Yesterday, we pointed out that the Mile High NORML Cannabis Rally, slated to begin at 11:30 a.m. this morning across the street from the west steps of the capitol, would feature a special blessing by Reverend James Marks of the THC Ministry. But that’s hardly the only noteworthy event on…
Early Wednesday, a man was found dead at the Cottonwood Trail Apartments, near the intersection of East Virginia and South Hampden in Aurora. At this writing, the Aurora Police Department hasn’t issued a release on the incident, but APD spokesman Lt. Sam McGhee provides details. “At about 7:30 a.m. yesterday…
Sorry, Denver glitz junkies: Your dreams of a high-profile celebrity wedding packed with luminaries from the worlds of sports and entertainment will not come to pass — at least not as they apply to Nuggets star Carmelo Anthony and his longtime paramour, former MTV hostess and reality show maven La…
Last March, we lauded 33 Minutes to 3-4 Right, an unusually ambitious half-hour long Channel 7 documentary about the December 2008 crash of Continental Flight 1404, and the thirty-minutes-plus it took for the first ambulance to arrive on the scene. Turns out we weren’t the only ones impressed. The program…
Coloradans for Medical Marijuana Regulations is the local advocacy organization that seems most willing to compromise with officials and legislators about weed rules in these parts; not that the group’s frontman, Matt Brown, actually praised Denver City Council’s recently approved plan at the same time high profile attorney Rob Corry…
View Larger MapThe two young men slain in a double homicide during the early hours of January 11 have been identified by the Denver Coroner’s Office. They are Lonell Franklin, 21, and DeShon Lee, 19; Lee was still alive when he was transported to Denver Health from the 3300 block…
Five students stand together at the front of a bright, spacious classroom. The tables that serve as desks are pushed aside and the chairs arranged in rows to form an audience. Spencer Isensee, an outgoing, ponytailed eighteen-year-old junior at P.S. 1 Charter School, begins the group’s end-of-quarter presentation. “For this…
“Last Things,” Jason Sheehan, January 7 Last But Not Least Really going to miss Jason. I follow him around, in a sense, and he’s never let me down; we will try Ondo’s. Love the writing, and he’s turned me on to at least forty places I would not have found…
Terrorist attacks like the underwear bomber’s incendiary attempt to blow up Northwest Airlines Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day remind Americans that the threat of terrorism is still pervasive — and in Denver, that reminder usually translates to more attention for the Cell, the nonprofit at 99…
The future of charter schools in Denver looked bright in 2009. Despite voting to close P.S. 1 and Skyland Community High School charter schools because of sub-par academics, the seven-member Denver Public Schools board approved six new ones. They include the expansion of two existing, high-performing charters, as well as…
The evidence against P.S. 1 Charter School, the subject of this week’s feature, “P.S. 1 Didn’t Make the Grade, But Can Anything Replace Denver’s Longest-running Charter School?,” is harsh. Several reports from Denver Public Schools officials and the Colorado Department of Education detail what they see as the school’s problems:…
Rozita Swinton may finally get the help she needs. The 35-year-old Colorado Springs woman, who authorities believe made a hoax call that triggered a massive raid on a breakaway Mormon polygamist sect in Texas in April 2008, pleaded guilty today to one charge of false reporting on an unrelated charge…
Charlie Sheen has made some nice coin over the years working in front of cameras. But apparently he doesn’t want to do so for free — especially when it pertains to his December 25 arrest in Aspen for allegedly threatening and assaulting his wife, Brooke Mueller, with whom he now…
We knew Balloon Boy dad Richard Heene wouldn’t go away quietly. But with the help of attorney David Lane, he’s managing to make noise even while serving a jail sentence for pretending that his son, Falcon, had floated away in an inflatable silver chef’s hat. Lane’s claim: The amount law…
Hey, Denver! Here are some blogs about you! Kyle at Bronco Talk gets fans up to speed on reports that two veteran Broncos assistants, Rick Dennison and Bobby Turner, are leaving the team for Houston and Washington, respectively. Maybe the grass really is greener on the other side of the…
Confirmation that the federal government has no sense of humor: The book is being thrown at Longmont’s Jason Kay, whose sin was to relabel Gatorade bottles with a photo of Tiger Woods and his wife Elin and the word “Unfaithful.” As is obvious from an affidavit by special agent Daniel…
Since Denver mayor John Hickenlooper declared his candidacy for governor, Scott McInnis and his braintrust have been busy insisting that SM’s approach to the race won’t change — a point McInnis spokesman Sean Duffy reiterates. “No matter who the Democrats are running, Scott’s focus is still the same,” he says,…
Upon reading the “go fast beer at mice” message spelled out on the Sloan Lake-area sign in the above photograph, I was confused. Immediately I imagined that it might be advertising a new instant-pick lottery game based on a popular smart phone application that allowed gamers to fling mugs of…
No one doubts that lunch room food is offensive. And while I have nothing but respect for lunch ladies — they prepare, cook and serve thousands of meals a day to kids who take tater tots for granted (damn cholesterol!) — the fare itself is, well, just like when you…
In just-released county and employment figures from the Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, two Colorado counties get significant spotlight time — and not in a way calculated to please representatives Betsy Markey and Mike Coffman. Weld County, part of Democrat Markey’s congressional district, finished first among large U.S…
The latest session of the state legislature kicks off today, with (still) Governor Bill Ritter’s state-of-the-state speech slated for tomorrow. But immediately afterward, the real fun begins. Medical marijuana advocates plan to stage the Mile High NORML Cannabis Rally across the street from the capitol steps, with speakers slated to…
John Hickenlooper’s declaration yesterday that he will run for governor even as he keeps his job as Denver mayor creates a challenge for his mayoral staff, as mayor’s office spokesman Eric Brown acknowledges. Yesterday, for instance, he helped set up the Hick announcement — a task that had nothing to…
