Bedbugs are the stuff of horror movies — an army of bloodsuckers that sup on your flesh when you’re most vulnerable. But they can be good for sales: The fear of getting eaten whilst sleeping is enough to convince most people to buy a product that claims to kill them…
Denver’s Rocky Mountain Rollergirls, the best roller derby team in the world, recently accomplished another feat: the passage of Joint Senate Resolution 11-021 by the Colorado legislature. The purpose of the resolution? To acknowledge the “leadership, development and empowerment of women that the sport of women’s flat track roller derby…
A second man, 29-year-old Shun Birch, has been convicted of murdering a witness named Kalonniann Clark in 2006. He was one of three men charged with Clark’s killing — and perhaps the least known. Reputed gang leader Brian Hicks was found guilty at a trial last month. Willie Clark, previously…
The drama around the effort to recall Denver Public Schools board president Nate Easley has reached a new low. We recently learned of a blog called “Decline to Sign — Easley for Better Schools.” The first words on the homepage are this: “I’m Dr. Nate Easley, and I am on…
Good news from Denver Public Schools headquarters: In the past five years, the district’s dropout rate has declined 42 percent. In the 2005-06 school year, 11.1 percent of students dropped out. In the 2009-10 school year, 6.4 percent of students dropped out. In real numbers, that means an estimated 1,700…
When Mike Lindsey and his family traveled to Mexico in 2008 for Christmas, they brought home more than memories. Bedbugs, the subject of this week’s cover story, “Bug Bedlam,” hitched a ride from their rental house to the Lindseys’ Fort Collins home…
“Bug Bedlam,” this week’s cover story about Denver’s bedbug infestation, has inspired readers to post stories of their own battles with the tiny bloodsuckers. One story, from the former manager of a Capitol Hill apartment complex, was accompanied by some of the most disgusting, creepy-crawly photos we’ve ever seen…
Bedbugs, which are the subject of this week’s feature, “Bug Bedlam,” are truly creepy. If you need proof, watch these video clips of them sucking human blood, pooping and procreating. But nasty as they are, there are also some nasty rumors out there about them that are just plain fiction…
Bob Hancock is a biology professor at Metro State College. He’s also “Mosquito Man,” star of the documentary The Bedbugs of London. In it, Hancock journeys to London in search of an infested hotel room in which to spend the night. Along the way, he offers facts about the bloodsuckers,…
Denver’s bedbug infestation has been called one of the worst in the country. But is that true? As explained in this week’s cover story, “Bug Bedlam,” it’s tough to tell, since the city doesn’t track bedbug infestations. But it does take complaints about them through the Department of Environmental Health…
Blood spots on your sheets. Tiny black dots of fecal matter clustered on the edge of your mattress. Piles of translucent skins. Bunches of white eggs the size of dust specks. Itchy bites. All of these revolting clues point to the conclusion that your bed is infested with bedbugs –…
The Denver Zoo is $7 million short of the $50 million it needs to complete its biggest project ever: Asian Tropics, a new exhibit that will house up to twelve endangered Asian elephants. And to reach its goal, the zoo has zeroed in on a category of philanthropists who are…
Sandy McDonald is 48 years old, a former hospital phlebotomist now receiving disability due to a herniated disc at the base of her skull. Until recently, she and the youngest of her three daughters, who’s seventeen, lived in a garden-level two-bedroom apartment in the Montclair neighborhood. From the outside, the…
The effort to recall Denver Public Schools board president Nate Easley has created some odd side dramas. One of them resulted in the outing of Linda Wagner, an Estes Park doggie day care owner and staunch Democrat who blogs on ColoradoPols under the pseudonym “Middle of the Road.” Or did,…
On top of the news that Carmelo Anthony and his glitzy wife La La Vazquez have left Denver (and the Nuggets) for New York (and the Knicks) came the news that the couple will star in their own VH1 reality television show, La La’s Full Court Life. The subject?…
Up until 2008, Jim Adams’ career followed a logical path: TV reporter, PR director, head of marketing for hometown burrito empire Chipotle. But after he quit his job overseeing witty billboards featuring foil-wrapped behemoths, his career took a sharp turn. “Now I make dog food,” Adams says. Raw dog food…
Asian Tropics, the Denver Zoo’s biggest-ever project, is halfway finished. When it’s fully completed in the spring of 2012, it will be home to several species, including up to eight male Asian elephants — a necessity for captive breeding, but an intimidating feat that brings certain challenges. Among them: green…
A bill to broaden the scope of what Colorado’s home-birth midwives can do passed another hurdle yesterday: The Senate Health & Human Services Committee approved it in an 8-1 vote. Testimony stretched for three hours and included impassioned pleas from both sides, including from Indra Lusero, the home-birth mom and…
Our recent cover story, “Special Delivery,” tells the tale of 36-year-old Indra Lusero, a Denver home-birth-mom-turned-lawyer who’s advocating for what she sees as common-sense changes to Colorado’s midwifery law. Today at 1:30 p.m., the bill to make those changes will be heard by the Senate Health & Human Services Committee…
Nate Easley is fighting back. The Denver Public Schools board president is the subject of a recall effort backed by voters unhappy with some of his policies, especially his votes to shutter under-performing schools. Recall proponents have until the end of March to collect 5,363 signatures in order to place…
Your Lucky Deals, a deal-of-the-day website that donates 10 percent of every purchase to local charities, launched today in Denver. Started by a brother and sister who grew up in Parker, Your Lucky Deals stands out from other Groupon-esque websites because of its charitable component, says co-founder Ryan Smith. “We…
Update below: The Denver Parks and Rec Department has unveiled the final draft of its master plan for Washington Park. The 133-page document calls for things like improving the loop road and moving the parking lots away from Smith Lake. You know what it doesn’t call for? Reducing the geese…
