No charges against Boulder County deputy in apparent suicide by cop

In the last few months, we’ve reported about two incidents that fall under the heading of “suicide by cop,” including a shooting involving a despondent CSU student and a Denver face-off during which the gunman reportedly said, “If they don’t fucking shoot me, I’ll stab them in the goddamn eyeball.”…

Photos: Our fifteen favorite Super Bowl pot memes — so far

As we noted yesterday, the folks at The Daily Show and The Colbert Report are among the yuksters having fun with the Super Bowl pairing of Denver and Seattle — teams from the only two states that have legalized the sale of recreational marijuana. Memes makers are also going to…

Reader: I’d rather let a TSA agent touch my junk than die

A lot of folks weighed in on our post about a Highlands Ranch mom who filed a criminal complaint against a TSA agent following a pat-down she thought qualified as sexual assault. Here’s an interesting take from a reader who feels such searches are intrusive but also necessary…

Can a bar be a dive if hipsters go there?

Denver blog posts like making a splash. At our Cafe Society blog, Patricia Calhoun shares the comment of a reader who thinks a high hipster ratio means a bar can’t be a dive. Big Media’s Jason Salzman quotes Tom Tancredo as saying Republicans won’t beat John Hickenlooper on gun issues…

Videos: Ten reasons not to hate Tom Brady — sort of

Earlier this week, after we published a gallery of Tom Brady hate memes, a number of our readers called us out, arguing that “hate” shouldn’t have been used in this context. (We didn’t really hear similar complaints over a collection of Philip Rivers hate memes, but we digress.) And so,…

Patriots fans in Denver for game scoring plenty of legal pot

No matter how the AFC Championship game between Denver and New England turns out, the Broncos playoff run will turn out well for Justin Staley. Why? Staley’s an owner of Mile High Medical Cannabis, whose location, at 1705 Federal Boulevard, is only steps away from Mile High Stadium. Last week,…

Video: Suicidal gunman closes streets near Cheesman Park for hours

Major streets near Cheesman Park were shut down for hours yesterday, with Denver police enforcing closures from mid-afternoon well into the evening. What happened? A man reportedly fired shots out of his apartment in a building near 10th and Race. When police finally gained entry, however, they found his body:…

What are Denver’s ten best dive bars?

Denver blog posts would like a double. The writers for our Cafe Society blog share their list of the top ten dive bars in metro Denver. Talk about tough duty. Denver Urbanism’s Dan Malouff on a possible boom in streetcars. Mile High Report’s Jon Heath shares a video of Peyton…