Long before the JonBenet Ramsey house began its reign as the best known residence in Boulder (for tragic reasons), the home most visitors wanted to drive past was the one at 1619 Pine Street, which appeared in the credit sequence and most episodes of Mork and Mindy, the iconic ’70s/’80s…
Crashes involving alleged stoned driving continue to get a great deal of attention following this year’s start of legal recreational marijuana sales. Note the story of Emily Strock, who reportedly admitted to consuming one bowl of pot and drinking one beer prior to a grisly Colfax and Speer crash but…
When we shared William Breathes’s post about David Lopez’s alleged armed robbery of a marijuana dispensary in Pueblo, we asked why criminals continue to target such shops, which are among the most security-heavy businesses in the state. We collected a slew of theories, with the following one being among the…
Denver blog posts have great city sense. At our Show and Tell blog, Lauren Monitz counters Bree Davies’s love letter to the Denver she used to know with a salute to what’s great about Denver today. Big Media’s Jason Salzman details how the expiration of a Kaiser Family Foundation grant…
Hot on the heels of Peyton Manning’s awkward dancing to “Rocky Top,” which won the Internet via memes, GIFs and Vines, the Quarterback King of All Media is once again showing off his nonexistent skills in another medium: rap. In a sequel of sorts to last year’s DirecTV ad, Peyton…
Last October, we told you about one of the most disturbing child abuse stories in recent memory: the arrest of Wayne Sperling and Lorinda Bailey for abusing and neglecting their four boys, ages two, four, five and six, in a case whose feces-and-flies filled details were absolutely horrifying. Now, Bailey…
The toll the tough economy has taken on American cities is the subject of a new Brookings Institution report. Included is a list of the ten communities showing the largest increase of neighborhoods with 20 percent poverty rates or above from 2000 to 2012 — and unfortunately, one prominent Colorado…
The nation’s television viewers know Clement Park as the stretch of greenery over which hundreds of Columbine High School students fled in the wake of the 1999 attack there. But for residents of the area (including yours truly), Clement today is a center for recreational activity in addition to reflection,…
Those who work the overnight shift at Colfax motels no doubt have some tales to tell — but we hope few of them experience what a Days Inn employee witnessed today. Mere hours ago at this writing, a clerk discovered that the person who stumbled into the lobby at the…
Our post about a list of America’s happiest mid-size cities noted that Boulder didn’t make the cut even though it had landed atop previous rosters for happiest cities of any size. Our commenters responded with a variety of views about the town, including this particularly harsh one. See also: Movoto’s…
Denver blog posts do the hip shake, babe. Our Cafe Society blog offers up a list of the ten best hipster bars in Denver, summer 2014 edition. Mile High Report’s Kyle Montgomery says the Broncos’ victory of the Seahawks in Thursday’s preseason game is not quite revenge, but it isn’t…
A bizarre story out of Ohio in which a woman burned off her fingerprints to hide her identity has a Colorado connection — one that appears to pertain to Ann Marie Miller, a onetime medical marijuana caregiver charged with assorted crimes who was featured in this space on several occasions…
Three years ago, Shannon Johnson made international headlines after her infant son drowned in the bathtub while she allegedly played a game on Facebook. She was sentenced to ten years behind bars for the tragedy. Did something similar happen in the case of Alexis Duron-Deluna? Fortunately, her baby didn’t die…
This week’s Denver Cruiser Ride theme revolved around the letter “S.” That left a lot of room for creativity, and as usual, the riders took advantage. Check out a sampling of shots from photog Marissa Shevins below. See also: Photos: Denver Cruisers Celebrate Christmas (and Every Other Holiday) in July…
More than 12 percent of Coloradans use illegal drugs every month. That’s among the Colorado-specific findings of a report from the National Surveys on Drug Use and Health. The stats are drawn from 2011 and 2012, which may make them a little behind the curve: As the Washington Post points…
Our post about a toddler who was shot by another child, age five, noted that the nine-year-old who gave the gun to the kid who pulled the trigger told investigators he learned how to ready a weapon from playing Black Ops. We asked folks on Facebook if it was fair…
Denver blog posts have class. At our Backbeat blog, Tom Murphy chats with Thurston Moore, the Sonic Youth legend who’s spent four years’ worth of summers teaching at Boulder’s Naropa Institute. At Denver Stiffs, Nate Timmons notes that the Nuggets’ Kenneth Faried is now officially a finalist for the Team…
Cherry Robertson says fourteen-year-old Niela Coleman was bullying her daughter — a claim Coleman denies. But even if Robertson is right, prosecutors still feel she could have handled the situation better…since she allegedly responded by shooting the girl. Continue for photos, a video, the police report and details about a…
Ricky Thompson, a 49-year-old homeless man, was panhandling in Aurora last year when he was punched so brutally that he eventually succumbed to his injuries. Now, Daniel Rice has been convicted of causing Thompson’s death. Continue for photos and details of this brutal crime. See also: Homelessness Being Criminalized in…
“Moving Ghost Town Tortoises,” a new exhibit at the Aspen Art Museum, hasn’t even launched yet. It’s slated to debut on Saturday amid the unveiling of a new building at the facility. But it’s making national and international headlines thanks to a petition claiming animal abuse as a result of…
If you’re like us, you immediately perk up when you’re watching a movie and you hear a reference to Denver — something that’s happening more and more often these days. So, in the tradition of not one but two 2012 roundups of weird movie references to Colorado, we present ten…
At 7 p.m. tonight, the Broncos kick off their preseason schedule at home with a game against the Seattle Seahawks — the very team that crushed the D-towners in this year’s Super Bowl. And as if that’s not bad enough, yet another rematch is slated for the regular season, on…
