The police-report description of a rape committed back in 2008 is incredibly horrific — and so is the fact that no one was arrested for the crime for more than three years. Now, however, a cold-case hit points the DNA finger of blame at 31-year-old Manuel McGee. How was he…
The 2011 Starz Denver Film Festival’s slogan is “Roll out the Red” — a reference to the many red carpet screenings on tap over the next week and a half or so. The first of those took place last night at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House — or, as Like…
Last month, evangelical leaders gathered in D.C. for the Values Voter Summit, where disciples of the Pissed-Off Jesus harrumphed and yammered about how much America sucked. That’s when the bomb ignited. Dallas megachurch preacher Robert Jeffress was on hand to introduce Rick Perry. He warned that Mormon “cult” members were…
After weeks of everyone deservedly picking on nerdy law student Cochran for being a scrawny weakling ginger that didn’t contribute much of anything to the team (including this medical marijuana critic), he finally snapped like a freckled twig and completely changed the game for Denver dispensary owner Jim Rice and…
Growing accustomed to life at the occupation takes time. Yesterday morning, James Gardner awoke at four to the sounds of a drunk man cursing, and before he finishes that story, a quick fight starts, a blade is removed from a pocket and its user is evicted from the camp in…
I’m a big hockey fan and have been since junior high, when my Penguins won their first two Stanley Cups and the Pittsburgh suburb where I grew up exploded with joy. But I’m now a working Colorado father and the NHL has all but priced out middle-class families, with many…
A year ago, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment was so backlogged with medical-marijuana license applications that patients had to wait as long as eight months after filing paperwork before they got their red cards. And now, as this bubble of patients rises to the surface to renew…
Occupy Denver’s social media campaign shares as many worries about the ongoing snow as do its protesters: Throughout the night, the group’s Twitter account documented warnings of the inches that landed on the gathering as it slept. And though last week’s first burst of white ended with five hospitalizations, last…
Denver blog posts stand up for what’s good and true. Mile High Report fan poster Teboner on a new Tim Tebow meme: X > Tebow. Example? “Walking in on your parents making loud dirty love > Tebow.” Who Said You Said shares Ryan Call’s election night analysis. DenverInfill’s Ken touts…
Again this year, Starz Denver Film Festival artistic director Brit Withey is offering his must-see picks for each day of the fest — including many flicks that movie lovers might otherwise miss amid the flood of silver-screen goodies. Today, he shares his take on the fest’s opening night feature: Like…
Colorado ACLU communications director Rosemary Harris Lytle confirms her organization has launched an investigation of “an escalation of police force” at Occupy Denver — like, for example, the shooting of Phillip Becarra, seen here, with pepper bullets. The ACLU has expressed concerns about both the safety and constitutional implications of…
Denver’s Zombie Crawl was a record-setting success, with even the Downtown Denver Partnership singing its praises. But things didn’t go as well in Durango, where early the morning after Halloween, police reportedly busted 22 “unsanctioned” zombie marchers, some of whom they shot with paint balls to mark for arrest –…
Update: Steve Ackerman, president of the Fort Collins Medical Cannabis Association and owner of the Organic Alternatives dispensary, notes that the final count in a vote to ban MMJ retail operations in his hometown won’t be released until noon today. However, he sounds resigned to defeat and plenty shell-shocked. “I’m…
Our item about the elimination of a stand-alone Travel section in the Denver Post’s Sunday paper speaks to the continuing challenges facing traditional media organs. This development sparked one reader to wonder why the Post hasn’t gone entirely digital…
Among the more unusual ballot items approved in Colorado’s election yesterday was Boulder Question 2H, which calls for a constitutional amendment to declare that corporations are not people. And Boulder City Councilman Macon Cowles, one of 2H’s most vocal backers, believes voters sent a message that echoes Occupy Wall Street’s…
Now that a dispensary ban has passed in Fort Collins, patients there will either have to go elsewhere for their medical marijuana or sign up with a caretaker who’s ostensibly limited to six plants per person. But attorney Rob Corry says this limit isn’t hard and fast — and as…
Thus far, Charles Edward Waters, a 56-year-old homeless man, has not yet been formally charged in an early Friday double stabbing that left one man dead and another one wounded, and the victim has yet to be identified. But the police report, on view below, offers a brutal account of…
In the run-up to yesterday’s election, Rollie Heath, chief backer of the Proposition 103 education tax, told us the vote would be “very, very close.” But it wasn’t — and its statewide defeat was joined in misery by Initiative 300, which would have mandated paid sick days in Denver…
“Redemption,” Juliet Wittman, October 27 The Blame Game I swear every Westword story is always about some criminal that the rest of the world is supposed to now feel sorry for…it’s always how “the system let this person down,” how “questionable evidence” or “inconclusive investigations” — and never the criminal…
Yes, there’s a sucker born every minute — especially when it comes to the myths, half-truths and all-out lies associated with P.T. Barnum, who once owned much of the land in what are now the Barnum and Villa Park neighborhoods in west Denver. Although Barnum — creator of the Ringling…
Life is life, and you gotta do what you gotta do. It’s like everybody can’t be a doctor, a teacher or have rich parents take care of us. And it’s gonna teach us, like — when we get older, we’re gonna be stronger, ’cause we know life experience and stuff…
If there is not a tsunami of underage prostitutes in America, that is not to say that there are no children trapped in this world. Of course there are. Yet, as we have pointed out in numerous stories, few resources have been devoted to sheltering the victims. If you want…
