Contrary to popular belief, Westword is a newspaper, not a dispensary or a marijuana grow — and anyone who’s looked in our shared refrigerator will tell you there are almost never any edibles around here. Yet the organizers of the annual Caregivers’ Cup chose to give Westword editor Patricia Calhoun…
Almost immediately after the passage of HB 1284, a bill to regulate the medical marijuana industry, and SB 109, intended to clarify the relationship between doctors and MMJ patients, attorneys like Jessica Corry made it known that lawsuits would challenge numerous provisions, including language allowing communities to ban dispensaries. That’s…
We unleashed photog Aaron Thackeray on the city this weekend, and he came back with hundreds of photos from Friday’s 3OH!3/Cobra Starship concert, an after-party at Suite 200, the Cuervo Games on Saturday and the Caregivers Cub on Sunday. See the photos at westword.com/slideshow…
Final episodes of beloved series are criticism magnets — and last night’s Lost closer, in which the castaways, all of them dead, happily gathered in a church in order to “move on” together, was no exception. Was the resolution a brave and sincere declaration of faith all too rare on…
In an April post announcing his intention to challenge Colorado Attorney General John Suthers at the polls this November, Boulder district attorney Stan Garnett focused on issues like watching out for consumers, championing the environment and crafting a workable medical marijuana policy. But he’s not shying away from hitting Suthers…
The confirmation of twelve-year-old Greeley resident Kayleah Wilson’s death transformed a Facebook page focusing on her safe return from a beacon of hope to a loving memorial. And that’s remained the case despite the unsettling news that Robert Laurencio Montoya, eighteen, has been arrested and charged with sex abuse, for…
As if B-cycle, Denver’s new bike-sharing program — the largest of its kind in the country — wasn’t cool enough… Now, when you rent your bike and help save the planet at the B-cycle station at the corner of 25th and Lawrence streets, you can get your art on, too…
It’s Adorable Animal Friday! (See previous installments here: baby giraffe is born; baby monkey is effing cute; naked mole rats are effing hideous.) Today, we bring you Cranbeary, an eight-year-old polar bear who has returned to the Denver Zoo looking for love of the Marvin Gaye variety. Read on for…
Senator Joyce Foster’s last minute amendment to House Bill 10-364, which allowed sex offenders to choose among three treatment options, stirred plenty o’ controversy, owing largely to her subsequent admission that the action was inspired by her brother-in-law, Julian Newman, who has a sex-offending past. KHOW’s Peter Boyles, in particular,…
Every subculture deserves its own soundtrack — sure. But a Christmas album that displays Santa, Rudolf and friends stoned? That seems a bit much… unless you’re Ken Gorman. Gorman, the emphatic rabble-rousing pot activist who was the subject of “High Times,” this week’s feature, also dabbled in the music industry…
Local fave Duane Chapman, aka Dog the Bounty Hunter, will reportedly be the focus of an E! True Hollywood Story episode on Monday, May 24 — and judging by the quotes released to date, it should be a laugh riot. For instance, here’s what Dog says about the days when…
When bloggers write about Denver, we take notice — as these three items prove. Bleacher Report’s John Stitz thinks ESPN’s becoming a joke — and the first bit of evidence he offers is its “worship” of Tim Tebow, “a guy that most people don’t even think he will be anywhere…
Like Republican senatorial hopeful Ken Buck, Dem Andrew Romanoff is in a strange position vis-à-vis his party’s assembly this weekend: He’ll win, but that doesn’t mean most people think he can defeat his better-heeled opponent — in his case, Senator Michael Bennet — in the August primary. Romanoff remains confident,…
Every week we introduce you to some pillar of shmuckiness. This week: Whoever Runs Jury Duty. The Post reports today that Colorado employers can now verify their workers’ jury duty summonses online — a service that presumably makes it more difficult for employees to play hooky under the guise of…
On Monday, Alice 105.9 FM morning-show host Erica Cobb raved about the experience of appearing on The Marriage Ref. And she still feels that way, despite guest judges Demi Moore, Kelly Ripa and Jim Breuer deciding against her and in favor of her husband, Jesse Lehman, on last night’s show…
The cover photo for the album pictured above was taken just before Ken Buck and Jane Norton started their 2010 Senate campaigns. Back in 2009, they were two peas in the same conservative pod. The guy from Greeley and the gal from Grand Junction were dubbed the “Duo of Disenchantment”…
Some marijuana advocates, including the Cannabis Therapy Institute’s Laura Kriho, fear the passage of HB 1084, a bill to regulate the medical marijuana biz, and SB 109, intended to clarify the relationship between MMJ patients and doctors, will decimate the industry. But that hasn’t stopped entrepreneurs aplenty from conceiving projects…
The nasty spat between senatorial hopefuls Ken Buck and Jane Norton, sparked in part by a planned Saturday appearance by super-Alaskan Sarah Palin, has rumbled throughout the week preceding tomorrow’s Republican state assembly in Loveland. Norton’s skipping the bash, having decided to petition her way onto the ballot. But Buck…
From a conceptual standpoint, last night’s season finale of Grey’s Anatomy had a lot in common with the famous it-was-all-a-dream episode of Dallas. Fans haven’t been wowed by many of the new characters introduced of late, so Grey’s creator Shonda Rhimes used a distraught shooter plotline to brutally dispatch two…
The feds aren’t messing around when it comes to Eric Dodd, the accused Portfolio Bandit, who was arrested last week. An FBI alert issued on May 10 suggested that the criminal in question was suspected of knocking over a dozen banks — and now, Dodd has been formally charged with…
As we pointed out about this time yesterday morning, the friends and family posting on the Prayers For Kayleah Wilson’s Safe Return Facebook page were trying to maintain hope even as they were preparing for the worst. Unfortunately, the worst is what they got: Greeley officials confirm that a body…
Update, May 21, 6:28 a.m.: The violent athletes report described in this item, intially published at 1:19 p.m. on May 20, didn’t appear on last night’s CBS news broadcast. As noted below, the possibility remained that it could be bumped by breaking news; presumably, producers decided that the story of…
