Update, 9:10 a.m.: Appeared on Peter Boyles’ morning show moments ago — and he told me some viewers thought the photo of me in the video above was actually “the Romanian” who allegedly threatened Governor Bill Ritter’s life. For the record, I’m Italian and am too much of a pussycat…
Why can’t the Nuggets have crises one at a time instead of in bunches? The latest: The day after Carmelo Anthony folded over his ankle late in an overtime victory against the New Orleans Hornets, coach George Karl is publicly talking about suspending J.R. Smith for sulking on the bench…
Just a few hours after touching down in Denver, after a week of performing emergency amputations in a makeshift operating room in Port-au-Prince, local surgeon Scott Burke was trying to catch up on his sleep and rid his mind of the grim images of the devastation in Haiti. Most of…
It seems like only a couple of weeks ago that a passenger caused a flight to make an unscheduled landing in Colorado due to inexplicable behavior (including his insistence on shaving topless). That’s because it was only a couple of weeks ago. Now, a similar act: A thus-far unnamed man…
Thomas Quintin, 62, a Denver man with a long history of felony tax fraud, is facing new scrutiny after he walked away from his sentence at a half-way house and allegedly started a scheme investigators traced to caches totaling at least $1.3 million in government money last month. With 641…
Jeff Johnsen, the executive director of Mile High Ministries, a collaboration of urban churches in Denver, thinks its time that Evangelical Christians spoke up about immigration. “The way we’ve worked out our social concern is caring for the poor: helping the homeless, feeding those who are hungry,” Johnsen says. “But…
View Larger Map Earlier today, we told you about a shootout at Aurora’s T&R Liquors, pictured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”). Now, the Aurora Police Department has confirmed that one of the three people wounded in the melee has died:…
Ever since Centennial’s dispensary ban was shot down in Arapahoe District Court a month ago, Colorado medical marijuana operations faced with similar moratoriums in other locales have refused to go quietly into the night. The latest dispute is brewing in Jefferson County. Last week, county commissioners there enacted a six-month…
A triumvirate of blogs about D-town. In his recap of the Nuggets’ comfortable squashing of the Clippers last night, the Nugg Doctor’s Nick Sclafani points out that eleven of the team’s next twelve games are against sub .500 opponents. Which should be a good thing, but isn’t always. Ken at…
Air America, the liberal radio network, has seemed gravebound plenty of times over the past few years — and now even the folks there admit the project is dead. But AM-760, a Clear Channel Denver outlet originally seen as Colorado’s Air America station, still survives, if not necessarily thrives. And…
I like to imagine that all of our shmucks — every last one of them, from middle schoolers to the Mormon Madoff to the threesome from hell — are, upon earning the honor, rounded up and herded into one confined space, to trade stories of their shmuckdom and steal each…
Bernie Lincicome, a sports columnist for the Rocky Mountain News until the tabloid went south last February, was known for his blunt opinions — and blunt they remain even after almost a year on the shelf. In an interview with the Chicago Reader, Lincicome, who’s moved back to Chi-Town, where…
Members of the medical marijuana industry frequently cringe at the way their community is portrayed in the mainstream media, and that’s led to the development of homegrown news operations intended to provide a more accurate portrait of the issue. A prime example of this literally grassroots movement: Angela Macdonald of…
“Romer had his affair, Owens had his divorce, Ritter had his romance rumors. Women are usually attracted to governors, but I don’t see that with Hickenlooper. Lucky for you, Helen, you’ve got nothing to worry about.”…
Last September, we told you about local dog Becca the Labrador, whose claim to fame was eating a sock, puking it up, and then eating it again. Thanks to this excellent achievement, Becca was named a finalist for the first annual Veterinary Pet Insurance Co. Hambone Award, given to the…
It took the better part of a week, but Matt Arnold, the man behind ClearTheBenchColorado.org, has finally gotten the Denver Post to blink. On Tuesday, the paper published, “AG Suthers May Not Back 3 on State Supreme Court,” citing comments Colorado’s attorney general made about not supporting the retention of…
Yesterday, in a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court essentially gave corporations and unions carte blanche to spend as much as they’d like on campaigns, and to do so directly. Because the ruling conflicts with a voter-passed 2002 Colorado amendment, which prohibited such entities from using revenues for campaign purposes,…
View Larger Map Getting your drink on proved risky last night at T&R Liquors in Aurora, pictured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”). According to the Aurora Police Department, an argument outside the store led to multiple gunshots that hit multiple…
Yesterday, I learned something so jaw-droppingly odd that I’m still trying to wrap my head around it. Turns out there’s only one degree of separation between me and James Gandolfini, of The Sopranos fame. How? Because I dubbed his voice in the scene on view here — an excerpt from…
What do former pro football players do once their careers are over? The rise of the medical marijuana industry in Colorado provides a possible answer owing to one simple fact: A helluva lot of athletes love weed. Unfortunately, though, there can still be complications — like the ones currently embroiling…
Recent Denver Post stories about increasing inmate violence at some state prisons have arrived just in time for the annual budget battle between lawmakers and the Colorado Department of Corrections — a nice bit of timing that should be regarded with a certain wariness. The DOC would like to open…
Howard Dean, the former emphatic Democratic Committee Chairman, and ex-Bush administration mastermind Karl Rove are set to go head-to-head next month on the CU Boulder campus. And considering that the two rest on opposite ends of the political spectrum, their faceoff promises to be quite the show. Dean, the former…
