As the Crystal fire in Larimer County was finally winding down last week, authorities announced their suspicion that it was human-caused — and now they think they’ve got the human who did it: Thomas Howie, 36. Meanwhile, Douglas County officials believe a fifteen-year old started numerous blazes in the Pinery…
Ballots for the 2011 General Municipal Election were mailed out to voters late last week. With nine candidates running for Denver mayor, voters will need to keep a “cheat sheet” handy. My Speed Candidating profiles cut through the political rhetoric to awaken the truth. Today, we set the alarm for…
The shutdown of Denver Magazine, whose key assets were acquired by 5280, has caused unexpected headaches for area nonprofits whose events the publication had agreed to sponsor. Take the Young Philanthropists Foundation, whose largest annual fundraiser — Bash!, a superhero-themed party for kids and adults — will take place on…
Even as 10,000-plus people were lighting up at the Denver Civic Center Park 4/20 rally, about the same number were doing likewise on CU’s Norlin Quad in Boulder, where the vibe was less commercial and more about raising a sweet-smelling cloud over the campus. We sent photographer Hunter Stevens to…
Our post about a RealSelf.com survey showing Denverites were less interested in getting Brazilian butt lifts than women in any other city polled included a comment from the site’s Makenzie Greenblatt suggesting that outdoor activities kept Colorado asses in shape. But in a subsequent post, she added another possible explanation…
Paul Noel Fiorino’s run for Denver mayor was bumpy, with so many signatures disallowed that he failed to make the ballot. He announced that he’d carry on as a write-in candidate — but now he’s dropped that plan to join the 39 hopefuls for the late Carla Madison’s District 8…
You walk into Civic Center Park, and immediately you smell it. Happy 4/20, everybody. You keep walking, slowly at first, like a teen at his first day of high school. Where to go first? There are so many people — some smoking joints, some peddling hand-outs, all wearing the symbol…
The Nuggets 106-89 hammering at the hands of the Oklahoma City Thunder last night would have been agonizing under any circumstances. But the way they lost compounds the pain. Simply put, this was the poorest game the Nugs have played since Carmelo Anthony trade — and it came at the…
Miguel Lopez, organizer of the 4/20 rally at Civic Center Park, hoped the annual marijuana celebration would attract 100,000 people. Not quite: Most estimates put the crowd at 10,000 to 15,000. But that didn’t make the atmosphere any less astonishing. Check out samples of our 4/20 slideshow below, along with…
It might not seem sensible… Still, the Nuggets would be well served to duplicate their game plan from Sunday’s 107-103 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder in game one of their playoff series in the next matchup tonight…
The Anthology of Rap caused a stir nationwide last year. The first scholarly compendium of rap lyrics drew praises from Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Chuck D, but also courted controversy over alleged mistakes. But coverage missed the back story of anthology co-editor and CU-Boulder professor Adam Bradley — a…
A bill to expand midwives’ scope of practice in Colorado that’s seen its fair share of compromises may have had its easiest day in the spotlight yesterday. After several hours of testimony and questions about infant death rates and medical liability insurance, the House Judiciary Committee passed the bill unanimously…
When it comes to pimping, the Denver District Attorney’s Office believes Theresa and Christian Laswell kept it in the family. Last month, Christian was charged with child prostitution and more in regard to allegedly whoring out a seventeen-year-old. Now, Theresa, his sister and supposed “bottom bitch,” is faced with pretty…
Step right up to these Denver blog posts. Mile High Report poster Royal Fan polls readers about whether Jay Cutler should be booed when he returns to Invesco in a Bears uni. Consensus thus far: Yes! Colorado Pols: The redistricting “Kumbaya Committee” is teetering. Square State’s Mucius Scaevola thinks Cary…
James Mejia is now among the frontrunners in the race for Denver mayor, which makes him a target for attacks — including an unexpected one from a group of Latino activists led by Lidia Ortiz. They’ve written an open letter blasting Mejia for using the phrase “illegal immigrants” in a…
In February, a meeting of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment’s medical marijuana advisory committee resulted in a definition of caregivers that cheered committee member Jill Lamoureux, who called it “movement forward for patient and caregiver rights.” Now, however, the committee has been shelved and its caregivers definition…
Ballots for the 2011 General Municipal Election were mailed out to voters late last week. With nine candidates running for Denver mayor, voters will need to keep a “cheat sheet” handy. My Speed Candidating profiles cut through the political rhetoric to reveal the painful truth. Today, we feel the hurt…
Update: Marcelo Ochoa-Sanchez has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of his wife, Karen Escobar — and no wonder. According to police, Ochoa-Sanchez stabbed Escobar in the street in clear view of numerous witnesses — then went back to his apartment, grabbed another knife and returned with the…
When Tim Lincecum isn’t on the mound, the Colorado Rockies are among the very best teams in baseball. But in response to a Kyle Garratt post about the Rockies series against the San Francisco Giants, one reader had a gripe. Not about one of the players, mind you. About the…
According to Allen St. Pierre, executive director of NORML (the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws), today’s 4/20 bashes in Denver and Boulder are the biggest rallies of their type “on earth.” And he expects that they’ll ready the faithful for NORML’s 40th annual conference, April 21-23 at…
Is the typical Denver ass perfect just the way it is? Or are Denver women simply more sure of themselves — less prone to the sort of insecurities that might otherwise tempt them to ask a surgeon to help make their caboose perkier? A new survey by RealSelf.com doesn’t come…
Update: Noel Alexander Bertrand, a marine from Portland, Oregon, has now been formally charged with sexual assault in the shocking attack on a woman after midnight in a nearly deserted Denver International Airport concourse last week. Meanwhile, new security footage and information from a police report sheds new light on…
