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Photos: Ten memorable Denver Craigslist Missed Connections, Spring Has Sprung edition

Last year about this time, we shared our first collection of ten memorable Denver Craigslist Missed Connections, because when the weather begins warming up, more people get out and about -- and more love connections are missed. We've gathered together, photo-illustrated and ranked ten randy, yearni ... More >>

Marijuana: Andrew Walton busted in free-pot delivery scheme

Last month, we reported about the proliferation of free-marijuana giveaways on Craigslist, with respondents getting weed at no charge if they offered a donation or bought something else. Participants insisted that such offers were authorized under Amendment 64, which allows Colorado adults 21 and o ... More >>

The ten best Craiglist Missed Connections from a gas station, Colorado's top spot

A recent study in Psychology Today mapped the most common locations of Craigslist Missed Connections by state -- and Colorado's isn't glamorous. In the Centenntial State, the most likely place to fail romantically (and later document it publicly) is the gas station. Considering the amount of active ... More >>

Marijuana giveaway with pipes purchase illegal, says attorney general, police chief

Earlier this month, we wrote about Craigslist advertisements offering free marijuana as a bonus for purchasing other items, in exchange for a donation, or even for buying a $50 bumper sticker. Now, however, both the Colorado Attorney General and the Denver Police Chief have branded the practice ille ... More >>

Marijuana for free on Craigslist? Maybe with a donation -- or as a bonus for another purchase

This weekend, CBS4 reported about marijuana being advertised for free on Craigslist in exchange for donations or other offers, and questioned whether the practice was legal under Amendment 64; see the video below. But the folks behind 4 Strains Pipe & Tobacco are confident they're doing nothing wron ... More >>

"Seeking gay nudist roommate": The best apartment ad we've seen in a long time

We here at Show and Tell receive tips from a lot of strange and surprising places -- including, recently, a laundromat near the Ninth and Corona King Soopers. That's where one eagle-eyed tipster discovered the most oddly specific (and generally glorious) roommate ad we've ever seen. We'll give you a ... More >>

Photos: Ten weirdest recent Boulder Craigslist "Rants & Raves"

Earlier this week, we published our picks for the ten weirdest recent "Rants & Raves" on Denver Craigslist -- and if anything, the ones we found on the Boulder Craigslist site are even stranger. We've picked and photo-illustrated ten of the most twisted from recent days and are sharing them unedite ... More >>

Photos: Ten weirdest recent Denver Craigslist "Rants & Raves"

Love it when people can't keep their thoughts to themselves for one second longer and just have to spew? Then you'll love the Rants & Raves category on Denver Craigslist, which regularly features declarations that vacillate from sensible to downright loony. We picked and photo-illustrated ten of the ... More >>

Ten best Missed Connections to come from the 2012 election

The election is a time for taking sides -- on issues, on candidates, on which of the watching parties has the best drink specials. But this year's election joined a few sides along the way. (This is where you can go ahead and imagine is winking at you.) Continue reading for the best Craigslist misse ... More >>

Twenty most memorable mug shots of October 2012

October brought Colorado some of the most horrific crimes in recent years, as well as accompanying images that are seared in our collective memory. But there were also plenty of unusual, strange or unsettling reports that may have gotten lost in the shuffle. See the twenty memorable mug shots they s ... More >>

Strategic Allied Consulting: Could controversial voter firm still have Colorado ties?

The Colorado GOP last month cut ties with a controversial voter-registration firm accused of fraud. But Nathan Sproul, the consultant behind the firm, Strategic Allied Consulting, has since popped up elsewhere, continuing voter canvassing work across the country. And in Colorado, some Craigslist adv ... More >>

Assquatch! Ten weirdest taxidermy sales on Denver Craigslist

Our original post about the ten weirdest items on Denver Craigslist and its equally strange sequel didn't adequately prepare us for the oddities to be found on the site when it comes to taxidermy -- including the elusive Assquatch, which came and went too quickly to track. More on that below, along ... More >>

Photos: Ten weirdest new posts on Denver Craigslist

In April, we collected the ten weirdest posts on Denver Craigslist -- and since then, the strangeness supply has definitely been restocked. Below, check out our picks for the most bizarre recent items to turn up on the site. As before, they're not all for sale -- but they're all plenty twisted.

