Have you caught World Cup fever — and are you looking for somewhere awesome to view the 2010 final on Sunday? Look no further: The British Bulldog (2052 Stout Street) and the Colorado Rapids (who hosted the largest free outdoor soccer viewing event in the region when they screened the…
A few weeks ago, after an unusual public workshop in downtown Denver that allowed wild-horse advocates to air their concerns about alleged government mismanagement of dwindling herds, activists were feeling so encouraged that they called off a planned protest of the event. Everybody decided to hold their horses, according to…
Yard Arteology: The study of neighbors through lawn decoration. Perhaps the most thrilling moment for a yard arteologist is when, after two hours of schlepping up and down neighborhood streets and seeing only birdbaths and flowerpots, he comes face-to-face with a mysterious specialty item. These handmade wonders not only prove…
That’s the news from Site Selection, a magazine with the corporatey mission of providing “corporate real estate strategy and area economic development.”The Denver-Aurora area ranked third behind San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont (1) and and Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton metro areas as best locations for businesses that implement green initiatives. So what exactly, is “sustainability,” according…
The August 10 primary ballot promises to be a wild one, what with contested races for both the Republican and Democratic U.S. Senate nomination, as well as a GOP face-off for governor and other legislative competitions. But if you’re not yet registered to vote, in order to participate in the…
Attention Broncos fans: Who wants to be the first to see Tim Tebow holding a clipboard? Don’t all talk at once. But just in case, anyone on the Denver Broncos Season Ticket Waiting List (population: 6) can buy a limited number of single game tickets starting at 10 a.m. today…
The Biennial of the Americas is in full swing, and at the “Americas Roundtable on Women: Drivers of the New Economy,” on July 7, 1992 Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu Tum eloquently summed up the goal of the event when she declared, “I believe that women should be protagonists…not…
A new study from Rand’s Drug Policy Research Center suggests that marijuana costs could be slashed as much as 80 percent, and pot use could increase by as much as 50 percent, if Californians pass the legalization measure on their November ballot. Such momentous changes could drastically shake up the…
This week’s cover story, “Signed, Sealed, Rejected,” explores the costs, intrigues and legal hurdles involved in getting citizen initiatives on the ballot in Colorado — and the massive campaign underway to defeat three controversial antitax measures this fall. That effort just got more massive, according to a campaign finance report…
Ollie Eddington doesn’t work cheap — or at least he didn’t before being arrested on charges of theft and wronging at-risk adults. He’s accused of outrageously overcharging two elderly Boulder County residents for minor landscaping. How outrageously? Try $2,200 for trimming four-to-six small branches of a tree owned by a…
Dan Drayer is a public radio lifer. He’s spent 22 years working in the business, thirteen of them at Colorado Public Radio. And while he left the network once before, back in 2005, he stayed in the field, and returned to the CPR fold two years later. After tomorrow, however,…
Three — count ’em, three — Denver blog links: A Mile High Report fan post by stedtfeld stirs up loads of Philip Rivers hatred. And for good reason. Denver Infill’s Rick offers a Union Station construction update, part 22. Build on. Education News Colorado’s Mark Sass promotes later start times…
Yesterday, Colorado Pols, Denver’s preeminent political website, published a legal-action-threatening piece revealing that it had received a letter from attorney Christopher Beall, representing Denver Post owner MediaNews Group and two other newspaper companies. The allegation? That Colorado Pols has been stealing his clients’ content by using too much of it…
Fresh from the jar: A Mile Highs and Lows dispensary review of Fort Collins’ Elite Green Organics by the Wildflower Seed. And there’s more where that came from. Check out our newly updated dispensary directory by clicking here…
This dispensary has closed. In “Mile Highs and Lows,” Westword offers a no-holds-barred look at what goes on behind the locked doors of marijuana clinics (see our dispensary list here), whether they resemble swanky bars, sterile dentist’s offices or a dope dealer’s college dorm room. This week, the Wildflower Seed…
Mystery solved. The secret meaning of Justin Bieber’s cryptic tweet to Carmelo Anthony yesterday? The floppy-haired teen idol simply wanted to play the NBA All-Star in basketball — not convince him to become Canadian or sing backup vocals or get down on one knee and propose to him, as we…
Tutnkhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs, the touring art blockbuster which recently opened at the Denver Art Museum, promises to turn the DAM into a tomb. Tutankhamun is primarily used here as the headliner to sell pricey tickets. Costs vary depending on age, the scheduled time of viewing…
The Denver City Council amendment that essentially zoned Altitude Organic Medicine out of existence was fast-tracked due to what most observers interpret as a state moratorium on approving new medical marijuana businesses until July 2011. But Boulder assistant city attorney Kathy Haddock believes the legal language allegedly establishing this moratorium…
The Denver coroner’s office has released its list of homicides in Denver for the first half of 2010 — sixteen deaths. Some of those listed include straight-forward slayings , like the case of Douglass Singleton, who was allegedly killed by Peter Bellar in a marijuana transaction gone wrong. Others are…
As the sports world waits for tonight’s announcement about where LeBron James will sign (right now, it looks like he’ll be Miami-bound), Nuggets fans are left to wonder if Carmelo Anthony will be looking for a Denver exit in the near future. Logic says “no,” but his decision to sell…
On Tuesday, a $20,000 diamond was stolen from Cherry Creek Shopping Center’s Zales outlet in a crime caught on camera. First reaction: Why does a Zales have a $20,000 diamond? In case one of Denver’s “many” hip-hop stars needs a new bauble for his cane? Second reaction: Given how lax…
Earlier this week, we told you about the arrest of Thornton’s Charles Fisher, who allegedly murdered his wife, Belinda, and then set their house ablaze. Now, the Thornton Police Department has released an affadavit in which a supposedly suicidal Fisher describes waiting for Belinda to return from seeing Twilight: Eclipse…
