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…
The Job: Telemarketing person Pay: $8 an hour Qualifications as posted online: “Are you a gamer? Do you play computer or online games that aren’t super involved and allow you the time and freedom to make phone calls? You might be a good fit for our office position. You must…
Recent news accounts from Eaton, Commerce City and Aurora, demonstrate that social behaviors and youth coaching practices are changing, and all will have a profound impact on the evolution of youth football… #1. For starters, the customary coin toss, used to determine which team will kick off, is being replaced…
Ricky Lee Harnish traded a confession in the 1976 Holly Andrews case for a reduced charge with a potential ten-to-24-year sentence — waaaay too sweet a deal for a guy who admits to raping and murdering a sixteen-year-old girl. Even Clear Creek County Sheriff Don Krueger admits to mixed emotions…
The Independence Institute’s Jon Caldara last foray into YouTubery was decidedly low rent: He pimped 2008’s Amendment 49 using sock puppets. This time, he’s opted for a more high-tech approach, creating the animated video above to attack the Obama administration’s version of healthcare reform. In his analogy, the public plan…
While officials in specific municipalities have weighed in frequently about Colorado’s medical-marijuana law in light of the current dispensary boom, plenty of state officials have done their best to skirt this weed patch of an issue thus far — creating a vacuum for Colorado Attorney General John Suthers, who has…
I got into a conversation at a party this weekend about which neighborhood business district in Denver might emerge as the next cool place. Or, as real estate agents like to say, an “up-and-coming location.” People who self-identify as urbanites spend a lot of time talking about this sort of…
Hard to believe that Stephen Dailey has never seen those public-service announcements warning people to never shake a baby — even once. But if he did, the Denver District Attorney’s Office believes he didn’t take them to heart. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have been accused of attempted first-degree murder and sundry…
It was a week of Mean Girls drama on last night’s episode of America’s Next Top Model, cycle thirteen, with Louisville’s Nicole Fox eventually benefiting from some heavy-duty karmic payback. The episode opened with mannish-featured Leona Lewis lookalike Kara and previously sweet Sundai among the contestants sniping about Nicole, who…
Face the facts: Texting in cars can be a pain in the ass when it’s done by drivers who pay more attention to remembering how many times to press the “3” button to get the letter “e” than they do to staying in their lane. But in the case of…
In case you haven’t noticed (and congratulations if you haven’t), Colorado has made quite the contribution to the life-sucking force that is reality television over the past several years, and things around here just keep getting more real. Louisville native Nicole Fox is channeling her crazy in the current cycle…
The anonymous letter arrived at Heaven Dragon, a prominent Chinese restaurant in Thornton, on February 14, 2008. “To addressee only,” it read, the message scrawled erratically, as if the author was trying to obscure his or her handwriting. The “addressee” was Heaven Dragon owner Dan Tang, a man known for…
For three months, Dexter was considered guilty of being a pit bull. Like hundred of dogs every year, Dexter had been seized on suspicion of being a pit bull by Denver Animal Care & Control officers, then impounded at the Denver animal shelter — where three “Pit Bull Evaluation Team”…
“Gone to Pot,” Patricia Calhoun, October 8 A Chronic Problem A daily smoker of the true sacrament for four decades, I enjoy Colorado’s dispensaries. However, I do not trust newspapers. The put-downs and sour humor associated with cannabis serve to continue the derogation of one slice of humanity. The national…
We know how we’re supposed to behave if we find a lost child, or encounter a tourist who needs directions, or are stopped by a cop. But what if we stumble into an alien? Are we ready to meet and greet people from other planets? The Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission proposed…
It helps to have friends, and over the years, Heaven Dragon owner Dan Tang has made many of them, from cops and councilmen to mayors and lawyers. Evidence and testimony collected in the Operation Fortune Cookie case shows that at least two of Tang’s friends, both Adams County politicians, had…
The Denver Coroner’s Office has just updated its list of homicides for 2009 to date, and it’s not pretty. Beginning with Michael Thomas, who died on January 9 due to “sharp force injury to abdomen” through Barbara Irish, who succumbed due to “complications of penetrating gunshot wound of head,” all…
If you need to scratch your nerd itch tonight, Ignite Denver 5, at Casselman’s, 2620 Walnut Street, starting at 7 p.m., would be a fine place to do it. If you aren’t familiar with the Ignite concept, it challenges a ragtag bunch of “experts” to present their expertise in five…
Our daily cruise through the Colorogosphere. At Colorado Independent, John Tomasic talks to Daniel Hayes about his so-called “impound initiatives,” part of Hayes’s crusade against illegal immigrants in Colorado. Critics think Hayes is a racist; Hayes thinks his critics are racists. On the Huffington Post’s Denver site, Alexia Parks reports…
Moments from now, Mayor John Hickenlooper will be meeting with the media to talk about a revision in his budget plan — additional bucks to save the Byers library , which had been marked for closure, and keep other branches open for longer hours. And where is he getting the…
Earlier this week, a 63-year-old woman was gored by a mule deer she tried to pet — a story that’s not surprising to Colorado Division of Wildlife spokeswoman Jennifer Churchill. After all, male deer, like elk, are rutting right now, meaning they’re looking for love in all the right places…
As described in this week’s feature story, “Tales of the Dragon,” prominent Thornton restaurateur Dan Tang has agreed to plead guilty to one count of money laundering for his involvement in a massive marijuana ring — even though authorities believed Tang had much more involvement than just money laundering in…
