Think Peyton Manning’s dancing to “Rocky Top” during a recent Broncos practice this week was the uncoolest thing ever? Well, the Internet disagrees with you — sort of. His busted moves have now been featured in a variety of forms: a GIF and a Vine video (with “Rocky Top” replaced…
Actor Kelsey Grammer visited Colorado earlier this week, but he wasn’t in the state where he once maintained a ski home for pleasure. Quite the opposite, in fact. He appeared via video conference from Denver at a Buena Vista parole hearing for Freddie Glenn, a man convicted of killing Grammer’s…
Update: Early on July 21, a crash near the intersection of Colfax and Speer resulted in seven injuries, two of them serious; see our previous coverage below. Now, 23-year-old Emily Strock has been formally charged with causing the crash, allegedly after drinking a beer and smoking a bowl of marijuana…
There are literally hundreds of pages on Wikipedia that feature the word “Denver,” and many of them include information that’ll be new even to most natives — about, for instance, the Denver Tool, the Denver Doll and Denver Spiderman, who was a murderer rather than a superhero. And that’s not…
Why did Daniel Monkert allegedly steal a trash truck and lead authorities on a strange low-speed chase? The reasons aren’t spelled out on his Facebook page, but his posts over the past few days are notably odd — including a single word shared during the wee hours of this morning,…
Last week, we told you about a $3.25 million settlement agreement in the case of Jamal Hunter, who maintained that the City of Denver failed to properly protect him after he says inmates scalded his genitals with boiling water and two deputies attacked him in an incident caught on video…
Our post about horribly botched executions, prompted by a lethal injection of convicted killer Joseph Rudolph Wood that dragged on for nearly two hours, inspired passionate responses from readers on the topic of capital punishment. Here the comment of someone speaking from personal experience. See also: Joseph Wood’s botched lethal…
Denver blog posts cover posses of all kinds. On our Backbeat blog, Daniel Hill and Drew Ailes talk to the cops at the Gathering of the Juggalos. Colorado Pols on criticism of Cory Gardner in, of all places, Cosmopolitan magazine. A Denver Frank post announces: “I’m on Vacation.” Me, too…
Had we not already designated police-car swiper Dustin Guinn as our latest Schmuck of the Week earlier today, John David Martinez would seemingly have qualified. After all, he’s accused of robbing a bank while wearing a shirt with his name on it. But a closer look at the police report…
The Best of Denver curse strikes again. Back in March, we named ESPN’s The Locker Room, co-starring Nate Kreckman and Broncos Ring of Famer Tom Nalen, Denver’s top radio sports show in our 2014 Best of Denver issue. But as with Gloria Neal, who was given her walking papers at…
Our post spotlighting one hater’s thirteen reasons why Colorado sucks elephant balls triggered an absolute avalanche of reader reaction. Plenty of comments were memorable, but here are our top twenty reasons why you don’t think Colorado sucks elephant balls, illustrated with images from not one but two past collections of…
How to get rich quick from the marijuana boom without having anything to do with marijuana? Sell someone a pot-oriented domain name for big bucks! May sound like a long shot, but we found plenty of people on Denver Craigslist trying this tack, peddling sometimes clever/sometimes bizarre/sometimes stupid domain names…
Details remain sketchy regarding two deaths yesterday afternoon in Fort Collins. But preliminary information suggests that Gene Kapperman, 73, killed his grandson, 26-year-old Brandon Kapperman, before shooting himself to death. No information about the subtext of this tragedy has surfaced at this writing. But Brandon’s final Facebook post before his…
Our post about a new pot-edibles education campaign noted that the idea was inspired in part by the reaction to New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd’s account of a bad edibles experience in Denver. Many of our readers were directly critical of Dowd for not following serving-size recommendations — but…
Denver blog posts know when to say when. At our Show and Tell blog, Bree Davies reflects on the wonderful and terrifying reality of an alcohol-free life as she marks eight years of sobriety. The Colorado Independent’s Mike Littwin on Ted Cruz’s humanitarian crisis. At Denver Infill, Ken Schroeppel offers…
Back in April, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie ripped the quality of life in Colorado due to marijuana legalization — a statement that prompted Governor John Hickenlooper’s office to come up with a list of eight ways Colorado tops New Jersey. Yesterday, Christie was in Colorado to stump for Bob…
What began as a trickle is now a flood. Mere weeks after an Adams County judge ruled Colorado’s same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional, U.S. District Judge Raymond P. Moore issued a similar finding. However, Moore stayed his order (on view below) until 8 a.m. on August 25 and Colorado Attorney General…
Colorado continues to have a reputation in some quarters as a bad-weather state. But anyone who lives here knows that’s a gross exaggeration whether or not the state’s 300-days-of-sunshine claim is a myth or not. More evidence comes via a new study by the folks at WalletHub to determine which…
Yesterday in Arizona, convicted murderer Joseph Rudolph Wood was executed…very slowly. Wood reportedly gasped for breath for nearly two hours as witnesses watched before finally expiring. This is hardly the first botched execution, as is clear from the following roster, first published last year. It highlights nine startling stories assembled…
Steve Jackson is singularly qualified to recap at least part of a crazy Jefferson County crime spree involving a couple busted on charges including robbery, vehicle theft, burglary and attempted murder. A former Westword staff writer (here’s his author page), Jackson is a crime-book author of national renown — and…
Our post featuring one hater’s thirteen reasons why Colorado sucks elephant balls riled up readers in a big way, with most dismissing the complaints about our fair state. But this reader saw a few good points among the bad ones. See also: Photos: One hater’s thirteen reasons why Colorado sucks…
Denver blog posts wouldn’t mind chilling for a while. At our Show and Tell blog, Jamie Siebrase lists the ten best free fountains to cool off on a hot Denver day. Colorado Peak Politics says liberals are panicking over polls showing statistical ties in the gubernatorial and senatorial races. An…
