When recent CU Boulder graduate Josie Valadez Fraire made plans to take part in a July 1 demonstration against Donald Trump, the featured attraction for the Western Conservative Summit at the Colorado Convention Center, she expected merely to add her voice to those of fellow protesters unsettled by the presumptive Republican…
Another month, another reminder of just how expensive it’s gotten to live in Denver. August’s Apartment List rent report brings good news – sort of. Median rent increased .2 percent from June to July in Denver, which is slightly less scary than that figure has been lately. Now here’s the…
It’s always fun to analyze a classic and try to understand how it overcame the test of time. My parents grew up listening to Ray Charles and the Rolling Stones, and so did I. If I ever have kids, they’ll grow up to “Hit the Road, Jack” and “Sympathy for…
Most people, I suppose, are more than slightly sentimental about the first house they ever owned. Unless you have money to burn, it was probably some kind of fixer-upper, or a very cozy older home in a strange zip code, or otherwise flawed. But then, the whole process is a…
On Sunday, your Denver Broncos will be playing the Pittsburgh Steelers in a huge playoff game for everyone concerned, including standout wide receiver Demaryius Thomas. But the contest will be even bigger for Thomas if another possibility falls into place. That’s because it appears his mom, Katina Smith, will be in…
When most folks think about bad behavior at Rocky Mountain National Park, they picture the likes of Casey Nocket, who recently admitted to defacing the park with her art (she typically used acrylic paint rather than chalk) and then sharing photos of her vandalism on Instagram. But there are plenty of…
If you see a 28-foot-high marijuana joint fashioned from a car on the side of the Courtyard Marriott at 934 16th Street, don’t be alarmed — or inspired. Part of a giant billboard installed today, the joint is just the latest ploy by the Colorado Department of Transportation to push its Dangerous Combinations campaign…
Among the droves of non-natives relocating to Colorado for our beautiful, expansive outdoors are thirteen brown and black bears rescued from deplorable conditions in Ohio. The bears, which include several cubs, were relocated to the Wild Animal Sanctuary in Keenesburg in late May, several years after Ohio passed a law that…
The Italian Parliament is gathering today to discuss a proposal for marijuana legalization. If passed, the bill on the table — similar to the proposal Colorado voters passed in 2012 — would allow the cultivation, possession and use of marijuana. Italian citizens over the age of eighteenf would be allowed…
Dear Stoner: I bought a disposable hash pen, and it broke. I took it back to the dispensary (they were great about it and gave me a new one), but the budtender said I could keep my old one and use the liquid for topicals. What did he mean by…
Sometimes Colorado seems like its own country. And there’s a reason for that. Colorado is actually larger than some of the most famous countries in the world — so much so that several of those nations and others could actually fit inside our state with room to spare. This fact…
A lawsuit has been filed against the University of Colorado Boulder by a male student who was expelled after being accused of sexually assaulting two fellow students — claims he says are false. According to the complaint, the student, referred to as John Doe, “was subjected to a biased and…
Talk of rescheduling marijuana has kept the cannabis industry and social media ablaze in 2016, which is the year when the Drug Enforcement Administration will supposedly to announce whether it will reclassify marijuana from a Schedule I to a Schedule II drug. Recent rumors had a decision coming down as early…
At this writing, a search is ongoing for nineteen-year-old Darius Ratcliff. The reason: He’s suspected of killing one person, Cristian Martinez, 21, and wounding three others at a house party at a house party in the Baker neighborhood. The incident reportedly took place at around 11 p.m. on Friday, November…
Colorado celebrated its 140th birthday on August 1. Because it was admitted to the Union on the hundredth anniversary of this country’s declaration of independence, it was quickly nicknamed the Centennial State. But to us, it’s always been Coolorado, the coolest state around, and the thousands of people moving here…
The weekend shooting at 18th and Market, which killed one person and injured another, took place in a parking lot that’s long been known by Denver police as the worst place to be during let-out for area bars and clubs. Plenty of drivers would agree. Multiple cars in the lot were…
In recent decades, this state has been the focus of numerous doomsday predictions that Colorado — if not the world itself — was in imminent danger of disappearing. The most recent furor involves the Mayan calendar’s prediction that the world will end on December 21, 2012 — a prediction debunked…
It’s Colorado Day — a perfect opportunity to celebrate the state we’re in. Not that the folks at the Fuck Yeah Colorado! Tumblr need a calendrical excuse. We saluted the site in our first Fuck Yeah Colorado! collection circa 2012, and created a 2014 sequel highlighting the page’s predilection for capturing the funny, strange and/or wonderful…
A month ago today, when Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump visited Colorado to attend the Western Conservative Summit, our Ana Campbell wrote that he had a no good, very bad day. But if anything, his latest trip to our fair state was even worse. The Donald was almost an hour…
As Friday night, July 29, was giving way to Saturday morning, July 30, the Denver Police Department responded to the latest shooting in Lower Downtown — one that left one man dead and another one injured. The location — a parking lot near 18th and Market — was no doubt…
Right now, there are rumors aplenty in the local journalism community that sports columnist Woody Paige, arguably the best known writer for the Denver Post, has left the newspaper over a pay dispute. If true, the story would represent the latest public-relations hit for a publication that recently followed a buyout offer…
On Thursday, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences announced its nominees for the 37th annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards. Among them is an animated short, produced by StoryCorps, about the 2009 Denver police beating of local activist Alex Landau. Using Landau’s own narration, the video describes how…