"Box Guy" Daniel Nilsson and stranger get boxed in for art

Perhaps it was their shared propensity for posting weird ads on Craigslist that was fated to bring them, like so many missed connections, together. Or maybe they're just two weird dudes. Whatever it is, there's something approaching ironic about the fact that Daniel Nilsson -- who had been looking v ... More >>

Man selling motorcycle on Craigslist to pay for wife's boob job

Love is strange -- a fact proven each and every day on Craigslist. We recently shared our list of the ten most memorable Denver Missed Connections on the site. But here's a different kind of connection -- one involving silicone. Yep: In a recently posted ad, a local man says he's selling his 1994 G ... More >>

Can't Buy Me Love

Five local Missed Connections that would make great fodder for the theater

Craigslist can be a scary, scary place, but that doesn't make any of us visit it any less. When Spark Theater playwright Sean Paul Mahoney decided to write a play about the website's role in Internet and pop culture, he spent hours scouring its Casual Encounters and Missed Connections sections for t ... More >>

Backpage.com response to John Suthers's announcement of human-trafficking indictment

Late yesterday, Colorado Attorney General John Suthers announced that his office had secured an indictment for fourteen individuals suspected of running a human-trafficking ring that trafficked children for sex at locations ranging from Denver to Grand Junction. Although the seventy-page indictment ... More >>

Spark Theater trolled Craigslist for its latest play, Casual Encounters/Missed Connections

As a kid, playwright Sean Paul Mahoney was "totally obsessed" with the Madonna/Rosanna Arquette movie Desperately Seeking Susan. Both the voyeurism and the romance fascinated him, but in his mind, he was Arquette's character. "I always wanted to be that person that someone saw on the subway and thou ... More >>

Video: Online guns undercover investigation catches sellers flouting law

Flickr.​A New York City undercover investigation of online gun sales in fourteen states has found that a majority of the 125 unlicensed sellers contacted were eager to sell firearms to buyers they knew couldn't pass a background check, a violation of federal law. Colorado sellers fared somew ... More >>

Reader: Not all sex workers are victims

Kevin Gaylor reports Craigslist pal as burglar when girlfriend shows up

Flickr​The guy juggling two dates at the same time is a sitcom staple, and it's usually resolved in wacky fashion. But a happy ending seems unlikely in the case of Kevin Gaylor, who gave this plot a high-tech twist -- by reporting a woman he'd "met" on Craigslist as a burglar in a failed atte ... More >>

Whomp there it is! The story behind the ever popular, award-winning Whomp Truck

​Parked on Santa Fe every First Friday, the Whomp Truck has become a huge success in the electronic scene in Denver. To uncover the truth behind this cult phenomenon, we sat down with one of the founders, Just Ben Travis, to get the full story on Denver's hard-thumping, foot stompin' mystery m ... More >>

Women's Funding Network sex-trafficking study is junk science

Schapiro Group data wasn't questioned by mainstream media

Marijuana jobs: THCjobs.com is an employment board for those who'll work for weed

​With all the medical marijuana centers and related businesses around, ganjapreneurs need access to a sizable workforce -- but where are they going to find those weed workers? THCjobs.com is aiming to provide the answer through its new, online database of marijuana-related job postings. Think ... More >>

Blue Christmas: Craigslist's most depressing missed connections

​For the lonely, there's probably not much lonelier than Christmas, that time of year when we're supposed to be basking in the warmth of family and loved ones, but instead we're watching It's a Wonderful Life for the third time and eating TV dinners seasoned with the bitter salt of our own tea ... More >>

Top five foods you should NOT give as Christmas gifts

Look! It's kibble for humans!​ We all know how the holiday gift-giving hierarchy works: Your best-effort gifts are given to people you like (or people whose asses you pucker up to the rest of the year); you give cost-effective, neutral gifts to those you pretend to like (bring on the Hickory ... More >>

Bad Girls Club coming to Denver?: Casting call for Real World-style Oxygen net bitchfest

​Are you ready to play host for a houseful of reality-show attention addicts à la MTV's Real World: Denver a few years back? If not, you'd better get ready -- because Bunim/Murray, Real World's production company, has just placed a Craigslist ad announcing, "THE BAD GIRLS CLUB IS COMING TO D ... More >>

Contest: Win two tickets to the Great American Beer Festival, Saturday afternoon session

​The Great American Beer Festival, going on now, has been sold out for weeks. Judging from the number of postings on Craigslist, there's a big demand for these tickets. Did you get left out? Well, Cafe Society has two precious tickets for Saturday's afternoon session that we're going to give a ... More >>

The Three Best Craigslist Missed Connections from Sound Tribe Sector 9 at Red Rocks

Aaron ThackerayAn STS9 fan at Red Rocks​Did you find your soulmate this past weekend at Red Rocks? A few people might have, had that special person not scampered away before phone numbers or texts were exchanged. Sigh. If you didn't find the face of your vanishing love in our slideshow, yo ... More >>

