Our post about Denver City Councilman Chris Nevitt’s suggested booze ban at Washington Park (which only allows 3.2 percent alcohol as it is) didn’t receive a lot of popular support in our comments section. But there was some easy-to-detect sarcasm, as seen in this memorable post…
Denver blog posts could use a cold one about now. At our Cafe Society blog, Jonathan Shikes reveals how a mistake resulted in Boulder Beer’s 35th anniversary brew. Denver Infill’s Ryan Dravitz offers a final update on the Denver Art Museum office project. Denver Frank offers a lesson in street…
Update: Last month, we told you about a fatal shooting that killed Dwayne Kelly, 52, on the 1600 block of Yates; see our previous coverage below. At the time, the Denver police intimated that the incident may have been a Make My Day case, in which a homeowner fired in…
Denver mayor Michael Hancock isn’t the likeliest marijuana tourist. Recall that he ripped Amendment 64. Nonetheless, he and other Denver city officials will visit Amsterdam next week in part to learn more about the city’s approach to weed. Apparently, Hancock and company haven’t heard of this little thing called the…
Just in case you doubted that there’s now a survey for everything, here’s an analysis we never thought we’d see. The PornHub site has ranked the fifty U.S. states and the District of Columbia by the ratio of web searches for big boobs versus small boobs. And Colorado is among…
Ashleigh Padilla is incredibly photogenic, as the gorgeous portraits on her Facebook page attest. But perhaps her best known image is a mug shot snapped after her arrest for allegedly funding a shopping spree with a customer’s debit card. Padilla’s pic is only one of the memorable images from the…
Three months ago yesterday, RaeLyn Gonzales, fifty, and her eighteen-month-old grandson, Fabian Gonzales, were brutally stabbed to death in Adams County. Since then, no arrests have been made and precious little information has been released about the investigation. But the Gonzales family has no intention of letting the deaths of…
When we shared our latest post about alleged pot profiling, keyed to a lawsuit against the Idaho State Patrol by a man who says he was pulled over because of his Colorado license plates, we asked readers if they’d experienced anything similar. The response was huge and the stories were…
Denver blog posts rock. At our Backbeat blog, check out the full list of 2014 Westword Showcase nominees, from Angry Hand of God to Zebroids. Colorado Pols wonders if CU’s visiting conservative scholar is doing his job a little too well. Purple Row’s Brian Kilpatrick on the first Rockies win…
Even as the national media has tried to establish a tie between marijuana and the rise in applications submitted to Colorado colleges, Chane Behanan, a Louisville basketball star kicked off the squad last year because of drug use, recently transferred to Colorado State University. But before he could take his…
Washington Park is without question one of Denver’s favorite parks. But is this status endangered by the bad behavior associated with alcohol? That’s among the assertions made in a letter by Denver City Councilman Chris Nevitt, who’s calling for a ban on alcohol in the park. Continue for more information,…
Yesterday saw whipsaw reversals in the case of Meghan McKeon, a Steamboat Springs mom whose three-year-old son, Austin Davis, died under highly suspicious circumstances. First, McKeon was cleared of three misdemeanor accusations against her, to the horror of at least one court observer. But the dismissal was swiftly followed by…
Welcome to Spring in Colorado: fabulous, shirt-sleeve weather one day, and sloppy, splashbacky snow the next. People in some parts of the country may get angry at such meteorological twists and turns. But most natives and longtimers see it as just another way living in Colorado keeps us on our…
Few of the police impersonators we’ve written about over the years have been as frightening and violent as the one described by the Aurora Police Department. Example? The man in question allegedly yanked the woman by the hair while trying to take control of her car. And he would have…
A recent Denver Blogs post featured a Cafe Society reader comment railing against restaurants beloved by “hipster douchebags.” The term definitely raised the hackles of many readers, both positively and negatively. Here’s one take that decries the pejorative use of this particular H-word…
Denver blog posts are all about options. At our Show and Tell blog, the Voice Film podcasters talk up Scarlett Johansson in two very different films: Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Under the Skin. Mile High Hockey’s c6hor8 on the latest victory by the Avs, the only currently playing…
Update: Earlier today, we noted that the Republican National Committee was on the cusp of determining the finalist sites to host the Grand Old Party’s 2016 convention. Denver was one of eight contestants — and a short time ago, the Mile HIgh City made the final cut, along with Cleveland,…
In a highly unusual move, the Denver coroner’s office has listed marijuana intoxication as a contributing factor in a death — the fatal fall of college student Levy Thamba from a hotel balcony last month. Thamba consumed a marijuana edible before he died. A coroner’s office spokeswoman says the facts…
April Fool’s Day pranks are a sacred tradition for Denver Cruiser Ride. Last year, for example, the Cruisers released a collection of bogus themes for the weekly Wednesday rides (including “Skid Marks & Seamen Stains”) before sharing the genuine items. And this year? The Cruisers unveiled the real themes only…
Yesterday, we shared our list of the top ten Best Hair on female Denver TV personalities countdown, featuring the 2014 Best of Denver champ and the nine other local on-screen talents who missed the big prize by just a hair or two. Now, it’s the guys’ turn. Look below to…
Rhiannon VanTassell’s mom recently shared a Facebook plea in which she asked her Colorado Springs-based daughter to return home rather than remain on the run with Roy Hanthorn, a fugitive she’d allegedly chosen over her own child. A subsequent post suggested a happy ending might be in the offing. But…
For more than a year, we’ve shared stories about alleged pot profiling of cars with Colorado license plates. Examples include a Westword writer stopped twice during one cross-country trip and a man who said he’d been improperly blamed for toking by managers at a Kansas hotel. Now, Darian Roseen, seventy,…
