Last month, we shared a letter sent by Rob Corry, attorney for the 4/20 rally at Civic Center Park, to Mayor Michael Hancock and Denver City Council. The gist: While public pot smoking is nixed by Amendment 64, the measure allows it at home — and since Civic Center Park…
Last year, CardHub.com declared Denver to be the best city in which to start a small business. Now, NerdWallet.com has taken a different angle, assembling a roster of the communities friendliest to female entrepreneurs — and once again, Denver made the cut. Continue to count down the complete top ten,…
Stephvon Atencio’s red eyes in his booking photo suggests that he’d been crying some time before the image was snapped. Presumably, those close to an elderly Lakewood man were shedding tears, too, but for a very different reason. The man was found dead in a trailer on Saturday — after…
In early January, shortly after the launch of legal recreational marijuana sales in Colorado, we posted about several pot satires that were mistaken for actual news, including one claiming that weed overdoses killed 37 people on day one of retail operations here. Michael Pristoop was among those fooled, and he…
Last week, we shared a video of Leo’s Smoke Shack in Breckenridge being blown up by ski area and U.S. Forest Service reps shortly after it was featured on Inside Edition. The clip didn’t please many of our readers, who questioned whether the action would enhance safety. This post highlights…
Denver blog posts sometimes get blue. At our Show & Tell blog, Kyle Harris highlights the seven worst movies of 2013. No, Smurfs 2 doesn’t take the prize — and at least two Oscar nominees are included. The Denver PR Blog reveals who had the worst Olympics. The Ralphie Report’s…
Hemp farmers can now register with the Colorado Department of Agriculture to become sanctioned growers of the long-outlawed crop. The registration officially opened on March 1, a Saturday — and this is the first business day that hemp registration is, well, open for business. But the state agriculture department wants…
This week’s cover story, “High-Rise Anxiety,” looks into the uproar over redevelopment of the old St. Anthony Hospital site — which is being welcomed by some residents as a long-awaited economic revival of the West Colfax business district, while others are concerned about the impact of the project on the…
Hard to believe, but it’s been a year (actually a little more) since the last time we paid tribute to the best Texts From Last Night out of the 303 area code. Sorry we’re late! But that just meant there were that many more weird, hilarious, embarrassing, astonishing texts from…
On Saturday morning, Cafe Society writer Lori Midson was at the Whole Foods in Washington Park when a sudden blast of winter turned a nearby section of Interstate 25 into crash zone of epic proportions. A total of 104 vehicles were reportedly caught in the resulting chain reaction, with one…
With a headline like “To Farm Insanity Plant,” we were hoping to find a grow guide of sorts from 1909. But alas, that wasn’t the case. Instead, this article from the March 5, 1909 Yampa Leader was just more of the usual anti-marijuana propaganda connecting cannabis with the feared brown-skinned…
Yesterday, we noted that Leo’s Smoke Shack, a Breckenridge institution at the center of a hysterical Inside Edition report, had been destroyed as part of a new war on smoke shacks. Many of our readers were unhappy about the turn of events, including this one…
Denver blog posts are tough judges. Show & Tell’s Byron Graham talks to Sexpot Comedy’s Nikki Glaser about new mattresses and the Weirdo Olympics. Colorado Pols on Cory Gardner, “the devil you’ll soon know,” plus all those Bob Beauprez gubernatorial rumors. Denver Frank: This week in unnecessary censorship…
Even as Denver police released suspect Aaron Little in an apparent homicide case that quickly fell apart, more information was emerging about what seems to be a less debatable incident. Investigators with the Aurora Police Department are focusing on the death of a man whose body was found on a…
Of late, CU football players have seldom been accused of being choke artists, but only because the team has been so bad against top-shelf competition that choking wasn’t possible. Ass-kickings were more like it. But Jeffrey Hall, our latest Schmuck of the Week, is allegedly the exception to this rule…
Update: Earlier this week, we told you about the nationwide search for convicted child rapist Eric Hartwell, who’d escaped from a Denver-area facility after cutting off his ankle monitor. Earlier today, however, Hartwell was captured — but not before he put a lot of distance between himself and Colorado. He…
Representative Jared Polis was not doing a great job of representing Colorado earlier this week, when he was spotted on the House floor wearing a bow-tie and a purple polo. Afterward, GQ offered to give him a makeover, stating in an article “Okay. Calm. Breathe. Alright, Congressman…Jared Polis of Colorado…
Update, 2:40 p.m.: Earlier today, Judge Richard Caschette issued a ruling denying District Attorney George Brauchler’s motion to delay the murder trial of Edward Montour Jr. or to bar testimony from eleven defense expert witnesses. That sets the stage for opening statements in the death-penalty case to begin on Tuesday…
Should Medicaid payments for circumcision be cut off in Colorado? That’s the argument of The Whole Network, a national organization that’s encouraging its members to contact Colorado legislators who might be thinking about reinstating such funding. A network spokeswoman says the fight has taken place behind the scenes at the…
Update:Yesterday, when reporting about the bust of Aaron Little for second-degree homicide (see our previous coverage below), we noted the relative dearth of details about the incident, which took place on the 1500 block of Humboldt Street. Now, we’ve got more information, and it’s sure to raise more questions about…
Two years ago, when we first stopped by Chronorado Medical in Denver, we left unimpressed but hopeful after discovering the White Urkle we brought home was infested with bugs. It was a shame, because otherwise, the buds were plump, ripe with THC goodness and stank to high heaven with light…
When we shared William Breathes’s post about John Hickenlooper warning fellow governors to be cautious about legalizing marijuana, we asked readers why they thought Hick was so reluctant to embrace this new industry despite all the tax revenue it’s generating. We received a slew of interesting responses, including this one…
