The latest edition of Wait, Wait… Don’t Tell Me!, NPR’s enormously entertaining current-events quiz show, featured not one but two Colorado references — including an unlikely plug for Shotgun Willie’s, whose website proudly proclaims it to be the “Best Strip Club in Denver.”…
Who gets the credit for the Broncos’ wholly unexpected 26-20 win over the Tennessee Titans yesterday? Kyle Orton — with a big assist from the Titans’ game plan, which kept the predominantly orange men in a contest they had no business winning but (happily) managed to do anyway. But that…
It says something about the level of noise in this year’s gubernatorial race when the candidate with the lowest profile has perhaps the most intriguing back-story. Paul Fiorino didn’t advertise for his running mate on Craigslist, he doesn’t have Dog the Bounty Hunter campaigning on his behalf, and he hasn’t…
Dan Maes.Three Denver blog posts for your perusal. Denver Egotist links to a search engine that retrieves the least popular results first. By this logic Dan Maes should be the first entry in a search for “Colorado Governor.” The Mile High Report has your in-depth Broncos-Titans breakdown. Vince Young has…
Polish your resume and bone-up on the issues; independent candidate for Governor Jason Clark went back to Craigslist today to replace his departed lieutenant governor. Clark set his sights a littler higher this time. Here’s the ad, written in the third person with exclamation points, nicknames and all:…
A new law went into affect in Colorado today that will require anyone arrested for a felony to submit a DNA sample. “Katie’s Law” is named after 22-year-old New Mexico State University graduate student, Katie Sepich, who was raped and murdered in 2003. Governor Bill Ritter signed the bill in…
The Lakewood-based federal agency that forever altered our assumptions about what government bureaucrats do when no one is looking will change its name today from the Minerals Management Service to the Office of Natural Resources Revenue. And good riddance to the scandal-plagued MMS, which was in charge of collecting $10…
When Dan Maes’s footnote to Colorado history is written, his downfall will not be attributed to sloppy accounting or historical revisionism. Instead, he will forever be remembered as the candidate who failed to take complete advantage of the similarities between his last name and the Spanish word for corn. Imagine…
Scott McInnis may have lost his bid to be the next Governor of Colorado, but that won’t stop him from leveraging his political weight. Today he sent a letter to the President of the Colorado Retailers Association, Christopher Howes, in an attempt to keep a new Medal of Honor video…
Next month, actor James Franco stars in Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours, a movie that chronicles the grim hours Aron Ralston spent pinned beneath a rock, an experience that provoked the Colorado climber to use one of his arms to cut off the other. But first, you can catch Franco in…
Richard Rosenthal, Denver’s first-ever Independent Monitor of the Denver Police Department, has been a busy man since his appointment by Mayor John Hickenlooper in 2005. He commissioned the Police Assessment Resource Center to conduct a full-scale and retroactive review of the department’s Use of Force policies, and has overseen investigations…
There’s a novel idea starting to get some online buzz: If the Nuggets can’t get the entire league to negotiate a Rubik’s Cube of perfect-storm, planets-aligned trade talks because they’re dealing with Russian mogul and Michael Jordan types, they’ll simply simplify. To spin Mark Twain, rumors that a Carmelo Anthony…
Proponents of Amendment 62 hit a roadblock yesterday in their drive to get Colorado voters to approve Amendment 62, an updated version of the anti-abortion measure that voters soundly defeated in 2008. A suit brought by amendment sponsors Gualberto Garcia Jones and Leslie Hanks had claimed that the Blue Book…
Attention, Colorado residents! You until until the end of Monday, October 4, to register to vote. But if doing it in person just isn’t your style, you have an additional resource at your disposal this year. For the first time, citizens with a Colorado driver’s license can register online…
A third attempt to initiate a recall of controversial Denver Public Schools boardmember Andrea Merida has been given the go-ahead. The three southwest Denver voters who asked for the recall now have sixty days to collect 4,342 signatures from voters in that district. If they succeed, the recall will go…
In an interview in the October 15 issue of Rolling Stone, President Barack Obama defends his administration’s overhaul of the Department of the Interior amid agency scandals and outrage over the Gulf oil spill — and insists Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will keep his job, calling him “an outstanding public…
Yesterday, Tom Tancredo’s campaign sent out a release noting that Dan Maes had earlier said only candidates polling above 20 percent should be invited to participate in gubernatorial debates and wondering if he’d pull out now that a new Fox News poll puts him below that threshold. But Tancredo operations…
Three Denver blog posts for your pleasure. Mile High Report fan poster DaBikePro links to a Bleacher Report piece from a Tim Tebow booster wondering if a Kyle Orton-for-Marshawn Lynch trade is imminent. My guess: Ha. Colorado Independent’s Joseph Boven says Dan Caplis misquoted Barack Obama. Did words get in…
In “Mile Highs and Lows,” Westword offers a no-holds-barred look at what goes on behind the locked doors of marijuana dispensaries, whether they resemble swanky bars or a dope dealer’s college dorm room. See our updated dispensary list here, and keep reading for William Breathes’s review of 14er Holistics in…
A Frontier Airlines statement about Southwest’s bid to acquire AirTran didn’t include any reference to Denver. But Daniel Shurz, Frontier’s vice president of strategy and planning, stresses that the Mile High City’s very much in the forefront of the carrier’s plans. “Denver is 76, 77 percent of the Frontier network…
As predicted, Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrisey’s decision not to file charges in the July death of inmate Marvin Booker has proven unpopular with Booker’s family and supporters. At a rally yesterday, supporters demanded either a grand jury investigation or Morrisey’s resignation. A problem for guv hopeful John Hickenlooper, who’s…
The elephant seen in the photograph above squints his eye and squeals in pain from the burning caused by the car wash cleaning solution. The sign graces the Jumbo Car Wash, which was named after the first elephant purchased by P.T. Barnum (in 1882), and is located near the neighborhood…
