How did a Louisiana-bred associate professor of African-American Studies at Georgia’s Valdosta State University come to the conclusion that Denver was “the most important place in the country to the glue-sniffing epidemic”? For historian and author Thomas Aiello, it started when he began researching his 2010 book Bayou Classic: The…
A dirt road winds through a mountain pass to a sign reading “Aspen Canyon Ranch.” Horses graze on the land leading up to the main lodge; dogs run free throughout the property. Welcome to Camp Bud+Breakfast, a partnership between Bud+Breakfast and Aspen Canyon Ranch, which opened last weekend near Parshall in Grand…
“Ghost Town for Sale!! $350,000.” That’s the opening pitch of a Craigslist ad for Cabin Creek, Colorado, a collection of buildings off Highway 36 in Adams County, near Byers, about a 45 minute drive to Denver. And while the offer has gotten loads of attention thus far, owner James Johnson admits…
The Colorado Renaissance Festival, which takes place on weekends through August 6-7, is celebrating its fortieth anniversary this season — and it remains a summertime favorite in these parts thanks to its beautiful setting in Larkspur, the colorful costumes of cast members and regularly scheduled shows, including ones that give audience…
I was happy to see Durban Poison, a personal favorite, make the list of the three most popular strains among Coloradans in 2015, according to commercial marijuana data firm BDS Analytics. Last week I offered a field guide to the top-ranked strain, Blue Dream; this time Durban Poison gets the…
Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper has been a political success in Colorado, and over the past few years his name has repeatedly popped up in talks of a Hillary Clinton vice-presidential running mate, most recently on MSNBC’s Morning Joe and inVanity Fair, where he ranks in the top seven possibilities as…
In the annals of court rulings, you won’t find any more tight-lipped or to the point than the order handed down by the Colorado Supreme Court yesterday, in response to a 56-page petition by defense attorneys trying to learn why the presiding judge was abruptly removed from a long-running death-penalty…
When Examiner.com debuted just over eight years ago, it was ballyhooed as a bold effort to harness the power of citizen journalism with the financial support of the ultimate deep-pocketed investor, Denver-based billionaire Phil Anschutz. The site’s impending death should be much quieter. Michael Roth, a Los Angeles-based spokesman for Anschutz Entertainment…
You don’t have to look far to see the long-term impact former Colorado Senator Bill Armstrong, who died of cancer yesterday at age 79, has had on the local and national political scene. Note that Friday’s Western Conservative Summit, at which presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump had a very…
“Horseradish!” That was Lewis Emanuel Trenner’s “Aha!” moment. He usually kept a tape recorder next to his bed in order to capture random thoughts that came to him during the night, and his daughter Anita, who was a high-school student in 1965, still recalls her father shouting “Horseradish!” After learning…
Dear Stoner: My friend said his landlord has been giving him shit for smoking pot. WTF? It’s legal! Deb Dear Deb: It sure is, but that doesn’t protect renters who smoke pot in a house owned by someone else. It’s not uncommon to see no-smoking stipulations in leases, and they…
Many women could be credited with paving Hillary Clinton’s road to the White House, but none are as familiar to Coloradans as Pat Schroeder, the first woman elected to Congress from Colorado — who considered her own run for president almost thirty years ago. Schroeder formally endorsed Clinton for president…
In May, as we reported, O.penVAPE, a Colorado-based manufacturer of vaporizer devices, cartridges and other marijuana-related products, announced that it had “submitted a proposal to partner with the Metropolitan Football Stadium District, home of the Denver Broncos, to sponsor Denver’s landmark stadium.” The company stressed that “the proposal from O.penVAPE states that…
People all over Colorado headed to the great outdoors over the extended 4th of July weekend, and the vast majority of them will remember the time with pleasure. But there are dangers hidden within all that beauty, as evidenced by the July 3 death of Haley Clarke, a nineteen-year-old from…
Darryl Glenn, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, characterizes himself as “an unapologetic Christian-Constitutional-conservative-pro-life-Second-Amendment-loving American.” But onetime Alaska governor/ex-veep candidate Sarah Palin, who continues to have EDM-star status among a certain percentage of the GOP faithful despite holding no current electoral office, winnowed that description down to a single word:…
Even as new buildings keep popping up all over town, Denver is making history this year, with a record number of applications for historic designation going before Denver’s Landmark Preservation Commission — and four already winning full approval in 2016. Today, the commission will consider its fifth application, for the…
Paul Thompson had a forged note from his mother in hand, authorizing him to purchase model-airplane glue. The preteen presented the phony document to the man behind the counter of the drugstore at West Alameda Avenue and South Federal Boulevard, who then sold Thompson his ration of two tubes. Once,…
Our Patricia Calhoun recently highlighted favorite images from This Is Colorado, a special-edition magazine published by the Denver Post way back in 1959. Readers responded to the vintage ads and photos like the one of Union Station, seen above, with nostalgia. But they also exhibited a keen eye for the intersection of yesterday…
Donald Trump would probably tell you he had a good day Friday. Others might have a different take. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee was in Denver Friday morning at the Western Conservative Summit, “the largest gathering of conservatives outside Washington, DC,” its website boasts. Trump tried to sell the crowd on…
A decision by state court officials to remove the presiding judge in an infamous death-penalty case just days before he was expected to issue a long-awaited ruling on thorny issues dealing with possible prosecution misconduct has drawn fire from defense attorneys. They claim that the abrupt dismissal of Arapahoe County…
The shocking attack on Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, which killed 49 people and injured more than fifty others earlier this month, immediately intensified the debate about guns in this country. But while many officials on the national and local level called for stricter gun control measures (and the…
New regulations for medical and recreational marijuana businesses will go into effect today. Renewal fees for medical marijuana licenses have decreased, and how retail marijuana grow facilities are categorized has changed to be more specific; plant numbers are broken into smaller unit sizes. Overall, it’s now more expensive to set…
