When we spoke to Colorado-born, Hawaii-based THC Ministry founder Roger Christie in June 2010, he was readying a challenge to the federal government’s marijuana laws that would have treated dispensaries like churches. But mere weeks later, he was busted by the feds on pot distribution charges and spent the next…
Denver blog posts know what’s on tap. At our Backbeat blog, Isa Jones counts down the six best music venues for beer drinkers in Denver. Predominantly Orange’s Sayre Bedinger reports that the Broncos’ Julius Thomas should be good to go for the Bills game. A memorable Colorado Pols headline: “Gumming…
Is Snowmass Village’s Michael Phillips a hip-hop poet or a dangerous stalker who used his Instagram account and other online sites to threaten a former girlfriend? Those are among the questions surrounding the arrest of Michael Phillips. See photos and get details of his strange case, which pivots on communication…
Last week’s Denver protests over the no-indictment decision by a Ferguson, Missouri grand jury were intended to be peaceful but ended in four arrests. A subsequent Comment of the Day about whether violence can bring peace inspired even more conversation — including this provocative take. See also: Reader: I’ve Never…
Last month, we told you about the death of Rachel Neiman, a Regis University student who was killed after being struck by a suspected street racer. Now, two men, William Chicano and David Felan, have been formally charged in the case — and Felan, whose Facebook page is filled with…
A year has passed since we last collected funny, crazy and funny/crazy messages from the 719 area code as shared on the Texts From Last Night website. And if anything, the ones we found are even weirder than before. See what we mean by counting down our photo-illustrated top ten…
Yesterday, students at college campuses across the country took part in rallies inspired by a Ferguson, Missouri grand jury’s decision not to indict the police officer who shot and killed unarmed teenager Michael Brown — and Colorado was no exception. Below, see photos tweeted by participants and observers of the…
Update: Last week, we reported that Jose Alderete-Gomez had been arrested in conjunction with an attack on a Fort Collins woman — and speculation was rife that he was responsible for a string of assaults in the area; see our previous coverage below. Now, the charges against Alderete-Gomez have expanded…
Last week, we noted that marijuana businesses were embracing Black Friday, with The Grass Station leading the charge via $50 ounces for the first sixteen customers on November 26-28. And while the promotion was presumably aimed at local customers, the whole “Green Friday” concept definitely got national exposure. See also:…
When we shared our post asking whether anyone actually enjoys dating in Denver, we posed that very question on Facebook and received a wide variety of answers in response. Here’s one about the challenges of finding a special someone in a very specific segment of the Mile High City’s singles…
Denver blog posts are on the lookout for what’s fresh. At our Cafe Society blog, Jenn Wohletz assembles five more of the best — and worst — new food products to get you through the holidays. The Colorado Independent’s Nat Stein on racism and Colorado law enforcement. Mile High Hockey’s…
Last week, we shared allegations against a Denver police officer caught on video punching a suspect six times in the face and tripping a pregnant woman. In addition, officers were accused of deleting the video, which was later said to have been recovered from a cloud-based storage system. Around the…
A while back, we shared twenty tweets from Colorado HS Confess that were guaranteed to freak out parents. But frankly, the ones we found on ColoradoSexConfess make the earlier batch seem mild by comparison. These tales, which also purport to come from teens, overflow with graphic sexual content described from…
Everything seemed to point to a Broncos loss against Kansas City last night, including a road game on a cold night and a desperate opponent fueled by an embarrassing loss (to the Raiders!) and the illness of a team leader (Eric Berry may have cancer). Yet Denver still emerged with…
A terrible tragedy took place on the cusp of Thanksgiving weekend: Taressa Carruba, a 31-year-old single mother of seven, died in a car crash. Now, her family is dealing with the loss while trying to find a way to care for her kids — and the community is responding. Photos,…
Shara Worden, the artistic force behind My Brightest Diamond, makes smart music for smart people. But if her descriptions of creating This Is My Hand, her mind-expanding new recording, can seem academic at times (she talks about searching for the album’s “thesis statement”), she’s hardly anti-populist, as the key inspiration…
As William Breathes’s lists featuring the best marijuana gifts of 2012 and 2013 demonstrate, Colorado pot shops have embraced the holidays for a while now. But 2014 promises more deals than ever, with a number specifically pegged to Black Friday. See also: Photos: Top Fifteen Marijuana Gifts of 2013…
Kristin Pazulski’s coverage of a homeless Solutions Center planned for the Athmar neighborhood prompted many responses about the project itself. But this reader talks about her own experiences with homelessness and the people she encountered. See also: Is the New Homeless Solutions Center Really a Solution?…
Denver blog posts know when to come in from the cold. The crew at our Backbeat blog picks the five coziest music venues in Denver. Denver Egotist shows off a new app that lets you trade your way along the Silk Road. Colorado Peak Politics on the initiative that would…
Ten Fort Collins women have been attacked over the past few months, and police believe the same man assaulted many, if not all, of them. Against this backdrop, 27-year-old Jose Alderete-Gomez has been arrested in one of the incidents — and investigators are working to see if they can link…
Last night, as we’ve reported, protests in Denver following the decision of a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri not to indict a police officer who shot and killed unarmed teenager Michael Brown were peaceful — and that’s the plan for another gathering, planned for Civic Center Park this evening. Continue…
Denver’s typically on plenty of positive city lists — but this one’s not among them. Trulia has put together a report entitled “Where Is Homeownership Within Reach of the Middle Class and Millennials?,” and according to data compiled by the site, Denver’s among the least affordable in the country. Where…
