There’s no second-guessing on Jaden Franklin’s lacrosse field. He’s on the move from the first face-off, his cleated feet taking him exactly where he needs to be, sometimes before his mind even catches up. Lacrosse IQ, they call it: knowing instinctively how to exploit the ever-changing geometries of the 110-by-60-yard…
After the embarrasing political scrum over the sex offender bill that prompted Governor Bill Ritter to veto the mess last week, it’s easy to overlook the fact that something was actually accomplished on the criminal justice front in the legislature this year. Yesterday, Ritter signed into a law a package…
We’re a little late with our Denver blog roundup today — but these posts were worth waiting for. Toward the bottom of his Mile High Report fan post, aLuffabo argues that Brady Quinn should be traded because BQ wants to start and he’s got no chance to do that in…
Los Angeles documentary filmmaker Gabriela Cowperthwaite didn’t know what to expect when two years ago she returned to Denver, moved into the basement of her parent’s house with her one-year-old twins (daddy stayed in LA) and turned the cameras on City Lax, the inner-city youth lacrosse program that her friend…
Those who’d spent weeks searching for, and praying for, twelve-year-old Kayleah Wilson had barely begun to process her death when news broke that Robert Laurencio Montoya, eighteen, had been charged with sexual assault due to an alleged sexual relationship with the girl that began last October. Yesterday, just prior to…
Shortly after Colorado media outlets like Channel 4 caught on to GringoMask.com, the site went from being an amusing satire of Arizona’s controversial immigration law to a much less funny protest against it. The site, created by Miami’s Zubi Advertising, originally featured very Caucasian masks that folks worried about police…
Citing Boulder’s mishmash of granola-eating tree-huggers and a flourishing entrepreneurial landscape intersected by academe and technology, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance has rated the city among the most promising for the next decade. Here’s how “Best Cities 2010” describes the community, which ranks in the fourth position, behind Austin, Seattle and Washington…
In February, we told you about a fight between the City of Windsor and MediGrow, a dispensary owned by Lazarus Pino. Windsor passed a moratorium that grandfathered in two dispensaries, In Harmony Wellness and A New Dawn Wellness Clinic but excluded MediGrow — because, said Mayor John Vazquez, Pino’s operation…
While Sex and the City 2 opens in theaters today, Denver’s own never-ending dating drama continues to be played out by dummies in the downtown window of Diamond Lil’s. Much like the movie, the mannequin ménage à trois depends on changing outfits and modeling positions to market sex and the…
Update, 11:18 a.m. May 26: According to Denver District Attorney spokeswoman Lynn Kimbrough, a determination about whether or not to charge the homeowner who shot and killed seventeen-year-old Marcus Duran, who was allegedly trying to break into his house at the time, will likely be announced more than a week…
Colorado Attorney General John Suthers’s name was recently juxtaposed with that of an extremely unsavory fellow — serial killer Scott Lee Kimball. A front-page Denver Post story over the weekend noted that Suthers, who was then a U.S. Attorney, “signed the order that transferred the habitual criminal and escaped convict…
Representative Jared Polis has spent a lot of his legislative capital of late defending the medical marijuana industry in Colorado from possible interference by the federal government. In February, for example, he sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder expressing concern about saber-rattling statements made by DEA special agent…
Approximately 400 people said goodbye to Kayleah Wilson at a memorial service in Greeley yesterday — the same day eighteen-year-old Robert Laurencio Montoya, who reportedly had a sexual relationship with the late twelve-year old, was in court on a sexual assault charge. In the meantime, tributes to the girl continue…
Lately, major businesses like Frontier Airlines and Qwest have made news for decreasing their presence in Denver, not expanding it. But Yahoo!’s acquisition of Associated Content last week brings more positive tidings. Associated Content founder (and newly minted Yahoo! vice president) Luke Beatty reveals that Yahoo! will be opening a…
Among the more controversial elements of the state’s pending overhaul of the medical marijuana industry, is a requirement that those operating dispensaries be Colorado residents — a provision that at first sounds like it could be a cash cow for local business. But HB 1284 and SB 109, which Governor…
After outdoing itself earlier this week by way of its moniker for the Super Freak Bandit, the Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force, the agency charged with nicknaming local bank robbers, has taken on a new beat: fashion policing. Note that its latest alert focuses on a scofflaw dubbed the…
As oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster begins to stain shorelines along the Gulf Coast, beauticians across the nation are learning that one of the more feel-good (and dubious) solutions proposed in recent weeks to the spreading slick won’t be tried after all. A couple of weeks ago, stories like…
At this writing, a memorial service for Kayleah Wilson, who was twelve at the time of her death, is taking place in Greeley. But earlier today, the focus was on a person whose involvement in the case was little known by the general public until after her body was discovered…
Blogs about Denver don’t suffer from a lack of oxygen, no matter what flatlanders say. Here are three examples. ColoradoPols highlights reporting by Eileen Welsome, a former Westworder turned Colorado Springs Gazette staffer, who details the connection between gadflly Douglas Bruce and the financing of three ballot initiatives, amendments 60…
With so many quarterbacks clogging up the Denver Broncos’ roster, it’s only natural that trade rumors would surface about 2009 starter Kyle Orton. After all, bringing in two more QBs — Brady Quinn and Tim Tebow — during the off-season hardly qualifies as a vote of confidence. Yesterday, coach Josh…
Those of you who decided to spend your Monday evening watching the final episodes of 24 and Law and Order are probably kicking yourselves over skipping the E! True Hollywood Story portrait of local legend Dog the Bounty Hunter — as well you should. Not only did viewers get a…
The Colorado Supreme Court has played host to some odd hearings over its history — but few have been more unusual than the May 14 proceeding involving Kurt Riggin. Riggin, who identifies himself as a tribal chief and judge of the Kikiallus nation, based in Washington state, was present to…
