Colorado Springs dispensary owner Drew Milburn, a veteran, doesn’t like the state health department’s opposition to using medical marijuana to treat post-traumatic stress disorder — and he’s not alone. Team 420 has scheduled a protest against the department at noon today (get info below) — and Sensible Colorado is in…
Westword — thirty-plus years your weekly, ink-stained guide to Denver — now lives in your iPhone. For free. The Westword iPhone app went live last night and is stocked with much of the same content you get here at westword.com. More specifically, you’ll find:…
In Nebraska, the Cornhuskers’ likely leap to the Big 10 is the biggest news since the temporary discontinuation of red M&Ms. Note that the Omaha World-Herald is live blogging today’s regents meeting on the subject. Also in the World-Herald: A CU official says the school’s open to continuing the CU-Nebraska…
On Wednesday, we previewed the Microsoft Store grand opening at Park Meadows — and judging by two video clips, yesterday’s festivities were both well-attended and mildly terrifying. Look below to check out the ribbon cutting, complete with employees in uni-colored T-shirts leaping up and down like Glee cast members on…
The prospect of an initiative that could ban dispensaries in Colorado Springs frustrates We Grow Colorado’s Drew Milburn. After all, he views his business as a public service — one that can benefit fellow military veterans like him. He’s especially eager to reach those who suffer from post traumatic stress…
Us magazine reportedly thinks American Idol alum Ace Young gets sexier the less he’s wearing in the Broadway revival of Hair. But Young credits his naturalness in the role to his Boulder upbringing — specifically growing up in an environment with plenty of hippies and drugs. Put that in your…
The passage of medical marijuana laws HB 1284 and SB 109 has hardly ended disputes among small-time growers and the police about what’s legal and what’s over the line. The case of Ann Marie Miller, who’s facing felony cultivation charges based on a plant count that she says includes dead…
A brave photog sent Deadspin a photo of our own Woody Paige publicly macking on a young woman at Big Game Restaurant and Lounge. The post makes us feel a little bad for the Woodman — but that’s trumped by our eagerness to laugh, point and share both the full-sized…
Two associates of Willie Clark, who was convicted in March of Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams’s 2007 murder, were sentenced today to a year in prison each for refusing to testify at his trial, despite the fact that prosecutors say they were with Clark when he shot into Williams’ limo. As…
Update, 3:33 p.m.: Read it below the original 11:47 a.m. item. The Nuggets’ J.R. Smith had a rough season, spending more time in the doghouse than outside it. But the doghouse may have been safer than the Cherry Hills Country Club mansion he’s been renting. Burglars messed with his Mercedes,…
After a costly effort to unmask the creators of an anonymous website backing three controversial tax-relief issues, an administrative law judge has fined three of the listed proponents of the measures for violating state campaign finance laws — and concluded that tax crusader Douglas Bruce was deeply involved in behind-the-scenes…
To protest an ordinance that might have criminalized women who publicly bare their nipples, Boulder’s Seth Brigham stripped to his boxers at a February city council meeting — and was promptly arrested. Four months later, David Lane, fresh from winning a $5.9 million settlement for Tim Masters, has taken up…
Today’s Denver blog highlights. On Mile High Report, the Dude’s mail sack includes a note from a woman who didn’t quite make the Broncos’ cheerleading squad but thinks those who did will cause Tim Tebow to “rethink his promise ring.” Yowsah! The Colorado Independent’s David O. Williams introduces us to…
Our latest medical marijuana dispensary review comes courtesy of The Wildflower Seed, who takes a trip to Dacono’s Green Door Wellness Center. But if that’s an inconvenient location (which it will be for most of you), we can direct you to plenty of alternatives in our newly updated dispensary directory…
This dispensary has closed. In “Mile Highs and Lows,” Westword offers no-holds-barred looks at what goes on behind the locked doors of marijuana dispensaries, whether they resemble swanky bars, sterile dentists offices or a dope dealer’s college dorm room. This week, the Wildflower Seed reviews Green Door Wellness Center:…
Update, 11:56a.m.: Clear Channel Denver president Lee Larsen weights in on Kris Olinger’s departure below our original item, originally published at 8:20 a.m., with a new e-mail communique included after our 10:16 a.m. addition. Kris Olinger, the longtime overseer of AM programming for Clear Channel Denver is leaving the operation…
Update, 10:58 a.m.: Here’s one reason Lloyd Rochester hired a lawyer: He’s filed for divorce. Details below the original item, published at 7:21 a.m. The latest on the terrible story of Superior’s Stephanie Rochester, who told investigators she smothered her baby, Rylan, because she feared he had autism: Her husband,…
The CU Buffs will reportedly announce tomorrow that they’re leaving the Big 12 in favor of the Pac 10 — proof that future potential trumps present mediocrity…
Last month, we told you the bizarre story of Kurt Riggin, who’s been charged before the Colorado Supreme Court with illegally practicing law — although supposedly not for advocating on behalf of a medical marijuana patient in Park County, where he’s facing separate accusations. The weirdness continues. Riggin says the…
Does Colorado Springs’ conservatism stop at the bong? That’s the view of some participants in the community’s medical marijuana scene thanks to moves by the Springs city council to regulate, not crush, the industry. Nonetheless, there’s a citizen-led move afoot to put a wholesale dispensary ban on the November ballot…
Shortly after nabbing the Bad Hat Bandit, the folks at the Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force are hoping to pluck a guy they’ve nicknamed the Perennial Bandit. He’s thought to have hit the same Bank of the West branch twice, almost exactly a year apart. Spring has sprung, and…
Denver likes its coffee hot, and the joe is served smokin’ at Hot Chick-A-Latte, a new drive-thru where the baristas dress in bikinis, cowgirl clothes and other sexy outfits, work primarily for tips and serve a specialty called Morning Wood. The business, inside the distinctive A-frame building at 4736 East…
