What are the hundred things everyone should do in Colorado before they die? We posed this question to our writers and editors, and we’ve been rolling out their answers across our blogs: Cafe Society, Backbeat, Show & Tell and The Latest Word. We’ve already shared Latest Word Bucket List picks…
In the week leading to the Broncos’ playoff game against the San Diego Chargers, we had a lot of fun hating on QB Philip Rivers and his supposed bolo-tie mojo. And to make things even better, Denver won! With that in mind, we focus our good-natured ire at the Broncos’…
In recent weeks, we’ve posted about several satirical Colorado marijuana sales stories that some are taking seriously, including one that claimed pot overdoses killed 37 people and another about Representative Michele Bachmann supposedly driving stoned that prompted an official denial from Fort Collins. A piece about folks buying weed with…
Immigrant Jeanette Vizguerra, who has been fighting her deportation case for five years, announced a victory today: Federal immigration authorities have granted her a stay of deportation for six months. The mother of four, who is a vocal activist for immigration reform, will be allowed to remain in the United…
Denver blog posts are sometimes about snow jobs. At our Show & Tell blog, Adam Roy shares three ways to stay safe this ski season. Coyote Gulch shares the January 2014 Colorado Basin Outlook report. Big Media’s Jason Salzman: Mike Coffman wants the re-deployment of advisory troops in Iraq –…
Last week, we interviewed National Cannabis Industry Association deputy director Betty Aldworth about numerous national pundits decrying Colorado’s marijuana reforms. Aldworth found many of the critics’ claims to be offensive, but one of our many commenters was less annoyed…
Update: Last week, we told you about the stabbing death of eighteen-year-old Anthony Benavidez at a Thornton trailer park; see our previous coverage below. Shortly after their arrival at the scene, members of the Thornton Police Department took a seventeen year old into custody on suspicion of committing the crime,…
Last month, Wichita anchor Justin Kraemer doomed his jump to a Colorado Springs TV station with an Anchorman-style gaffe: He said, “Let’s get the fuck out of here” at the end of a newscast. Now, the still-unemployed newsman is trying to make lemonade out of lemons with a parody video…
Update: We now know the identity of the man shot to death at 36th and Lafayette on Sunday: Jose Diaz-Luevano, 67 — the man a child was referring to when he burst from the home shouting, “They shot my Papi!” See our previous coverage below. Clay Baeza-Garcia, 33, has been…
Editor’s note: William Breathes became the planet’s first professional medical marijuana critic when he joined Westword in 2009, and since then, he’s emerged as the local expert on all things cannabis. Today, he lists his ten favorite marijuana concentrates of 2013. Check out his choices below, and click on the…
In January of last year, we reported that there’d been three official ski area fatalities at that point of the season — but the most high-profile skiing death, of longtime ski patrol vet Patsy Hileman, wasn’t included. The situation is almost identical this season. Three fatalities, including that of Sean…
At 8:15 a.m. today, Secundino Martinez, twenty, will make his first Boulder County appearance in relation to a stabbing at a Longmont house party early Sunday morning. And while he was initially busted on suspicion of one count of first-degree murder, that’s now doubled, sadly enough. Two teens have died,…
Even before the passage of Amendment 64, which allows adults age 21 and over to use and possess small amounts of marijuana, law-enforcement agencies have campaigned against driving under the influence of drugs, even though, from a statistical standpoint, alcohol-related DUIs dwarf pot-related ones. This weekend, Arvada’s Keith Kilbey became…
Last week, William Breathes wrote about a Texas ski tourist who wrote a letter to a Steamboat paper warning that if he and his friends and family were subjected to too much legal weed during an upcoming visit, they’d vacation elsewhere in the future. The reaction to the post was…
Denver blog posts are always in fashion. On our Show & Tell blog, Mauricio Rocha counts down 2013’s top ten womenswear moments in words and photos. Mile High Mamas’ Amber Johnson has fifteen ideas about how to help kids celebrate Martin Luther King Day. Denver Infill’s Ryan Dravitz offers a…
Despite a recent effort to change the rules, it’s still illegal to own a kinkajou as a pet in Colorado. Last week, the state Parks and Wildlife Commission denied a petition from a man named Jared Dryer, who was seeking to legalize the possession of kinkajous. The kinkajou is a…
The irascible and irrepressible Jack McCroskey passed away last week. The scant details in the Denver Post report and his online obit don’t even provide his age, which had to be at least 88, and nothing of the acerbic wit and passionate citizen activism that propelled him into public office…
As our Melanie Asmar reported, Aurora suffered two homicides over a three-day period in late December — one outside the Rack ‘Em Billiards and Sports Bar on Christmas Eve, the other near the Aurora Hills Golf Course. Now, there’s been another one, with the victim being found in the parking…
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,…
Editor’s note: William Breathes became the planet’s first professional medical marijuana critic when he joined Westword in 2009, and since then, he’s emerged as the local expert on all things cannabis. Today, he lists the ten dankest marijuana strains of 2013. Check out his choices below, and click on the…
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…
