It was one of the strangest stories of 2015: The arrest of Julieane Jablonski after Austin Essig, her nineteen year old son, jumped out a window, allegedly under the influence of a marijuana edible she provided. Now, a jury has ruled on Jablonski’s case — and while she reportedly avoided…
The Colorado ski season is winding down. And while the vast majority of skiers and snowboarders who visited here in 2016 had a great time, the resorts were also the setting for a number of tragedies. Between January and April, we’ve told the stories about nine people who died at…
Unless you’ve been living in a sports-free zone lately, you know that tonight, the 2015 NFL draft will get underway in Chicago. Your Denver Broncos have the 28th overall pick, although rumors are rife they could move down in the pecking order — or up — or stay put. Basically, there’s…
In a post published yesterday about the decision not to charge the cop who gunned down Adrian Moya in December, we noted the high number of officer-involved shootings in Colorado of late — including one that killed a man in Lakewood on April 26. Add another incident to that number…
The first will be the last. Video One, at 600 Downing Street, was reportedly Denver’s first video store will now be its last. The venerable store, which opened in 1984, has announced that it will be closing in the next few weeks. Here’s the announcement, as shared on Video One’s Facebook…
Dear Stoner: Why did the annual 4/20 rally (the one with Lil Wayne and Wiz, canceled on April 16) have to jump through so many obstacles for a permit, but the stoner fest at Civic Center on April 20 was just fine? Scott Dear Scott: The Official 4/20 Rally isn’t…
We recently reported that the Colorado Supreme Court had declined to hear a case involving Masterpiece Cakeshop’s refusal to make a cake for a gay couple, Charlie Craig and David Mullins, back in 2012. This decision, which leaves standing a previous ruling in favor of Craig and Mullins, was a legal…
In case you missed it…. At Westword Food & Drink, Jonathan Shikes shares an impassioned essay by the owner of Grist Brewing, who thinks suburban Denver beer makers get no respect. Denver Infill’s Ken Schroeppel presents details about a new Jefferson Park project: Decatur Point. Predominantly Orange’s Cameron Parker weighs in on…
When he was a boy, acclaimed naturalist Robert Michael Pyle found what he describes as an “imaginary wilderness” not far from his back door in Aurora — a muddy, weedy, man-made ditch where all sorts of interesting flora and fauna had managed to survive the relentless march of suburbia. The High…
We wouldn’t advise messing with Grace Davis. Sixteen-year-old Davis recently helped organize a protest at Ponderosa High School, which she attends, and afterward, her claim of being bullied by two members of the Douglas County School Board — board president Meghann Silverthorn and director Judy Reynolds — has led to an…
Pueblo is perceived to be a marijuana-friendly city — so much so that in March, High Times attempted to move its Cannabis Cup there before eventually relocating it to California. But in recent weeks, a slew of arrests related to allegedly illegal marijuana grows have taken place in the community, including the…
The folks at Estately have a different way of looking at the world. Take the site’s latest list, which calculates how much it would cost to purchase an average-priced home in each state using both dollars and items/products/stuff appropriate for each place. In Colorado, for example, the price is also calculated…
Massage therapist Marcos Duran has been arrested on suspicion of two sex crimes for allegedly going way over the line. A woman maintains that during a massage, he touched her genitals in so deliberate a way that police in Fort Collins fear there may be additional victims. Most of the…
We thought we’d written the last memorial post of the season about a skier who died accidentally at a Colorado resort. After all, many ski areas had already closed for the season, and things have been winding down at those that remained open. But no: On Sunday, April 24, twenty-year-old…
Last month, as we reported, the United States Supreme Court decided not to hear a lawsuit filed by Oklahoma and Nebraska over Colorado’s marijuana laws — specifically Amendment 64, which legalized limited recreational marijuana sales here after its passage in November 2012. The court’s decision effectively snuffed out this avenue…
In recent weeks, we’ve been writing about violent incidents near the 16th Street Mall area. One recent example: Four people were shot at 10th and Market near Larimer Square. Plenty of our readers were troubled by episodes like this one, including the following correspondent, who has an interesting suggestion for…
In case you missed it…. At Westword Arts, Luke Leavitt notes that Peak Thrift is filled with surprising finds — including its mission. “Majorities Matter: Anti-Vaxxers Win As GOP Senate Locks Down,” according to Colorado Pols. Denver PR Blog shares another great moment in journalism: reporting live as morons drive into a…
The first three graves dug at Cotopaxi were tiny ones. Their communal marker reads “baby daughter,” “baby son” and “15-month-old son.” They lie fenced off from the other 211 bodies buried in the cemetery, in the sandy soil dotted with juniper, piñon and Gambel oak, behind where the town’s schools…
As our Thomas Mitchell has reported, the Denver City Council has been mulling proposals to set a limit on retail marijuana businesses — including placing a cap on the number of marijuana dispensaries and reducing the grow total in the Mile High. And based on actions that took place last…
As we reported, Saturday’s 4/20 Rally at Civic Center park was postponed “due to weather and circumstances beyond its control.” The latter reportedly involved one of the event’s headliners — marquee names were Wiz Khalifa and Lil Wayne — being unable to get to Denver as a result of the weekend’s crazy…
Graffiti is so common in metropolitan areas that the crime seldom makes the news. But what happened overnight in the Washington Virginia Vale neighborhood is the sort of exception that makes the rule. An estimated 25-35 cars and buildings on or near the 700 block of South Hudson Street were vandalized with, among other…
Last summer, a family member of Camille Harrell, who was murdered in June, told us that the “gentle giant” was killed after defending her twin sister, Carmen, at East Colfax’s Sand & Sage Motel. Now, in the wake of Brandon Foote’s conviction for the crime (Merita Curry, who’s also charged in…
