Over the past few weeks, critics of marijuana legalization have drawn attention to several news stories they see as demonstrating the dangers of more accessible weed. First, the death of a college student and the murder of a mom were linked to marijuana edibles, and now, the local and national...
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Collision, the History Colorado exhibit devoted to the Sand Creek Massacre, has made some history itself over the past two years. And a new chapter will begin today, when Governor John Hickenlooper will announce the creation of the Sand Creek Massacre Commemorative Commission and also mark the signing of the...
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Into the Ordinary
Three years ago next month, Denver suddenly woke up to the realization that it could lose the National Western Stock Show -- maybe to another city, maybe to that upstart Aurora and its proposed Gaylord Entertainment hotel -- an $800 million, Western-themed hotel and entertainment complex by Denver International Airport...
During an attack on a fifteen-year-old Littleton girl, Xavier McDaniel allegedly told her, "Get ready to die." Instead, she fought back, surviving the attack despite sustaining fearsome injuries. And now, McDaniel, 22, could spend the rest of his life in prison for a crime committed while he was out on...
It's been a couple of years since a commercial TV station in Denver has produced a locally oriented Sunday public-affairs show -- so when political reporter Eli Stokols's overseers at Fox31 asked if he'd be interested in taking on such a project, he eagerly accepted. But now comes the hard...
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Yesterday, we shared a list of most and least obese states -- the first in recent memory that Colorado didn't top from a skinniness standpoint. A number of our readers had theories about the slippage in the rankings, including this one...
Pete Marczyk and Barbara Macfarlane do not leave their work behind when they leave Marczyk Fine Foods and head for their great old Denver house with a spacious kitchen. They often bring some of their market's best ingredients home with them and cook up a feast, and when they're not...
Lauri Lynnxe Murphy is well known here, having established her name as both an artist and an art advocate over the past two decades. But she fell off the radar for a few years when she moved to Columbus to earn her MFA at Ohio State University, where world-renowned installation...
In December 2012, North Carolina's Eric Jackson reportedly went to a church elder to make a confession: He and his five brothers had abused a young girl over the course of a decade. He reportedly said he needed to "walk in the light and confess his sin." More than a...
#80: Katie Kruger When we think of "creatives," we often think of "creators" -- artists, authors, musicians and actors. But Katie Kruger breaks out of that box. From her vantage point as board co-chair for the Denver Art Museum's CultureHaus young professionals group, which works to encourage cultural philanthropy in...
Pantaleone's 2120 South Holly Street 303-757-3456 Pete Fafalios is passionate, stubborn -- and no longer stuck in the past. Nor is Pantaleone's, the pizzeria on South Holly Street that he founded in 1985 with his wife, Paulette, which survived not just Denver's downturn in the '80s, but the recent recession,...
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For well over a year, we've shared claims of pot profiling from drivers who say they were pulled over on bogus pretenses in other states simply because their vehicle had Colorado license plates and local cops wanted an excuse to search it for marijuana. Note the story of a 65-year-old...
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...
Update: In our most recent coverage of the investigation into Aspen socialite Nancy Pfister's murder (see it below), we noted that the conviction of frail-looking 66-year-old William Styler as the sole person responsible for the killing -- and prosecutors' decision to drop charges against Styler's wife Nancy and a friend,...
On April 14, Glenwood Springs resident Audrey Lowndes, forty, was shot in the back of the head. She died two days later. In the immediate aftermath of the incident, Lowndes's boyfriend/fiance, James Malin, who goes by the name McCabe, was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. But he was subsequently...
Dear Mexican: Why is there a jealous cousin driven by insecurity in every Mexican family?Must Excuse Vulgar-Ass Lingual Expression Dear MEVALE: Take your pick. It's because a) your dad unwittingly insulted his dad back in the rancho when they were boys, and your cousin was taught to hate you as...
In most cases, crashes involving RTD buses take place during busy commuting hours. But that's not the case with an accident that happened near the intersection of Mississippi and Platte River Drive. A bus struck a passenger vehicle during the wee hours, when traffic is typically very light. And the...
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Another several-night stand at Red Rocks this weekend: The Avett Brothers play three shows at the World's Only Natural Amphitheater. Elsewhere, Ms. Lauryn Hill will confound you with a bunch of songs that sound absolutely nothing like the hits your remember. And Joan Baez goes from Denver to Fort Collins...
If Fourth of July picnics and World Cup hysteria aren't doing it for you, July has plenty of geek entertainment to offer -- whether you're looking to get your game on, enjoy Star Wars in the traditional Shakespearean form or just sit in the blessedly cool, air-conditioned embrace of a...
On June 2, 2012, Christian Paetsch, a former high school music teacher, broke bad in a big way, donning a beekeeper's mask to rob a Wells Fargo bank in Aurora. Aurora police officers subsequently took Paetsch into custody, but only after detaining dozens of vehicle passengers, including children, for well...
The concept behind Mile High Italian Deli, a small, 800-square-foot storefront in Highland, is sandwiches, panini, salads, and, on Saturday, pizzas, the latter of which is an extension of Mile High Pizza Pie, a pizza joint that rose -- and fell -- downtown, after the landlord threatened to raise the...