Writer Square, the pedestrian shopping center and mixed-use development between Larimer Square and the 16th Street Mall, has been a downtown fixture for nearly 30 years. But as we report in this week’s cover story, “Writer’s Block,” new changes at Writer Square are making some people nervous that part of…
David Scott is a fixture at Writer Square. He’s part of the architecture — almost as integral as the red bricks that grace just about every surface of this nearly thirty-year-old cluster of shops, condos and offices. Scott is the last original retail tenant left in Writer Square, which occupies…
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As we note in this week’s paper, a recent Englewood city council discussion about how to regulate proliferating marijuana dispensaries was drowned out by a much more pressing concern — dog poo. While only a handful of folks showed up at the hearing to talk weed, a small army of…
Urbavore’s Dilemma is an ongoing web series detailing city dwellers’ commitment to urban homesteading. From May through September, Westword writer Joel Warner will get his hands dirty, covering everything from backyard chickens to front-lawn gardens, from greenhouses to co-ops and food-sharing. Check out the full series here. The vacant lot…
It must’ve seemed like such a good idea at the time. Let senior University of Colorado cornerback Ben Burney blog about the Buffaloes’ 2009 season on the CU’s athletic department’s website. It would show fans what it’s really like to be one of those heroes in black and gold, the…
The Snowboard Bandits, who we wrote about last year, terrorized Front Range banks in 2007 and 2008. They were clever enough to disguise themselves in full-body snowboarder gear, but made a slip-up or two once the heists were over — like, for example, trying to launder the money by actually…
Urbavore’s Dilemma is an ongoing web series detailing city dwellers’ commitment to urban homesteading. From May through September, Westword writer Joel Warner will get his hands dirty, covering everything from backyard chickens to front-lawn gardens, from greenhouses to co-ops and food-sharing. Check out the full series here. In a grassy…
In July, at the end of a marathon twelve-plus hour hearing attended by hundreds, the state health board rejected contentious new restrictions on medical marijuana dispensaries, including one that may have limited them to five patients each. But that doesn’t mean questions and controversies surrounding the state’s booming medical marijuana…
303 Magazine, the local glossy lifestyle mag known for pretentious fashion photo spreads chock full of nearly nude models, is supposedly going in a whole new direction for its August issue: pretentious fashion photo spreads chock full of COMPLETELY nude models. According to the marketing mavericks at Denver Egotist, 303…
If the pundits are to be believed, the entirety of our country’s centuries-old racial upheaval will be solved today with the cracking open of a couple cold ones. After President Barack Obama ignited a fiery national debate on race relations last week by weighing in on the controversial arrest of…
The entertainment broadsheets have been a-twitter this week with news about The Town, the new crime thriller to be directed by and starring Ben Affleck. The film, based on Chuck Hogan’s 2004 novel Prince of Thieves and also starring Mad Men’s Jon Hamm and Frost/Nixon’s Rebecca Hall, is all about…
Urbavore’s Dilemma is an ongoing web series detailing city dwellers’ commitment to urban homesteading. From May through September, Westword writer Joel Warner will get his hands dirty, covering everything from backyard chickens to front-lawn gardens, from greenhouses to co-ops and food-sharing. Check out the full series here. While Denver’s urban…
It’s always been a bit of a mystery: Where, exactly, does the produce at Denver farmers’ markets come from? While some of it does come from local farms, as you might expect, a good portion hails from distant operations in California and Mexico. As of next year, however, folks will…
As we wrote about in a recent Urbavore’s Dilemma story (“Separating the natives from the non-natives at local farmer’s markets”), it’s often impossible to tell if that shiny tomato or succulent melon you’re eying at the local farmers market comes from a Colorado farm or an operation in California or…
It’s hard to understate the explosive rise of Colorado’s medical marijuana industry. When Westword took an in-depth look at issue in the February 2009 article “Medical marijuana Has Become a Growth Industry in Colorado,” just over 5,000 patients had been approved by the state to use marijuana — which was…
The redevelopment of Denver’s historic Union Station into a transportation hub was supposed to have begun this past spring. If things had gone as planned, a new light-rail terminal would be nearing completion this fall, followed by an underground bus terminal, a commuter-rail train shed and a grand new plaza…
Urbavore’s Dilemma is an ongoing web series detailing city dwellers’ commitment to urban homesteading. From May through September, Westword writer Joel Warner will get his hands dirty, covering everything from backyard chickens to front-lawn gardens, from greenhouses to co-ops and food-sharing. Check out the full series here. The ads are…
“I’m extremely proud today,” writes Ross Kaminsky, a local libertarian columnist and blogger, about taking the bronze in MSNBC news anchor Keith Olbermann’s “Worst Person in the World” list this past Wednesday night. Kaminsky got the dubious award for a 4th of July post he wrote under the pseudonym Rossputin…
On Monday, prominent Thornton restaurant owner Dan Tang pleaded not guilty to one count of money laundering, a charge that arose from his alleged involvement in a massive indoor pot-growing ring. That ring was broken up last year during Operation Fortune Cookie, a police investigation and raid detailed in a…
Urbavore’s Dilemma is an ongoing web series detailing city dwellers’ commitment to urban homesteading. From May through September, Westword writer Joel Warner will get his hands dirty, covering everything from backyard chickens to front-lawn gardens, from greenhouses to co-ops and food-sharing. Check out the full series here. It’s high time…
Kudos to the folks at Denver Egotist for first noticing this billboard-size blunder: Two billboards have gone up, one at Cherokee Street and Alameda Avenue and one at West Custer Place between Lipan and Jason streets, emblazoned with Denver Zoo’s manipulative ad slogan “Every time you visit you help animals.”…
