More proof that Colorado has the most badass women per capita: The Choice City Rebels roller derby league out of Fort Collins was just accepted as an apprentice league by the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association…
Brent Bingham doesn’t believe in zombies. Not the kind that rise from the dead and eat your brain, anyway. But that isn’t stopping him from teaching people how to beat the living (or undead, or whatever) crap out of them. “Zombies are a metaphor,” says Bingham, a Denver martial arts…
Fourteen years ago, Brian Aucone was a lowly Denver Zoo intern, cleaning up animal poo and setting up exhibits. A biology student at the University of Northern Colorado, Aucone would drive to Denver from Greeley every Saturday to work at the zoo for free (and class credit). Now, after having…
O. M. F. G.! Us Weekly, the best magazine ever and the reason it takes us twenty extra minutes at the grocery store checkout counter because we’re engrossed in reading “Stars! They’re just like us!,” has all the dirt on Melo and Lala’s wedding last weekend. Including this tidbit: Guests…
Saturday will mark two years since transgender Greeley teen Angie Zapata was beaten to death by a man she met on the Internet. Zapata’s killer, Allen Andrade, was found guilty of murder; the jury also convicted him of a hate crime. Zapata isn’t alone. In 2009, twenty-two LGBTQ people were…
As readers of this blog no doubt know — if only because we incessantly mentioned it last week (along with news of a proposed pickup game involving junior dreamboat Justin Bieber) — Carmelo Anthony and Lala Vazquez tied the knot in New York City this past Saturday. Want to see…
Apparently, one of the most tricky parts of building a new zoo exhibit is making the fake rocks look real. You know, so they don’t distract visitors from the animals and stuff. “You don’t want people thinking about that,” says George Pond, the Denver Zoo’s vice president for planning and…
Mystery solved. The secret meaning of Justin Bieber’s cryptic tweet to Carmelo Anthony yesterday? The floppy-haired teen idol simply wanted to play the NBA All-Star in basketball — not convince him to become Canadian or sing backup vocals or get down on one knee and propose to him, as we…
Guess which teen heartthrob wants to chat up Carmelo Anthony when he’s in town for a concert tomorrow? None other than Justin Bieber, the throbbiest heartthrob since that swishy-bang-ed kid from High School Musical, Dreamy McDreamEyes. Earlier today, Bieber tweeted Melo’s bride-to-be, Lala Vazquez, with a request: “Yo @lalavazquez tell…
On Sunday, hundreds of military veterans in wheelchairs will gather in Civic Center Park to kick off the 30th annual National Veterans Wheelchair Games, which are being hosted for the first time in Denver. Events include wheelchair basketball, weightlifting, trap shooting and quad rugby — a fast-paced game so rough…
The cuteness overflow-eth at the Denver Zoo. This week, the zoo posted photos of its newest baby animals: four Amur tiger cubs born last month. To the surprise of no one with eyes and a heart, the cubs are effing adorable. But are they the cutest babies the zoo has…
Six struggling Denver schools were awarded $14.4 million in federal money to help them “turn around” — which is education-speak for raise test scores and graduation rates. The schools — Montbello High School, Rachel B. Noel Middle School, Gilpin K-8 School, Greenlee Elementary School, Lake Middle School and North High…
The ACLU is challenging a Boulder ordinance that penalizes homeless people for sleeping outside under the cover of blankets — even when the city’s homeless shelter is full. That’s what happened to David Madison. He was ticketed last November under the city’s controversial camping ban for sleeping outside in a…
Call it the circle of life. This week, the Denver Zoo mourned the loss of a polar bear named Frosty and celebrated the birth of an effing adorable baby sea lion named… well, nothing yet. The baby is a very talkative girl whose vocalizations, as heard in the video below,…
Last night and this morning, thousands of people across the nation roughed it outside Apple stores to be among the first, well, thousands of people to poke the touchpad of the new iPhone 4. What’s so great about this new doo-hickey? It has a camera, it’s skinnier and it lasts…
Today, a fifteen-member panel is meeting for the first time to hammer out the details of Colorado’s forthcoming child welfare ombudsman office. The office will provide parents, caregivers, neighbors and others with a place to be heard if they have concerns about a child’s welfare — and they feel those…
Denver’s public schoolchildren could soon be learning a lot more about the art of babymaking (and presumably, how to avoid it). The DPS Board of Education unanimously passed a resolution last week that calls for the district to ensure that kids “have access to science-based, comprehensive, medically-accurate, culturally relevant, and…
Bill Sullivan, the subject of our recent feature article about Operation Cock Block, will have some explaining to do this morning. He’s scheduled to be deposed by lawyers for Jamie White, the man from whose DVD and laser disc company he embezzled nearly $1 million in the 1990s…
La La Vazquez, Carmelo Anthony’s soon-to-be-wife and sometimes-Colorado resident, wants to sell you the gold Gucci heels off her feet. To end poverty. Vazquez is auctioning off her goods on eBay to benefit Oxfam America, a nonprofit aimed at ending injustice. Among the items up for bid: a pair of…
Two months ago, Chuck Crowley stood in front of the Denver Public Schools Board of Education and told its members that something fishy was going on at Bromwell Elementary School. A group of difficult parents was trying to get his daughter’s former first-grade teacher fired, he said, warning the boardmembers…
On Thursday night, the Denver Public Schools Board of Education will talk about sex, baby. More specifically, they’ll talk about sex ed — and how it’s important that teenagers with raging libidos “have access to science-based, comprehensive, medically-accurate, culturally relevant, and age-appropriate sexuality education.” In other words, it’s not okay…
You know what’s better than the 19th most successful act of the 1990s and a teensy bit worse than the 17th most successful act? The 18th most successful act of the 1990s, which just so happens to be En Vogue — who just so happen to be headlining Denver PrideFest…
