Our 2013 list of the top ten haunted Denver places to visit on Halloween according to Shadowlands.net, a website that purports to haunted locales across the country, includes plenty of venerable edifices, including the Lumber Baron Inn, the Molly Brown House and the Denver Children’s Home. But also making an appearance…
This weekend, your Denver Broncos have a bye — meaning there’s nothing that can happen to worsen their 6-0 record, which reached its present level after an improbable win over the Cleveland Browns on October 18. But that hasn’t stopped the complaining about quarterback Peyton Manning, who’s thrown more interceptions than…
In recent days, we celebrated the eight best bike trails in Colorado’s national forests as chosen by USDA Forest Service personnel — two of which are located on the Grand Mesa, one of the most spectacular spots in the state. I know this from personal experience: As noted in the…
All too often, young victims of child abuse resulting in serious bodily injury don’t survive the harm inflicted upon them. Fortunately, the three-month-old twin boys of Destinee Reynolds are an exception to this rule. At this point, however, there’s no way of knowing if permanent damage was done to them…
Overnight, a fire reportedly broke out in a two-story garage on South Bryant Street, between Federal and Hampden in the community of Sheridan. The blaze has been extinguished and is being mopped up at this hour. But it remains newsworthy because representatives of the Denver Fire Department suspect that the…
A reader’s theory about the increasing number of heroin addicts in Denver and beyond prompted a big response. A lot of the posts featured compassionate or thoughtful discussions of heroin use and abuse. Others suggested the best ways to deal with the problem. The following exchange fits into the latter category…
Denver blog posts know which number is on the beast. At our Music blog, Oakland L. Childers lays waste to Iron Maiden and more in his list of the six worst “essential” metal albums. Colorado Peak Politics shares the names of main stage competitors for the CU-Boulder GOP debate. The…
Is it illegal in Boulder for marijuana businesses to sponsor booths that prominently display their names at public events? Boulder’s City Attorney suggests that it is, while the man in charge of a local dispensary accused of violating the law by way of a booth at Out Boulder’s Pridefest celebration…
Back in 2012, we told you about a man who was selling his motorcycle on Denver Craigslist to pay for his wife’s boob job. A current seller has a less salacious reason for parting with his beloved Harley Davidson Road King Custom. The impending arrival of a new baby means…
In recent months, there have been a slew of violent incidents on the 16th Street Mall, many of which were ignored or underplayed by many mainstream media outlets. Nonetheless, the assorted crimes got the attention of Westword readers, as well as the Downtown Denver Partnership, which held a meeting on these…
We enjoy checking out the lists on the Ranker website, in part because of their eccentricity. Note that its roster of the most famous people from Denver includes a porn star. Ranker’s choices for the ten most famous buildings and structures in Denver is similarly idiosyncratic. Did the Brown Palace…
Over the past year or so, we’ve shared a disheartening number of stories about inmates who’ve died in a variety of jails due to allegedly substandard medical care. In June 2014, we told you about Christopher Lopez, whose jailers at the San Carlos Correctional Facility in Pueblo joked and laughed as he…
We recently stumbled upon a Yelp thread from back in 2010 entitled “Why Is Everyone Moving to Denver?” Most of those responding to it were either surprised by the influx of folks from around the country who were relocating to the Mile High City or understood how great Denver is…
Denver blog posts are affectionate — really. Check out one of the most viewed posts on our Arts blog: Amber Taufen’s list of the six most annoying types of old school ravers. Colorado Pols: The Jeffco school board recall gets very ugly very fast. Coyote Gulch on steady progress over…
Back in October 2014, when the Colorado Rockies finally said goodbye to longtime general manager Dan O’Dowd, we wondered if the change would make any difference given that Dick Monfort still owns the team. Unfortunately, the 2015 season demonstrated that Rockies fans like us were right to have our doubts…
A new Gallup poll found that 58 percent of respondents supported legalizing marijuana. That matches the highest number ever in a Gallup survey; 58 percent also backed the concept in 2013. Why have so many Americans concluded that legalizing cannabis is the way to go? One marijuana activist thinks the success…
In August, we told you about Go Topless Fort Collins, a “Free the Nipple” campaign to goad the Fort Collins City Council into removing the line “the breast or breasts of a female” from its public-indecency ordinance. Then, earlier this month, we updated you on a public survey about the…
Back in May, we shared a collection of twelve amazing vintage ads and more from The Denver Eye, a 2015 Best of Denver award winner whose Tom Lundin regularly celebrates the Mile High City’s glorious past through photos, words and fascinating artifacts. Since then, Lundin has posted one amazing shot after another — including…
The Denver coroner’s office has identified a man killed on Thursday evening, October 115, at the Spyglass Hill Apartments, 7100 E. Mississippi Avenue, as Isaiah Roquemore, 28. Roquemore was one of two people injured in the shooting at the apartment complex. The cause of death was a shotgun wound. The Denver…
Back in June, we told you about a new federal policy intended to make medical marijuana research easier to accomplish — the removal of what was known as the Public Health Service review, which privately funded marijuana researchers had to pass before being allowed to move ahead with their studies…
A reader recently argued that Big Pharma is responsible for the influx of heroin in Colorado. His belief: Pharmaceutical companies have been pushing opiate-based pain killers, and when doctors cut off patients, they turn to heroin supplied by Mexican cartels looking to make up for the money they’ve been losing…
Denver blog posts have a healthy respect for good Mexican food. At our Food & Drink blog, Patricia Calhoun reveals the impending closure of Rosa Linda’s Mexican Cafe after just over thirty years. Denver Infill’s Ryan Dravitz shares part one of the page’s final 1601 Wewatta Project update. Did you…
