Colorado

Chaos Ensues as Guests Locked Out of Rooms at Denver Hotel

Sunrise Over Denver, Colorado ©respres In an incident reminiscent of the Y2K scares, guests at the Denver Tech Center Marriott were locked out of their rooms when their room keys malfunctioned at midnight. Revelers returning from their New Years celebrations to the hotel discovered that the elevators were not working and their room keys were [...]

Photo of the Moment: Poised in Copper, Colorado

Passengers Detained for Suspicious Behavior in Plane Bathroom

Airplane Interior © Hunter-Desportes Police detained and questioned three passengers in Detroit on Sunday after the crew of a Frontier Airlines flight from Denver reported “suspicious activity” on board. The flight was shadowed by two F-16 jets until it landed safely in Detroit. The “suspicious activity” was two passengers taking too long in the bathroom. [...]

Photo of the Moment: Sunset at the “Colorado Health Club”

Woman Claims TSA Agents Took Her Insulin Before Boarding Flight

The incident happened at Denver International Airport. The woman, who is six months pregnant, was getting ready to board a flight to Phoenix. She said she had traveled with her insulin before and never had a problem. “Why is it that she was treated with such disrespect? Why is it that she was treated as [...]

The Dead, Painted Trees of Colorado

… here is an artist with a truly unique subject: Curtis Killorn paints trees – dead trees – in all the colours of the rainbow. Curtis tells us about his art: “I paint dead trees in bright colors in the mountains of Colorado as public art. These trees have been featured in many local and [...]

Denver International Airport’s WiFi Blocking “Racy Sites”

© hansol As a resident of Denver, I can’t help but admire DIA. Not for it’s blocking of Vanity Fair’s website or BoingBoing.net, but because the whole thing is just a glorified group of tents with a subway system. Its a new-age airport, defining an era of architectural excess and American one-oneupmanship. While I commend [...]

Join The Annual Naked Pumpkin Run

People in Colorado smoke a lot of pot. During the few days I spent outside of Denver, I saw stashes of illicit substances that would’ve made Cheech and Chong blush. It’s no wonder then that some enlightened Boulder resident decided there were not enough staged public events combining nudity and pumpkins. Enter the Annual Naked [...]