Editor’s note: Backbeat contributor Bree Davies was at Red Rocks last week when shots were fired at an SUV whose passengers included Schoolboy Q. This is her story. When I left the Flying Lotus/Nas/Schoolboy Q show last Thursday night at Red Rocks, nothing seemed particularly out of the ordinary. My…
Last night, despite a protest rally by homeless advocates, the Denver City Council approved a $1.8 million security plan that will add ten new police officers to patrol the Ballpark neighborhood, LoDo and the 16th Street Mall. The group Denver Homeless Out Loud opposed the proposal under the theory that…
Today is primary election day, when voters in Colorado will determine which Republican gubernatorial hopeful will try to unseat Governor John Hickenlooper in November — and to set the stage, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow capped her show last night with a segment interpreting one technique Hick supporters are using to try…
In recent days, we’ve been sharing details from what VISIT DENVER describes as the Mile High City’s most successful tourism year ever; visitor spending in 2013 topped $4 billion for the first time. First up were tourists’ ten favorite shopping and entertainment centers, followed by the 21 cities and states…
As we’ve reported, authorities looking into last week’s triple shooting at Red Rocks now believe the target was likely Schoolboy Q, one of the show’s headliners. He was uninjured, but three other people joining him in a bullet-riddled SUV were hurt. Now, investigators are looking at a possible connection between…
Early this morning, a man opened the door of his Denver home and was greeted in the most unpleasant way imaginable — by a bullet to the chest. At this writing, the man is said to be in critical condition but is expected to survive. Here’s what we know thus…
Late last month, the U.S. House voted to defund DEA medical marijuana raids in Colorado and other states that have legalized MMJ — an unprecedented development that was greeted with cheers by many cannabis reformers. But the next step in the legislative process — passage by the U.S. Senate –…
Tomorrow is the Colorado primary, which will set much of the November 4 ballot. But there are dozens of campaigns for state and local initiative efforts already under way around Colorado, and they could determined what issues we’ll be voting on four months from now. At the moment, only one…
Denver blog posts have quite an appetite. Our Cafe Society blog counts down the ten best restaurants in the Golden Triangle. Colorado Pols wonders: “Can the ‘Honey Badger’ sneak in a win?” Purple Row’s Jeff Aberle wonders the same thing about your Colorado Rockies…
Crowd funding sites such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo have revolutionized the way new businesses start up. But are they ready to help combine marijuana and mobile technology? The folks behind AbacaRX and Dispensed2U hope so…
Last week, we wrote about advocacy organization Denver Homeless Out Loud’s argument that a $1.8 million security plan to add ten new police officers to patrol the Ballpark neighborhood, LoDo and the 16th Street Mall represents a new effort to criminalize homelessness. This evening, the Denver City Council is expected…
Last week, a Denver Blogs item highlighted a Cafe Society reader’s comment branding the local barbecue scene as “consistently disappointing.” The item prompted dozens upon dozens of responses, with some touting particular eateries and others agreeing with the original reader. Here’s an example of the latter…
Last month, we reported about the police killing of a “customer” during a prostitution sting in Greeley. Now, Weld County District Attorney Ken Buck has released a letter about the incident in which he details why he feels the shooting of the man, 31-year-old Raymond Garcia, was justified. The document,…
Last week, we noted that VISIT DENVER has just released loads o’ stats related to 2013, the most successful tourism season in the city’s history; visitor spending topped $4 billion for the first time. And indeed, the organization’s list of the ten most popular shopping and entertainment centers for tourists…
Update: Randy Bender’s last Facebook profile photo features him posing alongside a gravestone. Now, however, Bender himself is dead, the victim of a shooting at an extended stay motel about which we reported last week; see our previous coverage below. Police don’t believe Bender was a victim of a random…
Update: On Friday, we offered an early report about a triple shooting at Red Rocks following a concert by Nas, Flying Lotus and Schoolboy Q — a story that was expanded upon on our Backbeat blog. Since then, authorities have confirmed that bullets struck an SUV in which Schoolboy Q…
The headline pretty much says it all in this November 24, 1923 article off the front pages of the Aspen Democrat-Times. Despite the fact that he was likely an American, Tony — the man in question — happens to have a Hispanic surname (though, honestly, we can’t figure out exactly…
William Breathes’s post about the concerns of Nebraska law-enforcers about a Colorado pot shop opening near the border revved up conversations on a number of fronts — including the age old rivalry between the two states. His reader adds fuel to the fire…
Denver blog posts can be pretty exotic, too. At our Show & Tell blog, Amber Taufen introduces us to Midnite Martini, the Denver burlesquer who just took the Miss Exotic World crown in Las Vegas. Colorado Pols on the campaign finance complaint that seems to have killed the candidacy of…
James Holmes’s attorneys are accusing state prosecutors of discouraging Aurora theater shooting victims from talking to them, according to a motion filed this week (and on view below). They argue that prosecutor Lisa Teesch-Maguire sent an e-mail to victims with the message that efforts by Holmes’s attorneys to contact them…
“Creep. Perv. Douchebag.” That’s how we started a post earlier this year about the search for a man who allegedly took photos of two little girls under bathroom stalls at an area grocery store. And now, following the arrest of Bradley Oglethorpe for the crime, we can add one more…
Denver’s Jeanna Hoch wasn’t naive when she decided to share a photo of her breastfeeding her baby as her Facebook profile pic. She did so explicitly to make a statement about a society that tends to look at this body part only from an erotic viewpoint as opposed to seeing…
