There was a lot of debate over our post about Washington’s Nathaniel Wentz, who was fired after wearing a Broncos jersey to work. Some felt the teen deserved sacking because he left work and didn’t return. But others feel he shouldn’t have been sent home in the first place, including…
Denver blog posts can get a bit obsessive. At our Show & Tell blog, Amy Nicholson explains how director Lars Von Trier’s new film, Nymphomaniac, differs from porn. Denver Urbanism’s Ryan Mulligan charts Gold Line progress via Platte River bridge girders. Colorado Peak Politics on what happened after DORA’s chief…
Bud Light’s twisted Super Bowl spots, featuring ex-Cali guv Arnold Schwarzenegger as a headband-wearing ping-pong player midway between Björn Borg and Chris Evert, don’t appear to have a Colorado connection beyond the participation of onetime Denverite Don Cheadle, who co-stars with…a llama; see teaser clips below. But there are actually…
Earlier this week, we posted about President Barack Obama’s latest marijuana comments: He told the New Yorker that pot isn’t more dangerous than alcohol, and considers it to be less risky “in terms of its impact on the individual consumer.” Cannabis reform advocate Mason Tvert was heartened by Obama’s take…
When most of us picture drug dealers, we don’t imagine someone like Almeda Sullivan, a former teacher’s aide at a Cherry Creek middle school. But at a preliminary hearing yesterday, she was treated like a serious criminal, and the arrest affidavit on view below explains why. Sullivan is accused of…
As everyone from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert to the nation’s memes-makers have noticed, the upcoming Super Bowl features teams — the Broncos and the Seahawks — from the two states that have legalized recreational marijuana sales. So you had to know entrepreneurs would want a piece of the action…
Ellen Degeneres wants the Broncos to win the Super Bowl — but not because she’s got a soft spot for Peyton Manning. Rather, she’s rooting for Denver offensive lineman Zane Beadles, who’s always wanted to dance with her. He got the chance during an appearance on her show yesterday that…
Update: Yesterday, we told you about a shooting at the Indian Hills home of Bruce and Maggie Leiman that left two people dead; see previous coverage below. The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office has now released the names of those who died: Maggie and Bruce’s son Robert Leiman, who’s believed to…
Our Josiah Hesse recently ventured to Civic Center Park to see if recreational marijuana store openings had cut down on illegal sales — and discovered that the pot black market is alive and well. This came as no surprise to many of our commenters, including this medical marijuana card holder…
Denver blog posts know that time is money. At our Cafe Society blog, Patricia Calhoun shares a post from a reader who thinks anyone who waits in line at a restaurant for an hour and a half needs to have his head checked. The Colorado Independent’s Mike Littwin on the…
Denver’s big win over the Patriots on hasn’t convinced doubters of the Broncos or Peyton Manning that the team will triumph in this year’s Super Bowl, as shown by what’s literally a hater video, since it was posted by someone who goes by the name Seth Hater. In the animated…
In the last few months, we’ve reported about two incidents that fall under the heading of “suicide by cop,” including a shooting involving a despondent CSU student and a Denver face-off during which the gunman reportedly said, “If they don’t fucking shoot me, I’ll stab them in the goddamn eyeball.”…
As we noted yesterday, the folks at The Daily Show and The Colbert Report are among the yuksters having fun with the Super Bowl pairing of Denver and Seattle — teams from the only two states that have legalized the sale of recreational marijuana. Memes makers are also going to…
The Super Bowl match-up between the Denver Broncos and the Seattle Seahawks pairs teams from states that both allow sales of recreational marijuana. But that doesn’t mean the build-up to the big game has been especially mellow. An example: Nathaniel Wentz, a Broncos fan who happens to live in Washington,…
In the latest issue of the New Yorker, President Barack Obama says marijuana isn’t more dangerous than alcohol and is actually less so in at least one significant way. Obama, who admits to smoking pot during his younger years but has spoken critically about the substance, hasn’t turned into a…
A lot of folks weighed in on our post about a Highlands Ranch mom who filed a criminal complaint against a TSA agent following a pat-down she thought qualified as sexual assault. Here’s an interesting take from a reader who feels such searches are intrusive but also necessary…
Denver blog posts are featuring a lot of orange and blue these days — but don’t let that make you the other kind of blue…. At our Show & Tell blog, Bree Davies offers a survival guide for Denverites who either hate the Broncos or don’t care for football, period…
In September 2012, the family of Jimma Reat, who was killed after a 911 operator told his companions and him to return to an area near where they’d just escaped a racially motivated attack, sued the City of Denver. A subsequent ruling allowed a potential federal civil rights trial focusing…
Shocking but true: The folks at Comedy Central’s The Daily Show and The Colbert Report noticed that the Denver Broncos and the Seattle Seahawks, who’ll face off in this year’s Super Bowl, are from the two states that have legalized recreational marijuana sales. And on the show’s most recent programs,…
Numbers updated below: As of January 1, when recreational marijuana sales officially began, the City of Denver had licensed eighteen shops. But far more than that are in the pipeline, and city staffers have been working diligently to process them. The result: Fifteen more stores have been licensed by the…
Denver’s victory over the Patriots on Sunday stamped the squad’s ticket for the Super Bowl, where the Broncos will face off against the Seattle Seahawks and cornerback Richard Sherman, whose loony post-game rants about his greatness, as well as previous comments that Peyton Manning throws “ducks,” has made him Public…
Blas Leroux, the 34-year-old man shot by Denver cops during a hostage standoff at a 7-Eleven last week, has died — and according to his parents, he favored this fate over the alternative. He made one last phone call to them moments before being hit by police gunfire, and during…
