In the pantheon of video games, Leeroy Jenkins is a legend. Leeroy, the World of Warcraft character of mild-mannered Lafayette native Ben Schulz, shot to stardom thanks to a 2006 YouTube clip (seen below). His gaming fame earned Leeroy a Howard Stern reference, a mention on Jeopardy and a spot…
Don’t look for any gorillas in the rerun of “Mile High Killers,” the Denver-based Gangland episode that first aired on the History Channel March 5. Those iconic pieces by Jolt, aka Jeremy Silas Ulibarri, the graffiti artist whose trademark Guerilla Garden brand got wrongly tagged as a gang sign in…
“Gearing Up for Governor Tom,” Kenny Be, August 5 Tom Tom Club Tom Tancredo is a right-wing nut job. You people would do well to steer clear. You might as well kiss off any tourist dollars with this tea-bagger in the Governor’s Mansion. Dan Kilpatrick Posted at wwestword.com Hey, Wussieword!…
Maria was drifting off to sleep on the bedroom floor. She could hear women getting raped in the next room. Only she didn’t hear screams — she heard the laughter of male guards. The women had been drugged by their rapists, who had done the same to Maria as soon…
Aurora City Councilman Ryan Frazier fought off stiff competition from Lang Sias last night to score the GOP’s nomination in the 7th Congressional District. Now he faces a bigger challenge taking on Democratic incumbent Ed Perlmutter — but as a 2008 Westword profile notes, Frazier has a history of staring…
Lawyer and former Colorado Young Democrats president Crisanta Duran defeated Denver Health doctor Mark Thrun yesterday in the Democratic State House primary in Denver’s District 5. The race wasn’t always pretty, with both sides accusing the other of playing dirty. But Duran’s been in that situation before — when she…
What could be safer than a visit to Tiny Town? It’s nothing but adorable little buildings and a cute choo-choo, right? But that choo-choo went off its tracks today, and fifteen people had to be hospitalized with ailments that included broken bones. The crash wasn’t tiny at all. Look below…
Jonas Rizzo had some excellent reasons for crashing his bike into a car earlier this week. First of all, according to the Boulder Daily Camera, he was trying to run a red light. And second? He was visibly drunk. Not that biking while hammered is a unique crime in health-conscious…
Rounding up Denver blog posts three at a time. In a Mile High Report fan post, Orange and Blue offers the 846th reason why he hates the mainstream media: Rather than ESPN’s Chris Mortensen talking about the Broncos in general, “the only thing that gets air time is our 3rd…
With Colorado’s GOP boss saying Republican guv nominee Dan Maes has no chance to win in a three-way race, and Denver Post publisher Dean Singleton suggesting that Maes probably isn’t even competent to be dog catcher, it’s no surprise that old-school conservatives are casting around for another option. Right now,…
HB 1284, the medical marijuana regulation law signed by Governor Bill Ritter, includes the right for municipalities to ban dispensaries, and numerous cities, including Aurora and Broomfield, are taking advantage of it. But while MMJ attorneys have talked about issuing lawsuits to challenge this and other HB 1284 provisions, none…
The wheat paste technique is most often used to slap printed movie posters onto wooden pedestrian walkways in construction zones — but its use to display an original drawing on a cell-phone tower is more rare than a spotted owl sighting. As seen in the photo above, the remains of…
In late July, after a Denver Post editorial argued that he wasn’t qualified to be governor due to his poor business record, Dan Maes suggested that he might limit the Post’s access if it didn’t begin to cover his campaign more evenhandedly. But Post publisher and MediaNews Group head Dean…
Last night, most of us knew that plagiarism-troubled Scott McInnis had narrowly lost the Republican governor’s nomination to Liberty Movement favorite Dan Maes — but he put off conceding. Now, however, he’s finally grasped reality after several hours of folks like GOP boss Dick Wadhams referring to his campaign in…
No doubt about it: Tea Party and 9.12 Project groups played a huge part in last night’s primary wins by Ken Buck and Dan Maes. But as 9.12 Project Colorado Coalition chair Lu Busse basks in victory, she envisions a scenario in which Maes and Tom Tancredo could work together…
On Monday, Scott McInnis spokesman Sean Duffy insisted his guy wasn’t a dead fish. But at this writing, he’s flopping on the dock, refusing to admit that he doesn’t have lungs — or that he lost last night’s primary to Dan Maes. But while Colorado Republican Party boss Dick Wadhams…
Update below: Eighteen-year-old Logan McClelland has been charged with murder related to a shooting at a Big O Tire store in Monument — the second high-profile slaying in the community of late, following revelations about Monique Lynch, who allegedly brutalized Genesis Sims, nine, and then possibly buried her alive. The…
More than a hundred new state laws go into effect on August 11, dealing with everything from clean energy to so-called “smart” government. But one of the most hard-fought reforms is House Bill 1351, which requires the payday loan industry to cap its annual interest rate at 45 percent. “Any…
SquareState.net has published a chain of e-mails between former DPS superintendent-turned-Senator Michael Bennet, current Denver Public Schools superintendent Tom Boasberg and board members Jeannie Kaplan and Teresa Pena about the DPS pension financing deal that made headlines in the New York Times last week. While the e-mails can be a…
Countin’ down three Denver blog posts. Mile High Report fan poster Mr MaLoR floats the possibility of the Broncos trading Champ Bailey to get a running back. Which would mean the defensive leader position would fall to… who exactly? Colorado Pols thinks high turnout for today’s primary will help better…
What’s the most memorable thing you did at age fourteen? In all likelihood, it was less audacious, and less dangerous, than the acts committed earlier today by an Eastern Colorado teen, who led the Colorado State Patrol on a high-speed chase for a hundred miles before finally being wrenched from…
The results from the thirteenth Colorado Student Assessment Program results are out, and the data that pertains to writing is anything but lucky. Student writing scores went down in the overwhelming majority of grades — and this trend is nothing new. Here’s an excerpt from the CSAP summary:…
