Taggers usually use words or images to convey personal messages when defacing park signs with little or no regard for the public message that they are obliterating. The sign pictured above is unusual because spray paint was used as an editing tool to actually modify the message of an existing…
Ann Imse envisioned Colorado Public News as a way to fill the reporting gap left by the disappearance of newspapers like the Rocky Mountain News, where she once worked. The problem was trying to get someone to pay for it — and a year later, Imse, CPN’s editor, succeeded, landing…
Again this year, Starz Denver Film Festival artistic director Brit Withey is offering his must-see picks for each day of the fest — flicks that movie lovers might otherwise miss amid the flood of silver-screen goodies. Below, he describes his choice for Tuesday, November 9: If I Want to Whistle,…
Joel Warner’s piece analyzing a federal government pot cheat sheet used to argue against California’s Proposition 19 went viral yesterday, stirring up plenty of debate among readers along the way. Among those weighing in: a reader who believes legalization isn’t the panacea marijuana advocates feel it is…
Soon after Michael Bennet was declared the Senate race winner, we asked Bennet spokesman Trevor Kincaid if he thought the Dem’s victory amid a Republican landslide would enhance his power and profile. Kincaid deferred, but days later, the answer appears to be “yes” — with an extended spotlight segment today…
Reports have been coming in from all over the country of people passing out or suffering panic attacks during the infamous arm-amputation scene in the new Danny Boyle and James Franco vehicle 127 Hours, a film based on the true travails of local boy Aron Ralston. Now there’s a new…
Medical marijuana forums frequently pit proponents versus detractors as a way of setting the rhetoric ablaze. But not “Medical Marijuana: Solution or Work in Progress,” a City Club of Denver presentation set for 11:45 a.m. today at the Brown Palace Hotel. The event is peopled by MMJ backers, albeit ones…
After CU weaseled out of firing Dan Hawkins last year, I feared the university would find another excuse to keep Hawk even after this past weekend’s Kansas debacle. But no: CBS4 and other sources report that the pin will finally be pulled today, belatedly remedying one of two hideous high-profile…
Last month, Ron Rocha, a volunteer baseball coach for Regis University, was on the losing end of an intra-squad matchup dubbed the Fall World Series. But he suffered an even greater defeat yesterday, when he was among 35 people named by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the bust of a…
If the Nuggets lose Carmelo Anthony in a complicated trade deal, our fair city will lose another asset, too: Melo’s wife, the fabulous La La Vazquez, she of the custom pink Range Rover, gold Gucci heels and VH1 reality show. Because while Denver has a trendy bike share program, lots…
God has a plan for all of us,” Tom Tancredo says. “I just wish he’d quit teasing me so much.” Among the teases on election night: talk-show host Hugh Hewitt tweeting that MSNBC’s Chris Matthews had predicted that the American Constitution Party candidate would score an upset in Colorado’s gubernatorial…
The gray, fifteen-passenger Ford van barreled down a rural stretch of U.S. 40 in eastern Colorado, headed west toward Limon. It was just before 2 p.m. on November 26, 2007, when the van sped past Colorado State Patrol trooper Mary Nall, who clocked it at 82 miles per hour. Nall…
“Like an Open Book,” Alan Prendergast, November 4 The Write Stuff I first read Augustus, John Williams, in 1982. Since then, it has remained in the stack of books always at my bedside. As a historian, I learned long ago that much of history is the gathering and manifestation of individual…
Update: Rollergirls’ spokeswoman PJ “Dangerous Leigh A’Zon” Shields called us back, after arriving in Denver from Chicago late Monday night with The Hydra trophy in tow. See her comments below the original item. The Rocky Mountain Rollergirls are officially the best…
In the May feature “Lax in the City,” we detailed City Lax, Denver’s only inner-city youth lacrosse program, which was turning heads nationwide. Now, the endeavor’s picked up a new honor: Coach Gregory Crichlow was given as one of four 2010 “Coach of the Year” awards by Play City, a…
For years this space has been the repository of staff rants about the weird selections made by the city’s One Book, One Denver program — most of which have little or nothing to do with Colorado and seem to be, at best, a nod toward oh-so-PC mediocrity. The worst offender…
The national media’s fascination with the weedier aspects of Colorado life continues unabated, and the town of Nederland is among the latest beneficiaries. A few weeks back, Nederland’s pot friendliness landed the community on Rolling Stone magazine’s latest “Hot List” in a piece likely read by staffers at the New…
One, two, three Denver blog posts for you. When Peyton Hillis does things like perforating the Patriots, Mile High Report’s fan poster McManJoe gets sick thinking about what might have been. Want a Sukle Laser Gushirt, Denver Egotist readers? Last week, Colorado Pols shared its list of election winners. Now…
The Aurora Police Department is guarding details of a death on the 17300 block of East Adriatic Drive late last week. About all the APD has issued to date are basics about victim Juan Gerardo Miranda-Hernandez, 28, and the fact that the case is being investigated as a homicide. Look…
The rejection of nearly 2,000 medical marijuana applications due to a new health department policy has generated anger among patients and doctors no longer allowed to write recommendations. Now, a rep of the advocacy group Sensible Colorado, which took part in a successful court challenge against the department last year,…
Yard Arteology: The study of neighbors through lawn decoration… The picture above suggests that before the current economic crisis, credit was so easy to obtain that children were securing no-interest tree-home loans in order to buy swimming pools and hot tubs for their tree houses…
Yo Gabba Gabba! could be the trippiest show on television — and the live show that hit town this weekend only intensified the experience, as a photo slideshow by our own Aaron Thackeray proves. Check out those shots, as well as images of Brokencyde at Summit Music Hall, a beer…
