The announcement that the Downtown Denver Partnership may create a private security force for the 16th Street Mall in response to a recent series of violent incidents didn’t prompt a uniform reaction among our readers. Among the disagreements: Whether the situation on the mall is truly dangerous or exaggerated and overblown…
Denver blog posts make the most of the time they have. At our Food & Drink blog, Mark Antonation reveals that closing date for Lower48, our Best New Restaurant pick in 2014. Colorado Pols on a potential new candidate for Michael Bennet’s U.S. Senate seat: Meet Robert Blaha. A great…
At 10:30 a.m. this morning, Smart Colorado, arguably the state’s leading voice against legal access to marijuana, is holding a press event to debut a new billboard at 1935 Federal Boulevard, near Sports Authority Field at Mile High. The billboard reads in part, “Mom, is today’s pot a hard drug?” In…
Plenty of folks took to Twitter on Sunday to express their unhappiness that the Broncos had a bye week. But quite a few expressed the opposite point of view. For this last group, the benefits of the Broncos having the week off included a major reduction in stress, the opportunity…
In recent years, we’ve grown accustomed to discovering that rent prices in Denver are rising faster than anywhere else in the country. But a new survey by RentRange suggests that the situation is finally starting to moderate, at least in one particular area. The site looked at the average rental rate…
On Saturday, October 24, at Sustainability Park, a City of Denver property near the intersection of 25th and Lawrence, a Tiny Houses project being built under the auspices of activists from Denver Homeless Out Loud was raided by the Denver Police Department. Ten activists were arrested and the encampment was…
Colorado is home to some of the most dangerous and notorious people in America owing to the presence of supermax facilities in the state. Among them are “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski, “Shoe Bomber” Richard Reid and “Underwear Bomber” Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. Now, these notorious criminals are reportedly being joined by Gary Ridgway, also…
A new Gallup poll found that 58 percent of respondents favor marijuana legalization. Moreover, a national cannabis activist thinks Colorado deserves much of the credit thanks to the way the medical and recreational systems were rolled out. Many of our Facebook friends agree, including the following reader, who feels that the…
Korn’s headlining gig on October 27 at the Fillmore Auditorium will find a band that’s always looking to the future taking a rare glance into the rear-view mirror, as lead singer Jonathan Davis acknowledges in a frank and revealing interview. The show is among the last batch devoted to celebrating the 20th…
Denver blog posts are a multi-genre affair. Our Music blog features a wide-ranging interview with Korn’s Jonathan Davis, who reveals that he’s making a country album — as well as exploring a collab with Marilyn Manson. A memorable BigMedia.org headline: “Colorado GOP Loses a Thorn in Its Ass.” Predominantly Orange’s…
Our 2013 list of the top ten haunted Denver places to visit on Halloween according to Shadowlands.net, a website that purports to haunted locales across the country, includes plenty of venerable edifices, including the Lumber Baron Inn, the Molly Brown House and the Denver Children’s Home. But also making an appearance…
This weekend, your Denver Broncos have a bye — meaning there’s nothing that can happen to worsen their 6-0 record, which reached its present level after an improbable win over the Cleveland Browns on October 18. But that hasn’t stopped the complaining about quarterback Peyton Manning, who’s thrown more interceptions than…
In recent days, we celebrated the eight best bike trails in Colorado’s national forests as chosen by USDA Forest Service personnel — two of which are located on the Grand Mesa, one of the most spectacular spots in the state. I know this from personal experience: As noted in the…
All too often, young victims of child abuse resulting in serious bodily injury don’t survive the harm inflicted upon them. Fortunately, the three-month-old twin boys of Destinee Reynolds are an exception to this rule. At this point, however, there’s no way of knowing if permanent damage was done to them…
Overnight, a fire reportedly broke out in a two-story garage on South Bryant Street, between Federal and Hampden in the community of Sheridan. The blaze has been extinguished and is being mopped up at this hour. But it remains newsworthy because representatives of the Denver Fire Department suspect that the…
A reader’s theory about the increasing number of heroin addicts in Denver and beyond prompted a big response. A lot of the posts featured compassionate or thoughtful discussions of heroin use and abuse. Others suggested the best ways to deal with the problem. The following exchange fits into the latter category…
Denver blog posts know which number is on the beast. At our Music blog, Oakland L. Childers lays waste to Iron Maiden and more in his list of the six worst “essential” metal albums. Colorado Peak Politics shares the names of main stage competitors for the CU-Boulder GOP debate. The…
Is it illegal in Boulder for marijuana businesses to sponsor booths that prominently display their names at public events? Boulder’s City Attorney suggests that it is, while the man in charge of a local dispensary accused of violating the law by way of a booth at Out Boulder’s Pridefest celebration…
Back in 2012, we told you about a man who was selling his motorcycle on Denver Craigslist to pay for his wife’s boob job. A current seller has a less salacious reason for parting with his beloved Harley Davidson Road King Custom. The impending arrival of a new baby means…
In recent months, there have been a slew of violent incidents on the 16th Street Mall, many of which were ignored or underplayed by many mainstream media outlets. Nonetheless, the assorted crimes got the attention of Westword readers, as well as the Downtown Denver Partnership, which held a meeting on these…
We enjoy checking out the lists on the Ranker website, in part because of their eccentricity. Note that its roster of the most famous people from Denver includes a porn star. Ranker’s choices for the ten most famous buildings and structures in Denver is similarly idiosyncratic. Did the Brown Palace…
Over the past year or so, we’ve shared a disheartening number of stories about inmates who’ve died in a variety of jails due to allegedly substandard medical care. In June 2014, we told you about Christopher Lopez, whose jailers at the San Carlos Correctional Facility in Pueblo joked and laughed as he…
