Denver blog posts sometimes get blue. At our Show & Tell blog, Kyle Harris highlights the seven worst movies of 2013. No, Smurfs 2 doesn’t take the prize — and at least two Oscar nominees are included. The Denver PR Blog reveals who had the worst Olympics. The Ralphie Report’s…
Hard to believe, but it’s been a year (actually a little more) since the last time we paid tribute to the best Texts From Last Night out of the 303 area code. Sorry we’re late! But that just meant there were that many more weird, hilarious, embarrassing, astonishing texts from…
On Saturday morning, Cafe Society writer Lori Midson was at the Whole Foods in Washington Park when a sudden blast of winter turned a nearby section of Interstate 25 into crash zone of epic proportions. A total of 104 vehicles were reportedly caught in the resulting chain reaction, with one…
Yesterday, we noted that Leo’s Smoke Shack, a Breckenridge institution at the center of a hysterical Inside Edition report, had been destroyed as part of a new war on smoke shacks. Many of our readers were unhappy about the turn of events, including this one…
Denver blog posts are tough judges. Show & Tell’s Byron Graham talks to Sexpot Comedy’s Nikki Glaser about new mattresses and the Weirdo Olympics. Colorado Pols on Cory Gardner, “the devil you’ll soon know,” plus all those Bob Beauprez gubernatorial rumors. Denver Frank: This week in unnecessary censorship…
Even as Denver police released suspect Aaron Little in an apparent homicide case that quickly fell apart, more information was emerging about what seems to be a less debatable incident. Investigators with the Aurora Police Department are focusing on the death of a man whose body was found on a…
Update: Earlier this week, we told you about the nationwide search for convicted child rapist Eric Hartwell, who’d escaped from a Denver-area facility after cutting off his ankle monitor. Earlier today, however, Hartwell was captured — but not before he put a lot of distance between himself and Colorado. He…
Should Medicaid payments for circumcision be cut off in Colorado? That’s the argument of The Whole Network, a national organization that’s encouraging its members to contact Colorado legislators who might be thinking about reinstating such funding. A network spokeswoman says the fight has taken place behind the scenes at the…
Update:Yesterday, when reporting about the bust of Aaron Little for second-degree homicide (see our previous coverage below), we noted the relative dearth of details about the incident, which took place on the 1500 block of Humboldt Street. Now, we’ve got more information, and it’s sure to raise more questions about…
When we shared William Breathes’s post about John Hickenlooper warning fellow governors to be cautious about legalizing marijuana, we asked readers why they thought Hick was so reluctant to embrace this new industry despite all the tax revenue it’s generating. We received a slew of interesting responses, including this one…
Denver blog posts avoid the chopping block. At our Cafe Society blog, Patricia Calhoun shares a reader’s take on the choice between being a model and serving grub at Twin Peaks. Colorado Peak Politics on Amy Stephens’s Senate race exit. Denver Egotist on the “Greatest Drum vs. Cowbell Showdown The…
They may have been dressed like paranoid beekeepers, but their foul-mouthed ways earned them a much tougher-sounding nickname: the Trash-Talking Bandits. And they’re wanted for what the FBI believes is among the biggest bank robberies in Colorado history, as well as one with a bizarre aftermath. How so? Apparently, one…
Update: Earlier this week, we told you about a murder outside Aurora’s Smoky Hill Liquor store; see our previous coverage below. The victim has now been identified as Ryan Thompson, 22 — and there’s been an arrest in the case. The suspect in custody is a seventeen year old whose…
Inside Edition’s hysterical report about ski-area smoke shacks — a phenomenon our William Breathes has been covering for years — was quickly followed by the destruction of Leo’s Smoke Shack in Breckenridge, the most elaborate structure featured in the IE piece. Although a ski-area rep who spoke to us about…
Update: How quickly is the Denver recreational marijuana scene changing? On February 4, when we last updated our list of recreational marijuana shops licensed by the city so far, the total was 37 — more than double the eighteen that opened on January 1. And now, just over three weeks…
Update: Yesterday, we talked with KNUS yakker Peter Boyles, who said he’d been contacted by a producer for Fox News personality Bill O’Reilly about appearing on a Wednesday night broadcast about Colorado — but when Boyles said he favored pot legalization, the producer became markedly less enthusiastic and later hung…
Our post spotlighting a Gallup poll that ranked Colorado among the less religious states in the country spurred a fascinating conversation about faith and regional differences in the way it’s practiced. Here’s a post from a reader with experience in a state that landed near the top of the religiosity…
Denver blog posts remain open. At our Cafe Society blog, Lori Midson on CapRock Farm Bar’s upcoming Friday farewell. Colorado Pols: How would you caption this photo of a bow-tie-wearing Jared Polis? South Stands Denver’s Colin Daniels on Jan Vesely getting the Deadspin treatment…
Yesterday, we shared a completely hysterical Inside Edition report about smoke shacks at Colorado ski resorts — a longtime phenomenon that our William Breathes has been writing about in depth for years. Turns out, though, that one of the main settings for the Inside Edition piece — Leo’s Smoke Shack…
Back in October, at a time when plenty of jurisdictions across Colorado were balking at allowing recreational marijuana sales, Pueblo County Commissioner Sal Pace told us that officials in his part of southern Colorado had chosen to embrace the new industry. “As communities turn down this part of Amendment 64,…
Over the years, we’ve intermittently highlighted unsolved Colorado murders listed on the indispensable Families of Homicide Victims and Missing Persons website. Our most recent offering appeared last September, on the National Day of Remembrance for Murder Victims. For loved ones left behind, however, every day is a day of remembrance…
We recently shared a slide show of images from a Twin Peaks calendar girls meet-and-greet, with stars of the shoot visiting three metro-area locations to promote the restaurant chain’s 2014 Mountain MANual calendar. But judging by the images below, culled from a behind-the-scenes video, the only mountain men around were…
