Jeramie Gerhardt, one of two men charged in an assault on another concert-goer during the 2010 Mayhem Festival at the Comfort Dental Amphitheatre, was sentenced last week in Arapahoe County District Court to 75 days in jail and four years of probation for his role in the incident — while…
Editor’s note: This election cycle, Westword is exploring the public records of television stations for information on how candidates are spending money on ads in Denver. So far, Barack Obama’s campaign is spending more money than Mitt Romney’s on Denver TV ads. A lot more…
One word can spur an entire conversation. That’s what happened in the comment section to our post about Colorado Attorney General John Suthers’s negative opinion about Metro State’s undocumented student tuition plan. Here’s the ideological back and forth, with a third party declaring a winner…
No matter where you stand on marijuana legalization, you’re likely to find an exchange yesterday between Representative Jared Polis and Drug Enforcement Administrator Michele Leonhart to be flabbergasting. Throughout the conversation (at a Judiciary subcommittee hearing), Leonhart refuses to say that pot is a lesser health problem than crack, or…
In conjunction with its ongoing series about the future of food, Slate has created a pair of graphics that offer fascinating specifics about farmers in contemporary American life — and here in Colorado. Among the details: There are only 46 farmers in all of Denver County — a statistical average…
Every time you think there are no new perversions left to be discovered, someone proves you wrong. Take Ronald Thomas, age 65, who allegedly made children strip and throw coins at each others’ genitals…
Since the High Park fire began raging nearly two weeks ago a mere fifteen miles or so from the city she calls home, Fort Collins Mayor Karen Weitkunat has been getting calls of fear like she’s never heard before. “I’ve had citizens call and say, ‘I’ve never been so scared…
We’ve now officially entered summer — and while every season is a great one to enjoy Colorado, the warm weather is the perfect excuse to hit the trail. With that in mind, we’ve collected this list of the best Colorado hikes, with picks close to town or a drive away…
Update: In our original post about Michael Maher, who’s accused of impersonating a firefighter tackling the ultra-destructive High Park blaze (see our earlier coverage below), we noted that his alleged impersonation suggested that he’d been trying something new in comparison with his previous criminal gambits. Wrong, says the Jefferson County…
Just when you thought baby zoo animals couldn’t get any cuter (we’re talking about you, baby tigers), along comes an itty-bitty leopard that changes everything. His name is Makar (pronounced Mah-car), he was born on April 25 and he is effing adorable. The Denver Zoo has kept Makar and his…
Just a few weeks after Denver began enforcing its urban camping ban, Mayor Michael Hancock said the new policy is going well, adding that some of the folks who were sleeping on the street have since gone to live with friends and family. And they haven’t gone to the suburbs,…
Opponents huffed and puffed, but the Colorado Supreme Court did not allow the Colorado Bankers Association and the Independent Bankers of Colorado to blow the house down on Initiative 84’s official language. In a ruling made public yesterday, the court decided to allow the proposed foreclosure amendment to move ahead…
Denver blog posts love you for all seasons. Purple Row’s Jeff Aberle isn’t ready to brand the Colorado Rockies’ decision to install a four-man pitching rotation and a starters pitch count as desperate lunacy. The Intermittent Blogger declares the Scout tutorial the best-ever tool for tracking governments. Denver Urbanism’s Ryan…
Two competing medical marijuana advertising bans have been proposed by Denver City Council members, and their concepts are very different in scope. The council’s Debbie Ortega and Christopher Herndon have until August to find a compromise before their colleagues take a vote…
The other day, I was doing some important, business-related (really!) surfing on YouTube when I stumbled upon a series of commercials for Denver. Not the city — the brand of deodorant products marketed to men in India. As you’ll see below, the spots are absolutely hilarious in a moronic, bimbo-centric,…
The Colorado Springs Police Department, working in conjunction with the Drug Enforcement Administration and the FBI, has made a big heroin bust. Nineteen people were arrested, including one juvenile and eight under the age of 21 — many of them alleged users rather than dealers. Their youth makes sense, given…
Our recent cover feature, “Peak Performance,” tells the story of local humanitarian Shannon Galpin, who in 2006 founded Mountain2Mountain, an international outreach effort targeted toward working with women in crisis zones. That year, the rape survivor and single mother left her job as a Pilates instructor to make her first…
Chris Utterback’s post about Representative Doug Lamborn’s concern that a photo showing a five-year-old girl in polluted water constituted child porn has generated lots of debate, as well as some fascinating takes on misreadings of perfectly acceptable material. This reminiscence is a case in point…
Yesterday, we told you about a study showing no link between medical marijuana legalization and teen pot use. The co-author of that study, University of Colorado Denver professor Daniel Rees, sees the findings as directly contradicting attempts to link MMJ and marijuana usage among young people that are favorite talking…
This week, Clear Channel announced that it had made an agreement with Denver International Airport to install a “a first-of-its kind digital advertising program” that will feature 118 LCD screens throughout DIA, including six overhead video walls and four, 26-foot high diagonal LED video towers. What will the results look…
Michelle Obama, who is making two campaign stops in Denver’s suburbs this morning, backs “Let’s Move,” an anti-obesity program with the lofty goal of solving the “epidemic of childhood obesity within a generation.” Her glowing physique and enviable shoulders dressed to perfection, she’s often pictured doing calorie-burning activities with kids…
Earlier this month, Patricia Calhoun lauded Metro State College for creating a new tuition category for undocumented students, with the rate only modestly higher than the one offered to in-state residents. But Colorado Attorney General John Suthers isn’t joining her on the cheer squad. He’s offered a formal opinion (read…
