Broncos fans may have unleashed plenty of Philip Rivers hate tweets after Denver bested San Diego in yesterday’s playoffs match-up — but as far as we know, none of them resorted to violence against Bolts lovers. A similar claim can’t be made by members of Chargers Nation. After the game,…
The Colorado Consumer Health Initiative’s Adam Fox has kept us up to date on pro-Obamacare ads aimed at young, uninsured people — a campaign doubters have alternately derided as “brosurance” and “hosurance” due images of dudes doing keg stands and a babe eager to take advantage of free birth control…
What made yesterday’s 24-17 Broncos win over the Chargers even more satisfying for Denver fans was the opportunity to see QB Philip Rivers, the man we love to hate, laid low after a week of hype about San Diego supposedly being a team of destiny thanks to Rivers’s bolo-tie mojo…
Earlier this week, we rounded up the cool reaction by some national pundits, including the New York Times’ David Brooks and the Daily Beast’s Tina Brown, to the start of legal recreational marijuana sales in Colorado. Among those with negative responses to the pieces we mentioned was Betty Aldworth, deputy…
Yesterday, we posted about negative reactions after 9News posted about the bikini bridge, an online hoax suggesting that women thin down so that there’s a gap between their stomach and the suit’s fabric when it’s stretched hip to hip. Some readers were unhappy at our suggestion that striving for such…
Denver blog posts have a keen eye. At our Backbeat blog, Shea Serrano details the many ways Pitbull’s “Timber,” video, featuring Ke$ha, sucks. The Colorado Independent on day one of the legislative session: No rockin’ the dome. Denver Egotist: Will this intense PSA cure you of speeding?…
It’s a suitably strange conclusion to a bizarre case. Back in December 2012, we told you about a lawsuit filed by Bryson Dewberry against Chang Ho Yi, a liquor store owner who’d shot him in the face after he’d shoplifted a bottle of Grey Goose vodka. Now, a jury has…
Last April, we told you about the strange story of Stephen Amador, a high-school basketball referee accused of groping four female players while they were on the courts during games — and presumably in full view of their parents and loved ones. The latest? Amador has been found guilty of…
Chargers QB Philip Rivers, who Broncos fans love to hate, will bring his many ridiculous expressions to Denver on Sunday for a playoff match-up against the Broncos. No doubt he’ll be wearing a bolo tie of the sort that San Diego boosters see as a good-luck charm — hence their…
Folks who ride the bus at night in Denver tend to be hyper-vigilant — and the experience of a woman late on Wednesday demonstrates why. According to police, a rider tried to sexually assault her shortly after she disembarked, and only her scrappiness prevented an awful situation from being even…
Melanie Asmar’s post about a drunk woman who got into an elephant exhibit at the Denver Zoo notes that new signage is intended to prevent something like this from happening in the future. In the view of one reader, though, the Zoo shouldn’t be considered off the hook for what…
Denver blog posts like it raw. At our Cafe Society blog, Amber Taufen notes a Hapa Sushi ad featuring a menu that pairs food items with marijuana strains. Roundball Mining Company’s Kalen Deremo on trade prospects for disgruntled Nugget Andre Miller — including, possibly, Jimmer Fredette. Denver Frank introduces Breaking…
As we’ve reported, attorney and conservative talk-show host Dan Caplis, whose KHOW show with fellow lawyer Craig Silverman ended in June 2012, returned to the airwaves this week at KNUS, an outlet that also provided a refuge for ex-KHOW mainstay Peter Boyles. And on his debut program, he immediately made…
Earlier this week, we told you about three New Year’s assaults in downtown that bear strong resemblances to the “knockout game” — sucker punches intended to render random strangers unconscious. Now, the Denver Police Department is facing criticism for taking the better part of a week to let the public…
Earlier this week, we told you about satirical news stories on Colorado pot sales that some people appeared to be taking seriously, including one whose headline claimed that “Marijuana Overdoses Kill 37.” Have the citizens of Internet Nation learned anything from these experiences? Not all of them, apparently. Enough folks…
As of today, it’s been one week since legal recreational marijuana sales launched in Colorado, and Westword’s photographers have been hard at work covering the story. Get an inside look below via samples from three separate slide shows: January 1’s “Recreational marijuana sales begin in Denver,” January 3’s “Behind the…
A search for the phrase “bikini bridge” on the 9News Facebook page this morning scores no hits — meaning that it’s presumably been scrubbed out of existence. But there was enough hubbub about coverage of what’s now seen as an Internet hoax to convince young women that emaciation is in…
Our post about a Denver City Council proclamation calling on a federal banking fix for marijuana businesses noted an industry estimate of more than $5 million in recreational pot sales in the first five days such transactions were legal. This figure got one of our readers thinking about an old…
Denver blog posts get to the point. At our Cafe Society blog, Lori Midson reveals how you can spend a night of butchery with Mark DeNittis. Big Media’s Jason Salzman wonders who’ll be the target of the Colorado GOP’s super-PAC. Mile High Hockey’s Sandie Gauthier on the Colorado Avs headed…
The murder of eighteen-year-old Anthony Benavidez in a Thornton trailer park isn’t the only violent death to take place in that community over recent days. Also killed was Wesley Maldonado, who died at the hands of police officers. Maldonado, who had a lengthy criminal record, led cops on a wild…
Today marks one week since the launch of recreational marijuana sales in Colorado, and despite the concerns voiced by pot-legalization critics, the state appears to be surviving just fine. Meanwhile, the expansion of the recreational cannabis biz continues apace. According to one industry representative, more than fifty are now open…
The day after Christmas, those who loved and cared about 37-year-old Alexander Tower got terrible news: Tower, seen here, and another man, Francisco Gutierrez, age 39, were found dead in the former’s Denver home. They’d both been shot to death. Shortly after the victims were ID’d, the Denver Police Department…
