You haven’t really experienced skateboarding until you’ve seen downhill skateboarding, a breakneck extreme sport requiring special longboards that are built more for speed than fancy skateboard tricks. And it takes a special kind of athlete to pilot one — in particular, one who’s addicted to adrenaline and probably has some…
“Police are releasing a composite sketch of a suspect who was involved in an armed robbery on Wednesday, May 6, on north Broadway,” states a just-issued Boulder Police Department press release. “This man and another suspect are believed to have been involved in two previous robberies in the same vicinity…
Embedded video from NBA Video Isn’t it nice to hear national basketball commentators like Charles Barkley say nice things about your Denver Nuggets for a change? Sir Charles has typically treated the Nugs with all the respect of something he scraped off his shoe — but the further the team…
The game plays much like a regular UNO experience, although there is a cool new “Don’t Worry About It” card designed exclusively for the Uno Collector’s Edition of Tommy Wiseau’s cult classic movie, “The Room.” Perfectly named, the “Don’t Worry About It” card rescues a player from having to follow…
A Furman Original On Wednesday, KHOW talk-show host Peter Boyles and Mayor John Hickenlooper made temporary peace when they agreed to split a $400 fee assessed against Brian Furman, an Iraqi vet whose car was seized under a new Denver law after he was stopped for having a broken headlight…
A couple of days ago, a friend mentioned what he thought was a sound, wise, and terribly depressing investment opportunity: Vegas had released the over/unders for NFL teams’ regular season wins, and the Broncos’ number was enticingly high: 7.5. For the responsible among you, this means that if you bet…
Wells Fargo and KeyCorp, two major banks operating in Colorado, didn’t get top marks in stress tests administered by the feds, and that makes perfect sense, since my family’s recent experiences with banking have made us plenty up-tight as well. Late last year, we were informed that our credit-card data…
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy This morning, Secretary of the Interior (and former Colorado Senator) Ken Salazar got the full-bore show-biz treatment when he joined the Today show’s Matt Lauer in the crown of the Statue of Liberty, which will reopen for the…
A press conference featuring Sarah Heideman, a Brighton High School student who was banned from prom because her boyfriend, Jason Schweinsberg, allegedly smelled like marijuana, received a surprising amount of mainstream coverage in the Denver area, in part because of Heideman’s unusual demands: She wants the school to pony up…
It’s been a good news-bad news week for Arapahoe County District Attorney Carol Chambers. As one of the state’s most zealous officials when it comes to pushing for the death penalty, as documented in “Arapahoe County DA Charges Death-Penalty Fees to the State,” Alan Prendergast’s February 2008 feature, she was…
Oh, to have the Purell franchise at the University of Colorado at Boulder graduation ceremony, taking place at Folsom Field at 8:30 a.m. this morning. Earlier this week, reports surfaced about three possible swine-flu cases at CU, but officials decided against canceling the celebration, pimped in the press release available…
Bite this. Today in Cafe Society: • Jack-n-Grill’s Juarez burger gets a top 50 nod from Food Network magazine. • What’s cooking? Events at cooking schools. • Colorado, Italian-style: How the West was undone. • The Recovery Room has recovered! • Veggie Girl: The Melting Pot. • Stranahan’s leaves LoDo…
Our daily cruise through the Colorogosphere. Check it. And send tips. Still no concealed guns allowed on CU’s campus. But guns-rights folks are going down firing. (Face the State) People still use brothels? I thought that’s what Craigslist was for… (5280) In defense of K-Mart. The player, that is. Not…
There’s no shop-till-you-drop affair more time-honored in the metro area than the annual Ladies Only Sample Tour, which began several years ago in Historic Downtown Littleton and spread more recently to fellow Original Shopping Districts member neighborhoods. It’s a sweet idea, wherein local independent merchants band together to offer free…
Colorado Public Radio is reporting that it’s collecting almost $700,000 of late — a sum that goes a long way toward meeting the $1.6 million goal established by the service’s “Drive to Thrive” fundraising campaign. But money woes remain. After dropping plans to expand the Colorado Matters news program and…
Forget the Swine Flu epidemic. The Swine Flu hypedemic is far more contagious…..
Columbine: A True Story author Jeff Kass takes issue with numerous conclusions reached by Dave Cullen, whose book Columbine has received a great deal of national attention. But that’s nothing compared to Brian Rohrbough, whose son Daniel was murdered in the April 20, 1999 attack on the high school whose…
Local author Dave Cullen’s book Columbine has received an enormous amount of media attention — far more than another recently published tome, Columbine: A True Crime Story. And Jeff Kass, the ex-Rocky Mountain News reporter who penned the latter, has definitely noticed the discrepancy. He’s not surprised that the national…
Sure, the economy’s in the crapper, the country’s auto industry is going kaput and newspapers as we know them may soon cease to exist. But here’s one example of good news: Casa Bonita is doing well enough to be hiring a new cliff diver! That’s right, the Lakewood-based bastard child…
The serious health issues AM 760 morning-show host Jay Marvin has been battling since late February aren’t getting any simpler for doctors to tackle according to Mary Marvin, Jay’s wife, who updated David Sirota, his most-frequent fill-in, during an appearance on the station yesterday. As first reported on the DenverRadio.net…
Yesterday, I predicted that the Colorado Senate vote on a bill to eliminate the death penalty in the state wouldn’t be a nail biter, Senator Morgan Carroll’s suggestions to the contrary. But her command of math proved far superior to mine. In the end, the measure fell just one vote…
You got to love the way officials in this state think. According to this item in the Colorado Springs Gazette, the Colorado Department of Corrections has decided to ban visitors and volunteers from state and private prisons for at least a week, describing the move as a “precautionary” step to…
