Whether you’ve missed a connection or not, the Missed Connections feature on Denver Craigslist is a fascinating place to visit. The page is filled with a Dickens novel’s worth of characters and stories — true romances, potential romances, doomed romances, dead romances and everything in between. For proof, check out…
This weekend, officers with the Denver Police Department were summoned to a residence on South Bryant Street that contained a gruesome secret. A woman at a home there was dead. And the cause appears to have been wholly unnatural…
Last week, our Kyle Garratt assembled a list of five reasons why the Nuggets might upset the Lakers — but during Sunday’s humiliating 103-88 defeat in L.A., there appeared to be none. The Nugs’ desultory performance was epitomized by Ty Lawson’s awful game, but he was hardly the sole Denverite…
Last Saturday at the High Times Medical Cannabis Cup, I sat in on panel of experts discussing the pros and cons of smoking concentrates extracted by using solvents such as butane and isopropyl alcohol. Little did I realize that only days later, I would experience the risks that come from…
Editor’s note: This is the latest profile in Kelsey Whipple’s ongoing series highlighting local political activists. The first time Belinda Garcia was confronted by racism, she was in a public pool. During elementary school, she, her parents and four siblings walked into a Denver YMCA and stood there roughly five…
Earlier this week, we told you about a mind-blowing photo we came across on the otherwise ho-hum Alamosa County website. But the badassery isn’t courtesy of the county itself. Instead, officials politely informed us that the credit belongs to Jay Young, manager of Colorado Gators Reptile Park…
On Tuesday President Barack Obama just visited the CU-Boulder campus. Now, it’s the First Lady’s turn to visit Colorado. On Monday April 30, Michelle Obama will be heading to Colorado Springs to speak with a select audience at a volunteer appreciation event. But there’s a catch. The president’s speech was…
Denver blog posts are making up for lost time. Colorado Pols on Senator Scott Renfroe’s assertion that “Jesus is a better answer than Senate Bill 2,” which would legalize civil unions. Colorado Peak Politics: Scott Gessler says that if an election night reporting bill isn’t passed, Colorado will be embarrassed…
Denver attorney Norm Brownstein — of Brownstein, Hyatt, Farber and Schreck — is often referred to a political power broker. But it’s his sons who’ve been doing the brokering of late, and unfortunately “power” isn’t one of the commodities they’ve been trading. On Thursday, Chad Brownstein was forced to apologize…
A short time ago, Wes Specht, a former Alameda High School basketball coach and professional player with the Colorado Kings, where he earned the nickname “Wild Man,” has just been found guilty of several counts related to sex with a student and possession of suggestive images. Which means the jury…
Kobe Bryant has three more championships by himself than the entire Nuggets roster. The Los Angeles Lakers have three of the best twenty players in basketball. The Lakers are 26-7 at home this year, second best in the league. Given that, will the Nuggets beat the Lakers in the first…
Last Friday, the Cannabis Alliance for Regulation and Education began collecting signatures for Initiative 70, the third legalization measure to be proposed for the November elections. We caught up with spokesman Rico Colibri, who broke down his proposal and why he feels it is Colorado’s best option for ending cannabis…
Our item sharing a memo from editor Greg Moore about impending cuts in the Denver Post copy-editing department, which sources tell us could result in two-thirds of the staff being laid off, prompted plenty of discussion about the state of journalism today. Here’s a comment from a reader who thinks…
Robert Dewey always insisted that he didn’t rape and murder nineteen-year-old Jacie Taylor in Palisade circa 1994 — and now authorities have reportedly reached the same conclusion. Unfortunately, this determination comes after he’s spent almost sixteen years in jail for the crime…
The Broncos spent the first night of the NFL draft picking absolutely no one after trading down twice. But another Denver team is ready for the season. This past weekend, the 2012 Broncos cheerleaders squad was announced, and while all-man Sacha Heppell didn’t make the final cut, the women who…
Update: Earlier this month, Colorado State University student Donny Gocha was brutally beaten in an encounter with CSU football players. Now, the Larimer County District Attorney’s Office has formally accused Gocha of the same offense as the ballers who beat him — a decision that clearly makes him unhappy…
Last week, we told you about Connie Liphford, who was found guilty of a 2008 rape based on a DNA hit made years later. But the victim of a home invasion-sexual assault didn’t have to wait nearly as long for police to zero in on a suspect. Derrik Holmes was…
“Urban camping” is an odd phrase that encompasses homeless people sleeping on city streets — and the subject of this week’s feature, “Unhappy Campers.” A proposed urban camping ban that’s working its way through Denver’s city council would ban homeless people from sleeping on 16th Street Mall or any other…
This dispensary has closed. I tried with 420 Wellness. I really did. I had heard good things about some of the shop’s strains — and one of them took second place at the High Times Medical Cannabis Cup last weekend. But in the end, my experience with the shop went…
This week, President Barack Obama talked to CU-Boulder students about college affordability. But how affordable is CU? According to a list of four-year public colleges compiled by the U.S. Department of Education, the university costs more than 79 percent of the institutions on the roster…
Even under the best of circumstances, the act of robbing a convenience store for the sake of a handful of singles in ready cash has to be one of the dumbest crimes imaginable, just on a simple risk-to-benefit scale. But for absolute desperation, nothing beats jacking a 7-Eleven at three…
With the first overall selection, Denver blog posts pick…. Mile High Report’s KaptainKirk takes a shot at NFL draft “expert” Mel Kiper via a video in which the Coiffed One compares mega-bust JaMarcus Russell to Number 7. The Colorado Independent’s John Tomasic on Republican Nancy Spence making the conservative case…
