We’re hearing conflicting reports about the long-rumored trade of Carmelo Anthony to the New Jersey Nets. Some sources suggest that a deal for Melo and Chauncy Billups is imminent, while another says it’s on the rocks due to the Nuggets’ insistence on including Al Harrington in the package…
Update below: Nearly a dozen years later, the shootings at Columbine High School continue to be a go-to reference point whenever mass killings such as Jared Loughner’s murderous attack in Arizona take place. That’s especially true in the British press, which frequently portrays American society as increasingly violent and bloody,…
Update: Lakewood Police have belatedly released a mug shot of Eric Montiel, the chief suspect in the January 4 slaying of El Torito bartender Jose Beltran-Galindo. In addition, the LPD has tweaked the license plate number of Montiel’s reported vehicle. Look below to see that release, a larger photo of…
Watch local TV news and you’d be under the impression that snowplows are everywhere this morning — but I sure as hell can’t confirm it. I left my home in the Ken-Caryl Ranch area at 5:15 a.m. this morning, and by the time I slid into the parking lot at…
“Man of Letters,” Joel Warner, January 6 Just His Type The Rick Griffith feature is awesome. I love the photo on the cover, too. It captures his essence, to say the least. I’ve known Rick as a friend, a college professor and a life mentor. If you know him well,…
The Animal Planet show Pit Boss — which stars former actor Shorty Rossi as he rescues and retrains pit bulls — is planning to shoot an episode in Denver at the end of the month, one that would take a look at the city’s strict and frequently vilified ordinance outlawing…
Kenny Be takes a look at Governor John Hickenlooper’s political life to date. Each golden moment also serves as a draft for what he may have on tap for Colorado’s future. John Hickenlooper, Colorado’s Dome-Brewed Governor…
Are bed bugs a big problem in Denver? Missy Henriksen, spokeswoman for the National Pest Management Association, which is currently hosting its inaugural National Bed Bug Forum in nearby Broomfield, assures us that the decision to host the confab in Colorado had nothing to do with our infestation level. But…
This week’s cover story, “Extra Bold,” details local designer Rick Griffith’s love affair with everything having to do with letters. It made sense, therefore, to ask his friends, family and colleagues what typeface Griffith most resembles — and all of them were eager to weigh in. You can check out…
Disgraced ex-lawman Michael Carona, a former hot property in California Republican circles and once dubbed “America’s Sheriff” by an admiring Larry King, has lost his appeal on corruption charges and may soon be one of the more celebrated inmates at Federal Correctional Institution Englewood…
Some people surely pay for the Denver Voice simply because the money goes to the homeless and hardly glance at it before tossing it — although that would be a mistake. Not only does the Voice represent a worthy cause (for which is won a 2009 Westword MasterMind award), it…
Update: Earlier this week, we told you about an investigation in Las Vegas targeting Pierre Werner, who ran a Boulder dispensary under his nickname, Dr. Reefer, before Colorado law established that a former felon like himself couldn’t own an MMJ center. Now, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Nevada has unsealed…
There’s low, and then there’s really, really slimy-low. And selling crack to homeless addicts who are going through drug rehabilitation is about as low as it gets. Parrish L. Wright, a longtime security guard for a Colorado Coalition for the Homeless clinic, was arrested recently and charged with doing just…
Let’s end our Denver blog post collections for the week with this triumvirate, shall we? 5280’s Michael de Yoanna muses about the prospect for a Ted Haggard reality series on TLC. Maybe Kate Gosselin and her kids could join his congregation! Denver Stiffs’ Jeffrey Morton offers an apt one-word review…
North Metro Drug Task Force Commander Jerry Peters has long argued that criminals are abusing Colorado’s medical marijuana system — and now he’s got more evidence go back up his contention. The Colorado Attorney General’s Office, working with the NMDTF, has just announced a major bust featuring multiple arrests and…
The cowboy and cowgirl figures seen in the photograph above have “cut out” from the National Western Stock Show and have been seen in multiple locations in and around the Globeville neighborhood. The shadowy characters seem to enjoy hanging out in garden settings near barbecue pits. While the cutouts appear…
“Boulder Accidentally Discloses Secret Marijuana Grow Sites,” published by the Boulder Daily Camera, reveals that the city put a map on its website showing the whereabouts of sixty cannabis cultivation centers. Along the way, the piece quotes Boulder assistant city attorney Kathy Haddock as asserting that the map should never…
Plenty of locals were excited when the Denver Broncos’ braintrust decided to make Super Bowl-winning former quarterback John Elway an executive with the team following the Josh McDaniels disaster. But one of our readers, who weighed in on a Denver Blogs post about Atlanta Falcons assistant Mike Mularkey canceling an…
Monday’s edition of The Bachelor featured one of the most desperate contestants yet: Madison McKinley, who boasts a pair of vampire fangs. And while she identified her home as New York, she’s really from Vail, and did plenty o’ modeling in our fair state. Look below to see samples of…
Sometimes it seems that every day is Tim Tebow day on ESPN — but it really was yesterday, with the debut of the documentary Everything In Between and a slew of appearances on the radio and TV sides of the operation. Arguably the most amusing of them was a behind-the-scenes…
The arrest of Richard Troupe, 52, for shedding his pants and asking a worker at a Burger King if she’d like to hold his Whopper strikes plenty of people as hilarious, for obvious reasons. But Longmont Police spokesman Jeff Satur isn’t laughing, and neither is the young woman who turned…
A chronic whine from oil and gas interests has to do with the glacial, foot-dragging pace of government. But a presidential commission report on the British Petroleum offshore well explosion that killed eleven people blasts the now-extinct Minerals Management Service for moving too quickly to approve risky technology…
