since been disbursed — and not every victim benefited…
Despite sales and other changes in recent years, Frontier still likes to portray itself as Denver’s hometown airline. But few will feel much hometown pride over the carrier’s performance in the annual Airline Quality Rating study. Frontier tumbled from the top ten (of fifteen total) in overall quality and finished…
We last updated you about the most expensive (and spectacular) homes for sale in Boulder back in August of last year, using the indispensable BoulderHomeSource.com as a resource. And a lot’s changed since then. Of the previous top five, three are no longer available, and one that’s still listed has…
Attorney David Lane is well known for defending speech, even when it’s rude. Note his 2010 advocacy on behalf of a bar owner who faced the prospect of losing his liquor license for singing “Fuck the condo people” to the tune of Neil Young’s “Rockin’ in the Free World.” The…
Although many in the public perceive Occupy Denver to be a thing of the past, the organization remains quite busy, staging regular protests that recently were dubbed “reprehensible” by the Denver Post. More evidence of ongoing activity: This weekend, a downtown march featuring OD and Anonymous resulted in a dust-up…
We’ve got a followup to a post last November that spotlighted a 1922 Telluride Daily Journal blurb on Martinez Gonzales, who was arrested after Montrose cops found him growing herb in his front yard. Last we had heard, Gonzales was being held in jail until an evaluation on his sanity…
Our post about Denver City Councilman Chris Nevitt’s suggested booze ban at Washington Park (which only allows 3.2 percent alcohol as it is) didn’t receive a lot of popular support in our comments section. But there was some easy-to-detect sarcasm, as seen in this memorable post…
Denver blog posts could use a cold one about now. At our Cafe Society blog, Jonathan Shikes reveals how a mistake resulted in Boulder Beer’s 35th anniversary brew. Denver Infill’s Ryan Dravitz offers a final update on the Denver Art Museum office project. Denver Frank offers a lesson in street…
Update: Jaime Leon Rivas, a nineteen-year-old undocumented immigrant who we wrote about last week (see below), has been released from detention, where he was awaiting deportation. On April 2, a week after his friends and family held a vigil outside the GEO immigrant detention center in Aurora on the occasion…
The latest Schmuck of the Week post is trickier than usual. Rather than bestowing this honor on Natalie Carpenter, who’s reportedly suffering from mental illness, we direct it at what she represents: the ongoing fascination with the 1999 Columbine High School killers. Subsequent school shootings have been more lethal. Yet…
Update: Last month, we told you about a fatal shooting that killed Dwayne Kelly, 52, on the 1600 block of Yates; see our previous coverage below. At the time, the Denver police intimated that the incident may have been a Make My Day case, in which a homeowner fired in…
Denver mayor Michael Hancock isn’t the likeliest marijuana tourist. Recall that he ripped Amendment 64. Nonetheless, he and other Denver city officials will visit Amsterdam next week in part to learn more about the city’s approach to weed. Apparently, Hancock and company haven’t heard of this little thing called the…
Just in case you doubted that there’s now a survey for everything, here’s an analysis we never thought we’d see. The PornHub site has ranked the fifty U.S. states and the District of Columbia by the ratio of web searches for big boobs versus small boobs. And Colorado is among…
Ashleigh Padilla is incredibly photogenic, as the gorgeous portraits on her Facebook page attest. But perhaps her best known image is a mug shot snapped after her arrest for allegedly funding a shopping spree with a customer’s debit card. Padilla’s pic is only one of the memorable images from the…
Three months ago yesterday, RaeLyn Gonzales, fifty, and her eighteen-month-old grandson, Fabian Gonzales, were brutally stabbed to death in Adams County. Since then, no arrests have been made and precious little information has been released about the investigation. But the Gonzales family has no intention of letting the deaths of…
So much has changed at Southwest Alternative Care since 2011 that it might as well be a new dispensary. The shop has moved from its strange loft above a mattress store to a stand-alone warehouse spot just a few miles east and expanded to a second location on Colfax. Plus,…
When we shared our latest post about alleged pot profiling, keyed to a lawsuit against the Idaho State Patrol by a man who says he was pulled over because of his Colorado license plates, we asked readers if they’d experienced anything similar. The response was huge and the stories were…
Denver blog posts rock. At our Backbeat blog, check out the full list of 2014 Westword Showcase nominees, from Angry Hand of God to Zebroids. Colorado Pols wonders if CU’s visiting conservative scholar is doing his job a little too well. Purple Row’s Brian Kilpatrick on the first Rockies win…
Thirteen producers have registered to legally grow hemp in Colorado in the month since registration began, according to the state Department of Agriculture. However, those thirteen producers hold a total of twenty registrations, as several of them are registered to grow in more than one location or for more than…
Libertarian politics in Colorado have always been among the most fun to watch. After all, the nation’s third-largest political party was founded in Colorado Springs 42 years ago and has attracted all kinds of colorful characters, from Lakewood City Councilman Doug Anderson, who became the first Libertarian elected to office…
