The drama continues around Operation Fortune Cookie, the largest weed bust in state history, which imploded amid accusations of snitching cops, paid-off politicians and bureaucratic retribution. Last week, the drug investigation’s main suspect, politically connected restaurateur Dan Tang, received eighteen months in prison for a single money laundering charge he…
As the weather gets nicer, the weekends are getting wilder in D-town — and Westword photogs were there to document the action. Check out the pretty people (some of them in pretty little) at the Spring Break Therapy bash in Boulder; get another look at the Colorado Cannabis Convention (in…
The Denver Coroner’s Office has released information on homicides in the city during the final quarter of 2009 and the first quarter of 2010 — January through March. And while there certainly has been no shortage of bloodshed during our current year, the end of last year was worse. The…
Talk about a startling NFL trade: The Eagles sent QB Donovan McNabb to the Washington Redskins for the 37th pick in this year’s draft, plus a third- or fourth-rounder next year. At first glance, new Redskins coach Mike Shanahan appears to have pulled off one helluva coup. Not only did…
Almost everything pot-related you could ever think of was on display at the Colorado Cannabis Convention over the weekend — everything but cannabis, that is. More than 300 vendors were on hand for the event – mostly dispensaries trying to get their name out to the public and gain new…
Highlands Ranch’s Chris Bartkowicz, whose home was raided by the DEA in February soon after he showed off his grow to a 9News reporter, is expected to offer a guilty plea in relation to the case. Nevertheless, his arrest raises a series of legal questions regarding the conflict between Colorado’s…
Lieutenant Colonel Terrence Lakin, who’s refusing to return to Afghanistan for a second tour until President Barack Obama produces proof that he was born in the U.S., is a Colorado native. Which makes perfect sense given the case of birther fever that continues to run through the state more than…
Editor’s Note: Treme writer/producer David Mills died of a brain aneurysm Tuesday in New Orleans. He’d written extensively about theTreme process and his burgeoning love for New Orleans music on his blog, undercoverblackman.blogspot.com. His Times-Picayune obit is here. By Larry Blumenfeld PRICE WAS TWELVE, BRUH.’ ‘THEM TWELVE HUNDRED WAS FOR…
Update, 4 p.m.: The Aurora Police Department has released more information about the arrest of Steven Johnston. The details are included below the original item. Earlier this week, we told you about a double homicide at the Sommerset Gardens Apartments in Aurora, with the victims later being identified as Jarrel…
Everybody loves the Apple Store in the Cherry Creek Shopping Center. Even Westword. In 2006, we honored it with one of our annual Best Of awards: The Best Spot to Scope Smart Hotties. In 2009, we wrote about how the Apple Store is the modern-day mall arcade, teeming with “dozens…
The results of a recent statewide poll of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Coloradans by the new gay-rights organization One Colorado are in — and they make for some interesting reading. For example, only 50 percent of LGBT Coloradans are out about their sexuality to extended family members. Here are…
Jamie Paulin-Ramirez of Leadville may already have earned her own Kenny Be spotlight comic. But until today, she hadn’t been formally charged with wrongdoing in relation to an alleged terrorist plot to slay a Swedish cartoonist. Now, however, Paulin-Ramirez has joined Colleen R. LaRose, known as both “Fatima LaRose” and…
As Craig Ferguson says, it’s a great day for America — and a great day to read some Denver blogs. Inside the Rockies’ Steve Foster tallies up love for the Rockies among experts making preseason picks. For instance, six ESPN prognosticators have them reaching the World Series, and three (including…
Yesterday, ESPN spent much of its NFL Live broadcast touting Herm Edwards’ idea for the San Francisco 49ers to go after both Donovan McNabb, to whom the Eagles (inexplicably) seem ready to say goodbye, and the Broncos’ Brandon Marshall. Former Bronco Mark Schlereth immediately championed the idea, even holding up…
Chess masters are adept at manipulation, which is fine when it involves game pieces. But not when children are the ones being manipulated. Like the ones unlucky enough to have been taught by Robert Snyder, who this week was sentenced in Larimer County Court to at least twelve years in…
#16 of the 22 Major Arcana: Cory Gardner, the Devil…..
Meagan Castle, spokeswoman for Governor Bill Ritter, confirms that her boss has received a threatening letter that’s been turned over to the FBI. But that’s all she’s saying — and FBI spokesman Dave Joly isn’t offering any additional information until an afternoon press conference being piggy-backed on a media gathering…
Don’t know what a guy expected yesterday when he responded to a text message from a woman he’d just met inviting him to come over. Maybe a friendly conversation — or a glass of white wine — or a booty call straight out of a hip-hop video. Instead, what he…
On Wednesday, Erick Schmuckal was taken directly from a court hearing to jail. He’s been ordered to serve 120 days for violating his probation. What did he do to earn this sentence? According to his attorney, Sean McAllister, he acted as a medical marijuana patient and caregiver — which he’s…
This week’s scheduled trial of Carol “Chay” Burdick, who was threatened with eviction over a Peeps-centric Easter display, has been delayed — which didn’t stop Stephen Colbert from grilling Burdick’s lawyer, John Pineau, on the Wednesday episode of The Colbert Report. But the real expert on grilling is Andrew Novick,…
Earlier this week, we told you about Kitchi the otter, Cheyenne Mountain Zoo escapee, who managed to evade recapture even after being trapped in a culvert with a robotic camera vehicle at one end and a safe trap on the other. By now, Kitchi’s been on the lam so long…
The medical marijuana legislation grinding through the Colorado House and Senate continues to fire up debate — note these recent back-and-forths between Senator Chris Romer and MMJ advocate Rob Corry over the issue of licensing requirements for patients age 21 and under. But plenty of other nuts-and-bolts questions remain. Such…
