A man in his 20s is dead after being shot while in a car this morning in the 2900 block of North Pontiac Street in northeast Denver. Denver Police responded to a report of a shooting at 9:58 a.m. at 2915 North Pontiac, to find a black male in his…
Governor Bill Ritter today issued full pardons to twenty people around Colorado, including the Reverend Leon Kelly, who has been a well-known public figure and anti-gang crusader since 1986 when he founded the Open Door Youth Gang Alternatives. Kelly, whose late father was also a minister, was a drug dealer…
For anyone planning on driving outside of the MMJ-friendly state of Colorado this holiday season, we offer this recent post as a public service (and, yes, our second comment of the day)…
William Breathes had heard a lot of good things about Colorado Alternative Medicine, and the shop measured up to his high expectations, which you can read about in his latest review. And there are dozens more options available in our medical-marijuana directory. Click here to access our medical-marijuana dispensary directory…
Jefferson County school board member Laura Boggs has been so disruptive this year that she inspired a teachers’ union-produced newsletter called Boggs Watch that is dedicated to keeping an eye on her antics. But Boggs isn’t just on the union’s naughty list. She’s also drawn criticism from teachers, parents, her…
There is only one thing people love more than Christmas gift shopping, and that is after- Christmas gift-return shopping! As seen below, It’s also the one time of the year that Josh McDaniels and Carmelo Anthony can return what they’ve been handed, and ask for exactly what they want…..
Much fuss has been made about the Highlands Mommies’ relationships to local businesses, as is evident in the comments on our cover story, “The Mommies.” Here’s a juicy one: The Highland Mommies are run by a self-possessed cadre of mean girls who finally have a voice after what surely were…
Westword’s annual Strange but True edition will hit newsstands (and this website) on December 30, featuring the weirdest and wackiest Colorado stories from 2010. Remember Jihad Jamie? How about the guy who re-labeled Gatorade bottles with pictures of Tiger Woods? And then there was Dan Sheridan:…
The Denver skyline is bright with Christmas lights, but a traditional blue glow still dominates the dark. And while the status of the Qwest sign will ride on the Qwest/CenturyLink merger proposal, that azure light isn’t expected to go out anytime soon…
Colorado Alternative Medicine is one of the few shops I’ve heard good things about from patients as well as other dispensary owners. I’ve been hearing stories about its solid collection of connoisseur genetics and homegrown-quality herb for over a year now, and decided it was finally time to check it…
Phillip Ray Greaves II, the 47-year-old Pueblo author of The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure: A Child-lover’s Code of Conduct, sent a copy to the wrong person: a Florida sheriff’s deputy, a sale that will have him in a Florida court today on charges of distributing obscene material…
Some breaking news for you in our Denver blogs daily post. Traffic in both directions on Interstate 70 has been closed at the Eisenhower Tunnel due a spill of an estimated 1,000 pounds of a liquid blasting agent. Look out below!…
An employee of the Monaco Grocery on East Colfax is dead after being shot last night during an attempted robbery…
Officers with the Denver Police Department found a man dead in a home in the 5100 block of West Gill Place a little before 7 p.m. last night. The man, whose name has not been replaced, was dead from a gunshot wound. Police are not saying where the man was…
Westword is asking readers to help us select a Shmuck of the Year by rolling out a new candidate each week throughout the month of December. The winner — loser — will be announced on January 3. Our first three candidates were Josh McDaniels, Scott McInnis and Osama-hunter Gary Faulkner…
Reporters take a lot of notes. Like, a lot. Like, I’m writing down what you’re saying right now. And not all of those juicy quotes wind up in the final story. So here, we offer the top five quotes by and about the formidable Highlands Mommies (see iron and rolling…
The pampered beast shown on the TallGrass billboard in the photo above is this season’s proud vision from the Evergreen hair- and skin-care coven endorsed by the cult of Oprah. Perhaps the gift cards advertised by the swanky spa will offer an “Elk Tune-up” to ease the trauma of holiday…
Every morning, I look east to where the oldest house on our historic block once stood — a Victorian bungalow that was delisted as a Denver landmark, then demolished and replaced by a gargantuan single-family home going up right on the edge of the bluff overlooking downtown, blocking many of…
As the medical marijuana-industry settles into respectability, businesses are in need of professional, well-trained staffers — but many business owners are so busy navigating the rapidly changing regulatory landscape that they don’t have time to scout out top-notch workers. That’s where Denver-based CannaStaff, reportedly the first marijuana staffing company, comes…
If Phillip Ray Greaves II was looking for a life of uneventful obscurity, the 47-year-old Pueblo author wouldn’t have self-published The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure: A Child-lover’s Code of Conduct, which was banned from Amazon amid threats of boycotts of the site and just got him arrested on…
Westword’s annual Strange but True edition will hit newsstands (and this website) on December 30, featuring the weirdest and wackiest Colorado stories from 2010. Remember Jihad Jamie? How about the guy who re-labeled Gatorade bottles with pictures of Tiger Woods? And then there was this guy:…
And here we thought marijuana made its proponents more mellow than our average cranky correspondents. Yesterday morning, shortly after Nick Lucchesi posted his piece on one of the products he’d seen at KushCon II, Prescription Lock, which ends the “need to hide your weed,” Mr. Mezzrow posted this comment: So…
