Our recent post featuring videos showing Patricia Lucero being bloodied by a Denver cop inspired many readers to weigh in, with some castigating the officer and others taking a more nuanced view. As for this reader, he uses satire and an emoticon to make a stealthily sharp point…
Denver blog posts have animal attraction. At our Backbeat blog, Mark Sanders tries to figure out if his cat likes the new War on Drugs album — a challenge since he admits “I’m not a goddamned cat whisperer.” Denver Urbanism’s Ken Schroeppel offers an invite to Meetup #5. The Denver…
Update #2: This morning, we shared a video of a big gaffe from Fox31’s Good Day Colorado, which accidentally aired a (very NSFW) picture of a penis during its coverage of a news helicopter crash near Seattle’s Space Needle. While the original video is now gone from YouTube, sports site…
It’s been two weeks since Colorado farmers could begin registering with the state Department of Agriculture to grow industrial hemp, and the department reports that twelve producers have completed the process. As of March 17, seven producers had registered to grow hemp for commercial purposes and five producers had registered…
The Colorado Supreme Court has agreed to hear the appeal of a lower-court decision okaying Douglas County’s controversial school voucher plan, which allows parents to use taxpayer dollars to enroll their kids at religious schools. That’s great news for the ACLU of Colorado, which has been battling the Dougco vouchers…
Update: Yesterday, we told you about the arrest of Thomas Laperch after an arson call turned into a homicide investigation; see our previous coverage below. Now, the victim in the incident has been identified as William Burchett, a 54-year-old musician best known for his work with a local band called…
It was a Happy Halloween at Lightshade Labs, judging by this photo from the store’s Facebook page. But it’s probably an even happier March, since two Lightshade branches are among the latest shops licensed by the City of Denver to sell recreational marijuana. In the two-plus weeks since our last…
Last week, we updated you on the investigation into the murder of Nancy Pfister, a socialite whose body was discovered in a closet of her tony Aspen home; see our previous coverage below. Retired Denver-area doctor William Styler and his wife Nancy had previously been arrested in relation to the…
It started as a missing persons case. But well over a month later, Lafayette resident Nate Tallman’s body was discovered a long way from home — outside Lusk, a town in Wyoming. Now, two men — Russell Britton, 58, and Moises Mendez, 26 — have been arrested in connection with…
Not all that long ago, marijuana advocates tended to encounter more shut doors than open ones when dealing with lawmakers in Washington, D.C. But times are steadily changing. Last week, a group organized by the Denver-based National Cannabis Industry Association spent two days in the Nation’s Capitol, with members participating…
When sharing a goodbye photo post for ex-Broncos receiver Eric Decker, who just signed with the New York Jets, and his country-singer wife, Jessie James, we asked Facebook followers if they’d be missed. And despite their status as one of pro sport’s hottest couples, the answer was a resounding “no.”…
Denver blogs are here today, here tomorrow. At our Cafe Society blog, Patricia Calhoun makes note of USA Today’s picks for Denver’s top ten foodie spots — and points out that two of them are about to disappear. The Ralphie Report recaps the CU Buffs’ route to a third consecutive…
To Patricia Olson, the offer just made sense. If the Stapleton Development Corporation was having trouble paying for the continued services of Dennis Piper, a key consultant involved in planning the emerging neighborhood’s parks and open space, then Olson would pay Piper’s salary out of her own pocket. But her…
Last week, we told you about the dispute over the story of Patricia Lucero, who was bloodied by Denver cops during an incident captured on video. Now comes word of another alleged case of excessive force, this one taking place far outside the metro area, in the small southwestern Colorado…
It’s one of the most shocking crimes in the Denver music community over the past decade — the slaying of 21-year-old Kurt Levias during a melee outside a Bluebird Theater hip-hop show in 2004. Now, finally, an arrest has been made in the case: George Allen IV, who reportedly went…
Last year, we introduced you to the CU-Boulder Missed Connections Facebook page, where Buffs of every description try to make failed hook-ups happen after the fact. Well, the page is still going strong, and a recent visit revealed a slew of love stories that never were, should have been or…
In its coverage of Sandy Nguen, who allegedly scammed $25,000 from friends and neighbors by pretending her son had cancer, 7News describes the alleged crime as “unbelievable.” In truth, however, it’s all too easy to believe someone would perpetrate such a hoax — since it’s happened several times in Colorado…
While we would love to take credit as the first newspaper in Colorado to actually offer advice on growing and consuming marijuana, it turns out that the Aspen Daily Times had us beat by decades, going all the way back to August 11, 1938. Sort of. The little brief is…
Our latest post about the startling Ryan Stone car chase featured local officials justifying the pursuit even after the child with the suspect was safe. The vast majority of our readers strongly agreed authorities did the right thing — but one reader was more cautious based on the experience of…
Denver blog posts speak in mysterious ways. On our Backbeat blog, Leslie Simon provides an unusual guide to Phish’s on-stage hand signals. The Colorado Independent’s Sandra Fish on the handful of contentious House races, which are expected to be brutal and expensive. Denver Frank offers video advice about how to…
Yesterday, the Colorado Court of Appeals ruled that Amendment 64 applies retroactively to defendants whose actions would have been legal under the measure and were appealing convictions when it became law. A64 co-author Brian Vicente has called the decision a huge victory, while Colorado Attorney General John Suthers suggests that…
Knowing that Ohio’s Greg Kasarcik has been arrested and extradited to Colorado for alleged sexual exploitation adds creepiness to one item on his Facebook page and dark humor to another. The creepy part? Kasarcik’s decision to share a notice about a missing fourteen-year-old — since his alleged victim is thirteen…