Get in line at the Justice League for Street Food inaugural party

Coleen WhitfieldThe surprise truck at the Justice League of Street Food party.​ The first Justice League of Street Food party on Saturday night was a big hit - almost too big a hit, since the lot at 29th Avenue and Huron Street in the Ballpark neighborhood was jammed, and that was with a long ... More >>

Behold a new Slaytantic ritual for ladies, Everything Absent minstrel present and accounted for and more on Denver Music blogs

File under: Required reading from the Denver music blogosphere. This is not a Slayer T-Shirt. Really. It isn't.The hifalutin scribblers at the Donnybrook Writing Academy introduced a brand new column today that we can only assume will also become required reading: Backlog is the handle Rbt. B. Ruth ... More >>

The Healthy Choice Wellness Center not so healthy after robbery attempt: Reports say shots fired, people injured, schools locked down

A Flickr photo​For a while, it seemed that most of the muttering about medical marijuana dispensaries and crime was based on fear and hysteria. But reports about multiple armed robberies and burglaries, as well as a kidnapping, related to medical marijuana operations in Fort Collins were foll ... More >>

Sugar House expanding into the hotel business

Sugar House is hiring...if you want to dress like this.​Looks like Sugar House, at 1395 West Alameda Avenue, is making its long-promised push into the rooms-for-rent business. According to a new post on Craigslist, the place is expanding, and one of the job openings includes "night auditor/hot ... More >>

Guy not impressed with girlfriend's stripping, tries to give away her stripper gear on Craigslist

A Flickr photo.​Are you an aspiring stripper? Are you just one super-slutty outfit away from showing up at Shotgun Willie's (to pay for social-work classes, of course)? Then act fast, because for a limited time only, some moron is trying to give away all his stripper-girlfriend's stuff on Crai ... More >>

Denver DA warns that even on Craigslist, some things too good to be true

All this for only $800 a month? Wow, what a steal!I got an e-mail bulletin this morning from Denver DA Mitch Morrissey, warning me to be aware of a Craigslist scam involving unreal deals on rental properties. I've moved twice in the past eighteen months and both times I have seen a number of these ... More >>

From the week of May 14, 2009

Craigslist dropping "Erotic Services" category

The late George Weber. Shortly after the publication of a Bradley Campbell/Matt Snyders feature about the so-called Craigslist killings, the free-classified service has decided to eliminate its "erotic services" category in favor of a yet-to-be-determined replacement. Learn the latest in this repor ... More >>

Denver Blogs: Keep your heat at home, Buffs

A Flickr photo Our daily cruise through the Colorogosphere. Check it. And send tips. Still no concealed guns allowed on CU's campus. But guns-rights folks are going down firing. (Face the State) People still use brothels? I thought that's what Craigslist was for... (5280) In defense of K-Mart. T ... More >>

Liberal bias doesn't explain Rocky Mountain News' death, columnist says

Jeff Jacoby. It's fashionable these days for conservatives to suggest that the troubles currently afflicting daily newspapers can be traced to the persistent left-wing slant of most pubs in this category -- an ideologically driven argument that Boston Globe columnist dismantles in a piece headlined ... More >>

Craigslist Unclassified: An update

On Friday, Westword.com published a story about a recent spate of murders connected to Craigslist -- including that of former Denver radio personality George Weber. The story also touches on the unlikely emergence of Craigslist founder Craig Newmark as an ally of the family of one of the victims, ... More >>

After so-called "Craigslist killings," a victim's family finds an unlikely ally: Craig Newmark

Pure has something to get off its chest

Club Roxy, housed in the building at 2549 Welton Street that was once the down's first black movie theater, turned into Pure late last year. Now it's definitely having some impure thoughts, judging from a recent ad on Craigslist for "GOGO Dancers/ Coaktail Staff," which announces: "We are currently ... More >>

The Westword.com blog shortcut, November 14 edition

The devil made him do it. For more blogs, look out below. Today in Backbeat Online: • The Imp of Satan writes the best Craigslist musician-wanted ad ever. • Get a free MP3 download from your Mama. • Meese's now not-so-secret show in Boulder next week. • The Fray premiers new single dur ... More >>

Worst/Best roommate ad ever

Freecycle: the joy of getting free stuff, all year round

DNC Craigslist rentals: File under are you f$*king crazy?!?

Fray To Test New Songs at the Bluebird

Poetry in Motion

Day Four: Wherein I Get a New Roommate/Serial Killer