Denver Broncos training camp — which is still free, and one of the best things that the team does for its fans — gets under way at Dove Valley on Thursday, July 25, with the first of sixteen practices that will be open to the public. And the players and…
With the advent of such modern technologies as the Internet, social media, eBooks and instant messaging, print methods of research and leisure have experienced an obvious slump. The Aurora Public Library has decided to go with the flow, though, by offering more digital services, and offering them in new places:…
After weeks of delays, the third season of the Homeless Diamond is about to start on Sonny Lawson Field, the newly restored park at the edge of Five Points. This has been a ballfield for decades — since long before Jack Kerouac watched a game here in 1949, which he…
In March, state auditors gave the Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division a bad review for its ineffective tracking systems and delayed application processes. But that was only part one of a two-part report. The other half was released yesterday. The second part of the audit had the same dismal view of…
This Saturday will mark one year since a gunman opened fire at the midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora — a tragedy that took the lives of twelve people and left seventy more wounded. The city of Aurora will remember that day with a slate of events…
The Denver District Attorney’s Office is still sorting out its response to a fatal shooting on South Glencoe Street last week. It may well be that the death of 29-year-old Charles McLaughlin, who allegedly fought with the male occupant of a home and attempted entry before he was shot, is…
Despite a majority of the state voting to make marijuana legal for medicinal and recreational use, there are still Coloradans who do not want to see the plant manufactured or used in their vicinity. As a result, a multitude of cities have placed bans on medicinal and recreational businesses, but…
Last week, Weedmaps.com founder and CEO Justin Hartfield made some waves in Boulder by announcing his plans for a ganja-only farmer’s market in the college town in the Boulder Daily Camera. While it makes sense, especially considering Boulder’s reputation for being a haven of all-things-organic farmer’s markets and quality marijuana,…
Torches, hot glass and oil took over the Wright Group Event Center this weekend as America’s first dab festival, the 710 Cup, hit Denver. The three-day competition pitted the state’s best extract technicians against each other to see who had the best hash, and it served as a giant meeting…
The man who was slain on the streets of LoDo early Saturday morning has been identified: He was nineteen-year-old Airman 1st Class Shaquille Hargrove, a satellite systems operator for the 2nd Space Warning Squadron based at Buckley Air Force base. “On behalf of myself and Team Buckley, I want to…
Rocky, the Denver Nuggets mountain lion mascot, has put together quite a career over the 22 years that he has been thrilling basketball fans — sometimes providing their only thrill during the particularly lean years. Over that time, the supremely athletic gymnast has perfected his routine — from flirting with…
Saddle up! The Colorado Gay Rodeo came to the Jefferson County Fairgrounds over the weekend for its Rocky Mountain Regional Rodeo, and Westword’s Christopher Morgan stopped by to capture scenes of the livestock and their handlers in action (and in rainbow colors). Continue reading for more scenes from the show…
Today Mayor Michael Hancock will deliver his State of the City speech at the Forney Museum, in north Denver — an area that’s becoming a focus of the Hancock administration. But things aren’t looking as rosy in southeast Denver, where the Highpointe development was supposed to be a boon –…
Robert White has made a lot of changes since he took over as chief of the Denver Police Department in January 2012. One of the biggest took effect yesterday, when the city’s new reprecincting plan was officially introduced. That plan, as well as many of the other moves that White…
The language is similar, to some extent, and both laws were intended to clarify a person’s right to self-defense. But there’s a world of difference between Colorado’s 28-year-old home- protection statute, commonly known as the “Make My Day” law, and Florida’s 2005 “Stand Your Ground” law, which has been a…
Today’s Colorado Cannabis Time Capsule is a short tale giving us a glimpse into the mind of a 1930s Colorado criminal named Anderson. This time around, the news brief comes from the Douglas County Record-Journal, based out of Castle Rock. It’s dated February 9, 1934. The piece’s brevity leaves us…
Denver blog posts are running a tab. South Stands Denver’s Colin Daniels thinks the Broncos’ booze culture pours down from the top — and he points at John Elway. Big Media’s Jason Salzman on hypocrisy and Mike Coffman’s pension. Denver Egotist: “So ridiculously stupid it made us laugh.”…
As a general rule, three similar items make a trend. But we’re suspending that regulation in honor of two schmucky incidents that took place on CU-Boulder’s Regent Drive within 24 hours or so. One involved an alleged drunk driver taking out some parking meters. The other found another alleged drunk…
On paper, the redevelopment of the old Marriott at Hampden and I-25 looks like a dream deal for southeast Denver, complete with luxury apartments boasting “curated amenities” and a “lazy river” winding through the place. But Holly Ridge residents say that the project has been a nightmare for the neighborhood,…
Kenneth Faried, the 2013 Best of Denver winner as Best Nugget, is getting even more exposure from another publication — ESPN The Magazine, which chose him as one of eight cover models for its annual “Body Issue,” in which ripped athletes pose nude in order to make the rest of…
We’ve grown accustomed to hearing about cold cases that heat up due to DNA hits, such as the arrest and April sentencing of Dominique Huntington for a 2008 double rape. But such evidence isn’t always the key. Take the case of Francisco Rojas Carbajal, who reportedly confessed to strangling Julia…
In May, Governor John Hickenlooper signed several marijuana bills he said were “charting new territory” — so new that emergency rules have been issued as placeholders until permanent regulations can be written and approved. But one of the people expected to be central to this process — Laura Harris, head…
