News that the Carolina Panthers had released veteran quarterback Jake Delhomme just a year after inking him to a hefty contract extension immediately started grapevines buzzing in every NFL city with QB question marks, including Denver. But judging by early takes on the DenverBroncos.com message board, fans aren’t wowed by…
A couple of years back, media pundits theorized that newspapers in smaller communities would remain healthy longer than those in major metro areas — but times have proven just as tough for the little guys as the big ones. Example: The Aspen Times and the Glenwood Springs Post Independent have…
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar faced some impertinent questions from a Senate committee yesterday about an internal memo suggesting that his agency is actively seeking nominations for new national monuments. Salazar denied that he’s trying to use the process to lock up western lands primed for oil and gas…
Last week, we told you about Arthur Bittner, the man who had just been busted for not quite robbing a bank in Aurora on February 25. He may not have been as inept a criminal as it initially appeared; police now believe him to be the H1N1 Bandit, suspected in…
Nearly one-hundred medical marijuana demonstrators, smokers, passers-by and media members were at the steps of the Capitol today for a protest against Senate Bill 1284, which was being discussed inside the state house. Before the speakers got going, DJ Freddy, a local DJ with the Hustlin’ Flow Music Group crew,…
Veterans Suspected of Crimes Swap Guilty Pleas for Rehabilitation Just a few months ago, Iraq War veteran Nic Gray came to in a Colorado Springs jail cell, having been charged with crimes he couldn’t remember committing. The recent Westword feature “Martial Law” details Gray’s troubles — as well as how…
May the Denver blogs be with you — directly below this sentence. John Bena at Mile High Report doesn’t see the tender offer of a first-round draft pick for Brandon Marshall as disrespectful. Instead, it’s simply the Broncos’ best chance to keep “control of a situation as long as they…
Westword is covering the trial of Willie Clark, accused of murdering Denver Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams early on New Year’s Day 2007. The most recent updates for the day will be at the top; to check out the account chronologically at day’s end, read from the bottom up. Click here…
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service typically deals with critters while they’re still alive, not after they’ve been skinned and made into clothing . But right now, the organization is your one-stop-shopping place for exotic items that once walked, ran or slithered — sort of. Turns out the service has…
It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for a new “Mile Highs and Lows” review: William Breathes checks out The Green Room, a Boulder dispensary that strikes him as positively spa-like (except with a bud room). In addition, we’ve updated Westword’s dispensary directory, which provides the latest info on businesses near…
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…
As crimes go, the one of which former CU student Abby Toll has been accused is hardly run of the mill. The Bouder Daily Camera describes it like so: “Toll is accused of binding her boyfriend’s 2-year-old shiba inu, Rex, in hair bands and packing tape and sticking him upside-down…
Well, at least the cartoon’s creators should be the award winners. Instead, Pat Bowlen (Broncos owner), Walter Isenberg (hotel mogul) and Curtis Fentress (DIA architect) will all be inducted into the Visit Denver Tourism Hall of Fame for their support and dedication to making big bucks off of tourists. In…
Last month, we chatted with Personhood USA spokesman Keith Mason, who was excited that his organization had collected enough signatures to put an initiative establishing person status from the beginning of a human being’s biological development before Colorado voters in November. Granted, a similar measure was trounced back in 2008…
Word that at least three entities planned objections to the bankruptcy proposal for Affiliated Media, holding company for MediaNews Group, added some suspense to today’s hearing about the matter before a U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware. In the end, though, Judge Kevin J. Carey saw no reason to put the…
Whereas the folks at the Cannabis Therapy Institute find lots to hate in Representative Tom Massey’s medical marijuana bill, which makes its Capitol debut today, Matt Brown, head of Coloradans for Medical Marijuana Regulations, is much less negative. Not that he sees the legislation as ideal. “Thankfully, it’s not done…
Today, House Bill 1284, Representative Tom Massey’s long-awaited measure intended to regulate the medical marijuana industry in Colorado, will finally get its closeup at the Capitol. And the folks at the Cannabis Therapy Institute are ready to weigh in with their objections. CTI is urging supporters to attend a rally…
Yesterday, the Aurora Police Department responded to the Descano Plaza Apartments at 11102 East 16th Avenue There, they found the manager of the complex, who was suffering from multiple stab wounds that ended her life a short time later. Thus far, the APD isn’t identifying the woman, but it has…
Last July, when news broke about the arrest of University of Northern Colorado theater professor Vance Fulkerson — principally for secretly videotaping boys in his bathroom — a former Fulkerson student turned blogger who calls himself the Whup-Ass Master ripped the so-called “rug-wearing kiddie porn aficionado” a new one on…
It’s taking a little while for Mayor John Hickenlooper to get his gubernatorial ambitions online: As of Monday, the campaign still didn’t have a Facebook page, and its website, www.hickenlooperforcolorado.com is only a placeholder with a donation button. Those things are all coming soon, says new campaign spokesman George Merritt…
“Creative Class,” Patricia Calhoun, February 18 MasterMinds of the Universe Thank you, Westword, for all you do for the arts — and especially the MasterMind program. Reading Calhoun’s “Creative Class” and the stories on the 2010 winners, and then meeting some of them at Artopia two days later, was really…
Before the late-night jokes about the baggage system, before the opening-day snowstorm and the seven-hour breakdown of the train system on Black Sunday, and long before the 9/11 attacks changed the way people fly, Denver International Airport was already full of surprises — not all of them pleasant. Curt Fentress…
