Our post about the arrest of a suspect for allegedly splashing green paint on the Big Blue Bear outside the Convention Center, and the subsequent decision not to charge him with the crime, drew varied responses. Among them was the following post, in which a reader casts doubt on the…
Denver blog posts understand completely. Denver Egotist promotes a USA Pro Cycling Challenge poster contest. Does the poster seen here look like a winner to you? Coyote Gulch offers the latest drought assessment. Square State’s Zappatero: If only the two year old had an AR-15……
We here at Schmuck of the Week HQ aren’t criminals — really! — so it’s hard to put ourselves in the mind of lawbreakers and miscreants. Yet it still makes sense to us for people stealing stuff from their workplace to make sure there are a lot of other suspects…
Most people don’t happen to have thousands of LED lights lying around a workshop. And most people don’t have two 3-D printers and other tools needed to create an interactive light display controlled by cellphones and containing more than 3,000 bulbs. But for Boulder’s Silicon Junkies, all these pieces add…
Last week, we told you about the decision of the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office to name Miguel Angel Ita, fifteen, as the prosecutorial target in a fatal Lakewood stabbing and begin the procedure to try him as an adult. That process has changed, and not for the better in…
Legendary rock promoter Barry Fey, who died this past weekend, wanted to be laid to rest at Morrison Cemetery, a stone’s throw from his beloved Red Rocks — and his loved ones say he’d reached a deal for this to happen despite rules restricting burial there to Jefferson County residents…
Yesterday, in a post about some of the weirder aspects of the House-approved marijuana bill, attorney Warren Edson made note of a cap on the THC levels allowable in pot-infused edibles — limits that he described as “pretty low.” Jessica LeRoux, aka the Cheesecake Lady, who owns and operates Twirling…
It’s a good indication that a month included some memorable mug shots if one of them features a guy (James Lohr) who’s shaved off his eyebrows and replaced them with tattoos of the words “HARD” and “LUCK.” But if this particular image stands out, plenty of others from our April…
Update: The tale of Felix Trujillo’s escape from Denver jail last month, and deputy Matthew Andrews’s alleged role in helping him do so, was already plenty weird. But it just got a whole lot stranger. Trujillo now says the escape plan came from Andrews, based on the mistaken notion that…
No, it wasn’t a surprise the Nuggets lost 92-88 to the Warriors last night to get bounced in the NBA playoffs’ first round — again. But it was a gut-shot, since this was supposed to be the year the Nugs made a deep run. Who’s to blame? Plenty of names…
The Healing House menu is freaking huge, and that alone makes it seem like another warehouse crap shack in the boonies getting by on a (somewhat) isolated location to sell bud. The isolated-location part is true, with the shop pretty much at the western end of Alameda just a few…
Denver blog posts aren’t living in a Golden State of mind. Denver Stiffs’ Colin Neilson hasn’t given up on the Nuggets in their playoff series with the Warriors — and offers a blueprint for victory. Big Media’s Jason Salzman questions Cory Gardner’s commitment to a bigger GOP tent. Denver Urbanism’s…
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor made a promise to the hundred eighth-, ninth- and tenth-graders to whom she spoke this morning. “If anybody watching this today in this room ever becomes a justice,” she told the teenagers at the new Ralph L. Carr Colorado Judicial Center, which is being dedicated…
Denver Cruiser Ride organizer Brad Evans thinks big — and not just when it comes to pranks like releasing an April Fools Day 2013 themes list featuring selections like “Skid Marks & Semen Stains.” When Evans previewed the upcoming Denver Cruiser Ride season, which kicks off May 15, he told…
Recently Gene Shue went looking for a new dog, a companion for the chihuahua he adopted three years ago — and got a bad case of sticker shock. He found the perfect buddy dog at Golden’s Foothills Animal Shelter, only to learn that the adoption fee was double what he’d…
Yesterday, Patricia Calhoun offered up some alternative Denver tour stops for a group from Virginia, including the urinals at the Oxford Hotel, which have been around so long that Bat Masterson is said to have drained his lizard in them. Plenty of readers expressed affection for this unusual attraction, including…
Earlier this week, marijuana attorney Warren Edson gave us his first take on the House-approved draft of HB 13-1317, the main regulatory measure pertaining to the implementation of Amendment 64. Now, after weighing in on issues like vertical integration for retail pot shops and temporary exclusivity for existing MMJ centers,…
This week, CU-Boulder Regent Jim Geddes argued that the university should add more conservative faculty as a way of striking a better ideological balance at the famously liberal institution — this after CU chose Steven Hayward as the Board of Regents’ first “visiting scholar in conservative thought.” But what will…
Update below: On Tuesday, when family and friends of the late Barry Fey bid farewell to the legendary Denver rock promoter at a Capitol Hill memorial service, we noted that according to our sources, as well as CBS4, he had taken his own life; see our previous coverage below. That’s…
Update: Yesterday, Denver police announced, with a good deal of hoopla, that an arrest had been made in the March 31 vandalism of the Big Blue Bear at the Colorado Convention Center, during which the tourism symbol was splashed with green paint. Mere hours later, however, the Denver District Attorney’s…
As longtime Coloradans know, the day after a storm is often as challenging from a driving perspective, if not more so, than when the snow is actually falling, because some people insist on believing that everything is back to normal even when road conditions are still deceptively crappy. With that…
Dear Stoner: What are these “clones” I see advertised? Are people really cloning marijuana plants like that sheep in Scotland? Dolly Lama Dear Dolly: We’re actually amassing an army of tiny clone warriors, not unlike in Star Wars — only we’re doing it with cannabis plants. The whole peaceful-revolution thing…
