Overnight, the weather in the metro area really blew, with gusts at predicted speeds of 80 miles per hour uprooting the occasional tree and making sleeping difficult for plenty of Denverites. The best way to react? By laughing. Below, we’ve collected our picks for the fifteen funniest windy weather memes…
From the beginning, Timothy Baca, 41, was the prime suspect in the apparent murder of his mother, 65-year-old Bernice Medina. And police only had to use the most basic detective skills in order to track him down. Yet taking him into custody wasn’t easy, since he had a knife in…
Yesterday, we shared a Ranker list of the best state flags, and noted our objections to Colorado’s finishing twelfth. When we shared the post, we asked readers about their faves and got some highly opinionated responses — including this dis of the ubiquitous big “C.”…
Denver blog posts are open for anything. At our Cafe Society blog, Jonathan Shikes reports about the closing next week of Old Chicago’s iconic Market Street restaurant — and the chance of a rebirth in the neighborhood down the line. Denver Egotist shares a “street view” of the Colorado River…
The suspects linked to a huge Colorado Springs burglary ring apparently felt that accidentally being hit by a car was as big a threat as getting caught snatching and grabbing, since at least one crew member is said to have worn a reflective safety vest near crime scenes. Unfortunately for…
Last month, we told you about a suit filed by the Boulder District Attorney’s Office against Silverio Nuanez, a 74-year-old accused of allowing his residence to be transformed into a meth flop house. This action seems to have had little effect thus far. Police raided the home again yesterday, arresting…
The folks at Estately.com have assembled a list of U.S. cities with the most douchebags using a highly unusual metric. They counted up the number of dudes who listed Facebook “interests” in ten douchey categories: Nickelback, Monster Energy, Axe, Don Ed Hardy, Vin Diesel, Chris Brown, Tosh.0, Mixed Martial Arts,…
We’re all taught not to speak ill of the dead. But in the case of Fred Phelps, head of Kansas’ vile Westboro Baptist Church, who breathed his last yesterday, we’re going to make an exception. To mark Phelps’ passing, we’ve combined two offerings — a 2013 Jenn Wohletz post recapping…
Customers at a Qdoba in Lone Tree got a lot more for their money than a fast-casual burrito last night. That’s because one employee of restaurant, located in one of the many Park Meadows shopping areas (not far from a Barnes & Noble and a Mattress King) stabbed a co-worker…
The Boulder house where JonBenet Ramsey was murdered in 1996 is back on the market once again, after several unsuccessful sale attempts in recent years. In sharing photos of the home, we asked readers if they could imagine living there. Here’s the post of someone who could…
Denver blog posts are an open forum. At our Show & Tell blog, Byron Graham interviews comedian Chris Fairbanks about Sexpot Comedy, suicidal engineers and Daniel Tosh’s rape-joke controversy. Colorado Pols on Tom Tancredo’s “Pleasant Outreach Program.” Colorado Peak Politics on the maneuvering related to a version of Jessica’s Law…
Denver Relief Consulting’s announcement of a new partnership with Laura Harris, former head of Colorado’s Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division, instantly stirred controversy, with some members of the local cannabis community crying foul and at least one good-government activist citing potential ethical concerns. But DRC co-founders Ean Seeb and Kayvan Khalatbari…
Update: Yesterday, we told you about a shooting on the 1600 block of Yates in which a suspect was quizzed, then released; see our previous coverage below. Since then, the Denver coroner’s office has identified the man killed in the incident as Dwayne Kelly, 52. The cause of death: multiple…
At this writing, the CU Buffaloes are mere hours from tipping off against the Pitt Panthers during the first full day of the annual NCAA men’s basketball tournament, popularly known as March Madness. How to watch the action, and all of the hoops craziness that will follow in the days…
Update: The man killed last night at the Anschutz Medical Campus (see our previous coverage below) has not been officially ID’d yet. However, his brother tells us his name was Joe Gorden, and he worked at the University of Colorado Hospital. Tom Gorden says he and his siblings believe reports…
Coloradans have always loved our state’s flag. And in recent years, the image has become more iconic than ever, popping up on hipster T-shirts and products of every description as a shorthand way of declaring state pride. So we were shocked — shocked! — to discover that on Ranker’s list…
Meth suspects, like every other arrestee in these United States, is innocent until proven guilty, and that’s the way it should be. But most of us have noticed that in booking photos, those accused of such crimes tend to look, well, rough. That’s certainly the case for the fourteen people…
Our coverage of last week’s CannaSearch, touted as Denver’s first marijuana-industry job fair, got a lot of people talking. Many of our readers were enthusiastic about the event, including this one, whose reasoning isn’t the least bit smoky…
Denver blog posts can’t stop, won’t stop. At our Show & Tell blog, the Voice Media film critics split on Lars Van Triers’s controversial Nymphomaniac: Volume 1. Big Media’s Jason Salzman Obamacare attack ad fact-checking. At Mile High Mamas, Sydney Ayers and Lisa Cutter ask: “Do you think what the…
Since 2012, we’ve been reporting about DISH’s firing of Brandon Coats, a paralyzed medical marijuana patient, after he failed a drug test. Coats’s lawsuit over the issue has failed in Arapahoe District Court and the Colorado Court of Appeals. It’s now headed to the Colorado Supreme Court, where powerful forces…
Was marijuana a contributing factor in the death of two-year-old Levi Welton earlier this year? Expect this to be among the arguments made against his parents, Julia and Chris Welton. More than two months after Levi died following a fire in the family’s Sterling home, his mother and father have…
Is the Denver Public Library promoting bestiality? Not exactly — although there are plenty of beasts featured in the pics below, culled from the DPL’s amazing digital collection and regularly shared under the banner Weird Photo Wednesday. We first highlighted Weird Photo Wednesday in an August 2013 post. But thanks…
