127 Hours fainting attack: Man passes out during Starz Denver Film Festival
Reports have been coming in from all over the country of people passing out or suffering panic attacks during the infamous arm-amputation scene in the new Danny Boyle and James Franco vehic...
View ArticleMichael Bennet: NPR gives him common-sense showcase for surviving Tea Party...
Soon after Michael Bennet was declared the Senate race winner, we asked Bennet spokesman Trevor Kincaid if he thought the Dem's victory amid a Republican landslide would enhance his power ...
View ArticleReader: Marijuana legalization won't curb drug violence, just fuel more drug...
Joel Warner's piece analyzing a federal government pot cheat sheet used to argue against California's Proposition 19 went viral yesterday, stirring up plenty of debate among readers along t...
View ArticleStarz Denver Film Festival: Artistic director Brit Withey's must-see pick for...
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 ArticleColorado Public News gets grant to provide health-care coverage for 14 media...
Ann Imse envisioned Colorado Public News as a way to fill the reporting gap left by the disappearance of newspapers like the Rocky Mountain News, where she once worked. The problem was try...
View ArticleGraffiti changes Loretto Heights Park rules: Kenny Be's Sign Language
Taggers usually use words or images to convey personal messages when defacing park signs with little or no regard for the public message that they are obliterating. The sign pictured abov...
View ArticleTop 10 tweets about CU firing Dan Hawkins
Twitter Nation's got a lot to say about Dan Hawkins finally being fired as CU's football coach. And some of the comments aren't terribly complimentary, as you might expect -- although we d...
View ArticleTim Tebow writing his memoirs, even though his NFL career hasn't been too...
Add these Denver blog posts to your collection. 5280's A.J. Vicens refers to Tim Tebow's upcoming memoirs as "the second coming." Praise be. Face the State's Greg Campbell: Is Larimer Co...
View ArticleMarijuana election round-up: More losses than wins for MMJ in Colorado
While the big weed setback last week might have been the defeat of California's Proposition 19, marijuana didn't fare too well in Colorado, either. As per the state's new medical marijuana ...
View ArticleJerry Allen Thompson arrested on suspicion of Michael Wanczyk in Clarkson...
Update: The Denver coroner's office has now released the name of the man killed in an alley behind 36 Clarkson Street over the weekend: Michael E. Wanczyk, 29. The cause of death was a sho...
View ArticleDenver Zoo welcomes Rinny the tapir, the first new inhabitant of the Asian...
Rinny, the Denver Zoo's new tapir, looks like what happens when an elephant knocks boots with a pig, and then they have a baby and it's Halloween and they dress the baby like an Oreo. B...
View ArticlePamela Tolbert urinates on herself while robbing bartender, beating him with...
When a man and a woman are convicted of committing a crime together, the dude typically gets the higher sentence. But not in the case of Alfonzo Portugal and Pamela Tolbert. Yesterday, Por...
View ArticleDan Hawkins fired: Can a Bill McCartney-Dave Logan coach-in-waiting plan save...
The firing of CU Buffs coach Dan Hawkins belatedly became official yesterday, with Hawkins showing up in person to essentially bury himself. But even as Twitter Nation tweeted about Hawkin...
View ArticleStarz Denver Film Festival: Artistic director Brit Withey's must-see pick for...
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 ArticleMedical marijuana from the feds? Meet Irvin Rosenfeld, whose MMJ is supplied...
The differences between the federal government's marijuana laws and MMJ rules in Colorado are vast. Ask Chris Bartkowicz, who faces years in prison for growing cannabis he said was for med...
View ArticleCarmelo Anthony trade: Does Bret Bearup firing doom revival of NJ...
Many Nuggets fans have been frustrated by the apparent lack of progress in a Carmelo Anthony trade -- a situation that's keeping players and fans alike in limbo and leaves open the possibi...
View ArticleReader: Michael Bennet contributor now thinks NPR-featured senator belongs in...
Our piece yesterday about Michael Bennet's rising national stature, exemplified by a huge feature on NPR, riled up one reader, who opened up with both barrels on one of the few Dems in tig...
View ArticleChristopher Hanson: Greeley gang member guilty of kidnapping, sex assault,...
In June, we told you about Christopher Hanson, a Greeley gang member suspected of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a woman -- and then trying to hire someone to kill her. Last night, a ...
View ArticleDoug Lamborn wants to trash PBS and NPR: Kenny Be's Worst-Case Scenario
Rep. Doug Lamborn, the grouch in the trash can to the left in the picture above, represents Colorado Congressional District 5. His bill to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting a...
View ArticleWin a pair of tickets to Thursday's Lakers vs. Nuggets game
What are you doing Thursday night? You could be watching Carmelo Anthony and the Nuggets take on the NBA's highest-paid player, Kobe Bryant, his LA Laker mates and the coach who oversaw th...
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