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Craigslist Inc.

  • Blogs

    May 22, 2012

    Online dating for straight people: We're all just chasing the popcorn

    The idea that online dating sucks for straight people is as old as online dating itself. A few weeks ago, as I watched Luciann Lajoie explain in great theatrical detail the (however brief) life of a frantic serial online-dater in Date, I was reminded of just what terrified me so much about online da ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2012

    Medical marijuana: Finding caregiver only easy if you know the right people

    With about 55 percent of more than 93,000 medical marijuana patients with a red card designating someone to grow for them, finding a caregiver clearly isn't that hard of a task in Colorado. But how do people who aren't part of the cannabis community or simply don't have the right connections find s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2012

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    March 22, 2012

    Can't Buy Me Love

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 31, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 31, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2011

    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 >>

  • News

    November 10, 2011

    Reader: Not all sex workers are victims

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2011

    Kathryn Lucas's stolen bike wound up on Craigslist -- so she stole it back

    Kathryn Lucas.​Craigslist is a great way to sell stuff, whether it belongs to you or not. But eighteen-year-old Denzel O'Neal Crawford learned the service also gives ballsy crime victims the opportunity to reclaim their property. That's precisely what Boulder's Kathryn Lucas did with her stol ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2011

    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 >>

  • News

    August 4, 2011

    Finally, you can combine Congress and fantasy football!

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2011

    Are you an executive by day and a wild man by night?

    He's looking for the goddess. Are you the goddess?​Attention ladies: Are you looking for a man who's not afraid to get a little sand on his tuxedo? How about a gentleman who considers himself a "refined valley dude"? Well, Video Mate has the man for you. Or had the man for you, rather, back in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2011

    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 >>

  • News

    March 24, 2011

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

    Schapiro Group data wasn't questioned by mainstream media

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2011

    Top five dinners to serve your Internet date on Valentine's Day

    ​With Valentine's Day upon us once again, love is in the air. Birds are tweeting, butterflies are floating on the gentle breeze, and Internet connections are blinking away as the lovelorn hit up their hard-working little modems and wireless routers to locate a date. Finding that date can be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 23, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2010

    Film on the Rocks: Westley, Inigo and Fezzik bring down the house

    Freebird!​While scalpers weren't hawking The Princess Bride tickets for three or four times their $10 box office price - as they did on Craigslist for the Hangover last week - the Film on the Rocks movie did sell out Tuesday night. It was the second consecutive sellout for Film on the Rocks s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 27, 2009

    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 >>

  • News

    October 22, 2009

    In Idaho Springs, bathing suits are no longer optional

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 2, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2009

    The Westword.com blog shortcut, July 27 edition

    Aaron Thackeray​ Welcome back. Today in Backbeat Online: -Over the weekend: Underground Music Showcase -Rabbit is a Sphere breaking up. -Rock and roll love on Craigslist. -Magnolia Electric Co. tops the charts at Wax Trax. Today in Cafe Society: -Smashburger gets some more love. -A dark da ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2009

    Toothless or not, Michael Bennet will ride or die with Obama's "pay-as-you-go" plan

    "I am Batman Bennet. Get used to the words flashing on your TV screen and bouncing from your radio speakers: "Pay as you go." And we're not talking cell phones or Craigslist escorts (they do that, don't they?) President Obama's proposed "pay-as-you-go" plan -- wherein every expenditure (except ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 12, 2009

    Giggling Grizzly clan plan to turn Public House into Lizard's Bar & Grill

    Lori MidsonPublic House, the former Michigan State-friendly bar at 1920 Blake Street that gave up last year, has finally been taken over by the folks who run the Giggling Grizzly, close by at 1320 20th Street. They plan to turn the space into Lizard's Bar & Grill sometime in July. And if the bar ... More >>

  • News

    May 14, 2009

    From the week of May 14, 2009

    Lori MidsonPublic House, the former Michigan State-friendly bar at 1920 Blake Street that gave up last year, has finally been taken over by the folks who run the Giggling Grizzly, close by at 1320 20th Street. They plan to turn the space into Lizard's Bar & Grill sometime in July. And if the bar ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2009

    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 >>

  • News

    April 30, 2009

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

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 14, 2008

    The best Craigslist musician wanted ad...um, like, ever!

    OMFG! This Craigslist post, which, of course, has since been flagged and removed, is way too good not to share. Seriously. After spying this a couple of days ago, we were half way tempted to get the Satan-o-verb 2000 and the Demonizer out of hawk and hit the dude up for an audition ourselves. Be da ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 14, 2008

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 29, 2008

    Worst/Best roommate ad ever

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 11, 2008

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

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 21, 2008

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

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 21, 2008

    The Westword.com blog shortcut, August 21 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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 27, 2008

    The Democratic National Convention: Caveat Renter

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 23, 2008

    Fray To Test New Songs at the Bluebird

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    October 4, 2007

    Poetry in Motion

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 27, 2007

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

    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 >>

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