Between the two days of Denver’s most recent 4/20 celebration, the Denver Police Department cited or arrested a total of 92 people. And while the event’s organizer, Miguel Lopez, is not on that roster, he was detained on 4/21 and faces investigation for allegedly assaulting an at-risk adult. The bizarre…
Here’s a nutty post-script regarding President Barack Obama’s speech at CU-Boulder — a Today show chat with CU frosh Kolbi Zerbest, whose yogurt spilled on Obama during his visit to The Sink. How important was this story, on view below? Important enough for anchors Matt Lauer and Ann Curry to…
If the mountains to the West are the first thing that Denver’s visitors notice, the second are all the people standing on corners holding signs? While panhandlers, as they’re commonly known, are sheltered by the First Amendment, Denver’ sign-fliers are also prohibited from using profanity or being aggressive, and they…
The Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division is in dire financial straits. However, Representative Beth McCann of Denver says she has a plan for medical marijuana patients to bail out the MMED using leftover money they paid to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment…
The man who allegedly killed Josephine Echols outside her pastor-son’s church this past Sunday was himself gunned down by an off-duty Denver Police officer, likely preventing further bloodshed. As such, the story that offers something to gun-rights activists and those who see these weapons as causing more heartbreak than they…
Later today, the Colorado Senate is expected to formally approve a bill that would legalize civil unions. Of course, the Senate also approved a civil unions measure last year, only to see the proposal die in a House committee, with all six Republican members voting against it. Can it avoid…
Could as many as 175,000 Colorado citizens lose their jobs based on a single court case? That’s the contention of attorney Michael Evans, who believes every state-legal medical marijuana patient would be at risk of dismissal depending on the outcome of an appeal involving Brandon Coats, a paralyzed man and…
Within the past several months, the Denver Post has made buyout deals with nineteen staffers, including Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Mike Keefe, and laid off popular columnists Mike Littwin and Penny Parker, among others. But the cuts aren’t over. In an internal memo on view below, editor Greg Moore teases a…
It’s tattoo week at Westword. Thus far, we’ve featured a gallery of our favorite Colorado flag tattoos and a tribute to inked-up Nugget Chris “Birdman” Andersen, who’s currently in the doghouse. Today, in honor of this evening’s kickoff to the NFL draft, we bring you the ten most unusual Broncos…
If the last time you rented a movie from Blockbuster also happened to be the last time you watched an Eddie Murphy movie, you’re not alone. But just in case you did feel like giving up Netflix, Hulu and Redbox and rewinding that copy of Beverly Hills Cop III you…
How much respect are the Nuggets getting going into the playoffs? Well, the NBA.com video recap of last night’s key victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder (it’s on view below) is dominated by great OKC plays, including Kevin Durant’s epic posterizing of JaVale McGee. But if the Nugs can take…
Around 190 patients caught up in the physician assistant debacle last winter have appealed the decision by the Colorado Department of Health and Environment to deny their medical marijuana registry application. But they haven’t been going well from the patients’ perspective…
County websites — and the photos that decorate them — are usually pretty boring. Snow-covered mountains, orange sunsets, red barns, staid county commissioners dressed in suits and ties. Which is why we were stoked when we came upon this badass shot on the Alamosa County website…
Although there have been rumblings about it for months, Denver’s proposed urban camping ordinance has only been circulated in draft form for the past few weeks. In this week’s feature, “For the homeless, ‘urban camping’ is no picnic,” Jef Otte took a look at its direct implications by spending a…
Denver blog posts are contagious — and not in a bad way. Colin D. of South Stands Denver, which is celebrating its 100th podcast at Jake’s Food & Spirits tomorrow night, notes that a website for cheaters has put a $1 million bounty on Tim Tebow’s cherry. Any takers? Plants…
At her parole hearing last summer, Jennifer Reali insisted that she’s a different person from the 29-year-old, ninja-clad assassin who ambushed and killed her lover’s wife, Dianne Hood, outside Hood’s lupus support meeting in 1990. The parole board didn’t entirely agree, but there’s no question that the soundtrack to Reali’s…
In all of the hoopla surrounding President Barack Obama’s speech at CU-Boulder last night, as well as his crowd-pleasing, yogurt-spilling stop at The Sink, a favorite Boulder restaurant and student hangout, the media has thus far missed a side note involving hoops. To wit: Spencer Dinwiddie, one of the most…
In February, we introduced you to Dan (no last name, please), who so loathes photo radar that he purposefully sped past a van to get a ticket showing him flipping a bird. No, he didn’t pay the citation, but when he returned home the other day, a process server was…
In a post about a potential medical marijuana retail ban in Dacono, William Breathes riffed on a local councilwoman’s concern about the community becoming known as “Marijuana Town” if dispensaries are allowed to remain there. That prompted one reader to defend the councilwoman, sorta, by referencing a similar prohibition in…
On Valentine’s Day, all Fort Collins dispensaries closed as the result of a retail ban passed the previous November. But MMJ patients and industry types aren’t meekly accepting this verdict. Following on unsuccessful court challenge, they’ve banded together to collect signatures for a new proposal to make MMCs legal again…
Update: Aurora Police have now identified the man who killed Josephine Echols outside a church service officiated by her son as Kiarron Parker, 29 — and the off-duty Denver Police officer who put him down as six-year vet Antonio Milow, Echols’s nephew. And the more info that comes out, the…
Remember Chris “Birdman” Andersen? He was arguably the most popular member of the Denver Nuggets — a bigger fave among lotsa fans than even Carmelo Anthony — during many of the squad’s best recent seasons due in part to his larger-than-life personality, celebrated in a photo gallery below. But as…
