UPDATE: We have a winner! The tickets go to Jenn, who won with the following response:I’ve always wanted to go to this game. I just don’t know who to root for. 🙁 Poor me… I did my undergrad at CU and grad school at CSU. But I’m thinking the Rams…
Like many reporters, I’ve written plenty of stories about guns over the years. But I’d never fired one — not a real one, anyhow. A gun-owning friend thought that was wrong given what I do for a living and set out to change it in a big way — by…
Today marks the 25th birthday of The Onion, purveyor of fake news way better than the real thing — including lotsa stuff that didn’t happen in Colorado but would have made the state a funnier place had it. Back in January, when the last print edition of the paper was…
Our post asking if Colorado’s gun culture is to blame for the state’s awful new suicide record became a huge comment magnet, with reader after reader sharing opinions about firearms, the act of taking one’s life and whether there’s anything more than a coincidental relationship between the two. Here’s one…
Denver blog posts are hair-raising. Mile High Report’s Jon Heath on Vic Lombardi’s “enhancement” of Joe Flacco banners all over town. Colorado Pols on NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg’s monetary support of senators John Morse and Angela Giron. Denver Frank wants to give pit bulls a second chance…
White Trash. Stacker. Kid Rock. These are just some of the monikers that inspired law enforcers trying to bust a northern Colorado meth ring to brand their efforts “Operation Bad Nickname.” The two-phase sweep is still seeking ten suspects at this writing, including White Trash and Stacker; their real names…
The strongest man on this block? Available for “bear removal,” “cat walking” and “bro-tank fittings”? Maybe, even though 9News reports that this downtown billboard was put up as a birthday gag gift. Still, the number actually works, delivering the following message: “This is the strongest man on Speer and 11th…
Last year, the tradition of camping out at the Sports Castle on Broadway before Sniagrab, the annual pre-skiing-season sale at Sports Authority, seemed in danger of extinction due to the urban-camping ban. Sports Authority had to get a special permit from the city to make it happen, albeit for a…
What is it with raccoon rage in Boulder? Plenty of people in the community have a love for urban wildlife, as witnessed by the outpouring of anger after two Boulder cops allegedly shot a neighborhood elk on New Year’s Day. But back in 2011, police arrested three people on suspicion…
About this time last year, we shared a collection of the top ten speed traps in Denver — our second annual list culled from the most recent entries on Speedtrap.org, at site at which those who’ve been trapped attempt to prevent others from being similarly ensnared. Once again, it’s time…
Last month, longtime morning-show host Peter Boyles debuted at KNUS mere weeks after being fired at KHOW following an incident involving longtime producer Greg Hollenback. And his audience appears to have followed him. We’ve obtained listenership figures for Boyles’s first month on the air, and during his time slot, KNUS,…
Last week, we told you about a homicide on the 1400 block of Moline in Aurora; see our previous coverage below. In the immediate aftermath of the crime, police shared little information about the victim and none about a potential suspect. Now, however, the Aurora police have arrested Aaron Hill,…
Among the first questions to arise after the passage of Amendment 64 last November was: “Will Colorado become a destination for pot tourism?” Given the rise of companies such as My 420 Tours, which created visitor packages in April for what was dubbed World Cannabis Week, the answer seems to…
As a tie-in to this week’s feature article, “The Prodigal Pastor,” Alan Prendergast wrote about Colorado’s seven biggest megachurches. Unsurprisingly, the latter topic inspired many folks to denigrate such jumbo institutions. But there were also numerous defenders, including this reader…
Denver blog posts believe that size doesn’t matter. South Stands Denver’s Colin Daniels on the prospect of Rockies hurler Rafael Betancourt calling it a career — and that 2011 moment when he unleashed his glorious dong. Mile High Mamas’ Gretchen offers a quiz to help you figure out what kind…
Yesterday, a Denver City Council committee further refined a draft ordinance related to retail marijuana sales, and marijuana attorney Warren Edson says one of the changes, related to the coexistence of medical and recreational weed, represents a step forward. Yet he’s also puzzled about why a couple of “million dollar…
On September 10, as we’ve reported, voters in southeastern Colorado will decide whether state senators John Morse and Angela Giron should be recalled because of their advocacy of gun-control measures. But with the election looming, a technical question over the vote threatens to make a controversial matter even messier. Hence,…
In August 2011, after she was arrested and accused of child abuse, Regina Marquez went on a local television station to brand the allegations — about, among other things, broken bones, malnourishment that may have stunted the young girl’s growth, and claims that they regularly locked her in the bathroom…
As we’ve reported, Denver Police chief of staff Lieutenant Matt Murray felt the department’s initial Reddit “Ask Me Anything” session went so well that another AMA was scheduled to deal with what was arguably the first one’s most popular topic: pot. The conversation happened yesterday, and it was definitely free-wheeling,…
Nope: The shot above wasn’t put together using Photoshop. That really is a pic of hated Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco on Sports Authority Field at Mile High, to pimp the September 5 Denver-Baltimore game. The Broncos tweeted that the banners’ design was mandated by NFL policy, but one fan wasn’t…
Last night, the U.S. Attorneys Office released an apparently damning indictment aimed at Dr. Joel Miller, a physician in Craig who’s charged with prescribing powerful medications, including oxycodone and more, to patients who didn’t need it for medical reasons, resulting in two deaths. Most professionals in positions like this zip…
Last week, the White House finally talked pot, albeit mainly to reiterate statements made by President Barack Obama last year. As such, members of the Colorado cannabis community were left to wonder how long the current administration could stretch Attorney General Eric Holder’s statement last March about a federal decision…
