Denver blogs put safety first. At Westword Music, Emily Healy presents the newbie’s guide to safety at Denver shows. Colorado Peak Politics tweaks Jared Polis for making fun of Donald Trump being rich. Mile High Hockey’s Ryan Murphy recaps the Colorado Avalanche’s victory over the Phoenix Coyotes…
A mobile public bathroom opened for business yesterday next to Denver Police Department District 6 headquarters at Clarkson Street and East Colfax Avenue. Armed with three toilets and hydraulic suspension, the city-backed pisser represents a new push by Denver City Council to appease the bulging bladders of anyone along the…
Melanie Brinegar woke up one morning in July 2014, took her daily dose of medicine and then headed to work. She never got there. Police pulled her over for an expired license plate, then noticed an empty dispensary bottle in the back of her car. Brinegar, an employee of RiverRock…
No, Leonardo DiCaprio hasn’t purchased a summer home in Colorado Springs. But a fake news story published on a satirical website has fooled plenty of people into thinking that he has. And it’s hardly the first time something like this has happened in these parts. The article in question, headlined…
How much money do you need to be considered a 1 percenter? The folks at Estately have come up with an interesting way to answer that question. A new post on the site sets out to “determine the minimum it would cost to buy one of the 1 percent most expensive…
As we noted in a post about the Brock Osweiler woman-pushing video published a short time ago, the retirement speech delivered by Peyton Manning yesterday received rave reviews in the sports press. But his Super Bowl-winning season earned a thumbs-down from DeAngelo Williams. A running back for the Pittsburgh Steelers, Williams…
Yesterday, Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning announced his retirement in a speech that prompted ESPN’s Michael Wilbon to name-check the most famous farewell address in American professional sports history — Lou Gehrig’s 1939 goodbye to the Yankees, when he called himself “the luckiest man on the face of the earth” despite suffering…
In recent weeks, we’ve shared two reports about shootings related to marijuana robberies. The first involved Jason Mesaros, who was shot ten times by police following a heist at a home grow that involved gun play and an attack on the residence’s owner. The second pertained to Athina Munoz, just busted…
We recently posted about the ten largest new rental developments in Denver. A report about the projects calculates that more than 3,300 units of rental inventory were added in the Mile High City during 2015 alone. Not all of our readers were psyched about the construction of so many structures…
Denver blog posts are glad there are more openings than closings. At Westword Food & Drink, our Cafe Society staff documents the February restaurant roll call, which includes ten permanent closures, four temporary shut-downs, two name changes and (the good news) nineteen restaurant and/or bar openings in the metro area last month…
The High Times Cannabis Cup may not be coming to Pueblo after all. According to a spokeswoman for Pueblo County Commissioners, the magazine has pulled its Special Events Permit application for the annual cannabis festival. After getting the boot from the Denver Mart by Adams County Commissioners in February thanks…
The United States government is paying $175,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by the family of a severely mentally ill inmate who committed suicide in 2013 while in solitary confinement at the federal supermax in Florence. Although the settlement contains no admission of fault, one of the attorneys in the…
Once upon a time, people who wanted to smoke without annoying anyone would simply head outside. Now, however, large parts of the outdoors in Boulder County may be off-limits to smokers no matter the substance they’re consuming, be it tobacco or marijuana. And violations could result in fines as high…
We all know the old saying about how a picture is worth a thousand words. But the juxtaposition of photos, and the back story related to them, can speak in even greater volumes. An example: Compare this image of Jason Mesaros having fun at the beach to his booking photo…
We’re so accustomed to Colorado communities winding up near the top of city lists — take the presence of both Boulder and Fort Collins on the latest roster of America’s happiest cities, which we shared last week — that when it doesn’t happen, there’s practically a disconnect. That’s the case…
One sure way of identifying the most passionate Peyton Manning fans is their use of the middle name given to him in honor of his quarterbacking prowess: Peyton Fucking Manning — or PFM for short. When news broke early yesterday that Manning would be announcing his retirement at a press…
Thus far, the 2015-2016 skiing season in Colorado has seen fewer fatal accidents that normal. But the tragedies have started to accumulate. So far this year, we’ve told you about the January deaths of Logan Salviano at Vail and Jason Taylor at Keystone, as well as the passing of Tennessee…
The response to our post offering a first look at Denver NORML’s initiative to allow marijuana clubs suggests that there’s a lot of support for the idea. Comments flooded in, with the vast majority backing the concept. The most common reason cited was the Amendment 64-vintage call for marijuana to be…
Denver blogs pedal as well as peddle. At Westword Arts, Kyle Wagner highlights the eight best early season mountain bike rides near Denver. Denver PR Blog considers the contrast in the Denver Post’s coverage of media retirees John Ferrugia and Mark Koebrich. Coyote Gulch: Slopes around Aspen got 63-76 percent of normal…
A complex legal battle over who gets to raise a six-year-old girl with a seven-figure inheritance is headed for the Colorado Court of Appeals amid allegations that a Denver Probate Court judge exhibited “discrimination, bigotry and prejudice” in removing the girl from the custody of the only mother she’s known…
A seventeen-year-old currently living in Grand Junction is being held in a detention center there on a $1 million bond for the 2012 murder of Riverton, Utah’s Anne Kasprzak. She was fifteen at the time of her death, while her alleged killer was fourteen — but there’s already speculation about…
Claude Wilkerson is in plenty of trouble with the law. On Sunday, the resident of Gateway, on Colorado’s Western Slope, was arrested on suspicion of sexual assault, kidnapping, contributing to the delinquency of a minor and more. If he’s found guilty of these crimes, Wilkerson will face a hefty sentence…
