Denver residents can now recycle yogurt cups and other No. 5 plastics, which include ketchup bottles, disposable straws and shapely containers of fake maple syrup. (We’re talking to you, Mrs. Butterworth.) The hooray-recycling initiative is thanks to a partnership between Yoplait and Waste Management. But is it also bad news…
Last week, we told you about a Colorado Springs planning commission meeting that had the potential of essentially outlawing 69 medical marijuana centers, or 41 percent of the city’s total. How did it go? According to Colorado Springs Medical Cannabis Council president Tanya Garduno, worse than she feared. “It was…
San Diego QB Philip Rivers not only wins games. He also wins the Terrible Sportsmanship triffecta: He’s a bad winner, a bad loser and, I’d be willing to bet, bad when he ties. Rivers has raised assholery to an art form, which only makes the 35-14 hurting he and the…
The death of director George Hickenlooper, governor-elect John Hickenlooper’s cousin, on the eve of the Starz Denver Film Festival premiere of his new movie, Casino Jack, was an accident caused by mixed prescription drug use and alcohol complicated by sleep apnea, according to Denver’s medical examiner. Here’s the coroner’s office…
Update: Yesterday, we shared with you AM760 host David Sirota’s announcement about the birth of his son Isaac. As for who’ll be filling in during his current leave, we know who’ll be rockin’ the mic today and tomorrow: Flobots frontman Jonny 5. Jonny is so progressive that he makes Sirota…
The October unearthing of a mastodon, a mammoth, three Ice Age bison and a Jefferson’s ground sloth near Snowmass captured the imagination of amateur paleontologists (not to mention professional ones) around the world. But the discovery didn’t translate well when the Denver Museum of Nature & Science attempted to showcase…
“The Numbers Game,” Laura Shunk, November 18 The Stroke of Twelve Westword seems to have this bizarre blind spot: You either get nine-dollar burger joints or places with twenty-dollar foie gras appetizers, like twelve. If I eat out, my cutoff point is usually the twenty-dollar entree — unless it is…
Birdman Chris Andersen has used his colorful plumage to become the city’s most beloved Turkey McNugget. But he is not the only bird in town. Denver is full of turkeys, and Thanksgiving is the time to honor them for their efforts by roasting them… We present Denver’s Tastiest Turkeys. All…
Scott Kay, Wolf Creek Ski Patrol director, died in an avalanche early today. The ski area reported thirteen inches of new snow this morning and eighteen inches in the last 48 hours…
Short staffing, improper restraint procedures and dysfunctional policies contributed to three patient deaths at the state hospital, according to a new report by an independent team of investigators. Officials at the Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo, which houses hundreds of patients deemed in “acute psychiatric distress” or criminally insane,…
Welcome, my friends, to today’s Denver blog post roundup. In his preview of tonight’s Denver Nuggets-Golden State Warrior matchup, Denver Stiffs’ Nate Timmons holds out hope that Chris “Birdman” Andersen may at last be ready for his return. And just in time. Colorado Education News’ Alan Gottlieb shares Andrea Merida’s…
In our fall Caregivers’ Cup preview, organizer Tim Tipton predicted a crowd of 2,000, seventy-plus judged strains and an epic joint-rolling contest — but that proved too optimistic. Tipton puts the actual turnout at 600, notes that just 22 strains were critiqued, and says the contest didn’t happen. (See photos…
Yard Arteology: The study of neighbors through lawn ornaments… In Douglas County, the imprisoned pilgrim pictured above might actually have constituted a political statement about our founding fathers and the current state of American freedom. However, in the Country Club neighborhood of Denver, this goose probably belongs to a cohabiting…
Given the controversy over TSA body scan machines, it was only a matter of time before someone would come up with a way to capitalize — and that someone is Jeff Buske, creator of Rocky Flats Gear, a collection of undergarments designed to “STOP INVASIVE, DANGEROUS AIRPORT X-RAYS” from zapping…
Did you catch our story about Ramone Hollins, one of three Fort Carson soldiers caught breaking into a Colorado Springs medical marijuana dispensary who claimed his goal had been to destroy the weed, not to steal it? One reader who did had a funny response to this excuse…
Who is this beautiful woman, and why is she trapped in a giant orb? An explanation can be found in our photo gallery of the DJ Shadow show at the Ogden — and there are more striking images from whence it came. Check out Head PE at Summit Music Hall,…
One way to make sure you get a lot of attention for a robbery: Steal Christmas gift cards from a child with leukemia. That’s what Bryant Ruff and Heather Lopez were accused of doing last January, and while Ruff’s already been convicted, Lopez has reportedly skipped — and the Westminster…
Last week, we learned that Australian twins Kristin and Candice Hermeler, whose suicide pact left the former dead and the latter seriously wounded, had an interest in the 1999 Columbine massacre, but we didn’t know the roots of the connection. Now, however, Judy Brown, whose son Brooks had been friends…
As a Broncos fan, I have a preternatural aversion for praising a member of the Oakland Raiders for doing anything — especially attacking someone on the opposing team after the whistle had blown. But his punch to the face of Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, while undeniably a cheap shot,…
News about the death of former Denver Broncos running back Rob Lytle at age 56 came as a shock to all Broncos fans who remember the period when the team went from perennial doormat to NFL power. As an NFL player, Lytle is best known for a fumble that wasn’t…
If you were too busy watching Walking Dead or, worse, the American Music Awards, you might have missed this goal that gave the Colorado Rapids the winning advantage in the 2010 MLS Cup championship game at Toronto’s BMO Field, over FC Dallas. Before YouTube yanks the video of that serendipitous…
Last night, the Denver Public Schools board narrowly approved a turnaround plan for six struggling schools in far northeast Denver, including Montbello High, largely by hiring entirely new staffs or replacing them with charter schools. But first, the seven board members listened for hours as supporters and opponents of the…
