Pueblo’s Ken Ramos didn’t quite become a Major League Baseball star — but he was good enough to spend ten years in the pros and earn his way into the Pueblo Sports Hall of Fame. Now, however, the 48-year-old is dead in what the Pueblo coroner has determined was a…
In recent years, we’ve written plenty about Wyoming’s unhappiness over Colorado’s marijuana laws. Back in January 2015, Wyoming Governor Matt Mead said his state wouldn’t be joining a (failed) lawsuit filed against Colorado by Oklahoma and Nebraska over Amendment 64, which legalized limited recreational cannabis sales here. However, he made…
We’re still collecting comments on a recent post that attempted to pin down why the price of marijuana has been falling at Colorado dispensaries. Plenty of readers have offered their own theories, but this one goes beyond explanation to offer predictions about where prices will go from here. Spoiler alert:…
In case you missed it…. At Westword Music, Brett Callwood highlights the ten best DJs in Denver right now. Denver Urbanism’s Ken Schroeppel: “Denver Union Station Expands Bicycle Infrastructure.” Purple Row’s Ryan Freemyer on the Colorado Rockies completing a sweep of the New York Mets with a little help from Ryan…
We’ve been reporting about the disturbingly high number of officer-involved shootings in Colorado of late. Between Halloween and mid-December 2015, for example, eleven officer-involved shootings took place along the Front Range — and the pace of such incidents has remained troubling in 2016. Recall that late last month, we told you…
Last week, we told you about an Anonymous video warning Denver mayor Michael Hancock that if he didn’t resign, the organization would expose his alleged ties to the Denver Players prostitution ring. This clip followed one in March that ripped Denver (and threatened doxxing) over the city’s homeless policies. Now,…
Residents in some Denver neighborhoods routinely live shorter lives than folks who make their homes across town. And the differences can be striking. That’s the takeaway from data compiled by the Center on Society and Health at Virginia Commonwealth University. VCU researchers have mapped life expectancy on a neighborhood-by-neighborhood level…
Actor Shia LaBeouf is, to use a technical term, one weird son of a bitch. Once a prepubescent/teen crush thanks to roles in Even Stevens and Holes, not to mention the Transformers movies, LaBeouf has, in recent years, actively shunned celebrity via his version of performance art. Take this Dazed account of…
John Baizley, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist for Baroness, which is part of the Project Pabst lineup on Saturday, May 21, is among the most fascinating figures in contemporary music: smart, complex, conflicted, inquisitive and piercingly articulate. Just as important, his band’s twist on progressive metal operates within the traditions of…
According to the Larimer County Sheriff’s Office, Joe Thompson reacted a woman leaving his car in the midst of an argument in an extreme way. By running over her. Indeed, the woman is said to have wound up underneath the vehicle after the incident, in which Thompson, 32, faces a…
We recently posted about a new American Automobile Association study that concluded Colorado’s marijuana driving standard, which establishes intoxication at 5 nanograms of THC per milliliter of blood, is not based on science. This came as no surprise to many of our readers. Cannabis advocates have long argued that the…
In case you missed it…. At Westword Food & Drink, Mark Antonation offers a photo tour of the new Illegal Pete’s on Colfax, which has transformed an old IHOP. Colorado Pols feasts on what it calls “Jon Keyser’s Epic On-Camera Meltdown.” Denver Egotist spotlights a Donald Trump display with a secret…
Earlier this week, we reported on what may have been the first Colorado drowning death of the year — a 23-year-old Fort Morgan resident who lost his life while kayaking in the South Platte River. Thus far, he doesn’t appear to have been identified. Then came word about the drowning…
Earlier this week, we told you about the search for Kenneth Bastidos, a suspect in a May 4 murder outside an Adams County motel. At this writing, there have been no reports about Bastidos’s capture. But a second man, Jose Ocampo, has been formally charged with first-degree murder after deliberation,…
Two of the topics that rile up Westword readers the most are the cost of rent in Denver and marijuana legalization in Colorado. In “Rent vs. Home Right Now in Denver,” a post shared in the “Rants and Raves” section of Denver Craigslist, they come together in memorable fashion. The anonymous author talks…
In recent weeks, the Denver Broncos cheerleaders finalized their 2016-2017 squad. But the members aren’t just waiting around for the season to begin. Instead, the group headed to Cancún, Mexico to pose for shots that will appear in the 2017 swimsuit calendar. The Broncos have released a preview video of the shoot…
The parents of mass murderers often refrain from speaking publicly about their homicidal children for long periods of time. Note that Sue Klebold, son of Columbine killer Dylan Klebold, waited for nearly seventeen years after the 1999 attack to sit for TV conversations in conjunction with a book, A Mother’s…
Alan Prendergast’s post about a satirical public notice announcing that “your presence is not valued” in developing Denver continues to generate online conversation. No surprise, since buildings are going up at a rapid pace in many Denver neighborhoods, be they trendy or transitioning. The designs of these structures, and the way…
In case you missed it…. At Westword Food & Drink, Mark Antonation writes about a Rosenberg’s Bagels and Deli pop-up at the RiNo Yacht Club on Sunday in the wake of a fire in its building that may have been set to scorch evidence in the murder of Shane Richardson, found in…
Fourth Judicial District Chief Judge Gilbert Martinez has found that Planned Parenthood shooter Robert Dear is incompetent to stand trial for a clinic attack that killed three people and injured twelve others in November 2015. Instead, he’ll be interred at the Colorado Mental Health Institute in Pueblo for reasons that are…
Earlier this month, we told you about a provision hidden within the so-called Sunset bill that, in practical terms, would let marijuana tourists purchase four times as much cannabis during a single purchase than is currently allowable under Colorado law. That legislation, known as House Bill 16-1261, has now passed both houses…
In 2015, the Denver Police Department began spreading the word about sexually violent predators in the city via YouTube. As we noted in our original post and an update in January, the use of social media to inform the community about SVPs — something required under Colorado law — has…
