Denver blog posts mourn every delicious passing. At Westword’s Food & Drink, our complete restaurant roll call for 2015 features more than 250 restaurants that opened last year — and 108 that closed. Denver Stiff’s Andrew Feinstein considers whether it’s time for the Denver Nuggets to trade Danilo Gallinari. Coyote Gulch…
Last month, we noted that gun sales were booming in Colorado following mass shootings in Colorado Springs and San Bernardino. According to the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System, 42,271 background checks for gun purchases were made in Colorado during November 2015 — a total higher than it’s been in that…
If you’re wondering what the hell has been going on on 84th Avenue between Interstate 25 and Confer Road this morning, the short answer is: plenty. Roads were closed and a SWAT team was dispatched after a police chase involving two female carjacking suspects. The standoff ended a short time…
When perusing our Marijuana archives, we made a simple yet profound discovery: A lot of the cannabis-related posts we published in 2015 were, for want of a better word, weird. And definitely worth sharing again. Below, find excerpts five of the strangest pot stories from last year, complete with photos…
Corrie Houck was once a candidate for Denver City Council’s second district — but the petition to get her name on the ballot contained some names of folks known for residing elsewhere. Examples: Big Bird, Ernie and Bert, who are known to live on Sesame Street. As for John Charles…
For the folks at Creative Treatment Options, a substance abuse clinic in Arvada, a weekend fire that decimated the facility qualifies as very unfortunate. But not nearly as unfortunate as the fact that John Rutter, an addiction counselor at the facility, remains missing at this writing. At approximately 10 a.m…
In 2013, Colorado passed a THC driving bill, which established a cannabis intoxication level of 5 nanograms per milliliter of blood. The standard was controversial from the jump, in part because THC tends to react very differently depending upon who consumes it — and the substance lingers in one’s system…
In a recent Comment of the Day, a reader argued that Colorado natives are starting to sound like Donald Trump. His point? He thinks some of those born in Colorado would like to build a wall around the state, so no one else can move here — sort of like…
Denver blogs plan to get buzzed in 2016. In Westword’s Food & Drink, Chelsea Keeney names the seven best new Denver coffee shops of 2015. Big Media’s Jason Salzman wonders: “Is the Colorado Republican Party trying to hide something?” Mile High Hockey’s Ryan Murphy sums up his recap of the…
Even as Peyton Manning is celebrating the Broncos’ comeback win over the San Diego Chargers yesterday, which secured a number 1 seed and home-field advantage throughout the playoffs for the team, controversy continues to swirl around allegations that he used human growth hormones during his recovery from 2011 neck surgeries…
Penny Parker, who was once among the most popular and powerful members in local journalism as a columnist for the Rocky Mountain News and Denver Post, died last night at the age of 62. At this writing, the cause of death hasn’t been determined. The Post’s obituary of Parker notes that…
Yesterday, Broncos fans saw a new chapter in the Peyton Manning legend happen live during Denver’s 27-20 win over the San Diego Chargers. And it was beautiful. For the first time since 1994, when he was a freshman at Tennessee, Manning was in a backup role. But while Brock Osweiler…
Atheist organizations have been using billboards to spread their message in Colorado for years, as witnessed by this post from 2008. This time, however, the American Atheists group has a new recruit: Santa Claus. Two billboards in the Colorado Springs area feature Saint Nick and the slogan “Go ahead and…
This week, the federal government sided with Colorado against Nebraska and Oklahoma, which submitted a lawsuit against Amendment 64 to the U.S. Supreme Court in December 2014. The filing of the brief, whose listed authors include the U.S. Solicitor General, comes as a surprise given that the feds still list cannabis…
Denver blog posts go balls-out. At our Arts blog, Robbie Herbst tells the naked truth about a wild New Year’s Eve. A Colorado Pols headline reads, “Donald Trump: Are you frightened yet?” At Mile High Mamas, a writer who identifies herself only as Alfreda writes about finding a home after…
In October 2014, we told you about the shocking murders of Amanda Anders and Nancy Worrell, who were gunned down in a Denver-area apartment, and the subsequent arrest of Jose King. A jury has now found King guilty on all counts in the case, which was sparked by an argument…
The stories that helped define 2015 ranged widely. Police shootings, like the one that killed Jessie Hernandez, seen above. Immigration rights. High rent prices. Sensational murder cases. The booming marijuana business. Below, see excerpts from our coverage of ten major events. They feature links, photos and new introductions (they’re in…
Last night, a suspected car thief was critically injured in an officer-involved shooting in north Denver. According to 7News, the incident was the fourth officer-involved shooting over the past week in metro Denver, the sixth during the month of December and the eleventh in the Front Range since Halloween. Moreover,…
Our post featuring the top twenty tweets about bad roads, lack of plows and weather douches in the wake of this week’s unexpectedly heavy snowstorm generated loads o’ feedback. Some readers shared their own complaints about roadways and highways that weren’t cleared quickly enough by their standards. Others considered such complaints…
Denver blog posts think you deserve a toast. At our Food & Drink blog, Linnea Covington highlights eleven boozy Colorado Christmas gift ideas. Predominantly Orange’s Sayre Bedinger offers an optimistic view about the Broncos’ loss to the Raiders. Denver Infill’s Ryan Dravitz offers the first update on a Five Points-Curtis…
In the more than sixteen years since the attack at Columbine High School, folks in Colorado have seen numerous instances of teen boys being arrested for alleged school threats and violent plots. There have been far fewer instances of teen girls being implicated in such schemes. So it’s highly unusual…
In December 2014, we told you about a lawsuit in which the states of Nebraska and Oklahoma asked the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down Amendment 64, the 2012 measure that legalized limited recreational marijuana sales in Colorado. Our headline: “NEBRASKA AND OKLAHOMA TO COLORADANS WHO VOTED FOR AMENDMENT 64:…
