Even before last night's special meeting of the board of directors of Caprock Academy, a charter school in Grand Junction that had banned a nine-year-old girl from class on Monday because she'd shaved her head in solidarity with her best friend, an eleven-year-old undergoing chemotherapy for neuroblastoma, the school had...
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Each May, the U.S. Postal Service compiles a list of the cities with the most reported dog attacks on postal workers -- and in 2013 (using data from the previous year), Denver ranked twelfth out of fourteen. But while that's not great, it's better than Denver's placement on the new...
A new study on the health risks of fracking has found an increased risk of birth defects -- including a startling 30 percent hike in the risk of congenital heart defects -- among families living near oil and gas wells in rural Colorado. The report has been embraced by environmental...
Marijuana grows on trees, but some newly minted Colorado recreational centers faced a shortages less than a week after opening -- even though medical dispensary shelves remain stocked. As a result, several retail stores, including the high-profile 3D Cannabis Center, have voiced concerns that they won't be able to keep...
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After getting off to a busy but rough start -- even closing briefly when it ran out of beer -- Former Future Brewing is now rolling. The South Broadway brewery is open six days a week and has a series of special nights, including $1 tacos next door at Adelita's...
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In anticipation of today's 2014 NFL draft, we recently posted our choices for the ten worst first-round draft picks in Broncos history. Now, we look at the more positive side of that coin: the team's top ten first-round selections. We've included greats from yesterday and today, including three players on...
Back in October, when I announced that a new Thai restaurant --Thailicious -- was opening in Edgewater, I also recounted a weird incident that occurred when I came face-to-face with Ramon Garcia, the restaurant's rather odd general manager, whose suspicious nature resulted in an ID check. Garcia, not surprisingly, is...
Looks like the pop radio hits of yesteryear just aren't cutting it anymore for the folks at 107.1 FM, known until very recently as Jack FM. The station launched a complete overhaul of its format and its content yesterday, unveiling a new brand name, a new musical niche and a...
During the seven months Michaelee Owen (seen here) spent in Pueblo County Jail back in 2012, he was never provided with either a sign-language interpreter or a device that would have allowed him to communicate with anyone -- even his own mother. That won't be the case for future inmates,...
Even as Denver police released suspect Aaron Little in an apparent homicide case that quickly fell apart, more information was emerging about what seems to be a less debatable incident. Investigators with the Aurora Police Department are focusing on the death of a man whose body was found on a...
Just in time for summer vacation season, Cities Journal has come up with its picks for the top twelve small cities in Colorado -- and while there are plenty of great spots that didn't make the cut, those that did are generally worthy selections in our opinion. Look below to...
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Back in January 2013, we told you about the arrest of two Boulder police officers, Samuel Carter and Brent Curnow, on charges related to the shooting and killing of Big Boy, an elk beloved by members of the Mapleton neighborhood. Authorities suspected they bagged the elk as a trophy, then...
Eight years ago, after a $300,000 renovation job that installed low-maintenance plants, easily hosed-off pavement and benches where you could sit, not sleep, the city dedicated Edward J. "Eddie" Maestas Park at the corner of Broadway, Lawrence and Larimer streets, renaming Triangle Park after a longtime businessman and neighborhood Good...
Estately.com, the site behind our recent list of the ten best states for hippies, has a new target: the Internet search quirks of all fifty states, including Colorado, produced by running "hundreds of search queries through Google Trends to determine which words, terms and questions each state was searching for...
It's been a long wait, but May flowers eventually came -- at least here at Mile Highs and Lows. It's been a month of mediocre dispensaries (and hailstorms), leaving us with nothing but a few nice buds among a lot of slightly busted flowers while we wait to meet up...
The mighty King Rat turns twenty this weekend and will celebrate with a pair of unusual shows at Three Kings. If you go to nothing else this weekend, we advise you go there. But we understand if you go to Red Rocks instead for Widespread Panic's annual weekend getaway in...
Leaf Vegetarian Restaurant 2010 16th Street, Boulder 303-442-1485 When it's time for Rachel Best, executive chef of Leaf Vegetarian Restaurant in Boulder, to update the menu, she doesn't turn to cookbooks or cooking shows. Nor does she rely on what she learned in culinary school, given the traditional emphasis on...
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High Times will once again be a Mile High on the 4/20 holiday, when the magazine will bring its now-annual Cannabis Cup back to Denver. But do recent shutdowns of other cannabis-friendly events in the city mean that attendees won't enjoy the same huge clambake that has marked the last...
A second mental evaluation of Aurora theater shooting gunman James Holmes will be postponed until objections raised by Holmes's attorneys have been resolved, Judge Carlos Samour ruled this week. Samour's order (on view below) is in response to three motions filed by the defense on March 14 asking Samour to...
When police officers are caught on the wrong side of the law, they don't necessarily behave better than the people they're accustomed to busting. That's one takeaway from the arrest of Craig officer Eric Montes, who reportedly responded to law-enforcement contact following a boozy domestic incident by claiming to be...
I picked up a small bunch of dill from Far Out Gardens at Saturday's Boulder Farmers' Market. Dill is such an ordinary, unassuming herb. You see basil, cilantro and rosemary -- with their connotations of full-flavored summery warmth -- all over the place these days, but we associate dill with...