When we recently shared a post highlighting rent prices for 25 people in the Denver area, we asked readers what they’re paying. Lots of you weighed in — thanks! — and the results were all over the Denver-metro map. Some folks felt pretty good about the amount they’re being charged…
The national focus on the Aurora theater shooting trial, and the still-pending question of whether convicted killer James Holmes will be sentenced to death, has overshadowed another capital case that would likely be the biggest story in the Denver area under other circumstances. The crime in question: the five slayings…
Denver blog posts know it’s easy eating green. Our Food & Drink blog’s 2015 edition of the ten-best-green-chiles-in-Denver list is making our stomach growl. Predominantly Orange’s Tylor Walden highlights ten Broncos who should be in the Hall of Fame. Denver Egotist shows off Dan Lehman’s contribution to 2015’s ARTCRANK Poster Show in…
With a hemp symposium hosted by a Colorado congressman and a charity golf tournament hosted by a Denver dispensary chain, there are plenty of upper-class functions where you can get your schmooze on in this week’s Cannabis Calendar. As we’ve reported, proponents of The Campaign for Limited Social Use –…
Everyone in the country’s talking about Donald Trump, including local comic/entrepreneur Andy Juett, who shared this letter he wrote to the Republican presidential candidate: Dear Donald Trump, I am a nobody. A single father who has delivered mediocre sex to a spectrum of women. Some you’d marry and some you’d…
Late last month, we told you about twenty journalists leaving the Denver Post — nineteen by way of a voluntary buyout, one via the elimination of his position. Since then, the exodus has continued — first senior news editor Kevin Dale, who’s been named the executive editor of Cronkite News at Arizona…
Back in June, we told you about the Limited Social Marijuana Consumption Initiative. Mason Tvert, who has combined forces with fellow Amendment 64 proponent Brian Vicente to push the proposal, described it at the time as “a narrow exemption to Denver’s current ban for social marijuana consumption by adults. It…
Around this time last year, we shared a list of Forbes’ top thirteen Colorado colleges and noted that their national rankings were mostly unimpressive. That’s even truer in the 2015 edition. The headline of this post offers one piece of evidence for the downturn: Only twelve colleges were included in the 650…
“OMG I got recognized on the street!” Fort Collins’ Brittiany Hoagland posted on Facebook in recent days. “A mother out for a walk with her dog and kiddo stopped her phone conversation to ask, ‘Are you The Topless Girl?!. “‘…Yeah.’ *prepares for verbal attack* “;’Right on!’ And she keeps walking…
James Holmes will spend the rest of his life in prison. On Friday, three and a half months after Holmes’s trial began, a jury of nine women and three men delivered his punishment. Judge Carlos Samour read the verdicts just after 5 p.m. They were all the same. “We, the…
The responses continue to roll in regarding our post featuring Donald Trump’s declaration of big problems with Colorado’s marijuana laws. Along the way, several tangent conversations developed. Among the most interesting was one in which several readers argued that the issues with cannabis in Denver, especially, pale in comparison with…
Denver blog posts have big balls — as the photo above proves. At our Arts blog, Bree Davies names her choices for the ten best swimming spots in Colorado. Colorado Peak Politics showcases a map showing the most Googled presidential candidates in each Colorado county. Bet you can guess who…
This summer, Earth Knack— a school highlighted in this week’s feature article, DOUG HILL IS DEFENDING THE (MODERN) CAVEMAN WITH PRIMITIVE SKILLS CLASSES — teamed up with Arvada-based Sarqit Outdoor Learning School for a weekend-long gathering at Happy Dog Ranch south of Chatfield State Park, where primitive-skills instructors came together…
Dear Mexican: Some time back, you discussed the Chivas soccer team. This reminded me of my time in San Francisco’s Mission District, when the traficantes would whisper, “Chiva…chiva” as I walked down 16th Street. When I asked someone what it meant, they said, “Stuff.” Now it’s baby goats? I know…
Even the experts at Schmuck of the Week headquarters find it challenging to figure out who’s the schmuck in certain situations. Example: The case of Boulder’s Trey Brasher. The 21-year-old has been arrested for, among other things, mailing gummy bears infused with LSD to New Jersey. How big of a…
The Denver Broncos are currently taking part in training camp in anticipation of the 2015-2016 season. But in addition to looking forward, the team is looking back. The Broncos’ 2015 media guide is filled with loads of odd factoids about the squad’s history, many so obscure that even die-hard fans…
Administrators at the University of Colorado Boulder have long hated the school’s frequent appearances on lists identifying the best party schools in the country, and their concerted efforts to change the school’s reputation seem to be paying off. Note that in 2013, CU Boulder failed to make the Princeton Review’s party-schools…
A teenager dies a violent death in a busy part of Denver — and the incident makes hardly a ripple in the media. Why? That’s a complicated question, and the answers aren’t typically discussed in polite company. But the likeliest possibilities are these: The victim, seventeen-year-old Jorge Lopez-Ramirez, was Hispanic;…
In recent months, we’ve written a number of times about what’s known as “suicide by cop.” Such incidents find suicidal individuals such as Aurora’s Patrick Stoltz apparently trying to goad law enforcers into ending their lives, much to the cops’ frustration. Representatives of the Morgan County Sheriff’s Office use this term…
It’s the latest grim twist in a crime that’s consumed Aspen for well over a year — the murder of socialite Nancy Pfister. William Styler, a former Denver doctor in poor physical condition, confessed to killing Pfister, thereby exonerating his wife, Nancy Pfister, who’d previously been charged in the homicide…
When I think of Glendale, dispensaries don’t usually come to mind. Shotgun Willie’s, yes; Elvis eating a bacon-laden PB&J, sure; even Mayor Mike Dunafon rapping with Wyclef Jean. But not pot shops — though the tiny town does have four dispensaries, and will soon have a fifth, next to Shotgun…
Readers responded in a wide variety of ways to a post in which Donald Trump said there are big problems with Colorado’s marijuana laws. Some disputed this claim. Others branded him a moron in general. But there were a number of tangents, including something we’ve been hearing a lot lately…
