Onetime Conifer resident Kelsey Hauser’s Facebook page offers no clues about her sad and violent end. The gallery is filled with benign portraits that find her capturing the scenery around her Colorado home or Southern California, as well as shots in which she cuddles with puppies. But this weekend, she…
Last month, we reported about a Colorado marijuana fact-finding mission involving officials from Indio, California. Their tour featured plenty of input from local law-enforcement reps who emphasized problems with legal cannabis — and afterward, Indio’s city council authored a proposal to ban medical marijuana there. A similar journey through the Colorado…
Our recent post about public vaping bans in fourteen Colorado cities (with Greenwood Village likely to become the fifteenth) inspired a Comment of the Day that prompted a slew of additional responses. In it, a reader argued that smokers and vapers shouldn’t be so effing selfish in public. Plenty of vapers…
Denver blog posts have deep roots. At Westword Arts, Lauri Lynnxe Murphy tells those who responded to her recent post about Denver transplants what they’re missing in regard to homelessness and more. Colorado Peak Politics reveals that pink is the new orange when it comes to hunting gear in Colorado. Denver Infill’s…
The tweet — in which a teacher is compared to a penis prior to the use of the hashtag #douchebag — seems like the kind of thing a pissed-off student might send. But it went out into cyberspace from the (now-deleted) Twitter account of a teachers union, the Douglas County…
The Broncos’ victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers in Sunday’s NFL playoffs game hasn’t convinced many folks that Denver and Peyton Manning can defeat the Tom Brady-led New England Patriots and make it to another Super Bowl. Oddsmakers have made the Patriots the favorites in this weekend’s AFC championship game, even…
PassiveAggressiveNotes.com collects notes, signs and what-not written by folks who are mad as hell about something or other — but they’re trying (in vain) not to show it. As was the case for our previous collections of passive-aggressive notes from Colorado, we discovered lots of passivity that was as aggressive as…
The first item on this week’s Cannabis Calendar pertained to a company dedicated to helping couples create the ultimate stoner wedding. This concept proved surprisingly contentious among our readers. One thread featured a debate about whether criticizing a marijuana-themed wedding was justified when so many ceremonies are awash in alcohol. Here’s…
Denver blog posts know that going downhill can be a good thing. Earlier this month, the folks at Westword Arts shared a huge list of things to do at Colorado ski areas and ski towns in January — and there are at least 21 events on the roster that are still…
Last year, a coalition of Denver officials, business representatives and cannabis advocates agreed to work together to create a workable policy that would create a legal way for adults to consume marijuana in a public place in the Mile High City. But more than four months have passed since the effort…
A caption on the Facebook photo of 32-year-old Ramone Lonergan seen above reads, “I took this picture the day Ramone was free! Now I am posting this as a symbol of his eternal freedom. This is him in heaven with all his and our loved ones that have left! I…
Your Denver Broncos may be a number one seed going into Sunday’s playoff game against the Pittsburgh Steelers, but the team landed just one player on the NFL’s first-team all pro squad: Von Miller. But Von is in a league of his own when it comes to a mastery of…
Alex Perez, 24, was arrested early this morning in Georgetown mere hours after an Amber Alert was issued in Michigan regarding him and his two children — Nova and Luna, ages four and three, respectively. The kids are safe and Perez is in custody — and suspected of committing a…
A pair of recent Comment of the Day items found our readers debating whether or not people moving to Colorado for marijuana were making the state worse or better. Turns out the debate is raging in Colorado places beyond the Mile High City. “For those who continue to hate on…
Last week, Sienna Johnson, sixteen, was charged as an adult in an alleged murder plot at Mountain Vista High School. Another sixteen-year-old girl was also arrested in the case, and in recent days, her attorney, Dagny Van Der Jagt, attempted to distance her from Johnson, writing in a statement that…
In a recent Comment of the Day, one of our readers deemed Denver’s snow removal as a bad joke. At the time he wrote, he noted that his street was still crusted with the remains of two previous storms as another one approached. His take definitely revved up our Facebook…
Denver blog posts are burger aficionados. At Westword Food, Mark Antonation breaks the news about the January 17 closing of Jimmy’s Urban Bar & Grill, home of the 2015 Best of Denver-winning top burger. Denver Stiffs’ Daniel C. Lewis shares the great news about the Nuggets’ surprising win over the Golden…
Onetime Colorado resident Karen Langhart devoted the last few years of her life campaigning against NuvaRing, a contraceptive device she blamed for the death of her beloved daughter, Erika Langhart, who grew up in Durango. But while the NuvaRing fight isn’t over, her part in it is. Last week, Karen,…
As we’ve reported, the Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area, a law-enforcement group that receives federal funding, has spent the past several years churning out material intended to show the negative effects of marijuana legalization in Colorado. Its latest effort in a series known as “The Legalization of Marijuana…
We were doing so well with our Colorado-centric 2015 editions of hilarious posts from the Texts From Last Night website. We successfully highlighted the 303 area code, as well as the 720 and the 970. But then December got away from us before we could highlight the 719. So we’re…
Mateo Martinez has been brought home to die. Doctors don’t expect him to recover from effects of a subdural hematoma he suffered as a result of a beating that took place in October — a condition that reportedly went undiagnosed for six weeks. Authorities know who pummeled Martinez: Doug and Stacy…
There was a big response to our recent post about vaping in public. As we reported, fourteen Colorado cities have already passed public vaping bans with varying restrictions, and Greenwood Village appears to be headed in that direction. Some of our readers made a distinction between smoking and vaping, whether the…
