The Ten Most Walkable Cities in Colorado

In the wake of our updated list of Denver’s most walkable neighborhoods, we recently posted about the ten least walkable cities in Colorado according to the online resource Walkscore.com. Now, we flip to the other side of the coin. Continue to check out the site’s picks for the ten most…

Reader: Colorado Needs Pot Cafes Like in Amsterdam

A recent Ask a Stoner column addressed the issue of why Colorado doesn’t have cannabis cafes. The answer begins: “Colorado doesn’t have cafes like the cannabis coffee shops in Amsterdam because of this state’s stance on public consumption. Although it’s legal to smoke pot in private areas in Colorado, public…

The 14 Most Shocking Colorado Crimes of April

Our monthly mug shot roundups typically include photos from a wide variety of crimes. They range from the minor yet newsworthy (and sometimes even funny) to the serious and shocking. But in April, we published so many stories about extremely major offenses that they called for a post all their…

Meet Eight Porn Stars From Colorado

Ranker, a website whose name is self-explanatory, includes lists of the most famous Colorado State University attendees and the most famous people from Denver. Surprisingly, both of these rosters feature a porn star — CSU grad Juli Ashton and Denver-born Keeani Lei, respectively. And they’re hardly the only people in this profession from…

CSU to Students: Don’t Participate in Undie Run

Today, BARE, formerly known as the Undie Run, is scheduled to take place on the Colorado State University campus. However, the university is students not to take part in the festivities, which is described as both a pre-finals stress reducer and fun way to donate clothing to charities — and…

Reader: F.U. Gentrification

A Comment of the Day arguing that buildings with modern designs have ruined the charm of the Highlands birthed an extremely passionate thread. Opinions were widely varied. Some people like the mix of old and new in the Highlands, while others are appalled by the combination and see it as an…

Red Rocks’ Best Concerts for Jam Band Fans

In case you missed it…. At Westword Music, Brett Callwood highlights eight jam band shows at Red Rocks this summer. An appropriately inconclusive Colorado Peak Politics headline reads, “OFF, MAYBE: Blaha and Frazier Still Not on Ballot (We Think).” Predominantly Orange’s Sayre Bedinger notes that Von Miller thinks Broncos draftee Paxton…

Take a Behind-the-Scenes Tour of MiNDFUL’s Marijuana Grow Warehouse

The humidity increases as you enter the 43,000-square-foot grow facility tucked into a discreet location in the Stapleton neighborhood. Erik Williams, MiNDFUL’s national director of public affairs, leads the tour through a series of automatically locking doors and into the warehouse. With each door we pass through, the cannabis smell gets…

Ten Kinds of Colorado Workers Who Have the Hardest Time Making Rent

Make Room describes itself as a “nationwide campaign giving voice to renters.” And new data released by the organization shows how many people in our state struggle to pay rent from month to month. The site estimates that 370,000 Colorado workers meet its criteria for being rent-burdened; rent and utility bills…