Colorado State Senator Suzanne Williams was driving her Honda CR-V near the Texas panhandle town of Channing on Sunday night when she swerved into oncoming traffic and collided head on with a GMC Yukon. Thirty-year-old Brianna Michelle Gomez, who was seven months pregnant and a passenger in the Yukon, died…
There’s currently one known wolverine in the state of Colorado, but there soon could be a lot more. Eighteen months ago, one of the giant weasels wandered into our state, where wolverines have long been absent. He was implanted with a tracking device and given a name: M56 (awww…). Today,…
Carmelo Anthony has been absent from the team since last week, when his 38-year-old sister died of a “pre-existing condition.” Yesterday, the family held a funeral service outside Baltimore, where Anthony was raised. Michelle Anthony was twelve years older than Carmelo. She is survived by four children and three other…
If you haven’t seen the footage from earlier this month when Brandon Lloyd took a few extra steps out of bounds after a catch and sent a Cardinals cheerleader scrambling, stop reading immediately and click through to the image below. It’s great — one of those rare unscripted, uncontrolled NFL…
Tim Tebow will be making an appearance in one of these three Denver blog posts. We just can’t quit you, Timmy. Lobbyist Ron Smith hid raw chicken in his ex-wife’s air ducts, Face the State reports…
The Colorado Division of Wildlife is offering $1,000 for information leading to the citation or arrest of a bighorn sheep poacher in Poudre Canyon. The department is not releasing any specifics about the sheep-slaying, but they will say it happened before Thanksgiving somewhere in the Canyon west of Fort Collins…
A little after 8 p.m. last night, Jason Ross of St. Louis drove his roughly 35 ton semi truck onto I-70 in eastern Colorado heading in the wrong direction. He may have been drunk and he definitely didn’t have his headlights on. Near the exit for Cedar Point, Colorado, he…
It’s been thirteen and a half months since we last heard new recorded music from Houses. The band returns with “Your Ghost,” which is a likely candidate for inclusion on the band’s forthcoming Winter EP. You can stream or download the track below. “The song is a precursor to what’s…
Carmelo Anthony has missed the last three games due to his sister’s death. The official word from the team is that he’ll return “after Christmas.” Doesn’t much matter when he gets back to the team — games with balls are of microscopic importance in comparison. For those of us with…
Verily did Tim Tebow lift the forlorn Broncos on his broad shoulders and dump-off screen pass them over the worst pass defense in football. This win is hardly cause for a re-evaluation of the Broncos’ historically awful season, but hey: they got the win after being down by 17 at…
Feeling disillusioned this holiday season? Well, there’s a holiday for that, too. A Festivus for the Rest of Us was originally a Seinfeld plot arc, but it’s gained a very real following outside the sitcom. Rick Gold, who’s also a co-founder of Denver Flash Mob, is hosting his second Festivus…
If you’re Jewish and looking for something to do today, Heebonism 2010 is the do for you. Organized by E-3 Events, a not-for-profit organization that hosts social gatherings for young Jewish adults in Denver, it will be the largest Heebonism party to date. “We supplanted the notorious Matzoh Ball three…
Zoo Lights enters its twentieth year tonight, and this edition offers plenty of reasons to make the trip. In addition to the more than 150 animated light sculptures over 38 acres, there will be breakfast and dessert buffets with Santa, live ice sculpting and fire dancing, a Kwanzaa celebration and…
Dixie Longate is Tupperware’s top saleswoman. But it didn’t start out that way. She first got into Tupperware in 2001. “As part of the conditions for my parole, I had to get a job to get my kids back,” she says. “Which is so stupid, ’cuz I didn’t even want…
Tomorrow, Rick Gold will host a traditional Fesitvus celebration at the Shag Lounge. There, you can commune around the Festivus pole, air some grievances and perform some feats of strength. There will also be a ($5 maximum) gift exchange. In honor of disillusionment everywhere, we present 10 more alternate celebrations…
Travis Egedy, who performs as Pictureplane and lives in Rhinoceropolis, has maintained a relatively high national profile in no small part due to his incessant, ridiculous tweeting. He just got back from a week-long stint in Alaska, and his social media work from the the 49th state reached unprecedented levels…
As we continue to look back on 2010, we are struck by how new labels for increasingly slippery kinds of music all sound like they were written by high freshman lit majors. Many of these attempts are merely useless, but some are worse than that: they wind up justifying shitty…
Late last night’s lunar eclipse was the best night ever to be a conspiracy theorists and/or drug enthusiast. We’re talking about a remarkably boring visual spectacle — the moon very slowly turned red. That didn’t stop The Internet from producing comprehensive documentation of the “excitement.” Youtube videos are our favorite,…
The NBA has a long and awkward history of team-produced Christmas music. Last year, the Nuggets did “Winter Wonderland” with all the production value of a local car commercial.This year’s edition, released today, is more…well, entertaining at the very least. That’s right, they remade Run DMC’s Christmas classic “Christmas in…
On December 21, 1970, Elvis Presley sealed his fate as the first rock-and-roller who got too old and joined the Man. The White House meeting between the King and Richard Nixon was the former’s idea — he’d written a six-page letter proposing the visit and asking to be made a…
As you may have heard, there was a substantial Ice Age find in Snowmass this Fall. On October 14, a bulldozer driver stumbled on the bones of a female mammoth, and the ensuing excavation has yielded prehistoric skeletons preserved in unprecedented quality and amount. There have even been two undiscovered…
As in they ain’t nothin’ to fuck with. The video, for The Hollyfelds’ excellent song “Ain’t It Something,” from 2009’s Black Heart Blue, was a collaboration with the University of Denver’s CAM Records. In it, singer Eryn Hoerig has a one-night stand that’ll wind up on her permanent record. Watch…
