Worry over the outcome of a mail-in vote on a new contract isn’t the only thing stressing out King Soopers workers this season, as I learned during a shopping trip yesterday. When “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas” came streaming over the speakers, our teenage sacker announced, “That’s…
The story of the Cheesecake Lady reads like a home-grown Horatio Alger tale — one featuring considerable amounts of ganja. The Cheesecake Lady, aka Jessica LeRoux, has long been legendary in the local pre-concert tailgating scene for strolling through parking lots with her crazy hat and wavy hair and offering…
John Denver once admitted that “Rocky Mountain High” was written under the influence of LSD and marijuana — and now that his anthem is our state song, the Colorado legislature should write their medical marijuana legislation under the influence of John Denver. But drugs aren’t the reason why Denver is…
Intriguing story in today’s Houston Chronicle about Houston-based energy giant ConocoPhillips. Reporter Brett Clanton notes that the firm is downsizing elsewhere, but it recently filed “a preliminary development plan for its 432-acre site in Louisville, Colo., a small town roughly six miles east of Boulder and 25 miles northwest of…
Sexting: the latest teenage pastime designed to make adults lose their shit. But before you write off the response to the phenomenon as more middlebrow hysteria, grok the particulars of Geovany Alarcon, twenty, who earned a four-year prison jolt in Weld County Court today for giving sexting an even worse…
Every day, I use multiple social media services to work, stay in touch with friends and keep up to date with what’s going on in the world. Half an hour on MySpace here, twenty minutes of Facebook there, and a quick look at Twitter every hour — it adds up…
Denver blogs are bloggeriffic! George Jahn at Huffington Post Denver shares the fiery tale of Pamela Phillips, an Aspen socialite busted in Austria for allegedly killing her ex-husband with a pipe bomb in 1996. Oh, sweet memories of Claudine Longet… Steve Nichols at Mile High Report wants the Broncos to…
Plenty of folks, including members of the Denver Post editorial board, have been pretty disapproving of new Denver Public Schools board member Andrea Merida in the days since she had herself secretly sworn in hours before a Monday-night board meeting so she could vote on controversial school reforms at the…
Colorado Public Radio pledge drives aren’t all that popular even with people who donate to keep the organization running. But at least the just-concluded session had a twist: Cash was generated to support a different organization — the Colorado Symphony Orchestra. Margaret Williams, the CSO’s vice president of marketing and…
Buffs coach Dan Hawkins couldn’t have done much more this season to earn getting whacked: He lost games, he lost players, he lost faith in his son, he lost faith in himself, and he even appeared to lose his grip on reality a few times. Yet, he’s still employed, while…
Yesterday, an amendment sponsored by Colorado Senator Michael Bennet guaranteeing no Medicare benefit takeaways because of healthcare reform passed 100-0. Among those voting for it: Arizona’s John McCain, who’s featured in current Benet-targeting robocalls claiming that healthcare legislation would “[cut] vital Medicare coverage for our seniors.” Lauren Weiner, spokeswoman for…
Update, 12:14 p.m.: Just received an e-mail from Todd Shepherd, who now recalls Peter Boyles seeing a copy of a February 2008 letter described below around the time of its writing, after at first being uncertain if that was the case. Read on for details. Earlier today, we shared with…
“Whether it’s a beer bong, the lawyer for the teacher’s union or an auditorium full of pissed-off parents, your success will be determined by how much you can swallow.”…
Last week, we reported on the bludgeoning death of inmate Ronald Ferguson, a convicted child molester, at the Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility outside of Canon City. A fifty-year-old habitual offender serving time for kidnapping and sexual assault on a child, Ferguson was struck repeatedly in the head with a metal…
Banks have had plenty of troubles during our ongoing economic crisis — but they’ve still got more money than the rest of us, which explains in part why there’s been such a rash of robberies of late. Just yesterday, we told you about the $83 Bandit, who’s allegedly removed booty…
Late last month, the Denver Police Department began rounding up more than thirty African-Americans accused of robbing and/or beating men and women because they were either Caucasian or Hispanic. Now, the last of the at-large suspects — Allen Ford, 18 — has been taken into custody; he was busted late…
CU-Boulder has banned Nerf guns being used in an on-campus game called Humans vs. Zombies, ostensibly because cops seeing the handle of the weapon protruding from pants or pockets might think a student was packing a real weapon as opposed to one primarily used by children. Seem over the top?…
A new twist in coverage of Stephanie Villafuerte’s nomination as U.S. Attorney. KHOW radio host Peter Boyles has devoted a great deal of airtime to this tale (I’ve joined him to speak about the subject on numerous occasions), and as such, he’s become a hero to those who believe Villafuerte…
Remember reports this past summer that Chicago Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher referred to new golden-boy QB Jay Cutler as a pussy? Well, Urlacher’s at it again — although this time, he’s using more polite language. Bottom line, he misses the kind of ball the Bears played back when Kyle Orton…
Having trouble finding work? You’re not alone. Follow Jobbed every week as we troll for the weird, the wacky and the worst of what the recession-era world of job ads has to offer. The Job, as posted online: Forever 21 Loss Prevention Store Investigator Responsibilities: Apprehension of shoplifters; conduct Internal…
It’s over — and with nary a lawyer uttering this phrase: “Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I give you Exhibit A, ‘The Butt Socket!'” The feud between the creators of two different iPhone fart apps — Loveland-based InfoMedia, Inc.’s iFart Mobile and Florida-based Air-O-Matic, Inc.’s Pull My Finger –…
Colorado blogs that fulfill the USDA recommended amount of cyber. Andrew Feinstein at Denver Stiffs floats the possibility of the Nuggets trading Kenyon Martin for Shaquille O’Neal, who’s dragged down both Phoenix and Cleveland in recent years. My three responses, in order of volume: No, No! and NO! Western Citizen’s…
