As those of you who have ventured into the elements this morning know from personal experience, a snowstorm is currently hitting the Denver metro area. The snowfall totals have led to school cancellations in Denver, Aurora, Cherry Creek and beyond. Meanwhile, the Colorado Department of Transportation has chosen this particular…
Given Colorado’s role as a leader when it come progressive marijuana policy, it’s natural to assume our medical marijuana rules and regulations are the best in the nation. But according to a new report from Americans for Safe Access, that simply isn’t true. In the document, on view below in…
Not caught up in the hoopla over the Denver Broncos’ upcoming appearance in Super Bowl 50? Then you’ll identify with this reader. In response to our post about the top ten celebrity Broncos fans, he expressed complete antipathy for the game and disbelief that so many folks locally give a…
Denver blogs are always moving. At Westword Food & Drink, Lindsey Bartlett reveals that Juicing Tree and Laughing Latte are among nine businesses displaced by the sale of Dickinson Plaza at West 32nd and Tejon. Colorado Peak Politics notes that state senator Ray Scott isn’t running for the U.S. Senate seat…
Denver’s Marade, in honor of Martin Luther King Jr., usually attracts thousands of people, who march as one united community from City Park to Civic Center. But on January 18, the 2016 event was interrupted by demonstrations by local activists, including Black Lives Matter 5280 co-founder Amy E. Brown, who…
One aspect of marijuana’s legalization that isn’t up for debate is demand, as a recent report says adult pot sales in the U.S. were up 184 percent in 2015. According to marijuana investment group ArcView, and financial data firm New Frontier, America’s legal recreational marijuana industry sold $998 million in…
The Colorado Rapids signed Marco Pappa because of his skills on the pitch. But they got a little something extra — bizarre publicity involving Pappa’s stabbing two days after the Rapids pact was inked. Among the possible suspects is Stormy Keffeler, a former Miss Washington who was reportedly found with…
Denver rent isn’t cheap — but at least the prices are beginning to level off. That’s the overall message delivered in the Apartment Association of Metro Denver’s report about apartment and rental rates in the Mile High City during the fourth quarter of 2015. According to a massive survey shared…
A recent Washington Post headline reads, “Sorry Broncos, Almost Everyone Betting on Panthers in Super Bowl 50” — and that’s no exaggeration. An overwhelming number of bettors have placed their money on Cam Newton and the Panthers — and as a result, the point spread has widened. Carolina opened as a 3.5…
A melee between two motorcycle clubs, the Mongols and the Iron Order, at the National Western Complex over the weekend ended with a stabbing and one death and plenty of blame being directed in opposite directions. We don’t yet know the identities of everyone involved, including the dead man. But…
Our post about the announcement by Denver NORML to create a marijuana social use initiative inspired some debate about the necessity of such a rule. But not much. The majority of those who weighed in believe such a measure is needed just as much as it was last year, when a…
Denver blog posts have a soft spot for the right kind of s.o.b. At Westword music, Isa Jones shares Britney Spears’s bikini-clad dance to Nathaniel Rateliff’s “S.O.B.” — and Rateliff’s also-bikini-clad answer. Predominantly Orange’s Sayre Bedinger on Carolina Panther Mike Tolbert making it clear he doesn’t care about Peyton Manning’s last rodeo…
Dear Mexican: I’m an instructor at a community college. I wanted to work within the community college to help the marginalized and disenfranchised have greater access to education. Additionally, as a Latina, I have witnessed too many of my own people dropping out of college, and I wanted to do…
Jeff Popp and Casey Lorenzen will unpack their Denver-based CO.ALITION line of backpacks on tonight’s episode of ABC’s popular Shark Tank, and Mile High Spirits is hosting a free “Get Shark Tanked” viewing party for the business partners — and the public — from 6 p.m. until 10 p.m. CO.ALITION…
Does The Simpsons icon Homer Simpson love the Denver Broncos? Or think they’re a joke? There’s video evidence that points in both directions. This question arose after the publication of our post featuring the top ten celebrity Broncos fans. A Facebook friend sent the following clip, in which Homer — his nominee…
The Schmuck of the Week crew tends not to delve too deeply into issues beyond schmuckiness. But every once in a while, schmucks and important topics intersect — or collide. Take the question of chronic drunk drivers whose typically modest punishments allow them to violate again and again and again…
Yesterday, we shared a collection of Cam Newton is a douchebag memes, with a number of the images chiding the quarterback, who’ll be leading the Carolina Panthers against your Denver Broncos in Super Bowl 50 on February 7, for his exuberant — and some would say excessive — manner of celebrating…
This week, federal agents, including representatives from the Internal Revenue Service, raided the Lazy Lion, a marijuana club that’s been operating for well over a year. And while the Lazy Lion is in Colorado Springs, not Denver, Jordan Person, executive director of Denver NORML, thinks the incident demonstrates why the…
A while back, the State of Colorado provided us with a huge list of rejected vanity license plates. And as shown by previous editions focusing on body parts and boinking, it’s not hard to figure out why officials turned thumbs down. Our latest batch focuses on the wonderful world of…
In Denver, it’s extraordinarily rare for police officers to be accused of excessive force while on the job. Note our post yesterday about Denver police officer Choice Johnson, who has never been criminally charged despite an estimated eighteen complaints against him, with many involving alleged violence and profanities. Johnson is…
You’ll never hear me complain about this job, though I am slightly annoyed by the steady stream of texts from friends who ask, “What’s a good dispensary to go to?” Actually, the follow-up messages are what irk me, because after taking the time to send a few recommendations specific to…
We recently reported about a major spike in Denver homicides. There were 33 during the second half of 2015, as compared to twenty during the first six months of the year. When we shared our post on this topic, we asked readers who or what they blame for the increase,…
