Paolo Bacigalupi: Colorado's top NBA prospect?
Forget Carmelo Anthony. Our hopes for NBA glory this season are riding on Paolo Bacigalupi, a gifted but not particularly tall sensation from Paonia. That's NBA as in the National Book A...
View ArticleAngie Zapata: Local filmmaker capturing life of transgender teen in doc...
Photos of Angie, a documentary about the life and death of transgender Greeley teen Angie Zapata, is one step closer to being finished. Alan Dominguez of Loco Lane Films has now added a s...
View ArticlePhotos: Colorado's Legalize 2012 marijuana campaign kicks off in Boulder
The campaign to legalize marijuana for personal use in Colorado -- Legalize 2012 -- officially kicked off last night in Boulder with Paul Danish, a former Boulder City Councilman and Coun...
View ArticleTom Tancredo's run for Colorado governor proves that shirt happens
Tom Tancredo didn't win Colorado's wacky gubernatorial race, but at least he went out in style: Not only did he concede graciously -- and far more quickly than Dan Maes -- on election nigh...
View ArticleMyrl Serra: Western Slope DA's affidavits tell tales of penis exposure,...
Myrl Serra, district attorney for the Western Slope's 7th Judicial District, was busted in September on charges of unlawful sexual conduct and indecent exposure. Details were withheld at t...
View ArticleCarmelo Anthony trade: New rumors about Chicago Bulls, New Jersey Nets,...
Despite Carmelo Anthony's recent I-want-a-change comment to Yahoo! Sports, the Melo trade rumors that were rife during the off-season have died down now that the games count. But they have...
View ArticleRichard Paul: Grenades, C-4 at Durango man's home seized as part of Vegas...
Durango's Richard Paul comes across as a helpful and chipper salesman in a just-released cyber-sheaf of court documents. Problem is, he's accused of selling an array of machine guns and o...
View ArticleSources: Pat Bowlen no longer Broncos' major decision maker amid "memory...
For months commentators have been engaged in a coded whisper campaign about Denver Broncos owner Pat Bowlen's health and diminished role in the organization. As the 2-6 team staggers into ...
View ArticleStarz Denver Film Festival: Artistic director Brit Withey's must-see picks...
Again this year, Starz Denver Film Festival artistic director Brit Withey is offering his must-see picks for each day of the fest -- flicks that movie lovers might otherwise miss amid the ...
View ArticleReader: Tom Tancredo disenfranchised every Republican in the state by...
Dan Maes wound up having more support than predicted, preventing the Republican Party that nominated him from falling to minor-party status. And some of his backers are clearly upset about...
View ArticleJohn Elway, Josh McDaniels honored at Denver Film Festival: Kenny Be's...
The joy of living in Denver is that every moment of every day is exciting enough to be a Hollywood movie. Whether it's politics, sports or the arts, the weird, wonderful and wacky people ...
View ArticleMedical marijuana: Nearly 2,000 MMJ patient recommendations nixed over quiet...
Over the past week or so, medical marijuana patients across the state have learned that doctor recommendations for the card allowing them to use MMJ have been rejected. Why? A new health de...
View ArticleThis meter maid -- make that Denver parking officer -- should get a ticket...
Sometimes we deserve the ticket. Sometimes we don't. And sometimes, well, sometimes a little human courtesy would be nice. But Denver's parking enforcement officers aren't known for their ...
View ArticleMuhammad Ali Hasan says Republican Party headed to extinction: After this...
Working for the weekend with these three Denver blog posts. Colorado Pols shares former Westword feature subject Muhammad Ali Hasan's new column, "Why the GOP is Going Extinct." And no, t...
View ArticleMyles Stephens booked for armed robbery at medical marijuana center, 2nd...
Back in May, medical marijuana dispensary reviewer William Breathes admitted to having steered clear of The Clinic Alternative Medicine due in part to the stereotype that you can find anyt...
View ArticleGouda cheese giveaway at Costco not such a good deal after all, linked to E....
Who among us hasn't grazed through a store, snatching every free sample in site? Well, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, those who did so at local Cost...
View ArticleSocial studies: Education officials debate adding it to state tests, as...
Do you know from which country the U.S. of A. declared its independence in 1776? If so, consider yourself among the 74 percent of Americans who do. If not, consider yourself dumber than a...
View ArticleBrooks Kellogg, 73, pleads not guilty to trying to hire a hit man over real...
Brooks Kellogg, the 73-year old businessman arrested at Denver International Airport last month for allegedly trying to hire a hit man, pleaded not guilty in Denver federal court earlier t...
View ArticleAndrew Gelston Graham: A walk to remember CU grad in unsolved homicide
It was a year ago this Saturday night that Andrew Gelston Graham, a 23-year-old University of Colorado grad who threw a mean Frisbee and loved poetry and music, was killed by a single guns...
View ArticleMarijuana legalization: Did Obama's "pot cheat sheet" kill California's...
Why did Proposition 19, the CA pot legalization measure, fail? One reason might have been Obama administration antagonism exemplified by the memo "Marijuana legalization: A bad idea." As Co...
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