There is so much more to Colfax Avenue than what appears on its often misunderstood surface. As an advocate for the 26-mile drag and its unique history and culture, local non-profit 40 West Arts set out to collect information about Colfax — West Colfax, in particular — through a survey...
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Daycare facilities have a number of methods to get their charges to fall asleep during nap time: lowering the blinds, playing soothing music and more. But police believe Dedrie Womack, 44, took things a step too far -- by giving as many as 35 children a sleep aid. Details below...
Linh England is currently in the running to win the Miss Viva Las Vegas Pin-Up Contest, part of a rockabilly celebration this April. Voting ended over the weekend, and now the Colorado native is waiting to hear the results. England has been involved in the local pinup-model world for the...
Metropolitan State College of Denver was founded in 1965, with the goal of providing higher education for students who had previously not had much of a chance to seek out a college degree, particularly minorities and low-income individuals. The concept appears to have worked, because the school continues to have...
Paper gatefold CD packaging is hardly a new thing. And given the current era of weed culture in Colorado, it’s only natural that someone would use hemp rather than wood fiber to make cardboard for a CD sleeve — which is exactly what promoter Morris Beegle proposed to Kathryn Ellinger of Sleepers for Drive, the […]
If it had been a good day for the Denver Broncos, the lead story about the team yesterday would have been Von Miller's revelation that he's often been fined for farting at meetings. It wasn't a good day for the Denver Broncos. That's because TMZ featured a report about John Bowlen...
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A new report on the use of solitary confinement in America's prisons and jails, highly critical of the practice and challenging many common myths about who's in lockdown and why, looks closely at recent reform efforts in the Colorado prison system and concludes that many inmates can be removed from...
Unlike those stations that make their personalities conform to rigid hairstyle standards — to the degree that all of them look as if they’re wearing identical helmets — Fox31 allows staffers to express themselves by way of their follicles, and sports reporter Raul Martinez takes full advantage. His coiffure is bracingly youthful, proudly peaking on […]
Sunday, June 14th, KOOL 105.1 hosted its annual KOOL Concert. This year, the featured artists were stars of '80s New Wave pop with Tears For Fears, B-52s and Berlin. Sometimes a line-up with an appeal to nostalgia can have some essentially one-hit wonders but not so for this show, as...
Colorado is typically listed among the least obese states in the country. But not all Colorado counties are created equal when it comes to this category. The folks at FindTheBest.com crunched the obesity numbers for counties across the country, including Colorado, using 2012 statistics from the Centers for Disease Control. The...
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Yesterday, we told you about the guilty plea by Hector Bencomo-Hinojos — a development that means he'll finally pay for a sex assault and murder he now admits to committing way back in 1981. Bencomo-Hinojos was charged in 2013 because of a DNA match — a span of more than...
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Colorado Springs' Lucas Hinch committed murder on Monday. He admits it. As for the victim, it's been identified as Hinch's Dell computer, which he dispatched with eight gunshots. And even though Hinch was cited in the assassination, he clearly doesn't feel bad about the slaying. The item about Hinch on...
It’s a Saturday morning in June, which means that Gary Lefko is cruising the Pawnee National Grassland in his 1999 green Subaru Impreza, looking for birds. With the windows down and camera and binoculars close at hand, Lefko drives along, noting any specimens that pass his sightline. There’s a red-tailed...
When couples are trying to get pregnant, how hard do they work at it? In other words, how many times per month do they have sex? These are among the questions the folks at Ovuline.com set out to answer. The Boston-based company behind Ovia, a pregnancy-tracking app, has plenty of...
When the chute opens, all 1,700 pounds of brindle bull burst out. The animal spins, rears and kicks violently, as though his hindquarters are spring-loaded: He can’t dump his passenger fast enough. And within three seconds, the rider is flying to the ground, helmet-clad head hitting hard against the dirt,...
At this writing, photos of seventeen-year-old Grand Junction resident David Gaines have yet to surface. However, the other images shared her offer an indication of the damage he left behind before being shot and killed by police in Grand Junction yesterday. The situation allegedly began with a fight between Gaines...
You can find art all over town — not just on gallery walls. In this series, we'll be looking at some of the local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery businesses around town. Painter Mike Rogers has his talented hands in several things, and one...
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This week on Denver-area stages, secrets come out of the woodwork as a dynasty of Chinese classical musicians gathers in a villa, California’s Proposition 8 trial is re-examined and local improv actors get down to come serious clowning in pirate suits. Ahoy, matey! Here are the details. Theatre Esprit Asia,...
Jay Marvin was once one of the biggest names in Denver talk radio thanks to stints at KHOW and AM-760. But in 2009, he suffered a debilitating health crisis that continues to impact his life. He formally retired from radio in September 2010 and the following March, he tried to take his...
A post-Wikipedia biographical documentary, Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck finds Brett Morgen constructing a feature-length collage of notebook entries, demo tapes, rehearsal footage, home movies, archival photos, and drawings and artwork by the late Nirvana frontman. It's an impressive, comprehensive assemblage, designed to impart not a point-by-point historical account but,...