As you might have guessed from posts like 2010’s “50 reasons we’re glad we live in Denver and not the United States,” we think there’s no place better than the Mile High City. And it turns out that the folks at The Delicious Day agree. The site’s post declaring Denver…
Why are the 2013 Denver Broncos so good? Daniel Salazar, a filmmaker and photog who’s worked with El Centro Su Teatro, among other institutions, has a theory: They’re actually space aliens! There’s plenty of tongue-in-cheek evidence throughout Salazar’s new video — and we’ve got to admit that quarterback Peyton Manning…
As we’ve reported, yesterday’s morning low of -15 degrees Fahrenheit was one of the ten coldest temperatures ever recorded in Denver, and the night before was nearly that cold — a deep, deep chill that appears to have prompted a reportedly suicidal CU-Boulder student to head to Chautauqua with the…
With all of the mergers, acquisitions and buyouts in the medical industry over the last year or so, it’s hard to keep up with who owns what. Not to mention where all of the bud that’s supplying these stores is coming from. As such, Colorado Harvest Company ended up being…
Yesterday, William Breathes posted about the rapidly growing number of minors on the medical marijuana registry since CNN told the moving story of Colorado’s Charlotte Figi, seen here with her mom, Paige. Included among the responses to the piece was the following, in which a reader tells her own story…
Denver blog posts are jumping for joy. At our Show and Tell blog, Bree Daniels shares the top five ways to survive the onslaught of snow and negative temperatures. Denver Stiffs’ Nate Timmons on the end of the Nuggets’ win streak versus the Cleveland Cavs. Colorado Pols says that Jared…
Earlier this year, we told the story of Imelda Valenzuela Gonzalez, a mother of three who owns a hair salon and is one of a growing number of undocumented immigrants speaking out about their cases in the hopes of stopping their deportations. At a court hearing in April, Valenzuela Gonzalez’s…
At this writing, the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office hasn’t released any photos of thirty-year-old Mackenzie Mavis, who was recently busted for burglary. But DCSO spokesman Sergeant Ron Hanavan describes her as having “a small frame.” Why’s her size important? Because investigators think she entered a Highlands Ranch house through a…
Over the years, we’ve written on numerous occasions about suicide-by-cop incidents, in which an individual who wants to die apparently tries to goad police officers into ending his life for him. Yet few situations seem as clear-cut as one involving Jamie Strickland, whose 911 call includes the line, “If they…
Five years ago, a jaw-dropping scandal rocked Pennsylvania’s juvenile justice system: A popular judge, known for the tough sentences he handed out to juveniles, had schemed with another judge to take millions in kickbacks from the builder and operator of two private youth detention facilities. Yet behind that brazen bit…
While a just-concluded storm brought less snow than originally forecast to Denver metro — but plenty of bone-chilling temperatures — the mountains were dumped on in a huge way, and the folks at Aspen/Snowmass couldn’t be happier. “OVER A FOOT OF POW and still coming down!” exclaims the intro to…
During Peyton Manning’s second season as a Denver Bronco, we’ve overheard quite a few conversations between guys that go something like this: “I’m not gay, but if I was, I’d really go for Peyton Manning.” Why have so many straight dudes in these parts developed a Manning crush — a…
At 5:53 a.m. this morning, according to the National Weather Service, the air temperature in Denver sank to -15 Fahrenheit. No denying that’s an incredibly bone-chilling number. But if you think it’s an all-time low for Denver in December, think again. The number actually ties the record for this date,…
The Denver TV market has always been competitive — but who’da thunk the competition would extend to snowy patio photos? Late last month, 9News Kyle Clark starred in a hilarious rant in which he discouraged viewers from sending in photos of their snowy patios after a storm. Yesterday, 7News responded…
“Giving Thanks,” Josiah Hesse, November 28 Thank You! What a beautifully written and sensitive article by Josiah Hesse. Alas, the striptease joints may be paying for it, but you are definitely a publication to be acknowledged. Congrats!Verna CaveyDenver “The Secret Garden,” Alan Prendergast, November 21 Down and Dirty First off,…
Weld County is still part of Colorado. For better — or for worse — voters there rejected a proposal last month to explore the idea of making the state’s ninth-most-populous county into the nation’s 51st state. And that’s a shame, at least from an economic-development standpoint, because Weldistan, as some…
In a nineteen-day crackdown between August 16 and September 3, law enforcement agencies across the state reported a total of 1,321 impaired-driving arrests to the Colorado Department of Transportation. During that time, CDOT estimates, there were ten alcohol-related driving fatalities, two of them in Denver. One of those was Jenny…
Dear Stoner: Can I fly out of DIA with pot? Headed Home for the Holidays Dear Head: We’ve covered this a few times, but it’s worth reviewing again before January. The short answer is: Yes, but only sort of. According to the Federal Aviation Administration, Transportation Security Administration agents at…
The number of minors under the age of eighteen on the Colorado medical marijuana registry grew by thirty children in September, bringing the total number of kids with parental-approved medical pot recommendations to ninety, according to state records. That’s more than double the 35 minors that were registered as of…
In this week’s cover story, “The Sand Creek Massacre Healing Run honors the past, but is heading for the future,” Patricia Calhoun chronicles the fifteenth annual Healing Run, marking the November 29, 1864 massacre of 150 Cheyenne and Arapaho — most of them women, children or elderly men — by…
Denver blog posts are very choosy. On our Show and Tell blog, Byron Graham chats with comedian Roger Norquist about why sex is better with a well-read person. The Colorado Independent’s Mike Littwin weighs in on Obamacare Rollout 2.0. If you haven’t read Dave Krieger’s BlitzKrieg interview with extremely frank…
Yesterday’s decision by the Denver City Council to reverse course on a front-porch marijuana smoking ban caught a lot of folks by surprise, including many of our commenters. Nonetheless, most were happy with the flip, including this reader, who punctuates his point with creative misspelling…
