Escape is tough for a lot of zoo animals, since they stand out in urban environments like sore elephants. But because otters are indigenous to Colorado, not to mention small, quick and wily, they have a fighting chance to frustrate would-be captors — which once-and-future Cheyenne Mountain Zoo resident Kitchi…
Duel, Steven Spielberg’s 1971 feature-length directorial debut about a crazed trucker on a smash-and-trash spree, is well worth seeing — but residents of a Longmont neighborhood should probably wait a while before checking it out. After all, many of them just witnessed a version of it live. David Kent, a…
While lawmakers hammer out regulations on Colorado’s nascent yet booming medical marijuana industry, an even bigger political showdown is looming in California, where voters will decide whether to legalize marijuana altogether in the November election. While marijuana activists have been pushing for legalization for decades, some of those associated with…
While the Aurora Police Department still has plenty of work to do regarding a double shooting yesterday at the Sommerset Gardens Apartments, the APD appears to have finally cleared a previously unsolved crime from its books. Diane Caldwell, 47, was found murdered in a field in November 1998 — but…
Jacob Joseph Medina has several distinguishing marks…Update, 6:50 a.m.:The Denver Police Department reports that Jacob Joseph Medina was captured without incident at approximately 4 p.m. yesterday at a business in northwest Denver. Look below to read our original item about the search for Medina, published on March 26. The Denver…
Deadly gunplay erupted in a parking lot near the Sommerset Gardens Apartments in Aurora yesterday. The result: two people dead and two in custody. No members of this quartet have been identified to date. Early reports suggested that the Aurora Police Department was looking for a third suspect, but that’s…
Last week, we told you about State Representative John Kefalas’ bill to simplify the language in insurance policies, which requires, among other things, that policies be written at a tenth-grade reading level in no smaller than ten-point font — an effort the democrat from Fort Collins says was a response…
Remember John Mark Karr? The man who briefly became a notorious in 2006 thanks to CU professor Michael Tracy’s suspicion that he’d murdered Boulder tot JonBenét Ramsey? Well, he’s b-a-a-a-ck. Make that she’s back — at least according to Inside Edition, which is reporting that Karr has changed sexes and…
Those Denver blogs just keep rolling along. Ian Henson at Bronco Talk dissects a message sent out by Brandon Marshall’s PR firm, which sniffs about the absence of “a contract extension commensurate with [his] skills.” He concludes that Marshall is “shady,” calls the message “childish,” and wonders, “Is this a…
Last November, we told you about shootings at Club Posh following a Halloween-night bash. Several days later, John Singleton died of his injuries. Singleton’s murder didn’t get much media attention beyond initial incident reports and our blog featuring memories about him shared by his wife, Maria Singleton-McGaughy. But the case…
On Friday, Corporate Accountability International called for McDonald’s to dump Ronald McDonald as its mascot, arguing that he’s a negative factor when it comes to addressing childhood obesity. Cut to early Sunday morning, when the Colorado Springs Police Department reports that two women were robbed at a local Burger King…
Colorado Attorney General John Suthers’ announcement that he would be joining in a lawsuit with a dozen other AGs across the country to challenge the constitutionality of the new health-care bill was cheered by some political observers and jeered by others — with members of the latter group casting around…
The study of neighbors through their yard decoration… Figure 56a. Baker: Fallen Easter yard art struggles to get off the ground. Easter and Passover are the two holdout holidays to have dodged the doting hands of yard decoration. However, the display pictured above shows how that is changing. The legless…
It’s not all that unusual for former Congressman and presidential candidate Tom Tancredo to get fired up about what he sees as the unprotected border between the United States and Mexico. In fact, he did so earlier this month, when he suggested that the Obama administration was gleeful at the…
There seems to be some misunderstanding about marijuana law in Colorado. Medical marijuana has been legalized via Amendment 20, although there are plenty of disagreements about how the system should work, as our interview with Senator Chris Romer earlier today proves. But while possession of small amounts of marijuana has…
Holy undergarments: That was one hell of a weekend. It started on Thursday with an underwear party at Tracks Nightclub (NSFW), and the Hip Chicks Out and Heaven and Hell parties. It continued Friday when Twizted and the upstanding citizens of the ICP scene descended on the Ogden on Friday…
“Ask an expert,” urges a link on the Colorado State University page touting the Colorado Master Gardener program offered by Colorado State University on an extension basis. But not if that question is about marijuana. According to CSU spokesman Brad Bohlander, program reps have been receiving queries about marijuana-growing of…
Senator Chris Romer feels that many of those under age 21 who have medical marijuana cards obtained these licenses to toke under dubious circumstances — and he wants to make it harder for them to do so in the future. However, such distinctions between patients’ ages didn’t make it into…
So you think you’re a connoisseur, what with your cans of Beluga, Kobe steaks and stash of 1998 Dom Perignon? Think again if you haven’t gotten your hands on cannabis caviar, a new kind of top-shelf marijuana popping up at Colorado dispensaries that sells for the astronomical price of $1,400…
Ever since Northglenn Detective Daniel Joyce and Thornton Detective Robert Lopez filed a lawsuit last week alleging corruption within Operation Fortune Cookie, the news media has been rehashing the long, strange tale of the state’s largest — and likely most convoluted – indoor weed bust. (Here’s a play-by-play primer on…
The tales of Jefferson County School Board Member Laura Boggs’ “disruptive behavior” around town, including an instance where she reportedly called school “stupid,” rallied a good crowd for Thursday night’s school board meeting. There, the teachers-union group that publishes “Boggs Watch,” an e-mail newsletter chronicling the official’s alleged shenanigans, received…
A lot has happened in the eleven months since Westword last wrote about Colorado’s lack of a legal syringe exchange program — and how a group called Underground Syringe Exchange Denver, or USED, formed to fill that gap. But with the introduction of Senate Bill 189 this week, the state…
