Tucked inside a small room in an industrial building just south of I-70 and west of Holly Street, three leaders from a clean tech company called Coolerado explained to Congresswoman Diana DeGette how they are turning the traditional air conditioning process upside down…
This week’s cover story, “Peak Performance,” describes how the pull of past history and the power of publishing inspired Shannon Galpin to create Mountain2Mountain, an international nonprofit dedicated to educating women in conflict zones. Although Galpin was influenced most strongly by the fact that both she and her sister had…
Denver blog posts have had it up to here. Bronco Talk’s Monty on Champ Bailey refusing to age despite having started playing NFL football in the ’90s. Denver Egotist on the Downtown Denver Partnership Awards. Denver Frank: So that’s what the marks on red Solo cups mean!…
Update by William Breathes: It is starting to look like there never was an opportunity for public comment on the proposed digital connection between law enforcement and the Colorado medical marijuana patient registry. State officials are only able to point to vague language in state statute for authorizing this program…
It’s Flag Day — an oft-overlooked day of national pride. Some of which is demonstrated in very strange ways. Modern interpretations of Betsy Ross’s design can go beyond cloth and, depending on your point of view, beyond good taste, too. Here are ten nontraditional but memorable uses of America’s stars…
North High School has had many struggles. Among them: poor test scores, low enrollment, myriad redesigns and lax oversight of the school’s credit recovery program. But a community group called Choose North Now thinks the historic high school is beginning to turn around — and that co-locating a charter school…
Today, we have for you a piece of news that you probably already knew just by looking around you: Parts of Denver are rapidly getting whiter! So much so that Denver’s 80205 zip code managed to make it onto a list of the fastest-gentrifying neighborhoods in the country. Hooray!…
Last August, we told you about a drug enforcement checkpoint on I-25 by the Westminster Police Department. This narcotics-centric variation on DUI checkpoints moved to a new location Tuesday night: U.S. Highway 36 to Boulder. And it spawned a felony arrest, for possession of nearly a pound’s worth of marijuana…
Our latest post about Sydney Spies, who landed a Syfy movie role following publicity generated by a high-school yearbook photo banned for sexiness, has been divisive, as usual. Here’s a post from someone who’s definitely pro-Sydney and thinks she’s got a big future ahead of her…
No huge surprise that the vile homophobes at the Westboro Baptist Church are targeting this weekend’s Denver PrideFest event, since they announced a PrideFest protest in 2010. But while they’re in town, they also plan to picket…Drew Carey, host of The Price is Right, who’ll visit Saturday for a gig…
The massive High Park fire has forced the annual Ride the Rockies bike tour to alter the path to its final destination. The bike tour will still end at at Odell Brewing Company in Fort Collins as planned, but officials announced this morning that the cyclists will have to take…
Jordan Ellis was only seventeen when he caused the death of Christopher Harmon, a man he didn’t know who was simply strolling toward a Walmart at the time. And while he was in a car with older men at the time of this drive-by shooting, and one of them –…
The TBEX North America conference, billed as the world’s largest travel blogger convention, kicks off today at Keystone Resort, and VISIT DENVER’s Rich Grant has a big role in showing off the area. But which local landmarks would he prefer the writers skip? We asked, and he (unwisely?) made a…
Among other talents, porn star Tori Black is known for, well, blowing, as evidenced by her win in the Best Oral Sex Scene category at the 2011 AVN Awards. As such, she’d fit in perfectly on the Colorado Rockies pitching staff, which is also expert at blowing…leads, as happened again…
“Over the Rainbow,” Jessica Lussenhop, May 31 Rainbow’s End Hate to break it to you, Westword, but there are others living in this world who also get harassed besides gays. But it seems to me you couldn’t possible comprehend the idea of leaving the homosexual issue alone for ten minutes…
The medical marijuana patient registry saw an increase in patients for five straight months through April 2012, bringing the total number of Coloradans with medical marijuana cards to 96,709. According to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, the registry is still 32,000 names below its all-time high…
Editor’s note: This is the latest profile in Kelsey Whipple’s ongoing series highlighting local political activists. For anyone who’s ever seen Rushmore, Steve Fenberg’s college experience makes him sound like a much better-adjusted Max Fischer. “I started a lot of clubs and stuff,” he says modestly of his experience at…
Garry Golden, a professional futurist, stopped by the Denver Public Library last night to, well, talk about the future. Not in a very concrete, fortune-telling, predictive kind of way, but rather in the more abstract forward-thinking, advice-giving, philosophical realm. This is the work of the futurist…
You don’t have to be steering a helitanker into the High Park fire to know that things are a bit toasty across Colorado these days. Drawing any conclusions about climate change, though, from a bout of unseasonable weather is a tricky business. Which is why a new report from Climate…
Denver blog posts want you…to click on them! The Colorado Independent’s John Tomasic shares a video in which members of the DU Pioneers put homophobia in the penalty box. Max Denver thinks Peyton Manning’s presence changes everything. Denver PR Blog: Crocs has launched a style blogger program. It’s where the…
If we misplace a phone, we know there’s a mighty good chance that whoever finds it will take an opportunity to snoop — with the best intentions, no doubt! And most of us don’t store anything that embarrassing, let alone objectionable. Roy Dunn isn’t most of us, though, as evidenced…
#IAmARepublicanBecause is trending in Denver right now and the tweets show how quickly a theme can mutate on social media. The original posts were along the lines of “I Am a Republican Because I’m a Hateful Moron.” But then actual Republicans started weighing in to share sincere opinions, setting off…
