The tent city that sprang up in relation to Occupy Denver, the local version of the Occupy Wall Street protests, can’t become a permanent fixture at the State Capitol, Governor John Hickenlooper said today — and the Colorado State Patrol confirms that discussions will be underway soon to determine how…
Update: Last week, a man later identified as Alonzo Bencomo, 34, was shot and killed near 250 South Osceola. Today, Bencomo’s family and friends will gather for a visitation and rosary in advance of a funeral tomorrow. Here’s how they’re remembering him in an online listing…
Today, Keep Denver Competitive, the organization fighting against the Denver Paid Sick Leave Initiative is releasing an ad, on view below, starring one of the measure’s highest-profile detractors: Mayor Michael Hancock. Does that make Hancock the face of No on 300? Not exactly, says campaign spokesman George Merritt…
Our post about a controversy at Dakota Ridge High School over Border Patrol T-shirts, and whether officials gave a student a good talking-to for wearing one, has given rise to lots of fiery debate. Here’s one reader remark that plays the race card in an unusual way…
In our post about Sunday’s Broncos-San Diego game, we stated in our headline that Tim Tebow was now Denver’s starting quarterback, despite Coach John Fox’s initial unwillingness to make such a statement. And while Fox still hasn’t confirmed the move at this writing, ESPN is reporting that he’ll do so…
“I’m a Mormon,” announce billboards currently popping up in Denver — and the timing of their appearance have suggested to some observers that they’re intended to boost the presidential aspirations of Mitt Romney, the present frontrunner in the GOP presidential sweepstakes. But a local spokesman insists that’s not so…
Occupy Wall Street has been taking flak for being vague about its mission and not having a concrete platform. But the growing protest in New York is currently working on a document that will outline the organization’s demands. Because the movement is democratic, with no specific leader, the list is…
David Berkowitz, 63, was once an enrollment director at the University of Phoenix, as well as a jewelry store owner in Aspen. But he’s also alleged to have had a jones for heroin — one that cops say led an associate working for him to kill a man as they…
“But what do they stand for? I thought this was about Wall Street?” That was the plaintive cry of one woman who’d headed down to the Occupy Denver camp last night and wound up listening to one of the general assembly meetings, where this leaderless group tries to grapple with…
Ask a Mexican, Gustavo Arellano, October 6 Fire a Mexican Please note that the Ask a Mexican columnist has long since descended into journalistic ennui…and even if he needs to vent personal political insecurities, his take on the richness of cultural differences has metamorphosed into a dank, morbid bin of…
The Rapture was supposed to happen on May 21, 2011. It didn’t, of course — unless it was just really, really subtle — but that’s not stopping biblical number-cruncher and Boulder native Harold Camping, who had predicted that apocalypse (and another one back in 1994), from trying again: He now…
I was killing at karaoke. That is, I was killing everyone at Star Bar softly with Vanilla Ice’s 1990 mega-hit “Ice Ice Baby.” I’d memorized the lyrics when I was eight, even though I had no idea what “flow like a harpoon, daily and nightly” meant. Truth be told, my…
Any way you slice it, the very, very, very strained relationship between Douglas County Coroner Lora Thomas and Sheriff Dave Weaver can’t be good for homicide investigations in the county. Both sides have accused the other of interfering with and jeopardizing their work, and now a backer of the sheriff…
Santiago Grado resigned last month as principal of Denver’s West High School after only a month and a half on the job. School officials say he chose to do so after issues with his academic leadership were raised. But Grado tells Westword that it was a difference in leadership philosophies,…
Kenyon Martin didn’t receive a contract extension offer from the Denver Nuggets, prompting him to sign to a Chinese squad amid the ongoing NBA lockout. Which means no one from the Nugs must force K-Mart to offer a heartfelt apology for a Twitter tirade yesterday in which he hoped for…
We enjoy Denver blog posts. Hope you do, too. Denver Stiffs’ Jeffrey Morton take on the NBA lockout: How to shoot yourself in the foot witih a bazooka. At People’s Press Collective, Eddie writes about the Jefferson County School Board bogey men. Scary or benign? Denver Egotist offers an end-of-summer…
Last week, we re-posted this month’s Chronic-le feature story on high-CBD strains around Colorado, with our selections based on Full Spectrum Labs tests. But those might be the last results we get from Full Spectrum for a while. FSL announced last week that it’s shutting down Octobert 14 until the…
Given its demographics, Boulder would seem to be the ideal spot for a local version of Occupy Wall Street to flourish. But while Occupy Denver appears to be building momentum, a similar movement is just getting started in Boulder — not due to a lack of interest, but because so…
If the allegations against Eric Barney are true, boyfriends don’t get much worse. Barney is suspected of kidnapping, false imprisonment and more for allegedly holding his girlfriend hostage and abusing her regularly over a two-month span…
“Most people think someone who wants to end marijuana prohibition sits on the couch eating Cheetos and watching bad TV all day — someone who isn’t necessarily a motivated person,” says Georgia Edson. “And that’s so untrue.” This message helps power Run on Grass, Edson’s new organization, which aims to…
Alan Prendergast’s post about prison rape, which one sheriff compared to UFOs and other cultural delusions, sparked a response from a reader identifying himself as a veteran correctional officer. He says such incidents are no fantasy…
This weekend was all about the music in these parts, and Westword’s photography crew captured the action. Check out art galleries featuring the Foo Fighters at the Pepsi Center, X at Summit Music Hall, Odd Future at the Fox Theatre and more at our burgeoning slideshow page…
