Denverites pay a lot of money to vacation abroad. With the new service reductions going into effect, overcrowded RTD buses will make the trip from Park Hill into downtown seem like an exotic adventure in Budapest or Mumbai. Below, see how crowded buses are perfect for people who need both…
Colorado Attorney General John Suthers is embracing Facebook nearly a year after the state essentially unfriended the massive social network. The agreement between the AG’s office and Mark Zuckerberg’s operation means that state agencies, including Suthers’s, can belatedly join the 21st century by launching Facebook pages of their own. Here’s…
Last year at this time, Domino’s launched a risky ad campaign, in which the company admitted that (shocking surprise) its food was mediocre — but it vowed to improve! Now it’s time for a followup, and we’ve got a suggestion for a new spokesman: Isaiah Pickens, who apparently loves Domino’s…
Our post yesterday about Colorado signing on to the Secure Communities program sparked a debate among commenters after reporter Melanie Asmar used the term “illegal immigrants.” Should the word “illegal” be used in that way? Or is it unnecessarily pejorative? Here are two strong views:…
Last week, we told you about a Texas crash involving Senator Suzanne Williams; Brianna Gomez, who was seven months pregnant, died in the accident. According to attorney David Lane, who represents Williams, the senator has no memory of the collision — and while he acknowledges that the incident was horrific,…
At this writing, John Elway is reportedly on the job as executive veep of football operations for your Denver Broncos, and he’ll presumably have a big say about who becomes the next head coach. But there’s a problem — the same one the team’s braintrust failed to address when hiring…
Andrew Terry’s a frontrunner to appear in our next roundup of memorable mug shots. He’s been formally charged with attempted first-degree murder and more for a December 28 rampage in which he allegedly ran over an officer’s foot before attempting to commit vehicular homicide. Look below for more information and…
Leading today’s Denver Blogs round-up is a post that not-so-subtly explains the realities of paying for graphic design. You can have great and fast graphic design, but you’ll get what you pay for, opines the Denver Egotist, but originally created by graphic designer Colin Harman on his blog…
The Adams County Sheriff’s Office is searching for three men who were seen leaving an apartment where a murder occurred on Monday. The trio of men were all wearing masks, so no additional details are available. They were seen running from the apartment, which is at 7530 Broadway in unincorporated…
When Scott Durrah and Wanda James sold their dispensary, Apothecary of Colorado, in July, they talked about opening a medical marijuana edibles company. Six months later, Simply Pure is in business…
For the second year in a row, a movie with Colorado ties is getting Oscar buzz. In 2010, it was Precious, which was co-produced by Sarah Siegel-Magness and Gary Magness of Denver. This time around, it’s 127 Hours, which stars James Franco as Aron Ralston, the Colorado climber who cut…
The open matchbook that is pictured above is my contribution to twelve-year-old Augusta Dexheimer’s Wedding Pillow Project. Gus and I go way back: Her parents are former Westword staff writers Eric Dexheimer and Robin Chotzinoff. So when Gus called and told me that she was celebrating her bat mitzvah year…
A liquor license official just issued a resounding “Fuck you” to the City of Golden and a handful of condo owners by deciding that the venerable Buffalo Rose bar and co-owner Murray Martinez didn’t violate state liquor laws this past August when Martinez sang “Fuck the condo people” to the…
Colorado is the latest state to join Secure Communities, a federal program that checks fingerprints of people booked into local jails against a national database of illegal immigrants…
The Colorado Lottery’s Mega Millions jackpot rose to $330 million on Tuesday. That’s a lot of green, and while we all like to fantasize about what we’d do with our winnings — pay the mortgage? – can we all agree to donate that money to the Broncos and the Rockies?…
Move over, Sarah Palin, there’s a new grassroots movement afoot: the Teapot Party, a legalization movement founded after everybody’s favorite midnight rider, Willie Nelson, was busted in Texas in November for pot possession. In an interview after the arrest, the songwriter noted, “There’s the Tea Party. How about the Teapot…
Where there’s smoke, there’s ire! Last year at this time, state senator Chris Romer was gearing up to push a measure through the Colorado Legislature that would get Colorado’s booming medical marijuana industry under control — and as thanks, our readers have just voted him Shmuck of the Year (the…
Editor’s note: We broke this story on our Latest Word blog before this issue went to print. Read the whole story by Jonathan Shikes: “The ‘condo people’ get f*cked; Golden’s Buffalo Rose won’t be punished for telling them off”…
“O Scum All Ye Faithful,” Josiah Hesse, December 23 We’ve Got You Covered I picked up a copy of Westword at a Greenwood Village coffee shop near my office after seeing the punk-rock Jesus on the cover. I’m a member of Cherry Hills Community Church in Highlands Ranch and was…
The admonition greets visitors as they arrive for MATTER’s eleventh annual print sale and party. High on a wall of the design studio’s cavernous warehouse space on Market Street, the two-color screen-print poster warns in severely modified Helvetica Bold: “You may not steal the font library here, nor may you…
It’s your Monday edition of Denver Blogs, with a trio of interesting blog posts from around town. First up, a crack dealer selling to the people he was hired to protect: Jared Jacang Maher of Face the State (and formerly Westword) brings us this story of Lee Wright, a security…
All he had to do was not say something stupid and it’s possible that we would now be getting ready to inaugurate Scott McInnis Colorado’s next governor. After all, the Republican surge — led by the anti-Obama Tea Party segment — turned the elections into a near-bloodbath for Democratic candidates…
