Last week, we told you about a vicious attack in Boulder. The beating was delivered by a man described as being a man of Hispanic or Pacific Island descent with dark red curly hair, a chunky build, a pot belly and “no neck.” Eric Anthony Bustillos, come on down. Bustillos,…
Conner Cordova’s fifteen minutes have begun. The Dakota Ridge High School student launched a YouTube campaign to convince UFC ring girl and smokin’ hot piece of feminine pulchritude Arianny Celeste to join him as his date at DR’s spring dance — and damn it if his persistence and beyond-his-years understanding…
The booming medical marijuana industry in Colorado has made a noise loud enough to be heard in the newsroom of the Wall Street Journal, which looks at the business of pot in this square state on page one today. “In Mile High City, Weed Sparks Up a Counterculture Clash” focuses…
This week’s feature, “Battlefield Suburbia,” explores the bizarre and tumultuous battles of metro Denver residents, like those who live at Cherry Creek Farm against their homeowner’s associations and the companies that manage them. There are also scraps going on at Highline Meadows — or as residents call it, “Highline Ghettos.”…
This past weekend, the Denver Police Department released a roster of its fifty most wanted criminals — and since then, it’s been steadily rounding up the targeted scofflaws. A quartet of the accused were hauled in almost immediately, led by Freddie Ray Lazzo, No. 33. And yesterday, we heard about…
Update, 2:10 p.m.: Westword just spoke to Andrea Merida. To read what she had to say, click on “More” and scroll to the bottom. Denver Public Schools board member Andrea Merida has been raking muck with regard to the school district’s plan to “turn around” failing Lake Middle School ever…
Like sand through the hourglass, so go the blogs of Denver. In a fan post on Mile High Report, BroncoTiLLIDie sticks it to the mainstream media for faulting pretty much every off-the-field move the Broncos have made since Josh McDaniels became coach. Venting always helps. Spring training game 18 already?…
To put it mildly, the jury is still out on whether new Broncos quarterback Brady Quinn is going to be a savior or a bust. But there’s no debate about whether Quinn’s a luscious chunk of man candy. The verdict on that’s been in for a while now. Fortunately, Quinn…
A new “Mile Highs and Lows” review has just been published: In it, William Breathes checks out Pride in Medicine, finding the joint’s products to be worth the coughing fits they cause. In addition, we’ve updated Westword’s dispensary directory, which delivers the latest about medical marijuana businesses throughout the area…
This dispensary has closed. 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 will be offering a no-holds-barred…
Last week, a motion for a protective order was filed on behalf of the City and County of Denver, Denver cop Shawn Miller and two other “unknown Denver Police Department officers.” The issue? Attorney David Lane, who represents Jason Anthony Graber in a case against the named parties, wants Miller…
With March Madness getting underway in earnest today (we don’t count the play-in game), plenty of politicos are displaying hometown or home-state pride by touting the chances of local teams. That’s not really an option this year for Governor Bill Ritter — but rather than being left out, he’s issued…
The re-introduction of streetcars is guaranteed to reduce automobile congestion and invigorate redevelopment on East Colfax Avenue! Especially if the project is built as a public/private partnership that includes the use of these seven “hopper” trolleys that promote Colfax businesses… In addition to announcing street names, the driver of each…
On Tuesday, we told you about a lawsuit over the rules pertaining to ballot initiatives that’s supported by some strange bedfellows — among them the Independence Institute’s Jon Caldara and Mason Tvert, the marijuana advocate who fronts SAFER (Safer Alternative For Enjoyable Recreation). Tvert says he isn’t the driving force…
Boulder’s Catharine Pierce, 52, doesn’t like anything to get between her and her garden — which is why yesterday afternoon she tended the flora and fauna in her front yard topless. Pierce lives within a block of the Shining Mountain Waldorf School, a pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade facility, which may…
Assurant Health, the country’s oldest provider of individual health insurance policies, has had a few public relations problems lately. In addition to the debate over such companies making hundreds of millions in profits by canceling or rescinding health coverage for sick people and the grilling of CEO Don Hamm by…
A report is set to be released today on a virtual fence intended to be placed along the U.S.-Mexico border. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano confirms that the $1.1 billion program has been dumped, due in large part to the fact that the damn thing doesn’t work the way it…
Yesterday, reporter Joel Warner told you about Araphaoe County’s decision to return two pounds of marijuana from Colin Olmstead more than a year after it was seized. The ganja was being driven to a dispensary at the time. The handover took place yesterday afternoon, and Timothy Tipton of Cannabis Health…
Jeffrey Sweetin, special agent in charge of the Denver field division of the DEA, lately hasn’t been too fond of the mainstream media. Much of it has to do with how reporters covered the case of Chris Bartkowicz, a Highlands Ranch man who was arrested by DEA agents last month…
On July 24, 1909, Colorado dedicated a memorial on the west side of the State Capitol to local soldiers killed in the Civil War. The monument shows a Union soldier facing south and includes four plaques listing the names of the battles. In 2002, the state decided to clarify the…
Tom and Courtney Myers moved into their home in Cherry Creek Farm more than a decade ago, and for many years, they enjoyed their cookie-cut sliver of the moderately affluent neighborhood. Their split-level house, which they share with their aging black Labrador, Max, boasts glinting dark wood floors in the…
The Man With the Metal Ceiling Bob Tarde has lived in the same one-bedroom apartment in Centennial for more than two decades, plenty of time for him to decorate it with hundreds of forest-scene plaques, “home sweet home” garb and other accumulated tchotchkes. Behind the knickknacks, Tarde has also painstakingly…
