The Colorado Springs Confessions Facebook page is, in a word, crazy. Granted, we can’t vouch for the authenticity of each and every posted item. But the tales definitely run the gamut, encompassing the bizarre, the disgusting, the hilarious, the random and the inexplicable, sometimes all at once. We’d planned to…
Gunsmoke Guns owner Rich Wyatt was once a high-profile reality-TV star who rubbed shoulders with presidents and celebrities. Now, just over two years after his Discovery Channel program American Guns was cancelled, Wyatt has been arrested on theft charges following at least the second IRS raid on his Wheat Ridge-based business…
This 1905 article from the Aspen Times suggests that Aspen wasn’t always as nice to wealthy people busted for drugs as it’s been in more recent times. Ouch. We know what you’re thinking: This has nothing to do with the racist past of cannabis or the depiction of minorities in…
Our post about a bill that would require dispensaries to post warnings to pregnant women about the dangers of smoking marijuana while pregnant riled up a lot of readers. Many noted that data about possible linkage between pot smoking while pregnant and the risks to the unborn child is far from…
Denver blog posts are completely in favor of gainful employment. Going viral again on our Music blog — a vintage Nick Lucchesi post listing the ten best songs about quitting your job. A memorable Colorado Pols headline reads, “James ‘SpongeDob’ Dobson: Gay Marriage Could Start Civil War.” Denver PR Blog…
Dear Mexican: I’m a 23-year-old Latina attending a Texas university. I’m taking a class centered around Latino culture and history. I’m a first-generation Tex-Mex kid, and lately all of the coursework has been making me feel angry/sad/confused, for lack of better phrasing. I don’t know how to handle these feelings,…
Supporters of progressive marijuana policies who thought opponents would quickly raise the white flag after limited cannabis sales became law in Colorado seriously underestimated their persistence. The Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (RMHIDTA) is a case in point. The organization, operated under the supervision of director Tom Gorman,…
In January, seventeen-year-old Jessie Hernandez was killed by police while she was behind the wheel of a stolen car. Are those upset by this act displaying their anger by stealing more cars? That’s the assertion of the Westminster Police Department, whose spokesman says evidence exists to suggest that a big bump in…
From time to time. we at Schmuck of the Week headquarters take it upon ourselves to offer advice to folks on the cusp of schmuckdom, in the hope of helping them avoid being featured in this space down the line. Today’s tip: Don’t commit a crime while cops are at…
It was 1994, and I was somewhere in between grad school and my first job in the real world. The Colorado Rockies had come into existence just a few years earlier, when Major League Baseball announced that it had awarded a franchise to Denver, and had only begun playing a…
Earlier this year, we shared information about declassified UFO sightings in Colorado as shared by TheBlackVault.com. But which Coloradans are most likely to see such unidentified flying objects? That’s among the latest questions the folks at FindTheBest.com set out to answer. The site has come up with a list of the…
Last November, we told you about the arrest of Tom Fallis, a former police officer who was accused of killing his wife, Ashley Fallis, then making the crime seem as if it had actually been a suicide following an argument about marijuana smoking. Now, Ashley’s parents, Joel Raguindin and Jenna…
Reasonable people can disagree about the marijuana laws in Texas, which are among the toughest in the nation. But something positive for a Denver woman came out of Ojeda’s pot conviction in the state. An Ojeda DNA sample matched one from a rape and shooting that took place in 1997,…
I’m still not sure where I visited this week. I mean, I know that I went to a dispensary at Colfax and Forest Street. But was it CCF, a shop we reviewed back in 2012? The sign out front says so. Well, the big sign does. The smaller one below…
Kristin Pazulski’s recent post about the Right to Rest Act, which would codify the right of the homeless to sleep, sit and lie down, among other things, stirred passions among our readers. Many of those who responded were unhappily surprised that such basic issues remain in question. Others expressed frustration…
Denver blog posts have the DVR set for Sunday evening…. At our Arts blog, Inkoo Kang previews season five of Game of Thrones, in which women warriors take over Westeros. Coyote Gulch rounds up the latest snowpack/runoff news. Colorado Peak Politics isn’t wild about fractivists protesting by selfie. Send your…
Dear Stoner: Can I freely smoke marijuana in my condo? I own the condo, and the condo association has no rules about smoking. Also, can I smoke freely on my balcony? El Jefe Dear Jefe: If you’re the homeowner and you say it’s okay, you can smoke two joints before…
We frequently hear admonitions against texting while driving. But texting while Segwaying — and allegedly running a red light while doing so? The latter may not seem as intrinsically dangerous, but it’s certainly proven embarrassing for the thus-far unidentified Denver parking officer in question, as well as the Denver official…
The battle over public education policy in Jefferson County has gotten ugly, as we explain in this week’s cover story, “Class Warfare.” And the free-market Independence Institute is aiming to call out some of the perpetrators with a new website, MeanGirlz.org. The site, explains executive vice president Amy Oliver Cooke,…
On the same day that President Barack Obama issued a public statement calling for an end to gay conversion therapy — the widely debunked approach to psychologically stripping people of their homosexual tendencies — a bill to ban the practice in Colorado for those under age eighteen died in a state Senate…
Is Denver’s Jan Bonito a makeup wizard or a shape shifter? Judging by the videos from his Instagram page on view below, he’s both. Bonito’s been getting attention for a video in which he transforms himself into a dead ringer for, of all people, boxer Manny Pacquiao’s mom. But he’s got…
Last year, we posted about what the Movoto real-estate blog characterized as the ten most desirable zip codes in the Denver area. Now, FindTheBest.com has created a zippy list of its own — one that sets out to rank the Denver area’s wealthiest zip codes. Apparently, there’s a correlation between wealth…
