Speaking as someone who was stuck in it (as was Patricia Calhoun), yesterday’s Denver rush hour rainstorm was crazy — which explains why so many locals recorded the deluge on video. Page down to check out a wealth of clips below, featuring viewpoints ranging from “Can the seat cushion be…
Colorado is good at winning. If there’s a ranking of the best states for getting drunk, using condoms or being manly, you can bet Colorado’s near the top. In fact, this year alone, we’ve won at dating, being smart and making the most fraud complaints in the nation! And today,…
When you’re in your third year of law school, you want something a bit meatier than dusty lectures and heavily footnoted case studies. If you’re Jon Bellish, that means you head for The Netherlands — and the trial of a man charged with some of the most heinous war crimes…
As we reported yesterday, Denver native Stephanie Tanny won a speaking spot at the Campus Progress National Conference in Washington, D.C. yesterday. The speech “went really well,” says the 2010 Colorado State University graduate. “I messed up a little bit, but I don’t think anyone noticed, because I knew what…
Welcome, my friends, to the Denver blog post show that never ends. Denver Stiffs’ Andrew Feinstein thinks Nenê will have a very hard time finding another NBA team willing to match or exceed the Nuggets offer he rejected, especially in light of the lockout. Colorado Pols on the request for…
Tis the season to rock sunglasses. But there are as many ways of doing it as there are eyewear styles and colors. So Westword’s Louis Garramone hit the 16th Street Mall to ask the questions we all want to know, and brought back answers in the form of a video…
How do you fuel the world’s best cyclists for the premier race on the planet? No, not with steroids. At least that’s not the approach of Colorado native Sean Fowler. One of Fowler’s jobs after leading kitchens at Cucina Leone and Ranelles in Denver is as the team chef for…
For medical marijuana critic William Breathes, Grass Roots Organica, the subject of his latest dispensary review, proved to be a mixed-bag experience. But there are lots of other options available in our just-updated MMJ listings. Click to access our medical-marijuana dispensary directory…
This dispensary has closed. Grass Roots Organica sounds like the name of a noodle-dancing hippie jam band out of Boulder — and as such, I’ve avoided it. But they were still around on July 1, so I figured it wasn’t just another fly-by-night dispensary hoping to cash in before regulations…
When we learned that Colorado, and specifically Denver, was part of the Ugliest House Contest 2011, we expected to see some unbelievable dives. But while the five Denver homes that made the finals aren’t exactly palaces, they’re not nearly as shocking as anticipated — until you look inside, that is…
Update below: At 2 p.m. today, backers of the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act of 2012 will stage a press conference formally launching a petition drive to land the measure on next year’s ballot. Read it below and get more details from Mason Tvert, part of a group hoping to…
Wednesday’s slightly awkward Twitter Townhall (twownhall?) with President Barack Obama and Twitter founder Jack Dorsey touched on serious issues (reducing the deficit, tax breaks for veterans and health care) and went off without any real hitches. Even the president corrected himself immediately after calling it “Internets.” Yet, these Colorado-based questions…
Developed by hippies in the early 1970s, Baker green peas have been specially adapted for the cooler climate of the Baker neighborhood lifestyle. Guaranteed to produce a diversity of sustainable and nurturing pods, gardeners in all Denver neighborhoods are encouraged to give Baker green peas a chance…..
Do most readers no longer expect to find longtime newspaper staples in print? Consider that last week, the Denver Post trimmed Doonesbury and other comic strips from the physical paper without causing an uproar. And the response has been similarly modest a day after the Post axed stock and mutual…
Patricia Calhoun’s post about Denver Police retirees urging Michael Hancock to hire a “fair” Manager of Safety drew a strong post from a member of the force. He sees the decision as impacting the public in ways the average resident may not have considered…
Lizardo Monje has pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiring to rob the bank where he worked. What are his odds of success? Well, police say they recorded him and an associate discussing the robbery — while they were sitting in the back of a cop car…
Last month, we shared reports that ex-Denver Players/Denver Sugar owner Brenda Stewart would cop a plea — and at a hearing yesterday, the agreement was formalized. In exchange for her pleading guilty to a single count of tax evasion, prosecutors dropped an appropriate number of other charges against the alleged…
Update below: Did a cat named Muffin die from a bad reaction to heroin? A toxicology post-mortem should answer that question — and determine whether or not Danielle Blankenship, 21, should be charged with felony animal cruelty after allegedly blowing heroin smoke in Muffin’s face…
“The Show Must Go On,” Off Limits, June 23 Big Bang Theory Move to urban environment, complain about noise. I don’t understand these stupid yuppies. If you want a quiet place to raise your kids, perhaps Parker or Highlands Ranch beckons. Josh Warriner Denver I feel betrayed by the Off…
You know your favorite medical marijuana strain by look, smell and taste, and you could pick it out of a lineup without fail. But aesthetics aside, do you understand what really makes up that cut of Ft. Collins Cough or Sour Kush? Through August, Full Spectrum Labs will do two…
We’re number two! Denver has the second-best water in the nation, according to the American Water Works Association, which held a blind taste test with the liquid assets of more than twenty municipalities last month in Washington, D.C…
Crews will be taking down the big blue Qwest signs high above California Street next week, replacing them with the bilious green CenturyLink logo. So ends an acrimonious era, as Qwest — the former fiber-optic whiz kid, the brash bad boy of the telecom world who came to town amid…
