Denver Broncos Super Bowl MVP Von Miller’s stint on Dancing With the Stars is over, but not because of farting, a habit that led partner Witney Carson to fine him $100 per explosion. Rather, Miller’s and Carson’s performance to Elvis Presley’s “A Little Less Conversation” — with Von dressed as Elvis…
Gary Nickal claimed that his wife, Molly Nickal, took her own life at their residence while their three kids were at home. But police didn’t believe him. Gary has been arrested on suspicion of murder. At this writing, this charge hasn’t been formalized. However, Gary is due back in court…
Under Colorado retail marijuana rules, state residents and folks who live elsewhere aren’t treated equally. Those with a Colorado ID can buy up to an ounce of cannabis per transaction, while pot tourists are limited to a quarter-ounce. But that would change under a provision in a larger bill that’s…
Plenty of readers made their feelings felt in regard to our post about a new strategy by Oklahoma and Nebraska to kill Colorado’s marijuana laws. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the states’ complaint about Amendment 64, which legalized limited recreational cannabis sales in Colorado. However, Oklahoma and Nebraska…
In case you missed it…. At Westword Food & Drink, our Cafe Society crew presents the restaurant roll call for April, which features a lot more openings (and re-openings) that closings, temporary or otherwise. Mile High Report’s sadaraine offers a no-bull review of the Broncos’ 2016 draft. The Colorado Independent’s Marianne…
A couple of weeks back, we reported about Sports Authority’s plan to close three Colorado stores, including the iconic Sports Castle at 1000 Broadway, as the company teetered on the brink of bankruptcy. Said teetering is now over. Today, under the heading “A Message From Our CEO About Our Restructuring,”…
Dopamine, the first album by singer-songwriter Garrett Borns, better known as BØRNS, who headlines at the Gothic Theatre on May 9 and 10, sounds thoroughly modern. At their foundations, however, tunes such as the highly charged single “Electric Love” mirror old-school pop. Sturdy, solid and built to last, they’d still be irresistible…
Ever drive by a major Denver remodeling project and wonder what’s going on — and how much is being spent? Now there’s a way to find out. BuildZoom.com has created a Denver-centric map that aims to track every single remodeling project in the Mile High — or at least ones big…
In October 1999, Climber Alex Lowe and Aspen-based photographer David Bridges disappeared after an avalanche struck the peak they were scaling in Nepal. Two years later, Lowe’s widow, Jenni, married Conrad Anker, who had been on the expedition with Lowe and Bridges and narrowly escaped death himself — and under her…
In an interview with 9News, he said death was an appropriate punishment.
There was a lot of interest in our post about the rescheduling of the Denver 4/20 Rally, featuring Wiz Khalifa and Lil Wayne. The event was originally scheduled to take place on April 16, but its plug was pulled at the last minute because of a snowstorm that is said…
In case you missed it…. At Westword Food & Drink, Mark Antonation remembers Winston Hill, a former lineman with the New York Jets who went on to run Winston Hill’s Ribs & Stuff, which will remain open despite his death. The Colorado Independent’s Mike Littwin writes: “The GOP Needs to Win…
Law-enforcement agencies in a lot of communities produce most-wanted lists. But Fort Collins has taken things a step further. Community reps have created a Fort Collins Police: Most Wanted Facebook page on which it features suspects on posters of the sort we associate with the Old West, but created with new…
The Denver Post has announced a new buyout offer intended to shrink the staff by 26 employees. If this reduction is realized, the Post’s newsroom will have lost more than a third of its workers in around a year. As we reported in June 2015, there were approximately 165 newsroom members…
How much was Timothy Gomez’s life worth? According to a jury, Charlie Brammeier valued it at $20 — the amount of a drug transaction prosecutors say led to Gomez being beaten to death by a Mag-Lite flashlight. But the cost to Brammeier will turn out to be infinitely higher than that. According…
Earlier this month, we posted about the ten most walkable Denver neighborhoods according to Walkscore.com. Now we’re going from micro to macro by looking at cities across the entire state — many of which aren’t very walkable at all. Below, see the ten Colorado cities with the site’s lowest walking…
Yesterday, in a post about a Peyton Manning tribute video, I wrote that it was “highly unlikely” that the Broncos would choose a quarterback with their first pick in last night’s NFL Draft since “all the marquee names should be gone by then.” I couldn’t have been more wrong. Paxton…
We recently wrote about a crackdown against illegal marijuana grows in Pueblo, known as one of Colorado’s most pot-friendly cities. Since mid-March, Pueblo law enforcers say they’ve seized 4,600 plants and arrested 22 people, many of them from out of state. Included in that number is Warren Radosti, seen above,…
In case you missed it…. At Westword Arts, Brad Weismann spotlights the ten best things about Elitch’s, old and new. Denver Egotist: “Berkeley Supply Is Expanding to Colfax.” The Colorado Independent’s Corey Hutchins: “Sure, the ‘Police Force’ in Green Mountain Falls Resigned. So What?”…
As we’ve noted, the annual NFL Draft gets underway tonight — and even though your Denver Broncos are highly unlikely to choose a quarterback with their first pick (all the marquee names should be gone by then), their signal-caller situation is dire. The only QBs currently on the squad are…
It was one of the strangest stories of 2015: The arrest of Julieane Jablonski after Austin Essig, her nineteen year old son, jumped out a window, allegedly under the influence of a marijuana edible she provided. Now, a jury has ruled on Jablonski’s case — and while she reportedly avoided…
The Colorado ski season is winding down. And while the vast majority of skiers and snowboarders who visited here in 2016 had a great time, the resorts were also the setting for a number of tragedies. Between January and April, we’ve told the stories about nine people who died at…
