In January, Alan Prendergast argued that herding sheep may be Colorado’s worst job. He cited research from Colorado Legal Services showing that the vast majority of herders, many of them brought to the U.S. by industry types from Peru, Bolivia or Mexico, “don’t get time off, don’t have access to…
The Denver District Attorney’s Office release about an indictment naming Xavier Joseph Duran is brief and fairly colorless. But the references to multiple counts of securities fraud and series theft are accompanied by an aside about a victim whose husband was a police officer killed in the line of duty…
It certainly seemed like a timely story: Students at Golden’s Fairmont Elementary told Channel 31’s Leland Vittert that they were suspended for displaying Mexican flags on Cinco de Mayo yesterday. But Denver Public Schools spokesman Michael Vaughn says these assertions are simply inaccurate. He’s told by school administrators that the…
Colorado sure loves its roller derby. Last month, the Castle Rock ‘n’ Rollers of Castle Rock were accepted as an apprentice league by the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association, the national organization that regulates all things derby. The apprenticeship is a mentor program that all leagues must complete before becoming…
Most student film projects never get a screening outside the classroom. But the University of Colorado at Denver’s Digital Animation Center takes a different approach. Instead of sending budding Scorseses out to make two dozen individual and utterly forgettable films, the program puts all the students to work on one…
Back in January, Los Angeles-based Greenway University announced its intention to build the “premier worldwide medical marijuana training facility” in Denver, with CEO and founder Gus Escamilla predicting that the whole she-bang would be up and running in sixty to ninety days. More than three months later, Greenway’s in great…
Welcome to our Denver blogs roundup. Today, three little doggies are in the coral. Mile High Report’s ejruiz links to a report about April jersey sales, with the Broncos moving from tenth place to first thanks to a certain Tim Tebow. He sports the best-selling rookie jersey since 2006. But…
Even the wiseacres at The Daily Show have noticed Denver’s booming medical marijuana scene — not to mention William Breathes, one of our MMJ critics. But Breathes isn’t just a pretty face (albeit one whose mug was obscured by smoke and more during his Daily Show appearance) — and he…
As Colorado’s medical-marijuana industry grows, marijuana dispensaries of all types and sizes are proliferating around the state. Some resemble swanky bars or sterile dentist offices; others feel like a dope dealer’s college dorm room. To help keep them all straight, Westword is offering a no-holds-barred look at what goes on…
Colorado State University System officials voted unanimously Wednesday to rescind the school’s hotly contested campus gun ban in response to a court ruling last month that wiped out a similar prohibition at CU-Boulder. The CSU ban, which was passed earlier this year, came under fire from pro-gun groups including the…
The study of neighbors through their lawn decoration… Before Cinco de Mayo was a weekend party, Colorado residents celebrated their Southwestern heritage through yard art. The five popular pieces pictured above were usually purchased as a set at local garden stores and placed in the yard in two groupings. The…
“I can’t even begin to tell you how weird it is to be shopping for sperm,” says Leah, who blogs under the moniker Single Infertile Female. “It’s not one of those things you ever think you’ll be doing — judging men online by their various attributes to decide if you…
As we reported yesterday afternoon, HB 1284, the medical marijuana regulatory bill, was passed by the Senate on its second reading — and at least at this writing, it appears to be on the fast track to passage and a trip to Governor Bill Ritter’s desk. As for the bill…
Amid the uproar stirred by the new Arizona immigration law — travel bans by Denver Public Schools and the City of Boulder, plus student walkouts and weekend rallies — US Immigration Customs and Enforcement, known as ICE, continues to be on the lookout for people in the country illegally. Late…
Colorado Ethics Watch has filed a campaign-finance complaint against ClearTheBenchColorado.org, whose founder, Matt Arnold, wants to throw the bums off the Colorado Supreme Court. The gripe? Clear the Bench is registered with the Secretary of State’s office as an issues committee, which can accept unlimited contributions. But CEW director Luis…
For the most part, the marijuana movement has long been seen as a predominantly male group — but that’s about to change. Just in time for Mothers Day, a variety of local pot activists (most of them female) are launching the Women’s Marijuana Movement with the belief that the fairer…
“Bad News Bill,” Melanie Asmar, April 29 Ex Marks the Spot So Bill Sullivan is a jerk and chicks are easy to dupe. Boring. C. Sean McManus Denver Let’s see, a guy shows up for a first date wearing an ankle monitor and explains it’s because of his embezzlement conviction…
Just like people, government agencies have different takes on Facebook and Twitter. Some jumped on early; others still haven’t quite figured out social media; and a few just can’t — or won’t — be bothered with this newfangled stuff. Denver wants to get all of its agencies on the same…
Fact or Science Fiction? Paolo Bacigalupi is the latest in a distinguished line of award-winning fantasy, horror and science-fiction authors with special ties to Colorado. The state has long been a hotbed for talented writers and rabid fans of the genres; maybe it has something to do with all those…
Paolo Bacigalupi is staring at his lunch. Tortilla chips, salsa, a peanut butter and jelly sandwich — thrown together in the kitchen of his home on a mesa outside of Paonia, and pretty boring by anybody’s culinary standards. But Bacigalupi, a novelist with a nearly unpronounceable name (BAH-cha-ga-loo-py) and a…
With Governor Jan Brewer’s April 25 signature affixed to Senate Bill 1070, Arizona is poised to direct all law enforcement agencies to adopt Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s policy of rounding up and incarcerating Mexicans and then shipping them back across the border if they lack proper documentation of their status in…
Village Voice Media is underwriting the cost of the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona’s forthcoming litigation against Senate Bill 1070, as well as two other immigration lawsuits. Senate Bill 1070 mandates that a police officer who has “reasonable suspicion” that someone is a Mexican must detain that person. The…
