Mile High Kush Expo, held this past weekend at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, was summed up for me in the ticket line before I went in. “You’re charging people $20 to basically go to a big head shop,” the dreadlocked dude in front of me told the ticket…
What’s the Colorado connection to the weekend suicide of Joseph Brooks, the “You Light Up My Life” songwriter who’d been accused of being what the New York Post calls a “casting-couch rapist”? His son, Nicholas Brooks, who attended the University of Colorado at Boulder prior to being arrested in the…
Plenty of people have accused bike icon Lance Armstrong of doping, including Tour De Lance author Bill Strickland. But finger-pointing by Boulder-based Tyler Hamilton, Armstrong’s onetime teammate on the U.S. Postal Service Team, has had the greatest impact by far, in part because of the platform he used: 60 Minutes,…
Check out these blog posts from around the Mile High City. ColoradoPols discusses the possibility that state House Minority Leader Sal Pace and Senate President Brandon Shaffer will run for higher office in 2012. Andrew Martin of Purple Row breaks down the upcoming series between the Colorado Rockies and the…
Driving in Denver gets more difficult every day. If it’s not the construction and repair, then it’s the badly synchronized lights or rush-hour traffic. If it’s not the sneaky radar vans, then it’s the real trouble-makers who weave in and out of lanes at twice the speed of everyone else…
Over the past fifteen years, the federal government has turned the Rocky Mountain Arsenal, once one of the most contaminated Superfund sites in the United States, into a wildlife refuge, complete with nature trails, lakes for fishing and summer camps. Tomorrow, the Arsenal will open its newest attraction, a 12,500-square-foot,…
The wives of Denver’s mayoral hopefuls entered the fray this week, sending out dueling e-mails to promote their husbands as the June 7 runoff election approaches. But though Laurie Romer and Mary Louise Lee Hancock are on opposite sides, their notes had a common theme: My husband is a dork…
A Washington Post editorial reprinted today in the Denver Post calls for a moratorium on the deportation of gay immigrants who are legally married or in civil unions until after federal courts decide the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)…
The bold window treatment gracing the home in the photograph above is made all the more compelling by the placement of a captivated angel behind the empty rocking chair. This Sloan Lake neighborhood will be spared post-Judgment Day pandemonium because a wider view of this home shows that security services…
When tax revenues are down, state legislators can feel marginalized, even redundant. Unable to fund — hence debate, manipulate and gerrymander — pet projects, they retreat to committee rooms or watering holes to wait for the economy to recover. In their quest for relevance, they resort to busy work that…
Location: On Market Street between 16th and 17th. Number: Unknown. Status: Operable. Price: 50 cents for local calls. Photo Taken: 4 p.m. on May 10…
Ranchers in southeast Colorado battling the Army’s grand expansion schemes for the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site watched in dismay this week as a congressional subcommittee removed from its budget bill a provision that has kept the military from acquiring additional land for the 367 square-mile site for the past four…
Yesterday was a big day for some of Colorado’s most embarrassing characters. Two of Westword’s former Shmuck of the Week award winners, Carrie McCandless and Brett Reese, were back in the news, along with Ann Crall, a member of our 2010 Hall of Shame. Stay tuned to the Latest Word…
The national medical marijuana industry will reach $8.9 billion by 2016. “Operators who are now working in this industry are not wrong, they are early,” says Ben Holmes, owner of the Lafayette-based Centennial Seed Company and former Wall Street maven…
Less than 24 hours from judgment day, there’s apparently still plenty of time to quibble over just what, exactly, Boulder-born Harold Camping has predicted will happen to the world on May 21, as advertised on an end-of-the-world billboard that popped up in town last month…
Readers are still commenting on the last Dan Maes missive posted here — “Good grief, people, ignore this NothingBurger,” wrote one commenter — and now up pops another one. Actually, this is the one Maes says he meant to write before he got sidetracked by “calling a spade a spade”…
Maestro en Casa (Teacher at Home), a Denver Public Schools-funded radio series aimed at teaching English to Spanish-speaking parents, was launched last year. This week, 220 completed the program…
Denver blog posts fresh off the griddle. Geeks Who Drinks’ last all-Bill Murray quiz takes place at 7 p.m. tonight at the D-Note. Zombieland: Best. Cameo. Ever. BigMedia.org’s Jason Salzman quizzes Craig Silverman about why he didn’t challenge Denish D’Souza’s claim that Barack Obama views America, not Iran or North…
Green Meadows Wellness, William Breathes’s latest medical marijuana dispensary review subject, is one of many entries in our MMJ listings, freshly updated to correspond with the latest edition of The Chronic-le. Look for it around town — but first, click to access our medical-marijuana dispensary directory…
This dispensary has closed. Green Meadows Wellness’ Steve Meadows is a gray-haired, gruff-voiced man of few words — beyond the subject of Otis, the Italian mastiff shop dog…
The Westboro Baptist Church canceled a protest today at the DU Hillel, one of three planned picketing sites. However, a diversity rally to counter the WBC’s message of hate, planned this evening at an undisclosed time and location, will still go on. And thanks to the no-show, details can now…
While Quonset huts remain cultural curiosities, they are seldom celebrated during National Historic Preservation Month. Manufactured in far-off factories and moved frequently, they seldom win a local’s love. The twin Palace Construction Quonset huts pictured above are in remarkable shape compared to a pair over in Mar Lee…..
