In recent weeks, we’ve posted about several satirical Colorado marijuana sales stories that some are taking seriously, including one that claimed pot overdoses killed 37 people and another about Representative Michele Bachmann supposedly driving stoned that prompted an official denial from Fort Collins. A piece about folks buying weed with…
Denver blog posts are sometimes about snow jobs. At our Show & Tell blog, Adam Roy shares three ways to stay safe this ski season. Coyote Gulch shares the January 2014 Colorado Basin Outlook report. Big Media’s Jason Salzman: Mike Coffman wants the re-deployment of advisory troops in Iraq –…
Last week, we interviewed National Cannabis Industry Association deputy director Betty Aldworth about numerous national pundits decrying Colorado’s marijuana reforms. Aldworth found many of the critics’ claims to be offensive, but one of our many commenters was less annoyed…
Update: Last week, we told you about the stabbing death of eighteen-year-old Anthony Benavidez at a Thornton trailer park; see our previous coverage below. Shortly after their arrival at the scene, members of the Thornton Police Department took a seventeen year old into custody on suspicion of committing the crime,…
Last month, Wichita anchor Justin Kraemer doomed his jump to a Colorado Springs TV station with an Anchorman-style gaffe: He said, “Let’s get the fuck out of here” at the end of a newscast. Now, the still-unemployed newsman is trying to make lemonade out of lemons with a parody video…
Update: We now know the identity of the man shot to death at 36th and Lafayette on Sunday: Jose Diaz-Luevano, 67 — the man a child was referring to when he burst from the home shouting, “They shot my Papi!” See our previous coverage below. Clay Baeza-Garcia, 33, has been…
In January of last year, we reported that there’d been three official ski area fatalities at that point of the season — but the most high-profile skiing death, of longtime ski patrol vet Patsy Hileman, wasn’t included. The situation is almost identical this season. Three fatalities, including that of Sean…
At 8:15 a.m. today, Secundino Martinez, twenty, will make his first Boulder County appearance in relation to a stabbing at a Longmont house party early Sunday morning. And while he was initially busted on suspicion of one count of first-degree murder, that’s now doubled, sadly enough. Two teens have died,…
Even before the passage of Amendment 64, which allows adults age 21 and over to use and possess small amounts of marijuana, law-enforcement agencies have campaigned against driving under the influence of drugs, even though, from a statistical standpoint, alcohol-related DUIs dwarf pot-related ones. This weekend, Arvada’s Keith Kilbey became…
Last week, William Breathes wrote about a Texas ski tourist who wrote a letter to a Steamboat paper warning that if he and his friends and family were subjected to too much legal weed during an upcoming visit, they’d vacation elsewhere in the future. The reaction to the post was…
Denver blog posts are always in fashion. On our Show & Tell blog, Mauricio Rocha counts down 2013’s top ten womenswear moments in words and photos. Mile High Mamas’ Amber Johnson has fifteen ideas about how to help kids celebrate Martin Luther King Day. Denver Infill’s Ryan Dravitz offers a…
As our Melanie Asmar reported, Aurora suffered two homicides over a three-day period in late December — one outside the Rack ‘Em Billiards and Sports Bar on Christmas Eve, the other near the Aurora Hills Golf Course. Now, there’s been another one, with the victim being found in the parking…
Broncos fans may have unleashed plenty of Philip Rivers hate tweets after Denver bested San Diego in yesterday’s playoffs match-up — but as far as we know, none of them resorted to violence against Bolts lovers. A similar claim can’t be made by members of Chargers Nation. After the game,…
The Colorado Consumer Health Initiative’s Adam Fox has kept us up to date on pro-Obamacare ads aimed at young, uninsured people — a campaign doubters have alternately derided as “brosurance” and “hosurance” due images of dudes doing keg stands and a babe eager to take advantage of free birth control…
What made yesterday’s 24-17 Broncos win over the Chargers even more satisfying for Denver fans was the opportunity to see QB Philip Rivers, the man we love to hate, laid low after a week of hype about San Diego supposedly being a team of destiny thanks to Rivers’s bolo-tie mojo…
Earlier this week, we rounded up the cool reaction by some national pundits, including the New York Times’ David Brooks and the Daily Beast’s Tina Brown, to the start of legal recreational marijuana sales in Colorado. Among those with negative responses to the pieces we mentioned was Betty Aldworth, deputy…
Yesterday, we posted about negative reactions after 9News posted about the bikini bridge, an online hoax suggesting that women thin down so that there’s a gap between their stomach and the suit’s fabric when it’s stretched hip to hip. Some readers were unhappy at our suggestion that striving for such…
Denver blog posts have a keen eye. At our Backbeat blog, Shea Serrano details the many ways Pitbull’s “Timber,” video, featuring Ke$ha, sucks. The Colorado Independent on day one of the legislative session: No rockin’ the dome. Denver Egotist: Will this intense PSA cure you of speeding?…
It’s a suitably strange conclusion to a bizarre case. Back in December 2012, we told you about a lawsuit filed by Bryson Dewberry against Chang Ho Yi, a liquor store owner who’d shot him in the face after he’d shoplifted a bottle of Grey Goose vodka. Now, a jury has…
Last April, we told you about the strange story of Stephen Amador, a high-school basketball referee accused of groping four female players while they were on the courts during games — and presumably in full view of their parents and loved ones. The latest? Amador has been found guilty of…
Chargers QB Philip Rivers, who Broncos fans love to hate, will bring his many ridiculous expressions to Denver on Sunday for a playoff match-up against the Broncos. No doubt he’ll be wearing a bolo tie of the sort that San Diego boosters see as a good-luck charm — hence their…
Folks who ride the bus at night in Denver tend to be hyper-vigilant — and the experience of a woman late on Wednesday demonstrates why. According to police, a rider tried to sexually assault her shortly after she disembarked, and only her scrappiness prevented an awful situation from being even…
