We’ve been panning for Denver blogging gold. Here’s three posts we sifted out. In a fan post on Mile High Report, Joe Medina calls April 19 “a day that will live in infamy” — because Tony Scheffler’s departure means the Broncos’ Mike Shanahan era is officially over. That thrills Medina;…
As noted in our blog about the eleventh anniversary of the shootings at Columbine High School, Oprah Winfrey shot a program about that subject a year ago, but wound up pulling it at the last minute following complaints from family members and other concerned parties. Don’t expect something similar to…
Former Colorado congressman Tom Tancredo has been making the Tea Party circuit of late, with his remarks about topics like civics literacy tests prompting conservative heavyweight Dick Armey to call him bad for the movement. But that hasn’t shut him up. The latest kerfuffle: At a South Carolina Tea Party…
The 4/20 event taking place at the University of Colorado at Boulder at 4:20 p.m. has been aptly described as “an orgasm of cannabis consumption.” But even as the smoke from that bash is inspiring a lot more flights than have taken off in Europe over the past week, a…
#19 of the 22 Major Arcana: Jane Norton, the Moon…..
Mark Udall seems an unlikely target for Tom Mauser’s campaign to close the gun-show loophole — the subject of full-page ads in the Denver Post and Boulder Daily Camera aimed squarely at the Colorado senator. After all, Udall’s derided the loophole for at least a decade. Take this statement from…
During the recent debate about a nudity ordinance in Boulder — one enlivened by the controversy over topless gardener Catharine Pierce — Judd Golden, spokesman for the Boulder ACLU, frequently urged city council members to wait to find out what kind of public nudity bill would emerge from the Colorado…
Last year marked the tenth anniversary of the shootings at Columbine High School — the sort of round number the media can’t resist. As such, there were a number of notable commemorations, including the release of two books on the tragedy and a special episode of Oprah that was yanked…
The International Cannabis Day festivities that kick off at 9 a.m. this morning at Civic Center Park have a major political component, as stressed in a recent interview with NORML executive director Allen St. Pierre, who’ll deliver the event’s “invocation.” As such, the Cannabis Therapy Institute is hoping to capitalize…
The somber e-mail was sent out a couple of weeks ago. After six years of two-wheeled rumpuses every warm Wednesday night, after numerous beer-soaked bicycle shenanigans, countless inappropriate costumes and endless rides around the Circle of Death (a.k.a. the concrete circle in Civic Center Park), the beloved Denver Cruisers rides…
When Broncos tight end Tony Scheffler signed his tender offer, it was clear he’d be leaving, just as it was when Brandon Marshall did likewise. But who’da thunk a player this promising would bring in so little? As reported by ESPN’s Adam Schefter, today’s Scheffler trade was part of a…
We bring you three blogs about Denver things. Click on them for proof. At 5280, Michael de Yoanna describes Bill Ritter’s first major bicycle ride since his rib-fracturing accident in March as “no sweat.” And no trip to the emergency room, either. According to Colorado Pols, Senator Michael Bennet has…
In the Internet age, one of the surest signs that an idea’s popular is if the website affiliated with it crashes. Which is basically what happened shortly after the launch of RechargeColorado.com. The program, funded by the feds, offers up to $500 in rebates to folks buying appliances designed to…
J.R. Smith has gotten into trouble with his tweets, whether it’s been the Denver Post hinting that his spelling might have hidden gang code, an unwise decision to call out Kobe Bryant, or an “LMAO” aimed at a very pissed-off Kenyon Martin. But after the Nuggets’ victory over the Utah…
As we noted earlier, today is the fifteenth anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, which MSNBC is marking with a documentary featuring recordings of Timothy McVeigh telling people, “Get over it.” But an anniversary tomorrow strikes even closer to home for Tom Mauser. It was eleven years ago that his…
The study of neighbors through their lawn decoration… Figure 59. South Park Hill: Rusty hummingbird hovers over wagon wheel daisy. Old-timey farm implements and wagon-y westernalia are common in Denver’s outback neighborhoods (Marston, Fort Logan and Bear Valley), where nostalgia runs as wide as a retiree’s hinder. However, in the…
The virulent homophobes (and anti-semites) of Westboro Baptist Church will supposedly begin protesting at various locations around our area on Thursday — if they actually turn up, that is. They were no-shows at a Boulder gay-marriage debate in January, for example. Let’s hope they also fail to spew bile at…
Back in January, when attorney and medical marijuana advocate Rob Corry called on the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment to reveal how much money it had collected from MMJ patient fees, he complained about a waiting period for permits in the four-month range. Since then, Corry believes the…
Another Monday made tolerable only by the memory of what transpired in the days prior. This time around, it was a DIY kind of weekend, starring: Record Store Day at Wax Trax, Twist & Shout and Independent. Electric Poonany, an art-and-DJ party in a garage. The Who’s Having Fun Festival,…
A 22-year-old convicted car thief, left a quadraplegic by police gunfire and now costing the state prison system $200,000 a year for his care, was recently granted an unusual “special medical needs” parole — only to see it revoked after law enforcement officials learned of the arrangement and complained that…
In an interview last week, NORML executive director Allen St. Pierre confirmed that he’ll be attending the politically oriented 4/20 rally at Denver’s Civic Center Park this year. It’ll be his second straight 4/20 in Colorado. Last year, he was at the bash at the University of Colorado at Boulder,…
Reports of a man beaten by a group of teens at Denver Skatepark last week, resulting in a fractured vertebrae and a broken elbow among other injuries, were certainly startling. But they’re apparently not unique. Westword investigative cartoonist Kenny Be found a 2009 account of gunplay at the facility in…
