As we noted earlier today, the national media’s response to the launch of recreational pot sales in Colorado suggests a case of news munchies, with the mainstream press, satirists and everyone in between sharing views on the topic — including pundits and personalities less than thrilled by the development. Most…
Last month, we spotlighted a blog’s picks for the ten best U.S. cities of 2013 — and naturally, Denver made the cut. Our readers responded in a slew of amusing ways, although most of them didn’t throw out the welcome mat. Here’s an especially funny example…
Denver blog posts have made a New Year’s resolution against making New Year’s resolutions. At our Show & Tell blog, Cory Casciato argues that being a geek and being a stoner aren’t mutually exclusive. South Stands Denver’s Colin Daniels thinks overconfidence would be a very bad thing for the Broncos…
With only one execution logged in the past 45 years, Colorado’s death penalty is practically on life support itself — and about to be severely tested by three high-profile cases in coming months. Yet the man who might, in effect, pull the plug on the practice in our state isn’t…
Update below: KHOW radio host and self-described Troubleshooter Tom Martino was arrested for suspicion of domestic violence in a pre-Christmas incident involving his wife. Today, Martino returned to the airwaves — but while he alluded to the bust, he declined to discuss it. Meanwhile, questions continue to be asked about…
Around this time last year, we told you about the arrest of Eric Garcia for allegedly attempting to sexually assault two women in a twenty-minute period. Turns out Garcia had been even busier than originally reported. He’s now been convicted of sexual assault tries against three women during a one-hour…
First came our top ten “You know you’re NOT from Colorado” when punchlines post. That was followed by a sequel: the top ten “You know you’re NOT from Denver when” punchlines. Now, with the new year upon us, we sought out fresh territory — and there’s no Colorado city fresher…
Since the launch of legal marijuana sales in Colorado on January 1, major media organizations have taken hit after hit of news from the scene. And the nation’s satirists have been busy as well, cranking out stories with headlines such as “Marijuana Overdoses Kill 37 in Colorado On First Day…
Most celebrities tend to use Twitter for a variety of mostly promotional purposes. But yesterday, singer LeeAnn Rimes and comedian Kevin Nealon tweeted about a far more important topic — a plane crash they’d witnessed in Aspen that killed one person (craft co-pilot Sergio Emilio Carranza Brabat) and injured two…
Denver blogs get into the spirit of 2014. Westword’s Cafe Society reports on West Flanders Brewing, which is releasing Recreational Smoke as a tie-in to legal weed: “30 cents per ounce.” Colorado Pols updates us on Magpul Industries, the ammunition maker, which is getting million in incentives to leave Colorado…
Update: A proposed ballot initiative that would ban concealed handguns on public college and university campuses was given the go-ahead yesterday by a state board that reviews such measures. But that doesn’t mean the initiative will automatically be on the ballot. Starting in mid-January, the proposal’s backers will have six…
Yesterday, we wrote about retired Littleton police chief Heather Coogan and businessman Ken Toltz, who are attempting to put an initiative on the November 2014 ballot asking whether Colorado believe concealed weapons should be banned on college campuses. As always, the issue of gun control inspires a lot of emotional,…
The Colorado Department of Corrections may have miscalculated the sentences of thousands of state inmates, hiking prison costs by millions of dollars and keeping offenders incarcerated beyond the time they were expected to serve, according to a federal lawsuit filed on behalf of four DOC clients — one of whom…
Last week, we told you about two homicides being investigated by the Aurora police, including the murder of a man whose body was found at 11922 East Archer Place, apartment K-23, just before 8 p.m. on December 26. The victim has since been identified as 28-year-old Rodolfo Martinez-Cancin. And today,…
TV news personality Phil Keating, who garnered a bit of Internet fame a few days ago by interviewing rowdy revelers in South Beach, was certainly no stranger to the party circuit when he lived in Denver, ruling the roost as a well-coiffed TV news reporter and anchor. In fact, before…
This morning Dan Caplis, former KHOW radio host, joined onetime colleague Peter Boyles on KNUS 710 AM, where the popular talk-show host moved this summer after being let go by Clear Channel. And Caplis, who’d called in from Florida, wasn’t on-air to chat with Boyles about the surf; he was…
Editor’s note: We’re counting down the most popular Latest Word posts of 2013 — and at last, we’ve reached No. 1. Read it as originally published. November 19, 2013: Central City is used to making history. The Rush to the Rockies got its start in May 1859, when John Gregory…
Concern over the University of Colorado’s treatment of sociology professor Patti Adler is rippling through the academic world. Yesterday the National Coalition Against Censorship , ACLU of Colorado, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education and Student Press Law Center issued a joint statement taking aim at CU for its attempts…
UPDATE: After investing in pizza, pot, and Denver’s comedy scene, Kayvan Khalatbari’s next stop may be local government. The ganjapreneur will run for an at-large seat on Denver’s city council in May 2015. We talked to Khalatbari about his campaign to find out why. While the national media may know…
It wasn’t a complete shit-show for weed everywhere in Colorado yesterday. Aside from a handful of phone calls about whether or not the shops were selling recreational weed and the occasional stop-in from a confused would-be recreational buyer, regular medical marijuana dispensaries had a slow, normal New Year’s Day (if…
Colorado blogs are feeling frisky in 2014. Westword’s own Beer Man runs down twenty of his favorite Colorado brews from 2013. Wait, so South Stands Denver is saying the Cleveland Browns would ruin Josh McDaniels? Shouldn’t it be the other way around? And Denver Egotist likes it calligrahy on naked…
What are the hundred things everyone should do in Colorado before they die? We posed this question to our writers and editors, and over the next few weeks, we’ll be rolling out their answers across our blogs. First up on the Denver Bucket List are Latest Word’s 25-16 picks. Count…
