Millions of viewers watched Miley Cyrus host Saturday Night Live this past weekend — but how many noticed a cameo appearance by Denver? At least one sharp-eyed Westword reader, who realized that the establishing photo at the beginning of “Mornin’ Miami,” a skit in which Cyrus co-stars as a bummed-out…
The website eBaum’s World is among the most venerable humor destinations on the web for one simple reason: People keep going there to share funny/weird footage, including plenty of folks from Colorado. An example was a recent Video of the Day, in which TV station staffers didn’t appear to know…
If the account offered by the Colorado Springs Police Department is accurate, breaking up with 33-year-old Caja Gray is really, really hard to do. And it may bring some nasty repercussions. Gray has been arrested for assault and arson, after allegedly attacking her former boyfriend and then starting a fire…
In her coverage of Colorado’s early steps toward launching a hemp industry (including last week’s post about the first U.S. hemp harvest in more than fifty years), Melanie Asmar has referred to the plant as “marijuana’s sober stepsister” because it has almost none of the psychoactive ingredient that makes users…
Denver blog posts like parties of all kinds. Colorado Pols: Doug Lamborn and some Tea Party types are abandoning Obamacare defunding demands over the shutdown. The Ralphie Report’s Jon Woods on finding the positives in the CU Buffs blowout loss to Oregon. Talk about a tough job. Big Media’s Jason…
We recently posted about Joseph Gunderson, a Colorado Springs man who accidentally shot himself and his roommate when handling a newly purchased handgun. The topic among our commenters naturally drifted toward gun control, with a wide variety of opinions espoused. Here’s one of the pithiest and most memorable…
Back in March, we told you about the arrest of David Reathman, a 65-year-old Golden resident, in the killing of his wife Barbara, seventy. Now, Reathman has been sentenced in the case, which was revealed to have turned on a terminal diagnosis and a gambling problem that motivated murder and…
The Denver District Attorney’s Office doesn’t accuse Wayne Sperling and Lorinda Bailey of beating their children — boys ages two, four, five and six, all described as so developmentally delayed that none of them could speak. But prosecutors believe their living conditions constituted child abuse — and Sperling’s arrest affidavit…
In 2011, MapQuest launched mqVibe, a site that attempted to rank the best neighborhoods in many U.S. cities, including Denver. The rankings combined user votes, “interactions” on the main MapQuest site and “external data” to arrive at its conclusions. But the roster has changed since we shared the site’s 2011…
If the folks at Comcast wanted to maximize hatred and inspire customers to explore satellite delivery, they couldn’t have chosen a better time for a cable outage than at halftime of as crazy a Broncos game as any in recent memory — a 51-48 victory over the Dallas Cowboys not…
Target practice using a bow and arrows isn’t usually a problem. But there are exceptions. For instance, hoteliers will likely frown on anyone who takes aim inside a rented room, and they’re even less apt to be understanding if the guest’s response to a request to stop is threatening to…
Yesterday, we shared a Washington Post-created list of the ten cities hardest hit by the federal shutdown as measured by the percentage of government jobs in the overall workforce — and taking the top slot in the entire country was Colorado Springs. This ranking garnered some sharp commentary from a…
Denver blog posts can even spell hard words like “chlamydia.” The Redheaded Slut comes up with the week’s most arresting headline: “Why I’m Glad I Got Chlamydia.” Colorado Independent’s Susan Greene on a case that forced Supermax to acknowledge an inmate’s warning signs of suicide. Denver Egotist thinks this is…
John Hickenlooper was one of the most visible opponents of Amendment 64, a measure to allow adults 21 and over to use and possess small amounts of marijuana. But since A64’s passage, he’s done a major turnaround, agreeing to appear at a fundraiser for Proposition AA, which would set tax…
At today’s 10:30 a.m. meeting of Denver’s Citizen Oversight Board, a number of community activists plan to advocate for a voice in the search for a new Manager of Safety — among them the Colorado Progressive Coalition’s Alex Landau, who was nearly beaten to death by police officers in 2009…
Unsurprisingly, there weren’t a lot of grabby images associated with week one of Obamacare — unless you count occasional health-exchange error messages. But there was a notable exception: Earlier this week on the 16th Street Mall, ColoradoHealthOP.org promoted insurance coverage via spokesmodels who were almost entirely uncovered — as in…
Change is in the air — and in plenty of trees. Each year around this time, always-beautiful Colorado becomes even more spectacular as leaves turn from their usual lush color to a wide array of hues. But where are the best places in the state to revel in this glorious…
One of the most prominent clips of Boulder-based cyclocross racer Amy Dombroski declares that she had become a rock star — and that’s precisely how she was viewed locally and internationally. Her effervescent personality was matched by grit exemplified by the number of pics in which her face is spattered…
We love it when comments beget more comments — and that’s exactly what happened with a Comment of the Day about an analysis of the freest American states that slotted Colorado at nineteenth — a considerable fall from previous survey. This reader argues that true freedom should benefit the right…
Denver blog posts are perfectly composed. South Stands Denver’s Colin Daniels thinks Patrick Roy’s crazed screamfest in his first regular season game as Avalanche coach (and his first win!) was positively ROY-SOME! Colorado Peak Politics feels a Democratic Super PAC spokesman called Mike Coffman a terrorist. Denver Frank celebrates Jesse’s…
Last month, we told you about Rhonda Bernard, who was charged with animal cruelty for keeping 26 cats, 23 chihuahuas and two chinchillas in the Fremont County home she shared with her ten-year-old son. The number of animals that led to similar accusations against Ken, Linds and Karla Rumery, as…
As we enter day three of the U.S. government’s partial shutdown, ripple effects are being felt far and wide — and while Washington, D.C. has the country’s most federal workers, it may not be the hardest-hit city. The Washington Post has assembled a list of the ten cities with the…
