Back in November, when we told you about an attempt by a man to steal an ATM in Boulder by ripping it out of a wall using a stolen U-Haul truck, we wrote that the most amazing thing about the perpetrator wasn’t “that he thought the scheme might actually work…
The arrest of Highlands Ranch’s Chris Bartkowicz after he showed off his medical marijuana grow to a reporter at 9News has prompted complaints from the likes of Sensible Colorado’s Brian Vicente, who helped organize a protest prior to yesterday’s appearance by President Barack Obama, as well as comments by U.S…
You might recall that last week we called out cancer-fakers for this award, inspired by the guilty plea of the very abhorrent Tausha Marsh. But most people who ask and get our support have cancer that’s very real, as we were reminded this week when we learned that Nuggets coach…
#6 of the 22 Major Arcana: Dan Maes, the Hierophant…..
This week, the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office revealed that they’d closed the 1970 murder of Harold “Nicky” Nicholson. Not that the alleged slayer — Jake Dwight Jones, Nicholson’s father in law — will be prosecuted for the crime. Investigators discovered that he died in 1979 after assuming a new identity,…
With medical marijuana legislation still pending at the State Capitol, individual Colorado communities are left to deal with the weed issue as best they can, despite how sticky it can get. Case in point: Windsor, where the town board is fighting to close a dispensary called MediGrow even as two…
The murder early Monday morning of Thornton’s Nathan Bozonier, 16, didn’t take place in isolation. The Thornton Police Department says Bozonier was hit by a car, then struck by an aluminum bat while surrounded by a group of people who were run off by a number of others. In the…
Supporters of Andrew Romanoff’s senate campaign held a rally for their guy yesterday that was considerably lower profile than the one staged for his opponent, Michael Bennet — an event starring a certain President Barack Obama. But while Romanoff backers like Polly Baca fault the president for picking sides before…
Talk about the planets coming into alignment. Yesterday afternoon, during an appearance at the Fillmore Auditorium to pitch for Senator Michael Bennet, President Barack Obama warmed up the crowd by gabbing about medal-winning Olympians with Colorado connections, including snowboarding wizard Shaun White. Obama noted that he not only wonders how…
Among the many nicknames given bank robbers by the FBI’s Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force (profiled in this Westword feature), the $83 Bandit may be one of the strangest. According to a Joel Warner blog about another wanted man with a clever moniker, the Shaggy Bandit, the $83 Bandit…
Denver Post owner/publisher Dean Singleton seems to have trouble with the word bankruptcy, especially when it pertains to his company, MediaNews Group. But he’s extremely loquacious about other topics, as he’s proving this morning during an extended appearance on the morning show of KHOW’s Peter Boyles. (He’s still chatting at…
Almost two years ago — fittingly, on April Fool’s Day — Sean Harrington filed a complaint with the Colorado Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel requesting an investigation of U.S. District Judge Edward Nottingham on the grounds of moral turpitude. “Judge Naughty” had been much in the news that spring over…
One blog about Denver. Two blogs about Denver. Three blogs about Denver. In noting that Brandon Marshall, Elvis Dumervil and D.J. Williams are all listed as potential defense witnesses in the upcoming trial of Willie Clark, who’s accused of murdering Darrent Williams, Jon Krause at Broncos Zone writes, “We have…
No doubt the parents of CU students who live on campus will be alarmed when they hear about the arrest early this morning of a man being investigated for kidnapping, sexual assault and other crimes. But CU-Boulder Police public information officer Molly Bosley wants to head off as much panic…
Perhaps there was some confusion on the part of Nicholas Lorenzo, 25. After all, he worked behind a meat counter at a Louisville Safeway — so he might have thought beating his own meat was part of the job. According to the Boulder Daily Camera, Lorenzo was arrested on January…
Our compendium of “Mile Highs and Lows” dispensary critiques just welcomed a new member to the family: William Breathes’s review of The Greenest Green. Check it out — and then turn your eyes to Westword’s dispensary directory, which has been newly updated for your pleasure and convenience. Learn more by…
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…
President Barack Obama’s visit to Denver today is prompting more spectacles than just a medical marijuana protest featuring Sensible Colorado’s Brian Vicente, which is scheduled to be underway at this writing. For instance, there’s also “Rally ‘Round Romanoff!,” which criticizes the prez for raising money on behalf of Senator Michael…
Did you know that the outdoors is a lot farther away than it used to be fifty years ago, and that the distance can be measured in chubby children? There is so much to learn in Lt. Gov. Barbara O’Brien’s Colorado Outdoor Kids Report. Learn more below!…
Denver’s first roller derby bout of the season went down on February 6 at the Fillmore Auditorium — site of today’s speech by President Barack Obama. It was a sold-out intra-league face-off between two of the Rocky Mountain Rollergirls’ home teams, the Sugar Kill Gang and the Dooms Daisies. The…
Lately, local DEA agents have been getting their hands on significant amounts of weed, whether it’s testing samples taken from inspections of marijuana-analysis labs or hundreds of live plants seized from a Highlands Ranch grow house last Friday, as well as from similar raids over the past month. So what…
Representative Jared Polis knows a little something about reality TV, having co-starred in the cable series Freshman Year — a gig we wrote about last March in a blog headlined “The Real World of Jared Polis, Courtesy of CNN.” Little did we know that Polis would wind up on the…
