Over the Weekend: Weekend warrior
Photog Aaron Thackeray endured ravers at the Aztlan (above), couples at the clocktower, hipsters at Rockbar and models at Suite 200. See his photos at westword.com/slideshow…
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Showing 35905 - 35926 of 50592Medical marijuana attorney Warren Edson on new law firm, new MMJ bill and new lawsuits to come
Attorney Warren Edson was practicing medical marijuana-related law before doing so was cool. And now, with the industry growing in Colorado like never before, he’s expanding his operations by merging his practice with Kumin Sommers LLP, a San Francisco-based firm with a specialty in medical marijuana law in California, whose…
Personhood amendment: Advocate promises it will keep coming back until it passes — just like marijuana initiatives
On Friday, backers of the Personhood Amendment, which says the term “person” applies to humans from their biological starting point, announced that they’d collected enough signatures to put the measure on the 2010 ballot. Of course, a very similar initiative, promoted by 21-year-old Westword profile subject Kristi Burton, was soundly…
Gerardo Garcia, Mile High Murder No. 73: Man who died in triple stabbing spree allegedly killed by a fourteen-year old
View Larger Map Last week, we told you about a triple stabbing early on Super Bowl Sunday that left two men injured and one dead at 675 S. Raleigh Street, an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”). The Denver…
Joel Vargas-Ramirez, Mile High Murder No. 74: Habitual traffic offender held on investigation of murder one for using vehicle as deadly weapon
An argument at El Jalisciense II Mexican Restaurant early Saturday morning resulted in the death of one man and the arrest of another for investigation of first degree murder. The Lakewood Police Department describes Joel Vargas-Ramirez, 28, as a “habitual traffic offender.” According to an LPD release, he fled the…
David Sirota sneaks F-word onto Denver Post website after medical marijuana lab raid: Congrats!
The Denver Post prides itself on being a family newspaper — but its embrace of social media can make it difficult to keep grown-up language at bay. Case in point: On Friday, AM 760 host David Sirota, whose syndicated column frequently appears in the Post , tweeted about a Joel…
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Rob Corry says Chris Bartkowicz medical marijuana bust proof the DEA has gone rogue
You didn’t think attorney Rob Corry would remain silent after the Drug Enforcement Administration raid on the home of Chris Bartkowicz, did you? After all, Corry’s among the most vocal of all Colorado’s medical marijuana advocates, and if he has problems with Representative Tom Massey’s bill to regulate the industry,…
Medical marijuana arrest: Chris Bartkowicz bust DEA’s declaration that drug war not over
Last week’s DEA raid of Genovations, a Colorado Springs medical marijuana laboratory, was the second time in recent weeks that the agency had swooped in on a lab that had applied for a license in an attempt to prove its forthrightness and responsibility; the same scenario played out in January…
Good dog! Canine heaven at National Western
Every year around this time, the Westminster Kennel Club puts on its hifalutin, thoroughly mockable parade of purebreds, all vying to star in the next Christopher Guest movie. And around the same time, a down-home dog show unfolds at the National Western Stock Show Complex, sponsored by the Colorado Kennel…
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Beetle Mania: Could annoying noises help save Colorado’s trees?
Some creative researchers at Northern Arizona University have discovered what could be a literally sound solution to saving Colorado’s forests that are rapidly dying at the jaws of pine beetles. The answer could lie in the sound of the beetles — the original beetles, not the blokes from Liverpool. Rolling…
Medical marijuana lab in Colorado Springs latest to be raided by DEA
We recently wrote about how a DEA raid at Full Spectrum Laboratories, a Denver medical marijuana testing facility, was triggered by the lab applying for an analytical lab licensure through the DEA. Now DEA agents have hit another marijuana testing lab — Colorado Springs-based Genovations — not long after the…
George Karl in Denver Blogs: Another year of dealing with J.R. Smith
Three Denver blogs for the price of one. Nate Timmons at Denver Stiffs calls the $4.5 million, one-year contract extension the Nuggets just gave coach George Karl a “no brainer.” Agreed. Just hope he doesn’t lose his head and kill J.R. Smith. Becca Blond at the Colorado Independent writes that…
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Richard Charles MacNeill, alleged Band-Aid Bandit, peeled off to jail
Yet another memorably monikered scofflaw is allegedly off the streets. First it was Timothy McGlothin, thought to be one of the Hoppin Hooded Bandits, whose arrest was announced yesterday. And now it’s Richard Charles MacNeill, who Aurora Police think is the so-called Band-Aid Bandit, who’s allegedly been sticking it to…
Gabriel Paul Cabral, caretaker, allegedly caught on Nanny-cam engaging in unlawful sexual contact with woman in her late eighties
When we posted a mug-shot roster of Denver sex offenders who’d failed to register earlier today, we had no idea we’d be establishing a theme. But this blog was followed by items about two sex offenders in Boulder — one who molested a woman while she was in bed alongside…
Alisha Brown, Mile High Murder No. 63: Daryll Glenn Brown arrested for killing ex-wife
On December 30, a woman was found dead in her home at 14192 W. 4th Avenue in Jefferson County, an area captured in the graphic on view below (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”). The victim was subsequently identified as Alisha Brown, 30. More than…
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Shmucks of the Week: Cancer-fakers
There’s something obviously disgusting about a woman rallying her friends and family around an illness she invented, raising money for treating cancer when it’s nothing but crazy that infects her body. But what’s even more punch-yourself-in-the-face mind-boggling about the crime committed by Tausha Marsh, who this week pleaded guilty to…
David Sirota makes a monkey out of himself in debate, argues councilman Sean Paige
Yesterday, AM 760 host/columnist David Sirota and Colorado Springs city councilman Sean Paige took part in an on-air debate, with the honor of Colorado Springs at stake. But while the program has ended, the scrap isn’t over, with Paige continuing to take swings at Sirota in a new, insult-laden Huffington…
Kenny Be’s Friday Afternoon Club: Rep. Spencer Swalm and Nia Bender at Mel’s Bar and Grill
“What I’d really like to do is propose a bill that would require the state to keep all of the babies delivered to unwed mothers in public hospitals, and sell them on the open adoption market. It’s time for Colorado to turn the cycle of poverty into the cycle of…
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Marijuana legalization: Sensible Colorado’s Brian Vicente wants to put it on state ballot in 2012
In today’s Denver Post, columnist David Harsanyi argues that the debate over medical marijuana is dishonest in part because advocates actually want legalization — a goal that might be hurt by the passage of Representative Tom Massey’s medical marijuana bill, because it would give dispensaries a monetary incentive to fight…
Scott McInnis “sincere” in offer to John Hickenlooper about denouncing tax legislation
At this hour, Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis is in Pueblo to make a speech about what he considers to be job-killing tax increases on candy and other items that were passed by the Colorado senate on Wednesday. And according to McInnis spokesman Sean Duffy, he thinks he might have…
Gino Rael, sex offender accused of trying to recruit young girls from jail, claims discrimination based on his love of pleather
Remember Gino Rael? He’s the convicted sex offender accused of trying to recruit underage girls in letters written from jail — and while he insisted in court that he was actually targeting women of legal age, a judge pointed out that descriptions such as “I like skateboards, robots, fighting pirates”…
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Boulder woman wakes up with stranger’s hands in her underwear — and her boyfriend beside her
Early yesterday morning in Boulder, a college-age woman living in an apartment on the 1800 block of 22nd Street awakened to find a man’s hands in her underwear — and although her boyfriend was sleeping beside her, the hands weren’t his. According to Boulder Police Department spokesman Sarah Huntley, the…