It’s Tuesday night, and Lonnie Allen is sweating. The unshaven, young-looking thirty-something is bopping from table to table around Leela European Cafe, downtown Denver’s bohemian-bar-meets-coffee-shop. Accordingly, there are equal measures of Pabst and java seeping into the two dozen or so patrons crowded together toward the back of the steamy…
The Best of Denver, April 1, 2010 Cattle Call I’m a longtime fan and patron. I loved the perfect-bound Best of Denver 2010 and generally how you’ve reformatted and re-envisioned yourselves to survive the publishing apocalypse. Here’s another way you could move into the future: Retire the cow. The cowtown…
Kids like video games. They don’t like stationary bikes and ellipitical trainers and those weight-lifting machines that make your thighs less flabby by having you open and close your legs like a Venus fly trap. In light of those facts, Denver’s Athmar Recreation Center, 2680 West Mexico Avenue, has installed…
Will Willie Clark be sentenced to life in prison for murdering Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams in a drive-by in 2007? If he is, Denver will know immediately. Television stations, radio stations and websites will be allowed to broadcast Clark’s April 30 sentencing live, according to an order written by Judge…
On April Fools’ day, folks are a little less inclined to believe the bizarre. Your consummate bachelor friend probably isn’t announcing his marriage over Facebook, and Canada most likely didn’t apologize for Nickelback, no matter how overdue it may be. It makes sense, then, that Denver couple Victoria and Tim…
Update, 3:32 p.m.: As reported by the Colorado Daily, Marvin Webb has died from injuries sustained in a bus crash last night. This blog’s headline and body copy has been changed to reflect this development; the original item, published at 2:58 p.m., appears below. Another day, another terrible accident involving…
The search continues for Kayleah Wilson, a twelve-year-old Greeley girl who’s been missing since heading to a friend’s birthday party on Sunday, March 28. This kind of story is capable of making people lose faith in humanity — but the Prayers For Kayleah Wilson’s Safe Return Facebook page should restore…
It’s that time again, lovers of Denver bloggery. Bronco Talk’s Jonathan Douglas thinks Mike Shanahan wants Brandon Marshall in a Redskins uniform in part because “Mike’s probably one of the few people that Marshall would respect (and trust) enough to accept a payday that’s reasonable (and not over-inflated).” Although Dan…
Yesterday, we shared a mug shot in which registered sex offender Dustin Winesberry poses like that velvet-voiced guy in Old Spice commercials. At the time, Bruce Haas, administrative commander for the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office’s jail division, said he, too, was surprised by the snap and said he planned to…
Today’s Boulder Daily Camera features a story about a policy at the University of Colorado at Boulder allowing freshman students who are also medical marijuana patients to live off-campus rather than in school dorms. On the surface, this appears to be a liberalizing of policy that reflects an understanding that…
Former District 1 City Councilor Rick Garcia was most famous for his uncanny ability to turn simple neighborhood problems into even bigger messes. His mid-second-term departure last month to take a job as the director of the regional Housing and Urban Development office is a case in point: It spawned…
In recent days, media outlets nationwide have told the story of Boulder-based Pete Warden, who created a database of information about Facebook’s approximately 215 million account holders. Facebook accused Warden of violating the rules of its site and threatened him with legal action — a prospect he took seriously enough…
In its article about Nederland decriminalizing marijuana within town limits last night, the Boulder Daily Camera describes the town as the second in Colorado to take such a step, following Breckenridge, whose voters passed a similar measure last November. Marijuana advocate Mason Tvert, founder of SAFER (Safer Alternative For Enjoyable…
Last night, the Boulder City Council passed a controversial nudity ordinance banning anyone over the age of ten from exposing their genitals in public — a response to concerns about annual events such as the World Naked Bike Ride and the Naked Pumpkin Run, as well as the possible revival…
Employees of Frontier who don’t want the airline’s name to change aren’t the only folks in the industry to have rallied lately. Yesterday at Denver International Airports, over a hundred United flight attendants showed up with pickets in hand to protest a contract stalemate that’s lingered for a year. The…
Yesterday, Kyle Orton appeared at a press conference for the first time since the Broncos obtained the services of former Cleveland Browns hunkster Brady Quinn. Among his comments: He appreciated that coach Josh McDaniels confirmed that he remains the starting quarterback. Which is all very nice, but as we noted…
Remember that gut-wrenching paranoia and the adrenaline that ran from your heart to your clinched knuckles as your driving instructor told you to “check your blind spot?” There’s nothing scarier than a two-ton piece of machinery that can top a hundred miles-per-hour and has blind spot. Well, magnify that times,…
J.R. Smith and Kenyon Martin have reportedly kissed and made up after an April Fools’ Day gag fell flat. As we noted yesterday, Smith’s driver, Laquan Johnson, filled Martin’s Range Rover with buttered popcorn, prompting a profanity-laced outburst from K-Mart and a tweet from Smith featuring the letters “LMAO.” Nonetheless,…
The item in William James Rucker’s Crown Royal bag packed quite a kick — maybe because it was manufactured by Smith & Wesson. Rucker, who’d been convicted of five previous crimes punishable by over a year in stir, took imprisonment to the next level yesterday, when he was sentenced to…
Allow us to connect you with three Denver blogs. Sayre Bedinger of Mile High Report sparks a lively conversation by way of his link to a Washington Post item speculating that a Brandon Marshall move to Washington could be the Redskins’ first post-McNabb-acquisition move. Most commenters feel it’s not going…
Back in February, we told you about a Boulder woman who woke up to discover a stranger’s hands in her underwear, even though her boyfriend was beside her. At the time, Boulder Police Department spokeswoman Sarah Huntley said, “There hasn’t been an incident like this in town for quite some…
It’s been a grim past few days for RTD. On Saturday, a bus ran a red light near East 8th Avenue and Lincoln Street, smashing into a vehicle containing Carla Miranda and Dustin Peletier, both 29, who were killed in the crash. Then, yesterday, another bus ran over a thus-far-unidentified…
