Colorado Department of Transportation spokeswoman Stacey Stegman knew what kind of a week she’d have when she drove to work early yesterday morning, during day one of an event that seems likely to continue through today at least. “I saw a car merging at I-25 and Hampden going fast –…
“Hook, Line & Sinker,” Kenny Be, October 22 Heene Hick Festival What a bunch of hicks we look like in Colorado! When I watched the incredible fiasco of the flying saucer allegedly carrying little Falcon Heene, I had one thought (okay, two thoughts: My first thought was that it had…
What’s scarier: thousands of drunken, out-of-hand college students re-creating the Boulder Mall Crawl on Halloween, or the police intimidating a pair of Facebookers who were encouraging the revival of the event, a once-annual tradition that was squelched in the early 1990s for being a little too popular (and potentially dangerous)?…
The real terrors we should fear this Halloween aren’t werewolves, ghosts or zombies, Dan Hayes insists, but people operating cars without driver’s licenses. “It’s a complete public menace,” he proclaims. Hayes, a property manager who lives in unincorporated Jefferson County, has bone-chilling tales of unlicensed drivers causing fatal accidents and…
Trapped in surprise storm Bovine love trumps chill weather Moo cow asks: Got flake?…
While the rest of the state bickers about medical marijuana, and what kind of limitations should or shouldn’t be placed upon it (read Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper’s take here), Breckenridge is considering decriminalizing ganja for those without health issues, too, via 2F, a measure earmarked for the Breck ballot this…
Local bloggery worth perusing. Colorado Pols says gubernatorial candidate Josh Penry isn’t letting facts stand in his way when he talks about the state’s alleged “hiring spree.” If the facts would just clear out when they saw him coming, everything would be fine. Mile High Hockey’s Joe Dunman feels the…
This past weekend’s Zombie Crawl on the 16th Street Mall (captured in this slideshow) was a huge success on every level for the bash’s founder, Daniel Newman. But that doesn’t mean it was cheap. After spending about $2,000 of his own dough making the spectacle truly spectacular, Newman received an…
CU Buffs coach Dan Hawkins’ news conference yesterday, excerpted in the Boulder Daily Camera clip above and viewable in its entirety below, began with an opening statement that lasted more than twenty minutes, and it seemed longer. Hawkins is a smart guy, and he’s got to know that he’s not…
Alek Komarnitsky is a man of many loves — his family first and foremost, but also photography (check out this great slideshow of dogs showing a coyote who’s boss), the Colorado Rockies (during this past baseball season, he displayed giant promotional baseballs the team used in 2000) and Christmas –…
The explosive growth of Colorado’s marijuana dispensary scene is sooo September 2009. The next big thing, it turns out, is marijuana institutes — organizations designed to help folks makes heads or tails of the heady medical marijuana scene. The development is a no-brainer. The state’s medical marijuana law is so…
Right now, fans of pro sports in Denver have a difficult task — figuring out how not to spontaneously orgasm at inappropriate times (like during fully clothed meetings with the boss) due to the magical confluence of seasons involving all the big-four sports: baseball, football, hockey and basketball. The World…
If you’re not a student lucky enough to have a snow day, or a grown-up who’s wisely decided to stay home and watch movies, you’ve either already been on the roads during today’s storm or you’re about to venture out onto them. And while Colorado drivers can present their own…
If you’re lucky (as Jefferson County Public School students are) and have a snow day today, you’ll get the chance to watch some movies. But what are the best films for the occasion? We suggest flicks that make you glad to be warm inside instead of outside grappling with the…
At 5 a.m. this morning, when Jefferson County officials decided to declare a snow day, there wasn’t all that much of the stuff. Even in the Ken-Caryl Ranch area, near the foothills, only about an inch of it had collected on driveways. But Jefferson County Public Schools spokeswoman Lynn Setzer…
A Denver Post story today noted that an unprecedented attempt to score up to $320 million in loans from two federal agencies in order to bankroll the still woefully underfunded Union Station redevelopment could be on the rocks because the project’s managers haven’t been able to get a favorable rating…
That old cliche about good things coming to those who wait is certainly true in George Callison’s case. Today, Callison is a happy retiree living in the Grand Junction area, where he spends his free time painting landscapes; check out his work here. But back in the mid- to late-’70s,…
This week, we’ve decided to select a favorite Twit from among the masses and press him to justify his following. Our selection is @CacheFlowe (aka Justin Gitlin), a local musician/artist/technical whiz-kid with a hand in many a music and/or art project around town. Plus, if you like your men nerdy,…
Here are some blogs you might enjoy. Jeremy at Roundball Mining Company predicts that the Nuggets will surpass last year’s 54-win mark by four games, declaring, “Yes we can! The sun is out. The seas have parted. The basketball gods are shining upon us!” Keep hope alive! The Denver Egotist…
Last week, the liberal group ProgressNow Colorado created a searchable map designed to help customers of King Soopers, Safeway and Albertsons find other places to shop in the event of a grocery-store strike. Shortly thereafter, a letter to King Soopers employees noted that most of those options were nonunion shops…
You know the decision of a business to relocate is a big deal when the state’s governor offers to serve as a de facto publicist, as Bill Ritter did yesterday during the announcement that the German firm SMA Solar Technology AG will be opening a plant in the Denver area…
Sports talk shows and blogs blew up over the weekend after cameras spied New York Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez eating a hot dog on the sidelines during a TV time out. Some critics have said Sanchez, who apologized after the game for some reason, was showing up the pathetic Oakland…
