The Sands Theatre in Brush wasn’t Colorado’s only rural theater that was having trouble transitioning to the digital age. Nineteen theaters expressed interested in the Save Our Screens initiative; thirteen applied for grants. Ten of them, including the Sands, raised the matching funds to become eligible and win grants from…
Dear Stoner: If the three flowering plants (and the three soon-to-be flowering plants) I have growing as a legal red-card holder yield a very conservative ounce per, in a few months I’ll have three to six oh-zees, and the legal limit is two ounces. How do you handle a stock…
It was the winter of our discontent, 2009. A season of bank failures, massive layoffs and $5-a-gallon gasoline. Finally, a fractured country could at least agree on one thing: This had to change. So President Barack Obama set out to deactivate the next bomb awaiting the U.S. economy, the one…
Earlier this month, lawmakers in the Colorado House approved a bill that would limit the amount of hash and other cannabis concentrates that retail marijuana stores can sell to both in-state and out-of-state customers…
Patricia Calhoun’s post about the Ballpark Neighborhood Association’s opposition to a day center for the homeless triggered literally hundreds of comments, with readers on every conceivable side of the issue sharing their views with passion. Here’s an example…
Denver blog posts obey all posted speed limits. At our Show & Tell blog, Bree Davies gives advice about how to deal with Denver traffic, including the street where you can always count on finding a photo-radar van. Colorado Peak Politics thinks the Democratic Senate President is suffering from end-of-session…
Last week, administrators of the city’s 911 system revealed that federal, state and local dignitaries — like the governor, the mayor and others — have been receiving “a more robust Denver police response than the public,” according to the Denver Post. The new policy went into effect in December, less…
As you may have heard, 4/20 is kind of a big deal in Denver on an annual basis — but this year, the first since recreational pot sales were legalized, it reached an even higher place. No wonder our regular month-in-photos slide-show roundup is devoted to all things herbal. Check…
While the State of Colorado and the City of Denver are still refusing to use marijuana legalization for promotional purposes, lotsa operations with no direct ties to the pot industry have been much more receptive to the idea — including Hotels.com, which touted increased Denver searches prior to 4/20, and…
Earlier this month, we examined two controversial bills about drug-endangered children that “could arguably make all cannabis-using parents criminals” according to our William Breathes. Senator Linda Newell, who sponsored the measures, passionately disagreed with this interpretation. But yesterday, both measures failed after the state senate reportedly approved them only to…
U.S. News & World Report recently set out to determine the best high schools in America, as well as the finest in each state. And while the top ten Colorado finishers didn’t set any records on the national stage (the top finisher is ranked at number 66 overall), they’re more…
There’s one fewer entry on the Larimer County Sheriff’s Office most wanted list. Earlier this week, Jason Sullivan, 32, was reportedly busted while in possession of a stolen car. But that leaves plenty of other wanted suspects on the loose. Look below to count down the top twenty, featuring mug…
Last November, we told you about marijuana raids conducted at multiple cannabis businesses, including VIP Wellness — which (update) was reportedly raided again yesterday — by law enforcers from the DEA, IRS and Denver Police Department. This morning, Hector Diaz, a 49-year-old from Colombia, is due in court to be…
Yesterday, as we reported, a bill calling for post-traumatic stress disorder to be added to the conditions approved for treatment by medical marijuana came before the House committee on State, Military and Veterans Affairs. But it was rejected by a 6-5 vote. Sensible Colorado’s Brian Vicente, attorney and co-author of…
Denver blog posts are working up an appetite. At our Cafe Society blog, Juliet Wittman counts down thirteen ways to know you’re a real foodie against the backdrop of the Boulder Farmers’ Market. The Colorado Independent’s Mike Littwin on winning the coveted Cliven Bundy vote. Denver Egotist shares the 2014…
We recently shared one site’s list of the 25 most congested cities in North America — and while Denver made the cut, it finished well above the top ten. Nonetheless, plenty of our readers decried what they see is a worsening traffic situation in the metro area, including this one…
Last week, we noted that a bill to ban red-light cameras (after years of failed attempts) had managed to win approval in the state senate. But it was flagged yesterday by a House committee after heavy lobbying from a number of local mayors, including Denver’s Michael Hancock, and the Colorado…
Denver Post sale rumors began circulating earlier this month — and they won’t be quieted by the latest developments at the paper. Two longtime staffers — assistant city editor Marcus Chamberland and copy editor Chris Metteer — have been laid off, and we hear that a new hire was put…
Given how many people traveled to Denver for the annual 4/20 festivities this year, not to mention the national hype over pot tourism in general, it’s easy to forget that there are plenty of great reasons to visit Colorado that have nothing to do with weed. Fortunately, the folks at…
Earlier this month, we broke down the number of crimes in one Denver neighborhood — ours — and discovered there had been 23 over the course of eleven days. Now, Fox31 has taken this concept a step further by using Denver Police Department records to discover the Denver neighborhoods with…
University Hill in Boulder is heavily populated by students who attend classes on the nearby University of Colorado campus — and plenty of them are terrified by a recent sex crime even though local police have made an arrest in the case. Why? For one thing, Brandon Heginger, the man…
Is a device dubbed ZaZZZ a new convenience for medical marijuana patients? An attention-getting gimmick? Or a little bit of both? We’ll soon find out. ZaZZZ, a vending machine designed to dispense medical marijuana, is only weeks away from debuting at a shop in Avon — and about a year…
