Another day, another dopey Denver Post sports column about Broncos QB Kyle Orton. First, it was Woody Paige arguing that Orton should be benched in favor of backup Chris Simms — an idea whose stupidity was proven by Simms’ ineptitude after coming in for an injured KO against the Redskins…
Attorney General John Suthers has been the high-ranking state official most likely to imply that the sky is falling in relation to medical marijuana. No wonder he cheered a Colorado Court of Appeals ruling in the Stacy Clendenin case that aimed to tighten up the description of caregiver — one…
Whether or not Timothy P. Gonzales is a Talking Heads fan, the “Once in a Lifetime” lyric “This is not my beautiful house!” should have gone through his head last week — at just about the moment the man whose home he’d basically moved into fired a warning shot in…
Halloween is long gone, but the Day of the Dead is a holiday that keeps on giving. An exhibit in the grand hall of the downtown Denver Public Library features staff-produced riffs on the tradition of decorated sugar skulls that provides — well, plenty of food for thought. We could…
What a difference a year makes. Almost exactly twelve months ago, more than a hundred of Colorado’s most committed marijuana activists got together for a “Colorado Marijuana Reform Seminar and Activist Boot Camp” at Regis University. They were there to plan an ambitious new political strategy for the state, or,…
Editor’s note: This year’s Starz Denver Film Festival, November 12-22, features more than 200 films. To help navigate this cinematic abundance of riches, we asked fest artistic director Brit Withey to highlight some worthy selections off the beaten screening-room path. Look for Brit’s Picks each weekday through the extravaganza’s close…
Denver Public Schools officials have suggested a series of plans to “turn around” the city’s six lowest-performing schools. But before they approve the changes, they want to hear from the public. The Board of Education will hear public comment on the recommendations at meetings tonight and Thursday night from 7…
Stop by some local blogs. Like these. Cultivator Advertising & Design gets the Denver Egotist’s profile treatment. It’s a graphic display. A computer ate the Nuggets vs. Lakers recap written by Jeremy at Roundball Mining Company. But the clip of Ty Lawson’s unbelievable slam offers ample compensation. 5280’s Jennie Dorris…
The Aurora Police Department has released three surveillance-camera clips taken near the Sunrise Restaurant around the time a shooting took the life of Roger William Harris. In a release included with the other videos below, the APD doesn’t say if the individuals seen in these snippets are considered suspects or…
The study of neighbors through their lawn ornaments… Figure 41. North Capitol Hill: Bent-out-of-shape bronze beauty emerges from blow hole. After hours of careful examination, the bronze statue pictured in figure 41 appears to be either a narcoleptic ballerina riding a stair-stepping machine across a small pond backwards, or a…
Earlier today, we told you about a Boulder Daily Camera article in which Senator Chris Romer predicted that half the dispensaries in the state would go out of business if some of the ideas he has for legislation become law next year — speculation that fired up the folks at…
Today, King Soopers and Safeway are expected to submit their “last, best and final” offer to grocery workers. Don’t know much about the details yet, or whether the proposal will be notably different from the ones members of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 have roundly rejected time…
Because that would have been swell. Either way, it was a wild weekend in Denver, with midgets wrestling and people trying out for The Real World at Hooters and bodies flying at the Ski Expo and dance-music kids dancing at Cervantes and lots of other shit we don’t even know…
Since late last month, it’s been abundantly clear that CU coach Dan Hawkins is a dead man talking — a man hoping against hope that his enthusiastic jabbering about his underperforming team will convince the powers that be not to give him the boot at season’s end. But after the…
Behold: The talent-evaluating acumen of one Woody Paige, Denver Post columnist and ESPN yukmeister, who last week called for backup Chris Simms to be given the starting quarterback job for the Broncos in place of Kyle Orton. Be careful what you wish for, Woody. Because what you got blew. Yesterday,…
In 2007 and 2008, the Starz Film Festival’s annual “Big Night” presentation truly lived up to its name, screening Juno, a smart, sharp-tongued charmer that went on to become an unlikely left-field smash (and earn screenwriter Diablo Cody an Oscar), and Slumdog Millionaire, which ultimately collected several Academy Awards, including…
The Starz Denver Film Festival is seldom able to lure the biggest name actors to make appearances even when using its annual Mayor’s Career Achievement Award as bait. Note that Harrison Ford and Danny Glover were both here in recent days, with the former actually finding time to take kids…
Senator Chris Romer has been the state legislator most willing to wade into the medical-marijuana morass — and an article in yesterday’s Boulder Daily Camera provides more information about a proposal he expects to offer in January on the subject. Among his ideas: All caregivers with more than two patients…
A few years back, violent road rage issues were all the rage — and Travis Neil Smith has been accused of trying to bring them back into vogue in the most lethal way possible. According to the Westminster Police Department, Smith, 26, got into a road-ragey altercation on 120th Avenue…
Little-known fact about Denver Arts Week? Along with fine art, theater, dance, music and all that good stuff, the culinary arts also figure into the community event’s general cultural blend. And here are just a few of the edible bargains you can take advantage of while out and about in…
As part of a September feature on the state’s growing medical marijuana scene, I went through the process of obtaining a state medical-marijuana ID. On August 26, after scoring the needed doctor’s recommendation, I sent my application and a $90 application fee to the Colorado Department of Public Health and…
Today marks the last day of work for 176 city employees who were laid off in order to help close a $160 million gap in Denver’s budget. (Read this Denver Post story by reporter Christopher Osher for more.) Most of the layoffs — the equivalent of 108.5 positions — occurred…
