A popular trope in horror movies involves a family that finds out a just-purchased house is haunted — and then can’t get anyone to buy it. In the real world, such properties wind up on the market, too…hopefully with less dreadful consequences for purchasers than those in, say, The Conjuring…
This past January, we shared our first collection of Tom Brady hate memes just before the Broncos met the Patriots in the AFC Championship Game, which Denver won. This Sunday in New England, the Brady-Peyton Manning rivalry will be renewed again — and lo and behold, we found a brand…
A Denver Blogs post about the Illegal Pete’s name controversy raging in Fort Collins found loads o’ readers sharing their thoughts. Here’s how one person from FoCo responded to a question about whether he found the name to be offensive. See also: Are You Offended by the Name of Illegal…
Denver blog posts go door to door. At our Show and Tell blog, Bree Davies points you toward eight great local shops for last-minute Halloween costumes and accessories. Mile High Report’s Kyle Montgomery tracks Peyton Manning-Tom Brady match-ups through the years. Denver Frank posts about the Knockout, a beer shotgun…
The two women shot to death at the French Quarter apartments weren’t the only homicide victims in the metro area this week. Also slain was Robert Goldsberry, a sixty-year-old who was gunned down in the parking lot of a South Parker Road Walmart. The man being held for the crime…
Last October, Colorado Avalanche goalie Semyon Varlamov was arrested for allegedly abusing Evgeniya Vavrinyuk, his girlfriend, only to have the case dismissed a couple of months later. Now, Vavrinyuk has filed a civil suit against Varlamov, claiming years of horrific abuse in Russia and beyond leading up to the Denver…
When Rachel Maddow teased her appearance in Denver this week, she cited a governor’s race that was “off the hook,” yet she made little mention of the contest in the actual Tuesday night broadcast from the Viewhouse Ballpark. Last night, however, we found out what this allusion meant via a…
Seeking Arrangement is devoted to pairing self-proclaimed sugar daddies (and a few sugar mommies) with students and other young people willing to trade companionship for financial support. It’s a controversial service in some quarters, but also a popular one in Colorado. Earlier this year, Seeking Arrangement revealed that CU-Boulder was…
There have been other DIA-bound passengers busted for unwanted sexual advances on flight attendants over the years. But the accusations contained in an affidavit aimed at Vadym Pecherskyi, a 42-year-old from Kiev, Ukraine, hit new heights of creepiness, with one alleged victim saying she felt he would have raped her…
Our post about a Denver Police Department campaign focusing on trick-or-treaters and the possibility they might be given pot edibles for Halloween sparked fresh accusations of fear-mongering. But this reader suggests that something like this could actually happen — although not for the reasons hyped by the DPD. See also:…
Denver blog posts rock on. Our Backbeat blog raises a clenched fist for Denver’s nine best rock bars. The Colorado Independent’s Tessa Cheek and John Tomasic on Colorado Democrats’ ground game. Denver Egotist salutes the skull-tastic teaser by Denver’s Adam Schmisek for Starz’s Black Sails. See also: Are You Offended…
As any comic-book fan knows, superheroes that seem dead can later come back to life — and something similar has happened with a superhero-centric lawsuit filed by Colorado-based Stan Lee Media, Incorporated (SLMI). The complaint seemingly died last year, but an appeal revived it, leading to a hearing held in…
As we’ve reported, prominent addiction specialist and Project SAM principal Dr. Christian Thurstone stirred controversy via a blog post implying that marijuana contributed to — and perhaps even caused — the death of Michael Brown, whose shooting by a police officer caused weeks of rioting in Ferguson, Missouri. Thurstone subsequently…
In our preview of Rachel Maddow’s broadcast from Denver last night, we noted that she’d touted the show at the Viewhouse Ballpark by noting that the race for Colorado’s governor was “off the hook.” In the end, though, she spent little time talking about this contest during the highly entertaining…
We don’t know if the folks at the Guinness Book of World Records would consider awarding a world-record honor for a post about the Guinness Book of World Records — but if they do, Estately is definitely in the running. The site discovered and ranked world records for every state…
Yesterday, during a preliminary hearing, a deputy took the stand in Arapahoe County Court to posit the theory that Naomi Almodovor burned down a Centennial apartment complex as payback against a former girlfriend who had subsequently gotten into a relationship with a man. And the arrest affidavit in the case…
In 2006, performer Bill Cosby settled a lawsuit filed by a woman who said he’d drugged and sexually assaulted her. In a U.K. Mail story, Barbara Bowman says she was prepared to testify in the civil trial against Cosby before the matter was dropped. But now, years later, she’s speaking…
An unexpected result of Colorado’s legalization of limited marijuana sales for recreational purposes has been a rise in the number of academic studies about whether the change has been good or bad for the state. A few months ago, a paper released by the Brookings Institution found that the rollout…
Adam Roy’s post about Casey Nocket, a wannabe artist accused of using acrylic paint to deface a number of natural wonders, including Rocky Mountain National Park, and then shrugging off her actions with social-media responses such as, “I know, I’m a bad person,” became a repository for some notably vitriolic…
Denver blog posts are completely legal so far as we know. At our Cafe Society blog, Patricia Calhoun speaks with Illegal Pete’s owner Pete Turner about the controversy in Fort Collins over the name on his restaurants. Colorado Peak Politics isn’t impressed by ads critical of the Jefferson County School…
In case you doubted the importance of Colorado when it comes to next week’s election, here’s evidence that it’s seen as a key to control of the U.S. Senate and more: MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow will be broadcasting from Denver tonight for a program that’s expected to take a close look…
Last week, attorneys representing accused Aurora theater shooter James Holmes requested yet another delay in jury selection, which had been set for December 8 — and prosecutors didn’t object. That put Judge Carlos Samour, who’s overseeing the case, in a difficult position. But while he’s now agreed to push back…
