Amadeus Harlan lived life like the Bronco player he claimed he was — driving fast cars, wooing ladies left and right, even setting up a community sports company based around his gridiron glory. Too bad it was all a lie, as Westword described in the January 2008 feature “Pro and…
You’ve read one Hunter S. Thompson tribute, you’ve read them all, right? Ever since the Good Doctor took his own life at his Owl Farm compound outside of Aspen in 2005, lots of folks have been trying to put into words what, exactly, Thompson left us with. There’s a new…
Colorado politicians are delving head first into the state’s medical-marijuana conundrum, developing statewide regulation bills and counter bills, not to mention hammering out municipal rules city by city. That’s a good thing, since the last thing we want is for any of our communities to turn out like the pot…
The Denver Public Library has long been hip to technology, whether it’s offering DVD selections that rival Blockbuster or allowing patrons to download tawdry B-movies from its website. Now the institution’s getting into the smartphone craze, having developed a mobile website optimized for portable devices where folks on the go…
Afghani, OG Kush, Purple Skunk, White Widow… With so many strains to choose from at local dispensaries, how do you separate the wheat from the chaff? Thankfully, a variety of medical marijuana contests have popped up around Colorado recently, and they’ve uncovered the best of the best. Check out the…
With snow expected to continue falling into tomorrow, Denver’s streets are going to be gunky mess for good while to come. Thankfully, Denver Public Works recently rolled out Denversnowplan.com, its fancy new snow-removal website that, while it doesn’t speed up those plows, will make the wait for them slightly less…
The story of the Cheesecake Lady reads like a home-grown Horatio Alger tale — one featuring considerable amounts of ganja. The Cheesecake Lady, aka Jessica LeRoux, has long been legendary in the local pre-concert tailgating scene for strolling through parking lots with her crazy hat and wavy hair and offering…
Don’t know what to get that special medical marijuana patient in your life this holiday season? You could do worse than the Incredibowl, the high-tech medical marijuana pipe designed by weed-smoking Colorado whiz kids The guys behind the Incredibowl, which was described in a September Westword feature on the medical…
As communities around the state struggle with what to do about proliferating marijuana dispensaries, some cities and towns are washing their hands of the whole thing by banning them outright or instituting temporary moratoriums. Now, however, some of the dispensaries threatened by these developments are fighting back. As we reported…
Yesterday I received a very special present in the mail from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment: My medical marijuana registry ID card! Whoopee! Here’s the rub: It took fourteen weeks from the time I applied for the card in August for it to arrive — much longer…
When Congress ratcheted up restrictions on lead and other harmful chemicals in children’s toys last year, it was a victory for child safety. But the move has proven challenging for a beloved Denver institution and repeated Best of Denver winner: The Northwest Denver Toy Library, located in the basement of…
Denver Union Station: Portal to Progress – Trailer from Havey Productions on Vimeo.As plans move forward to transform Denver Union Station into a modern transit hub, folks want to make sure the old depot’s past doesn’t get left behind. The latest effort is a new documentary called Denver Union Station:…
The threat of violence has always bubbled just beneath the surface of water issues in Colorado. The state’s hardscrabble founders clashed over it, sparring over which mining claims got access to scarce mountain streams. Later battles moved to the settlements along the Front Range. In 1874, two farming coalitions came…
As detailed in this week’s cover story, “Pipe Dream,” Fort Collins entrepreneur Aaron Million’s plan to pump massive amounts of water from the Green River in southwestern Wyoming to the thirsty Front Range has garnered opposition from lots of sources. That includes Charlie Love, a colorful geology and anthropology professor…
Move over, Cheech and Chong: The two most important people in Colorado’s marijuana scene are Brian Vicente and Mason Tvert — and they’re out to prove it by passing a statewide initiative in 2012 that will legalize marijuana for all Coloradans over 21. Vicente and Tvert unveiled the plan last…
This morning, prominent Thornton restaurant owner Dan Tang pled guilty to one count of money laundering for his role in what investigators labeled the “Dan Tang Drug Trafficking Organization.” When authorities took down the drug ring in February 2008, they came away with 24,000 marijuana plants growing in 25 suburban…
Denverite Brian Crecente is sort of the Rupert Murdoch of video games. As the editor-in-chief of the influential video game blog Kotaku, Crecente, a former Rocky Mountain News scribe, was recently named of the twenty most influential people in the video-game industry by GamePro magazine. Crecente has decided to put…
It’s been a busy couple of weeks for Denver film. For starters, we’re smack in the middle of the Starz Denver Film Festival. And last week, the locally filmed cult fantasy INK received a huge publicity boost after it popped up on various torrent servers, which probably won’t make a…
What a difference a year makes. Almost exactly twelve months ago, more than a hundred of Colorado’s most committed marijuana activists got together for a “Colorado Marijuana Reform Seminar and Activist Boot Camp” at Regis University. They were there to plan an ambitious new political strategy for the state, or,…
As part of a September feature on the state’s growing medical marijuana scene, I went through the process of obtaining a state medical-marijuana ID. On August 26, after scoring the needed doctor’s recommendation, I sent my application and a $90 application fee to the Colorado Department of Public Health and…
For a while last night during “A Night in Old Union Station,” a swanky fundraising shindig that took over Denver’s central depot, the grand old railroad station resembled what it must have been like during its heyday 80 years ago. Roughly 850 people packed the station’s elaborately decorated great hall…
As noted in Westword’s summer-long “Urbavore’s Dilemma” series, Denver’s in the midst of an urban-gardening renaissance, with city dwellers tending chickens and turning their yards into Green Acres. While the growing season might be over, the seeds for future urban farming are already being sewn. Case in point: Will Allen,…
