Have a question about how medical marijuana works — or doesn’t work — in Colorado? Post it on the Latest Word, and you’re certain to hear from plenty of people — some official experts, like pot reviewer William Breathes, others unofficial. And where there’s smoke, there’s ire, as evidenced by…
Carmelo Anthony has been absent from the team since last week, when his 38-year-old sister died of a “pre-existing condition.” Yesterday, the family held a funeral service outside Baltimore, where Anthony was raised. Michelle Anthony was twelve years older than Carmelo. She is survived by four children and three other…
2010 was a weird year, with nothing weirder than the race for governor, which saw the leading Republican nominee go down in a plagiarism scandal while his opponent became a joke and a former Republican made an amazing run as a third-party candidate. Perhaps the best way to examine the…
At the end of every year, Westword honors this town’s worst of the worst — the characters whose misdeeds make our ears bleed and our eyes water — by inducting them into our Hall of Shame. Here are the 2010 inductees. Brandon Smith Remember all the hype about the iPad,…
“O Scum All Ye Faithful,” Josiah Hesse, December 23 Scum Disagree Scum of the Earth has become punk in name only, although the smell might deceive you, depending on where you stand; it could be a lot more “scummy.” I am a Christian, although I rarely refer to myself as…
If you haven’t seen the footage from earlier this month when Brandon Lloyd took a few extra steps out of bounds after a catch and sent a Cardinals cheerleader scrambling, stop reading immediately and click through to the image below. It’s great — one of those rare unscripted, uncontrolled NFL…
The East Coast is getting a shit-ton of snow, according to such venerable news sources as the New York Times and my mother, who texted me pictures of human-sized snow piles this morning. But thus far, Denver is bone-dry. It’s a fact that everyone here seems to have noticed –…
Tim Tebow will be making an appearance in one of these three Denver blog posts. We just can’t quit you, Timmy. Lobbyist Ron Smith hid raw chicken in his ex-wife’s air ducts, Face the State reports…
Last week Westword published “Apocalypse No,” an Off Limits piece on the 2012: The True Mayan Prophecy, a documentary recently released by PeaceJam founders Ivan Suvanjieff and Dawn Engle. In addition to the story, Westword presented the documentary in its entirety at westword.com/2012truemayanprophecy, viewable if one makes a $1.99 donation…
The Colorado Division of Wildlife is offering $1,000 for information leading to the citation or arrest of a bighorn sheep poacher in Poudre Canyon. The department is not releasing any specifics about the sheep-slaying, but they will say it happened before Thanksgiving somewhere in the Canyon west of Fort Collins…
The photograph above features a decorative dead end in the Reunion subdivision of Commerce City. The center of the picture looks out into the future of planned suburban expansion. Until then, the nearly identical homes face off in a duel of nearly identical holiday decorations. Below, Santa Homer goes head…
A little after 8 p.m. last night, Jason Ross of St. Louis drove his roughly 35 ton semi truck onto I-70 in eastern Colorado heading in the wrong direction. He may have been drunk and he definitely didn’t have his headlights on. Near the exit for Cedar Point, Colorado, he…
In their last days in office, some governors have been known to make bold moves in the criminal justice arena, denouncing ruinous policies and commuting long sentences as a way of highlighting unfair biases in the system. As demonstrated by the modest set of pardons he doled out last week,…
We’re going to announce our pick for Shmuck of the Year for 2010 on January 3, but before that, we’d like you to cast your vote for your favorite shmuck…
Carmelo Anthony has missed the last three games due to his sister’s death. The official word from the team is that he’ll return “after Christmas.” Doesn’t much matter when he gets back to the team — games with balls are of microscopic importance in comparison. For those of us with…
Verily did Tim Tebow lift the forlorn Broncos on his broad shoulders and dump-off screen pass them over the worst pass defense in football. This win is hardly cause for a re-evaluation of the Broncos’ historically awful season, but hey: they got the win after being down by 17 at…
Judging from the comments posted on the Latest Word over the last few days, many people had a very green Christmas. For example, Sierra wrote the following after reading William Breathes’s latest dispensary review of Colorado Alternative Medicine:…
The Christmas tree shape and Santa Claus color of John McEnroe’s sculpture at the base of the Highland bridge almost demands that “National Velvet” be decorated for the holidays. Inspired by the sculpture’s similarity to a pile of Italian sausages, this year’s “National Velvet” holiday theme pays tribute to the…
Westword is asking readers to help us select the Shmuck of the Year by rolling out five candidates this month. The winner — loser — will be announced on January 3. Our first four candidates were Josh McDaniels, Scott McInnis, Gary Faulkner and Ron Perea. This week, say hello to…
Hair today, gone tomorrow. For his 2010 wrap-up, Michael Roberts looked through hundreds of crime reports to come up with his mug shot retrospectives. And that disgusted Disgusted American, who did some ethical hair-splitting over “Top 12 Bad Hair Mug Shots”:…
Editor’s note: Eight months ago, in part as a response to Arizona’s enactment of a law requiring its police to ask anyone they think might be here illegally (read: Mexicans) to produce proof of legal status, Village Voice Media embarked on an extensive national immigration project. It tasked VVM papers…
Kids do the darnedest things with LEGO bricks and games, as Joel Warner pointed out in this feature last January. But few projects are quite the labor of love involved in one fifteen-year-old devotee’s astonishing replica of the Denver Public Library on Broadway: 7,000 bricks, two solid weeks of full-time…
