Englewood-based DISH Network faces plenty of challenges in today’s entertainment environment, not the least of which is piracy of its programming using software that lets folks with free-to-air receivers view it for nothing. Which is a lot cheaper than a monthly fee. Stopping all such schemes is damn near impossible…
Was a betta fish targeted during a home invasion in Boulder? Consider the evidence. According to the Boulder Daily Camera, a nineteen-year-old woman awoke during the wee hours of Monday morning to find an unknown man in her apartment. When she yelled, he split — and because she initially assumed…
He didn’t ride up on a scooter and he didn’t sky dive out of an airplane. He wasn’t wearing his pajamas or a crazy green bow tie or even a cowboy hat. Mayor John Hickenlooper had declared Tuesday “Dress Western Day” in honor of the National Western Stock Show. But…
Get in serious trouble, go to prison. Get into some bad shit inside prison — attacking staff, running heroin, or maybe somebody doesn’t like your gang tattoo — and you go to the hole, also known as solitary confinement or (in prison speak) administrative segregation. Reporting what goes on inside…
Last week’s cover story on LEGO Universe, an ambitious online LEGO video game being developed by Louisville company NetDevil uncovered lots of intriguing tidbits about everybody’s favorite plastic building blocks — like how serious builders use obscure terms like SNOT (studs not on top) to describe their bricks, and how…
If you can’t make it to the National Western Stock Show to see Miss Rodeo Colorado Kasie Pigg — either the way cartoonist Kenny Be imagined her, or the way she appears on her website and her Facebook page — you can read all about her via her Twitter feed…
Our featured Twit this week goes by the handle @pugofwar on Twitter, and Ef Rodriguez most other places. When he’s not busy blogging (on his own blog and for the Huffington Post), he can be found playing World of Warcraft, organizing events such as Boco.me and Ignite Boulder, or engaging…
Some blogs about Denver, written in Denver. Or at least we think so. Colorado Pols finds evidence that Scott McInnis, who just shaved his mustache and looks as if he’s tinted his locks, “has tinkered with his hair color ever since he’s been in politics.” We vote for purple streaks…
Officials charged with regulating the booming medical marijuana business — like members of Denver City Council, who approved an ordinance last night — are feeling heat from more than just weed advocates like attorney Rob Corry, who’s considering legal action to stop the council’s rules from going into effect. Also…
At this hour, multiple news agencies, including Channel 4 and the Denver Post, are reporting that Denver mayor John Hickenlooper will run for Colorado governor, with an announcement anticipated this afternoon. The move is the biggest surprise since the sun came up this morning. It’s been abundantly clear that Hickenlooper…
View Larger Map Predictably, those good news stories about the murder rate in Denver being down in 2009 have been followed by bloodshed aplenty. Example: two homicides took place late last night near the intersection of Martin Luther King Boulevard and Adams Street, an area captured in the graphic above…
On Friday, Late Late Show laff-maker Craig Ferguson talked about his impending trip to Denver, a city that makes him poop funny. But as last night’s program proved, he survived this fecal mutation — and, as a bonus, he came away with a new plan to take over the city…
Most medical marijuana backers are up in arms about the weed rules passed by Denver City Council last night — including attorney Rob Corry, who says he may form a coalition to sue over the regulations. But Matt Brown, head of Coloradans for Medical Marijuana Regulations, who was profiled in…
Yesterday, the Denver City Council passed rules intended to regulate the burgeoning medical marijuana industry — and most members of the overflow crowd weren’t happy with what went down. That includes Rob Corry, an attorney and medical marijuana advocate. In a previous blog, Corry made it clear he would consider…
“For the first time in years, people in Denver are abusing marijuana more than any other drug,” trumpeted a January 8 Channel 9 investigative story on citywide drug stats. That’s quite the announcement. Too bad the story itself is filled with more useless junk than a baggie of ditch weed…
Yesterday, CNNMoney confirmed that Google News hasn’t added any new Associated Press content since just before Christmas — “a sign that contract negotiations between the two companies may have broken down.” No surprise, given some of the comments made by the AP’s chairman — none other than Dean Singleton, head…
Now that Denver City Council has approved a set of medical marijuana rules, the next major deliberative body in Colorado to take on the topic will be the state legislature. But there’s no clear map for the legislature to follow, what with Senator Chris Romer scrapping most of his heavily…
When, in this post-9/11 world, we hear a story about a plane making an unscheduled landing due to the actions of a man with a name that sounds Middle Eastern, most of us instantly think: Where was he hiding the explosives, and did he burn his balls trying to light…
La La Vazquez, former MTV veejay and fiance of Nuggets starter Carmelo Anthony, knows a bit about love-themed reality shows — especially the VH1 kind that star gold-toothed-’80s-rappers-who-once-had-relations-with-the-Russian-chick-from-Rocky IV and crazy bitches who cat-fight other crazy bitches. But is she planning to produce a reality show of her own? Word…
Thomas Leurck is from Superior — but that doesn’t mean either his dog or his wife see him as a superior guy. Leurck was reportedly busted in December for kicking his six-year-old beagle, Tikka, so hard that it had to undergo surgery. He soon wound up in jail, where he…
It wasn’t quite pop art, but close — and readers and viewers everywhere are chugging it down. This weekend, Channel 9 reported about bottles of Gatorade on local store shelves featuring a photo of Tiger Woods and his wife and the word “Unfaithful” — an art project pulled off by…
